skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple: The attitude held by many in the law enforcement and justice system is that if you get swept up by police, you're probably guilty of something, so getting you off the street - even by coercing a false statement - makes the world a better place. The end justifying the means.

My neighborhood in Chicago has a cop enclave inside it and they are absolutely lighting up our neighborhood political discussion group irate about this law, talking about how many murders and rapists are going to go free.
They're just describing a set of people you could consider ordered by positive integers. The first person has no one behind them, the nth person has n-1 people behind them
Should be a requirement that, to be enforceable, a non-compete must pay the agreeing employee his salary for the duration of the agreement.
It looks like 180 pages is with ePub formatting:

> The ePub has 180+ pages, the PDF has 100 A4 pages.
I don't have a specific URL for you (other than for the authoritative source, the DNS RFCs) but a good example would be how clients in an Active Directory environment find a Domain Controller to log on to -- I'm sure there's plenty of documentation and examples of that on the web!

Hint: This same method (SRV RRs and priorities/weights) so that a client communicates with a Domain Controller down the hall, instead of another one halfway across the country.

Then, just imagine that it's a web browser connecting to a web server, instead of a workstation connecting to a DC.
I would guess it’s because many if not most Islamic majority governments are not democracies. Their people cannot speak out, and their governments seek favor with Beijing.
My feeling has always been that non-competes are ok as long as it is an entirely separate agreement from employment. For example, you can sign a contract for $100,000 that you won’t work in field x for 2 years. If you decide to work in the field, you give up that money.

The unfair thing is making it just a part of the standard employment contract.
Software vendors like Oracle and SAP do everything in their power to lock you into their services while doing the absolute minimum to fulfill any contract.

It took our IT over 4 years to migrate away from Siebel to Salesforce and it's going on 3 years since. I just learned the other day we still have a Siebel DB lingering around as a dirty little secret.

We move away from Lotus Notes over 10 years ago and we still have some Notes Apps used by our Legal Department.
I think "distractions" is an unfair way of putting it. Most people (at least in America) are focused on working enough to survive. Even though a significant portion of the population is aware of climate collapse, what can they do about it? Without a direct confrontation to global capitalism, emissions will continue. Even if emissions were halted completely today, we're still going to be dealing with a collapsing biosphere with unpredictable consequences for generations. I just don't see how awareness of the issue will do anything to improve our situation.
As far as I know, the pyramids were each constructed for a single pharaoh, and during their single lifetime. I don't know about all of them, but that's at least true of Great Pyramid of Giza.
I don't think they do. The electrons are indistinguishable - there is no "which" and no need for selection.
Another interesting cause of skipped sequence numbers in postgres is that INSERT ON CONFLICT increments the sequence number even if the row already exists. If the UPDATE is more common than the INSERT case, this will waste more values that it uses. This can be undesirable, even when the absence of gaps isn't strictly required.
If you buy it from steam, they might have an incentive to actually move more games over there.

I understand the sentiment though.
The pot brothers at law made a video of how they got a guy off at a weed distribution plant because he kept his mouth shut. The prosecutor couldn't prove he was an employee, customer touring, or what. All because they shut up and didnt say anything.
What is it's both?
Which I suspect strongly is the case...
That and the fact that civilizations probably only broadcast EM radiation out into the void for a short period of time before they start getting into energy efficiency and switch over to more efficient communication technologies.
Even with a dark forest, one would have territorial threats announced to the rest of the world.

Examples:
Blow a star up and make it project a unique territorial mark.
Make a diamond lighttower, beaming threatening messages to probable green zones, to lure unsuspecting enemies in.
I mean, it really was a hardware problem. However, the software guys were not pointing any fingers.
I Rejected a Job Becuase They Had No Team Cohesion
Great point, will do!

I've made a couple issues around your recommendation/questions:
https://github.com/unfrl/dug/issues/27
https://github.com/unfrl/dug/issues/28

Pretty much everything, except updating the DNS servers from the default remote source, should work offline. Also dug has no telemetry but the dotnet cli does, hence the DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT variable being present to turn it off.

Thanks so much for the feedback!
Apart from the continued devaluing of Science in our country and severe underfunding of any scientific institution?
>"Imagine you’re among the very first tourists to board a rocket, shoot up to the fringes of space, and see the Earth from 86 kilometres. Then you come down, and discover that no one cares."

I'm a huge fan of Space Exploration and I think a huge part of why this was so forgettable is just how badly Virgin Galactic promoted and coordinated everything. For one thing, it was never clear when the launch was supposed to happen. All I really knew was that his flight was going to take off before Bezos'. Additionally, the stream was a joke (assuming I would even know what time to tune in for it) because people want to see the flight, not Stephen Colbert talk about how wonderful it is. The mission didn't seem to have a name, or a patch, either, compounding the problem of getting info about it.

And lastly, SpaceShipTwo just isn't an inspiring vehicle anymore. It barely reaches the US boundary of space and the machine is just so limited compared to what SpaceX and even Blue Origin bring to the table. It's still an engineering feat worth praise, but it's just not that cool. If this was 2007 it would be incredible.
It would probably be more motivating to give the money to a cause or person you hate.
> Should I run Windows, Plan9, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux on my 5 servers to ensure I have diversity?

No. At the scale of five servers, a monoculture is acceptable risk, and as long as other businesses at that scale are choosing different monocultures, the systemic risk is limited as well.

But in analogy to agricultural monocultures, larger fields make monocultures more dangerous, and many adjacent fields with the same monoculture increase the risk even more.

But geographic continuity isn't necessary in our networked world, so the analogy is of limited use, and any vendor with enough customers, no matter how spread out, makes an attractive target.
I know how to suck eggs already; I was a GDPR compliance officer at my last firm. It's about privacy and data protection; cookies that don't violate privacy or track users, and are needed for the proper operation of the site, don't need consent.

The subject is silly banners. Those are nearly always about cookies, or "We won't serve you because you're in Europe, and GDPR" (and the latter violates the GDPR).

My view is that these banners are partly because some businesses think that by annoying users enough, they can get European users to reverse the GDPR. Ain't gonna happen.
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer embracing approach to marijuana reform
The money they don't spend on advertising is a huge part of their competitive advantage.
Friendly feedback: the gifs on the repo loop far too quickly for the user to see what the output is.
What, really? I have never had that happen to me.
Is this [1] perhaps the book you’ll work through?

[1] https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
I guess you don’t realize that eminent domain already happens today and very frequently.
About [1]: It's not a randomized controlled trial.

For example if a patient arrives to the hospital and s/he is so ill that must be intubated immediately and can't sign the paperwork for the study or can't take oral pill [X] then s/he go to the no-ivermectin group. Does this increase the chances of death in the no-ivermectin group?

Another example, if someone takes ivermectin and recovers, but is readmitted later, then s/he is excluded [Y]. Does this increase or decrease How does this increase the chances of death in the no-ivermectin group?

About the first question: probably yes, but you may disagree.

About the second: I have no idea, perhaps it artificially decrease the death rate in the no-ivermectin group, I have no idea.

So, it's very difficult to be sure that you are comparing the outcomes correctly without a randomized controlled trial.

About [2]:

> Hill and colleagues assessed 24 randomized trials totaling 3,328 patients that involved some type of control, whether it was standard of care or another therapy. Sample sizes ranged from 24 to 400 participants. Eight of the studies had been published, nine were preprints, six were unpublished results shared for the analysis, and one was reported on a trial registry website.

I think that now there are like ~34 trials. If you look at them, most of them are small and no statistically significant. The problem is reporting and publication bias. Studies with a good/favorable outcome are published. Studies with a bad outcome are uninteresting and discarded.

For example https://c19ivermectin.com/chowdhury.html compares Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. It is listed as a success in the https://ivmmeta.com/#fig_fpr but it's not listed a failure in the https://hcqmeta.com/#fcite_rct site.

[X] From the study:

> Patients in the ivermectin group received at least one oral dose of ivermectin at 200 μg/kg in addition to usual clinical care.

[Y] From the study:

> Patients who had at least two separate admissions placing them in both groups also were excluded.
very interested in seeing what those look like
My grandfather worked on the Hubble's mirror - the part with all the controversy. It was, simultaneously, both what he was most proud of and most ashamed.

One thing he would point out, that I never see discussed, was that at the time they built the mirror, there was an expectation that it may not be perfect, on account of how the Earth's gravity would slightly deform the mirror during manufacturing. As he tells the story, they'd tried to factor that into the design, but had less confidence in it. This, of course, was not the reason for the eventual problems, but to illustrate that this kind of thing was understood.

The big picture of the failure relates to the Shuttle program as well. At the time Hubble was being developed, its mission was supposed to allow for a lot more around the "shuttle" aspect: not just that it could be reused, but that it could be reused in an actual shuttling capacity, like an orbital pickup truck. So it was supposed to be possible to bring the telescope up into orbit (away from gravitational stresses), see how it worked, and if necessary, bring it back down for corrections. Since the end result of the Shuttle design cut down significantly in its capabilities in this regard, the Hubble program was left without its "Plan B".
West Coast is getting lucky wind isn’t blowing their way. Inland western states - not so much.
> Yes and a monarchy is a representative democracy because the king represents the people and has the sole vote on things.

If the king were elected, yes that could be true. I'm not aware of any system that does that though, and I'm not clear what point you're trying to make.
There's also the risk, according to some scientists, that if we cut our emissions overnight (I don't know how, like we all got together collectively and did at once or something), the climate could be significantly adversely affected by the shock drop. Cutting emissions entirely is also a no-win. So where's the balance?

There's also the issue that some countries (the US) are a lot more concerned about it than other countries (not naming names). Those other countries have every incentive to watch us flail around making the lives of our citizens harder (through taxation, meat reduction, other proposals) trying to cut emissions while they sit back and egg us on, and maybe pay lip service once in a while with the occasional inconsequential project.
The first part is the easy part, I have routers and run DNS, and have experience with IPTables, I can usually find ways to get hold of the traffic.

The second part is the challenge, and for some devices I've been unable to embed my own CA. I was hoping there was a proxy trick or some magic sauce I was missing. Perhaps where DHCP could automatically configure clients with a (insecure) proxy or something along those lines?
Maybe English isn't your first language. They were using the "some people are saying" Trumpian rhetorical technique of blaming the Wuhan labs and Chinese leadership directly for the outbreak.

The virus had TWO names and instead they wanted to refer to it as the China Virus and Kung Flu because they didn't want to take responsibility for the lack of political leadership by this country during a time when we could have limited the spread and effects of the virus. The result is that Asians were being assaulted because "they brought it here."
Not trying to criticize the Forest Service, but is it politically feasible to cut down large amounts of trees in the right areas to prevent this?
It's entirely down to whether the experience retains 1 to 1 movement between your head and the camera in the game or whether joystick movement or in-game animation yanks control of the positioning of your head/camera and moves it somewhere your real/physical head is not.
doesn’t really matter what the problem is attributed to when not enough is being done about either way (at least in the case of the US, can’t speak for Germany)

I'd be all for attributing it to not sweeping forests well enough if that actually got the funding to start seriously combating the issue, it’s a positive feedback loop that needs to be mitigated
Let's link to a non-paywalled article: https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercen...

(instead of: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/israeli-f... )
Some people might think that was a good deal to travel the world but not everyone. So you're at the peak of your career and you need to take a couple years off at significantly lower total comp (because no bonus/equity).
My state has severely limited non-compete agreements to the point that they’re only narrowly enforceable, if at all.

That didn’t stop one of my previous employers from using non-compete scare tactics against employees. Many of us left in a large exodus when benefits and bonuses were cut and management made a number of other bad decisions.

The company responded by sending remaining employees an e-mail with a list of competitors that they said would be covered by our non-compete agreement. The e-mail implied that if we wanted to leave for one of those companies we needed to get approval from the legal team before we moved, otherwise we might be at risk of being sued.

My lawyer rolled his eyes when I showed it to him and explained that they wouldn’t win due to my state’s laws, but they could try to make my life difficult with legal proceedings if they wanted.

The tactic worked enough to scare some of my old coworkers away from taking job offers at competitors, though. Some others also went into hiding and lied on their LinkedIn profiles to prevent their old employer from finding out they went to competitors.

Having some clear, national guidelines that make non-competes a non-issue would do wonders for situations like this.
Depends on how good it is ultimately. I've read a _lot_ of programming books. Some were obvious, some were good, and some elevated me in a way I am unsure I would have achieved on my own. Given the tremendous salary opportunities in the field, its tough for a book price to be too high, if its good. And sometimes, reading a few bad ones is the only way to find the good ones.
I see, hopefully once encapsulated they will last much more, otherwise, if it is linear, you would need replace them every year or so during which you go from 100% to 74%.
Nice write-up. Something does not add up here though.
Primary writes 32 ahead to the WAL when fetched the first time, then keeps a counter (log_cnt) which it decreases each time nextval is called.
So, when sequence was initialized, nextval is 1 and WAL has 32.
The replica sees 32 as fetched offset.
How does incident sequence switch from 7 to 39? Shouldn't it be 33 when the replica was made the primary?
Same for incident 20 -> 52, shouldn't it be 33 when replica was made primary?
Unless I am missing something here, i.e, 32 is added to the nextval and nextval is logged each time (20 or 7).
What's wrong with just choosing a random set element?
Makes sense. I read a few more other articles on his blog and some comments did mention a failure of the disk after a very short period of time, but likely due to a chip error not a disk failure.
No.

The GDPR requires sites not to discriminate. It is a violation to refuse to serve users because they are in Europe.
Except it makes total sense. There is a clear transition happening to non oil energy sources. Oil is a fungible good with alternate energies for many applications. It makes no sense to talk about peak oil if oil demand will soon greatly lessen.

As technology increases with oil extraction and alternate energy sources come into play, the peak oil scenario will likely not be realized.
That's what I'd run as a one time cleanup in the OP's place, to minimize the customer visible impact, since it avoids the gap for everybody who was affected by the skip but didn't have an incident since then.
Massive drought and flooding on scales that overwhelm any level of prior preparedness can mess up your food supplies pretty quick I reckon. We are starting to see these become more common with recent shifts in weather patterns.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JimBair62221006/status/1354175511...
Thanks, makes sense. I think for SSD it's the number of writes right?
I believe non-competes and claiming the IP of what employees do in their own time is ridiculous and way out of line. Employers do not own the people who work for them.
Really good article.

> You don’t have to explain how you’re choosing elements. We’ll just assume you can make it work somehow.

Very interesting remark. The way I think about it now after reading your article is:
If you prove something with the axiom of choice, all you need to do is provide an ordering to get practical results from it. If you fail to do so, oh well.

That being said, I don't think you need R (the reals) for practical applications, countably infinite sets like IQ (intervals over Q) are enough and the well-ordering rule doesn't seem paradoxical anymore (countably infinite sets can be ordered as there is a bijection to N).

Example:
Pi can be approximated arbitrarily close with a lower and upper bound on Q. The functions used to derive the lower and upper bound with arbitrary precision (also a number in Q) are Pi in this sense
You mean how we know the Earth wasn't seeded with something similar to archeo-bacteria on purpose? We don't but that doesn't solve the problem.

Or how do we know that we, humans, aren't the colonists? Well, all the life we know comes from the same ancestry, including us.
This is why it’s a little ridiculous to think there could be a “tech hub” outside California. Sure maybe you have a lot of tech jobs in the same place, but that is of no consequence to the people who work them, since they’re all in binding non competes.
The absurd part of non-competes is that they want a guarantee of exclusivity on you without a guarantee of paying you for that period of exclusivity.
Apropos of nothing, the Soviet Union was also a net-exporter of wheat during the Holodomor. There's a lot of ways to be a net exporter.
(Not your parent)

Expiration dates vary wildly based on a number of factors, which you probably know, but for completeness: opened vs unopened, refrigerated vs non-refrigerated, brand to brand, etc.

It is true that it becomes inactive over time, but those rates vary. And people know that manufacturers put expiration dates based on liability. Yeah if it says that it expires after a year, that's because they know that 2 units is 2 units after that long, but it's variable enough that you're not going to just get rid of something so expensive and precious when it's likely to still work just as well, and even if it's not "just as well," still be reasonably effective. It's a slow, steady decline, not a "this goes from fully potent to useless at this moment in time" kind of thing. Yeah maybe you'll give yourself four units and it'll actually be effectively 3.5; that's still better than zero.
I've certainly seen this be a problem - even if you and every future programmer who touches your code gets the authorization check right every time over the years the app is live, and over the hundreds or thousands of endpoints it exposes, plenty of apps don't get it right every time.

Using random id's is a nice and low effort additional layer of security there.
Oh, this brings back memories.

The one advantage tractor-feed paper still has is in printing banners!
I'd love to see a video on it being printed. From the looks of the layer lines.. it was done vertically?

While I don't really like the look of it, 3D printing combined with CFD-based simulation and optimization sounds pretty cool for creating new things, even at scale.

If I remember correctly the 3D Printing Nerd managed to get a showing of Bosch's new technologies on the subject on his YouTube channel and it looks crazy. Material quantity, performance, print time and cost can all be optimized for a much better overall product using some of these new CAD and prototyping technologies. As a hobbyist it looks so crazy impressive.
> f.lux for your ears

Great project! Well done.
The $25 type is of the R/N/L variety. The thing that sends you to the hospital with that type isn't it being "bad", it's ignorance. You need to be aware of the effectiveness curve (or whatever it's called) and take it / eat correctly based on that. It's not hard, it's just far less convenient then more recent insulins.

It's also a good idea to keep a sugar source available in case you can't keep food down for the amount of insulin you took (ie, you suddenly get nauseous after taking your insulin); which is also true of newer insulins, just less likely because there's less delay between taking it and eating.
The US media may bemoan the end of our occupation of Afghanistan, but most Americans are sick of military deployments. It’s one of the main reasons we pulled back.

We are far from perfect, but unlike the CCP, we have the courage to address our shortcomings directly. We even record them in our history books for future generations to learn. Things have gotten better over time because of it. We don’t suffer from cowardice nor do we hide from our mistakes.
Man, every birthday party ever thanks to C64!
Of course, if you want to compare, compare to other embedded hardware on the market like the Quest 2, it probably beats it quite handily.
If you tell me that you live on Baldwin st, it's gonna blow my mind.