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> We run ads, Sir to quote a certain guy during a recent hearing.

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What does the shift to HTTPS mean for access to information globally?
A conspiracy story in superconductor physics
I am nearing that age, but the displeasure started several years ago. I find myself a bit trapped with a a place where I am marrying 2 specialties that tend to go together, and that in theory should be an ideal job. But hte people, politics, and lack of genearl teamwork have left a sour taste. And it's not like I am ready to give up the money I save (I make a bit more because of the industry but still a lot less then others in this field). And since I am on an immigration visa, it's not as easy for me to hop around from place to place. A bit lost at what to do. Its not as if I am not following my heart because I think I am, I just do not like the environment, nor will it be any better at another unknown place.
The article mentions how tokens are already being used.
Having worked in multiple gov department I can assure you different types of data have different types of restriction on where they are stored.
Partly, but also because it is easier to authenticate as not being spoofed or faked. Faxes have a 'sending number' that is transmitted as part of the protocol, and caller ID allows checking the source, whereas email senders can be very easily changed. However, even the fax may not be secure enough - I worked for a gold bullion trading firm in the 90s where they used faxes for secondary trade confirmation, but sent a telex with the data as then main mechanism, because the telex network was considered more secure than the PSTN and relying on fax sender numbers.

They also used X.25 a lot, as they didn't trust the fancy new TCP/IP stuff that was around, though, so there's that...
Yea, Germany electricity is ridiculous.

At a more reasonable 10c per kWh that’s 1.8 cents per hour and 157$ a year assuming 100% useage 24/7 vs $1799 for the CPU. Hardly going to break the bank, real world costs vs another similar CPU and you might hit 100$ worth of electricity over a 5 year lifespan.
So as someone with just about a negative amount of math experience, Are quaternions mostly just a 3-vector with a scale component (W) added to the end, or am I misunderstanding?
Buy a t-shirt and get access to my members only blog / porn site.

I can see how it's against the rules of the payment provider but this wouldn't be fraud would it?
also in many companies >80% of profits(before payments) go into payments, so not that much exploitation there.
Apparently in Ancient Rome, the ceremony of opening of the bridge consisted of placing the Engineers and Architects who built it to be under the bridge and marching an army Legion over the bridge. Today we have courts and laws to deal with this but every story like this is a reminder of responsibility put into Civil Engineers. But also it serves as a reminder that any Engineering discipline, including Software, has to have accountability and ethics standards.

edit: I'm not blaming anyone for this tragic accident. The cause will be found eventually. What I mean is it's important to remember how your work may impact lives, regardless of what that work is.
>In another thread on long hospital shifts, commenters made the point that the detrimental effect of subtle information lost during a shift change often outweighs the effect of sleep loss during a long shift, when looking at patient outcomes.

>I wouldn't be surprised if doctors here were gaming the rules because they knew a transfer would cause more harm than good.

Well then they could have told the family that was their line of reasoning for not wanting the transfer. If they had a defensible reason they would have worked that angle before using the system to try to make an end run around the patient's/family's wishes.
Thanks, that's really interesting, even though the author toned much of his initial satire down in a later update.
This is not what I hoped the 21st century would be like! Dystopian scifi novels were supposed to warn us not act as a template.

Know what else? Fuck China.

“In China, it’s not wise to refuse.”

Coming to a Western country near you. We're going right back into feudalism.
Justifiably so. When a "hospital" has more power over penal settings and indefinite imprisonment combined with no oversight, its time for them to go.

I'm sure there is a good balance here, somewhere. But what we had and now have isn't it. A better balance feels like it should include a judge, 2 doctors with at least 2 hr patient time for each, and someone else that the patient knows.
> Yeah, this is a more fundamental problem with for-profit hospitals - money gets involved in treatment decisions.

Mayo is not for-profit.
I’ve always though Caleb Chung was being pretty hypocritical in this episode. He not only programmed the pain response behavior, but also must have thoroughly tested it, meaning he or someone at his company must have done a more scientific version of that video.
> They have figured out that they are never going to get payed the true value of their work,and that is almost the definition of being an employee.

A little bit too cynical for my taste. You make it sound as if companies serve no purpose other than extracting value from the employee to the company. Your work value inside the company is higher than the value of the work per se; the order that the firm institutes has a value for society, minimizing information, decision and transaction costs. That is why firms exist, and not only markets; a gig economy in which everyone is free to sell their work is worse. You could even argue that the power relations that the firm embodies for you end up also appearing in a market, without the securities of a job relationship (see Uber drivers and the like).

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

Also, job security is not perfect, but it sure does exist.
This tech will be sold to every country in the world, completed with language files. Plug and play. That's the even sadder part.
Well, damn it. Now you've done it. Jeebs, go get the bag, we got a cat loose in here!

chaos
How to squeeze Americans to death and make more $$$
The author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
Switching to a standing desk greatly decreased how my upper back, neck, and shoulders would be tense. Keeping my back straight and not rolling my shoulders forward turned out to be an important part of that.
Don't you have troubles finding work? I review resumes at times and I don't expect someone to be married to a company. But three years is a warning sign. Companies fail, there was a bad culture. But job hopping is a reason to not want to hire someone.
That's what the article is telling to be careful with. "Sitting straight" means the butt is curved, back is straight, not thrusting chest forward. Also the weight of the body should be supported by the thigh and not the lower back.
This. If they had had the bad luck of being pulled over on their way to SD it could have easily escalated into an OJ style chase and that could end well or it could have ended very badly.
Spoken like an HNer who is incredibly lucky to be working in a field that has never-ending demand, and is probably good at their job.

Just a heads up that the majority of people are not in your/our situation with regards to their employment.
OpenSSL key sniffed from radio signal
The tube sites have (official?) channels for all the big porn studios + they have this "verified amateur" feature as well. That's not all piracy afaik.
Chinese Tesla rival Nio files to raise $1.8B in US IPO
Is the hate of the job just general hate for any job? If that is the case, it won't matter what profession you choose if someone doesn't like the way humans have structured society.

One option is to go work a different job for a day like volunteering for Habitat for Humanity building houses. It puts things into perspective about how physically easy working with software is when compared.
I think I snapped somewhere around the age of 28.

Went from the "exciting" world of digital agencies to the most administrative public sector job I could find.

Now, at least while I am away from home, I can work on my own projects and learn things, rather than properly wasting away slaving over someone else's completely meaningless pursuit of profits.
"What I've encountered though is, that those people who claim to speak for the affected ones don't have a friend or relative with this condition and have never even met such a person."

Ok, does meeting here qualifys as meeting?
I am very against AOT and I did experience the problem first hand. A case which ended tragically not because the lack of, but because of a attempted AOT. As they can also worsen things. Especially if the patient is very sensitive to force.
Apparently this was built in the 1960's. Not sure if lack of maintenance is to blame or original design.
Tax havens and global environmental degradation
I use the Microsoft sculpt keyboard. It has a detached number pad, which means you can move your mouse closer in line with your center of body, plus tlergonomically angled keys. I also use a mouse which let's you keep your wrist more naturally perpendicular to the floor.
A very complicated, fascinating man. On the one hand, statistics owes a lot to this man. On the other hand, he was the man who popularized eugenics.
A large section of the Ponte Morandi bridge has collapsed in Genova, Italy
I'm 38 and have been a freelance developer for ~20 years and I'm still really into what I do.

I enjoy what I do now more than 10 years ago.

I suppose it comes down to enjoying what you do to the point where it doesn't feel like a job vs "having a job".
Why move to management then? Software Developer is the best gig imaginable right now, in pretty much any dimension you can measure.

- Senior level pay is pushing $500k for employees, ( and higher for consulting)

- Pretty much any gig can be remote

- Hottest job market in history

- Lots of fun work to be found if you don't want to go the BigCo track

So yeah, why fight all that stuff you list on that path when you can stay in individual contributor and have it easy?
> The reality of course is that I'm at most actually working 15-25% of that time and the rest I'm just piloting a desk and being available for people to pick my brain

Working remote can solve this, I've realized. One day I was stuck at home so I told my supervisor I would work at home for the day. I ended up doing my work in few hours, and was free the rest of the time since I was free from the "stay at desk" requirement.
> Let the other guys stress office politics and fear for their job if they take vacation. You're the guy who knows what this job market is like, and that you have options.

as someone currently job hunting, i feel this is overly optimistic. the job market is extremely conservative, so if you have a strange background, be prepared for the long haul. this is extremely stressful as no one seems to care where you have worked or what you have done. they care about what little specific subset of things they care about in a single interview, and have no conception of “can this person learn what we need them to learn” or how to understand what a person already knows. it’s almost as if they treat your resume as some base gpa requirement and throw it out once you pass, because they feel asking silly little one-sided questions to gauge your aptitude in a couple of hours is better than an actual conversation about things.

the way interviewing is done in the software industry is infuriating and makes me want to leave it at times. the cliquish culture is suffocating.
It only consumes 180W^w 319W at full load, when idling the whole system draws 62W

https://www.computerbase.de/2018-08/amd-ryzen-threadripper-2...
I don't see why one would jump to blaming the engineers from the 1960's instead of the very government bureaucracy that was responsible for funding the maintenance and oversight of the bridge for over five decades. I do wonder if it is possible the "violent downburst" in the article could have created enough force on the bridge to push it past it's load-rating though.

edit: I should add that it could very well be the fault of an engineer from 50 years ago (poor design, implementation), but this just happened today and it will take a while for people to figure out what really happened, and without any other data my first inclination is to think "poor maintenance" as that is what Occam's Razor (simple: lack of maintenance is very common these days, at least in the US: prepare to be afraid of many bridges you drive over[0]) and then there's the whole downburst thing that seems vaguely plausible for now.

edit2: "The U.S. has 614,387 bridges, almost four in 10 of which are 50 years or older. 56,007 — 9.1% — of the nation’s bridges were structurally deficient in 2016, and on average there were 188 million trips across a structurally deficient bridge each day. While the number of bridges that are in such poor condition as to be considered structurally deficient is decreasing, the average age of America’s bridges keeps going up and many of the nation’s bridges are approaching the end of their design life. The most recent estimate puts the nation’s backlog of bridge rehabilitation needs at $123 billion."[1]

[0]https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/americas-grades/

[1]https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/
While this is nice if you are just interested in some of the talks it's not really a substitute for being there, meeting people and taking in the atmosphere (for me at least. There's a lot of things you don't see in the streams, like the venue, the tents and all the small cool things in the assembly area.
Nice intro! Some of the more advanced techniques (MCTS, GOAP/planning and so on) get the short shrift, but it's totally expectable for an intro article.

And the early section on constraints is especially great. Game AI has to worry about enjoyable performance and variety of challenges given almost no CPU time, which makes all the difference...
Theorists with a Swamp, not a Theory
Another big sports deal for Facebook
The Free-Market Fraud: Tech Innovation and Alternatives
Indeed. But we're discussing this here, with the audience you describe making up nearly all of us, so I didn't feel the need to add that caveat.

So yeah, go us. Our gig gets better over time, while it appears that others don't.
Python is a great way to run Tcl ;-) Seriously though, Python's Tcl bindings are done at the C level and provide great interoperability.

At a previous job I utilized these low level bindings to create higher level bindings. Used reflection of both Python and Tcl to expose themselves to each other. Was able to seamlessly use Tcl objects from Python and vice versa.
Scientists on a Mission to Save Squashed Israeli Watermelon
I tried a number of solutions to sitting back pain, and the one that's worked the best is a $20 cylindrical pillow that attaches to my crappy office chair with an elastic band. It makes sitting in a slouching position subtly awkward and subtly encourages me to tuck my tail and sit up, as recommended in this article.
100k isn't even close to enough to retire on, at least in the US or other Western countries (assuming a standard middle-class standard of living, of course).
There are a few things I'd like to know about the survey:

- What were the jobs in the survey? Were they all office jobs?
- What was the gender split in the survey? The anecdotes in the article were all female.
article available here as pdf without registration:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323920714/download
Marine Le Pen on WebSummit Speaker List
I work for Google and have never been good at the "Here's an NP-hard problem you haven't heard of, write correct code for nlogn solution on whiteboard in language of choice" question. I had to train extensively (reading CLR, practicing) to be able to pass.

However, large numbers of engineers at Google are very good at solving whiteboard questions. A lot of it comes from practice, a lot comes from knowing the common problems and solutions, and a lot comes from knowing the algorithmic primitives from which modern algorithms are born.

For many, whiteboard questions are "fun"- in the same way my parents like to do crossword puzzles for the intellectual exercise, Googlers like to discuss challenging, abstract-but-related-to-ads-or-search questions.
I guess I was precocious then. My hate began at 25.
What happens when intelligent support systems open their eyes
The photo of the man explains it. But agreed that it could be better.
Yes and no. Maybe a better way of phrasing would be, their effort will never be appropriately compensated.

The problem is that much of the economy is pure bullshit, and it takes brainwashing to make the thing run/make people want stuff that is really of no value. So, there are very few jobs that provide real value - other than keeping the hamster wheel moving.
Financial independence and early retirement?

With 27 years of living expenses if you invest wisely and don't get unlucky, you shouldn't ever have to work again.
This is not correct. The government sells treasury securities at auction.[1] Primary dealers are required to participate in all Treasury auctions.

When the Federal Reserve conducts open market operations, it does create reserves out of nothing, but most Treasury securities are not bought by the Fed. The Federal Reserve can buy treasuries directly from the government via non-competitive bids, but generally buys and sells treasuries on the secondary market via primary dealers.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_auctions_...
Marketing consulting, reaching out to my whole network and doing really good work after 9 years experience. It also tripled my annual income.
No this is correct.

It’s about the mythical alpha.

You can get the 1950s average unit of work out of a person, and maybe get 100 gidgets made in a day.

Or you can figure out how to optimize the assembly line and reduce pee breaks and get the most out of those things you have to pay to employ.

So now in the 2000s, you make 5000 widgets a day, employ fewer people and have identified more places where you can reduce costs to improve shareholder value.

All the fancy lunches at the googleplex and so on, they’re a way to differentiate and keep expensive workers at work.

If a firm found a way to keep high end workers for cheap, then they should do that because that’s their job - to optimize and get the benefits of those optimization’s to shareholders.

In short be a shareholder, not a worker.
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I'm not sure it's entirely solved.

Anecdote: I had whooping cough a few years ago, unbeknownst to me, during a national whooping cough epidemic, where the NHS had put out a bulletin telling doctors to look out for whooping cough.

During this time I had fits where I wouldn't be able to call an ambulance because of the shaking. I also could have potentially killed infants I came into contact with.

Both the NHS and private doctor ignored the possibility of me having the disease - my partner's mother, a registered nurse, even suggested I ask them to look for it - simply because they didn't think of it when they first arrived.

And of course both the private and NHS doctors arrived late, don't apologise, and insist I call them by their title rather than their name.

My general feeling of the medical industry in the UK is that it has more respect for formality than professionalism.
While browsing a Ruby codebase’s config.rb recently, I saw several proc commands followed by bracketed subcommands and wondered if it was for some reason Tcl embedded into a Ruby script. Could that be an example of what you’re describing here? What’s the use case for that?
The age requirement for Defcon is 18. There is also a large cross section of counter culture and drug culture. There were many parties happening. I recall smoking salvia out of a hooka, which later tipped and burned the bed sheets. A random guy came in to the party with a 50 gallon trash bag full of dried salvia.
In Australia a treatment order is enforced by 3 monthly depo injections, usually of respiradone
Actually, this is not an exception in Turkish. It is because of that "meyhane" is a foreign word (adapted from Persian). In any case, no one will expect smo to pronounce these 'e's distinguishably.
For many words, you just have to know how to pronounce them.

Tell that to people of Samsun :)
The average lifespan of a bridge is about 70 years.
xargs -P and other ad-hoc parallelism tools usually stop me from leaving the command line too quickly (e.g. <(), fork / join).

The other thing that keeps me back is scale. If everything fits in memory, cool, but sometimes I need to sort or uniq something that won't.
It's as dishonest and biased to describes the entire issue as "disallowing discussion" or "quieting voices you don't like" as it is to describe abortion as "murdering babies". It says you don't actually want to talk about it.
Yes, being in an in-demand field makes work life easier. Being good at your job makes work life easier. Typing and drawing on a whiteboard is easier than mopping floors and cleaning toilets.

I don't know why every time a discussion about work or employment comes up we feel the need to have these tautological discussions about how some people have it easier than others. It's only a matter of time until we get a sub-thread of Europeans discussing how insane it is that Americans don't get 65 days of vacation every year, and a few off-topic healthcare rants then I think the cycle will be complete for this thread.
It's in America and recently also China
I cant tell ic you're being serious. The appropriateness of that would depend on whether the hardware condition was persistent in which case we have a reboot loop. It doesn't seem resonable for software meant to run in a harsh envirinment to assume prefect rumtime conditions. Do probabilitites and tradeoffs ever get considered when faced with inconsistent state?
Cool, where did you learn?

I found many good technical education sites, but only HubSpot for marketing stuff.
I'm 34 and love working more than I ever have. Though I work at a really cool startup and feel really connected to my team. It's not perfect, we have a few issues, but overall I feel good about the work I do.

I do feel drastically different as an employee though. I am starting to feel a real sense of ownership over my own actions. Not sure how to word that properly, but I no longer see my bosses as "owning" me in the way I used to. I never thought that explicitly, but I behaved as if they had complete control over me.

If I were in a job I hated, I'd have far less tolerance for it at this age. Life is too short.
Apple has had iCloud backup for some time now, including cloud camera rolls. For your second source there, this is pretty common practice. You take the device apart and damage it in the process then why should the company stand by that? They have to worry about legal issues because the fine consumers sue them for every little thing they do, therefore as a result they cover their own ass. Sony is also a big offender here, they won’t repair a playstation that you’ve attempted to mod. Your first source is just some guy talking and nobody has the time to watch that BS
I have first hand experience in Xinjiang a decade ago. Based on this report, it's gotten even worse.
What I remember most was:

1) nearly hourly MMS messages to my flip phone from unknown numbers with an unknown attachment. Since my phone was bought outside China, the MMS attachment didn't automatically open the likely spyware.

2) Being followed and monitored by plainclothes policemen

3) Having my hotel room searched while I was away. Having police come to my hotel room to interrogate me but lacking access because I had the only key to the room (very very cheap hotel).

4) Armed convoys of Chinese army soldiers constantly going up and down major streets.

The originally intention ten years ago was massive surveillance and intelligence gathering. AI and facial recognition are just making this easier and far less costly for their government.

It's clear now that China is moving towards dictatorship, not democracy.