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> Honestly, the ban sounds justified to me

based on the story above I agree, knowingly (and after a few occurrences you should understand there's a problem) damaging the service should lead to a ban or at least a warning.
I’m happy to have had my baby in Scandinavia. We read up on all sorts of literature for preparation, but it’s an ocean of disagreeing information, but because having a child is hard, you’re assigned a nurse educated in infant well being by the government for free.

They help you with a range of things, one is to setup a sleeping setting where there is minimal risk of the baby dying. Not too warm, always sleep on their backs, have room to move stuff like that.

As usual Finland is just better at Scandinavia’ning than the rest of us. Good job Finland!
This is a thing for many older big companies in Japan
Lego is becoming more and more of a scumbag company.

First hit this year was that they sued a small Lego shop in Frankfurt called "Held der Steine". His logo was a standing brick, but it could have been any brick, no Lego logo was seen or whatnot. They sued him for infringement of their trademarks anyway. That gave quite a huge media wave, I think the video of "Held der Steine" on YouTube where he lays out what happened has seven figure views.

The next big hit happened yesterday when bailiffs walked in another small shop that is selling brick construction sets. Lego found that some of the figures from some chinese vendors look somewhat like their mini figures and obtained a restraining order for that shop. Bailiffs took some sets with them, the business owner was quite shaken when stating on YouTube what happened and that they will check which sets they can still sell and which not and that Lego threatened him with something like half a million Euro fine if he would violate the restraining orders. His company is called "Bluebrixx".

Besides this behaviour Lego is getting more and more expensive, while the quality of the models and the part count go down. Just look at some of the regular Star Wars models for example. The "bang for the buck" is pretty bad on those.
No, the solution to this problem is to take money entirely out of the hands of government, who have proved time and again over the span of millennia to be incapable of managing the money supply as well as using it towards nefarious ends (political control, wars, etc...)
> This is the managerialist dream. To replace employees' judgement and competence with a process and management methodology. That way everyone is just a replaceable cog in their beautiful machine.

It's ironic in the adoption of sold-as-Agile processes, since it is precisely the idea that Agile (as in the Manifesto and associated Principles) was a firm reaction against.
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In France, you can't buy a car with cash. Not exactly a shining example.
Currently you will need to outright disable Javascript to defeat fingerprinting, and it will stay that way unless browsers actually cooperate and standardize ways to present a unified API and default values.
Cash's physical nature makes transactions with parties less anonymous, meaning there are other routes of remediation (i.e. small claims court, etc.)
but ultimately it's what matters, right?
Two alternatives:

* Firmware is patched after the fact either by inserting a backdoor into the build process, or binary patching the resulting firmware image. Such an operation is likely to be compartmentalised to avoid employees knowing about it.

* Intelligence agencies seed online discussions with false assurances (note that I'm not suggesting any wrongdoing on your part - merely pointing out that an anonymous forum post is hardly verification that can be relied upon).

That said, I do agree that exploits are likely sufficient, and that planting a mass backdoor is probably not worth the risk of it being detected.
In other news, Google isn't biased, which a Google search revealed just yesterday. More news at eleven.
I'd like to go a little meta.

If you really want to do it, then stop looking for a reason to do it. Because any piece of text containing the answer is probably going to fit in a few HN comments, because that's what you're currently looking at, an HN thread. You are looking for a small piece of text giving you the reason to limit your information intake and providing a technique to do so.

Most likely you won't find what you're looking for. And even if you do find something that appears to be that, it will be inferior to your experience of actually doing that. Imagive a set of all possible HN comments. It contains no element that is better than you simply deciding, without any good reason or a way to do it clearly formulated in your mind, to simply set aside a couple of weeks and read only one book exclusively.

Now you might have two objections.

First, what if the piece of text is large, like a book? To that I'll say that books have to satisfy publishers and earn a profit, which manifests itself in disgusting ways like containing a lot of filler text and flawed case studies that presumably prove the author's point. I couldn't read "Shallows: What the Internet Does to Our Brains" and "Deep Work" because of that. All books about talent or peak performance are pretty much worthless in my eyes. I might be wrong about their value, but one thing is certain - they do not contain a clear answer and come with it's own set of issues.

Second, my claim that taking two weeks and doing one thing is better than any HN comment. I'll say it doesn't even matter. Two weeks are gonig to pass regardless, so you might as well try doing that instead of simply looking for a piece for text saying whatever. You might decide to do two things or three. That's fine, the point is to get meaningful experience doing a few things over a period of time. It could be that it is simply not for you. It also could be that your brain, physically, reached the point where neurons are wired in such a way that you're never be effective. Good luck rewiring this mess with an HN comment.
No: Either business-focused engineers, or enough money so that every 5 folks who aren't ("scale!" "this adds velocity!" "10% faster!") can add up to 1 developer who is.

The new business is the risk-taking endeavor. The job of the team is to derisk, taking the blue-sky concept to something the market will consume. That's so hard and requires so much listening/iterating/etc. that it makes most engineering cycles not spent on meeting customers in the middle (or helping finding alternate customers/offerings) is eating the seed corn. Most startups should assume "default dead" until the $5M/yr point.

There is an interesting question of how to do deep tech. ("10X cheaper spaceflight", not "Tensorflow for AIOps"). That's more capital intensive, and in turn, different kinds of business critical milestones. "We need to do X, Y, Z so we can get $5M gov contract Y and the next round." That deal does _not_ hinge on whether you've upgraded from React 3 to 4 and have a much more approachable graphql orm.
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It's still misleading, because the miles driven with Autopilot are only a subset of total possible miles, and specifically are a _smaller_ subset of total possible miles than "normal driving".

To wit, if Autopilot is unavailable or disengaged because of poor weather/road conditions, a human still has to drive those miles. Autopilot gets the _best_ conditions to show its abilities. Humans get all conditions to show their abilities.

The question is "how did human drivers do driving the same miles, at the same times, as Autopilot", which is impossible to calculate.
I've had TQM and Lean inflicted on me, but this (quoted in the article from a satire) made me laugh out loud : ""embodies a pillar of the Six Sigma business philosophy: teamwork, insight, brutality, male enhancement, hand-shakefulness, and play-hard.”"

There I think we have the red queen challenges of modern western business culture laid out for all the see.
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There is no shortage of crooked judges. Especially, lately. We should see this judge unseated and disbarred. Abuse of government authority is much, much worse than anything private citizens can be guilty of.
After a million years of testing software in prod, after collapsing banks, exploding spacecrafts, huge bugs and other software collapse, the systems that will have naturally survived might be those designed in TDD.

Which begs the question: If that’s true, why didn’t nature use TDD? If it doesn’t, maybe it is not the right design?
Similar to how tetris was (jokingly ?) described as a plot of the soviet to ruin the productivity of the west by hijacking the minds.

Second-hand Reference: https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/a-tale-of-the-mirror-world-pa...
That may be true in general, but it surely does not apply to a post starting with "in my opinion" and you even proceed to nag on that phrase alone.

Ironic, how does that fit with "advocating intellectual honesty and clarity"?
How many completely irrelevant ads, which you think nothing of, do you get a day?
I mean, the BBC would say that.
Punching holes in certain payment methods (like money wires) isn't the same as building a case for crypto.

Also crypto isn't instant. Bitcoin takes 10 minutes if you're lucky, even longer if the network is maxed at 7 transactions a second (comparatively, Visa handles 42,000 transactions a second).
This one. I'm very happy with it.

https://www.amazon.com/Degrees-Comfort-Weighted-Nano-Ceramic...

If I were buying another one, I'd get the 48x72 15-pounder.
You statement is a walking contradiction. You want to get rid of cash, yet you want yo replace the IRS by an algorithm? How is that not giving all the power to the government?
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Any sufficient reason to render them helpless is an equally good reason to lock them up. Both are dehumanizing.
How do you know that this individual driver has a one in a billion miles chance of crashing? By statistics from other human drivers I assume?
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The point still stands: 3333 to 800 is pretty bad and demonstrates that the original quote is, as claimed, false.
>> for all intensive purposes

I've never actually seen that written down, i have _suspected_ people have been saying it, rather than: "for all intents and purposes"

but was never sure, so i googled and its fairly common: https://grammarist.com/eggcorns/for-all-intensive-purposes/
Even simple help/reminder can make a big difference. I recall a bunch of research on how simple checklists in operating rooms improve prognosis by a huge margin (and yet they aren't as widely used as they should be).
But we convey a lot in a lot higher bandwidth, because we use parallel channels each with low bitrate limitations.
If the car has no signal, how is it unlocked?
Why, though?

I could buy a car with 3 star crash ratings, and people would be fine with that. I could get in a taxi with a mediocre driver, and people would be fine with that.

Why does the comparison have to be to me driving, in a car like this?

When I'm shopping for a car, it makes sense.

But for public policy discussions, what matters is how the safety ranks against the general population.
> However in the US it is your constitutional right to bear arms.

Only established by the supreme court in 2008.

Abortion is a "constitutional right" likewise. And the american right see no issues with extreme restrictions.

There is no amendment saying either people have an individual right to possess a firearm, nor an individual right to have an abortion. These are inferences.

What the second amendment says is that because the US needs defence (given no contemporary standing army), the right to bear arms is necessary in general.

An individual right in the time of standing armies is not written anywhere in the constitution and was derived, by interpretation, only in 2008.

My point is that what counts as a "constitutional right" is a matter of history, precedent and agreement -- they are conventional not just written in some stone tablet. And it is quite reasonable to contest these conventions.
Hiding information from them won’t help them to become less confused.
That doesn’t seem to be so much an innovation in tech as innovation in piloting and video editing?
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I believe this is what SWA, Shipping with Amazon, aims to do.
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No idea. Many plants will still kill you even with this protocol. Hence point number 1.
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I don't see why cashless must mean non-anonymous. There are chargeable payment cards around the world that effectively are anonymous and cashless.
Social policies work best when it appears the government is doing something to actually care for the population. It sounds like such a great way to help grow a healthy new generation. Investing in the youth!
Ask HN: Business Meetings over Lunch
Are you into sales or business development?
Have you ever invited your client to discuss business over lunch?
What's the % of deal closure - business meetings over lunch Vs business meetings in office premises?
You can buy a car with cash but you will need extra documents to prove the cash is obtained legally, otherwise you can. Happens all the time actually in my country at least, so I am unsure where is your information coming from. It is less convenient than the bank transfer and takes extra paperwork but possible.
Also of course you can go to used car market or buy from ads from a private individual, most of them will refuse cash tho.
Nothing of it is anonymous of course.
Ah yes, the rampant club crime, funny how we all totally ignore that. /s
Psilocybin, mdma, weed: not so much. Moderate LSD dose: it’s possible. I had a nice, clear visualization of the Lorentz transform once.

Insights on LSD also tend to be more durable. “Insights” on other psychoactives were often stanzas of gibberish the next day. No idea what the mechanism here is, but it certainly feels like LSD doesn’t derange the rational centers of thought as quickly. Maybe Johns Hopkins can tell us more in a few years.

(Disclaimer: YMMV. Don’t expect superpowers; respect the drug; dose carefully and low at first; “set and setting.”)
For me, until now, this kind of target has only lead to funny anecdotes. Like telling a friend on Whatsapp I just bought new shirt only to receive shirt ads for weeks. Well, too late. Another one is receiving cat food ads because I send a pic of the cat I was feeding while a friend was in vacation. Fail again, I do not own a cat. Good try anyway.

But I recon, you're case is creepy. But more likely that the VOD service you use sent data to Facebook.
Then how do they explain the third party company with audio recordings from Facebook?

Plus sending full audio recordings to a server would be somewhat odd, isn't collecting key words converted in text and sending that a lot more plausible?
Re: the heat problem, my parents gave me a sheep woolen duvet a while ago (Texeler brand, kinda local to NL though) - it's not a knitted or scratchy contraption, it's a duvet like you know them. However, it's a lot heavier than normal duvets (about twice as heavy I'd gauge), and it's perfect in terms of heat regulation - even in summer I can sleep under the covers without feeling too warm or sweaty. I think the problem with the heat of weighted blankets as mentioned here is down to the materials used, non-permeable plastics and glass and the like.
Great for him! I think it's quite ridiculous how we as a society structurally deny progress in the name of social justice instead of letting justice be dolled out by the government.
this. I got into real trouble a few years ago by speaking my mind to my MD about the latest motivational posters which portrayed our business unit as a machine made of gears and cogs. I had two objections. One, people are not cogs. Two, the gearing system on the pictures wouldn't work. I got approbation because I was not "commercial enough" and also "not onboard" but the pictures stopped being made. So... a win.

The thing that strikes me is that engaged and experienced employees deal with rafts of problems silently, using their networks to create and co-ordinate responses without executive intervention. In fact executive intervention is actively avoided because there isn't enough time in the exec's diaries to communicate and debate the issues properly so inevitably such intervention will be via over simplified solutions that often make things worse. The problem with this is that execs do not see what is happening. If they did they would be impressed and pleased with what is going on, but uneasy about the risks and their irrelevance. What this then leads to are management culls where value is lost because the problems that are being solved are not acknowledged in the company before the cull. After the cull this all emerges as a huge and nasty surprise that the company now lacks the capability to deal with.

The lesson : not everything (in fact not much) about a business is on the balance sheet, and in the corporate world the dead have no voices.
You are thinking about the "droit au compte" (right to a bank account) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_au_compte but I think there may be some confusion. People exercise their "droit au compte" by making a request the Banque de France, but they do not have an account there: Banque de France designates some regular commercial bank which is then legally obliged to provide them with an account. The French Wikipedia page says that, in practice, this is usually La Banque postale: it's a pretty normal bank that I don't think anyone discriminates against.
Can any rust experts tell me that unsafe rust is powerful and expressive enough to let me do anything?

I have a use case where I have two iterators on a linked list in nested loops and the second iterators deletes some elements as it goes. Is this something I can express in unsafe rust?
That's a problem when starting the rental and returning the car. Pickup points should be placed in areas with good reception. But in any case, not being able to start a rental is a nuisance. Not being able to use the car once you've driven it somewhere is potentially dangerous. I don't see why the car should need a connection to unlock once the rental has been started.
As an interesting side note, ham radio operators heavily use a digital mode called PSK31. It stands for "Phase Shift Keying, 31 Baud".

As I understand it, the 31 bit/s transmission rate was chosen because it is close to the entropy that operators can generate by typing on their keyboards. PSK31 does not transmit 8 bit bytes, but instead uses what they call a Varicode, a kind of Fibonacci code. More frequent characters are encoded using fewer bits, thus the encoded bit rate is an approximation of the entropy in the text stream.
Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof effect: The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards (not to be confused with the recency illusion or selection bias).[51] This illusion is sometimes referred to as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Or maybe you watched john wick on netflix or amazon and boom.
Besides, who thinks it’s the “phones” listening to us? It’s the apps that do the listening

It’s a distinction without a difference.
> What is it about software development that keeps on attracting these "methodologies"?

Nothing. Management theories exist around managing every specific kind of work, as well as generic theories. Software development, HR, and other kinds of work that are done in (or contracted for by) almost every organization of non-trivial size probably get a bit more because more people are managing them. Many of the theories in software development are direct adaptations of process theories from other disciplines. Waterfall
—before it was named—was just application of practices from non-software engineering, Lean is from manufacturing, kanban is a specific practice from the manufacturing organization whose processes inspired Lean, etc.

“Agile” started in software but it's everywhere.

> Why don't doctors or lawyers or commercial pilots have people coming along with a methodologies for doing their jobs?

They do. They are even often the same methodologies seen in software: e.g., in healthcare: https://www.healthcatalyst.com/insights/healthcare-project-m....

Note that the theories around software are often the theories of process improvement rather than the daily work in other domains (interestingly, this is not true or kanban), because software is just automated process so software development is essentially the exact same task as process development/improvement, where some portion of the process is executed on a computer.
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Our neighbors Finland are a great country for sure, but Scandinavian they are not.
I purely use it at home. When I'm staying elsewhere I'll just deal with a slightly less efficient sleep.
I would think that vacuum cleaners are the prime example for household robots at this time? As an IT guy who nevertheless has zero desire to buy anything "geeky" for myself, still prefers analog dials and controls, still doesn't own a smartphone, those also are the only ones I could find a use for in my own home (but at this time I still vacuum manually). People with a lawn might be interested in robot lawn mowers, I don't know if they work as well as the vacuum robots (I imagine there might be a power issue) but if they do that too sounds like a good use. Same for swimming pool cleaners.

What I would really pay a lot for: Small hunter-killer robots to hunt insects in my home!

A bunch of small robots equipped with night-vision and some tiny weapon(s), mechanical and/or laser, crawling around catching bugs. Sure, spiders do that too - but I really, really don't want to live with (actual) spiders. It's psychological. A few well-armed mechanical spiders for bug hunting would be nice. I had bed bugs once, if I had had small insect hunter-killer robots well-equipped with sensors to see them crawl to me at night it would have been a godsend. Anyone producing something like that that actually works, you'll make billions! And it really doesn't have to be all that intelligent: Think about it, mosquitoes, bed bugs, they really don't have much of a brain, and how well they work. It should be doable to build robots that can compete with that low level of intelligence.
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In the short term; the twin problems - things change (more so now than in the past) and much corporate activity is necessary but unacknowledged in the org chart and balance sheet. Ripping out "inefficiencies" leaves businesses without capability. Reacquiring corporate capabilities (or acquiring them) is a long and risky road. Business schools and investors need to think about diversity of capability and expertise and ability to respond and change as measures of long (even medium term) corporate value.
> As far as I'm concerned, there is only one criterion that matters when evaluating self driving cars: is it better than human drivers?

By that measure, no tech company has contributed more to self-driving than Facebook Inc, masters of distraction. Relative safety isn't a good metric.