skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually impressed that the government has taken note of this issue.

IMO non-compete agreements should not be allowed for anyone. It really drives down wages, especially in highly specialized fields. Double whammy if the worker is also on an H1B visa where they have to work in a field relevant to their experience or degree, and simply can't be without a job and maintain legal status. You now have a captive employee who knows they can't leave easily.

NDAs exist to protect trade secrets and they do the job just fine.
>lowest-common-dementor

Don't give them any ideas about more Potter films, even if Rowling has been canceled
Far more adults don’t want children than previously thought
Visual Studio Code + Ionide extension is much lighter weight than visual studio proper. FSX (fsharp script files) can then be written and executed directly and will cover this gap.

Technically you don't need the former, you can pipe the FSX file directly into the fsharp interactive EXE that interprets them from notepad and console if you like.
Would be much appreciated! I don't know if you've heard it before, but Biosphere - Substrata is a fantastic album (possibly for a psychedelic trip as well!)
Adhesives are not built for high-humidity environments. My parents live in the tropical rainforest of Panama. One of the challenges is that anything stuck together with adhesive usually comes apart over time. The glass panel on the door of my mom's oven fell off.
Nope. The more likely answer is they were trying to get work done in parallel with the paperwork so that By the time the approval was ready to use the tanks, they had already been built instead of requiring these things to be done in series. I suppose it is up to the regulators how they want to enforce this, but it seems like they were going to wait on actually using the tanks until it was actually approved, but the regulators thought there was too much risk they could use them anyway. If they were just trying to skirt the law they wouldn’t have applied for a permit for five of the tanks anyway.

It’s kind of hard to tell from a popular media article what the reality of the regulatory situation is. Sometimes mere /concerns/ and notes by regulators can be upgraded to “violations” by the press. Everyone just kind of read between the lines and unless you’re an actual expert in the topic it’s super easy for a journalist or (more likely) an editor to try to spin a certain narrative in order to get engagement. And this can happen not due to intention to deceive but simply because the editor isn’t very familiar with the topic.
What’s the true nature of the concealing? The fact that some managers flout the guidance that Amazon provides to not tell people they are on a PIP? I’ve never heard of another company doing that, much less would want to work for one where that is the official guidance to managers!

If you might label it a hit price, I don’t think it’s that controversial to label you as Amazon apologist.
Sorry for the confusion. I was leaving "Is Your Job Ethical?" implied as no, and skipping to "why haven't you left yet?"
I'm working on our CI/CD right now and this looks like it would made my life easier.

Killer feature for me here would be if you could run the same Earthfile on a mac or a windows machine.
I drink beer or cider, and doubt there is anything better as social drink or to go with a meal. Refreshing during summer... maybe on a bar by the sea side

Because of that I have several non-alcoholic ciders, at home, for when I can't drink alcohol. Before driving, taking care of children...

I would rather quit coffee than alcohol
Under some circumstances, yes, under most, no.

Actors will sometimes have clauses which prevent them from doing dangerous stuff they like to do (skiing, race car driving) while they're shooting a film. An actor becoming unavailable is very expensive.

For any given worker, losing their contribution costs more than just their share. There's always a certain amount of working around the gap in the roster. But that's priced-in, if you will: people go on vacation, take sick leave, parental leave, and they quit outright.

So I don't consider it ethical for employers to add that sort of clause under normal circumstances, as indeed, they don't tend to. I do consider it ethical in specific circumstances, however, such as the one I just described.
If the vehicle's air conditioner compressor only runs at one stage, does it even matter? Are there any automotive air compressors with multiple stages/speeds?
> where we begin to operate on a higher level of complexity, similar to when life transitioned to multicellular.

I've thought about this exact thing before and something to keep in mind is that there will be a split where part of the group consents to being absorbed into the mega-organism, and part will stay individuals.

Humanity won't move in unison. If it happens, part of the group will stay behind, just the same as we still have single celled organisms.
I don't think it was created for Firefox, as Rust (in various forms) has been around for over 10 years at this point I think.

Setting that aside, Servo and Firefox both implement the UI side of things from scratch I think. I think from a browser perspective that makes sense: you're already writing a rendering engine, so you may as well also use it for your browser UI.
I hadn't wanted to go into that level of detail, but you're right to. My own definition of wipe includes reflashing libreboot.
The link to the Twitter image is in the article near the top of the page.

https://twitter.com/james7132/status/1412540904225738753
Intel has failed, or at least failed to distinguish itself, in every single market it has entered since IBM chose the 8088 forty years ago: Every non-x86 instructional set CPU, flash memory, antivirus (still perhaps the most mystifying move in Intel history), servers/motherboards, and GPUs come to mind. The most successful non-x86 business for Intel is ... Ethernet cards? Meanwhile, it's embarrassed itself with discrete GPUs at least three separate times. A few years ago buying Nvidia would have been a savvy move; now it can no longer do so, and it's not impossible to imagine Nvidia buying Intel in the future.

Even within the one market Intel does dominate, what saved the company 15 years ago amid Itanic and Pentium 4 was 1) AMD Thunderbird being just as inefficient as Pentium 4 and, more importantly, 2) an Intel Israel skunk works project to improve on the Pentium 3. There is no such out-of-the-blue miracle this time.
I actually prefer the flavor of Partake's IPA and Pale Ale, and the almost total lack of calories is fantastic. It's so great for having with dinner on weeknights without having to worry about your sleep quality or weight gain.
in the end Google opted for WFH, however.

I heard it metaphorized like this: if a congress member votes against some healthcare bill but it gets approved, does that congress member lose the ability to apply? I'm sure there's some Schadenfreude thinking about it, but logistically it doesn't make much sense.
By open source in this context I mean totally open with no requirements, including attribution.

> Think about what would happen if this is applied to everything. Anything being available becomes free of restrictions. Then all books published become openly available for anyone to copy or print. Even compiled software becomes free of restrictions, which anyone can copy freely. This is basically demise of copyright laws itself, which would be disasterous.

I think standards for code should be different from art. They're different concepts. Art you want to protect a specific expression. Code you want to protect the output of an expression. Everyone's talking about how this tool spits out code verbatim, but who cares? What if my tool spits out your python2 code in python3 code? What if it also just fluffs it a little to read differently but perform similarly. It doesn't need to do this explicitly either, it can just guarantee that no outputted code matches an original work exactly but get to the same place. I can make the code substantially different, while keeping the output exactly the same. But we don't get anywhere but generating continuously obtuse implementations of the same thing for stylistic differences. Functionality isn't copyrightable for good reason.

edit: and the example of rewriting the code in a different language in a different style probably still is technically copyright violation, but it'll be extremely difficult to win that trial in case, and thus is a stupid rule.
In these examples, are the voxel models being isometrically projected into a low res 2D space? Stylistically that seems kind of strange. I would expect either projecting a voxel model into a high res space, or projecting a high poly model into a low res space.

Also there doesn’t seem to be any anti-aliasing applied which would be a bare minimum here. Anyone have a good idea why the webmaster made these choices?
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Companies aren't going to rescind the offer because you strike out this line from the employment contract.

...except in this case that's exactly what happened? Legal was asked to waive the policy and they refused.
how do you find these good, low budget movies? would love to know your discovery process
Of course patents kill innovation and the reasons are very simple and known to many.

It doesn't matter what the law says. It doesn't matter if the patent is generic or very specific. It doesn't matter if it covers a currently trendy area.

None of these things matter one bit.

Only one thing truly matters: how much budget for a lawyer does the suing side have.

That's it. Only that. A talented and highly-paid (and thus motivated) copyright / patent lawyer is literally the most dangerous adversary you will ever encounter in your civilized life (we're not including stuff like Mexican cartel hating you, of course).

It doesn't even matter what legislation grounds for suing you does the litigating side have. If they have a square inch, they'll use it and expand it to be as big as the USA.

A lot of small businesses are well-aware of the power imbalance and I've heard founders give up on ideas, citing various copyright / patent trials from the last 10+ years.

Truth is, if a big player comes after you and if the government doesn't help you have some semblance of a fighting chance (by covering your legal expenses and/or hiring a competent defender for you) then the 99.9% predictable result is: you'll run out of money and will be forced to settle if you are lucky -- and in most other cases you'll have to pay damages or royalties for years, which might very easily make a homeless person out of you.

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I am glad that the US patent office is making an inquiry but at the same time slightly disappointed because what I just said above is common knowledge in many circles.
> nd you would only get taxed 25% on the capital gains when you sell the stock you've gained from exercising

FWIW is true for all capital gains after taxes (doesn't matter how you got the stock). If you get stock as income, you pay first 45% tax on the stock, and then when you sell 25% tax on gains.
While it can be inferred, that is most certainly not clear, and any lawyer worth their salt would tear these two conflicting clauses to pieces.
Wait, how does Placer.ai work? Like you need to have some sort of AMC app?
That 97% of the patents don't go recoup the cost is a statistic known to companies and patent lawyers. This should only serve to make them more careful about filing patents. In other words, inventions less likely to be effective would be passed upon by them themselves.
I would be interested to see them with a better shader.
>Likewise they never got into GPUs which have also had a lot of growth between crypto, data science/ML, and of course gaming.

Not for lack of trying. The new Intel GPU line is the third or fourth attempt to break into that market.
> note that most car trips are less than ~15 minutes, at which point, all that heating/cooling is wasted as you flush it out the door.

Talking about energy efficiency: if your car trip is <15 minutes, then ideally you shouldn't be using a car at all!
You could also argue it was spoofing the Airport films which were based on books.
Most IP should be scrapped completely in the age of free and cheap information. I really don't have any sympathy to big corps making money from IP, and small entities are finding more and more ways to give their IP away and find revenue elsewhere (hardware, swag, live events, Patreon, etc).

Scrapping IP would be a big step in making more, smaller, and more sustainable businesses instead of our current 'grow or get bought out' mindset.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is all that matters. I would wager that most reading this website have had strangers and family alike approach them for help with with their huge ideas, which really means "you are the programmer you do it all".
Most of which are utterly unoriginal, yet they want you to sign an NDA or promise to keep it secret. Patents and to some extent copyright/trademarks tilt the scale heavily away from innovative ideas toward 'derivative but licenseable'.

I am running on 4 hours of sleep, hopefully my word salad makes sense.
People think that hierarchies are the correct way to structure information. In many cases, that makes sense at first. But soon enough, you realize some things don't fit into one place, or there are two or more competing ways of building a hierarchy. At that point people spend a lot of time arguing which hierarchical way of storing documentation is better. You have long conversation about in which folder a document should be housed. You end up with a lot of non-productive conversation.

Forget hierarchies. Build a graph. Create "indices" which link to docs, which link to other docs. Create one or a few places to enter the graph (think the old Yahoo directory). Hyperlink, hyperlink, hyperlink. You can create a hiercharchy if you wish to, and you can also effortlessly structure docs in all other ways. Restructure links as it make sense. More links == more discoverability.

You can do this in pretty much any tool. Wiki. Google Docs. Notion. Quip. etc... If the tool forces you to have a hierarchy of folders, create one, but don't spend ANY time deciding if it is a good one. People will find documents via the links not by traversing the hierarchy.
Well... it's illegal to buy/sell/drink alcohol in Iran. So that's the only type of beer you can buy in store. Black market is a different story.
This seems like a service which is impossible to scale! The more well known it becomes, the less effective it will be.

That said, some candidates have inspired me to check out a new tech or project from their resume.
1. Please email me (jgc) and tell me who told you this

2. We literally announced free tunnels for all customer here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/
What I remember reading is that Gary Kildall was a big RT-11 and OS-8 user and so it's more that the shell/command line was patterned after some things he was familiar with there. I don't think anybody has made the claim that CP/M's internals were patterned off of PDP OS internals as much. More interface conventions.
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I find having a vent on my hands or face MUCH more comfortable. I’ve lived in some of the hottest places on earth and indeed on the worst days there would never be a point where you’d feel cool enough without blowing the vents directly at you. Even in more temperate climates the airflow over my face is just refreshing, and helps keep my hands completely dry for a better grip.
I don't know if this is feasible for you, but try to avoid companies that force you to do a lot of work before they even consider you. Those are not nice places to work.
I'm having trouble understanding why a clear sky is important. Surfaces radiate based on their temperature and emissivity only, right? So why would it matter what the surface is emitting toward?

Perhaps what I'm missing is that clouds emit some radiative heat back to the surface, whereas a clear sky emits very little, so the net heat loss from the surface under a cloudy sky would be lower.
iPhone XS Max, iOS 15b2. I've grown to prefer App Library [1] over multiple pages of apps and this setup reflects that:

* Single screen with plain black background.

* Stack in top-left with small Weather and Calendar widgets.

* Stack in bottom-right with small Sleep and Fitness widgets.

* App icons for NetNewsWire, Kindle, Twitter, Financial Times,
HN, and stock apps (Health, Maps, Notes, etc).

* Dock: Phone, Messages, Mail, Safari.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211345
Thanks! That's a wild ride.

On my system these "cached" integers seem to each be 32 byte objects, so, over 8kB of RAM is used by CPython to "cache" the integers -5 through 256 in this way.

There's similar craziness over in String town. If I mint the exact same string a dozen times from a constant, those all have the same id, presumably Python has a similar "cache" of such constant strings. But if I assemble the same result string with concatenation, each of the identical strings has a different id (this is in 3.9)

So, my model of what's going on in a Python program was completely wrong. But the simple pedagogic model in the article was also wrong, just not in a way that's going to trip up new Python programmers.
Personally, I don't see the recreational value. For me it was a very, very weak opiate high that wore off in an hour and whose tolerance builds up extremely fast. It should be more widely available though since people have said it helps them taper off actual opiates.
Google IARC is _not_ enlightened. The only way in which Google is enlightened is they have perfected the art of PR and selling employees that pro-employer policies are really pro-employee policies.

If you are in California, which is where the majority of Google employees live and where Google has their HQ, if you work on something outside of work hours and without work equipment or resources, then you own it, full stop. That's California law.

Google lawyercats will show up and say "well unless it's related to what Google does, and Google does everything', which is an incredibly flimsy argument with zero legal precedent that only a lawyer on Google payroll would accept. A company can't in good faith say "we work on literally everything therefore the law doesn't apply to us."

IARC is a trap. If you just didn't say a word to Google and worked on something off hours, you own it. With IARC, now you've created a paper trail and a chance for Google to say we discussed it and we clearly said the employee could not work on this, so now if it does go to court you've just massively complicated your life, all to accomplish something that the state law guaranteed you in the first place! There's literally zero upside to IARC.

I've unfortunately witnessed the head of OSS approvals at Google, mislead people on this issue and go as far as to vaguely threaten that employees who continue to debate the topic on internal company mailing lists will be terminated.

Google IARC is a scam and it should not be held up as a gold standard. CA Labor Code Section 2780 is the gold standard.
That's a stretch.

The most viable competitor to Electron other than Qt are the Java GUI toolkits. There are several but the two main ones are Swing (old, mature, not gonna win any prettiness awards but it gets the job done well enough in IntelliJ), and JavaFX (pretty darn good but people forget about it).

I've shipped apps using JavaFX before. It was quite a pleasant experience and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Great question, this has been something we're thinking about for a while now. We can do a much better/more realistic render if people upload floor plans, but not everyone does that (maybe they don't have one and don't know how to use those floor plan apps), which is why we are currently exploring ways to generating proposals without the strict need of a floor plan.

People usually drop out of the funnel when we request a floor plan. This has been the main reason we're unable to convert some customers. For now, if you upload a few photos from different angles and the dimensions, we can probably work with that too, but we need more data before we're sure!
disclaimer: I don't work for or have any interest in this company other than I like their product:

These are fantastic: Non-alcoholic, hoppy, carbonated tea: https://hoplark.com

- green, white, black teas
- varying levels of hoppiness
- varying levels of caffeine
- will ship cases at a time!
You can do that. Apple even offers a certification program for repair shops to get genuine parts so long as they do the repairs up to Apple's standards and via their procedures. They do facilitate this completely.
That is a great world. But considering that we still do not really know how to write e.g. generic code that operates on both immutable and mutable arrays, I think Julia is not there yet.

The other big thing missing in Julia that is IMO important here is more control over evaluation, like allowing lazy evaluation. You can build some of these features on top of Julia (e.g. https://github.com/RelationalAI-oss/Salsa.jl).

Math is usually not written with computation in mind, so some algorithm might e.g. re-evaluate f(x) multiple times. Compiler optimizations can help in some cases, as can a "dynamic" solution like memoization/caching. But again, I don't think Julia is "there" yet.
It doesn’t make it less ridiculous. It disincentivizes business creation in LA. Also, due to inflation $100k will be much less in a decade when small business owners will start getting hit by it.
Even then, many devs focus too much on the performance tree and miss the forest of polyglot programming.

If there are performance issues with a Java application, where after all attempts, there is still some room left, there is no need to throw everything way.

Those areas can be ported to C, C++, Rust, whatever, and then called via native methods.
It is. Employer reach is too far. And yet, having some reach is still very reasonable.
My observation of this substance was that it was similar to a low grade opiate and seemed to be quite habit forming among several people I knew that tried it.
Last time I was in Utah I think beer was low alcohol as well.
Criterion channel is a great streaming service for old classics.
Right. I should've thought about that comment for a moment longer.
Hyperbole, but what exactly feels native on Windows out of the like 3+ frameworks?
Their constraints are different than most.
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Placer is able to track cell phones that have an app installed that uses their SDK. They currently have their SDK in over 500 mobile apps. The data is anonymized, but it would probably shock people how much information I can get from this system. I just pick a location and I can see how many people walked into that location over any time span in the past 4 years, where they live, how much money they make, where else they like to shop, etc. I work in commercial real estate, BTW. We use this software to analyze retail properties.
Non-cryptographers should be scared of crypto libraries
Is the probability of the $300 windows laptop performing 5+ years the same? Will it run hot in your lap? Will you have to recharge it 3x as often? Will you have to spend time uninstalling malware first? Will it have a screen comparable to a retina screen? Will you be able to shut the lid and walk away at a moments notice?

Going back to my very first comment:

> They seem to have made all the right compromises.

Yes, a MacBook Air is not the cheapest. It doesn’t have a GPU. But my point is what it does have provides more utility overall to the average buyer per dollar spent.

And there are other manufacturers that have come out with similarly good machines at similar prices, but whether it is because of Windows’ shortcomings or now M1, the Air seems to be the ideal.