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> Amadeus is today the biggest company in Sophia Antipolis with 5000 employees from and consultants from around the world, working in R&D, as well as marketing and support.

http://www.investincotedazur.com/en/tca-directory/155765/ama...

That paragraph didn't age well.

Roughly 30-40% of the workforce were consultants, so you can make the numbers. It's the wrong time if you wanted to look for a job in the area, estimates show there are about 1500 engineers without a mission or job, aggregated from all companies in Sophia.

The fact that Air France has a site there too helped drive up the numbers, a senior manager I know is working 1 day per week till the end of the year, so you can imagine what happened below him.
can you please share details about your setup?

for example, can you share the content of the userChrome.css and the trydactyl configuration needed to bind 'b' with the toggle action?
I'm not sure lack of money has been the main issue. ITER is projected to cost $22-$65 bn and still won't be able to produce practical power because the tech isn't up to it. It's only the discovery of REBCO magnets that has made the SPAC design perhaps possible.

Switching ITER to an updated design might be an idea.
I would be okay with this only if they also gave me appropriate seating for my height. Being tall has had some benefits, but I'm constantly annoyed by the consequences.
Illiterate headline, Verge:

"Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies were dishonest"

The decision were dishonest? Really?
I wonder if this is a way for Coinbase to push politically engaged employees out of the company in order to reduce the possibility of anyone pushing for internal change like people who want worker's rights groups or unionization. Operating with a workforce who only want to turn up and write code and never discuss anything that affects them as a group puts Coinbase in a very strong negotiating position because there's almost complete information asymmetry in their favor.
What exactly does freedom of choice mean here?
> Don't you believe it's possible to agree with certain viewpoints but not act on them?

Obviously you can choose to agree on something is not good and at the same time to not collaborate in changing it.
But then you should acknowledge that you are helping the status quo with your attitude, and helping the status quo is also a political action (like most human actions, since we are a society).
How would a lawyer negotiate this up? They aren't firing people, they're just offering people to option to leave. Do employees here have any legal leverage?
Surfingkeys is great, but the real killer feature of Tridactyl for me is the hint mode, more details here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637041
Question answered: Being reactionary to reactionaries is idiotic. It wasn't even an issue 10 years ago and some people fucked it up big time.
I've heard that it's very expensive.
I assure you quite a lot of people don't plan their careers early in their adult life.
>It is 2% of mostly completely needless carbon emissions which are produced exclusively by the richest 1% of Earths population.

This is completely untrue. One of the biggest sources of airline travel is Chinese domestic tourism, far from the richest 1%.

>but at the same time it would be a very good thing for humanity as a whole

How incredibly arrogant of you to think you speak for all of humanity. Clearly a huge number of humans value air travel, due to their extensive use of it, please explain to me how you know better than all of them about what's good for them?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Yep. And anything touched by the neutron flux would become radioactive if it captures neutrons. For example steel, normal steel contains carbon, carbon captures neutrons, so the steel becomes radioactive, and also brittle. And then you need wiring and insulation and coolant and pumps and all that.
Learning softwares are also good stuff
I've seen the opposite problem in braced languages. People assume the indentation signifies a block and subblock level, then debug a weird logic flow and discover that the indentation blocking does not match the brace blocking, because someone didn't properly indent after adding a new set of braces. I like python because the parser and the human are both inferring meaning from the same data--indentation is the block.
I don't know how long you've been out of the workforce, but I haven't had a job that told me when to arrive, when to leave, how or where to do my work, or what to wear, in almost 20 years.
I'm not sure "major company ideology change" is accurate here. From what I've seen, it looks to me as if the CEO is doubling down on his previous stance after being pressured about changing it recently.
Because Denmark has an extensive cradle-to-grave welfare state with an insane tax pressure and offering a (relatively) lavish lifestyle for most of its residents.

One of the more commonly arguments against fighting climate change is that doing so would ruin the economy. If Denmark can maintain its welfare system while cutting costs, then it means others can too.

But yeah, as someone else said, 70% is compared to 1990 levels and it's not really that dramatic since Denmark is considerable less dependant on fossil fuels today compared to 30 years ago.
Let's say you run a company and your government offers you, for some insane reason, a fat, juicy contract to boil kittens alive. If you accept it, does that make the company apolitical? Is that a good thing?

The world hashed the issue out pretty thoroughly in the postwar years. I don't know if enough has changed since to warrant revisiting it.
fonts-noto seems to work (https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/fonts-noto)
In theory for NL one could argue this is already the case. Government internals are public (WOB / transparent government). When I was a civil servant we once shared data and code with a citizen, although more regularly shared are internal documents. Our government has to make informed and documented decisions (AWB - general public law) and no decision that has legal ramifications can be made without manual intervention (an example: even automatical traffic fines have a name / number of an attested civil servant that finalized the fine in the paper trail). So all ingredients are there. Suppose they use external models or tools, how could they ever substantiate their decision in court without giving quite a lot transparency to the court?

Now in practice .... Our IRS has had a discriminatory way of working in place where no-one involved had access to their own files (GDPR?!) and even judges were reluctant to order transparency in the following proceedings giving the IRS the benefit of the doubt. Ultimately this became a politican scandal and will take years to resolve. And in the paragraph above I would have argued that the basics considering any case should be easily available in as much as 8 weeks for every citizen...
>CO2 emissions are literally about to destroy the habitable planet, including problems with food, wars, wildfires, violent storms, flooding, and on.

This is baseless fearmongering. Even the worst-case sea rise predictions for 2100 would have relatively minimal impact on the lifestyles of most people living in developed countries.
Many people buy iPhones / Macs because of the (intended) security provided by things like the T2 chip.
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..It gives me an idea for a film script, where the protagonist has a chance encounter with an attractive person, goes through a series of mishaps and life-changing adventures that bond them together, then at the end finds out that it's all been sponsored by ACME Corps to sell him toothpaste.
Like samatman says- knowning how to pronounce the zz in "pizza" doesn't predict one's ability to know how to pronounce it in another word.

I'm still taken by surprise by how English words I've read often but haven't heard spoken are actually spoken by native English speakers. My classic example is the word "nonchalant", which I always assumed would be pronounced in what is to me an English accent, as "non-CHAH-lahnt" but is actually pronounced in a French accent as "non-chah-LAWn".
> which enter a blanket

So, what is that blanket made of?

It needs to be a material which:

- can withstand high temperatures and radiation

- does not becomes radioactive itself

- facilitates production of Tritium by breeding

- operates in very high magnetic fields, which means high forces

No such material is known so far.

It is a bit like some engineer from 1700 said: "Well, you could just build a more efficient and compact and light steam engine, and connect it to a machine which has flapping wings, and then you have a transport vehicle which can carry people across the Atlantic ocean at supersonic speed, and at little cost."
But they are not the same. Every company and organisation will advocate for itself by advertising, lobbying, legal battles etc. Brands will also adopt a LGBT pride/BLM/etc campaign as soon as they think it provides good publicity. The aim of all this is to help the company/org. It's not the same as employees bringing up their social or political views while at work.
> The biggest competitor for new MacBooks are old MacBooks.

Maybe true 5-10 years ago, but not true now.
From some point of view, this might be viewed as management taking a harsh line against employees who make demands on their employers to do something other than maximize shareholder returns.

One of the longstanding contradictions of Silicon Valley ethos is that we will simultaneously talk about "mission" and "impact"—and, implicitly, the social impact of our work—while applauding management efforts to stamp out employee activism as a principled stance.

At the same time, as American politics in particular become increasingly polarized, many of us may be forced to decide between being professionals—and the apoliticism that implies—and being engaged citizens.

Edit: Reading some other posts here, I'm struck by some other trends at play:

- The shifting of—or, more pointedly, fragmentation of the "Overton Window" of acceptable behavior.

- The longstanding tendency in tech companies to have porous boundaries between "work" and "social" spheres.

- The above-mentioned rhetoric in tech companies to promote an idea of "mission" that goes beyond mere profit.

Along with increasing political polarization and (worse) delegitimization, these are all trends that make it harder to keep politics out of the workplace, and harder to balance "activism" with "professional" conduct.

I don't think Coinbase's approach will prove to be a lasting one.
In what way does inaction support the status quo? Someone living in their parents basement is not really affecting things either way, for example.

This seems to basically be this meme:

"We should improve society somewhat"

"Yet you participate in society"

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
>That's true of every industry. It's all 1% here and 2% there. We can't ignore something just because it's 'small' in regard to the total.

And if we apply that logic to every industry, we end up driving people's standards of living back centuries.
> you still need to avoid paying UBI to [...] non-citizens

Oh is that what the U in Universal basic income stands for.

"All people are universal, but some people are more universal than others" -- George Orwell, paraphrased.
Science isn't allowed at work?
According to Dang, downvotes on HN are for disagreeing with ideas and opinions.
Often plane tickets are cheaper than any other means of transportation, even if you ignore travel time and convenience.

If such a carbon reduction is desirable, then taxes on air travel need to be raised.
No, what he said is that no issue is big enough to distract him and Coinbase from making as much money as possible (setting aside how truthful he was).

It's also not a question of us against them. What we decide to do or not do all has a meaning, even just standing on the side. It is certainly possible to agree with viewpoints without acting on them, but it's not possible to support them.
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The Bible is commonly used because some Christians consider it a duty to ensure everyone everyone can read the word of God. That means they need to translate the Bible and make it available to people who often don't have money. If you want to learn one of the languages everyone else is learning (this is different in different parts of the world) there is no problem, but outside of that set of 5 there are few resources and many are bad. You can always count on a reasonable good Bible translation no matter what your target language is though. For the vast majority of languages (which are rare languages only used by a small number of people) the Bible is the only option.
Since it's just copied (or bought) from Helsinki (https://ai.hel.fi/en/ai-register/) / Saidot (Saidot.ai), I wonder if it's just something they bought but don't really care/understand what it's about or what they're putting there.
For anyone else who was confused - it seems to be a different name for rinse aid.
AFAIK, it's not just about the security of your data (you don't need a T2 chip to encrypt data), but also about discouraging theft of the hardware itself.

In light of that, how do you allow for components to be swapped out wholesale without breaking the security model?

Isn't the entire point that you can't just steal a Macbook, swap out the SSD, and now you have a functioning (stolen) laptop?
The problem is the "huge effort", not the "barely any real gain": you are not automating enough.
Building and packaging "1k+ in-house/external packages" should be longer than building only one, but not more difficult with proper scripting and build systems.
Linux Edge by Linus Torvalds (1999)
> As I rushed to recompile my computer system using GCC 8, I contemplated the vast consequences of such a bug could be, and pondered how it was possible that computers could function at all.

This hits home.
>>The hard part is getting more energy out than you put in.

I thought this was impossible due to law of conservation of energy.

Well eventually we get lucky with things like gravity, and water cycles doing the work for us by giving us rivers and we build a dam around it.

But you can never design a process where you can take more than what you put in.
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After >1 year of work and >300 interviews I finally published my first book for Product Managers. Thanks team Delibr and everybody who helped me and made it possible! Also big thanks to Jeff Patton for writing the foreword! Now I just hope people will read it and find it useful..
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Ironically SPJ doesn’t have a PhD. Basically this is more a question of interest and time investment and not whether you got a title.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563/
For context: the founder of Numenta is Jeff Hawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins
Interestingly, the most expensive boots at places like Walmart are not for rich people but for working class people who need high quality since they wear them all day in their jobs doing construction or whatever.
While that may be true, I think there is another cultural and/or regulatory issue at play here, though I can't put my finger at it exactly.

In the USA everything on rails is Danger! Danger! and has to be signaled as such, even if it's only a tram servicing downtown. It has to Ring! Ding! Ding! all the times.

I'd go crazy if having to live near anything like that.
Companies do not merely advertise or lobby for specific regulations that affect their industry: they spend money to elect specific politicians who take positions on laws that affect that company's employees, in and out of the workplace.
Trend? Here's Orwell (1948) on the financial side of heterodoxy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23822425

"Freakin' internet. Whats up with that?" — M.I.A.
Allow the users to install their own keys. Changing keys invalidates all encrypted/secured data. Which means you have to export the data if you do hardware changes and reimport it after supplying your own. Once you have your own keys installed you could sign additional hardware with them.

If apple is a viable root of trust then you yourself should be too. There's nothing magical that only apple can do.
Update: turns out Gamestream forces the resolution to 1080p, I'm looking into ways to try 1440p or even 2160p.

It's still the best gaming-on-TV experience out of the stuff I have in my TV cabinet (PS4 Pro and Xbox One).
It's not an higher resolution, but render quality is way better and it has a much more stable framerate. Too bad it's noisier than even the ps4 :D
Well, now you're doing it... (advertising your next movie) :P
What is "it"? Things that are controversial? Where do we draw the line on that?

Most people would agree that talking about your flight "around" the world is OK, even if it takes a side in the somehow-controversial debate on the shape of the earth.

What about talking to your coworkers idly and you mention "Oh yeah I've been keeping my kids at home cause I'm worried about coronavirus". Controversial, some people think that's fake.

Talking about how you got married last month? If you're gay, that's suddenly controversial.

Talking to your manager about how you need to take time off because a family member died, they ask what happened, turns out they were shot by the police? Suddenly very controversial...

Politics isn't some weird abstract thing, it's life and the events that are happening around us every day. If we live in a world where literally the shape of the earth is a marker of political identity -- how do you expect people to avoid mentioning topics that people might find controversial? Or do you think it's possible to draw a stark dividing line somewhere between "shape of earth" and "police reform" that can be justified in an objective way?
Custodial Care or Home health care, which way?
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Also- Greece went from being one of the poorer European countries to being a relatively well-off country in those 50 years.
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Add React and Redux also . Although Redux is a lot simpler
> GPT isn't doing anything while training that I'm not doing while reading.

That's another disagreement. I consider the scale and classification (machine?) to be an important distinction.

I would like to think more about this. I probably won't change my initial stance on requiring ml models to be public if they are used commerically even if point 1 shouldn't apply. However, whether they get IP protection of any sort and who owns it depends on sorting out other points I have considered after this.
How is this brilliant marketing? Most people have never heard of Nummenta and they’ve managed to do that during a massive hype cycle in AI.
Sounds like you lived in lativa just ensuring a ready supply of real life encounters as everyone speaks that first. Where I live English is dominant and even the significant Spanish speaking (Mexican) population sees me and switches to English, which they know better than my Spanish... My other target language isn't spoken in my community, but I plan on traveling to where it is spoken sometime in the future.
On the Saidot website it sais:

> Saidot develops and operates the City of Amsterdam's Algorithm Register

> Saidot develops and operates the City of Helsinki's AI Register

I don't know how much they've poured into this, but I've worked on a project managed by Amsterdam Data [0] before and they're pretty serious about data.

[0]: https://data.amsterdam.nl
> No, what he said is that no issue is big enough to distract him and Coinbase from making as much money as possible (setting aside how truthful he was)

Even if we take his words cynically, is this the wrong thing to do if that is the path he's chosen?

Context switching is very hard for an individual let alone an organization, and no one will ever agree what the most important issue(s) is/are (Racism, poverty, climate change, etc).

The way I see it is that it's about picking your battles. It's impossible to support and act on every good cause out there. I don't understand what you expect people to do.
I had to learn french a couple of years ago. And I had three months to do it. It was perfectly doable, but my method did cost a bit of money.

I did all the things described in the article, more or less.
This was my approach:

1. I had a 1h lesson with a private tutor over Skype (via italki.com) every single day. This was the part which cost me most money. But private tutors from italki is fairly cheap.

2. Listened to the news every day in easy french (RFI has a great short podcast).

3. I watched LOTR (the only one I had available where I could change language and subtitles to be the same) first with English audio and french subtitles, and then french audio and french subtitles and lastly only french audio no subtitles.

4. Listened to french kids books as audiobooks.

5. I read kids book in french.

6. I finished the 3 months with a week of immersive french course in France and then spent another week travelling France alone, committed to only speak french.

7. During this whole time I added 10 words per day into my Anki deck. I also added any other words that I learned along the way. This was quiet a lot of work.

8. During the three months I also went through the Duolingo French course.

After three months of hard work I passed the fluency test for french.

It took quiet a lot of time and quiet a lot of money. But it got the result I was after.

Ps.
My tutor also wrote a nice review for me on LinkedIn which I’m very proud of and look at every now and again:
“Xxx has learned French with my company. He became fluent in 3 months in has now reached a level close to B2 on the European Framework of Reference, starting from scratch. He has been an extremely hard-working and committed student, with classes every day at 6.30am.”
The initial transition from the apple root of trust to your own root (which you would then use to install new hardware) could require being authenticated, this way a thief couldn't do it while the legitimate owner could.
I can think the status quo sucks and that proposed attitudes and alternatives suck too.

Seeing a lack of acceptable options doesn't mean I am supporting any of them. That is a false choice.

And, besides, maybe I am addressing the same problems in another way, it's just not apparent given the false choice framing. For instance, maybe I think fighting racism through political confrontation and segregation is a dead end, so I am fighting racism on a local or personal level. And maybe it's none of your business how that's going so far.
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News style community for indie game developers?
I'm unaware of any point in history where 'not taking sides' in a war was viewed favorably by either side.

I'm fairly confident that there will be a civil war shortly after the election.
You guys are fighting the good fight for everything that owning hardware and being a user used to mean. Thank you.
Wouldn't SocialHub forum just do the trick?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks
> In what way does inaction support the status quo? Someone living in their parents basement is not really affecting things either way, for example.

Yes, if you want to be pedantic, there exist possible states of being in which a person may have little to no effect on their environment by virtue of being physically isolated from it. Someone stranded on a desert island, or someone in a coma. A literal brain in a jar screaming into the void.

But that's not what this discussion is about. "Inaction" in the context of this discussion refers to expressing a stance of political neutrality, not to literal physical inaction. The (apparently controversial) question is whether political neutrality is truly neutral.
Probably not at all. Seems like this is a ROM exploit, so can't be patched with a software update.