skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've seen examples of an employee contract, with things like "if any piece of this contract is invalid it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract".

This concept of severability exists in basically all contracts, and is generally limited to sections that are not fundamental to the nature of the agreement. (The extent of what qualifies as fundamental is, as you said, up to a court to interpret.)

In your specific example of an employee contract, severability actually protects you too, by ensuring all the other covenants of your agreement - especially the ones that protect you as the individual - will remain in force even if a sub section is invalidated. Otherwise, if the whole contract were invalidated, you'd be starting from nothing (and likely out of a job). Some protections are better than zero.
Cities also depend on tax revenue from commercial properties & businesses that primarily serve commuters. It's an issue, but distinct from where people choose to live.
Really great progress upstreaming. Tons of stuff upstream. Couple of the harder pieces like PCIe recently submitted. All within basically a year since announcements! This is how you do it!! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnx-software.com/2022/08/29...
I think intent matters for actually securing an indictment and conviction, if for example they can prove that you exfiled their user data (this happened to Weev who noticed an ordinal ID in a URL and enumerated all possible URLs) they could actually get the feds to bust you. But you're right, if they're big enough they could try to come after your regardless at the risk of turning the security research community against them.
I use PHP for my day job, but the one thing I miss most is compile-time (type) errors. PHP just goes until it can’t go any more. I prefer languages that tell me that I forgot something somewhere, or that a name or signature change broke something somewhere I hadn’t thought about.
You still need to do enough to buy time if you do need more scalability, since scalability tends to be architectural. Waiting until you hit a wall in production is usually months too late to start working on it. As a moving target, I often try to test at 10x the current workload, which is usually enough to deal with load spikes and surfaces scalability issues early enough that customers don't see them.
In the US, implied employment contracts are "at-will". This means the employer may fire an employee for any reason (except reasons that explicitly break a law, like firing a black employee for being black). Likewise, an employee can quit at any time, with no recourse for the employer (2-weeks notice is a custom, not a contractual obligation under at-will employment).
Revisiting a Dead Engine (2020)
https://archive.ph/7hqFt
Heroin isn't addictive because other addicts are convincing you to take it.

We are a social animal in the sense that it's part of normal healthy functioning, and that isolation is considered a mode of torture. Social media is a means to connect people that is perfectly manageable if you're an intact person in the same sense that the telephone is a convenient eay to stay in touch. There is no safe dose of heroin to avoid addiction in a healthy person.
Thanks for that. A lot of interesting details:

> “The purpose of the creation of [the Combat Arms earplugs] was to collaborate with the military to solve one of the longest-standing problems they have had, that soldiers won’t wear their hearing protection around loud noises and in combat,” Rucker said.

> Rucker said the plugs were designed in collaboration with the U.S. military and tested by the Air Force, Army, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and others.

> “3M has purposefully skewed this data by relying on hearing standards that do not measure frequencies most affected by noise, concealing the hearing damage suffered by veterans,” said Bryan Aylstock and Chris Seeger, co-lead counsel for the service members and veterans, in a joint statement.

> 3M disagreed with those claims, telling CNBC: “The data support what 3M has maintained throughout this litigation: the Combat Arms Earplugs version two were safe and effective to use. This has been confirmed by every independent, third-party organization that has tested the product, including the Army Research Lab, the Air Force Research lab, NIOSH, and others.”

Ultimately, whose job should it be to determine whether or not they're defective? If the military tested them in advance and determined they met standards, and they were manufactured identically to what the military approved, should 3M be the one held responsible?
Damnit.

There are two 'mysteries' around mast years: One, which this article covers, is pretty much common wisdom at this point. Does 'common wisdom' need to be reviewed? Of course it does.

The bigger mystery is HOW DO ALL THE TREES KNOW? Mast years don't happen in one grove, in one strain or in one forest. They happen everywhere, even in different microbiomes that may have received more or less rainfall that year.

I was hoping this was delving into that secret, for which no theories have survived testing.
It’s $18.99 a month for an individual, I agree with your sentiment but really don’t feel like it’s that inexpensive. Then again I don’t consume large amounts of YouTube as most people seem to do.
datacenters are super loud (many many fans + giant HVAC, mostly) but you don't appreciate how loud they are because it's continuous and the frequencies are weird.

Ear protection is definitely recommended if you are in one for days-at-a-time.
No we don't planning to do HAPS because the engineering is much different actually.
We could argue about the meaning of the word "pregnant," but let's be plain. contrary to the original comment, fertilization does occur still at times, and then biology tells us that a new life with its own DNA has entered the picture. (This is why nightly emissions have nothing to do with this, bringing in your other comment.)

That life is intentionally terminated by birth control and the morning-after pill in almost the same exact method as RU-486, which we know as the "abortion drug." Both cause the thinning of the lining of the uterus, preventing attachment or causing the loss of attachment to occur, respectively.

Most people who work in the field of abortion know this, and that is precisely why they bring up the loss of birth control as one of the (either intended or unintended) consequences of outlawing abortion.

In other words, both pro-choice and pro-life people know this is true, and acting like pro-life people are ignoramuses for believing this reveals a real lack of understanding of the science, not to mention the politics, and the moral questions involved.
I'm aware, and yet this letter was written and signed by a lawyer who probably knew better and will likely face no consequences.
Looking forward to mojo. Right now it’s not production ready but it’ll great for some of my ML-adjacent code. For other HPC work I’ve used Rust which has some annoying syntax and lacks some of the simplicity of python.
How does this compiler compare with Flang? I saw it shouted out on the main page but didn't really see any comparisons for why you'd pick one or the other.
Exactly. https://i.imgur.com/kJlilJB.mp4

A post about UX with a non-working UX.
You might want to look into the JS/Node ecosystem sometime... there are a LOT of powerful frameworks with everything to highly flexible mix/match to batteries included (next/nuxt) options. Not to mention modules for anything and everything under the sun you might want to do, with adaptors for module development bringing in about every option under the sun.

This is just an example, not a strict advocation... I've been more fond of batteries not included options myself, and in particular been admiring rust options a lot.
you can read the language they do use here https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/01/opinion-fizz-previously...

they threaten if they receive written confirmation that the researchers won't discuss the security issues they won't pursue charges.

The lawyers were very much not "for your information you could be liable for x if someone responded poorly", they were in fact responding poorly.
Compel has broader/more varied meaning than you are giving it.

"His hunger compelled him to eat" is a perfectly reasonable use of the word
Because we don't consider vegetarians to be predators.
I guess this means I have to remember my mastodon login. I'm a sucker for new software for Apple//c's.
The reality of these lawsuits is that everyone with an impairment who ever used or plausibly used said product in the past will put out their hand for a payout.

Is everyone lying in these suits? No.

Are large numbers of people lying? Yes.

It's like if dell keyboards were linked to arthritis. Suddenly everyone with arthritis is saying they used a dell keyboard for 15 years. They don't have to mention that everyone in their family going back 3 generations had arthritis.
I’ve used the shaped orange foam 3M ear plugs extensively while riding a motorcycle. The wind noise is extremely bad for you given the duration and surprisingly high decibels.

One interesting thing I have noticed is that these plugs are extremely sensitive to being inserted correctly and despite extensive experience and good technique (which for me involves two hands, one to insert and one to pull the top of my ear for alignment) I still find the need to reinsert plugs on occasion.

Unfortunately the poor fit isn’t obvious until I am on the road at speed when the sound volume is higher than it should be. If this same situation arises in combat I can easily imagine that the higher intensity of noises would cause hearing damage far sooner and in addition it seems unlikely soldiers would call for a timeout to fix their ear plugs.
They're not involved in crypto, just the CEO is.
Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh.

It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!
Part of me really wants to be the chip design startup that makes multi-host chips. Let everyone else make cores, & focus on making NIC + switches designed for a dozen small systems, designed for low power clusters like this.
I don't really see a point in investing in these devices unless you're particularly interested in porting applications to non-standard RISC-V and being married to the T-Head fork of GCC. Yeah, it's a pretty fast CPU for a new-ish ISA, but there are better options for RISC-V SBCs out there for porting and testing.
Does America or France have better food?
Mezcal UI
Create stunning sites using using these set of components, ready to plug to any website.
I've thought about doing this as well, but I like being able to use dumb tools to get an idea of what's going on. There's a lot that has to be working correctly to use traces. Or maybe I'm just scared of the tooling because I don't have enough experience with it yet idk
Try implementing an OTEL Tracer. This interface is insane, and should really just be a struct.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/trac...
I think the point estimating GPU utilization (the terminology is transcending ), and by extension GPU demand misses the point. Of course they will buy them, they have to because everybody else is.

The questions is whether the GPUs makes money for these companies. When the market sniffs the answer to that question, that's when the bottom falls out or not.

Is Google going to make more money from me than it already does by embedding LLMs into its search product? Am I going to be spending any meaningfully more amount of time using any of these products than I already do by the addition of AI? Because if not where does the money come from?
Not my problem if working remotely from a better location causes an urban doom loop.
A new language will eventually acquire its own grungy legacy just like C++ did, unless that new language aggressively breaks backward compatibility.

I think the best practice is for people to stick to a subset of safe patterns in mature languages. For C++, that's probably the C++ Core Guidelines:

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/
Also: for inspecting wind turbines (which I imagine would be a use-case), the operators usually want to work on low-wind days anyway.

I used to work at a large offshore wind operator, and the approach we used there for leading-edge inspection of blades was a telephoto lens from a neighboring turbine. As anything involving technicians off-shore, this was very expensive.
Where in the Bay Area do you currently live? We are talking about market street sf here, not sea cliff.
It's not all about tax revenue, it's also about economic activity. If people who previously spent money in downtown areas on retail and food no longer have any reason to go to downtown areas, then jobs in those downtown areas will disappear.

But if people continue to drive or commute out of their way or live in a more expensive city because they just really really like that city, then there will be no problem.

My hypothesis is that most people do not want to live in these cities, for the reasons I mentioned above, and if we want to save the jobs that are now at risk because of these knock-on effects, then we need to make cities more livable for people and less drivable
Why not do it then rather than shaming others for not doing it?
This sounds a lot less interesting than the title makes it out to be. Is the fact that it is a "classmate" really relevant? Would the events have happened differently if it was another company with no connection to the school?
This isn't the first time a security research who's politely and confidentially disclosed a vulnerability has been threaned. There's an important lesson to glean from this.

The next time someone discovers a company that has poor database security, they should, IMO: (1) make a full copy of confidential user data, (2) delete all data on the server, (3) publish confidential user data on some dumping site; and protect their anonymity while doing all 3 of these.

If these researchers had done (2) and (3) – and done so anonymously, that would have not only protected them from legal threats/harm, but also effectively killed off a company that shouldn't exist – since all of Buzz/Fizz users would likely abandon it as consequence.
Thanks for mentioning SigNoz, I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz and would love your feedback on how we can improve it further.

If anyone wants to check our project, here’s our GitHub repo - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
Last year the oaks were kind. This year we will be covered in acorns. I guess mast seeding is not coordinated world-wide.
What does Junior Graduate level mean?
I think language which these people are using (scam, outrageous and frequently false claims, lying) is hard to call "mildly critical", and given they appear in multiple posts and their claims are not directly relevant to post, and proactively initiate all these toxic exchanges, this is exactly stalking.
One theory with a lot of evidence behind it is that he was a combination of lactose intolerant and depressed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1743237/pdf/v08...
The very first optimizing compiler was written in Fortran, to compile Fortran. I think this was the 60s.

The use of pointers in a language vastly complicates the task of optimization. From Fran Allen, a compiler researcher and co-inventor of SSA,

By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities.
I am not a lawyer (of course). But I find some solace/comfort in the new Justice Department guidance to not charge good faith security researchers under CFAA. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23130910/justice-departme...
The difference that makes that much less logical being that in the West the government is not determining what people can watch, they're watching what they enjoy.
I feel your frustration. The people responsible should be punished - millions of lives are f-ed up in some way now.

However, the market has financially punished this company heavily. Look at their recent profit (/massive loss) graph: valustox.com/MMM

I think this is due to money being set aside for this fine. But their stock isn't exactly booming either - probably also due to this.

EDIT:

Looks like they made just under $2B in profit per quarter, and now a $7B loss in one quarter. They have quite a lot of debt, so this isn't the easiest blow to absorb, but they should be able to afford this without going under.
I had never heard about them, but for the life of me, I cannot imagine sufficient paying customers: it's zsh/fish, basically. Sharing the settings is not really a $12/month productivity boost. Acquihire sounds likely.
I'd suggest reading tptacek's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37298589 which does not 100% address your exact question, but gets close. As disclaimed, tptacek is not a lawyer, but has a lot of experience in this space and I'd still take it as a first pass answer.

Personally, I don't see it as worth it to pursue a company that does not hang out some sort of public permission to poke at them. The upside is minimal and the downside significant. Note this is a descriptive statement, not a normative statement. In a perfect world... well, in a perfect world there'd be no security vulnerabilities to find, but... in a perfect world sure you'd never get in trouble for poking through and immediately backing off, but in the real world this story just happens too often. Takes all the fun right out of it. YMMV.
Grafana Tempo also switched from Protobuf storage format to Apache Parquet last year. It's fully open source, and the proposal (from April 2022) is here: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/docs/design-propo...

The relevant code for parquet storage backend can be found here: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/tree/main/tempodb/encoding

disclosure: I work for Grafana!
Oh, right. I guess my question was more around "why can't OTEL _also_ have something that does that"?
Provide a citation. I've never heard of that.
> COVID19 literally killed people I knew because they were too stupid to mask up and/or vaccinate people.

A fantastic example of the truth not mattering. Is a lion or just the wind? What difference does it make? Run either way!

I put no effort into ensuring that it is true that masks are helpful, or if the vaccine would stave off the illness. Simply, the mental model of the world indicated that they posed no real harm in trying, so why not go for it? If it actually helped, great. If I wasted my time, also great! Who cares?

I'm sure all of us have flaws in our mental model of the world that will cause us to do something we shouldn't in some circumstance, but sharing of truths do nothing to correct those flaws. It is not like the truth about COIVD-19 isn't out there, but obviously it didn't help those who suffered.

> I'm also in the business of programming, which is largely in the business of truths.

Funny, I am too and it is exceedingly rare to find anyone who goes beyond gut feeling. Understandably so, as that's how our mind evolved to function. In fact, programmers love to argue about which gut feeling is right.
Have you heard him speak on it? I have, in person, several times, and this aspect of the book (which I am tepid on, as a novel for other reasons myself) is something that's been pulled apart.

I believe you can find recordings from e.g. his interactive discussion of it, in the archives of "SF in SF" which are typically recorded and available, maybe at SomaFM as Rusty usually runs sound. Strongly recommended and it should give you a frame for understanding why the narrative takes the path that it does.

TL;DR it's overdetermined and the opposite of naivety or wishful thinking; it's strategic.

You may disagree with the strategy, of course.
Which is why I hate that people keep claiming that you don't need to know what you are doing nor employ anyone who knows what they are doing to setup infrastructure. You might be able to stand things up without knowing what you are doing, but you probably shouldn't be running it in production that way.
The fakeness is implied by the title, isn't it?

If people want to read the story they'll click, if they don't then they won't. You don't need to copy it here to spite the blog.
(a) all hacking is unethical?
(b) the database was running in the cloud, not on any computer they controlled.
(c) everyone's an asshole here
> demanded the law firm resign from the case following a controversial hearing that featured dueling rallies outside a federal courthouse last Wednesday.

Why was this hearing, specifically, controversial? The article lists a few controversial things, but it's never made clear how they relate to this specific hearing.
The dopamine hit from the like/share notification no longer hits like it did in 2012.

Reminds me of drug addicts building tolerance and upping usage to get same “high”.

Probably get the same feeling again if you hit 100K or 1M interactions

Personally, haven’t cared since 2015. FB — stopped using for socials but use its marketplace for selling/buying. IG - keep an account but otherwise have stopped using it.

Still use anonymous social media like HN or reddit. Although lately stick to the fediverse — mastodon, lemmy, and matrix.
Unless it's an acquihire where you get ~nothing for your stock and you have to interview to keep your job.
As a tourist/visitor, good food is more accessible in the US than in France, IMO.

Edit: Sorry, I can't reply because HN/dang rate-limited me efter I wrote that something about gun violence and the US that was considered "nationalistic flamebait (regardless of nation)".
How is this different from using GPT api on Azure? I thought that allowed you to keep you data corpus/documents private as well, ie not get sent to their servers for training
It sounds to me like the reasonable balance has already been struck in the EU, as Acetaminophen is not banned in the EU.
Musk is only worried they might win.

In other words, Musk wants to boycott lawyers for enforcing the law.
> We have a H2 tank and fuel cell transforming H2 into power for all the systems

This made me chuckle. All-in on hydrogen, huh?
I understood that a lot of API inconsistencies come from the underlying C libraries. For me, the biggest annoyance was in that the language itself was inconsistent with itself (not talking about libraries), array usage in particular was iirc really weird in terms of the usage functions. From what I understand it's better today and Laravel and other options can make it nice to work with.

I was rather partial to Classic ASP with JScript myself... Although the biggest issue in that whole space was a lot of the addons were commercial and expensive COM libraries. VB6 added a lot of value and made it more useful. It was a much different time in the mid-late 90's though.

These days, I'm still more inclined to fave JS environments such as Deno or node, that have vast and rich options for everything. Though the language itself still has a lot of detractors, even for TS. I've also been enjoying the bit I've played with Rust.
Maybe its just my Oppositional Defiant Disorder talking, but I would have nuked their db after that bs threat.