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Last company I worked for a as "remote worker" had three tools you had to switch on all the time: Flock, Slack and Skype. For actual conference calls etc. more tools were used ad hoc.

All the interruptions and constant onslaught of messages were very distracting and hampering productivity. After a while I had the phantom ringing syndrome where I looked up the tools all the time even when no message arrived.

Companies require remote workers to use those to exert control (to make sure they are online/at work) but it backfires as no high quality creative work is possible when you add so many stressors.
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My daughter, who is interested in science and engineering loved the shitty robot videos. It was a form of engineering comedy. I guess if she wasn't a women, creating shitty robots would be just funny and inventive way that she figured out how to make money. Comedians make people laugh using inventive and unexpected constructions, she was no different. A lot of comedians do things that are in one way or another demeaning to themselves or showing a lack of self-respect, but they do it because they actually incredibly confident in themselves that they can stand up and make those jokes.

How was her videos not that different than the stchick that is Mr Bean. Rowan Atkinson is definitely not an idiot in real life, but that stchick sure got him attention he wouldn't have gotten any other way, because it was unique and over the top and funny.

It is also fine for her to move on to other topics. No one is forced to stay in any specific role they have invented for themselves, no matter what fans think.
Very cool. Reminds me of goTenna Mesh, which is already deployed globally (albeit closed-source and without a power source): https://gotennamesh.com/products/mesh
You can get HPE/Dell workstations that cost over 100k fully kitted out. When compared to Windows boxes, this is not unreasonable.
You have it wrong. Only the most basic code on Earth has unwrap in it. Real-world code will either actually handle the error with `match`, forward it with `?`, or unwrap it with `except` iff it's sure that an error will not occur.
I thought this would be about finally introducing a master password, but nope!
Are there any solutions to the relay attack you describe?

Perhaps by having the secure element "lock" and "unlock" each time the note changes hands, so that an attacker who uses a a relay will still have his note locked in a way that makes it useless unless he gives it to the recipient to unlock?
This happens on Twitter a lot. I've seen a lot of people referencing names of libraries, events, etc. and them being turned into links to URLs that don't exist. (.app is a common one for this.)
"Baby Farmer" is listed there as people that take on children solely for the purpose of making money. That's a common complaint about the foster care industry in the US. Not sure that one is obsolete just yet.
I heard an interesting proposal recently that sounded like venture capital for education. Students would receive tuition money and the lender would receive a percentage of their post graduation salary for a specified number of years.

Even without novel approaches students already get non-subsidized lines of credit so I don’t think it’s unheard of
That's a good point, and one that can't be made often enough.

Conventional accounting excludes externalities, including consequential losses to third parties. AirBnB can pride itself on "providing value" but in fact it massively distorts local economies, and has a very detrimental effect on the availability of affordable long-term rentals.

Tenants in that market suffer directly because their rents are higher, and there are fewer properties available to them.

That's a net cost to them, as a group, and of course it doesn't appear on AirBnB's accounts.

If you want to claim you're "providing value" the burden of proof is on you to provide an economic summary that accounts for externalities and is demonstrably non-zero-sum.

Doing this realistically would reveal that many corporations are essentially rent-seekers, oligopolists, and trivial arbitrageurs, not value creators.

IMO it's going to be impossible to avoid making this change to accounting standards - probably by the middle of the century, at the latest.

Which is good, because genuine value creation is a wonderful thing and deserves all the support it can get.
Would be nice to add a support for native docker flags (-t for --tag, -f for --from-dockerfile, etc.)
I might be wrong, but I am currently studying at a German university with about 30% foreign students and I believe it's still essentially free (cost is under 500 dollar / semester).

Though people who wish to study here from outside the EU have to prove that they are financially solvent and able to support themselves before they come here. This is done by depositing about 10k euros into a German blocked bank account.

This site is a great resource for foreign students, detailing pretty much everything involved: https://www.studying-in-germany.org/how-to-study-in-germany/
Commercial aircraft are much safer than they ever were. In the 60s-80s there were typically just over 2000 fatalities per year. In the last decade typically under 1000 fatalities per year, despite the increase in passenger miles since the '80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...
If an attacker obtained the ciphertext of the message, they are under no obligation to delete it just because it "exploded" on your device. They can hold onto it as long as they want, then if they ever get your key, they can decrypt it.
Kids do not even spend time outside these days as it's "too dangerous". You could get run over or abducted by a pedophile.

Obesity and screen related issues like depression and anxiety run rampant. Do your kids a favor: take away their smartphones.
Unwrap and expect don’t violate any safety rules! If they did you’d need to wrap it in an unsafe block.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/unwinding.html
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Not to forget the many, many places where it has and is succeeding happily.

Here's my "get off my lawn" perspective: those developers who remember a world where there was little or no free software (from, say, the mid-1980's, when Sun made the C compiler a for-cost option on SunOS through until commercial Linux distributions), have a visceral understanding of free software that those who came to it later, and (perhaps understandably) take it for granted, don't have.

Free software is a commons. In a healthy community, people pitch in to help, and maintainers become overwhelmed by the scale of activity, not because they've been left alone to support many users by themselves for years.
"Almost all", says the title.

"10", says the article, "the majority (that answered questions)".

The EU has 28 member states.

Yes, we should be wary of allowing the police to use face recognition, but this sort of sensationalization helps no one.

Mirror, because the site is not responding well: https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmSkQZKnY4mdNmVnya2MVM2ZgnAj5H7...
That's definitely true in the big cities (in my experience), but I'm in a small rural town. Most of the foreigners have relatively high paying factory jobs around here (or work in the old folks home). Since there is no university here and high school students by and large are not allowed to work part time jobs, it means there isn't many people left.
No, only for bone marrow donors. If the recipient commits a crime the donor will be the suspect.
Are private student loans backed by a federal guarantee of repayment? I didn’t think they were (and federal loans are definitely not infinite).

A student who is unable to repay their private loans before death leaves the lender without the money I think.
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This looks pretty amazing, thanks for sharing. I've just been playing with this on a couple containers. The first went from 197MB to 71.5MB - not bad! I did some testing and it didn't work without including a few extra pieces but pretty painless.

The second container went from 176MB to 4.7MB!! I've not really tested that so there's a pretty good chance things aren't going to work too well in practice (but we'll see).

If it all continues as well as it's started then we'll definitely be using it.
Cache was disabled for the test, however, the experiment was just really quick and not representative. I opened a random subreddit that had no image or video posts, so your mileage may vary depending on the sub chosen.

This is also an anti-pattern, since you should make sure that user generated content can't bloat your website too much.
>No sensible person goes into FOSS for the money

well, going FOSS can be an effective marketing strategy: by making something open and free (in both meanings) you get much higher probability of that something becoming popular. That in turn gives a lot new opportunities to sell complementary something or other something. This is best case scenario though, and you need to have resources/other sources of income for the time it needs to get widely adopted and popular (or the very possibility that it will not happen at all)
I believe there is one already for being too close to the ground when the gear is up ("PULL UP, PULL UP").
> That doesn't sound like much of a change from the last 30 years. FOSS has done fine so far.

Compared to what knowledge of how good it could be if we had a more sustainable model than hoping someone has the charity or hobby to work on something we need for free?

This reminds me of when gamers assert how game modding has done fine so far limited to just labors of love and weekend hobbyism. Though I'm sure gamers are more coming from an angle of not wanting to pay for anything, we can only imagine the gaming mods we'd have if we had more of a culture around allowing people to work full-time on things we enjoy instead of only waiting for the few hobbyists with the masochism or compulsion to do it.
On desktop, the scale shows up all the time at the bottom right corner of the screen. On mobile it's only showing up during zooming, so I often zooming back and forth just to see the scale.
That's actually a nice pun with a good explanation, while Armed Bear only raises questions for me. What kind of weapon would you arm a bear with? Why? Aren't bears unassailable enough as it is?
Whoops! Fixed, thanks. Guess I wrote that loop as a while-loop first and then overlooked the increment inside the loop later when I changed it to be a for-loop instead, heh.
>that seems less surprising the longer I live here, is that europe has no spacex, google, tesla, nasa, coherent mars rovers

These lists are meaningless. I can do the same thing and get smug about Intel, TSMC and Samsung buying EUV equipment from Europe.
>No-one (at least I don't think anyone) is suggesting that knowledge, experience and skills belong to your employer.

That's the whole argument. There's literally no other argument. There is no separation between "previous body of work" and "experience, skills, or knowledge." I think you missed the, "Prince had to change his name to Artist formerly known as prince just so he could continue making music," analogy. That's exactly what's going on here.

>But if I'm a video game developer, and I invent a new shading technique for video game graphics while I'm employed at BigGameCo (whether at home or at work)...

If you're a pioneer in shaders, it's because you've spent years of time and effort trying to understand the problems associated with this one specialized field. You are going to continue being a pioneer in shaders long after you leave your current employer, because that's where you are the most competitive, because that's where all of your knowledge, experience and skills are. To change fields now would be career suicide. You would no longer be a specialist. Your years of knowledge and experience in shaders would lose all value if you decided to dig ditches/whatever alt line of work you go into, and that's what these contracts are forcing you to do: brave a job market where you have no advantage for your time spent at your previous company.

Under these types of contracts, you're not allowed to move forward with your career trajectory after leaving a company. You would be building off your previous work that you did with them, and you're approaching problems with the same solutions you already came up with. That means your old employer owns the rights to all of your subsequent work. Same thing happens to musicians. Since every song they write is an iteration of their previous body of work, if musicians try to leave their record label and can be sued for the rights to every subsequent song they write. Prince had this happen and changed his name to "Artist formerly known as prince." to skirt around the contract. Ridiculous solution to a ridiculous problem. At the time I just thought Prince was being crazy. Apparently not.

I'm also not talking about what types of contracts have been enforced in the past, obviously these companies keep trying to use these contracts because there is precedent, but there's precedent for fucking everything in this country and I could write a historiography of court-ordered fuckery if need be. What im trying to say is that these types of contracts have been thrown out in the past for being unreasonable, and should all be thrown out in the future. This was not the intended spirit of any law allowing people to own "intellectual property."
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I saw a great video on domain driven design in F# a couple weeks back here on HN, now this. I can't believe I'm saying it but I'm actually curious to try out Xamarin now!
Title on the article is different now - maybe it was changed?

> "at least ten have a police force that uses face recognition. Four plans to introduce it in the coming years."

The only way to get to half of 28 is to sum those using it and those intending to do so soon. I think the majority they refer to is of the 25 they surveyed, but even then it is only a majority of respondents (not all responded). Sensationalism for sure.
Yes, 10 out of 28 is not most but it sets a dangerous precedent as most smaller countries follow big countries. If for example Germany, UK and France implement some draconian surveillance laws, the rest of their smaller neighbors(maybe apart from Scandinavia) will follow suit shortly.
I can't read this as it's behind a paywall. Please do not "share" paywalled content others have no access to.
Glad you like it :) I figured I should give credit where credit is due and also since your game differs a little bit from the original video I think one could say that you are the creator of the game ^-^
When I say 'not novel', I mean not surprising such an attack is possible. The paper itself is good work, the devil is in the detail.
>Blender was a commercial product

18 years ago, since then it's been open source and paid for by donations

>and has some big studios doing those donations

These big studios started donating this past year when the development fund was started (and really took off during the latter part of this year for some reason), before that it was donations and in later years also the Blender Cloud service.

>And I bet only a lucky few of the contributors get to see the money.

Well, most (if not all) of the Blender developers now working full time where Blender contributors, also Blender is a non-profit organization.
I kinda feel sorry for them. They must have realized they can't make $100M for their investors by managing GPG Web Of Trust for a bunch of nerds.

Keybase was a nice protocol/command-line tool to prove identity, but it was over as soon as they flipped it to being some wannabe Dropbox with Adobe-quality autoupdate, then wannabe Slack, then some shitcoin-powered Twitter DM spam.
Many envision & dream about the best environment for remote work.

Most think that what makes remote work great is to work from a beach, or an idyllic place sipping on cold drinks.

But the best environment is the one you set with the right processes and toolset.
We live in the safest world we have ever lived in yet it amazes me the willingness people have to give up privacy and Liberty under the guise of a marginal increase in "safety"
As a small indie developer I don't understand your argument. Building a network like Riot can only be done by billion dollar publishers, but I could conceivably use this network.

If you don't want solutions like this, are you also against private networks? In addition to Riot, Google famously cuts the gordian knot of CAP in Spanner by declaring their network won't go down.

If it's ok to do it yourself but not outsource it, "think of the little guy" holds no water.
This is expected, yet still scary.

What are some easy / cheap / unobtrusive ways of thwarting face recognition software? I've read about masks, umbrellas and even makeup, but these are all obvious and difficult to use. Is there an inconspicuous solution that would only prevent face recognition without alerting human authorities? Would using these methods even be legal?
I've been in a similar situation. I worked in a museum ticket office for almost 3 years as a student. We got maybe 3 visitors a day on average (most days it was 0). By the end, I had re-watched all of Stargate and probably spent a week's worth of time just on Reddit.

It's amazing just how badly sitting in a small, tall room with only incandescent light will fuck you up. After a particularly stressful day, having to "work" for the rest of it completely broke me and I spent an hour crying (without anyone noticing).

After that, I knew I had to get my shit together, so I saved up for a decent laptop and started doing web development again. By the time I quit, I was making decent money by freelancing and had gotten some valuable references.

Even the people around me told me I looked happier and "more alive". Ironically enough, doing nothing was the most exhausting thing I've ever done. Web dev in Django was what got my motivation back, but I see no reason why Rails wouldn't work. Good luck!
I don't think "reducing taxpayer funding" is the 'cutting spending' the parent comment meant. I think they meant actual reduction of admin, buildings, rec centers, etc.
In my experience, those two industries are highly focused on the buyer’s ability to qualify for the loan and much, much less concerned with the ability to pay the loan.
“120 million people live along the Indus,” says Immerzeel, “but the Indus plain is like a desert. It’s completely reliant on the water from the thick glaciers above.”

(Nobody mention overpopulation)
Which is what irritates me most when Apple brags about how Apple Pay has made way into Contactless payment in US and how many Contact less payment terminals has been added due to Apple Pay.

When the rest of the world had the whole system in place waiting or crying for Apple Pay. In the early days they couldn't be bothered.

Apple Pay was introduced 5 years ago, yet in 2019 they somehow managed to sign up ( or make it work ) with more regions and banks than all of the 2017 and 2018 combined.

They were so fixated on certain market like Germany and Australia as if they were blocking procedures.

I hope most of the world dont have to wait 5 years for Apple Card.
You could fix 2 by having a verifier that puts the note in a Faraday cage. While that's more work than just scanning with your phone it could still be cheap and worth it if you were receiving a lot of notes.
In the case of Ireland where they categorise the country as "facial recognition in use" it states:

It is unclear if the Gardaí use face recognition in real time, but face recognition is widely use to spot welfare fraud.

There are no documented cases of the Gardaí using real time facial recognition in Ireland. In the case of welfare fraud, a facial imaging system is used when registering or renewing your welfare status to prevent people registering under multiple or false identities.
So is there an ad bidding system and marketplace they run with a separate user interface that requires ad buyers to login and purchase ads?
Yeah but during zombie apocalypse you don't know what else that pigeon might be carrying.
I don't disagree with you, except for the part about actual benefits, it might be true for the general "hacker news crowd", but anything that makes people understand statistics slightly better is good in my book.

If it takes hype, advertising and buzz-words to do that, I'm ok with that.
Now ICANN can show its true colors. Is this just more smoke and mirrors just so they can absolve themselves of responsibility while still sheepishly approving this heist when the drama has had time to die down? Or will they act and relieve PIR of the stewardship of the .org tld?
No good. Furniture is nice and cheap, but you ensemble it yourself at home. Honestly, I find it easy, but I'm good with that kind of handiwork. Most people find the instructions unclear and difficult to follow. There are many references, from the top of my head I remember The Wire... look for Mc Nulty IKEA on YouTube, I bet it will work.

For a little more money they serve the furniture to your house and ensemble it.
This doesn't feel completely clear cut. Users installed the add-on expecting their search to change. It changes their search. Presumably it's at least preventing Google & Bing from then knowing who made the search. Whether it's truly anonymous seems a bit of a stretch. (how do they define it?)
What about wearing a hat that blasts infrared
> Title on the article is different now - maybe it was changed?

I meant the title of the post here, the title of the article is the same as when I saw it. "Almost all" is entirely unwarranted for sure.
In addition to the sensible question of whether Google even would need to link against any GPL code raised by other commenters, there's also the question of whether the GPL would even make any sense for a kext, considering the kext needs to include Apple's header files (largely APSL-licensed) and link against macOS's kernel. (binary-only proprietary fork of the open source xnu source dump)

(I've licensed my own FOSS kext code as LGPL - either way, the copyleft aspect wouldn't affect any userland code using the kext as it'd be running in a different process. And AGPL doesn't change anything in this context either as far as I'm aware as its additional provisions are only relevant for code running on systems not under the user's control, and again if you're not linking against it, your code isn't a derived work.)
Making "shitty robots" seem to me as the perfect stepping stone towards building actually good robots. I don't see that there can be any better way to learn really (It makes you deliver something that also makes you learn something). Except maybe doing that while also studying all the theory that you may possibly make use of when building robots.
Alcohol, tobacco, obesity, and general unhealthy lifestyle likely underpins more risk to the economy than student lending. It’s perhaps more “priced in”, but otherwise seems much more serious.

Drug abuse is less long-term priced in and likely also has higher aggregate risk as well.
The question stands, which service centers are willing to do that (certainly not Apple) and what are they going to charge for it? (I was charged about $300 for switching the HD to an SSD in my iMac, just for the work, the SSD came extra)
I'm using Vim with the SLIMV plugin (derived from SLIME for Emacs) and a bit of script glue to open a new Terminal tab for running SBCL with SWANK in. Like an IDE, and connected with a live Lisp.

https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv
There are haircuts that prevent face recognition.

Also you can wear a special headlight that renders CCTV cameras useless.
Hiding your face is illegal in Belgium at least. This includes masks, helmets etc. I don't know the exact wording, but I would suspect that it's broad enough to include umbrellas and makeup and anything else that effectively makes it impossible to recognize a person.