skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-competes in France are regulated by law. If you put one in the contract, it means that you have to compensate me (70% of total compensation if memory serves me right) during the time it is enforced.

Since there is no way for me company to know where I am going, it may mean 70% of salary for free, if I go to a non competitor.

It is rarely enforced, though.

The second non compete (while working at a company) is very muddy waters though.
Laws in Europe apply to European subjects only, not the entire world. Europe has no authority to force a non-European company to serve it's subjects.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPlREDW-Ro
One of my modest ambitions is to finally understand how Scopes work in REBOL
Too Shall Pass
I was hoping for some old guard bill Clinton style, not Ron Paul.
bonoboTP gives a nice high-level description, I give a slightly more ranty description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857728.

Basically it seems like no matter what axioms you have, there's a bright line as to whether they accurately describe the natural numbers as we observe them in our universe, as that has physical ramifications. That bright line seems like "whether these axioms are true in our universe" and that seems to lend an objective standard by which we can measure our axioms.
Yup.

> severe addiction problems that prevent them from seeking it in the first place.

... and we're right back at health care.
Starving? Doubt it. Malnutrition? Probably plenty.
Ooo solutions that include a magic step are very attractive to me...
There's many products marketed as being healthy and they aren't
That happened a ton, but I never got the impression it was a problem for them. Was it?
I'm sure everyone involved certainly had the attitude that you don't dork up / release it.

I think just from a super high level intelligence standpoint ... you know it is going to happen.
No, we don't run any code. In its current state, the service would be geared towards companies who still largely want a fully manual review, but they have a problem organizing candidate communications/materials and getting feedback from their team and other stakeholders.

Whether or not this provides enough value, I'm not sure. From my limited research, lots of companies are using combinations of shared inboxes, shared spreadsheets and other collaboration apps like notion.so. I feel like there might be room for some all-in-one solutions.
"All these services are easy to replace" - I would like to agree, but I think that statement trivializes the endeavor a bit too much.

For Docs for example: Sure, from a technical standpoint, creating a webapp that lets you modify a document, syncs over new changes on a regular basis, and lets multiple users collaborate on the same doc and the same time is certainly harder than making a hello world calculator, but it's definitely not that hard. Most of us could figure out how to do it, especially since it's 2021 and our hardware is up to the task.

However, what is stupidly non-easy, is getting billions of people to use your solution, and for it to become the "standard" in society, for powerusers and non-powerusers alike, and for it not to have hiccups when a billion people use it. Oh, also, you need to somehow pay for the physical infrastructure that supports it, and the human beings that maintain it (hardware + software).

The situation would be even more complicated for YouTube because of the nature of the content, i.e. a single video on YouTube might be viewed by billions of people, while even the most popular docs are viewed by thousands at most, and even then making a copy of a text document to then distribute off-platform is pretty trivial.

And yes, we can spit out terms like blockchain w/ proof of stake, IPFS, etc. - but the tech isn't even the hard part, it's everything else that's hard (adoption, consensus, complexity for non-powerusers, funding, etc.)
Nicer text with an AxiDraw pen plotter
Cocaine is a terrible drug. Get help.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/coca...
So walmart convinced one of the "bad guys" to do a good. Still seems like a win to me.
I could reply about all the issues that make crates.io a non starter for many corporations, but then this would escalate into a Rust vs C++ and better not.
I always thought it would be interesting if Spacex developed a "dragon utility module". It would launch in Dragon's trunk and consist of a docking port on one end, an airlock on the other, a miniature manipulator arm and a bunch of cargo mounted around the outside. After separating from the second stage the Dragon would flip around and dock to this module, which would give it all the extra bits needed for a mission like servicing the Hubble.
Yes, modern c++ code wont have manually deleting objects in memory.
The insulin Walmart is selling is much, much more difficult to use effectively than the fast-acting insulin formulations that Type 1 diabetics rely on to keep them alive, because they work so slowly. Better than nothing, but it's much harder to avoid the highs and lows that cause major damage to the body.
Now that the folks in the article have way, way overpaid for their house, they will be incentivized to oppose rezoning efforts because that might lower the value on their house. It’s almost like a pyramid scheme or viscous cycle? Complain about high real estate prices until you finally buy a house, then fight any effort that might lower its insanely exorbitant value.
If you look at technologies which have had huge impacts on the world, a 10x change is simply tremendous.

A person walking typically manages about 3 mph / 5 kph.

A typical person on a bicycle can sustain about 15--20 mph (24--32 kph). Early trains operated at about 25--30 mph (40--50 kph), and soon regularly reached 60 mph (100 kph).

The combined factors of speed and cargo capacity make rail utterly transformational to humans (or animals) carrying loads. Even compared with high-tonnage cargo methods of the era (riverboats and canals), rail's speed was a major factor. (The tonnage/speed tradeoff continues between rail and river or ocean shipping today. For bulk, time-insensitive cargos, rail cannot compete.)

Propellor-driven aircraft moved at about 100-250 mph (160--320 kph) --- the DC3 cruised at 200 mph, as an example. Jet aircraft cruise at about 550--650 mph (850--1,000 kph).

And of course, orbital spacecraft / ballistic missiles hit 17,000 mph (27,000 kph), and up.

In the case of marine shipping, speeds didn't vary so much as tonnage did, with the net ton-miles/hour figure increasing accordingly. Clipper ships trended below 200 tons. Maersk's Triple-E class container ships displace 200,000 tons, a factor of 1,000.

The energy cost of lighting over the past 200 years has fallen by a factor of thousands, from candles and oil lamps to LEDs. Lighting uses which were previously unfathomable are now commonplace. Candle-powered outdoor advertising displays might be quaint, however, if somewhat fire-prone.

Again, typically, a 10x gain in some metric pushes applications to an entirely new domain, which was my point. Not that a 10x improvement was the likely limit in this case.
The main site pretty good.

http://www.rebol.com/docs.html

Note, OP likely talking about Rebol 2.

Rebol 3 and Red were/are (sort of) forks...
If you're teaching your children to trust police, you're doing them a disservice. They should be taught to respect authority figures that are not their direct family, but never, ever trust their intentions.
I wonder how scalpers are messing this up now, since you need an account that’s older than June…
Beware of extremist/polarizing arguments like this one, they're mostly manipulative.

You can voice your disagreement, and still use the platform as long as they don't cross the line. That doesn't mean you haven't prepared a plan for degoogling your life and accept the inconveniences.
undernourished =/= "dying from lack of food "
Read these three articles:

- https://erikbern.com/2018/05/02/interviewing-is-a-noisy-pred...

- https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story....

- https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/
Why should I have to contribute to Social Security for people who didn't bother to save for retirement? /s
In Search of Patrick Burleson, with GPT-3
You can't smoke anywhere. What's the point of it being legal if almost every place has no-smoking policies, and now (in CA) they're adding explicit rules for cannabis. Unlike tobacco, you can't go to some corner or park and smoke. It's not allowed anywhere,

I had to stop because the best way to smoke, is to do it often in small amounts, but this inevitably creates a lingering smell. This is understandable but there are no alternatives to go outside either. On top of this, the stigma is still there, and non-smokers despise smokers and can't stand even smelling a particle in the air without making strange faces and throwing dirty looks.

I still have hopes it becomes like coffee, because if done properly, it stimulates productivity, it's just that most overdose (and have extreme low tolerance from non-frequent use), so they end up thinking weed makes you lazy and puts you to sleep, which is not the case if you know what you are doing.
A fair bit. Some facts over here :

https://economics21.org/html/sugar-subsidies-are-bitter-deal...

and of course the true scandal of sugar

(IMHO the war crime of anti-science)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
In the current system you will never get wealthy from salary and bonuses, because companies are being taxed through workers by proxy and the pressure is for keeping salaries as low as possible. Only way to break through is to start own business and become lucky. Big companies keep lobbying for more red tape to keep new competition at bay.
Just wanted to mention that I finally released my Oberon+ version (including an IDE with semantic navigation and source-level debugger for Win, Mac and Linux), see http://oberon-lang.ch.

Also posted it on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855767.

Currently the compiler generates LuaJIT bytecode (the VM is integrated with the IDE); a .Net CLI backend is work in progress, and an LLVM version is planned.
> I once worked for a major bank and someone who left another major bank held a meeting with developers of a next-gen platform where he basically explained, in explicit detail, his old employer's entire platform. I would argue a non-compete would be 100% enforceable here.

This is what non-disclosure agreements are for. A non-compete would basically have prevented him from getting this new job.
You should inform the companies running the ads, they could save billions!
Ah yes, “net price.” Don’t remember my accounting class covering that. What about revenue?
Can all the people moralizing, grandstanding, and otherwise signaling their outrage stop using and recommending Google products? Yes, even if you feel like the alternatives are inferior.
In the sense that they've let their marketplace get overwhelmed by knockoffs and ads, yes. In the sense of actual customer support from Amazon, I continue to have great experiences every time I contact them.
I think that non-competes can be valid in very narrow, very specific scopes. One of my friends has a job that involves evaluating companies and allocating millions of dollars of funding towards them. His contract states that he cannot go and work for the companies that he's evaluating for two years.
The execution model of Lambda edge with CloudFront's 3-tiered architecture
I understand that many are not sure where their next meal will come from or when it will arrive and I do not deny that is a problem, but that's a far cry from dying over it.
It's an interesting form of curation, as if something has been censored, now that's something I'm interested in knowing about. Dangerous means powerful, and powerful is valuable. Most of everything is crap, but what's not crap is stuff that genuinely puts dominant narratives at risk.

I can't remember the name of it, but there is a feature of change in systems that has to do with complexity, where the change happens rapidly as the result of explosive exponential growth, and not relatively linear increments (period doubling?). In that view, something being censored is a good leading indicator that it's a candidate for sudden growth.
Is it really a unique to UK thing? I find it hard to believe!
I think the point being made was that there is no "standard" piano length, and that it's controlled by the engineer. Which suggests that the answer to the question of "why has nobody made such a long piano before?" is "nobody wanted to" - and I can see why, because this particular piano is incredibly inconvenient to move, and pianos are expected to do that.
I've worked with many new developers, some self-taught on the side, some of them directly out of bootcamps and only been programming for a few months.

Sure, they don't all know the ins and outs of the git data model and what every command does. But I've never seen anyone that couldn't understand git pull, git commit, and git push. If the org uses a branching model, you can teach them git checkout -b, git checkout <branch_name>, and git merge origin/master to switch between branches in 5 minutes. They might get themselves into trouble eventually, but then someone more experienced can come by with git reflog and help them recover their work. Set up their github project to use squash commits only so each PR is one commit and master is always linear and they're off to the races.

Despite some command naming quirks, the simple stuff is pretty simple in git and the more advanced stuff is there when you want to learn it. I really don't buy that there is any good reason to choose SVN these days, regardless of how junior the team might be.
I agree that you do not have to be a big company to make a product like that, but it seems like you have to be a big company in order to host and deliver it.
I recently started working on a program that distributes my own relational data in my web browser (IndexedDB) between my devices using WebRTC so that I can build applications on top of it. It seems like it will be needed more and more over time.
I either get a message that there was an error initializing or processing the transaction, or I get an error saying that I've been trying too many purchases in the last few hours. I give up. :-(
The 2nd part of the third link (huyenchip's book) has "The second part consists of over 200 knowledge questions, each noted with its level of difficulty -- interviews for more senior roles should expect harder questions -- that cover important concepts and common misconceptions in machine learning." That you can find some good questions to think if it would apply to your company and the goals you'd want the newly hired data scientists to be able to answer.
Hard to be specific as death from undernutrition/malnutrition isn’t going to show up on death certificates.
"Content gets suppressed, simply because it doesn't generate enough ad revenue."

Why is it that the only the first page of search results in a search engine "matter". (Some search engines are now showing a total of 5 (!) results. Brave's new search engine does not even have a page 2!)

Why is it that an "app store" has limited search discoverability but instead provides "Top 10" or "Top 20" lists. And more recently, "recommended apps".

Why is it that a video hosting service has "recomendations" enabled by default, recommended videos show up in search results and the top "recommended videos" always have the highest view counts.

"Tech" has no viable "business model" except advertising. (Time will tell if this "model" is actually sustainable.) This is because they are nothing more than middlemen. They do not produce content and offer nothing of value that they in fact own. Whatever they offer can be obtained directly from its true owners, provided there is motivation (e.g., avoiding payment to a middleman). If "tech" did have something of value they own, it stands to reason they would charge for it. This would provide others with the motivation to cut out the middleman. Hence, "tech" cannot charge "users" money for middleman services.
Have they tried using money? That can be quite persuasive.
EnTT is the one I was thinking of -- I'd highly recommend looking into its implementation, as it's both very well-documented and readable, and blazing fast.

The fact that even this caliber of implementation has to handle multi-component cases by doing super careful curation of components is what makes me skeptical that CGS would be able to solve this situation more efficiently/easily. I would be very happy to be proven wrong here, though.
What criminal trial? Security research is perfectly legal to perform and to compensate.
I appreciate your work and agree with the premise of this article that privacy needs effort; But I think it needs to be also told that the cost of privacy can be recovered in the long run directly and I don't mean by just healthier lifestyle or social good.

Digital privacy is mainly focused upon preventing siphoning of data, PiHole, uBlock, NetGuard(Android) can save data and thereby results in saving Internet costs. NoScript along with aforementioned tools can save compute and thereby power.

Many of the privacy focused alternatives are idealistic passion projects and so is often free. Linux ecosystem can cover almost all of our computing needs without the need for proprietary tools. LineageOS can give second lease to capable smartphone hardware limited by planned obsolescence, thereby saving costs on new smartphone.

I'm sure there are lot more to add here, But I've my point to why I think privacy not only recovers cost but is also capital efficient.

But the real question as the parent asks should be how can we make these projects sustainable? I'm sure the Linux Foundation wouldn't go bankrupt as the commercial implications are huge, Mozilla looks precarious but I feel its largely because of the management but what about that indie developer like the one above or the one developing NetGuard? How can we establish this value proposition to a layman for making a pro-privacy lifestyle choice?
I think the issue with non competes is that it was taken from the world of highly paid executives and some companies tried ( https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet... ) to apply those to rank and file employees. Needless to say, that sort of non-compete should be outright banned.

I do have some mixed feelings about them the higher you go in the company hierarchy.
Depends on what you mean by problem.

It's just PR as it's not like other nations that didn't like it didn't already know. But Russia did pass some laws forbidding soldiers from doing that thing ... so it seems politically they didn't like it contradicting their stated claims.

I did find the passing of the law amusing tho. It's not like the military can't just give a 'don't do that' order much faster...
As an old Lisp/Scheme guy all I can think whenever I try to figure out what is going on with Rebol/Red is "What a mess."
Something like this happened to people who left my first job in the industry.

They didn't have to win the lawsuit. The competitor that the employee went to fired the employee after they started. Presumably, it was because they didn't want any problems from the employee's previous employer, or just didn't want the headache at all.
It's not done in the name of economic freedom. A better analogy would be how we place drug trade restrictions on our citizens.
Among all the posts Facebook is saying is "misinformation", which I agree some of it is, they are removing legitimate claims from users that they are being harmed by vaccines. This isn't misinformation.

Whistleblowers had a field day under Trump. Under Biden journalists are again being caught up in NSA surveillance, likely being illegally unmasked and then leaked to other members of the media. See Tucker Carlson. honestly, this isn't even about tucker. It's very likely illegal. These people are emboldened. Nothing ever happens to them.

The American Booksellers Association yesterday referred to their promotion of an "anti-trans" book as violence.

I think the last one is pretty easy to defend. Glen Greenwald documents this pretty extensively. All of our corporate media employ folks who previous worked for NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. They literally put them on TV with a moniker "Previous CIA Agent", etc. These people serve the purpose as "experts" and commonly report information from "anonymous sources" within the agencies. Their purpose is to effect public opinion. Recently see Russiagate, Boutygate, Hunter Biden laptop. The Iraq war and Vietnam War deployed these tactics too. We know for a fact that the CIA lied to us during the Iraq war. And they deployed these tactics. How is this crazy?

The New York Times has reported on this relationship between intelligence agencies and the media extensively in the past. It was scandal in the 70s! This stuff is still alive and well.
At a glance, this looks very nice, any chance it could run and store locally?? Some of us still have a need for working without any available online connection.
How does this compare to Bors NG?

https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng
Imagine the same policy with GMail. Captive audience, because changing your address after 10 years is complicated. And suddenly Google decides what ideas are you allowed to discuss over e-mail with other people. Because that is distribution, m'kay?
Communism and socialism are bad and have never worked anywhere because they are contrary to human nature and can only be implemented through corruption and force (often times escalating to violence).

Leftists always want to hold up places like Sweden as socialist success stories, but Sweden is a capitalist society. They tried socialism for 20 years, it was a dismal failure, so they pulled out.

Venezuela is an abject failure. North Korea is an abject failure. The USSR was an abject failure. China is a failure. New Zealand had a great GDP before going socialist and nearly bankrupting themselves. The list goes on and on and on. Sure, the US embargo against Cuba may have hurt the Cuban economy, but the people of Cuba wouldn't have benefitted if the embargo didn't exist. Any extra wealth would have gone to the ruling class, just like it always does.

How many failed runs do you have to have at communism and socialism before you admit it's a stupid idea and that Karl Marx was a megalomaniacal loser who destroyed his family in his pursuit of self-aggrandizement?

Regarding Cuban elections, you might want to talk to some Cubans about that.
What Became of the Arcos Undersea Cable Connection to Cuba? (2020)
Won't run on 64 bit only OSes. OSes with 32 bit multilib runtimes will do fine.

Worth pointing out that those are becoming increasingly uncommon, with Apple already having dropped it, and Microsoft dropping it from Windows 11 (EDIT: okay, I misremembered: Microsoft is dropping support for 32 bit installs, not WoW64). For the moment, 32 bit x86 multilib is still common on Linux, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it start to disappear in the next 5-10 years.

So this isn't an immediate problem for most people not running MacOS, but will eventually be a pretty big problem in the next decade for this project.
I appreciate this take and I agree with you to an extent. Humanity benefits when we help each other, but I'm not sure how you pull this off.

Do we need intelligence licenses that allow to you to purchase unhealthy foods?
Tsuru/tsuru: open-source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Exactly. I've been coding C++ for 22 years and feel I know less now then I did back then. The language has grown. But at the same time I feel 10x more productive in it than 20 years ago.