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Things always seem fine until they aren't, and then they're real bad.

Invariably, the nature of a difficult situation is that they're difficult to get out of, so we tend to be very interested in avoiding difficult situations. This is why people are so interested in avoiding climate change, rather than waiting for more real-time data about how much climate change actually sucks so they can update their Bayesian priors and "avoid climate change when it happens again."
Historically it's extremely rare that the conquerors killed everyone in the cities they conquered. Instead they enslaved some, or let them mostly live and just taxed them. Even with other species that regularly attack humans (tigers or even mosquitos), we have not exterminated them.
Yes, and the Christian Science Monitor is known for its American liberal bias.
Most people are not in the position to take a couple years off for $100K or to work, for almost certainly lower pay, in an unrelated field assuming they can find a professional job.
I complemented Google for how they handled a similar situation in the comments of a HN article from a few weeks ago[0]. In that case, they reassigned their head of diversity in light of his former antisemitic statements which had been recently uncovered. Just like their "VP of developer relations for Google Cloud" Amr Awadallah, their "head of diversity" Kamau Bobb had publicly renounced their old ways but, given the nature of their position, it didn't make sense to keep them there.

The difference is in that case Google reassigned Bobb to a position which would not be compromised by their past. In this case, they outright fired Awadallah. That raises some red flags.

As many other commenters have pointed out, we don't know the whole story and probably never will. This line from the article might shed a little more light on the situation, though:

> Within the manifesto, Awadallah describes how he was "cautious" of VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum based on his last name

If Awadallah had a history of antisemitism while at the company that had been recently uncovered, it could make sense for him to be terminated. And if that were the case, I doubt Google could speak publicly about it.

I want to promote a society which doesn't hold people forever accountable for past mistakes and allows them to change and improve. But I also don't want to promote a society where misdeeds go entirely unpunished just because the perpetrator apologized in a social media post. It's hard to strike a balance and I'm hesitant to comment any more about this story without more information.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27381425
The question is, what really is at face value? "Employees [...] said the frustration with Awadallah’s leadership style had been building for months", and the article doesn't contain any direct claim that Google parted ways with him because of the manifesto. You could draw inferences from the timeline, and the article does seem to be written to encourage you to, but those are exactly the kind of inferences that are unreliable when you don't have all the facts.
I'm not sure I buy the argument about not making money. Sure there's not a monetary incentive to make the whole system work well together, but that doesn't mean that the military should ignore how failures in their communication infrastructure limit their ability to rapidly respond to threats and coordinate between different forces. Combined arms is a thing a after all, and it sucks when people have to spend time coordinating because targets or enemies show up in some units but not their attached units (or worse show up in different locations on each).

Sure, legacy systems are an issue and compatibility is necessary (especially for systems we need to talk with allies who spends less money upgrading equipment than we do). But that doesn't justify the new things not working together. Is there a reason that we got MADL with the F-35 and IFDL for the F-22 and needed a special program (with unmanned airborne relays) to allow the two to talk? Those are both new systems, there just doesn't seem to be any overall coordination. Heck, to some degree it seems like this inability to interoperate is intentional, as one of the F-35 requirements was that it could receive but not transmit on the existing legacy waveform, Link-16.

I don't mean to be so negative about it. The technology behind modern military radios is incredible and the radios effectively meet the requirements that the military specifies. This allows them to do amazing things. I just think that, particularly for communications, they need to look past the new hotness for something less exciting that both ages better and works well with existing systems.
> Bells didn't start going off until this part of your comment.

How so? Jeffrey Epstein was rich, but that was about it. What kind of power or importance did he have? AFAIK, he only got rich by leeching off other even richer dudes. I'm sure most of his friends were the same. Not exactly the kind of people who I think would resort to murder (of a guy in solitary in a maximum security prison), or could pull it off and leave barely a trace if they tried.
This type of paper and dot matrix printers are still in use in some commercial and industrial settings, like accounting departments or warehouses where they need printers going 24/7. From what I gather this is the most reliable setup in those scenarios.
The ESA and NASA and the like are also using LEON [1] for a lot of their work these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON
It could be a really bad deal if you're basically throwing away 2 years of your career when you have maximum bargaining power
Show HN: From zero to 100 deploys a day [pdf]
Our co-founder Dylan Etkin wrote this book from a practitioner's perspective. Dylan was one of the first 20 employees at Atlassian, and a founding engineer and the first Architect of Jira. He has also led engineering for Bitbucket at scale, and Statuspage, a startup that Atlassian acquired.

The book attempts to break down HOW elite software teams deploying to production many times a day get to where they are.

Their journey can be deconstructed into 3 phases:
Phase 1 : Deploy once a week
Phase 2 : Deploy once a day
Phase 3 : Deploy a hundred times a day

The book details the measurements, development practices, communications, and cultural milestones that mark each phase to show you how to replicate their journey toward Continuous Delivery - and reap the benefits that come with frequent deployments.
I do have legal coverage as part of home insurance package, however, it seem that it's only against direct "attack" towards me, and employment disputes aren't covered. Pretty useless tbh.
They are not using it but just imagine that company gets acquired by people who do those kind of things.

Contract with company is not contract with current management only. I don't know who will be there in 2 years in charge.

My current company was acquired by a bigger company like a year ago, fast forward one year - even bigger company is now owner of our parent company.
Inflation? Not in Japan. and That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S.
What libraries/frameworks are state of the art?
I would like to understand whether there are any states that even occasionally backs the employer in non-competes for the general layperson. In my experience, courts tend to side with someone who's willing to work over employers.

This is why non-competes are a joke in the US. Courts aren't going to enforce them. Almost every state has an industry where moving between companies, or starting companies to compete with existing companies, exist (midwest auto industry, New York financial industry, Texas energy, etc).

It's great that California is so explicit. I wish other states would follow suit. But the only times I've ever seen a court uphold a non-compete is for highly (8 figures) compensated employees.
Looks like they mention it in the blog post

https://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-sho...
I moved to a state where it’s illegal, can’t be arsed to find a dealer, and I tend to abuse it to the point of mental health issues. That said, I still think it’s a wondrous substance and will always rabidly support its legalization.
Apple Watch and Health Exec Kevin Lynch Joining the Apple Car Team
If you think this is about IP you're completely missing the point.
>> The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those protections, they’d need to pay lower salaries, and we’d all be worse off.

> No. If companies couldn't coerce workers to stay with them against their will, then they would have to pay better and be better employers. And we would all be better off.

The author is presenting the standard business argument, i.e. trade secrets are good for business and society generally because they generate wealth, non-competes protect trade secrets, so without non-competes trade secrets would be revealed and business and society would be poorer, so everyone would be worse off. The author isn't agreeing with this pov (and neither do you or I), they want to ban non-competes.
ESA have PLATO ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(spacecraft) ) Which looks very interesting.

Meant to launch in 2026.

"The PLATO payload is based on a multi-telescope approach, involving 26 cameras in total: a set of 24 "normal" cameras organised in 4 groups, and a set of 2 "fast" cameras for bright stars. The 24 "normal" cameras work at a readout cadence of 25 seconds and monitor stars fainter than apparent magnitude 8. The two "fast" cameras work at a cadence of 2.5 seconds to observe stars between magnitude 4 to 8. The cameras are refracting telescopes using six lenses; each camera has an 1,100 deg2 field and a 120 mm lens diameter. Each camera is equipped with its own CCD staring array, consisting of four CCDs of 4510 x 4510 pixels.

The 24 "normal cameras" will be arranged in four groups of six cameras with their lines of sight offset by a 9.2° angle from the +ZPLM axis. This particular configuration allows surveying an instantaneous field of view of about 2,250 deg2 per pointing. The space observatory will rotate around the mean line of sight once per year, delivering a continuous survey of the same region of the sky."
Dementia Cases Have Declined by 13% in US and Europe Every Decade Since 1988
Similarly, I think the massive emphasis on how difficult it is to quit smoking ("it's more addictive than cocaine!") has the side effect of making it much more difficult to quit.
Also the people claiming (and believing) that they have no intention of suing are not the people who make the decision to sue or not (unless it's an extremely small company, or you are an important enough hire to be discussing this with the CEO and General Counsel). Even if they have the best intentions, some random recruiter or manager really has no insight into this.
The article was interesting but I was disappointed it didn’t go into more detail on what the final solution was.
Just FYI, I have this set up as a Docker container on my Synology and it is now patiently crawling through my (imported) 2000+ Pocket URLs, to which I’m adding a lot of other stuff scattered across other “clipping” tools (like OneNote).

Key benefit for me is having actual local files. The resulting PDFs are searchable on their own, so I can sync those back to my Mac for reference (and Spotlight indexing). But the HTML snapshots are also pretty decent.

One thing I’ll be looking into is automatic tagging (since it’s a Django app there are plenty of likely ways to inject that info).
I think it is fine for police to lie in interrogations to get information. If them telling lies leads them to hard evidence of the crime that's great But lying to get a confession doesn't seem fair, if you confess to a crime you should have full knowledge of the case against you just like you would in a trial.
Show HN: Web server that executes Go scripts without compiling. Golang XAMPP
In the time leading up to the Civil War, literal physical fights would break out between Northern and Southern members of Congress. We haven't gotten quite to that point..yet.
If you're not looking for fancy typefaces I'd use Appleworks. The database function has label capability if memory serves.
But how can that hold when you're approaching infinity? It would only apply to sets finite in both directions.
Agreed. I would think that as a VP he would understand this and have access to resources that would help him with phrasing etc. However, since that particular horse has left the barn.
Overwatch is not "how we did it 20 yeas ago". It just happens to also be crowd sourced.
You could do it functionally, i.e. the systems are all reducers on partial states of the world.
I read the majority of the linkedin post.

While it starts off benign enough with renouncing antisemetism and wierdly anti-zionism it soon goes into a tirade.

After the first few parts it's mostly about the Israel-Palastinian conflict (mostly denouncing Israel's actions), with a lot of denouncing Trump a long the way.

For a company trying for the last few months to get rid of politics in the office, I can definitely see how this would be a firing offense from a top executive.
Show HN: Dslib – a library of connected data structures in C
> Why does robbing the bank from the inside get a relative slap on the wrist, while robbing it through the front door gets you shot?

Because when you rob it from the outside you're probably using violence to threaten people with their lives. You don't think that's many, many times worse than someone cooking the books or stealing from the register?
It's getting harder and harder to do even with HTTPS! Look at the other commenter on here that described the absolute wasteland with apps and OS-vendors (Android,IOS) being actively hostile to device-owners.

Edit. Typo.
No shit. Just replaced my 8-year old TC with a NetGear.
Ah ok, no history of breakthrough... Disrupting the entire aerospace and automotive industry doesn’t count obviously.
April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865
If it isn't worth it to the company to pay, then they should let the person work for a competitor.
I think that’s a fair benchmark, too. It’s a well-written book that starts from first principles — something I don’t see often in books. While I don’t use Haskell everyday, the things I’ve learned from that book influence how I write code every day.
Of Course We Can Make a CSS-Only Clock That Tells the Current Time
Intended (in the US at least) to be exercised only in the public interest, like to build a dam for flood control or a railroad right-of-way to facilitate commerce.

I fully recognize that "public interest" can be twisted in all sorts of ways, but I agree with the GP comment that taking land from some people to give it directly to other people does not conform to my understanding of the spirit of the eminent domain law.
I agree with this. I was merely trying to summarize the arguments on the other side.
Reminds me of this scene from The Office where Michael drives into a lake:

https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY
No, I'd never apologize. I will continue to reply to any of your replies until infinity.

Because this is fun and productive right? We're not even debating the usefulness of Bitcoin.

The semantics of speech, context and literalness are far more interesting and important to us.
>An attacker on the network can reorder messages coming from a client to the server.

How do you fix this in a messaging system? What do you do in the common case where a message just gets lost? You can wait for a while for the message to show up but you can't wait forever without permanently breaking the system.
and access to either some very enthusiastic amateur smelters, one enthusiastic professional smelter, or some really good welders, because wood you can easily find, but a pre-cast plate for an unusual size piano... very not so much.
I still see tractor feed paper in a few businesses, usually where they need paper with multiple carbon copies...since tractor feed also usually means impact dot matrix.

I still see these in some older mom-and-pop auto parts stores, for example.
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Fuck, I'll take a baseball to the Ukraine and get it done on the cheap.
> "Chains of Suspicion" assumes civilizations cannot communicate, yet the dark forest hypothesis assume civilizations can destroy each other
> If you can physically interact, you can communicate

I think you misunderstood what they meant by "communicate". They don't mean "reach with a message", they mean "engage in back and forth communication with both sides understanding the conversation".

We're still struggling to talk to dolphins, but technically we could nuke them all to death if we ever got scared they were rising up.
iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726722 - Apr 2021 (107 comments)
This is not true, as they can also ban cheaters. Also, anti-cheat software can still be used with private servers.
To add to this, when yet-unpublished works are published posthumously, they are commonly edited. For example, several of JRR Tolkien's works were edited for posthumous publication by his son Christopher. And even if the text is totally unchanged there must be choices about what to include and how to present it.

IMHO it's not at all strange for the family (particularly the offspring) of the deceased to make decisions, including creative/artistic/editorial decisions, about how their loved one's work and life are used and portrayed.
What about first testing the health of the disk before creating more waste?
Well, control is more important than many things.

For instance, I’m happier if I pick my couch and then I’m uncomfortable than if the government picks my couch and I’m comfortable.
Yeah, I was being overly negative. NASA has produced some very good observatories since Hubble

> There's also JWST

Which is 15 years late and still on the ground.
> When employees expressed their discomfort at the all-hands meeting Wednesday, the executive doubled down on his manifesto and insisted employees misunderstood, they said.

It doesn’t look at he’s really open to feedback, doesn’t seem much sensible about how people react to his opinions in general.

Other people might take the wrong message from his demotion, but then it also means they didn’t really care looking into the details, so wouldn’t they have been mistaken in other ways if he stayed in position and continued spitting weird manifestos ?
Mine ran well for like 4 years before it died. I've since move on to a Synology for local backup. I still miss the wifi from an Airport, they were really solid devices. I'm using a Asus Wifi router now, seems to work fine. I was interested in the Ubiquity wifi AP's but I remember them pulling some sort of shenanigans.
And what astonishing results did it produce in even more time than SpaceX?
Exactly, none whatsoever.
‎the Ezra Klein Show: How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves
UK records 51,000 new Covid cases – highest daily tally since January
That's really good to know, actually. It makes the waiting a bit less aggravating to think that they're not just trying to piss me off.
«The United States embargo against Cuba prevents American businesses, and businesses with commercial activities in the United States, from conducting trade with Cuban interests. It is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history.” Wikipedia
That’s moving the goalposts. I said we could hit a planet at those distances not that we can create a relativistic impactor.
If the stars are reasonably close together a supernova would do it. Even a relatively distant supernova (like 30-40 light years) would likely render most planets inhabitable for a long time.
They should ask their buddies over at the CIA ;^D
mods: this should probably be "A deep fakes based haunting new documentary about Anthony Bourdain".
So when Google is going to lock you out of Chrome/ChromeOS for clicking on the wrong news headline?
There are always many stories in big stories.
Heh, it's an interesting comparison. I think in this case Tesla can get it working just enough for the Elon to shift the goalposts and avoid legal disaster. But it will likely never be safe enough to divert your attention, and their timelines for delivering what they've promised are patently absurd.
In 2016, NASA began considering four different Flagship space telescopes, they are the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), Origins Space Telescope (OST), and Lynx X-ray Observatory. (text from wikipedia)

https://www.greatobservatories.org/about
I imagine they just mean something like how 15/5.9=2.54
Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
Two recent episodes of the "Criminal" podcast [0] documented that it's a bad idea for even victims of kidnapping to report to police. In this case, it wasn't because the kidnappers punished the victims for reporting, but because the police themselves harmed the victims.

[0] https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21/
I wouldn't say it's extremely unlikely.
Maybe not the primary effects won't kill us. But when nations start to struggle with the primary effects, the resource shortages are going to cause conflict - which will almost certainly lead to wars, with these weapons, which will kill billions.
Originally it was presented as part of Sceneform.

https://developers.google.com/sceneform/develop

But like all big plans presented at Google IO it eventually joined Google graveyard, and apparently they kept on working on Filament alone.
Apple probably wasn’t making a lot of money on these, but it was a good karma product.
DeepMind publishes AlphaFold2 and open sources code
This is where the U.K’s “try not to be a dick” approach to law wins out.

A former employer has to show the court that they will suffer genuine damage if the clause is not enforced and even then the court won’t enforce it unless it is reasonable. The case law on that is pretty tight.

If you’re setting up in direct competition and trying to poach clients and staff the courts will favour the former employer. If you’re just moving to another job then courts will likely favour you.

The courts recognise that there is an imbalance of power between employer and employer in the job market. Although each case turns on the specifics the English concept of reasonableness runs through its resolution.
Apart from a shift in mental attitude, is it primarily about getting a dataset for the integration test?
I guess poster is referring to purely using physics to work out the structure - i.e. no more knowledge than how atoms/molecules move and the sequence. At the moment knowledge is gleaned from evolution by virtue of evolutionary conservancy.
How do you know for sure that the stick they send you is a valid restore snapshot?

Do you have a program you wrote to go verify the contents of each and every file on the stick and compare that to what is currently on your system?

It seems to me that the backup validation process also has to be provided by the vendor that created the backup software itself. Only they know their file formats. Only they know how to properly compare file A and file B to see if they are correct and accurate.
It's not worth the stress of downloading the entire backup from your remote storage (hopefully you have one) if it unexpectedly fails. The removed hard disk can also still be put to use, for example, storing games.
You left out the first part, "doing innovative things that ULA never had the incentive to do", i.e. land/re-use the rocket.