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News to me. Larry Wall's SOTO speeches are some of the most interesting talks I've read. I think he just chose the name to be funny. https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Stepping Down to Move into Executive Chairman Role
Of course. Just as when they’re old enough they’ll learn about all of my other successes and failures as a human. May they make better choices than I to lead a better life than I have.
Twitter labeled it, so it must be fake!

Twitter didn't label it, so it must be real!
It's hardly news that most of the UK government websites, either at the local or national level, report all your activity to foreign corporations, particularly google analytics.

I've raised this with the website creators through their helpdesk system, and on here when they've posted, but been either told that it's fine (they anonymise the data! We trust them!) or just ignored. It doesn't seem to sink in that giving such a company complete and unfettered access to details on how the UK public interacts with its own government might be a problem.
A Wacom tablet is what used to be called a digitizer tablet, ie, a HID that uses a pen and a surface to allow for easier and better drawing. Essentially an odd-shaped mouse with some extra pressure sensitivity.

GP must have confused with the currently better known use of tablet, which is a full-blown computer with touch screen and no keyboard.
I learned something in this thread as well from the question asked, wish a few commenters would drop the "whattaboutism" attitude, some of us are actually trying to learn something here.
You can just order them on Amazon, they’re not super rare or expensive. The numbing sensation will be obvious when you try them.
>But as a society we have organised ourselves in such a way that this choice is economically and socially much harder to make than it used to be and in my view much harder to make than it should be.

Sounds to me like we should make a conscious effort to reverse the changes that have been made lately, then, and also take a hard look at the motives of the people that have pushed us in that direction.

>One of the problems in particular is that it is far too hard for people to come back to the workplace after taking a 5 or 6 year career break to look after children while they're young.

I don't see how that is a problem. It takes a lot of work to maintain a desirable society, and I would guess most of it is not done at the behest of a corporation.
Hmm... "can't yell fire" is pretty much nonsense, but "private company" very much isn't. The rules for what the government can do and what private entities can are totally different, on purpose.
Counter counter point: I am a father. Took 5 months off. Baby was breastfed. How? Mom was pumping milk at work, after her lunch break. We put it in the freezer. I was waking it up and giving it with a bottle to my daughter. Diapers/food and so on can be taken care by both genders. It is not easy. Actually, at the end, I was looking forward to going back to work and sending my daughter to daycare, once she was 1 year old. It is possible though, and helped me grow up in a sense that I wouldn't have it I didn't go through it.

It also helped us as a couple because I could understand what mom was going through in earlier months and also mom could understand that I am not useless at home and I can take care of our daughter.
I would go one step even more basic and teach touch typing. It amazes me when I watch someone code by laboriously copying some other code from somewhere else, from a full code snippet to a single variable name, paste it in and begrudgingly type what needs to be typed, slowly.

The thought that always goes through my mind when I see this is "this is your interface to code, people, shouldn't you spend a little bit of time at least trying to master it?"

Forget vim, if people just learned to type they could be twice as productive in simple notepad. Vim (which I use) raises this to another level still.
Thanks for that! Will check out those - will help in getting new domains!
A personal overconfidence in what is true and untrue is exactly why I’m against these types of censorship policies. If you don’t think personal bias can bend and distort your personal, non-objective “truth” then you haven’t been paying attention to history.
Excellent point. I've noticed significant cognitive performance drop in new dads as the tremendous stress of your first child drains you. Its important for businesses to incorporate this reality into their planning.
Those are all good reasons but I’d argue that starting from the desire to be able to use existing sync services and building on that may be more user friendly.

Yes you essentially need to rebuild a database, but this is for example what 1Password did.
I'm often at events mostly to meet people, aka hallway track etc. I do go to sessions too, in part because video posting can be unreliable/very delayed but also because I know I'll often never get around to watching the videos anyway. That said, keynotes at large events I tend to watch streaming as I have very little interest in getting crowded into a room with 10,000 of my closest friends so I can watch the speaker on the distant stage up on a monitor :-)
Let me get this straight... Casper starts (or at least, helps start) the bed-in-a-box revolution, and private investors get in early.

The moat they had was people don't buy a bed sight unseen off the internet.

They literally burn piles of money to normalize the act (100 day return policy, 0 questions asked, insane marketing spend...)

They succeed in normalizing it...

But the fact is that any bozo can call a manufacturer and get literally the same product out to your door for the same costs as them. They didn't have any exclusive manufacturing process, as the boom of bed-in-a-box raged on, everyone benefited from economy of scale as this has taken off, not just them.

There's no need for a cheap imitation, because what they sell is already the cheap option.

And there are very few mattress brands that have loyalty because people don't buy beds for brands. Tempurpedic and Duxiana are the only two manufacturers I can think of that I've ever seen leverage customer loyalty in marketing, and there's a reason for that (they exist at a completely different price point)

So now there's hundreds of these companies, and Casper's standing out of all of them is not particularly special.

So they go public at a half a billion dollar valuation for a glorified drop shipping operation and leave institutional investors holding the bag?

Is there something I'm missing?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2020/02/05/casper-...

Well I guess some of the private investors are taking a bath as well...
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It is interesting (or worrying) to think about why someone like this writes an article like this. It seems kind of self-evident that limited liability gives people the opportunity to sue companies, and her main issue is apparently with the quantum of judgement against companies (left unsaid is why they would be larger against individuals or whether employees are able to shoulder those legal liabilities). But this is where we are now...a sizeable proportion that think that everything companies do is innately evil (these people often have tidy public sector jobs that are paid for by these companies). It is very weird...it is like life is a Disney film with evil rich people and virtuous poor people.
> We should never forget that at the root of containerization is a desire to keep everyones shit sorted. That's been a Unix thing forever.

That's literally the point of operating systems: To allow many people to share the resources of one machine without being able to interfere with each other. Modern containers and VMs are just reinventing operating systems, and unfortunately they're doing it on top of existing operating systems rather than building -- you know -- a better operating system.
The broader issue is that having/raising children doesn't fit with the otherwise fairly materialistic value system our society has.

Childless women earn just as much as men. Forcing fathers to take family leave does fix the asymmetry between parents (mothers vs fathers), but will exacerbate the difference between parents and non-parents by penalizing not just mothers, but also fathers for having children, vs. non-parents who don't (need to) have a career break.

I think that no discussion/policy about parental leave is complete without some kind of incentive for people to have kids (or a discussion about whether we should encourage that at all or not - looks like it might be sensible in Western countries).
Investors don't have enough information about daily operations to make those decisions accurately. You'd just end up making it too risky to invest in anything, and our economy as a whole would suffer.

The way to ensure safety is through regulation and regulatory enforcement, not by relying on everybody's grandpa to thoroughly vet the safety practices of Exxon before reallocating his IRA.
Swedish parental leave can be saved until the kid turns 12. Not that the 480 days will last that long, of course!
I feel like others have probably replied well enough, but to add: you seem to be under the impression that they are only "too fast" because modern TVs play them at the wrong frame rate. On the contrary, contemporary audiences in theaters also saw them move "too fast."

This was a result of both the mechanics of the time, and the style, as other people have posted.

"Speed correcting," therefore, is simply an attempt to view these at natural speeds, even though this may not have been the expectation (or intent) of the filmmakers.
Seconded. My kid will take however much screen time he's allowed. I usually resort to authority to separate him from his screens. Otherwise, I can nudge him away from screens to precious few choice activities, but I don't remember ever seeing him disengaging a screen without nudging, except for physiological needs.
Never fail to mark a net gain for humanity as financially ineffective obstacle. You know there exist some middle ground between dysfunctional socialism and brutal capitalism? Those places are comparably a paradise for common folks like most of us.

To be treated with respect like a human being and having overall a good life is still a privilege in 21st century.
There is https://tabnine.com/
There's also Clojure's core.async, which actually calls it "alts", more-similar to Occam.
or use options to hedge. You'd really have to be certain about the correlation between tesla and ford/bmw etc for that to make any sense, and I can't imagine that all the elon-worshipping retail investors and the people buying the tesla hype would, if disillusioned, decide to go buy a boring, lame company like Ford. DOesn't seem like the same set of investors
Robots learn to sweat to stop overheating
How Ricoh came to develop the Nintendo NES / Famicom
Clearly this isn't a trivial or very fun job (last time I used them, the Linux drivers were buggy as hell). Who would have the motivation to do it on Windows, where you have a driver that works and users have little expectation of privacy to begin with?
he s probably correct. A lot of what we call "human explanation" is in reality a rationalized version of a hunch, but not necessarily the best representation of it. At most situations, some part of the brain crosses a threshold and causes a decision or action, but it's rather rare that humans can explain that action correctly. It's also rare that causation can be established from unambiguous temporal order (e.g. clouds/rain); in most cases our rationalizations are post-hoc.

We get a glimpse of it from recent language models: It's become rather easy to start blurting out language that is convincibly and comfortingly coherent, and it can be nudged to point to one direction or another. that doesnt mean it's true
3 Questions You Should Ask Before Making Product Decisions
...most of them.
> would that still be problematic?

Yes. When thinking about data, you need to think about orthogonal uses. Can you imagine reasons why someone might subpoena data to determine whether Photoshop was being used on my home desktop machines at a particular time? They might not care that it was Photoshop at all.
I appreciate the joke :) but I really didn't get the obvious at first (code => coffee autocomplete). I was distracted by the fact that this language transpiles to JS so coffee might be a reference or something.
I feel like your "following process over better software" remark holds true to any company I've seen.
what does executive chairman do ? does this mean he will not have any say on day to day operations or roadmap
> under this bill, 2.1 million civilian federal workers also will be able to take paid leave to care for a new baby after birth, adoption or the start of foster care

Currently it's PAID leave for federal workers only, but it's a start.

Contact your senator and tell them it's important to you.
I need to invest my money in something[0]. If Exxon has a good track record of only incurring liabilities which they can cover using revenue (which they do) then I would invest with them over some other company without such a record.

[0] https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
If you think, that SAP's UI is inconsistent then you haven't seen the above mentioned EBS ;)

Input boxes behaving as buttons, tabs either changing behavior of UI components that are clearly drawn as being outside of the tab, or outright behaving as buttons that cause random actions, loads and loads of nested modal dialogs...
FWIW that isn’t a unique identifier for the author, it’s for Nike’s marketing account. I didn’t see that the Nike employee who hid in the author's closet wrote down any meaningful identifier on their form. Of course the set of the most popular gym floors where the author wore the shoes and the author's home address are probably enough to identify you.

That said, yep, it seems lame they don’t disclose this tracking. I can understand why they’d want to know where their pairs of shoes most often travel, but tracking all gyms seems aggressive, but maybe it’s the only way to identify what gym floor the shoes were used in.

(I work for Adidas)
Mitigations for Intel JCC bugfix in Microsoft C++ Compiler
Say Twitter comes out and says tomorrow, "You got us, we're biased, totally in the tank for the left." What legal or regulatory effect do you think this has? Or that it should have?
Yeah that's a pattern you see in most places with any kind of shared pool. The father takes a small, frequently the legal minimum time, and the mother takes the rest. Ultimately it kind of makes the most sense because it is the woman that's gone through the most work of giving birth and is a natural food source for the kid but it does perpetuate the issue of women's careers being set back by having a kid.
You can just increase capital requirements on the firm, or (alternately) allow the firm itself to take on liability insurance where the insurance company has adequate capital requirements of its own. Shareholders would not be required to self-insure or anything like that, they would just need to up their ante until it actually covers the worst-case loss. It's totally fair.
It's been a pretty amazing workplace benefit to have. My wife and I remark to each other on a daily basis about how lucky we are to be able to be home together to take care of the baby. We're planning on having at least one more child and I can't see myself working for a company that doesn't have a similar leave policy.
> You fully understand the difficulty, stop gaslighting (I mean that seriously).

Please don't do that here. Personal attacks like these only hinder rational, factual discussion.
Agree. I spent five months home with a small toddler of around a year of age. He did get very attached to me, but let's face it, their needs at that stage are very simple. Actually, I think he got much more out of kindie subsequently, getting to play with and be around other kids and adults much more.
College for undergrads vs University for graduates is a UK and US thing, in most of the rest of the world you just have universities (or, like in my country, you have non-profit state-funded research universities that also teach undergrads and graduates and you have for-profit private colleges which are a lot lower quality who also teach undergrads and a few graduates, probably because a university degree is considered worth more so all the talented students go there and therefore you have to tech much slower in a college).
According to statistics increased education leads to lower number of child births (and later). At least from what I've read.

So it's all connected, free school and good social support.

As a parent you can never make a profit from it anyhow. There are of course people who don't know how to work and actually don't want to contribute. But they are far apart.
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You must be describing the American system. That does not sound like Norway.
Huh... first time I've been accused of gaslighting. I am realizing that I completely misinterpreted your initial comment, however—sorry about that. I was interpreting your comment as discussing a pronount referring to a specific individual rather than a generic person. I also would use "they" in that context, though alternating he/she can also work. Sorry about the confusion (really).
Publish Vue.js components to NPM registry to be reused in different project
Seems like they are using a narrow definition of "mathematically provable" -- they only thing that appears to be proven is that "all memory access is mathematically proven to be defined". Which just seems like a fancy way of achieving the same thing as a type checker? Either way, cool project, but is there anything else that ZZ can prove?
So I have read this report, but it would be good if there were some example URLs of where this is happening. Take for instance Lambeth's website (https://www.lambeth.gov.uk). I've browsed through a few public facing pages and the council tax payment pages.

The report says Lambeth shows 1 real time bidding, 1 social and 5 Google "trackers".

From my network requests I see:

-> Google Translate and its resources (CSS etc.)

-> Google Font

-> jQuery and a bunch of various modules

-> leafletjs (OSS Map library)

-> Google tag manager

-> The social links at the bottom are just links, no requests or trackers.

Note: None are blocked by PB, only cookies are denied)

Nothing out of the ordinary here (although you could argue against GTM on a council website). I'm not seeing what's at risk here? And according to the report, the above requests should be ignored in the results?

Caveat 1:

> This is not a complete study. Third party tools commonly used by websites for chat bots, designing the page, soliciting email subscription, profiling visitors for the Council’s own user data base, text to speech, CDN, fonts, non-Google analytics, etc. are not counted in this study. (See “table notes” on page 20 for a list of what is counted).

> While these do expose a user’s behaviour to the companies concerned, we exclude them here in order for simplicity.This study highlights what we view as the most dangerous third party data collection and profiling.

To compare, the landing page that this report is hosted on has the following "trackers"/requests:

-> Brave.com Analytics request that is blocked

-> Google Fonts

-> Google Tag Manager

-> Google Analytics (blocked by PB)

-> Mapbox

-> Scorecard research (blocked by PB)

-> Newrelic

-> Slideshare (blocked by PB)

-> Leaderapps

-> Tableau

-> Vimeo (cookies blocked by PB)

Edit: Sorry - PB is Privacy Badger.

As for my personal feelings, "widespread surveillance" makes it appear as though there is some sort of malicious intent here. I have a few friends (and mother) who have previously or currently work for local councils, there is no money for this sort of thing. At worst I believe any actual issues are due to ignorance (which isn't an excuse) but could be easily remedied. This is way too dramatic for what should be a "Hey ICO, these councils are potentially not doing things properly, could you have a look?". Instead you'd think Brave have uncovered a PRISM level conspiracy on the local government level.

Poor taste IMO.
> By using Target’s existing technology, employees in >
Canada could draw on the large amount of expertise in
the U.S. That plan had shortcomings as well. The
technology was not set up to deal with a foreign
country, and it would have to be customized to take
into account the Canadian dollar and even French-
language characters. Those changes would take time
which Target did not have.

Given Target's original system didn't have a multi-currency approach or use UTF8, my guess is the implementer (in this case Target) is also part of the problem.

It is hard to disrupt this type of software as migration involves migrating data, which is hard, in addition to changing a lot of employee workflows. Potentially, if something like 3D printing of metal parts took off, it could mean a new type of ERP system would be necessary, allowing for a new player to come in.
Invisible trackers aside, it's simply gross that local government sites have banner ads on them. Have some pride and/or taste!
Funny Matt is usually a straight shooter but didn't mention Tara McGowan (CEO of Acronym; it's on linkedin) is married to Buttigieg senior staffer Michael Halle. Maybe he didn't notice.

https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-michael-halle-senior-st...
I played around with that years ago. Was absolutely useless at the time. Honestly doubt it has gotten much better.
The cynical side of me says all of this clamoring to stop “deep fakes” from politicians is just a bunch of people getting ready to mount a defense in case a particular video of them visiting Epstein’s island becomes public.
Mine is unstable and the screen just goes black multiple times a day, have to restart it. I can only login with Wayland selected at the login screen. The battery life is a joke. Dell support is not available over email or chat for their Linux offerings, you have to call them.

It's a good machine but it's a pain in the ass to use regularly.
How is losing money suffering no consequences?

(I can tell you that I worked in investment management and sat in meetings where this kind of thing was discussed...no-one thinks this, companies that do bad things lose money...end...SRI is something that the good managers always did, it is just branded so bad managers can make money. Index funds are making it easier on companies but...that is a choice people are making to separate stewardship from their portfolio management).
>stop buying everything through Amazon

Indeed. I'll plug OpenBazaar here, a p2p marketplace built on IPFS, as well as Haven, the mobile app version focusing on privacy.
You can get massive amounts of szechuan peppercorns very cheaply on Amazon. I recommend it! Also recommended: authentic Szechuan cuisine (at least if you like spicy food).
A few years back (I think around early 2013?), 4chan ran a targeted campaign to superimpose quotes by Hitler onto random celebrity images pandering to specific communities and get them highly upvoted on related subreddits.

They achieved a reasonable degree of success, so I suppose lulz were gained.
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]
> because that's what heuristic Y prescribes for the situation

people will keep asking "why" and keep escalating, but that's a flawed approach to evaluating a model. every answer is literally constructed and thus can't be trusted on its own. The best that an evaluator can do is to evaluate the training dataset
That’s quite an insecurity-laced kneejerk reaction you’ve posted there.

A tip from an adult who didn’t stumble into this industry from the recruitment sidelines: Keep your “yoooo dawg swaggy swag brooo!” stuff to your non-work friends. Women cite this immature brogrammer nonsense and the “culture” it creates as one of the reasons they’re put off from joining, or as a reason for leaving, the tech industry.

I’d encourage you to try to do better.