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> It implies that AWS personnel can impersonate customer representatives or processes run on behalf of those customers. That's a serious problem.

Rather than being a serious problem I think it's more on an obvious fact. AWS personnel build services that specifically exist to act on the customer's behalf with delegated credentials. Any time you configure a managed service to run with an IAM role, that service assumes the role and acts with the credentials granted to the role. AWS personnel have access for emergencies to the systems running their services, and by their very nature those services are in possession of customer credential sets for the IAM roles that the service is configured to use.

For example, a Lambda Function can be configured to run with a particular role. When the Lambda service goes to run the function, it fetches the role credentials from IAM and makes them available to the running Function. It could not be otherwise, because the purpose of a managed service like Lambda is to carry out actions on behalf of the customer. The role's credential set is as much a piece of data as the code of the function to be executed.

But leaving all of this aside, of course AWS personnel can access any and all data you store in their systems. They are legally obligated to turn whatever you have stored over to the courts in response to a warrant. So not only could they gather up your data by this roundabout method of misappropriating credential sets, they must have a way to simply access all of the data directly in a way that doesn't appear in audit trails. I assume for simplicity that the IAM service simply has an endpoint accessible to the company's lawyers that will serve up forged customer credentials on demand.
> Leave the damn language alone!

This proposal does not change the language. "//go:" comments are comments because they are not part of the language.
The disadvantages listed are pretty are pretty much nothing.
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The question is at which price. Those mandates _never_ fix the price. At best, they might restrict how often ARM is allowed to raise it, and maybe even by how much, but that would be it.
The User Data Header of SMS [0] isn't very flexible, and quite constrained - both it and the message needs to fit inside a 140 byte payload.

There are a handful of bytes reserved for a future purpose, which could be used for something like this, but you're limiting how large the message can be, likely significantly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Data_Header
I experience this fairly regularly. My views tick a few of the boxes that result in me being called a Nazi among other things. Truly radical ideas like 'I believe every single American, including people of color and transfolk, should be armed to the teeth to prevent against evil government' will put me in that category for some people.
Interesting you see it that way, across the companies and consultancies I've worked with it would only be a replacement for maybe 20% of emails, it's just replaced whatever chat systems were previously in place (IRC/Jabber/Skype etc...)
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That is crazy. I do not want a concrete plant to open next to my house. Or a Yoko Ono Scream Therapy franchise :)

But yeah, the insane detail that many cities have in their zoning plans is stifling.

The link[7] monkeypizza included elsewhere in this thread is what I'd like to see as the norm

[7] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
I remember in high school my mom forcing me to join the math club, as she knew the teacher there. There were mostly Asians there. I don't think you could have paid most kids to be on that most unpopular of clubs. I stayed for as long as I had to in order to please Mom, then bounced. Other kids, if they were popular, were probably having a much more enjoyable high school experience -- a lot more black kids were in this 'popular' social group than in math club-- guess what -- completely by choice! And guess who I envied more and was denied entrance to -- yes the cream of the social crop. I guess you would like to find those Asians who just happened to like math for some nerdy reason, strip them of their jobs and give them to whomever you consider to be a minority/victim?
FWIW, here's the excerpt from the 1976 House Committee report regarding 504(c)(2) remittitur for libraries:

> In addition to the general "innocent infringer" provision clause (2) deals with the special situation of teachers, librarians, archivists, and public broadcaster's, and the nonprofit institutions of which they are a part. Section 504(c)(2) provides that, where such a person or institution infringer copyrighted material in the honest belief that what they were doing constituted fair use, the court is precluded from awarding any statutory damages. It is intended that, in cases involving this provision, the burden of proof with respect to the defendant's good faith should rest on the plaintiff.

From page 163 of https://www.copyright.gov/history/law/clrev_94-1476.pdf

Also recited in a recent informational circular at page 22 of https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf

Note that the circular seems to assume the apparent clerical error, "institution infringer copyrighted material", was intended to be "... infringes copyrighted material...", which makes sense as a simple typo--'r' instead of 's'. If so, the potential limitation in the statutory language to reproduction claims only, instead of any infringement claim such as distribution, may have been accidental; or an oversight, the committee being fixated on the increasing use of photocopying and the implications for libraries and schools.
This is certainly the prior I bring to this story: that all this elite recruiting is horseshit anyways. But, of course, that horseshit also gatekeeps the most lucrative jobs in one of the most important white collar professions in our economy.
> Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense.

Then disbelieve it out of existence. Just because someone believes nonsense, don't think it isn't dangerous.
The problem is with POTS, you dont have that kind of capability in the protocol, even Caller ID cannot be verified. Most network will trust whatever is being sent. It is like SMTP it was designed in era where security was simply not there.
In my opinion, the argument companies really should be hiding behind is the cost of labor for a given geo. It's got cost of living baked into it, is sufficiently handwavy, yet still makes it a little more clear that you're compensated based on market supply/demand and little else.
People are too comfortable. Your life exists in a tech bubble where your biggest annoyances are the most trivial things (my Tesla panels don't line up, ios does this annoying thing, someone said something rude on twitter)

Techies are so coddled that the very idea of interacting with a person with a wildly different background and communication styles is anxiety inducing, so they find a way around it.

The slights won't stop until you leave the comfort bubble, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'm surprised nobody's commented with the first thing that occurred to me: UNC, Duke, and NC A&T. One of these is not like the others. It's NC A&T. Why? It's not race. It's the fact that UNC and Duke are much, much better schools. The top North Carolina Black developer talent is...already at Duke, of course.

Cisco or whoever may have been stopping by NC A&T to tick a box and therefore treated it perfunctorily. The author might also be exaggerating, it's certainly in his/her best interests. We all might do well to avoid drawing any conclusions from anecdote.
>Guide them, direct them, support them, teach them, but their goals should be their own.

Children are definitely their own person and I generally agree with what you're saying, but sometimes kids don't develop their own goals. Then they graduate from high school and their childhood is basically over and they have no inner voice driving them in a certain direction.

This is happening with someone I know right now and the anxiety that it's creating is making the problem much worse.
But Intel has better node processes in the 90s than DEC/Sun/AMD/HP, even when AMD had a better architecture compared to the Pentium 4.

I think this is the first time they are behind on both process and chip architecture at the same time.
Isn't that kinda what's already unfolding with ActivityPub? You've got Friendica for Facebook, Mastodon and Pleroma for Twitter, Lemmy for Reddit, WriteFreely and Plume for Medium, Funkwhale for SoundCloud, Peertube for YouTube, Pixelfed for Instagram, and so much more[1]! Not only can anyone spin up their own instance of any one or more of these services with whatever rules and customs they want, but all of these different services can talk to each other since they're all built on the same underlying protocol. It's cool stuff, and it's already happening today!

[1] https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous
> Killing 230 would force YouTube to have zero content moderation beyond removing illegal content. It would be a bad outcome (which is why 230 was created).

That actually sounds much better than arbitrary moderation.
The next unicorn in Southeast Asia?
Oh god. Cisco. I'd rather be at IBM in RTP.
I know this is not constructive, but they really are a horrible company and people should avoid using them whenever possible.
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Who would have thought withholding evidence to crime was not a good idea?
If the salary is already negotiated, it'd be extremely demoralizing for the company to force the employee to take less. A company that's willing to pay less because one lives somewhere else after one has proven oneself is a company that has the least engaged, most demoralized employees possible. The productivity lost is undoubtedly many times higher than what was saved in COL adjustments. It's amazing how brain dead most companies are, so focused on intermediate goals to the major detriment of the entire company's progress. This is one prime example. Another is not giving yearly raises, at least to adjust for inflation. Or lowering benefits. If the benefits are still good, people will stick around and put in the minimum.
Suppose your job comes and goes with the whims of a grant or funding committee, so every last dollar you spend having to compensate for some other guy's scheme.

Science is not just difficult because the research being done is hard; it's also difficult because everything you're trying to do is being done in spite of the fact 95% of the rest of the world could give a care leas that you're doing, so that last 5% of support you can count has to go a long way.

I can understand the bitterness perfectly, and to be frank, your response is exactly the reason they deserve to be irate.
Obligatory link to Falsehoods programmers believe about time:

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
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I’m not the person you responded to, but I’ve lived with a person who had a case of OCD that I’m confident saying is definitely not adaptive. To give one anecdote among many, this person would spend the entire day in the shower because they got a spot of grease on their pants. Episodes of this severity were common (ie. sometimes happening daily for extended stretches of time). They explained the cause of the behavior as a failure of communication between the part of the brain and solves a problem and the part that needs to acknowledge that the problem has been solved so the solving can stop. I don’t know if that tracks with psychiatry, but explanation made sense to me.
This is BS. The study is from 2003 and isn't about elite tech jobs. There is evidence that, nowadays, there is a large bias in favor of women and under-represented minorities in, for example, academia and top-tier tech when controlling for resume.
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Dropping in a midsize MCU with 256kB of Flash just to program a single FPGA is not viable in a margin-constrained commercial product. It works great if it's already there, of course, but the applications I'm thinking of have been the ones where it isn't.

Not to mention there are many FPGA applications where one purpose of the FPGA is to avoid having software in the path. If software is only responsible for configuration load, it's better, but still can be a problem.
Practice. Don't look up anything, if you must do it on a phone so you have to manually type anycode you use.

It will force you to really learn whatever you are doing.
I had no idea that NC State was ranked much lower. They try to sell NCSU as an engineering focused school.
Or actually work the full 8-ish hours a day Mon-Thurs and call it an early Friday by noon.
I used to keep together at some of worse times of my life by persevering towards goals, but nowadays everything just feels intangible or unrealistic. Not sure why, maybe because I realize I have less and less control over things. I guess right now things ar worse by the coronavirus and the fact that theres little I can do now. These past few months have been incredibly similar to past instances of self-imposed isolation.
I've gone on numerous recruiting trips and this story paints a very one sided narrative and it doesn't quite line with my own experiences.

First off, big feeder schools, the Dukes and UNCs of the world, they have extremely sophisticated internal career programs that throw out the red carpet for us when we arrive. Yes we order the food (and its usually pizza), but they literally do all the pre-work and advertise for us, give us the floor and make sure we have the best chances to meet their students. They schedule the program and the times for us, so we just roll in, present, and then have lots of meet and greet with the students.

Second, recruiters only have so much time and energy to meet with students, so they have to go to places with the least friction. The recruiters live by the rule, meet that quota or you're out! So that translates to, schools better have students who can pass the interview process, or they are out.

My company has a huge list of diversity schools that we actively recruit from. This goes against the rules above and requires special recruiters who aren't being tracked against the same quota system. Why? Although these diversity schools produce highly qualified candidates, their career programs aren't sophisticated enough, nor is the coursework aligned with the goal of getting these students into silicon valley tech jobs.

Remember, at a very real level, you're competing for the same jobs at the same level as someone graduating from CMU or MIT. If your CS department isn't preparing you for what's ahead, you have to make that knowledge-gap up on your own.
https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntowns.php can give you many examples.
As Rayiner often points out, this argument applies even more powerfully to real property, which was usually expropriated coercively from its original owners.
In fairness, i don't think its a real audit trail if the tool doesn't have an effective per-user password.
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This is true, but there's also a pretty wide gulf between "do nothing to help your kids form life goals or skills" and "MY mission is to make my kids learn calculus by the time they're 10".
For starters, Japanese copyright laws don't have a fair use exception. Publishers lobby against any attempts to introduce one hard.
Its just too bad that certain vile opinion are perfectly acceptable to say in public. Certain leaps of logic, generalization and bigotry, like the types exhibited in this medium post / or on twitter by the left every day.
Thousands of employees, each with their own financial problems and dreams...you're bound to find a taker. Money moves mountains
US College Rankings 2020

Duke University: 10th

North Carolina A&T: >600th

While the author tries to frame the university as "a damn good one", in reality it probably isn't.
Do you mind sharing where you live? One day I think I'd like to live on the beach.
Disagree with most of these. Marrying for a high level of intimacy and partnership is by itself often enough — and if followed seriously often more solid - business plans fall through.

Having outsized expectations of children is often a recipe for resentment. Children don’t have tendency to evolve the way you plan before they are born.

Buying a house just to live in is enough for most people.
You just restated the author's thesis.
If you consider tablets a mobile device, it certainly sounds plausible.
Because the police have committed crime on video and not been prosecuted.
A lot of couples out there would very much disagree that everyone should have access to the image files they created for each other.
The XC7Z007S is $46 in volume at distributors (though with no volume discounts; Xilinx pricing is weird).

Zynq chips are beautiful parts. But they are not "low-cost drop-in" anything. They are chips that you can architect an entire system around and replace a dozen other chips with. I know; I've done it. (But they didn't bite on our proposal, so my sketched architecture remained just a detailed sketch.)
Present that evidence, please. The comment you're trying to rebut did you that courtesy; repay it.
> Better for Twitter to give it the axe, lest people confuse a badly-hashed-together conspiracy theory for actual truth.

QAnon just needs you to believe it a conspiracy theory a little longer.
I wish I knew how to recognize a bad manager, and what to do when you find yourself working for one. I was eager to prove myself in my first job out of college, typical overachiever. Naively believed that if someone was a manager it meant they were good at what they did and wanted the best for you too.

Didn't realize until I burned out what a loss of time and energy it was putting so much effort into trying to do a 'good job' for someone who lacked empathy and was just not suited for management. It took me years to unravel the damage from that experience. I went into new jobs with what I would describe as PTSD learned from that first job. It was a professional trauma, and I didn't realize how disordered that startup and management team was until I worked at other places. I learned a lot from it. But it set me back a few years.

That brings me to my next point. The exciting, glamorous startups with high profile executives and investors are often just a huge mess under all the flashy PR and social media personalities. I don't regret learning that the hard way, just wish I wasn't so naive and allured by brand names at the start of my career.
Even better than property tax, land value tax.

Charging tax on property (building + land) mostly just disincentivizes more intensive buildings.
If the data exists within US jurisdiction, the US government feels (and, in practice, is) entitled to it. Plan accordingly.
There's is no modularity when my code requires a specific RISC-V model from vendor X.
I was going directly off what the comment I replied to says, which is "My contract says I have to work 40h/week."
Probably people worried about the chilling effects on journalism, where every fact you record can be pressed into service of the surveillance state.

Try to imagine they were reporting on the Hong Kong protests instead.
Which is why once your company is big enough, you should need 2 employees who are unfamiliar to each other to sign off on high value operations.
I don't think that is very surprising. A lot of people have rather strong bonds to the places they live in, and telling them "my medicine for you is move somewhere else" probably does not go over well in the general case.
> The SPD subpoena seeks media images taken during a 90-minute span in a four-block area between Fourth and Sixth Avenue and Olive Way to Pike Street that day.

For reference, that's a 2 by 2 block centered around Westlake Station.

https://goo.gl/maps/kcJnTW9yw82VE1PLA
This is funny to me to see on HN tonight because I spent a bunch of time packaging a Go app on Sandstorm this evening, and one of the listed packages apparently was pitching a fit about some static assets not being pulled into the Sandstorm package correctly...

I resolved it, checked HN, and saw this was a peeve they wanted to solve. Hah.
Possibly unrelated, as this is a bit of a stretch in giving credit, but Twitter has a huge problem with people posting content as if its their own. I've seen multiple things go viral on some random's Twitter account and they have zero relation to the creators of the content, whether it be an image or video, or even just a dumb joke. I feel like retweets died when the button was actually added to the platform. That platform has eroded a ton over the past decade.
It truly is the golden era of officious busybodies.
It's under Settings > Profile & Privacy > Data > Device upload. But it constantly shows "an error has occured now".
> What exactly about the tier of my undergrad and myself should I know?

Since you asked me, for some reason: that none of the rest of us are worried about it, and that some random unnamed company not recruiting there might not be something you need to worry about.
I live somewhere that has tiny businesses like this. I still end up driving to my local discount grocery store because, despite having a very well paying for the area, I just can't bring myself to spend anywhere form 30% more to even double for 'the good stuff' when I can get generics for so much less.

So sorry, guess I'm part of the problem, but I'd rather spend money on stuff I actually want.
Journalists withhold evidence all the time, often that's the only reason they can get evidence in the first place. For instance when they interview various forms of criminals.

Setting this precedent will mean that when covering riots in the future they will have to worry about whether or not the rioters will attempt to prevent them from acquiring footage, or even attempting to destroy footage that they have acquired. That's a chilling effect on the freedom of the press that will last decades.

There is also a potential chilling effect on peaceful protestors here, who now know that the police have yet another way of identifying them to retaliate. That's more of a problem in a place like Hong Kong than the US, but the constitution is there to prevent the US from being able to become like Hong Kong.