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The keyword is "voluntary". Alibaba doesn't have this problem but many other companies do. The fact anti-996 has gained tons of attention makes me doubt it's just an immature movement started by a couple of crybabies.
They do claim it's the Chrome team that reached out to them, though.
Is feeding meat to chickens and pigs a bad idea? I get that brain matter could cause prion diseases in cows.
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> I wonder if VCs have C levels take any drug tests or carry pretty thorough background check on founders who they invest into?!

A basic due dilligence on the company, yeah

But that seems like a very nice way of a VC getting shut out of multiple potential deals
Really good stuff!

It’s kind of sad to see the cookie warning on first visit to an NHS page—from an accessibility point of view. If you’re sick and maybe older and you go to find some health information, the first thing you want to see isn’t “We’ve placed some small files on your computer called cookies. Are you okay with that?” It’s an almost nonsensical, bizarre question for anyone who isn’t an IT expert.
You can do this with Flutter. Flutter provides two packages for ui: material and Cupertino. But you an make your own package using Flutter. This is something I'm doing right now in fact.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Ubuntu covers most of my bases: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

I like to use ConEmu as my console for WSL. You can also check out Cmder.

It's very rare that I need to do something that WSL can't handle well (any challenges are typically related to I/O, networking, or GPU).

IntelliJ as my main IDE (my primary languages being Java, Typescript/web stuff, and Python).

Sublime Text for quick text editing. Vim in WSL for quick code editing or some other languages (mostly C).
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Nope, this is not true (from someone I know who's working at Bloomberg).
Isn't that a paradox? How can you drive up prices when you have rent control?
This is incorrect - it's an issue between the copyright owner and copyright infringer, with the content host only acting as a relay.

Under Section 512 the only responsibility of the service provider is to remove the content, relay the notice to the actual copyright infringer, and allow them to file a counter-notice.

From there if the counter-notice isn't accepted by the copyright owner, they would have to file a lawsuit with the copyright infringer.
I think you have to compare to this other organizations with up-or-out mentality like the big name consultancies and so on.

The point is not to offer a "sustainable worklife". The whole point is to chew through fresh graduates as fast as you can. They are fuel for the fire. And China has many, many hungry and young graduates.

It's kinda fair to say this out loud. People know what they are getting into. Some people actually enjoy this and thrive in such a high strain environment. The losers are the people who think they have to do this to "prove themselves" and just suffer and burn out.

Those who survive get promoted, and perpetuate the culture.

The only pathology I see is that if people think this is the only way to run a technology company and start aping the practice - which is a likely outcome.
And countries went batshit crazy - Saltpetre war with Chile vs Bolivia and Peru were fought over caves with bat guano which was the most valuable fertiliser of the day.
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Fractality.
Doesn't seem to matter much anymore when more and more cities and countries are stopping the 5G roll out all together.
> The Licencee may not distribute the Software.

> The Licensee may not modify, disassemble, translate, reverse engineer, or decompile the Software.

Clearly proprietary software. I didn't expect that from something advertised in an academic looking PDF. Back to Coq or TLA+, I guess.
Isn't it also the SR-71 that has to expand to become fuel tight, and so leaks fuel all over the runway at takeoff.
Having spent my early childhood in Russia, I can say you are spot on on the whole sentiment, but work productivity in USSR was below the sea level.

Without objective measurement of work nobody gave a fuck about own productivity — a thing that Jiang Zemin's China stomped out.

China's tech industry is still waiting for the same happening to it. A lot of it still functions like a cargo cult.
> about:preferences has an option like, "Use a background service to install updates".

But even if it's checked, it seems the Firefox managers/decision makers still think that it improves the users awareness on the Firefox brand that they spend your time on these (quoted from
jasonkester's post):

"wait. Before we get to what you wanted to do, I'm going to spend a minute downloading a new version. OK, now I'm going to install it. Almost there. Now here are a bunch of browser tabs full of information about the things we changed. If you still want to do what you wanted to do after reading those, you can open a new tab. Because we filled the starting one with a message saying we updated Firefox, in case you hadn't noticed."

vs.:

"what happens is that Chrome loads up in zero point seven seconds and lets you get on with your life. It may then start updating in the background but you as the end user never need to hear about it."

Note: Nevertheless I personally avoid Chrome as much as I can because I really believe Google has too much power. Monocultures, political power and all that. For me is Chrome in the position IE was before, even if currently a lot of web developers prefer it.
Corvids in general.

The New Caledonia Crow is getting a lot of study for its puzzle-solving abilities.
C, Rust, systems level security work and development of various utilities.
Ask HN: What's an Innovation for You?
I'm doing a research about meaning of an innovation in the IT world. What's make easier to be innovative at work, what's make it harder. I've found that the research what I'm doing at my current work spans a good discussion about the topic, I'd like to created a forum here. Hence I'd like to ask you following set of questions, but please mind that open opinion it's equally important :

* what's you occupation, and how many years you've been working at IT

* in your opinion, what's an innovation?

* what's make it easier to be innovative at work.

* can you give an example of recent innovation what you've witnessed (if not confidential)
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It says "Bean" there.
I’ve been working on a little adventure game maker for GameBoy over the last few months actually. I’ve been sharing a few alpha builds on a mailing list and pretty close to releasing now. Was hoping to post a Show HN soon!

https://www.gbstudio.dev
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> Can you explain how you, as a human being, understand handwriting?

I do not want to speak for the parent but I think you might be on a different level of abstraction when talking about "explaining" things. Consider this for example: someone writes a letter to your boss that you should be fired. That someone does not need to explain the process of writing but probably should be required to explain why you should be fired.
3500 Amazon Employees signed letter to create a climate-change plan for company
Yes I do. In the end it is all converted to heat and lost to the environment. The only question is when, not if. Even regenerative braking is postponing the inevitable.
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I was expecting you to write that you were then served ads for coffins.
I prefer using a real search engine to get me the keywords to search for. Then I can find exactly what I want in the keywordsearch. With a sematic search engine on a small ammount of data I mostly find nothing or everything and have to scan through a lot of pages to maybe find what I'm searching.
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Should make them most likely to try to please their owner. Whoever gets to write something for Jack that is charitable without even being asked to do has a lot to gain.

I think that what they write has little connection to truth in a situation like this but with that said I have no idea nor do I really care to form an opinion yet.
> Mozilla thought it was a good idea to avoid sending every keystroke you type to Google.

It's not like that's the only choice. They could have local auto complete and only send the search request to google when you hit enter.
Looks like Kotlin gets the lead in this area with Kotlin Native.

Jetbrains moves pretty fast and the integration works surprisingly well for something this young.
How long will 150-solar-mass stars last?
A sibling comment covers it fairly well, but . . .

Strictly speaking, the US did not have to pay. They chose to pay as they preferred that to the alternative: unsecured chemical weapons sitting around waiting for anyone to take them.
Perfect—thanks!

Yeah, my current, main ideas txt file is something called "movies to watch.txt" —which does start with a list of movies, but then I added some random extended thoughts there temporarily and it has grown massively since.

So yep, I may be a good candidate for using OrgMode ;)

I tried out a demo of Notion (https://www.notion.so/) not long ago and was pretty impressed by their editor (similar concept to OrgMode, but wysiwyg, which I prefer if it's done well). It's actually really good (annoyingly you have to give an email address to try, and their other info. isn't nearly as informative as just trying it for a minute)—but I can't bring myself to use it because of the platform lock-in aspect. I want the data stored in a local file and that's it.

Edit: looking a little more though (was watching a video of table creation in OrgMode), I think the emphasis on editing plain text is going to be too off-putting for me: I do want a simple local file that multiple programs could work with, but the text editing required for OrgMode seems way too cumbersome unless you're already an emacs devotee—which I'm not (largely because I've had RSI issues, and rumor is emacs isn't the most ergonomic text input style).
It's the nozzle, so how could it be chamber pressure? I also don't mean nozzle exit, and I didn't write such a thing.

Take some small patch of the nozzle surface. If the pressure inside is bigger than outside, that area contributes to thrust. If the pressure inside is smaller than outside, then it contributes negative thrust.

Curious to hear if you think that is wrong.
Actually, if the author had used CloudFormation, they could have a password-type (NoEcho) Input, and then they wouldn't need to deal with SSM at all. Much less hassle, and just as (in)secure.

To do it properly, the author could have created an AWS KMS key, encrypted the password with that key, and then stored the encrypted password in source control. Then password goes in as a regular, plain-text parameter, and the container decrypts it thanks to having the proper IAM permissions for the AWS Key. It's slightly more complicated but you get 1) ability to store the (encrypted) password in source control and 2) the ability to let anyone work with the stack without giving them the plaintext pw.

If you do want to stick to SSM for whatever reason, you can also use SSM parameters as Inputs to CloudFormation, so you can use a custom resource OR an out-of-band process to set the password up. It's wouldn't be great, but it's not the right tool for the job in the first place.
This became a bit of a long spiel and is quite anecdotal, ymmv, but in the spirit of trying to help a fellow parent I thought I’d share my thoughts and experiences.

Our son is right around the same age. I was super addicted to tv as a kid and I really don’t want our kids anywhere near one. My wife specializes in early childhood education so I usually (have to) run my crazy child rearing ideas before her before it gets ratified.

In any case we don’t have a cable subscription. We have Netflix/amzn prime but we make it a point not to turn the tv on around the kids. We only really watch it once the kids are down. I personally feel that when you’re watching tv your brain is shut off, you’re getting the dopamine hit (which I think is similar to the Facebook/insta likes etc). And I have some intuitive feeling that this probably isn’t the best for childhood development.

We have a small place, so our living room is full of kid stuff. Educational toys, books and all that. We got our 2 yo into reading and he has his kiddo sized bookshelf so when he wants to read he chooses his books and brings them to us and we read.

When we read we don’t just read the text, but we really try to examine the pictures as much as we can, I try to make it as interactive for him as possible, I learned that one from the wife.

He has a ton of toys my wife has chosen based on her experience, we tend to avoid too many electronic toys with lots of overstimulating lights and sounds (besides those get annoying really quick).

One thing that has really helped is music. We have tons of kid sized indian and western musical instruments as well, part of it is because music wasn’t emphasized at home (only math and science, that is a whole other discussion, but a very damaging attitude to have in the home i think as well). We also play music, but shut off the screens. So we will cast YouTube or Spotify to our tv but shut off the screen. It’s a little scary to see how quickly their eyes glaze over once the visuals come on.

I really think songs and singing along is such a great way to build up vocabulary skills in kids, as well as helping them develop their musical sensibilities.

We also live in Southern California, the favorable weather makes it very easy to go to the beach any chance we get, or I’ll just take him outdoors and let him explore and play.

This is all probably a long way of saying what another commenter was getting at. Have a lot of other entertaining activities at home so that the tv becomes insignificant or ideally just a worse option from the kiddos POV than more wholesome activities.

Also I always love recommending The Beginning of Life on Netflix, it emphasizes Reggio Emilia, and has an eye opening take on child development that engineers or technically oriented people may not have at first grasp.
This has happend to me with video games.
Been really trying to get good at fortnite in februrary/march and I actually got quite good but hit some kind of a mindblock... Then due to busy life I couldn't play for a month. Got sick 3 days ago and been staying home and playing it and I am noticably better than I was a month ago. So maybe alternating in playing for a 14 days and then taking a break for few days could do some real good
I was expecting to read about mapping crustaceans connectome here.
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I was thinking about this comment and I thought of the perfect analogy: accessibility.

Everyone in the abstract would like to make accessible websites. Some people at Google are really passionate about accessibility and advocate for it, while others don't know as much about it or overlook it when building their product. There's surely some organization-level guidelines like "make sure your product is accessible before launch" that have likely changed over time as different people in power have prioritized different things, and with uneven enforcement when it comes time to launch a given product a given team will make a random judgement call as to whether to delay their launch or cut some other feature in order to make the product accessible. (Inevitably someone will protest here with "it's not that hard to make an accessible product, just do X Y Z and test configuration Q, and it's really important". That is true but doesn't change the reality that it has a cost that takes away from other work.)

Now substitute "Firefox compat" for "accessible" in the above and it all still applies pretty much perfectly.

I don't believe there's an anti-Firefox (or anti-accessibility) conspiracy at Google, but rather just that Firefox/a11y compat is not a hard blocker for launches. The net effect is the same, of course, in that it's as if every product somehow discovers a way to break a11y/Firefox, but it's actually just how entropy works -- unless you're continuously watching out for and verifying your a11y/Firefox it's inevitable you'll break it.

(disclaimer: I worked on Chrome but I wouldn't know either way if there is any higher-level conspiracy; as an engineer who has built multiple products in different orgs I have seen a general lack of specific guidelines/requirements for a11y/Firefox)
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Try this
https://gmb.io/handstand/
One way or the other, will we ever see those "improvements" come up in other browsers?

Or it will be like when one reaches YouTube, Hangouts,... with other browsers?
The use of a fuel as a coolant is pretty common in modern high performance aircraft.
What do you think about reusing ticket info? Like a feature where a rep can optionally add a BCC email ID while replying to a client that saves the response to the search database. Can help increase content without disturbing the workflow?

Private info like name, email Credit cards, pins can be blacked out.
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> But he loses me on the next bit where he rules out incompetence and then jumps to org-level malice.

I think he has a reasonable justification for his position (two even):

- Google would have to be very incompetent for it to be incompetence (stated in the article)

- If Mozilla comes around every few weeks "hey guys, you broke it again" it's hard to argue they "don't care" or "don't prioritize" in the sense of "oh, we have so many things to do ..."

You even state it yourself:
"People building say, Inbox were told it was acceptable to launch a product that is only accessible to one browser at launch."

Yeah. That's active malice if your company produces the one browser they choose. Whether you couch it as "simple prioritization" or not.

At the end of the day I still think the competition agencies should have thrown the law book at Google so hard that it bleeds. Start with a few billion and go up from there. Google had (has) a virtual search monopoly and actively used it to promote their browser. At least in the EU that's illegal. And that the agencies didn't kick Googles ass for it is for me one of their biggest regulation failures.
Could also be the difference between searching with a clear goal in mind and discovering of new ideas & interests?
Heuristics are way underrated! I’d wager it’s more like 90% there in 1% of the time.
That’s not how you’re supposed to use the amazing thing that are permanent stamps. You should just take your larger packages to the post office is this is so hard on you.
> It's not like that's the only choice. They could have local auto complete and only send the search request to google when you hit enter.

... and that's what it used to do IIRC.

Today you'll also have to turn off "Show search suggestions in address bar results" to get back to that behaviour it seems.
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This is pretty low on the list of material problems that affect peoples' lives, in comparison to, for example, actual violence and crime.

But I imagine it feels very satisfying to accuse society-at-large of "racism" and use scare quotes around "accidentally" to imply that some white men racistly hard-coded racism into a racist algorithm intended to ruin peoples' lives. I hope you got a good shot of endorphins in your brain by accusing people of intentionally building racist software.
This single quote misrepresents his opinion, here are some extra quotes:

> But in a speech to Alibaba staff on Thursday, Ma said the company expected people to be ready to work 12 hours a day since it had huge commitments to its clients.

> “If you don’t work 996 when you are young, when will you? Do you think never having to work 996 in your life is an honour to boast about?” he said in the speech.
In reality it is a document store indeed, but it is advertised by MS themselves as "globally-distributed, multi-model database service". So...
Have you attempted cross platform development with Kotlin [1]? If so, how is your experience?

[1] https://proandroiddev.com/we-built-our-ios-and-android-apps-...
> Not being able to create a secure string parameter was the first problem I ran into with CloudFormation.

How about 'NoEcho' type of CFN parameters?
I consider a big mistake that Kotlin/Native doesn't share the same semantics with pure Kotlin.

However since it is still beta, this might eventually change.

And it does require getting licenses for Clion and AppCode, for the full developer experience regarding Kotlin/Native, versus C++ that is already there in XCode and Android Studio.
is this a joke?
Jack Ma obviously doesn't read comments off the Internet.
You weren't kidding. 'Tis was easier to flatten the bordering city and all the roads rather than bombing the submarine pens!
It is. Because then the overtime is completely self-imposed.
Hmm.
I'm thinking about a feature which could re-use a customer service rep's email reply as solutions in a DB.

Of-course the sensitive info could be blacked out or the rep could willfully not add it to the solutions DB.
In theory, yes. In practice, either of two solutins will take hold: either the old system is put into a container on the new system or the application software itself obtains an emulation layer for the old system interface during the port. Either way, not a lot will be gained.
i live in korea. My professor is very proud of their generation working very hard to "defeat" japan in the tech industry. I think jack ma's statement is lost in translation in this article.
There are several parts to the answer of your question.

First of all, emission nebulas are not very bright, so no telescope can give a picture as bright as a long-time exposure does. If you can see a nebula through a telescope at all, it will be very faint. Which triggers another effect in your eye: the cells for color reception are not very sensitive. Like with general night vision, you will see nebulas usually only with your light-sensitive receptors, which don't see colors. So it will appear in a grey-greenish color.

High quality pictures of nebulas are taken at very specific wavelengths, of common emission frequencies, you listed them. Even at high brightness, they wouldn't directly convert into a good color picture, as 500nm is turquise, 656 and 672nm are very deep red. A color image converting these wavelengths directly into RGB-values would be not very impressive, it would look more like the bottom image on the page. So usually a color mapping is used to generate impressive images which also show a lot of the detail information. With 3 different "colors" in the source image, you can apply an arbitrary transformation to generate an RGB-image. For example, most images from the Hubble telescope use a common mapping which is consequently called the Hubble-telescope mapping.
Like shown on the page, you can create very different looking images from the same data set by choosing the color mapping.
All of your traffic, every single DNS query going thru a single unverified codebase off of github?
i mean i know regular folk are quite naive with tech.
but i hoped us tech people are less so.