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Many legal jurisdictions declare that you cannot be coerced into signing away various rights by altering the legal code to remove your ability to do so. For example, California passed SB 707 shortly after Doordash was told by a judge to pay up on their overdue and unpaid $10mil of mandatory arbitration fees back in 2019:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...

Here's a couple of relevant paragraphs of the amended laws:

> In California, private contracts that violate public policy are unenforceable. Under Section 3513 of the Civil Code, contract terms that require a party to forgo unwaivable statutory rights are unenforceable. Similarly, Section 1668 of the Civil Code provides that contracts exempting parties from responsibility of their own violation of law are also unenforceable. Thus, under these and other contract defenses of general applicability, a mandatory arbitration agreement, like any other agreement, cannot undercut unwaivable state statutory rights by, for example, reducing the limitations period to commence an action or arbitration, eliminating certain statutory remedies, or erecting excessive cost barriers to obtaining them.

> In an employment or consumer arbitration that requires, either expressly or through application of state or federal law or the rules of the arbitration provider, that the drafting party pay certain fees and costs during the pendency of an arbitration proceeding, if the fees or costs required to continue the arbitration proceeding are not paid within 30 days after the due date, the drafting party is in material breach of the arbitration agreement, is in default of the arbitration, and waives its right to compel the employee or consumer to proceed with that arbitration as a result of the material breach.

(I am not your lawyer, social media comments are no substitute for legal counsel, etc.)
Depends on country. Very few civil trials involve juries in Australia for example
I mean, I can see Beyonce at Levis Stadium and the Foo Fighters at Shoreline. I don't think this even remotely counts as a local music scene.

Compare this to the era that gave us that little-known Palo Alto band, the Grateful Dead.
"Test your backups" is so easy to say, but quite difficult for many to do.

It's difficult to do, yes. But it's difficult in a "dig a tunnel through that mountain" way, not in a "solve this mysterious math problem" way. It certainly could be done. It would just take time and money (money including hiring people).

People constantly point to the difficulty of backups and the difficulty of hardware level separations between systems. But these are merely difficult and costly. "No being hacked" and "writing always secure code" are impossible and so they won't protect from backup failure.

And yes, companies would rather spend money on other things. That's what it come down to.
I struggle with learning new domains or skills where I don't know what to focus on and start.

Example: I've always been fascinated by 'space' and have been determined to invest more time into this hobby by learning more. However, with such a giant array of disciplines (astronomy, cosmology, physics, astrobiology), I don't know where to focus, read a bunch of random information, and feel like I don't retain 90% of it.

It's easier, in my opinion, to learn a skill that has more of a practical application (like the author's Blender 3D modeling education).
>Black people were literally experimented on under the guise of vaccination programs.

There's been a lot of stories and allegations about vaccination programs in Pakistan in the 21st century, in relation to attempts to find Osama Bin Laden. That they were fake, and/or covertly collecting DNA for the CIA.

Is this a valid reason for all Americans to be suspicious of vaccines or at least not to blame them?
Just like in the military, they pay for the training
Do you know why companies' policies say the fees are payable by them? Is there a law requiring this?
I was happy to provide feedback. Why not just post it here instead of hunting down a support channel? Pretty much every forum has this kind of back-and-forth going on.
yeah, put a big samsung logo on it.

What would you [normally] charge if advertisement on your house was a market?
Pretty much every contract with a large company has a similar clause in it where they require you to go to arbitration instead of through the courts for disputes. This site requires binding arbitration in it's TOS, to avoid it you basically cannot use any service that's not open source and self hosted. No power, internet, cable, etc either those also definitely have BA clauses, it's impossible to live in modern society without agreeing to it because everyone requires it.
that's why SAS developed Viya so you can run Python and R code.
News like this makes my blood boil.
Children are a societies most precious resource. They should be protected at all costs, even if some scientific progress is missed along the way.

The religion of science is as insane as other religions known for problems with pedophilia.
"rights are being restored" feels wrong in this context. "A corporation has determined its more profitable to let you sue them" seems more accurate.
I'm british too (proper, innit?) - I always thought that "hob" refers to the entire unit (a "range" or "stovetop" in en-US), not each unit-of-heating.

Don't forget that "Hobbs" can also refer to one's kettle
You're calling on examples of strongly-pedigreed, well-informed. very slight game variations, and claiming they're equivalent with a whole-cloth supposition of the rules based on nothing but an examination of the board and pieces.

The gradual evolution of a well-documented game doesn't really compare with uninformed assumptions about how a game might work based on little more than mere physical artifacts.
Vaccination requirements: France is now treating its citizens like children
It seems like there most be some group theory formulation of this problem, where each "gluing" can be seen as different symmetries of a software system.
Firefighters make 100k, some teachers do too. Depends where you live.

More over you need someone to buy your 800k house you spent 600k on. It’ll be a remote worker who buys it if the local economy can’t support that so…… hopefully remote work is here to stay.
And further: Even if you had the resources of a James Bond villain and by some miracle of luck managed to attack the convoy, extract the weapon, and scurry off with it, you still couldn't use it. Nuclear weapons are designed to turn into bricks under any scenario of misuse, and the mechanisms to ensure this are some of the most devious and elegant engineering artifacts in the history of the engineering profession. This article gives a brief overview of these mechanisms but of course it is not comprehensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
that's how I found out...
I think I remember being taught in a college biology class that cannabinoids may have evolved as an anti-microbial / anti-insecticide defence. Sort of like capsaicin, or aromatics like lavender.

So this doesn't surprise me, but...it was college. My memory might be flawed.
It's a condition of the arbitration firm. Uber tried to switch to an arbitration firm with cheaper fees after a flood of driver disputes, but the drivers won their right to use the original firm.
I imagine its a limitation of the sensor capturing the image. When you use a tiny sensor on a phone its doing lots of post-processing, including bumping saturation and brightness.
Would we still have Post-Its if that entire chain of random chance events hadn't happened? This random link from a web search says:

https://www.invent.org/blog/trends-stem/who-invented-post-it...

> tasked with developing new, stronger adhesives. However, the sticky “microspheres” he invented were neither very strong nor permanent

[6 years later]

> a new product development researcher at 3M, was singing one night at church and wondered if he could make a bookmark that would stick to his hymnal but not damage the page after removing it

Yes, in theory, these two events could have been replaced, or even both independently occurred to the same person instead of two — but how much longer might it have taken for that to occur, and why didn't anyone think of it sooner?

Blu Tack was invented in 1968, and that weak adhesive above was invented in 1969, so Blu Tack had their 'weak adhesive' product on the market a decade before 3M had theirs. So, why aren't they called Tack-It Notes?

Technically we could have had Post-Its any time from 1968 onward, but it took until 1974 for wish for a sticky bookmark and to know that a weak adhesive existed. That's the irreplaceable person in this story, and without them, it could have easily been years or decades before someone else considered this.
I can't speak for the parent, some things that stand out to me

1. k8s and bare metal, when you make a bunch of threads things get slower. with the FIFO case, you can have pending requests in the queue that don't get their connection canceled event, and the same user puts another request in the queue.

2. Silently dropping is bad, you want an alert - really you want an alert when you get close, so you can add more capacity

3. bounded queue with unbounded threads is really just an unbounded queue - a short line with a mob pushing to get in line

Then, you know, memory on k8s, pod gets OOM killed. that sucks cause you have to reschedule and restart. all the pending requests are dropped.

It's very easy to make something that works, but is actually quite detrimental when things are on fire. little extra gasoline helps get over the hills, but when things are on fire, gasoline makes a bigger fire.
Well the thing is that there's a high likeliness that monsanto did cause cancer, but it's impossible to prove it 100%.
You have to do the IPO stock option dance.
If he could get to the point in this article, it would be nice...
Consumer Driven Technology Radar
To be honest, their system doesnt sound bad for residents - being able to drop off a bag of recyclables at a retailer with a personalized bar code and get paid sounds nice. In California where I live, technically most retailers that sell containers are obligated to take them back and refund you (Grocery Stores, Liquor Stores, Gas Station mini-marts, etc). In practice, I've never seen anyone do this. You have to go to a special recycling center location to get paid (most places do have curbside recycling you dont get refunded for, though).
Ahh, now we’re cooking with gas. As previously discussed here, the $300/day fine was woefully insufficient and as many mentioned, making the fine more painful for large health systems would encourage the desired behavior.
Well, its seems unexplainable, but did you found the gas food tastes much better than other medium? In china and many asian countries, they do believe this thing.
Interesting point, they would want the old device to live up to the name. Maybe refurb them into nameless crappy doorbells?
Interesting. I guess then in that case the question would be why do the firms have such conditions to begin with? Isn't it better for all the companies to just make people pay the costs too?
If you ever want to reconsider the topic of SWE not being Engineers, here's an example.

It's typically not feasible to "wing it".

Cost, time, and Effort make it so you need to be correct the first time. mistakes do happen, but when I switched from Design Engineering to SWE, I'm allowed significantly more mistakes. These can be inefficiencies, incorrect outcomes, bugs/errors, etc... No big deal because I can recompile. Can't do that with a half million dollar in steel molds with production on a set date.

Additionally with engineering, I'll have 4 layers of management review and sign off. With programming it's subjective code reviews.
The very nature of a limited-liability corporation encourages picking up nickels in front of a steamroller. Even holding the companies liable for the damages they do isn't enough, because they'll take risks that they can't ever repay (and jailing their officers might make us feel better but it can't un-steal your identity).
> Relatedly, a ~70 year old woman bagged my groceries today and I doubt she's doing it for fun. Seems the accelerating wealth inequality is destroying our society/communities if it hasn't already.

Savings and share-of-total-wealth rates (measured at same-age) are incredibly bad past the Boomer generation, dropping off with each generation.

There's going to be a whole lot more of this starting in about 10 years, when Gen X hits retirement age but can't retire at anywhere near the same rate their predecessors did.

I wouldn't count on inheritance to solve the problem, either. That's all gonna go to hospitals and nursing homes.
I'm still laughing.
I try to file my taxes with a couple different companies every year, and usually I get more money back with H&R Block by entering the same information... and it is free.
If by readability you mean invisible markup, yes, that's what YAML does well.
Money don't do jobs, humans do.

You see the logical fallacy in ur argument now?
Hard to write as in you can botch it up. With JSON you need to be careful to close all the tiny braces, sometimes far apart.
It's probably just titanium dioxide white, which is common for fleet vehicles because it's cheap (especially government/military fleets)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_fleet_%28military_vehicl...
We've cfg'd out all global OOM handling from alloc, so I think this example must be out of date. In the latest version you indeed would have to write it s different way.
> one of the major grips I have is how little information Julia provides you with stack traces

as opposed to Python and JVM traces? LOL

Also, python has been around for alot longer. So perhaps that Python has "everything" is a feature of time and user base.

Maybe Julia will grow to have a large enough user-base to have those things.
I agree with your premise, but just as a counterpoint, I'd add that many licensed professionals have a continuing education requirement designed expressly for learning new skills (63 hours per 3 years in my state, for dentists).
Don’t read it then. The beauty of HN is how it breaks the echo chamber and introduces people like me to articles I never would have seen.

This particular one is shocking and sad, I probably won’t be able to sleep at night at his angering it is.
It’s not day to day cheaper but you hope net zero in the end and maybe you make some profit. If you have a down payment to otherwise invest then maybe renting is ok…
The apparent haze in the black portion of these photographs appears to be a product of inexpensive camera optics, likely a smartphone with a bit of finger grease on the lens. If you know what you're looking for, this haze is noticeable across the entire image but especially the left third.

This is a common artefact of cheap lenses (or, for that matter, a lens of any quality that is smudged or dirty) but it goes unnoticed by most people in most circumstances.
Whoever pays the cost becomes the customer, with all the incentives that entails. The point of arbitration is keeping the decision makers incentivized towards the companies in a way that judges and juries would never be.
You have just described integration test, not unit test. So maybe you are not disagreeing at all ?
This is a distro intended for 1P internal services. Azure heavily uses Ubuntu internally compared to RHEL. Personally I’m curious to see how adoption turns out, because I think you’re right and this would be more likely something customers pick up.

(I work in Azure)
The arbitration firm would have a harder time collecting their fees from the users than the companies. Fees can be around $10k per case.
it's definitely late here haha
My point was if the class, VID or PID changes then treat it like a "new" device. If it presents subdevices or is suddenly a hub, those are new devices.

You'd have to also detect PID/VID brute force attacks. Short of a cryptographic key (as gruez talked about), a device being able to guess a valid class+PID+VID combo would be bad, so this would have to be treated similar to a password brute-force attack: too many "new" devices in a short time (especially unplugged without clicking the authorization UI) would cause the system to stop accepting new devices for a time.

Ideally you can also detect something else -- eg: serial number -- but I think that starts getting into manufacturer/device-specific implementations. (If only there was a company with billions of dollars and huge facilities and relationships with USB vendors and the capability to test tons of devices..)
Yeah, first we just nuke a bunch of impls, then we figure out whether we need new infra like a TryClone or whatever.
After last few years, between our handling of the epidemic, global politics, resource management, warming, and the near impossibility of ever obtaining consensus about any given fact, I'm kinda worried.

Some would deny an asteroid was coming, clinging to their profits or parties or deities by FUDing the astronomers and engineers.

Some would say let's put all all our effort to get some people off planet, at least into long term orbit (Stephenson's Seveneves), to save the gene pools. Begin debating who goes.

Some would say don't waste any resources on the orbit plan: put everything we have into deflecting the asteroid so it misses Earth altogether.

We should start now, today, learning how to build a planetary consensus about everyday things before we're faced with an urgent extinctor. We already ushered in the long term one.
(from the article) "Helmut Kentler, had been one of the most influential sexologists in Germany..."

Does this profession have any remaining dignity for this article to damage? I have an exceedingly low opinion of the institution that is social science, and the academic institutions that support it.

> In 1960, Kentler got a degree in psychology, a field that allowed him to be “an engineer in the realm of the . . . manipulatable soul,” he said at a lecture.

I see no reason to believe that the academic institutions that persist these institution do not all see themselves in this role as an "engineer in the realm of the manipulatable soul". They ostensibly exist solely for propagandistic purposes, pushing an agenda of leftist orthodoxy.
there’s actually bus lines that take you to all the places you listed in the bay area
I don't know what you want. I find bands I like, I add them to Song Kick. I get emails when they come to SF. Music venues have been expanding in the last 10 years, not contracting.

I've never seen a show a Levi's or Shoreline.

I guess your complaint is there aren't more artists coming out of Palo Alto? Yeah, sure, I'll concede that if I lived in Palo Alto I'd probably be unhappy with its music scene.
Palo Alto has terrible access to highways, areas of pretty bad congestion because of an excess of concentrated office space, and a 25mph speed limit on most streets, even arterial ones (Middlefield, Alma, Charleston). A trip between any number of destinations in Palo Alto and Mountain View is 15-20 minutes without traffic.
Thank you for sharing that link, very interesting and I did not know the author.
I did some googling and found this:

http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/apr02kirsner.pdf

A cursory read suggests that having arbitration fees paid by the customer opens the door for them to ask the courts to throw out the arbitration clause; so it's safer to assume responsibility for the costs to ensure the clause remains enforceable.
Do you even know what "Thizz or Die" means?
If SAT is solvable in polynomial time it’s only a matter of time until we have drastically better solutions than Y=1000000. Not only that, every commercial server in the world is optimized for long-running P-time implementations.

Everything in the digital world relies on P =/= NP. If that falls apart, we go back to the drawing board and start over.
I don't think the answer to that question is as obvious as you seem to. Many companies care a lot about whether they're complying with the law, perhaps because complying with the law is often hard and expensive. They'd never dream of hiring someone's nephew to do all their legal stuff on the cheap. Perhaps if sysadmins were a similarly exclusive guild, companies would take those responsibilities equally seriously.
I live in North America. While this is technically correct, people can and do use the terms loosely as well.

And regardless, you can most definitely rent a house.
Cops in the US can effectively stop you w/o evidence.
How to pick up a data science project to work on?
A common mistake. You need to look at your monitor straight on, not at a 45 degree angle where it can pick up a reflection of your child.
The problem is that Apple does facial recognition and does it in a semi secure way which builds trust in the technology. Then microsoft and samsung jam in the feature without any of the security considerations and ride off the trust Apple built in it.

It's completely outrageous that MS thought it was acceptable to do facial recognition using a basic webcam.
This is what my intuition tells me about the idea that one should only do JIT learning and onboard to an idea only over a weekend.

I'm guilty of it, but when I've taken the deeper dive, I feel it has paid dividends down the road.
The compiler doesn't know what's going on here, but fortunately the programmer does and they can use Rust's type safety to reduce the opportunity for foot guns.

Notice how the C code calls readb() with some address it got out of another structure adding to a constant from this file, whereas the Rust has readb() as a function implemented on the structure defining what it can write to. As a result, C code can easily mistakenly readb() something it didn't intend to, while the same mistake in Rust fails to compile.

Specifically, when you call that Rust readb() function with a constant like GPIO_SIZE that's not actually a GPIO register, it compares the constant you asked to readb to the size of the GPIO's I/O memory (1 page = 4096 bytes) and check it is smaller - if not the type match fails and your compiler tells you this won't work. No runtime crash, it doesn't compile.

If you don't have a constant, you can call a try_readb() function, this time you won't fail to compile if you screw up, but at runtime you get EINVAL instead of crashing.
Courts around the world have made similar rulings. The technical term is "contact of adhesion" and while exact rules vary from country to country, most courts will at a minimum strike out clauses which are considered to be "unexpected" on the basis that the customer is unlikely to have actually read the contract. (This is why clauses such as exclusions of liability are traditionally in all caps or bold -- on the theory that this draws attention to them and may help to save them.)
GenServer from First Principles: Maqbool Alam // Elixir Wizards Conference 2021
I'm not convinced this is EEE, but it's hardly impossible: They start adding features that only make sense in a MS world (hyper-v drivers, secure boot improvements, package Linux as an "app" (WSL2)), then market their take on the stack to anyone using normal distros (leveraging buy-in to the MS ecosystem, low costs, and good support) to remove the contributors and money that would have supported the existing ecosystem (i.e. steal suse/Ubuntu/RH customers). As a result, fewer people build the things that would let Linux compete with MS, and anything without their backing bitrots. "Linux" remains, as a server OS (preferably on Azure) and as a compatibility layer in WSL2, but without drivers for new laptop/desktop hardware or GUI development it's just another component under NT.

Or, if you just don't believe a single company can control the ecosystem, go build a Linux system with no userland code from Red Hat and let us know how it goes.