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If it helps, most large brands do take efforts to ensure that their factories and manufacturing partners adopt safety and worker rights measures. Ikea, for instance, forced one of its Indian manufacturing partners to start an on-premise school for its workers' children. It also delayed production by a nearly year to ensure that the supplier could meet all its safety regulations.

I've seen this first hand in Ludhiana, India. I know the narrative from the Nike sweat shop days still holds, but large brands are very aware of the backlash they could face and make efforts to improve working conditions wherever they can. If you're a worker in say, India, you're better off working at a factory affiliated with Ikea than one selling to local brands.
I'm not originally from America either so cheques do seem super ancient to me. That said, it's more convenient to pay my housekeeper and lawn guy with cheques instead of regular trips to the ATM. They're not venmo or google/apple pay kind of people either.
100% agree. Also, if you need to add additional steps to your processing or make small changes to what you're doing then processing the 100 items again will be pretty fast compared to if you had done it manually.
"The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy" is a stunningly dishonest way to report this. Based on the pictures supposedly supporting this headline, which open the thread... if you had the vulture data and didn't know where the borders were, you would be totally unable to guess where the borders were.

Rather, most of Portugal is included within a larger region where vultures mostly don't go, because they can't find food there.
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So, let's say I keep $100k in my emergency fund account... what exactly does 75% cash back for my credit card mean?
I've worked what people would consider horrific jobs (significant that most of those I was one of the few English people) like greenhouse work in the summer, freezer plants, 12-14 hour shifts in a factory with weekends.

Those jobs will destroy your body, a toxic office environment will destroy for want of a better word you soul.

Both are awful but the are quantitatively different.
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Maybe soon a local law in China will say everyone needs to report where all homosexuals live because they need to be executed, and then Apple will send that exact info to the police (e.g. anyone with grindr installed) and then you will say "Oh what? they are just folling the law". Yeah we know they are just following the law, still doesn't mean we shouldn't give them bad press and opinions about it.
if this is all true, the obvious answer is consulting. the non-obvious answer is developer advocacy/evangelism. when you search for "developer advocacy", it's all "what do DAs do?". it's sales, but targeted at developers. developers don't like BS, so how do you sell to developers? show them how to build cool shit and make their lives easier. finding a niche is great, since you are no longer as replaceable. but DA roles will only work if you're realistic about your standards, other peoples' levels and standards, and you're truly empathetic, and don't have a chip on your shoulder.
Never heard of BluePrism, so had to Google it: https://www.blueprism.com/why-blue-prism/

Looks like a Visio type application that churns out code automagically, a bit like Scratch[1] for Grown-Ups.

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[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
> I'm not making a slippery slope argument about child pornography. I'm saying that the OP is not making a "free speech" argument in the first place

Well now that just sounds like a no true Scotsman argument. Even among absolutists, the idea that torts or other unrelated crimes should be legalized if they contain an element of speech would be considered fringe and extreme.
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Interesting! It sounds like South Korean worker rights are a little below US/EU ones, but still far superior to the completely lacking ones in China/Vietnam/Cambodia/Myanmar? Or is that wrong?
The RAM is fabbed in either South Korea (SK Hynix or Samsung) or the US (Micron), but Sharp, JDI, and to a lesser extent Panasonic still fab LCDs in Japan (though like the DRAM packaging, the display module assembly process may be in China).
I think premium Medium posts should be at least labelled, if not removed, on HN.

Especially when so many of them are just a modern evolution of blogspam or thinly veiled content marketing.
a) You are free to rebind everything,
b) In my experience when coding (most common use case for vim I think) most non-US keyboard layouts are miserable to use anyways...,
c) Use what works for you!
Tcl, here we come!
Fortunately, in the near future, all programming will be done in YAML. Apart from OPA obviously. /s
If you were not part of the governing minority you got brutally suppressed. If you dared to voice a different opinion you got send into prison for a nice round of torture. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The invasion of Iraq was a shit show, but let's not get into history rewriting here: Living in Iraq before the invasion was not some kind of utopia. He was a brutal dictator. And people suffered for it.
> We have windows, tiny little cameras that go through walls, and we can ping cell-phones. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all of those work better than this incredibly convoluted method?

This is research. Currently it's unreliable (83% is super low) and convoluted, but with more research and investments, it is possible that they would be able to make it reliable and practical.
Here the link to video: https://youtu.be/kOXfdZRD0wM
Most people don't need them.

Some people are switching to metal straws, while some restaurants are using dry pasta straws (the pasta doesn't go soft as the drinks are cold).

There are alternatives for those that need them.
In Win10? It's not in the right-click menu from the application bar for Office 2016 products, for example, nor for Chrome/IE. I've used it previously, where did they hide it and why isn't it in MS Office?
Slippery slope is not a valid fallacy.
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I didn't actually realise they'd made it premium - I thought I'd turned that off. Will try and get a link that gives access.
Perhaps a virus that uses the computers of unaware victims to crypto-mine. If you infect enough people, I guess you'd stand a chance. Not sure if targeting iot would be the best move for that, and the article seems to insinuate that this was mostly iot based malware, so I don't know.
Probably to attract the talent required to upgrade them from daycare centers.
No, I really was intentionally replying in a subthread about a clearly-worded request for examples involving deplatforming.
Yeah, that same identity dynamic at work. "I identify as a member of this tribe", whether "this tribe" is about The Thing or anything else, leads to weird human social stuff.
This isn't about Apple.

This is the true face of the techno-feudalism future we've built. Throw your lot in with one of the tech giants, and you'll have fashionable and functional technology - but at the cost of freedom. When push comes to shove - when it matters the most - your rights can and will be revoked.

Don't be a serf. Reject techno-feudalism. Use free software.
Is not a slippery slope (because I'm not saying it will happen, I'm just amplifying the core of your opinion), is just an example with a different law; that btw exists in other countries such as Nigeria, just be honest and say you agree more with this one law than the one in the example.
My manager's manager told us publicly that whoever sets the goal must also do the work.

Practically he implied that we don't have to agree to any objectives that are imposed on us.
Ask HN: How do you get macOS windows to have square corners?
I’m experimenting with Yabai which is a tiled binary partition window manager much like bspwm on say Arch and I’d like square corners for my windows. You can imagine rounded corners being strange with a tiled layout. Does anyone know of any hacks or patches to get window edges square?
Chrome is better than Firefox? You are joking, right?
> This isn't a right we grant other people, so, no, it is not the logical conclusion.

It isn't something people are allowed to do now because we've decided that it was too societally abused in the past. Look up the history of voluntary indentured servitude, for example.
For years now I have been consciously limiting my enthusiasm when presenting things I've learned to others after being bitten by this problem. Some personal examples:

* linux - the freedom it gave me to build my own computing astounded me. I praised it in every direction only to find people that want all the benefits with no effort. I had to configure their systems to prove linux was any good. When I started telling them the benefits require personal tinkering I was attacked for "being an elitist" and linux was said to be actually full of things that don't work. Now I present it as a geek thing that is of no relevance to the general public.

* motorcycles - I now have the following presentation when people ask me about my experience riding: "It's not like on TV, when it's hot you sweat, when it's cold you freeze, when it rains you're wet and it's quite dangerous on top of it." That's after my enthusiasm convinced some people to buy motorcycles and crash because they didn't take riding seriously enough. They thought they where cool toys.
This article rings very true for me at my current company, the tech lead is always off to add more fancy new tech to the stack, and we still manage to accumulate a ton of tech debt.

Adding a load of automated tests is the first thing we need to do start being able to iterate more quickly. (I view this as both paying down technical debt and solving the right problem). Thankfully that was discussed just the other day in our tech debt meeting (while the tech lead was saying how we need to add a Neo4j database, a Leucene search index and remote procedure calls - he had read an article saying how that is cool again).
If you check the news at any frequency it's hard to miss all the reports of this and that software overextending or abusing its privileges to intrude into the user's computer and privacy.

See all the recent news about Chrome, Dropbox, Zoom etc. installing malware on our systems. Steam wiping your disk on Linux when you uninstalled a game. Uber recording your screen.

And those are the big players, caught because they're under constant scrutiny (but still try to act as if they're above the "law").

Life before the "walled gardens" was rife with cases like that, from developers on all scales. There was no single authority for your platform to complain to. It was chaotic and miserable even for techie people.

This is actually what Apple capitalized on during the "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" days, and it gave them the credibility to carry on to the App Store. Now I see mostly developers complaining about the walled garden, which makes me wary of their true intentions.
This is what you can expect when a cooperation declares privacy their main concern.
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HN has long since been devolving into Reddit in all but name. You will generally get insta-downvoted if you say something that goes against the current bandwagon or that someone doesn't like to hear/talk about.
Such antennas however are an easy target for rockets, grenades, IEDs, car bombs... in a riot situation good luck defending the jammers.
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Here is how to reproduce it.
Ssh to a system with tmux. Attach to tmux and "head -100000 maillog" or whatever big. Measure how long till it's finished. Try to switch to another tmux window and back while it's going.

Repeat the above in another terminal and compare.

Windows Terminal is actually pretty bad under tmux but ok-ish without. Can't switch off to another tmux window while it's going either so basically locked in. That's unusable.

The argument could be made that tmux is an issue. But since 100% of my ssh is under remote tmux and it's fast in putty/kitty I can only blame other terminals. Even without tmux kitty is 2x faster than windows terminal. And kitty doesn't slow down under tmux.
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Did New Horizons categorically rule out that there's something hidded inside Charon?
They always use the entry levels for illegal shit-burning jobs. Have been at several factorys, where middle management asked for a slight change to the security software on the safety plc- of course only informal- we are all friends here.
If you do that, you are liabel, if anything happens.
Do not do jobs, where you do not have email communications about the job.
I mean they did stick the figurative middle finger up to the FBI when asked to provide a backdoor into a terrorist's iPhone. Which I would say is one of the main stories that sticks out to my somewhat bias perspective of tech giants standing up for their opinions.

This may be more a reflection on the what flex the residing government provides for a company in a given country rather than the companies appetite to stand up for their opinion though.
So-called 'junk DNA' may actually be the primary driver of diversity in animals and could be the key to understanding convergent evolution

This deserves a comment I don’t feel capable of writing right now.

Anyone want to try responding to that?
My friend works as a full time teacher. Has 24 * 45min=16h of classes each week which is above the norm which is 20 * 45min. He spends 2-3 more hours each week on grading things in case they have exams that week and about 2-3 hours each week in case he needs to prepare some materials. Most exams are already prepared and so are lessons. He doesn't call up parents (lol wtf) and students don't really ask questions on the platform. He has 3 weeks of winter vacations, 2 months of summer vacation and a week of Easter vacation. He has engaging lessons and always comes home with a new story about some cool interaction he had with the kids. He's way happier than when he was working in the private sector. He's teaching STEM classes in a high school known for problematic kids. He says the biggest problem with teachers is that half of them aren't for this job. They don't know how to handle the complex teacher-student relationship and start getting bullied by the worst kids with no way out. He says a big part of some of his colleagues being broken down shells of humans is that and the fact that they never worked in the industry so they don't appreciate the perks of being a teacher
It costs 2.50 to check the names of the owners of these companies at the chamber of commerce if that makes you doubt whether or not it's actually the name. This means that the owners were effectively outed by the publication anyway.
I could very clearly see the bands of the Milky Way from the summit of Haleakala. My wife initially thought it was a cloud.
Under strict government regime, I too would've done the same thing.
My suggestion if you need one is to make a lateral movement and offload your problem to your CEO. Go hunt for another job.
How much preparations and grading there is depends on the subject (among other things). And mathematics is where you get most for free for just being smart and knowing your subject.

In (good) mathematics lessons, very little of the time is spent explaining the theory. Instead a lot time is spent doing exercises – both the teacher demonstrating and the students trying it out them selves. At that point the teaching becomes reactive, as the student get stuck and you help them figure it out. This requires little prep (basically finding good exercises).

In other subjects there is much more story telling and explaining. And it requires much more preparations in order to make it interesting, and keeping all kinds of details fresh in your mind.

As for grading, grading mathematics is quick and mechanical. While correcting an essay is a lot more draining.

So, I do not think talent is actually what is deciding factor here. The way you phrase it, it sounds to me like "Oh, if the teacher were better at their job they would have to work a lot less".
I have a completely blind friend. The main reason he uses a Mac and an iPhone is because of their awesome accessibility. He's got a Linux and Windows computer too, Windows because some software he uses is only available on Windows and Linux for when he codes in his free time (you can do basically everything in the terminal anyway).

If Android ever becomes as good at accessibility he told me he'd switch in a heart beat. But, the fact that Apple is so good gives him a lot of brand loyalty and he invests in the newest iPhone on release.
>There will continue to be unrest in Iraq until an all-Shiite government is in control.

There will continue to be unrest in Iraq and the rest of the middle-east (and I'm including Israel in this, they are as bad as the others on this point) until A) tribalism and B) religion is taken out of politics once and for all.

A democracy is simply not possible unless it's built on an ethical bedrock that has entirely done away with both of these primitive and childish moral systems.
And they were already manufacturing the previous generation of Mac Pro there since its introduction at the end of 2013. Presumably they will continue to use Flextronics for their American manufacturing of the new Mac Pro. Also, as far as I can tell, this American manufacturing and assembly relies on automation to an extreme extent.
I agree. Have been using them for years. Excellent customer service too.
It's explained here: https://www.indiehackers.com/about

It largely refers to software developers who make a living from one-or-more revenue-generating businesses they've built themselves.

This type of person is distinct from people who are employed full-time (or on a long-term contract) or who fund a business with major outside investment.

The key values of the indie-hacker community seem to be around building sustainable businesses that can fund an individual or small team to build valuable products for a small-but-substantial niche of customers, as distinct from the "boom or bust" approach of VC-funded, rapid-growth-focused startups.
As a manager, can confirm. By the time you get to this point you are being "managed out". There is a basic expectation that you will either leave (preferable) or be fired at the end of the PIP process.

I've heard of people coming back from it, but it's rare. And I think it would need to be the trigger for some kind of personal epiphany that completely changed behaviour for that kind of effect.
This is called rationalizing. Get out. Strategically, not on a whim. Hunt for another job.
Hey onion2k,

Thanks for the heads up, our landing page is not 100% ready that's for sure :) What's the screen size of the device you're using so we can reproduce it?

The app which lives at https://gdpr.kippie.co should be but will check on that too just in case and fix any errors now.

Thank you!
What are the easier jobs with a better pay ratio? Programming (at least as an IC) is already really easy/rote most of the time...
IP theft does not exist. IP is an invalid concept and can not exist in a free society.
India will have a "welfare state" as long as we have a large poor population and all people are not on the same pedestal.
Amusing because PC user have been saying this for years and years and years.
And crucially, it takes more time than imposing new tariffs.
https://Puri.sm seems relevant as well.
i hear you, but at that point, it isn't really a Python codebase. i think that qualifies as a good reason to migrate away from Python, since if you've ended up with that many C extensions, Python probably wasn't the best fit to begin with. bitching about unicode, the print function, etc, i'm less sympathetic.

the only thing that's weird to me is if you have C extensions, it's super easy writing tests for those in Python. getting coverage is possible via gcov/lcov. retrofitting tests is hard and painful in any language, period. but so is a rewrite. pick your poison.
Oooh, okay, that makes more sense. Thank you for clearing that up.

Still, that leaves the problem of the "pool of eight people" and how this technology would work in less controlled environments.
This post should make many people on HN feel confident that they can run a company that does millions in revenue. As long as you aren’t doing favors for family and buddy’s, you too can run a small tech business and make millions.
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I've been a Java dev for 3 years now and I'm genuinely so sick of it. I want to go into Python but when recruiters see Java on my CV/Profile they wouldn't even consider me for Python. Also no way am I getting a pay cut and playing into recruiter's game for starting a different tech because it's not like I was a barista before that and going into programming... What is the best way to transition my career? I already do Python projects in my spare time and tell recruiters I'm looking for job that has both Java and Python so that I can gain experience while doing what I know.
My guess would be that bulletproof hosts are safe enough for long enough that it's both money and time wise better/easier to deal with than p2p.
"Fees apply for customers from outside El Cerrito"

Maybe it's funded by the city, so it would be free for people there, since they've already paid for with their taxes?
Atom was built to showcase electron, with no other goals in mind at the time.
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sorry, my comment in this instance is based on https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/how-a-small-ger...
The impedance mismatch is not about having to translate, but being unable to translate. An yes, that problem exist with relational-only database, but not with PG where you can create composite types, can have arrays of composite types as a column and all other goodies which come with that.

I personally do not find useful to execute .NET code in PG, but technically you could do that.

As long as you can translate LINQ expressions to PG as you can most of them with Revenj you can avoid the pitfalls of mainstream ORMs.
I've done some work as a builders labourer. Admittedly ~18 years ago.

Nail Guns are awesome. Pneumatic, butane/battery and powder actuated all have their place and were heavily used. Always had a hammer on my belt though.

In particular, it's hard to use a nail gun to fasten a plate, hanger or bracket.
You're trying to compare Apple taking down an app that violates local laws (which, again, everybody does) with... I don't even know how to characterize your new law proposal except it's ridiculous.

Apple not publishing illegal content is a far cry from what you're proposing and it does not make sense to compare the two at all.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

?

Or is it the snarky one, because I’m 100% genuine
It's funny isn't it... just a pretty space golf game on the surface; but a monster of mathematics underneath it. Impressive stuff!
Not really, the point of Dutch privacy law (and similar EU laws) in this context is not to deter a dedicated investigator, but to merely put enough of a hurdle in place that everyone reading the article won't see the names of suspects, and they won't show up in web searches etc.