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Readers will note the article is about state and local government jobs.

Everyone should try to work in government at some point to understand why things so relevant to your life happen the way they do, and to be better citizens.

State and local has huge challenges in terms of funding and potentially old infrastructure, but also incredible opportunities to change lives with simple improvements in processes that haven’t gotten the love they deserve.

Wage increases would help, but two year “tours” with other benefits might at least help folks understand why the mission is so important and maybe bust up some staid organization with some new energy.

Good luck to these folks - they’ll need it.
House fans are pretty cool, but as someone who has had one before: be cautious of the airflow blowing out the flame on your gas stove / pilot light of various appliances.

It has only happened to me once or twice, and is a non issue if you choose which window(s) to open carefully.

That being said, we love our total home fan, and it's also great for clearing out various odors

Edit: if people are having campfires near your house you'll want to shut it off asap
I think the real question is where is the line between it being a character trait (aloof, stoic, introverted, a bit weird, you name it) and a disability. I don't think high functioning autism is a disability, it's a character type that is a bit out there - but with the person knowing it and other people learning about it, we can all get along just fine.
But note that it's up to the community to decide what the interesting points of a study are, not necessarily the authors.
Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48 Effective Megapixels
Hah, that is really clever of him. I should try that next time.
This is so, so true! I went to Parsons School of Design in the late 70s and the final presentations were ungodly brutal. It was very normal for people to leave in tears. The good part about this (the bad part is obvious lol) is that many people who shouldn’t have been there and would not have made it in the commercial art business would go and do something else after these reviews. It was probably for the best.

During my short career as an in-house illustrator, it was perfectly acceptable for the art director to kick your ass and generally abuse you. You learned to develop a thick skin really quickly!
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You might see it as a toy if it's just an annoying way to trigger fn keystrokes.

But for people who use applications like Final Cut Pro X, you can actually do a lot with it.

Here's a course on it, for example :

https://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/final-cut-pro-fasttrack...
> - Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo, but confirmed that it had asked this of some suppliers.

Tesla confirmed that it was seeking "price reductions." Tesla's statement is not confirmation that they are running to suppliers asking for refunds.
> It's a key skill to learn to be able to let go of the work you have done, stand back and analyse it dispassionately then go back and re-do things.

I wish this principle was adhered to across all industries where we (as individuals) get our 'work' reviewed. If you can't do your best and then be able to let go of it, it causes some serious pent-up anger and demotivation. I find myself slipping into 'brutalist feedback' mode (that I'm used to from creative work), before worrying about offending the recipient.

I'm not sure if this is coincidental, but anecdotally I found that my biggest shift in being able to let my creative work 'go' was after reading The Power of Now[0] and The Chimp Paradox[1], and practicing mindfulness. Fundamentally, I think it's an ego issue as to why it's so hard to take criticism. I'm certainly not saying ego-death is a prerequisite, but instead to learn how to short-circuit your anger away from feedback as a result of taking it too personally.

It is after all, not the work itself, but how it is received that you should be striving towards!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now
[1] - https://chimpmanagement.com/the-chimp-paradox/
One of my major pain points with GitLab was its API. The lack of coherent API design ultimately made me lose hope in the product. For example I think it still lacks an ability to create threads on MRs. Until recently it wasn't possible to approve any MRs either, for 10+ versions of the product and 4+ versions of the api, but adding emoji was... The disjointed API made it nearly impossible to create quality tooling on top of GitLab, ultimately forcing us away from the product. It left a poor taste in my mouth, with a sense that there was no rhyme or reason to the direction of the platform, unfortunately.
Just pick any big company that announced large-scale layoffs in the last 20 years. They start re-hiring almost immediately. In some cases they even announce hiring plans while they announce layoffs - and the percentage of workers being retrained or moved internally during these events is usually pretty low. It's difficult to believe that tens of thousands of workers cannot be retrained, when corporate roles are increasingly described as "bullshit jobs" anyway.

> when re-training would have been equal or less effort

That's the issue, isn't it? You cannot meaningfully measure that effort at scale[1], and even if you could, it's an effort that product/line managers would likely have to make. Whereas firing and hiring is basically zero effort, because most of the donkeywork is done by HR. So as a line manager, you take the hit of a short disruption in operations, cash in a lower wage bill, and your job is done.

[1] if we could meaningfully measure training effort vs results, we wouldn't have a market full of e-learning products that are invariably terrible but super-expensive.
The T2 chip for what I understand it's a proprietary CPU that executes proprietary software, how can you consider that secure ? It's not different from the Intel ME in that sense, just another secondary processor that have access to all the hardware on the computer and that runs code that the user cannot control.

Also for a security prospective it's not good, the main principle of cryptography is that the only secret to decrypt something should reside in the user, not in the obscurity of the algorithm or the hardware, so a perfect encryption is an encryption where when you turn on you laptop you have to insert a 30 character strong password that only you know, like LUKS on Linux, no obscure hardware, no proprietary software. The laptop broke, take out the SSD, put it in another Linux computer, insert you secret password, and recover the data.

This system is NOT secure, if someone finds a flaw that permits to extract the key from the T2 chip, and it's only a matter of time and resources before someone does it, your data is no more protected, they can decrypt and extract what they want. We must not consider secure every encryption system that doesn't depend on a secret that only the user knows.
@aissen this is a temporary roadblock for us. As we scale, we are working on a better payroll solution in these locations. We are hoping to remove some of these roadblocks in future entirely. We have already moved a few successfully, like Australia and Canada.
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Grant was probably a better strategist (or at least he understood his advantages and how to make use of them), but I've never seen it seriously suggested that he was a brilliant tactician. Relentless might be the best description of Grant. There's very little brilliance in the Overland Campaign of 1864; the primary thing that set Grant apart was that he continued pressing on after being bloodied, rather than scurrying back to Washington, feeding men into the meat grinder knowing that he could trade bodies for far longer than Lee could.
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Many people don't understand how effective Qanats are, but they were/are used to store freakin' ice in the middle of freakin' Iranian scorching desert - seen one near Yazd.

Big respect to the builders/engineers. It's 2400 years old
Yes I know, that's why I wrote technically better. The distortions and coloring your tube amplifier produce might sound good to you, but they're imperfections.

BTW I did blind tests with a lot of the never-transistor crowd, and with the right simulated effects a rough 95% of them couldn't tell which one was the tube and which one was the transistor amplifier with simulated tube. So I'd say it's also a bit of nostalgia.

The results were even worse for vinyl vs MP3. Recording some vinyls as high quality MP3 (to preserve the defects) let no one tell the difference. Even though they were adamant that MP3's make music so harsh that they can't listen to it without getting a brain aneurysm.

So it's not the MP3 that makes the music unlistenable to them, it's actually the fidelity of the recording that vinyl's just don't have.

Although with vinyl I must admit there's a certain romantic aspect to putting one on, even though I don't have a player.

PS: I know there are better formats than MP3, but in this case people were talking about MP3 I didn't want to give them FLAC.
That's a pretty great package... brb applying to work at Google.
When my company subscribed there was only a community and enterprise tier.
Now this has become the starter edition and I feel we are losing a lot of value.
We are 200 employees, but only 10 developers using the advanced features. We really want to make GitLab our hub (GitOps and all), however the the cost of going beyond starter edition is mind blowing (x5).
So if we are to embrace GitLab further we must abandon the idea of letting the whole company use GitLab freely and limit it to devs only.

Being small doesn't mean that we are not in need if advanced features, we just have a smaller scale.

Also as our initial tier was the top tier, and now is the bottom one, I fear GitLab will fence off future functionality with even more tiers at random.

Further, the tiers creates some artificial barriers where we several times feel the some of the new features we receive are just barely functioning and are just there to entice you to upgrade to the next tier.

We are all in all very happy with GitLab, however we are no longer pushing it as a central hub for the company.
Raylib 2.0 released
I agree that giving people the option to pay $0 will probably result in less sales. I've been thinking about it over lunch and I'm liking the $3.50 price more and more. It was certainly low enough that I didn't have to give the purchase much thought and also low enough that I felt you deserved a bit more - and was happy to pay it.

No doubt you can see the stats and know what's gonna work better than some random on HN :)

One thing: I found the contrast of the video name text and the bg a bit tough when using the light theme. IF it's possible, custom bg colour or something would be great. Anyway :) thanks for a cool app

edit: ha was logged in to my old acccount when i first posted, a downside of password managers if you're not paying attention!
So, for those on the farm: should they dig earth by hand, with a spade, use horse-drawn plow? Tractors should be a big no-no, by this logic.

Actual ability to create is in the brain of the creator. Anything else is just media ant tools.
I don't see his comment as doing the bare minimum. More like being in no man's land. If the extra effort and time cannot lead to greater rewards or will go largely unnoticed why do it? Otherwise you're risking resentment and burnout. Some people can increase their output linearly (or better) by putting in more time and some of those people are positioned to benefit from that increased output. The rest (and the company) would probably benefit from a different approach. I often wonder when management theory will start exploring this issue. As something of a workaholic I had to teach myself moderation.
There is nothing stopping you from using any email address, a fake physical address, and a prepaid debit card for iTunes.
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11% of Americans don’t use the internet
It doesn't take much effort on your part to check that something hasn't been fixed. But it does take a lot of effort to re-do the work you spent much time on because some jerk pulls idiotic tricks.

Evolution succeeds once again.
I wonder if this very clever approach is interesting in the energy consumption perspective.
In this work (http://hpc.pnl.gov/modsim/2014/Presentations/Kestor.pdf ) the author shows (slide 11 ) that it cost 100 times more energy to move data from memory to register than to move data from L1 cache.
So, this kind of mechanism could hugely improve the amount of data that could be stored in L1/L2/L3 cache, but what could be the energy cost of compression/decompression step ?
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Exactly, I always remember Goodhart's Law [0] whenever I see metrics popping up as goals, be it for OKRs or as guidelines for coding.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Thank you for taking time to answer! I definitely relate to having a ton of desktop spaces open all the time.

> What price would you feel comfortable paying for Pi?

After reading through the website and watching the product video, I'd be willing to pay $15-20 to try it out and see how many of my productivity problems it can fix.

> Would a free trial make the $70 price point more reasonable for you?

Free trial would definitely help me evaluate all the features, and if they're worth more for me. I can see that if the app is a hit, it's worth $70 for me. But at this point I fear that it's not perfect, so $15-20 is something I'm willing to throw away to see if the app fits.

> Would your rather pay a subscription?

I have a personal problem with all subscription models: I instantly calculate what using the app will cost in 3 years to get perspective.

Now if you'd set $6/month as your price point (to match $70/year), I'd see it as committing to $210 over three-year period.

I know some people don't see subscription models as scary as I do, and it's a really common way to lower the bar to purchase things nowadays. But I'm very cautious of anything subscription-based.
I'm sorry, what? What protections are you talking about? Nasa has booked flights on non-USA rockets many times in the past. SpaceX has received no subsidies( i.e. free money) but only contracts from the government which Ariane is now asking to be locked by law( and let's not even talk about subsidies).
Test kits, test kits, test kits, TEST KITS. This whole thread needs test kits.
Remember that this is anecdata at best :)

I've been to Stuttgart recently and had no such problems at the train station there. I just wanted to point out that this phenomenon is not all that new.
Hello computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
I think Goldman was seen as a “cool” place to work maybe like 12+ years ago before the crash. Now, not so much.
Google software engineer does not have low barriers either. You've to train pretty hard for either. And both jobs seem like magic for general population.
Whilst this is pretty handy, I balked at the "let us submit for you for $89". Like - eek! Really?!

Also - the "get the pdf version" is really a dark pattern since you're not allowed to download it without first paying some non-zero amount that you laughably get to choose. Might be a bit nicer to say, "buy the pdf version".
This is really interesting. I live in Czech away from Prague and made a joke on local dev meetup that "I will not work for 22k". Answer was "everyone here wishes to work for 22k".
I don't think anyone I know here makes anything close to 100k even in Prague.

I should investigate this bit more to get closer to SF salaries if possible.
Indeed, what's the point to ask someone to write a fizzbuzz when it's already been done to the highest of professional enterprise standards! [1]

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Ok, I didn't know that, haven't used Perl in a long time. But I don't think any of my Perl programming colleagues have heard of it or like using it. I still think their code is harder to read because of this ingrained bad practice.
>Did those other people elsewhere already have their own elected legislature and a largely autonomous commercial environment?

Those are manifestations of "I make my living how I damn well please", so can't be its cause.

In other words, the argument takes for granted what it should prove -- that "Revivalism" and "materialism" were both second fiddle".
I don't know how they came to that calculator. But it seems that someone in Ethiopia would earn $20k more than someone in the Netherlands (outside of Amsterdam)
You could take a look at what this guy[1] did. It was a great read for me as a real beginner in lambda calculus.

[1]: https://www.jtolio.com/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-l...
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There are great psychiatrists out there, but honestly the two issues are that their main tool is medication which is a very blunt instrument, and they still only know so much about the brain.

Unfortunately, for every great psychiatrist, there are just as many truly awful ones and despite their medical degree they can totally botch your diagnosis.

That’s my opinion anyway, take it as you will.
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I suspect that everyone prefers it but just don't have the option. I'd like to hire only people with a deep knowledge of the projects they'll be working on. Turns out that's impossible.
I don't want a great teaching tool, I can use ASM for that. I want something that's easy to read and maintain.

I think Perl 6 got it right, but a little too late.
The nocode cheatsheet is pretty darn helpful. I couldn't find it anywhere else. Thumbs up.
> having your work taken apart at a presentation

What, I'm currently through this process with my Masters' dissertation. It's not exactly disheartening, but it's uncomfortable.

Bonus, the math-heavy (I'm in computational physics) 70-page documentclass-article thing has a couple of asides that are so, so wrong (1.5 years ago I didn't really understand a lot of things) and it's embarassing to have them pointed out.

But eh, I'm glad I'm going through this process.
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I'm an amateur student of philosophy and often want to blog about certain ideas I think I'm beginning to have. But I'm not sure enough to put my name on them! I wish I could hire a professional philosopher (many of which will be underemployed anyway) to look over my stuff and tell me when they're embarassingly wrong rather than just out of the box.
>Yes I know, that's why I wrote technically better. The distortions and coloring your tube amplifier produce might sound good to you, but they're imperfections.

Well, so is human timing errors in playing. But most people would still rather hear a human play the piano that a MIDI file (and even electronic music done in DAWs is "humanized" in all sorts of ways).

>Although with vinyl I must admit there's a certain romantic aspect to putting one on, even though I don't have a player.

With vinyl the tactility and patina and process (that makes "skipping" more effort) are even more important to me than the playback fidelity.
What’s the definition of markets being appropriate, and what’s your course of action when you decide they ceased to be?
I think high functioning autism is just a DSM-isation (label as disease) of people with high introversion, neurotism and/or disagreeableness. Read "The silent power of introverts" by Susan Cain. People are people. We all evolved traits to fill our biological niche. Highly vocal people with little fears (extraverted and neurotypical) are just that: more "confident" and vocal about how great they are. Corporate sociopaths will say you have a too high feeling for justice to silence you. Realize that this is your strength to realize what is ethical and a blind spot for them and their greatest weakness. Dark triad people will black/white label to control you since you are more prone to be sensitive and isolated. You have to realize that your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. That counts for every person where ever on the spectrum. As highly sensitive individual you are just more focused on the negative of your (in)ability to function in a certain biological niche. You are also more realistic of your and other people's abilities and talents (Dunning–Kruger effect). You are a animal on the savanna that is sensitive to the sounds of the predator approaching. And you survive. And the cycle continues.
You know what's a cool job? Working at a great job doing interesting work... and having a schedule where I leave at 2:30 PM and pick my kids up from school. Then I get to spend the evening with my kids, playing with them, going to the pool with them, doing homework with them, reading with them, etc.

That's a cool job!!!
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Hello DouweM, I've been considering joining gitlab for a while! I have a couple of questions about how you guys make remote work run smoothly, can I reach out to you?

Thanks!
I know, and this kind of attitude regarding drivers is what as graphics oriented person, eventually pushed me back into the Windows/OS X world.

The graphics card was working perfectly fine before they decided to reboot driver support.

Now with the legacy driver I have to force enable acceleration and even then I sometimes get the feeling it isn't really working, given how the fan behaves when watching movies on the go.
'Ireland will not once again become collateral damage in British policy'
I was just thinking of Freshmeat, that was a big loss to me as I found it much easier to navigate compared to SF, at least back in the days: I rarely used SF in like 10 years and stopped completely after they added malware to archives.
Thank you for having principles.
No complaints about the build quality of my XPS13. Runs beautifully, too. Prior to that my Linux machine was a Thinkpad X60.
I'm from Russia and sad to read articles like this one. It's ridiculous how much power have local courts. One complaint and your whole business is banned. I really hope it will change soon and Russia will attract new startups and companies.
They could offer to let the user backup the key from the T2 chip to iCloud (and put the port back).

Obviously if you're worried about nation state attackers you wouldn't want to do that in a million years. But if your primary threat model is that you're an average boring home user suffering data loss because you don't backup and dropped coffee on your Macbook it would be a solution.
South Korea's Crypto Regulation Shakeup
Last week, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) said, “This financial regulator will exclusively announce a department for policy making strategy in the blockchain industry”.

The regulators are planning to restructure the policy initiatives related to cryptocurrency. This will accompany the financial innovation in the imminent “Fourth Industrial Revolution era”.

The FSC has established “the Financial Innovation Bureau”, a new bureau devoted to cryptocurrency financial innovations. This decision was taken during the meeting of the FSC cabinet with the Ministry of the Interior & Safety.

Source of info: https://coinpedia.org/news/south-korea-reorganize-crypto-regulation/