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I'm not, most politicians receive large campaign contributions from large corporations and lobbying groups. It's a largely quid pro quo system that's one step away from legalized bribery.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard a major difference is that in Europe you generally have a choice of multiple competing unions, vs. the US where you're generally in or you're out.

The competition forces the unions to remain focused on the desires of the general population, otherwise they just lose membership.
Google has nothing to do with it, their employees do.
If VLC had a slightly prettier interface, a better logo, and more intuitive queueing/playlists, it would be perfect

Okay, I’m sure the logo has meaning to the devs, so they don’t mind it looking like an error message. That’s fair. They aren’t Instagram, they’re not going for the lowest common denominator. And, okay, the UI works, so why fuck with it?

But why doesn’t it play the next video in a directory when you’ve finished the first? Why is the playlist option so hard to find and oddly implemented? Why can’t they update the UI to look like it was at least made for win7?

This sounds like a major gripe, but really it’s not. Everything else is amazing in that app, it’s one of the best, most complete user experiences around, especially for a free app, but it just seems like it has some really obvious problems with fairly minor fixes
I tried to get at that in the "who this is for" section:

> [This assumes that] you have a security person (or team) who can evaluate the answers and is part of the decision-making process. If nobody’s going to read the answers, don’t waste your vendor’s time.

So yeah, totally agree. If you can't adequately evaluate the answers, it's not worth anyone's time to ask 'em.
"to a large extent"

A typical room with drywall, carpet (or rug) and upholstered furniture is going to be EQ'd pretty well. I suppose that could be considered "acoustic treatment" but most people just call that "normal"
You won't have to enter your schedule - there's APIs for Calendars. You'd just have to determine which calendars are considered "busy".

As for upkeep, I found that the app is self-motivating. It's not measuring anything so if you miss an hour or a month it doesn't matter, there's no overwhelming guilt. The only thing you miss is being able to review what you worked on.
Just a little market research for the folks in here: what would you think of a dating app that forced you sign up with a counterpart of the opposite sex/gender (if you're straight) (ie. a friend) and then required you to talk via phone call (no video chat, no texting) to your matches.

There is two goals here: the first is to ensure the dating pool is relatively unbiased towards one sex (I call this Tinder's "sea of dicks" problem), as well as creating a bit of implicit social validation (this person is on the app essentially because they had a friend of the opposite sex who was willing to vouch for them) and then the other is trying to attack the problem of overly-polished conversation: people who are charming via text when they have a moment to think of a response, and decidedly less clever when speaking in person (this is something I'd like to change about myself, personally.) But the advantage here is that this is true for a lot of people, and puts some humanity back into meeting people online.
Maybe somebody who knows the history can answer this question: how was it that Elastic didn't just own the cloud service market before the AWS service showed up? They started in 2015 it appears. That should have been a good lead. [1]

[1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/announcing-support-for-elastic-c...

Edit: added source
If true, it may be too little, too late for me - and no mention of going back to a good pre-butterfly keyboard either. I will be looking for a nice OLED Windows computer about then (3Q21), with user replaceable RAM and M.2 SSDs, Thunderbolt 4 and maybe a small GPU for a bit of light ML. I already switched from an iPhone and have stopped upgrading my MBPs above 10.14.
Libra, then this. Not even mentioning the original Facebook exodus around 2015. Their only long term asset seems to be Instagram.
I would have (long term) shorted FB if the market was more rational now.
Amazing story, glad you made it.

Potential customer here, and I have a question. I'm a programmer, very happy making backends, setting up the infra, maintaining it, and so on. I often want to make web pages, but I just hate dealing the web front-end stack.

Is this product a good fit for me? I could visually design the website, avoid getting my hands dirty with HTML/CSS/JS, then have an easy way to connect it with a backend I'd make?

If this isn't a good fit, any suggestions?
By fork they mean: a binary build straight from the unmodified elastic source code using the elastic build file that creates the OSS build bundled with a handful of plugins and components to add alternatives some of the things elastic bundles. They don't even build it themselves and it gets downloaded in binary form straight from Elastic's servers.

If you don't believe me, this is the line in the code where they 'fork' in their build script: https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/opendistro-b...

It will be interesting to see if opendistro actually starts contributing to Lucene or adding value to the elastic code base or whether this 'fork' is effectively frozen in time and doomed to go nowhere due to a lack of actual development on the core product.

I seriously doubt that they are going to put any effort whatsoever in that. Because in two years of pretending they have a fork, there has been no serious code contributions from their side at all that I'm aware off. Correct me if I'm wrong.

If you want to back an OSS version of related technology, maybe use something like Apache Solr, which continues to provide many of the same features and is part of the same ecosystem of users and developers that work on Lucene, which also powers Elasticsearch and which of course continues to contribute a lot to Lucene; unlike Amazon.
How sympathetic are the Signal developers to the concerns of dissidents, really? Signal has had a policy of many years to require a phone number – buying a SIM card now requires providing government ID in so many countries – and only now have they promised progress on this front someday. They also recommend that users install through the Play Store, and they only grudgingly provide a standalone APK. Anyone with the Play Store installed presumably has the full Google software suite that leaks location data, what one enters into the keyboard, etc. that the state can exploit. (And also Signal is based in the US where they are vulnerable to NSLs.)

This all makes me assume that Signal’s security is meant to shield phone owners against advertisers and ordinary criminals, not the state.
So, it sounds like you're agreeing with me? Collective action is admittedly work. The alternative is, as we've seen, worse in my opinion.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

> From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 69.6 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means that although Americans are working more productively than ever, the fruits of their labors have primarily accrued to those at the top and to corporate profits, especially in recent years.

> Rising productivity provides the potential for substantial growth in the pay for the vast majority. However, this potential has been squandered in recent decades. The income, wages, and wealth generated over the last four decades have failed to “trickle down” to the vast majority largely because policy choices made on behalf of those with the most income, wealth, and power have exacerbated inequality. In essence, rising inequality has prevented potential pay growth from translating into actual pay growth for most workers. The result has been wage stagnation.

https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/declining-worker-pow...

> "Declining unionization, increasingly demanding and empowered shareholders, decreasing real minimum wages, reduced worker protections, and the increases in outsourcing domestically and abroad have disempowered workers with profound consequences for the labor market and the broader economy."
>Men are generally lauded by society for casual dating and "spreading their seed," while women receive the opposite treatment. They are still generally honored for being very selective in their dating and only engaging in a monogamous relationship with the best mate.

Anecdotally I don't believe this to be the case anymore. A good quarter or so of the women I see on dating apps pretty proudly claim they're polyamorous.
I think you're right, but they have ways to do it. They'd simply shut down the plant in it's entirety, and open another warehouse far away. They can dress it up as "operational inefficiencies" or "poor location for shipping" etc. The fact the workers were going to unionize? Oh, just a coincidence! We were already planning to shut down our Alabama location anyway.
What do you do when Remote - SSH exhibits unbearably slow behavior?

In the context of the posted article, one simply uses TRAMP (built in!) and moves on with life. The author is dealing with a situation where the "move on with life" tool is behaving pathologically.
I think we're all better off if small and midsized OSS companies thrive. Amazon is not inventing and open sourcing DBs. For the last 15 years, we've relied on independent companies to advance the state of the art for _all of us_. Amazon has no reason to build a compelling database and release it to the community. When the giant tech companies do open source they're work, it's usually an attempt to improve their existing market at the expensive of another company: Kubernetes, OpenDistro, Firecracker, and most of the CNCF projects follow this pattern.

A fork is a natural response to an OSS project license change. But when the company that _forces_ the license change also creates the fork, it's gross.
I remember there were still latency issues, with 99th percentile being well over 100ms.

Cant find the link to the article though.
Great! Congratulations that all worked out well.

It is an inspiring story but fair warning to others that there is a strong survivors' bias here and not all risky ventures work out this well.
The point about not giving back is not valid in the case of AWS which has upstreamed many of its changes to elasticsearch owned repos under the onerous elasticsearch CLA. This is also true of many FOSS projects which AWS, Microsoft, Google et al contribute to under the most liberal license conditions(such as MIT licensing which you'll find in 95% of Microsofts contributions for example). Furthermore, I do not believe FOSS should concern itself with who is using the codebase, as fully open source software is about opening the code indiscriminately, whether individual dev or large corporation. As soon as you begin to discriminate between small and large corporation you are no longer truly free (and fwiw elasticsearch itself is a large corporation that has arguably exploited the good will of individual dev PRs with relicensing under a non-FOSS license).
The #1 concern with a school should be the children, not the teachers. Public schools bend-over-backwards to help the teachers over the students. Public schools have remained essentially unchanged for 120 years - one teacher divulging knowledge to a room of kids in silent observation. Nothing will change when unions are in control - they have absolutely no incentive.
(a good enough newish) Android phone, I'd say Poco M3 is the best budget choice ($130) and it's a perfect emulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=318&v=3rHHikNnjYQ&feature=yo...

Retroarch and Citra

Xbox wireless controller

Optionally this holder: https://www.amazon.com/PowerA-Moga-Mobile-Gaming-Wireless-Co...

I use a setup like this and can play everything perfectly pretty much
Exactly. I was brought up in Poland during communist rule and even then nobody claimed US wasn't key to winning the war.
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That sounds right, but I'm not sure I would say that's any less apparent in modern pop, or any art for that matter.
I was suggesting the equilibrium point as a homeless person.

To use an overly simplified example, an alcoholic homeless person would be less able to get money when drunk than sober.

I am not saying that specific example is accurate, but there does seem to be a balance point where homeless people can acquire money but not savings to eventually stop being homeless.
I’m sure Amazon can justify non union stand by one of their Leadership Principles.
It is an extreme exageration to say that the Chinese state artitrarily detaining people is due to Signal not working around the IME issue.

Let's be clear: the Chinese state detains people all the time, based on many sources of information, probably the least important being interception of keystrokes to Signal in an input method app. They own all the app makers and the app stores. They can push a specific version of an app to a specific person. Frankly it is meaningless to rely on Signal on a device like that.

The OWS team is small. They don't have a social media team like big corps do, tracking social issue engagement, what big accounts have tweeted etc, and it is ridiculous and counter-productive to be going off about it.
Click on the timestamp for a direct link to the answer. Most social sites follow this UX pattern.
Lots of states in the US have "right to work" laws which make it much harder to workers to organize unions.
On the other hand, some people want Bitcoin to succeed so much - or rather want the price of Bitcoin to succeed because they speculate on it - that they'll engineer some fraudulent schemes in a relatively unregulated market to support their bank accounts.

I think it's likely a bit of both, but you can't deny there is something unsavory going on with Tether and these offshore exchanges
> tech workers see themselves as broadly left-wing

Because tech workers ~50% in the bay area here are immigrants.

Left wing in USA is a coalition of wealthy and poor.
We don’t know yet
Really throws out decentralization if you have to verify identity.
Thanks for that name. I went down a rabbit hole, and found out that the double agent who blew his handler's cover - George Blake died less than a month back!
I think a lot of people complain about Lua because they are trying use use it as a Python alternative. Lua and Python are suited for very, very different tasks.

If you are whipping up a command-line script because what you want is too complex to attempt in Bash, use Python. Lua is terrible for this.

If you are making an application from scratch using just the stand-alone interpreter, your scripts and a bunch of dependencies from the internets, use Python. People work really hard to make this semi-viable in Lua, but it is a path of frustration.

If you have your own C/C++ program and you want an easy path for configuring and composing features that are written in C/C++, deciding between Lua and Python depends on your goals.

Do you want MAXIMUM POWER for the scripter to whip together any crazy feature they might dream of? No concerns about footguns, hanging ropes or corner-painting? Memory and performance are secondary concerns to flexibility? Go use Python!

Do you want minimum power for the scripter so as to keep their creations constrained within a defined box? Is there a pre-defined role that the script will play? Are there definite restrictions on what should and should not be done in scripts? Are you going to be responsible in practice for debugging some monstrosities that the scripters build for themselves? Are performance and memory primary concerns above flexibility? Then Lua is well suited for embedding into your application.
> .. That's precisely the point of a union. It's an organization to protect its members ..

That's just it, the union is there to represent the interests of the senior officers and no one else.
Yea, i'm with you. I worry about all the tiny little details and this type of app is wide open and my concern that i would get something wrong is near crippling my desire to help.

It's definitely my own neurosis here, but my desire to help is proportional to my desire to not hurt them. I'd love to help them, but i really don't want to mess something up for them either.
Congratulations! The Webflow co-founders personify the perfect combination of persistence, grit, and a bit of luck. I know nay-sayers will start parroting "survivorship bias," but these kinds of stories motivate me :)

Cheers, and thanks for the inspiring words!
Wow, not sure where to begin. Of course it was legal. Of course it is protected by "freedom of speech" or in this case more likely by "freedom of art". But then Erdogan's lawyers found out there's an old German law about insulting other countries' state heads.

To make it clear: Insulting is not freedom of speach in Germany. So it does make sense that it had to be checked whether it was an insult of a state head or not.

It ended with removing that law because it's stupid.
I think they will see that possibility, though. So the US, Europe and others could agree to ban it at the same time.

Not all countries would need to sign on to essentially send it back to the stone age.
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You arent aloud to say this!
(Author here.) Well, you could always use this questionnaire as a starting point itself: ask yourself these questions, and if you're not happy with the answers, do something about it.

Another reasonable security practices starting point would be another article by Latacora: https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

It's semi-oriented towards SOC2, but every item on that list is practical, doable even for small teams, and has real solid security impact.
As someone who has seen the violence and damage unions do to businesses, workers and the unemployed. I hope these unionization efforts are thwarted by Amazon. I did not escape a socialist hellhole to end up in another one. The moral equivalence for me personally would be a jewish person supporting a new neo nazi movement claiming it is different this time.

Having said that, right to form associations is a fundamental right and I support it for all workers everywhere, it is just that such unions should not get any privileges that an individual worker does not have. Amazon should be able to offer $1000 per year more for the workers who do not join any union.
for a logstash alternative, check out https://www.tremor.rs/
Translation: We're still going to do all the things you're upset about, but we're bleeding users to Signal and we're sure you'll forget about all of this by May, when we'll make the changes gradually to prevent widespread push-back.
I tried to follow this but I'm having trouble pulling out a point. Could you rephrase or summarize?
In Switzerland the beeping lights exist as well. Mostly in city centres though and not at the edges of a city or in smaller towns.
Free messaging apps are a scroll away.

Free iPhones not so much.
Any dating app that adds friction (compared to Tinder) is doomed to fail, because women have no reason to bother with it.
Facebook Messenger at least does not use the protocol by default, maybe for secret conversations.

But the Signal folks did indeed help WhatsApp implement the Signal protocol, which is kind of ironic.
I'm assuming so that if moxy gets hit by a bus and someone else tries to step in and monetize it, he gets his money back. If it remains free and open source I'm sure he'll forgive it.
From their tweet:

> We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week nonstop, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters. We appreciate your patience.

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350165610936766464

They've seen it coming, just never expected this much new traffic.
I think having a company behind it would generally be a positive. People are paying for this product to continue, versus something with just a couple devs doing it as a hobby.

Postgres had a huge head start here, and was built in a different world WITHOUT an Amazon equivalent.

Are there a lot of major contributions to (not just on top of) ODfES outside of Amazon? If not, I'd be fairly worried about using it in a non-AWS-provided way in the long term, now.
I don’t get ads. Not on a fire stick, via a web browser nor on the LG TV app. Not even a skippable ad. Nothing.
Why should he get anything at all? Does every "ethical hacker" need to hold his hand out for a reward? (Doesn't seem as ethical, then, does it?)
The thing is: its totally anonymous and there is afaik no way to know who either party is. I feel you can benefit a lot from it.

The people I have helped range from a total computer specialist who could not read something (I was astonished at the things he did with te computer) to a lady asking me whether her dress was stained or not.

In any case, try to guve it a try!
That is a failure of the public education system not unions. It is not as if the governments are trying to push innovative teaching methods and investing more in public education especially for the underprivileged.
A built-in function to convert a table to a string would be great. It's not hard to write one myself but tables are so core to the language and printing them is handy for debugging and exploration.
They have showed their intent, and that is what matters.
Hearing damage plays a role too I think.

Aesop Rock is one that comes to mind where you can literally hear the hearing damage in the resulting mix. Late Zappa the same thing happened.
Free speech does not mean tolerating insults, inciting for violence, inciting for terrorism and other very bad things.

Germany does have good freedom of speech laws, but you can't do anything you want.
There's also Cloki, which offers the same Loki APIs but stores data in ClickHouse. It looks interesting.

https://github.com/qxip/cloki-go

Disclaimer: I work on ClickHouse at Altinity.
This was Naomi Wu’s claim. She herself has been “taken away for questioning” by the Chinese government (and she shared photos of it) so I have no reason to distrust her claims.
> Most governments don't include real estate (or even rent payments) in their inflation calculations to keep it artificially low.

Housing is > 40% of the US CPI:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2019.pdf
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I've deleted my account now. Moved the people I talk to most to Matrix.
> I hope my answer was actually useful in providing some biological context? I'm afraid I might have just word-vomited instead of being helpful.

I'm enjoying all your comments in this thread. You're knowledgeable and you're doing a good job of translating it into lay terms. I've had cancer and I'm a nerd, so I've read a fair bit about it. Everything you're saying fits well into my understanding, and you've given me some new things to look into.
Non-union private schools can innovate at will, but so far it's not clear whether any of them have found a solution that works better than the one in place at public schools, while also satisfying the legal requirements put on public schools to accept all students, etc.
> Teachers unions may care more about teachers ...

Teachers union is easily one of the worst Unions in USA which has turned public education system into a wasteland of incompetent teachers protected at the expense of competent and unemployed. It has turned our education system into a soviet styled "jobs program for adults" instead of a schooling system for children.

If Americans ever wanted an example of how much damage unions can do, look no further than Teachers union.
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