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It's minor kickbacks and a lot of information asymmetry.

The big kickbacks come from the "benefits consulting" companies that "help" small to midsize businesses figure out what vehicles to use to offer benefits for their employees. (This sometimes includes health insurance but we're not talking about that) Their main source of income is commissions to their company for funneling their clients' employees money into the funds themselves. Unsurprisingly, the funds with higher fees pay higher commissions.

The kickbacks to the companies themselves take the form of offloading HR functions onto the "broker" aka benefits consultant. They will do things like print all the materials, give lunch and learns to the employees about the plans, fulfill all the regulatory functions, etc. They also tend to take the HR decision makers out to fancy lunches and things of that sort. So mostly the HR departments are being bribed to look the other way in order for their jobs being easier.

I've pointed out suboptimal fund offerings at multiple small companies and been ignored/rebuffed every time. Every large company I've worked for had really good fund offerings.

It's amazing how simple human laziness and willful ignorance leads to literally millions in wealth being siphoned off of hard working employees into the pockets of benefits consultants and mutual fund companies. The HR departments of many of these companies literally don't care.
I'm still confused by what sense Elon Musk's statements were knowingly false. My memory of the situation was that the Saudis offered to buy Tesla, and Musk considered this to constitute funding being secured. Does "funding secured" have a technical definition that a verbal offer doesn't qualify for, and would Musk be expected to know that difference? I'm asking sincerely; I don't know.
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The "maintainerr" is the "owner" in this context.
Most of the places I've worked at, this is standard practice if stuff you're developing is on their time and they're paying you.

I have gotten around this by having a list of side-projects I'm working on that give a brief description of what they are and that the business has no claim on them. I attach this to the contract/NDA as an addendum in order to protect myself. I have yet to have a company make a claim on anything I've ever put on the list.

As far as multi-year NDA's, I work in a state where these rarely if ever hold up. The only limitations in these is if you're going to work for a direct competitor. Which means if you're a Ford engineer and you're going to work for Chevy. Then the courts could ban you from working at Chevy for a few years, but your company can't keep you from being gainfully employed anywhere. If you're able to be employed as an engineer elsewhere, it will hold up in court. But trying to keep someone from working in their chosen field at another company doesn't go well in court.

I had one incident with a company who tried that and I took them to court. First day judge just laughed and told the company attorney that you can't legally keep someone from being gainfully employed just because you want to keep them from working at another company that also develops software. A few objections from the company's attorney got struck down immediately and I was out of there in a less than an hour.
That's pretty much it in a nutshell, very well done.
There are two ways of learning music: by ear and by sight. The first way is often (but not always) associated with or referred to as the "jazz way" in Western music. Either way works if you just want to play the music, the main use for theory is composing music. (And to sound vaguely intelligent when dissecting a piece of music but by itself that has little value unless you work in a conservatory or art museum) There are plenty of YouTube channels that teaches the core concepts of music theory. E.g. 8-bit Music Theory.

Let's be real here, there's no way to truly learn music theory without practicing. It's like math, algorithms, you don't have to learn it to compose (if you are talented you can easily cruise on raw talent) but you have to practice with pen and paper (or computer or instrument) to actually learn it. Many replies here focus on the mathematical patterns and relations, they are useful observations but ultimately has little bearing on the actual usage of theory.
Really? When?

EDIT: It went Java 1.4 -> 5.0[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
Were you trying to prevent them from getting your personal info at all? Because, I'd be surprised if GM doesn't share that info with them. I guess you'll know if you get calls or mail trying to sell you the service.

I ask because the last couple cars I've bought (not GM mind you) had XM radio and I never did anything to activate it, yet when the free trial was up they had all my info to initiate a sales call and send mail.
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Woah was not aware this kind of stuff was out there
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Why? Mexico's lack of stability makes the US government pressure then more to corporate with police. Also, do you seriously think HN figured out a reliable loophole in Federal prosecutions that's just "drive South".
So I think they are defining whether a given API as "open" or not as whether it is callable from JavaScript? So they're only willing to edit the JavaScript code, but not the C++ code alongside it? (I am genuinely confused by the reasoning, questions are not rhetorical.)
Nickel and dimed to death.

The person that first came into my classroom to offer to help me set up a 403B ends up being one of the most expensive 403Bs options I have per the website https://www.403bcompare.com/

And then on top of it all my school district employer even charges me a monthly fee of $3 just to send money to my 403B.

Edit: It's actually the 403B admin that is charging me the $3 a month.
What a worthless series of posts. Please add something of value in your comments.
If you've ever owned a device like Alexa or Google Home what he said isn't confusing at all. They trigger accidentally all the time. His Alexa simply triggered when it wasn't supposed to and then reacted to what he was saying. Given he was gaming it was likely something about killing himself or someone else.
MQTT is a nice transport layer, but to be really useful this needs standard message templates and topics.
And even if it does. I don't really see the reason that I should be locked into the employers 401k and not be able to choose my own.
X is simply a wildcard for the V and A in VR and AR.
I am surprised this is how we have ended up. We have already had a pretty good looking model for this sort of voice activated computer interaction thanks to Star Trek: TNG.

It would be far more palatable for the devices to wait for a command cue ("Computer--") to respond with an activation bleep. After the bleep, the commands begin to be interpereted.

Instead we have a listener always awaiting commands. What could be a helpful and invisible servant is instead some kind of jerk who interjects with the most literal interpretations of normal conversations.

If I wake up in the morning feeling grumpy (every day) and say some crazy crap (totally possible) on my way to the can, will an apple contractor employee be able to figure out what the hell I really wanted by reviewing the seconds of audio?

I have made death threats to wall hanging photographs in those 30 minutes before my medication kicks in. There is no checkbox for this in the privacy settings. I know with some of these smart things you can change the prompt, but this feels like not the best we can come up with.
German or Spanish manage to have extremely divergent dialects while still having phonetic spelling of the standard written dialect.
> does it sound so unbelievable that we have a model accurate enough to predict the rough effect of additional CO2 on global temperature?

Yes, it does sound unbelievable because CO2 is a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, and water vapor is approximately 2.5% of the atmosphere while also being the strong greenhouse gas.

It's a giant fraud used a political tool for the brainwashed masses.
I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently after using Terraform for a couple of years and it's so much easier to work with. It would be a shame if it is not at least included in the discussion.
If a union isn't democratically controlled by the workers it's not a proper union, and if it is, it is possible to make work for the majority of its employees, at the very least. So what's the full story you are missing here?
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>It's amazing how simple human laziness and willful ignorance leads to literally millions in wealth being siphoned off of hard working employees into the pockets of benefits consultants and mutual fund companies.

Surely the bosses at these employers, who are smart enough to be bosses in the first place, can recognize that they are getting taken for a ride for their own 401k investments just like the employees are. Therefore, the only reason I can come up with that makes sense is the somehow the bosses themselves are getting incentivized to choose suboptimal investment options for themselves.
Most of them are also rich as fuck considering they often own their land outright. I think the support for them is overestimated.
Your satirically imagined quotes are comically similar to the actual quotes:

Nixon: "You see, homosexuality, dope, immorality in general. These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff, they're trying to destroy us"

You might want to read up on some history:

http://www.csdp.org/news/news/nixon.htm
> What do people think Florida is going to do? They're already losing their drinking water and they're still in denial.

That has been going on for decades, and has more to do with the population load on the water supply draining the aquifers than it does climate change. The drinking water table is already below sea level. At worst, climate change is hastening the inevitable.
This is all well and good, until you end your employment at a firm that is extremely vengeful, and as a deterrent to other employees, does in fact decide to take you to court and make your life miserable for several months. Because, remember; you don't have to be guilty to be dragged into court.

Having worked for one such company, who made a spectacle out of punishing disloyal former employees way past the point of what the legal system is built for (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499712 ), and then holding staff meetings to announce how they've just destroyed that employees life (he wasn't the first, and while he actually did break the law, it's very Arguable the Quadrature guys did not), I took the safe choice sitting out my non compete period and took a nice long holiday.

I'll repeat the most important part of this story;

You don't have to be guilty to be dragged into court.
The Middle Ages didn't have anything like borders in our contemporary sense. It's a modern invention that only came into full form in the 20th century.
I am inclined to agree with this.
There are plenty of people burnt out.

What's the alternative? Make things easier? Pay them more so they can take longer off? Get youtube to present older videos to people so the creators don't have too much of a revenue dip while they take a week off?

There are plenty of self employed people. It's no one else's fault if you get burnt out.
Thanks again for the feedback and totally agree with you on some of the points you have made. We are exploring some options with regards to the language. Wondering if you would be willing to do a call with us and get your thoughts\feedback. My email is satyavel[at]microsoft[dot]com if you would be willing to chat.
Most of this is incorrect, starting with your first claim.

Here's a chart that shows the yearly CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Denmark

https://energinet.dk/Om-nyheder/Nyheder/2017/05/19/El-produk...

If you know a bit about Danish politics, you can clearly tell at which point there was lackluster political support.
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AI (or more accurately, machine learning (ML)) learns by being told when it’s wrong and right (like a child). The AI makes a mistake on what 2+2 is, so it’s corrected. However, when it’s asked 2+3, it doesn’t know that 3 is one more than 2, and the only answer it’s learned is 4, so it says 4.
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I think you can make the exact same argument about any form of money. Fiat currency is definately has some religious aspects.
To me it seems mired in contradiction. The use case for cryptocurrencies is motivated by (though perhaps doesn't require) the assumption that accountable government is a lost cause; yet it also assumes that society provides enough stability for the protocol to operate, instead of devolving toward anarchy or totalitarianism.
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I recently joined Google and have a general purpose Apache-licensed Java library which I submitted and was rejected for overlap. This seemed fair since they also have similar projects (e.g. Guava) even though I don't work on them (or even write Java there). I can still contribute to the project and will be able to use that code forever since it is also Apache, I just won't hold copyright and therefore wouldn't be able to relicense it without their permission, but that's not a concern of mine so I've been happily hacking away on it.

I also submitted a new side project, which obtained copyright release quickly (couple days) and without any additional qualifications, which was nice as I could then proceed freely with it.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the process and thought it and the rules around it were fair.
Exactly. Ver has repeatedly tried to hijack the bitcoin brand and confuse adopters, most notably via his ownership of bitcoin.com domain and subreddit r/btc
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Bengalis were attacked, but Hindus were specifically singled out by the Pakistan Army. Just look at the sources.
If it's what you like. You'll be just fine.

In the grand scheme of things, that degree just opens a few extra doors early in your career. It's still up to you, and your personal drive to succeed, to get anywhere past that.

You have passion, and that is a massive advantage. Stoke the fire.
If there's no real API, you have to patch things and diverge from master and then you face the problem that Chromium is under constant change that you most certainly can't keep up with, so either you chose to ignore all the work happening in Chromium and end up with a stale branch or you spend most of your time making your patch work with the latest changes.
I don't have any kind of smart speakers or camera at home.

The problem is that many other people I visit do.

It's the same issue with Google products in general: I don't have a gmail address. My phone don't even have an email tied to it and I don't use the official store. But because my contacts mostly do those things, google still has a log of all my conversations, my face in pictures, my positions, etc.

But even then it's not just about me: people take bad decisions all the time, companies as well. We don't let people own a radioactive materials, we have laws for that. We don't allow companies to sell radioactive materials to the public, we have laws for that.
Agreed. I loved Piston, with the caveat that his book is about the "Common Practice Period". It will teach you the standard approach to harmony used in the 18th and 19th century. But its a grounding that helps to make all the post 19th century developments in harmony make sense.
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While I agree that it should be possible to mention nationality without being labeled racist, what legitimate value do you think his nationality adds to that sentence other than to preload whatever preconceptions people have about African businessmen onto that person? I just don't see how it adds any substance.
> Facebook told two senators why it tracks users’ locations even when their tracking services are turned off. The lawmakers now say Facebook should give users more control over their data.

> Facebook said that even when location tracking is turned off, it can deduce users’ general locations from context clues like locations they tag in photos as well as their devices’ IP addresses.

> While this data is not as precise as Facebook would collect with location tracking enabled, the company said it uses the information for several purposes, including alerting users when their accounts have been accessed in an unusual place and clamping down on the spread of false information.

> Facebook doesn’t allow users to turn off location-based ads, although it does allow users to block Facebook from collecting their precise location, the company wrote.

If I say I don't want you to track my location, I mean exactly that. Not respecting users' wishes like this is a terrible thing to do.
"less common" is a bit of an understatement[0]. I'd put it in the "common misspelling" category. Though both versions seem to have been around since before English really had consistent spelling.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=adaption%2Cada...
Author here - thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed peeking under the hood of WebSockets, and learned a bunch. Hope this is helpful to others as well!
Hey does this also include ML topics?
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> It's the lowest and most basic tech cert you can get.

As opposed to... what? Do college degrees promise engineering discipline? Surely not. Many successful engineers have nothing more than a high school diploma and industry experience.

This has clearly gone into sexist territory now. She's a she, and therefore her experience and education is going to be audited by arbitrary and increasingly vague standards to make sure she's considered valueless.

> It certainly isn't evidence of any engineering discipline.

There is literally no credential that does this. It's a ridiculous standard to offer forward. Engineering discipline is a property of teams and organizations. On an individual level there is no distinct standard of it.

You are moving the goalposts outside the stadium.

> It's certainly not a "massive" liability. Should the employee prevail, years from now, in a wrongful termination suit the cost to google will be trivial compared to the employee.

I disagree. With the rash of these firings, we may start to see a collective lawsuit. Should systemic problems be found, Google is in genuine danger of both large fines (both the left and right in the US and other countries are eager to give Google a black eye for perceived wrongs) and of severe reputational damage putting it at a competitive hiring disadvantage.

> It's a very limited civil liability with a very high burden of proof on the employee.

Right up until you get enough claimants for various collective actions, I agree this is the sad case for American enforcement.
Depends on where you live - it's not normal.
What was the reasoning behind not letting anyone from Google see it? Was the startup kill zone known and in full effect at that time as well?
Um... Only software developers.
The retconned VERW may qualify in some sense.
For what ever it's worth, anyone looking into starting a roguelike in Rust would probably do much better by folloving the The Bracket link above.

In addition to it being a pure Rust library (which does make a difference when you get started, but also when you try to distribute your game) it compiles to WebAssembly as well meaning you can use the same code to produce a game that runs on the desktop and the web. And the tutorial covers much more ground as well, including ECS for those interested.

And finally, both the tutorial and tcod-rs are barely maintained anymore. I try to address questions/fix serious issues from time to time, but the chances of this seeing any significant developments in the future are very slim. The RLTK stuff is actively maintained and developed.

(I'm not the OP, but I did write the linked post, the tutorial -- which is based on the classic Python+libtcod one as well as started tcod-rs)
I use Chrome and Firefox and I've never noticed a problem with youtube. That said, I love how firefox actually prevents youtube from autoplaying (not even the youtube autoplay switch can seem to do that 100% of the time).
This article is a total misleading piece of information.
The code of the HEX token smart contract is publicly accessible and one can clearly see it implements the logic of a CD (certificate of deposit), you only need javascript knowledge to verify that.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x2b591e99afe9f32eaa6214f7b7629...

The initial airdrop amounts are totally arbitrary though, with a founder getting more than everyone else. But that doesn't make something a ponzi scheme.

To qualify as a ponzi scheme you need to directly use newcomers investment money as return for old investors. There is absolutely no line of code in the contract that does this.
>When you use the words like activist and activism you evoke images of people pushing for new things that are politically decisive in some way.

Because that's what you are when you co-opt an internal tool to put up messaging over the web page of the consulting group that works with your employer. She knew what she was doing. She knew it was a political statement. She may even have even wanted to be martyred.

>The message she got fired over was expressed pretty settled interpretation of federal labor law.

She didn't get fired for her message even though you're trying to spin it that way. The medium matters here. You don't get to co-opt internal tools to post your interpretation of federal labor law, or to send a message to the management team, or whatever else her motivations were. That's why she got fired.

>What are you talking about? I linked to a screenshot of the message we're actually discussing. You can see the so called "threat" yourself:

I know exactly what she did. She made a political statement about a labour consulting group (that they can or do infringe on federal law) and that was directed at least partly at executive management (who else is going to work with IRI Consultants and browse their page). This was a purposeful activist power-play.

The gaslighting that you're engaging in is offputting. This kind of thing would have gotten her fired from pretty much every company in the country and for good reason - she's untrustworthy and cannot seperate her job as a Security Engineer from her activism, and I'm sorry you can't see that.

>Black people sitting at lunch counters was once "such a clear violation" of corporate policy, too, but it was pretty defensible, no?

She's not a black person during Jim Crow era. She's not oppressed, and it's offputing that you would even make that comparison. She's a bay-area engineer who was making a very good salary and betrayed the trust that her position entitled her to.

>I'm not saying this action is fully equivalent to a lunch-counter sit-in,

I hope not because that would be insane.

>The worst they should have done was issue a reprimand.

That's your opinion. I think she deserved termination. You don't want this kind of person on your security team. You cannot trust her to seperate activism from work.

And it is interesting that you can claim that she did nothing wrong, and at the same time understand why she should be reprimended.
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