skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a valid, if hyperbolic, point to me. I think that one could make a plausible argument that one of the most basic implications of the principle of rule of law is that, at least where the police are concerned, the ends don't justify the means. Allowing them to behave otherwise isn't a slippery slope that leads to rampant abuse of power; it's a dead drop.
Going slowly may mean fewer people die directly. But I think it’s useful to remember that every year we delay being able to replace human drivers means that roughly a million lose their lives worldwide in auto accidents, and many more are maimed, many permanently.

It’s obviously complex, though, bad PR likely delays things as well.
I understand that this is embarrassing to Google any way they handle it, but surely this is the worst thing to do?

To me, this is the work, the hard part of inclusion. Understanding that people are not always perfect and sometimes very flawed.
They are. Electrek just likes overstating their own importance.
Funny thing is that they used zcombinator[.]co for one of their C2
I just realised that the police are able to lie to you during an interrogation. I feel incredibly naïve

(and yes, this probably is related to my white privilege - when I compared my experience of the police growing up with the experiences of my friends it seriously opened my eyes)
> Some others also went into hiding and lied on their LinkedIn profiles to prevent their old employer from finding out they went to competitors.

I avoid telling my employer where I'm going when I leave. There's simply no advantage to me to reveal that information. You can just say your quiting to take some personal time and deal with burnout. Perhaps that personal time is a 2 day weekend before your next job begins.
Prof. Scott Stephens UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources; dont phone for an appointment, he is busy right now

Secondly, after crazy disasterous, world-headlines fires three years ago, Calif. Governor Gavin "perfect hairgel" Newsom appointed a blue-ribbon committee on tracking and dealing with these fires from a forestry point of view.. that committee publishes online and in fact as a Github repo. That committee has to work with aggressive, self-serving entities well entrenched in govt money and commercial licenses, which benefit from "us-vs-them" language and tactics.

In this writers opinion, these are truly historic events, not in the good way.
I’ve run into the same infantilism in HN discussions about the documentary “The Factory” and it strikes me as an elitist mindset.
> Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours.

Why is that obvious? If I work as a studio musician can I also be working on my own album after hours?
Thanks, I had no idea. Any idea why this happened? The devs don’t appear to be incompetent in any way.
Do you also have any idea how Coqui currently compares to the un-maintained deepspeech?
I lived in Alabama for 4 years or so and at least at the time (I have no idea if it's changed since I left), their non-compete situation was garbage.

They were valid and enforceable even if you got laid off or fired. One of my friends' mother got laid off in the 2008 financial crisis from Bellsouth (or AT&T, I don't recall if the (re)merger was finished yet). She was told she couldn't work for any other telecom in the state for at least 18 months. She ended up going to stay with family in another state for that time so she could find another job, even though her husband and her son were in AL. It was a hard period for them.

I've had a hatred of non-competes since for the most part. If you (a company) are afraid of losing key talent, maybe you should actively try to retain it rather than turning your company into a prison.
This level of automation in fabrication is pretty common now; it used to be that all the spot-welding you saw there was done by humans. Robots are a lot more consistent. Of course, the upfront cost is higher than hiring a burly dude and giving him a spot welder to wield for an eight hour shift…
> For example only union workers being allowed to plug power cords into the outlets at trade-shows

The actual requirement from the trade-show venue was likely for a "licensed electrician" -- and was likely added for safety reasons to prevent the possibility of fires from the general attendees creating a nasty mess of interconnected power splitters.
Thank you, that's probably it. It's all very complicated.

The scary thing with theories is that reality doesn't change whether your theory is considered proven or not. We might have no evidence that "global dimming" would be a thing, but then it absolutely could happen. Or, admittedly, vice versa, where we thought it could happen but it doesn't. We need more research as usual...
As awkward is his note was, this is a public admission that he had bigoted views and grew and is still trying to grow out of them. I wish I was a fly on the wall at Google to understand why that's not acceptable. Growing and learning is necessary and the only hope.
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The more nuanced take is that different IP and employment laws benefit different industries.

Software benefits from no patents, limited-term copyrights, no NDAs, no non-competes, due to low cost-of-entry. Innovation is cheap but hard.

Pharma benefits from strong IP, NDAs, non-competes, etc. due to high capital investment levels. Innovation is easy but expensive.

Hardware varies.
In practice, you can't attribute a single fire to climate change. You can only attribute the overall number and intensity of fires to climate change. It's rather like asking which specific cigarette gave you lung cancer.
I went from smoking daily in my early 20s, slowing down then finally completely stopping by 30. It wasn't even a conscious decision either, it just happened. When cannabis was legalized here I went to the store and bought some for the whole "its legal now, yay!" experience. I smoked a bit but never finished it. The best way I can describe it is: I have the same feelings towards smoking as how one feels when they are depressed about fun/social activities, only I'm not depressed, I'm just busy doing other things.
>Doesn't not wanting kids for X reason mean that you consider the moral worth of a new person to be less than X.

I think it's worth distinguishing between:

--potential Y < X

--actual Y < X

With Y being the presence of the kid. To me actual Y > X, but potential Y < X.

I'd rather not have kids for a bunch of reasons. If I had kids I'd sacrifice those reasons for them.
More pseudo-science touted as fact. It's the programmer's Horoscope. I know people (plural), IRL who laugh at horoscopes and then spout MB horseshit with a straight face.

E-spells
What if you have kids to provide for ?

You'd might rather have more money. If you desperately need to increase your income even paid non competes are a bad deal
But in that election there was very clear evidence of fraud, and a compromise was reached.
Mh, you can see at first sight that what GoogleMaps returns there (check out the image in the article) is no proper route.

What is actually surprising is that some people think it was a proper mountain route and tried to walk it. That is quite some blind trust into and misunderstanding of technology.
Wow, his comics on life at google are quite something: https://mashable.com/article/google-engineer-manu-cornet-com...
It's not quite that. It's usually certificate pinning. Our iOS app won't talk to anything not issued by the list of CAs we include at build time.

This is specifically to prevent mitm attacks on the app.
> There's also the issue that some countries (the US) are a lot more concerned about it than other countries (not naming names).

Concerned ? Maybe, doing something about it, not so sure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
The family didnt give permission.
I'm not sure that's "worse" - it seems that's actually what the situation is today but with the tables reversed.

AIUI, it's pretty common that when they can't get you for the crime they think you committed, that they'll just goad you into a casual mis-statement (i.e., lying), and lock you up for the lie. That's exactly what happened to Martha Stewart, for example. What (apparently) seemed to her to be a minor omission that had no bearing on the case, suddenly becomes the cause for her prosecution.

The end result of this is that anyone with a clue knows that the best policy is, simply, never talk to police. There's nothing you can say that will make things better (the die is already cast), and you can do yourself a world of hurt. And you can't even know ahead of time whether you're suspect. So the best course of action is simply to refuse to talk to police ever.

How is a situation in which the public refuses to help the police any worse than taking these tools away from the police?

Obligatory anecdote: I went skeet shooting with a friend. The next day, for some reason, I still had a bunch of spent shotgun shells sitting on the table. That morning the police came to my door, and I let them in the house to talk since it was cold out. They started asking for information about an incident where someone had shot out a car window with a BB gun. Later I realized that I had those empty shotgun shells sitting right in their sight. If you're not aware, "BB" is actually the designation of a particular small size of shot (like #8 being used for deer and #4 or #0 used for turkey or birds; BB is smaller than #0). So although I knew nothing of the BB incident, and was certainly innocent, I had inadvertently given the police some reason to suspect my involvement. In actuality, nothing came of this, but given the way these things go, I would have been safer to have just said "sorry, officer", and refused to deal with them.
Except the risks are multiplied by 200 (or by however many "display booths" there are).
Are there any plans for a next generation orbital observatory for the visible part of the spectrum?
I think we're going to get to the point where people only share their views on sensitive manners in anonymous / pseudo-anonymous forums, so they can't be linked to you.

That's not necessarily terrible.
> If I work as a studio musician can I also be working on my own album after hours?

Yes.

> Why is that obvious?

Just because there's a law somewhere that covers both a part of making music and part of making software, and just because some programmers make music and some musicians write software, and both are sometimes creative, doesn't mean they have much in common.
The absurd thing is that the grocery stores should have done this 10 years ago.
One paper on the Fermi Paradox I want to plug is this one by Sandberg, Drexler, and Ord.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

Most people when doing the Fermi estimate for the number of civilizations in the Galaxy use numbers that tend to result in a lot of them. But different people use very different numbers in different steps. If you look at the ranges of values that different people assign to the different terms then suddenly it doesn't seem very unlikely that intelligent civilizations could be rare.
That is possible. And I'll readily admit that my direct sample set is small, so it's mostly from what I read.
I have some friends who do escalator construction and they mentioned similar issues. Again, small sample set.
In that event I think many states and congress would've refused to recognize the executive branch and from there things would've quickly spun out of control.
The hardware dudes have it harder than software dudes. It’s easy to fix software. Hardware, not so much.

I guess the worst thing you can fuck up in space fairing software is the boot loader. Mess that up and you can’t update the software.

Note: I have never designed software for space. I have no clue what I’m talking about.
I credit my developing an eye for identifying typefaces to my use of The Print Shop at my public library when I was in elementary school. I don't know that I was aware of the idea of typefaces before that.

My junior high had signs, printed in The Print Shop, announcing administrative minutiae and offering "pep talk" slogans. I'd scratch down the particular combination of typeface, border, and clip art they used then print subtly different replacement signs I'd hang over the originals. It went on for awhile before I got caught sticking one up. (I was particularly pleased with replacing "All lockers are school property and may be searched at any time" with "All thoughts are school property and may be controlled at any time".)

As an aside: The Print Shop Companion on Apple II has a hidden "driver" game on the B-side. You press ESC then CTRL-SHIFT-6 to get to the game. That was one of the first Easter eggs I'd ever seen and I remember having a feeling of wonderment at the idea that secrets could be hidden in software.
I second Pianoteq as a recommendation. It can run on Linux, so I have it on a Raspberry Pi attached to my digital piano. As a bonus, it also drives some addressable (programmable) LEDs: https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

To install Pianoteq on a Raspberry Pi, it's a single script that sets everything up: https://github.com/youfou/pianoteq-pi
Procrastination is generally understood to be “not doing something you know you should be doing”, i.e. putting something off for later, not “not wanting to push yourself”.
> The scary thing with theories is that reality doesn't change whether your theory is considered proven or not. We might have no evidence that "global dimming" would be a thing, but then it absolutely cold happen. Or, admittedly, vice versa, where we thought it could happen but it doesn't.

This is just denialism of prediction as a concept. A universal excuse to not do anything. After all, why work to extinguish the fire when it could go out all by itself?
Thank you for clarifying. I initially misread the pricing page and thought the free could only be used for personal and not commercial use. That really helps with adoption. If I can get multiple people to try it and if they like it, it’s an easier conversation with the people who approve expensed if I’m not the only one vouching for a piece of software.

I get what you mean about aligning incentives. I do want to support devs in a way that these types of projects are sustainable, but the way other products shut off access to your stuff once you stop paying make subscription models an unnecessary risk. Having a free tier like yours really helps.
Lying to the FBI is a crime but I don't believe lying to regular cops is a crime.
Interesting article... The derivative problem is particularly enlightening I think. A derivative is a limit. Thus the answer you get for a derivative is also a limit.

For example, if you have the real speed of a car at every point in time as well as the position, then nominally, in infinite world, the speed is just the derivative of the position curve.

But if you are in finite world, then the derivative curve in infinite world is the limit of the speed curve (and note that limit does not mean upper bound).. it just is a useful tool for reasoning what will happen if you take a more fine grained set of measurements.

For some fineness of measurement, there will be a point at which your observed speed curve is always within epsilon of the ideal one.

Good article
> Great Filters, natural extinctions like impact events or gamma ray bursts

you know what really alarms me? these things are only chances on a very, very short-time scale. they are inevitable, yet no one seems alarmed when meteors come between us and the moon and we dont see it coming until hours beforehand.

sun bursts blowing out the electric grid, nuclear war, antiobotic resistance, crop and animal monoculture, climate change, natural resource depletion... taleb is right. we need an agent of chaos to make anti-fragility valuable. otherwise we learn the lesson the hard way. by dying.
You make a good point, but I read the GP differently. I’ve also experienced where engineers are threatened with a union grievance for similar actions. It’s not just a case of a union protecting against a non-skilled install, it’s often about a union protecting its own self interests
I've got sonic gigabit here in SF. It's amazing.
It's worth noting that by the time "peak oil" became a talking point on cable networks, operators had figured out that the time of barn-burner "easy oil" was over, and were starting to optimize their fracking operations, which targets mud rock instead of traditional reservoirs.

Now industry leaders are talking about "peak oil demand", the idea that demand for petrochemicals will crash over the next decade or so.
I was baffled by the reaction to the Brexit vote. The people who lost seemed just ... miffed that somehow everyone else had "voted wrong." Who are all of these people, going around, voting wrong? It wasn't supposed to be like this! We were supposed to win!

Anything with a vote means that someone is going to be unhappy with the results afterward. That's how it works.
I guess tastes differ, but I personally find the passive-aggressive tone pretty off-putting. Especially, when looking at the table of contents and sample pages, the 100p material seems to be more or less on par with Effective Go or other more practice-oriented books on Go.

There is nothing wrong with that - I am sure there are good lessons in there - but the whole car-salesman vibe the author conjures up works counter-productively (at least, to me).
This is a decent state-by-state overview of the enforceability of non-competes: https://www.wonder.legal/us/guide/what-is-the-enforceability...
So I'm a senior scientist at a pharma company. I want a new job. Cool. I can't take another pharma or biotech job but maybe I can go to coding camp and get a job mining people's data.
But they have 'insurance' through their taxes.
Read what he said and then say this again with a straight face
EDIT: I have completely went off on the wrong thought path. As noted, despite reading the article and comments, somehow my mind got latched onto NDAs instead of NCAs. Sorry.

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I will be the contrarian.

For those who insist on no NDA, what prevents ex-employees from spilling secrets to be hired at a competitor?

I understand the concerns with NDAs. I was under one which limited my work in a radius, and within a very broad field. Imagine having to leave the country to practice in my field. The owner threatened me when I left (with tiny droplets of spittle on my face from his screaming). This kind of NDA is horrible.

That said, NDAs are there to protect a company from ex-employees sharing competitive knowledge about a product or service, damaging or even shuttering a the company.

I will ask you to sign an NDA if you want to work for me. You are not going to directly compete against me in a specific sub-industry, you are not taking my clients, and you are not poaching my employees for a reasonable period. This NDA is presented prior you taking the job. Not all NDAs are "out to get the little guy".

Maybe NDAs need some precedent cases where overly broad NDAs are struck down.
By that argument no fire can be pinned on climate change until climate change gets so severe that the surface temperature of the forest is above combustion point of whatever has the lowest combustion point in the forest.
permission to have your family decide to "deepfake" you should be opt-in. also, the whole point of "deepfake" is to falsely present an object as true. In a documentary, this is troubling. personally, every instance of deepfake should come with a on screen caption of "deepfake notice of creation of event".
Climate change by itself could be extremely unlikely to wipe out human civilization but it could be the catalyst that sets other events in motion like nuclear war.
Wasn't there an early reports in french media about cause for death to be Autoerotic Asphyxiation?
And this brings the question, why are we, as a society, so ashamed of something like this and prefer to cover it up as mental illness (suicide) and blame ex girlfriends, etc...
We must run enough samples of 2 and 7 through the AI/ML to be sure.
Far more likely than Romney, who hasn't got a chance while Trump populism is still around.
Showing grace for past sins is crucial for a heterogenous society to operate well. Let the guy be honest and open, it may encourage others to do the same and acknowledge differences.
I'm in this pickle right now. It's a scare tactic. New employer would not take a bet, and that's understandable. Current employer responds with the most vague legalese possible to my straight up question "are you going to enforce?". The choices are: a) take a gamble against an entity that has so much more to fund their legal team than I will ever dream of or b) suck it up. Take a guess what most people pick, even if "most likely outcome" of enforcing non-compete is very slim. It's in UK btw.
WP references are never a bad place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynetics_HLS#References
Taking the concept to the extreme, the entire crt.sh site is served from postgres. It literally constructs the html in stored procedures, and uses some small apache httpd extensions to send requests to the db, and use the response (including letting the DB response dictate specific HTTP headers when required).
SwiftFin: Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and TvOS
I think they benefit by 'crowdsourcing' algo development. all coinrule has to do is follow the most profitable strategy from its customer base.
But the problem with An Inconvenient Truth these days is that it was made by a politician who is not a scientist. You might agree with that politician or think his grasp of the science is solid, but it is not helpful if you are trying to bridge the divide because opponents will easily grasp those errors.

Why would you trust a politician on science when he has a political agenda (allegedly) and isn't a scientist to begin with?

If it had been made by the head of NASA or similar, that might have done better. Even if that doesn't mean people would believe it more, it's just the principle of the thing. It made the issue come out the gate as more partisan than it had to be.
I'd personally use it for remote backups. I guess this is with Free (illiad). They also offer 10G-EPON (8Gbps) with their "Freebox Delta" router with at least one SFP+ port.
My collateral is currently yielding 6.5%, which is gradually paying down the debt. At this rate, estimated maturity is 02/28/2029. This will vary depending on APYs for DAI in the Yearn protocol. But personally, I'll use other income streams to pay it off much sooner.
We don't need to go extinct. Our global economy is very fragile, relatively speaking and it's not at all clear we could sustain the economy necessary to perform space exploration if bad things happen.

To avoid an extended argument about all the ways in which climate change will screw things up, let's focus on nuclear war: a nuclear war between, say, India and China would not only wipe out huge swaths of the human population but also ruin the global economy because industries in Europe and the US depend on these countries. And that's without going into the ecological effects of a nuclear war.

The economy relies on layers and layers of extremely convoluted supply chains and can't sustain a loss of even 1% of the human population, let alone 10% or more. The US has only seen a death of around 0.2% of its population due to COVID and is already facing labor shortages in retail. The blockade of the Suez canal was a big concern but imagine the Suez canal is simply gone.
In Norway it's 100% pay up to some relative high amount. And the non-compete has to be very specifically towards me and my role at the company, not some generic "we do a little bit of x, y and z, therefore everything is considered a competitor".

Actually my union, Tekna, was a big player in getting the laws much better in 2016. Unions work, and can be useful even for us techies even if in high demand.
Bye bye bastion hosts Hello AWS IAM
Super cool. How is that PDF gateway implemented?