skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This market isn't under-served at all. There are people tripping over each other to sell them investments in gold, reverse mortgages, commemorative Trump coins, shelf-stable buckets of food, really anything that you can put a sky-is-falling spin on gets thrown at this particular wall. Pick out a random conservative influencer/media person and scan their tweets for "discount code" like language, they sell lots of funny stuff to their fans.
I mean at the age of 60… it’s gonna be hard to top a career that had you writing code sent to space.

That being said, I imagine it would be very hard to be a junior employee in such an environment. Fresh and green behind the ears, full of ideas and surrounded by people almost ready to retire and pretty set in their ways.

Who knows. Maybe these folks make an effort to stay current with progress in development tools and whatnot. But it is easy to imagine them being very stuck in their ways. Some for good reason but some because “that’s how we’ve always done it”.

I’d love to be told I was wrong and all their shop did a good job staying on top of industry wide progress.
the topic is NCA, not NDA.
Google and Dropbox blocking document with vaccination headlines
I don't understand this new culture of not allowing people to have redemption. The past isn't the present or future. People change, that is what is so problematic with "cancel culture," and digging up old tweets, etc.
This is enough for me not to watch it.
Right. Just like properly implementing identity authentication in your application is user suppression.

TOTP/U2F are evil, by this reasoning.
another thing: I believe at relativistic speeds hitting any debris in your path would cause a pretty large BOOM, and for a multi-lightyear route that seems somewhat risky.
Though I suppose it was cold enough you could stash stuff outside…

That may work for some things, but freezing insulin destroys it.
> And that's ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that might relate.

Most software businesses exist on a tenuous information asymmetry turbocharged by capital (dumping, to reduce prices). The noncompete is about protecting well-capitalized customers from doing the stuff they're buying from Amazon themselves - not because they poach an employee who knows how, but because they find out that a piece of free, open source software is the secret to it all.
Einstein’s paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)
However, like any scientific theory, it must be falsifiable. In other words, we can't just jump to "it's climate change, but you can't pinpoint it." Because otherwise, how do we prove that there is not a different potential cause?

Trying to jump into these huge, world-scale theories comes with the risk of blinding us to alternative explanations that might be more valid.
That's an easy task with xorg based desktop environments, it's more performant as well
I think there is more to the story than just his manifesto coming out. I feel like there was tension even before this incident, and this is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

We should be encouraging such introspection and admittance of past failures. It gives people the opportunity to change. If we don't reward people for changing, they will never change!
That's what I meant, but I agree with GP, that perhaps that wasn't the best example.
Climate change doesn't have to directly kill us all. It could be the trigger to something else that does.
Yellen sees ‘several more months of rapid inflation’ before easing
California, in all likelihood.

California Business and Professions Code Section 16600, “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”
author here :). thanks for the mention.

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well... That was painful. :D
I'd like to over you a job. It pays $50K/yr with an optional $100K/yr for a noncompete agreement. My competitor is offering $140K/yr.
Just yesterday my partner brought home some seaweed so we could have sushi this weekend.

But I do agree with you on this "ah well, we'll just..." sunshiny outlook we keep hearing.

This year they've really been pushing edible "tree shrimp" cicadas. This is the first time I've heard that they were edible, and suddenly I'm hearing about it several times a week.
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If I wanted to use mitmproxy to mitm and observe traffic during automated testing, what mode/settings should I be using on Windows?

The setup is: A client (dev machine or pipeline) running tests that communicate to a Windows VM that hosts the app under test. The client RPCs to call automation APIs on the host/server.

However I couldn't get both communicating and using mitmproxy to observe traffic to work at the same time.
> This particular proposed resolution to Fermi’s Paradox question is a very recent addition. It takes its name from the novel The Dark Forest

The same idea was in Gregory Benford's novel In the Ocean of Night in the 1970s.
Conviction rates are already sky high. The problem is not with charging people when evidence is low but with the prosecutors and the written laws that don’t hold police accountable.
"RISC architecture is gonna change everything."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrUmViN_5c
I don't think it's a block necessarily - just that it's unlisted or not caught by the indexing?
> There are two kinds of non-competes, and both have problems.

There are more kinds of non-competes. Neither of the kinds you're listing is blanket-legal anywhere in Europe, as far as I can tell, but there are still NCC/NCAs.

Generally speaking, in Europe, NCC/NCAs must:

* show a reasonable business interest, mere competition does not ever qualify

* be geographically limited

* be temporally limited (rarely more than two years)

* be financially compensated (significantly, usually on the order of 50% gross salary for the entire period)

> Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours.

No it's not obvious at all. In fact I'd say that on its face it's obviously not true.

Unless the employer can justify of a super secret sauce which would be endangered by this there's no reason why you could not. You could work as a dev of a stock trading app, be passionate about stock trading applications, disagree with the company's ideas on the subject, and want to realise your own ideas.
Perhaps couple with de-salination?
Try to compile ATLAS and you will become intimately familiar with this problem. It refuses to compile if you have any kind of throttling or scaling enabled because it relies on benchmarking all of the alternative compute kernels to determine which is best for your specific hardware. Just following the instructions in the README to set the governor from userspace is not nearly enough. I had to completely re-compile my kernel with the default governor set to performance, on-demand enabled, and all thermal throttling not even available as an option.

The basic issue is consumer kernels are all general-purpose and have to work on laptops and mobile devices, so a whole lot of options are set that make no sense on workstations, and you end up throttling when it isn't necessary, i.e. you're not on battery and you have plenty of fan power or a water loop to prevent actual damage.

Heck, in many cases, you may even need to disable throttling in the BIOS, which is doubly disappointing because a desktop BIOS definitely doesn't need settings that work on laptops and mobile.
> Send up another [improved] robot. These missions are less costly than human missions.

Says who? And how? This seems like an unsubstantiated claim.
Why don't we just build 5 Hubble copies and send them up? Should be much cheaper now.

"Just" is being extensively overused in this thread.
I've quit smoking for long periods a couple times- when I worked for a boss who was so smart, I simply couldn't keep up (and even after I stopped it took 2 months to recover), and when I first had a kid.

I returned to smoking (well, vaping oils).
> It has long been alluded to in Sci-Fi that humanity's rate of development is fast (Humans vs Vulcans, Halo universe, etc).

I think that's just borrowed from modern fantasy tropes. How can humans co-exist on anything even kinda like equal footing with centuries-old magical elves, ancient dwarves who know the secrets of the deep, bloodthirsty and strong orcs and goblins, et c? Oh, humans are more flexible (culturally more diverse; more varied from person to person; develop & experiment faster; are more curious; freer from genetic determinism in their choices and behavior), breed faster, or cooperate better.

Usually one or more of those is the answer given, with the specific question being "how can we have interesting and powerful fantasy species/races and still have humans matter in our stories, without every story just being an upstairs/downstairs thing or otherwise having the humans in some plainly-inferior position?" There are other ways around the problem, but that's the easy way out.
I'd like the ability to block users I don't like. But it hasn't yet devolved to the point where there's a ton of aggravation, and I recognize that it would be a considerable change to the site's deliberately minimal interface. People do a reasonably good job of not turning things into flame wars.

So, I'm fine with not piling features onto the site. For now. If the site were to become more popular it would invite more people who amused themselves by getting a rise out of other users, and then we'll see.
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> If you compare a Tesla with a BMW, the Tesla already might be cheaper, it certainly is if you consider the TCO

Having owned a few BMW's I do not doubt that assertion at all.

Hydrogen has a storage problem. As in the stuff is wickedly hard to keep from 'evaporating'. Electric has a charge time/range problem. I can fill an ICE car in 10 mins and drive 400 miles. The same thing with electric takes an hour. For 'day to day' use electric is like almost there (up front cost being one of the bigger issues). For long range drivers, not yet.
The ideology is that differences in behavior are merely the result of oppression (via social norms) by the mythical patriarchy (which apparently isn't perpetrated by men, according to you, so who is it?). Not that behavioral differences have a biological foundation.

However, there is no point in arguing. I don't know what kind of feminist literature you encounter. Maybe you just choose to read it with pink tinted glasses, or you only see the moderate ones. You get to choose your own view of the world, of course.
Here's the link to the LinkedIn post in question: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-one-amr-awadallah/

What about it concerns you?
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I wrote about this specifically:

https://sneak.berlin/20200628/the-problem-with-police-in-ame...
You're describing humans. Up to the point where you hope their leaders aren't corruptible. The problem with humans mostly comes down to centralization. We're an extremely cooperative species until we're put in an environment that promotes competition and punishes cooperation. Centralization of power is one such environment. And it's very hard to undo at this point.
You live in a serious bubble if you think the typical person can shrug, say "what's $200K," and casually leave or take a break from the field they've been earning a living in.
Consider that he grew up in the Arab world on one side of a conflict.

What if he were Palestinian? Are all of them unwelcome at Google if they had an unmoderated thought in their lives?
Can’t the algorithms be enumerated? For example, you could take their source code and sort them alphabetically.
If we look at things in terms of positive and negative reinforcement this has some interesting consequences.

So, he admitted to antisemitism in the past and shared how he has grown or is growing past it. This kind of admission by him has the ability to challenge other and positively reinforce others who are in a similar situation to him. That _positive_ reinforcement for change away from antisemitism.

He was pushed out which is a form of _negative_ reinforcement. That will teach him and others not to speak out with stories of how they have changed which will limit others from positively reinforcing future change like this.

The way this influences people going forward is worth noting.
You can just plead the 5th and the lawyer will do the lying for you
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned possibly seeking help from a doctor. Prevalence of ADHD in the adult population is estimated to be much higher than the rate at which it is diagnosed.

If you have the inattentive subtype of ADHD, medication is 90% effective at alleviating symptoms such as procrastination.

Many people here have commented about doing a “dopamine detox,” but what if your brain isn’t producing enough dopamine on its own? A detox is unlikely to help.
No one owns anyone. IP assignment is contractual agreement in exchange for money. Just remember that when imputing your hourly pay and passive income opportunity.
> We do ML, you can't do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one).

Keep in mind the legal department represents your company, not you. They will tell you the interpretation of the non-compete most favorable to their client. It doesn’t mean it is correct or even enforceable.
If you're using melodies and samples from work hours, then maybe not. And it would be tough to argue that your at-home trading app code is completely uninfluenced by ideas you have at work.
> "do you have a github account?". No, I've been highly motivated not to.

That is a shame, and given the extent to which most businesses and groups are built on Open Source, the fact that your situation is not in any way unique (to your employer or at large) is what makes it IMHO much worse.

I ran into technical limitations with my testing framework at one point where I realized that it was going to make my work 10x more complicated if I couldn't simply take some of the common libraries that I had factored out of my apps, and make them public.

You know what I'm saying, the CI machine can't run without a machine account if "bundle install" requires a valid SSH account. Getting the SSH account inside of a Docker container was an exercise of Rube Goldberg proportions, I eventually did it, but doubt strongly I would have ever been able to get anyone else to understand how or why that solution worked.

So I did the rational thing and published a few libraries to simplify the stack. 6 months later, we received a message from the head of InfoSec who was "very disappointed" after looking at our GitHub account.

Nobody competes with us. There was no risk of helping the competition. We're not in the business of software development (though we had an entire department of folks whose job title was Application Developer, so figure that one out...)

Their concern wasn't that it was against an NDA or that we hadn't gotten it approved, it was that threat-actors will take any signal they can about our internal stuff and turn it into an attack vector. Given what specifically it was that we had published, this was beyond irrational. I told them "it's 2020 and this is a backwards position to be holding in 2020." Shine a light, get more eyes on it.

There is no danger and I'm glad that someone looked at my code, I said, even if only for a few minutes – which I know would not have happened at all if we kept the repo internal.

Yeah, I don't work there anymore (not specifically because of this incident, but it was a contributing factor to me leaving voluntarily, without a doubt.)
I'm not sure about AGI. You can just control the robot remotely from earth. Sure, there will be a minor lag but definitely won't justify need of AGI.
If a minor is clever enough to manipulate a police officer into self-incrimination via dishonesty and somehow make it to court and the officer is actually held responsible then honestly, good for them!

(I highly doubt officers will still be held responsible for violating the law. Look how much noise and chaos had to happen for a single on-film execution by cop to have consequences.)
$<$ gives an ordering over the reals. It's an ordering with a first element that's the tricky bit.
This confirms what many (like Sam Harris) have suspected a long time: political correctness for large companies is about PR, not about doing what's right or improving people.
It doesn't take that much extra fuel to land a thing. You have gravity helping you go down, unlike when you're going up. You also have friction to slow you down, which is desirable, unlike when you're trying to speed up.
Fermis paradox is garbage.

He can't make such a statement about probability when the circumstances aren't even known.

We don't even know how life forms so how can we even know what the probability of it forming is?

How do we know that probability is high enough that it is very likely to occur? The chances of it occurring could be incredibly low.
Kind of, they detail a MitM attack and a way to extract plaintext from a client but both of them seem very impractical to do.
Or, "We take security very seriously..." after they just got breached and their databases copied because they left a default password on a router.
Jesus I feel you. There were years I couldn't take a bath because I couldn't be sure I could resist slipping under. For me depression isn't thinking about things and wanting to die. It's actively fighting the ever-increasing...I don't know, need?..to just be done.

Gonna give the books a look, glad you found something that works for you!
"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." -Sun Tzu

You should allow your opposition to at least believe they have an alternative to digging in and fighting you to the bitter end. Even if you have no intention of allowing them to escape or surrender, you should let them believe it's still possible.
That sounds like the experience most people in my circle had.

I like your description, it contains a small hint on why i may am more depending on cannabis. I am all but busy, and right now am not ready to be, thanks to a burnout not to long ago i am still kinda recovering from. Thanks for this thought really, maybe i am just not there yet
Hey I just wanted to chime in and say that your story is very inspiring and I really appreciate the vulnerability it took for you to share it with us. Thanks for the book recommendations too. And keep fighting the good fight.
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You're right, privatization doesn't automatically have to lead to an improvement.

Incentives are what lead to the outcome being good or bad. The trouble is that it's virtually impossible for governments and unions to have the kind of incentive structure we want. With the private sector, it's possible, due to competition. Remove the competition, and private business will instantly get as bad or worse.

In fairness to unions, I'd say most of the services the OP listed are bad mainly because they're the government, and not mainly because they're unionized. Obviously government cannot have any competition (when they do, that's called "war"). Therefore they have the most perverse incentive structures of any organization. Unions tend to oppose competition, but not with anything like the same effectiveness as governments.
To be fair, the OP made the same mistake.
I've found, repeatedly, tho that this is the best way to really understand the common pitfalls without just receiving them as 'holy writ'.
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The introduction is about the course, the Internal Triggers 1 lesson is meant as a preview of the course. I'll work on the first mile experience (term from Scott Belsky) more.
True, but you can’t use the studio’s IP regardless of whether you work for the studio.
Let this be a lesson to all of you. First, don't write manifestos online of any sort, one day your words might be held against you. Second, don't admit guilt to anything, ever. All these 'unconscious bias' and 'majority guilt' are about soliciting admissions from you.

"As a person of X, I realized I was discriminating against people of Y." That's guilt. That's fire-able.

Don't emulate behavior just because it's fashionable. You might get the impression that society is run like a college campus now, but it isn't. All this activism isn't for you, it's for political control.
Anti-intuitive but interactive example of how float numbers are stored
Only one side is trying to undermine the electoral process itself. Don't forget that many Republicans voted against certifying election results.

Sorry those nuns are upset about buying health insurance, but I pay for all kinds of things I don't want to pay for too. Having good faith debates about that kind of thing is part of democracy though, and in the end it's pretty minor.

Showing restraint in institutional power means not using that power in an attempt to overturn an election just because you think you could legally get away with it.
These [resources](https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-You...) on West Australian health website might help people struggling with procrastination. They have detailed modules, exercises and workbooks which helped me a lot during a paralysing procrastiantion period. It might also help OP with their course.
The worst case considered at the time was an uncontrolled chain-reaction annihilating the planet. It was calculated to be impossible, but it still weighed on the minds of many scientists involved, even well into the hydrogen bomb era.

https://www.insidescience.org/manhattan-project-legacy/atmos...
Wow, it can even extract video! This looks phenomenal, and a great excuse to stock up on more disk space.

Their roadmap is also very interesting: "v2.0 Federated or distributed archiving + paid hosted service offering"

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap#v20-fe...
AMD is also rumored to be backporting Zen3 and RDNA2 to GloFo 12+ for some low-end APU products, presumably due to cost - TSMC 7nm is quite expensive which makes it less appropriate for a certain segment of price-sensitive products.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-monet-12nm-zen3-apu-and-berg...
We are talking about people who's company actually used the non compete.

These are not typical people.
Police deal often with people who have long histories of arrest and so I think there's also a perverse component of, like, sure it's possible they're innocent of this particular crime, but we're not dealing with an innocent person, more broadly.
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> If someone knocked on your door, quite unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, can I err on the idea that you would be quite panic-struck?

But if a stranger knocks on your door in the middle of the day you might just open up and say "no thanks, I don't want your pamphlet/vacuum/encyclopedia".

I mean, even if a stranger knocks, it seems weird to kill them assuming they're dangerous, even if we have "don't let a stranger in" etched in our collective consciousness.