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My company is privately owned and the sole investor is anti-work-from-home, his firm is always sending us emails about how we're supposed to be a family and when you work from home you aren't part of the family. Every 1-2 weeks someone leaves and cites the policy as the sole reason (~130 people work here total). We just got a reminder that while we're supposed to be careful about the virus, sick time will count against PTO and working from home is still banned. I'm leaving in a few weeks and I'm very excited to watch this guy keep losing money.
Kinda suprised NABShow in Vegas hasn't been cancelled yet...I feel like any day now.
Is it allow in the Chinese law to block competitors that way?
I think you’re right that we’ll retest lows but I’m not sure that’s it’s elevator down time. However, we have been on a long run, and the machines are selling to lock in profits. Maybe we do keep going. Guess we’ll find out soon enough!
depending on your airline, they may offer credit or let you change your flight without any fees.

https://www.delta.com/us/en/advisories/other-alerts/coronavi...
Well, you're in luck!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/the-japan...
The target audience of big enterprise conferences like this very much expects and appreciates PR-speak.
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Something like it needs to exist. JSON is stupidly inefficient for large sets of numbers. Except a framework just like grpc has been around for 25 years... but shhhh, don't tell hipsters about IIOP, they are like new parents and need to discover things for themselves.
I think Troy is struggling to find his own place in this venture. I appreciate his take on selling it to a good buyer, because a massive password list would otherwise attract shady buyers.

You cannot sell something and keep it at the same time. That's not what selling is. It's good to see governments taking interest at this, I'm happy about paid plans. To keep HIBP under his original vision and for his to enjoy his lifestyle, renting would be the ideal solution. Not selling.
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This is a fully remote position, full-time or part-time, with flexible working hours and work arrangements.

We’re looking for an experienced developer who enjoys working with server side technologies and possesses a good mixture of DevOps and application development chops, has been around the block a couple of times, and would like to build forward-thinking and innovative solutions with experienced teammates in a progressive-oriented environment.

About the role:
You should have plenty of experience in building performant, easy to use, well monitored and well tested APIs, creating and maintaining robust web applications, designing efficient data flows, communicating clearly, sharing knowledge and questioning existing solutions.

If you are a positive-oriented hacker who does not fit the traditional company structure and resonates with the mindset of programming languages and paradigms being just a tool and not a heavy personal attachment and identification, then this role might be the right fit for you.

About the company:
We’re a self funded SaaS company that primarily builds forward-thinking tools for internet professionals. We are a bootstrapped company that believes the future belongs to smaller companies that don’t subscribe to the 9-to-5 corporate way of doing things. We believe that the Silicon Valley era is over, and we are building a business that allows us to enjoy the freedom of working remotely where each of us has the autonomy and flexibility to have a high impact on the world with our work.

By actively maintaining an environment in which developers can grow professionally and personally, we’re making sure that solving problems becomes not just a joy, but a thrill.

Front-end Developer (Ember.js to React):
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/frontend-developer

Lead Elixir / Ruby Back-end Developer:
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/backend-developer

Devops Engineer:
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/devops-engineer
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No, it was the minimum. There was some grumbling by people who were previously paid ≤70K but more than others that they were being devalued by having their salaries the same as those who previously had been paid less, but nobody was reduced to 70K.
I have direct connections who will be incredibly negatively impacted by the financial repercussions of all the lost business opportunities if NAB weren't to happen. Broadcast Media is contracting at best, and this won't help.

I'm not saying it won't be the right call, but it will have rippling effects beyond mere inconvenience.
Work from home doesn't have to literally mean home. You can set up a laptop in the library and work there. Fairly often they have tables and decent chairs with a power point available and you aren't expected to spend any money or get out of the way like in a cafe.

Although I now realize this suggestion is entirely useless for avoiding sickness. Still useful if you want to work away from the office in normal conditions.
I've encountered a number of small to mid sized engineering contracting groups and specialist LLC's wherein everyone makes well over $70k. Google's median compensation is over 200K company-wide with 100,000 employees, but this doesn't include part time contractors at facilities. Gravity Payments is on the larger side for such a strict "minimum wage", but I doubt they are the largest. It seems the only novel thing here is the politicization of the message.

The payments industry is relatively low-turnover (compared to other "tech" companies at least) and doesn't require as much innovation once a vendor has a foothold in their market. Could this policy have been successful before they were profitable with recurring customers?

I.e. I imagine some startups have attempted a policy like this -- is there any data on the success rate for "flat compensation" companies versus more common meritocratic and seniority-based compensation structures?
You're right, I missed it.

But I'm still not clear on what exactly happened here.

Take this article from the Atlantic:

> With Ziemer gone, oversight of the strategy [national biodefense] now falls to Andrea Hall, the senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense, according to an administration official with knowledge of the matter. Hall had already been working side-by-side with Ziemer, both figuratively and literally—they sat in neighboring offices. Both testified before the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Panel for Biodefense in November last year, during which Hall said that, “Making America safer in the biosphere is a ... key priority for this administration.”

> ...

> She also oversees the remaining members of Ziemer’s now-defunct directorate of global health security and biodefense—many of whom carry substantial expertise in pandemic preparedness.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/white-hou...

These details don't appear to be in the Snopes article. Nor does the Atlantic's discussion of how previous administrations have tried, in fits and starts, to (re)organize the team.

> When Obama became president, the responsibility for thinking about epidemics and biological threats was initially split between two other teams—one focusing on resilience, and another on weapons of mass destruction. But over time, that duty was once again packaged into its own directorate—one that lasted into the Trump administration, and that Ziemer took over. “Eliminating it as its own explicit function is definitely a danger,” says Inglesby.
This is completely correct.
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I'm an experienced (>10 years) embedded software engineer. I have a bachelor's in electrical engineering.
I've experience is split between bare-bones RTOS embedded (FreeRTOS) and various flavors of embedded Linux. I'm typically involved in rapid prototyping to look for market fit.

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Could this possibly happen at an individual/personal level too, such as when an actor does a role that they get completely typecast by?
> The whole point of a VPN or SSH jumpbox is to airgap critical infrastructure with unknown vulnerabilities behind a hardened point of access

Yes, I completely agree. This post is literally an endorsement of that idea, with enterprise port knocking mixed in for additional security. At no point in this post do I advocate simply opening all servers to the Internet. Quite the opposite.

If you have suggestions for how I could be clearer in the post, please let me know.
Website in GP says that registration fees are only 50% refundable, too.
Amazon specifically adjusts its margin to show as close to zero profit as possible. Jeff's mantra is "your margin is my opportunity", and on top of that he gets to pay $0 in corporate taxes, what's not to like?

IOW, Amazon is not a very good example.
Yeah and he's not the boss of CVE. If someone wanted a CVE for wireguard I'd be happy to help them get one.
I'm glad that this has worked out for them! It's a scary thing to be sure - upping your costs with uncertain gains.

I think when people insist this "wouldn't work" in many cases they are missing the point. This is obviously not a move you make without fundamentally changing how you manage the company, but I think all service delivery companies could make this change.

From the article:

> Now, many are starting families and buying homes. He estimates one-third of Gravity workers have become debt-free, and two-thirds have significantly cut back on their debt.

> Her junior colleagues work harder than ever, she said, easing everyone else's workload in the process.

This suggests structural transformation in how the company distributes work and also deep investments in the people at the company. These can be successful strategies! They limit your agility when it comes to staffing changes, but not every problem or opportunity requires staffing agility.

I suspect at high levels this kind of thing might also look like Netflix's approach to pay and jobs (high pay, low security)[1].

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437291792/how-the-architect-o...
Thanks! That's helpful/interesting and makes sense
Also to reiterate: "which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software" is not correct. It's usually correct, but not 100%.
Wow! Awesome that you chimed in here. Thanks for some great talks on YouTube and SQLite, of course.
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It might have a negative effect when everyone tries to work from home without making any adjustments and finds it to be sub optimal.
As of today around 3pm Pacific, they've announced they're still going forward with it: https://www.sxsw.com/covid-19-attendee-information/

> Regarding the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: SXSW is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event. As a result of this dialogue and the recommendations of Austin Public Health, we are proceeding with the 2020 event with the health and safety of our attendees, staff, and volunteers as our top priority.
I believe that’s not the point of the comment. The point is that working from home is something employees desire in general, and this is a good opportunity to see if large scale work from home can still function well for a large organization like Twitter. It would be encouraging if they can make it work.
This concept is about the globalisation project which has been growing steadily for the last century but has been stopped by the rise of populism. Somehow the coronavirus reminds us that we are still way more connected globally than politicians would like us to be.
Under the previous administration, the NSC had doubled in size to almost 200 people and had become unmanageable. The increase in size had also blown the budget, making it difficult to hire staff in response to world events. The current administration inherited this mess and has been acting to reduce the size back to a manageable size.

The part of the NSC being talked about here is not the "US pandemic response team" - whatever that is. The DHHS and CDC in particular can function just fine without some NSC staffers.
Interesting. My ISP has been obviously buying new (used) blocks and it is a total nightmare. They bought a block which must have been used in China in some way a year of so ago. Suddenly every site thinks you are in China, prices start coming up in CNY and various georestictions apply.

Luckily you can power cycle the router and get a new IP quickly.

It's interesting as I imagine a lot of people (me included until I hit this) did not put updating GeoIP databases high on their priority lists, but it is a total pain when you're on the other side of it.
That solves ownership in terms of making sure the memory isn't deleted while something is owning it but, at least from my quick read, doesn't solve ownership issues related to concurrent access that Rust's ownership model does solve. Is that reading correct?
Both articles indicate that unionization has flopped. The broader question is - what is the purpose of unionization in the software industry? You want more money? You want ping pong tables at work?
That intrigued me as well, so I went to read some Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead).

Day of the Dead is a southern Mexican celebration that evolved from the assimilation of native culture (Maya and meso-American) into the Catholic calendar (all Saints/all Souls days). It wasn't celebrated much in Mexico City and northern Mexico until recently, pushed on in part by the government celebrating more indigenous culture and creating a national holiday, and then the movie.
Sometimes your credit card company will automatically issue you a travelers insurance reimbursement.
I understand this perspective, but I wholeheartedly feel that a patient should have agency in any decision where risk is involved. They certainly have the agency to deny treatment when it clearly is going to result in their accelerated demise, but they have no ability to access treatment that, at worst, could result in the same but at best give them a bit more quality or quantity of life.
Lives will be impacted either way. If the USA were to shut down, a lot of people would suffer because of it.
As opposed to the rippling effects beyond mere inconvenience if they let it go through.
Thoma Bravo is really cleaning up lately.
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Solving problems by throwing money at it, never mind anything else they could try to fix
How much of that is simply improvement in processing speed of the device and/or better OS APIs?
>If they have data on different therapies, they are not guessing. The data might not be perfect, but it's all we have, so it guides clinical decisions.

I'm sorry but there are cases where they are definitely guessing and will sometimes admit as much. It's an educated guess but if you ask a doc to, for example, strongly justify why they selected one of the three approved PARP inhibitors for an ovarian cancer therapy, you're going to see a little of that uncertainty in living color.
I wish you had come into this discussion with constructive criticism, instead of simply swinging a hammer. I, for one, am happy to learn from somebody with a number of years of experience. However showing up on a thread and spewing negativity and name calling isn't a great way to earn respect in this industry.
Is this about internal combustion engine management?
I mean, if that's the answer you want to program into a robot car, it doesn't sound hard to do.

Luckily I've never been faced with this choice, and if I did have a fraction of a second to decide I have no idea what would happen. Doesn't stop me from driving though.
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> If they were confident they'd lift the NDA. I really can't say much more, other than I disagree.

Please say the little more you can (and thank you for sharing what you have already!) - there's been something overhanging Waymo for nearly 2 years and no one seems to want to even hint at what it is

(also, if you feel comfy, I wonder when you were last privy to the internal narrative there)

> why is turnover so high if things are going so well?

There's _so_ little external information other than Urmson saying this is far away, Cruise is pumping near-production status, Waymo (confusingly) is in production yet if they were, then they wouldn't been doing what they're doing now. Yet all the ride reviews in the latest PR round sounded awesome!
Magna also builds individual components for countless other cars. They could just as easily be onboard as a parts supplier for some sensor hardware or onboard computer componentry.
A 20% slowdown would be pretty major when taken to its conclusion. The graphs of 'China vs the world' tell that story in a way that not much else can:

https://ncov.r6.no/

Assuming the Chinese figures are accurate, according to the WHO delegation that just visited China and toured 5 cities in Hubei province they are.
Kudos to the CEO for taking a pay cut.
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For random testing to find anything, you would need a large portion of the given population to be infected. By that point, you would already have detected the outbreak by targeted testing at hospitals (or even without any direct testing, based on the surge of patients with COVID-19 symptoms).

Once the dust settles, random testing for anti-bodies will probably be useful to work out exactly what happened to better inform planning on future epidemics.
Geeks should stop reinventing wheels all the time. Things get bloated for a reason.
Another Capture One user here. Capture One has 2 ways of organizing your stuff: Inside a Catalog (embedded into the library) or as a Session. In a Session, Capture One gives you a rough folder recommendation that you can use but just uses the folders from your file system. Catalogs embed the pictures and handle all the managing for you, but can also be set to not do that.

None of that sharing and cloud stuff of lightroom though. It's just a RAW/photo processor.

https://www.azuloxworkshops.com/educational/capture-one/capt...
Chrome should, per the spec, drop the entire rule
I can not speak for other peoples' opinions. Here is the reason I would pitch it in one word: scale.

An application written with original logic directly to the requirements provided will be smaller, execute faster, and require less overhead to maintain than something written with a giant framework provided your developers know what they are doing. One of the biggest selling points to using a large framework is precisely because many developers don't know what they are doing and many businesses are not willing to invest the money in training and documentation.

There are also specific demands that require original code that a framework is not ideal for. One of the employers that contacted me from HN was wanting me to write and maintain a Jabber based chat client that runs the browser with high concurrency like a high volume IRC room. Performance was critical and so they didn't want to deal with the overhead of a large framework.

Also, large frameworks are generally there to supplement developers' insecurity with the DOM and general architecture in the browser. That doesn't solve for writing a Node.js application.

As for myself I do both client-side and Node.js work. I enjoy working with Node more because that space is less opinionated. Developers' have all kinds of irrational opinions that they are willing to bet their careers on when it comes to working in the browser. Compared to most of that foolishness I am a 10x developer, and its not because I'm great at writing software.

What is super frustrating though is talking through these concerns during a job interview and dazzling the interviewers virtually ensuring my selection for the position. This is super frustrating because it isn't my intent. I am not trying to impress anybody when I go down that risky path of laying all my cards on the table. I am trying to voice my concerns as directly as possible to ward off a future bad relationship. Then once I get hired and go to work on the team sure enough all my apprehensions that I attempted to illuminate during the interviews are present ensuring that everyday at work will be a slow death trying to sprint though an ocean of tar.
That's fair and there is definitely a use case for these frameworks in order to quickly ship a product on several platforms.

There is also an inherent cost to rewriting all your codebase at once that should not be under estimated.

For something so big and integrated as messaging, I am not sure that this was a good match.

Admittedly turning messaging into a do all à la WeChat was very probably part of the initial plan.
They didn't actually lose that much money, since they bought options. By my mental math they lost about $9000 (give or take a few hundred). Still bad, but better than losing hundreds of thousands.

Edit: I stand corrected, see below.
What do you make of Adam being ashamed of being naked in the presence of God?

To me, that seems to be just something a clothed adult in a pudic society would think, not something the first man would actually feel.
It's all good, it's the healthiest starting point to take!
Don’t like the idea
Let's do Wallmart, latest 10-K, 12 months ending Jan. 31, 2019 [1]:

Pretax earnings: $11,460,000k
Employees: 2,200k (yes, 2.2 million people, worldwide)
Pretax earnings / employee: $5,209

And yes I'm picking examples of companies that have a lot of employees; I'm sure Facebook or Google can bump up bonuses.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104169/0000104169190...
As a hiring manager at GitLab, I'll tell you that these questions are surprisingly effective in filtering candidates. I'm sorry it feels painful to you, however, it's for good reason.
It's pretty interesting to contrast the old advertisements for disposable tablewares [0] ("Enjoy their beauty, use them --- throw them away!") with the result of decades of this approach (being stuck with mountains of throwaway crap).

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=serviset+ad&tbm=isch
Farming gave us salmons and salmonella. FIFY
32 per core? Most modern Intel only supports 10 or 12 outstanding (line) accesses per core. AMD is a bit better. Ice Lake is significantly better.
Some people will probably die because of the lockdown in China. There were some reports of HIV medications becoming hard to fill. Multiply that across a nation and there will be consequences.

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, but it's not only dollars.
It would be an acceptable reason for cancellation coverage with a lot of travel insurance (ymmv, but I know of less-logical reasons for cancellation that were covered).
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dammit, does this imply that Alphabet stock grants can "leak" Waymo value while gaining nothing in return? (other than Ruth can have $1 bil less in expenses on next year's 10-Q?)
Probably the American half (Apple anything isn't as popular outside).
I just find it funny how an average HNer finds evil in anything google does whilst giving a blind eye to apple pushing for anti consumer crap.

Amp is an engineering trade off /s