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> In terms of raw salary, I think the current mess is more a result of the government's own "pay cap" crusade over the last decade—I haven't known anyone really be against the idea that public sector salaries should at least have kept pace with inflation, and I feel like there wasn't really any call for the dirty tactics the government has brought to negotiation over the past few years.

A general "pay scale" mindset is also part of the issue - when you try to put everyone on a scale that was designed around a model of generalists, it starts to fall apart when you need specialists skills that industry also wants. Government simply won't get the skills it requires, with the experience needed, if it insists on paying a 10-year experienced senior engineer with niche skills less than their non-technical generalist senior.

> But you're probably right that public visibility has spoiled other perks that are otherwise part of a functioning job—travel to conferences, overnight stays, on-site food outlets; it feels like they've all been cut from fear that they could end up as a bile-filled column in the Mail.

This is definitely a factor too. There is often a culture of cost-cutting in the wider public sector for the purpose of "being seen to be frugal". I've watched people (in their best intentions to be frugal) waste huge amounts of money, through short-sighted attempts to save money through false economies. Think people booking hotels dozens of miles from their destination to get what they perceive to be a cheaper room, without then thinking about the travel cost and time. Think booking a budget airline ticket to get to the wrong side of London, then rushing across London to get to the airport late for an expensive long-haul flight they now had to re-book... Or booking a hand-baggage only fare for a flight they know they'll take hold luggage for, then paying airport rates to check in luggage.

I've seen dedicated public servants doing early morning rush-hour trips to London to avoid staying overnight, because their "hotel allowance" per night wasn't enough to stay in London. The cost-differential between their ensuing peak-time early morning train ticket and an off-peak one the night before was such that they could have covered the "surplus hotel cost", had a nice dinner, and still had change left over. Computer says "no", common sense says "yes". All, as you say, to ensure nobody is seen as benefiting from anything remotely resembling a "perk".

All this makes it really hard to hire in good people, sadly.
Unless you love learning to code and love continuous pressure to learn even more, don't get an entry level as a software engineer. Try to find a job that only takes one or two deep level of knowledge in a tech stack, and keep that. What most companies want an entry level job today is someone willing to work 120 hours a week to meet arbitrary deadlines to maximize profits. Avoid FAANG.
> The American Civil War demonstrated the horrors of trench warfare back in the 1860s.

While a number of conflicts (as well as the ACW, the Maori Wars in New Zealand and the Crimean War are among the more frequently cited) involved large scale trench system and some of the other elements that, in combination, characterize “trench warfare”, they didn't involve large scale deployment of machine guns and rapid firing artillery, and some of the other aspects that planners leading into WWI did not fully account for (or even completely misjudged e
the direction of effect on successful tactics.)
> Are you going to argue HTML isn't text?

Go to google.com and view source. That's text, right?
Even if you really care, you can be vocal about things that make it sound as if you don't, in order to e.g. make another developer stop stressing and go home when they've reached the point where they're creating more work than they're getting done, or encourage greater levels of risk-taking by pointing out that the only thing at risk is your job. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, though.
These are Google cafes we're talking about, there are literally ten different main courses on offer. The whining is about there being "sushi again" at the Asian station when they wanted ramen, and they don't want to switch to curry, pizza, pasta, bouillabaisse, tacos or the salad bar, or walk across the street to another cafe.
Seems like some fairly flimsy reasoning. If you squint hard enough I'm sure most centuries have somewhat similar cycles. What makes anyone think we would repeat the 20th century when the starting state is completely different? Why not the 18th for example?
Sure, if you can't pass and there's someone in front of you going slow, it will force you to slow down.

Most injuries and deaths by car in SF are of people outside of cars, and I suspect that the drivers who maimed/killed those people were usually in front / catching up, not following someone at high speed and had their victim jump between.
Yes typically Gas generation are used in combination with wind power as their up and down cycle are fast compared to other sources. Secondly, Texas is overflowing with natural gas due to fracking.
You could make something like an "expert system" with it. But since it doesn't seem to link back to the source, you'd never know if it was giving you a real answer or just making something up.
Quad9 is not sponsored by either the Manhattan DA nor the City of London Police. Both are users of Quad9, neither is a sponsor of Quad9.
The obvious solution is to keep drinking into the evening!
It's not that simple.

While I really would prefer the ability to install anything on my iOS device, I don't really want to do that. Not any more.

I like that TrueCaller on my iOS device works for most features without getting any permission from me, while on Android it refuses to buzz from the splash screen unless you give it every permission - including full contact access and phone.

I like that on iOS a famous payment app from India (PhonePe) works flawlessly with zero permissions but on Android? It needs both location and contacts to even function - neither of these are mandatory for their functioning but still they do and can get away with that.

You know WhatsApp doesn't let you use "Status" feature unless you provide Storage permission to it on Android (I doubt they need it just to shows those images, videos, and texts).

I tried Pixel 4a for sometime. The experience was nauseating. Everything from every corner was trying to jump into my face and distract me with this option, that option, that feature, that dark pattern. I found the right swipe quite nifty that shows you news and your daily calendar etc. So I first tried to find a way to only find the news source or types of news I could see - nope, no go! Then I disabled "Discover" and then it was just an empty white screen! I could literally not use that space for anything else. There was a button in the corner that I could tap once, and then it would show me daily calendar events. After one click! I couldn't set it to use the space which "discover" used to take. And mind it discover was just rage news stories.

And that calendar feature had a mind of its own - sometimes it would show the next 1 event, sometimes two I couldn't find a way to show day or week. I had the option to disable the entire right swipe feature.

I didn't want that clock on my home screen - no way to do that. Could I install another Launcher for all this? Yes, I could even though I didn't want to, but they came with other problems and limitations. I couldn't configure the keyboards to be more simple and remove all the settings from it.

Not to mention feature after feature getting disabled as I disable invasive permissions for features and apps.

It feels depressing to literally stare into a phone and see live and read - "you are the product, deal with it!"

And I was back to my iPhone with its pathetic battery life. So you see, Apple really has no competition and that's why they get away with things.
There are ethical issues. You’re just not aware of them.

Do you compensate the participants for their time? If not, can you find enough people to run the trial? If you do compensate them are they truly consenting freely? Or do they just need the money?

Consent is a very complicated issue and you’re hand waving all the nuances away.
Most of my medical books would be better with a color E-ink. In fact, I do not even have medical books on my current E-book reader.
Their kneecaps were busted for voluntarily entering a contract, and then breaking it as a show of force. A contract absolutely nobody obligated them to sign. A contract they didn’t even have to sign, because they had alternatives.

Yes, exactly like the mafia.
Some would think so.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/04/paypal-shuts-d...

There are also many restrictions on how, why, when, and where transfers from those accounts can be made. There is no trust in an institution required, because you know the blockchain will carry out your wishes regardless of any other factors.
> California (and if we are being honest, liberal) types will do anything and everything to avoid any kind of conflict

Someone hasn't heard of Minnesota nice[0]. The conflict avoidance in the midwest is way more extreme than what I've experienced in California.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice
They don’t differentiate risk and impact.

The Oxford calculator seems to be personally focused, and for me, that’s I what. Reading was relatively low risk. Seems to correlate with what I’ve read.

But the microcovid calc rated something I was previously accustomed to doing regularly as “high”. For me that wasn’t intuitively accurate. I guess for an immediate community of vulnerable or averse people, then high would be right. But not me personally.

Quite difficult to disentangle the personal from community risk. Likely to lead to risk averse behaviour. And that is fine, but only if the mitigation is accurately taken into account.

It seems unlikely that would have been done.
I couldn't believe the WSJ Editorial Board came out with an article saying otherwise. Wouldn't being blatantly factually incorrect about business analysis hurt their reputation among their target audience?
https://archive.is/khU4g
The fact that such an empty article made it to the front page suggests to me that this is a topic HN commenters desperately want to discuss.

The problem is that we just keep saying the same things without gaining any new insight. Threads like this become clogged with armchair economists looking to cram elementary Austrian/Keynesian/MMT down our throats and we all walk away deeper in the hole of misunderstanding.

Do rates have to stay low forever? Is a 'beautiful deleveraging' possible? Will the dollar tank in favor of BTC/Gold/RMB or some future currency or basket of currencies? Will we see real inflation or will the dollar's reserve status consume all of the extra money supply? Will it be stagflation? Will the fed run out of policy tools to control the economy? Has the economy been running on fumes for years, propped up by easy money since '08? Will asset prices become normalized or return to earth? Will millenial demographics save us in 2023? Etc., etc., etc...

If any of us had convincing answers to any of these questions, we'd be rich. I don't think anyone really knows what will happen, but we're all convinced something big is going to happen.
Solid disagree. Digital privacy has devolved into a luddite movement for privileged people who have nothing better to do than convince the less privileged that they'd be better off dealing with actual crime than allowing the nebulously constructed idea of their digital privacy to be violated.
The important thing is that these trials can only be performed on the young and healthy who are at the least risk of severe illness and death. This means any results gained from these would have been essentially worthless when it comes to the patients most at risk. Consequently, one would have still had to run the regular P3 trials with a diverse group of subjects. Therefore, any acceleration in the vaccine's development process would have at best been marginal. This is also what the industry association of German drug manufacturers has pointed out in a statement, dismissing the British challenge trials as ethically dubious and effectively useless.
Farmers are the most hurt by it.

Farmers need to work on daylight. They can't change their schedule when the clocks change. So during half the year, the busy half, all the business start closing down an hour early.
> "right of others work not to impede on one's own work"

That is not a right. As I said there is only one right, or only one that matters: the right to your own thoughts, to your mind's work, that is the work I was talking about.

Everything else is not a right, at least not if we are gonna be true to the word. If it's dependent on others is not a right. If it's conditional to other people's whims is not a right. If it needs the entire legal establishment and an army to enforce it is not a right. Rights in the constitution are not "rights" per se but obligations from the government to its citizens, as in you have the right* to procure it from the government, whatever it might be.

If you need to ask for permission is not a right.
I guess these sites aren't news organizations that would be covered by the proposed media law. Facebook is probably just trying to emphasise its point. Likewise, in restricting the availability of non-Australian news sites to users in Australia.
I agree, and I believe this is in part because it is these kind of people that malware is targeted at. We, the tech savvy, will be smart enough to not do something because we pay attention at permissions or what extensions, programs, tools, etc are doing or want to do. The tech illiterate still do know how to use Google, search for what they want to do, click on the first thing that looks like it will do what they want, download and use it. If it doesn't do what they want, it remains there and they go and repeat these steps until they find exactly what program, etc does what they want, all while the bad ones remain installed, doing bad things.

My wife fell into this category when we first met, after I began teaching her even just some basics and she learned to question things and be more careful, I haven't needed to "diagnose" her computer in a long time (I still do regular maintenance, but irregular issues never come up anymore). So I would say that education is the biggest key in this regard, teach them to start with a zero trust model.
Quality is subjective is part of it, but popularity has a positive feedback loop with exposure.

If you think I can help you get the initial exposure, I have a lot of power.
Perhaps it really is better to stay? I assume that authorities will be searching for the plane and will usually find it in <10 days if it crashes on land, and you also have a chance to find some edible food in the wreckage?
You've just tipped me over the line. I'm finally going to start my side project.
That doesn't work. Or at least in the past it didn't
There should not be a single switch to bulk-enable all third-party stores. It should be per store, with a bunch of authentication info from the store, likely coming from its TLS certificate.

It's the same situation as with "third-party" package stores in your favorite Linux distro. Say, on Ubuntu you add a particular PPA, you got to see its PGP signature, etc.

So in the Netflix case, it will be a Netflix store, secured by a DNS + TLS lookup, and limited to what Netflix has to offer.

But consider differently curated stores, some maybe even requiring a subscription fee to support the operation, discovering, checking, and maybe suggesting apps in different areas: from as wide as art apps or music creation apps, to as narrow as high-quality puzzle game apps. (Of course, an app might be available through more than one store.)
Look up "traffic calming". There are plenty of well-studied techniques for discouraging excessive speed that don't involve terrifying the drivers or limiting visibility, and make things safer for pretty much everybody involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
good catch.

just on a quick glance a few lines above might possibly be a good vector to test for ads to get around autoplay sound restrictions. make a domain ending with somethingnetflix.com, iframe it, and maybe figure out if the second link below has a class that allows override to allow autoplay sound without user interaction to something like kWKWebsiteAutoplayPolicyAllow with sound on.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/f43587ec2416b86eecef50...
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/88278b55563e5ccdc0b341...
Which is why it's good for competition: Now Apple App Store has to compete with other app's own stores for pricing. Otherwise what if Apple decided to start charging 50%? or 80%?

That's why this is an anti-trust suit, because Apple is stifling competition.
Not Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal! Say it ain't so!
There are lots of different approaches you could take. For sourcecodeshots, I run it through VSCode's tokenizer (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-textmate) and then use node-canvas to generate the image one line at a time.

It's a very imperative process and fairly slow on a cpu, but the nice thing is that I can run the same code in the browser to speed up development. The Rust project, https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon, mentioned in another part of the comments is probably faster, but I didn't find it when I was searching for a solution.
I hear ya. Working on it!
> 40% of murderers get away with it but no one goes around trying to claim that "murder but by illegal but it certainly isn't enforced".

Well, maybe not murder in general, but there is certainly a point where the prohibition is seen as theoretical. Consider BLM.
The luddites obtained numerous concessions and retired comfortable. Not clear how that’s unsuccessful.
Estonia warns of “silenced world dominated by Beijing”
> I basically agree that cities of a certain density are too dense for cars, but SF isn't really there.

Depends on where you live. If you live in the outer areas (south of bernal heights, outer sunset, etc) you might need a car but most other places you can get around easily with transit, walking, or biking
Editorial board's audience is "my tribe", and I don't believe that "my tribe" ever really has much of a factual requirement. I know I unconsciously support the positions of my tribe more those of not my tribe.

I suspect that the target audience of WSJ is inclined to like WSJ no matter what the editorial board pursues as long as they stay within their tribal lane.
> They went to the platform because the iPhone was rapidly gaining popularity and they gained access to a captive market.

So as Apple stated in court docs - it's symbiosis between company, developers and users. If iPhone were bad people wouldn't buy them and developers wouldn't create apps with bad conditions in economic terms.

> if they could do the store at 30%, they could do it for far less when scaled u

Since they aren't monopoly (court conclusion after TRO hearing and on and after preliminary hearing on September 28th 2020) and we are on free market there is no reason to discuss their fee. Moreover they didn't upped it. And never did from App Store launch in 2008, only lowered for subscriptions after 1 year from 30% to 15%.

Developers can stop learning Objective-C/Swift and switch to Android-whatever on their career start if they feel bad about industry-standard 30% fee. But developers won't because Apple's user base is paying money and not sideloading pirated versions like on Android.

Also business and investors don't care about Android, like Clubhouse - for start-ups only iOS matters on first years.

So what we see? Developers who make tenths of millions (Epic Games with Tencent) want free access for Apple's user (install) base for free. There is a word for this - parasitism.
Unfortunately, VMs still don't work.
Better explainer:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-outage-a...

It appears that wind and solar power produced more electricity this week than they were expected to produce, but at this time of year, that’s a relatively small part of the expected statewide generation. Generation from gas and coal plants was far below expectations, causing supply to fall as demand rose. How much of that is bad design — a case where the system should be reworked — and how much was operator error is still to be sorted out.

As someone in the Houston blackout and hearing a bit of the initial blame-game: I’d like to find out what failure modes were gamed out, what likelihood’s were assigned to each and how and what mitigation was chosen with the knowledge that between time, money and people not all failure scenarios can be covered.

For example: water vapor in methane (natural gas) freezes and causes sensor and valve problems which have shut plants down. That seems predictable to a point, something that operators with experience in other climates would know about. On the other hand, the mitigation strategy for that failure may run counter to fixes for hot weather problems.
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What's the reason for the sideways traffic light in the top bar? Is it part of the final image?
Thanks for the link! At the bottom part of it, there are links to other articles that are very interesting too. I'm recently more interested in leaving GitHub and focusing in email driven development so any article on this subject is welcome.
Is it responsive enough for VIM?
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A brilliant diatribe, in the grand tradition of H.L. Mencken.
The Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger
Meet Bob, the world's worst market timer: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

Over long time scales, it really doesn't matter if the market is just about to crash. Time in the market will always beat timing the market, given that no one can know market tops and bottoms.

That being said, if you have a short term savings goal, are just about to retire, or simply dont sleep well worrying about losses - cash isnt the worst way to allocate some of your assets. Its not for me, but to each their own.
I believe the reason you don't see this kind of parties in tech is because the industry is filled with people who are introverts, not specially groomed/attractive and/or not very good reading social cues.
Soundcloud used to have pretty great discoverability but people started, in my opinion, the repost feature and you ended up with the same song recommended over and over again. Their genre recommendations were also pretty tight. All of my experience was from about 5+ years ago.

By far the best discovery I've seen was on What.CD, RIP. The similar artists web they had on ever artist page was extremely tight. I tried a few months ago to find the old What.cd data to look into it but wasn't able to find it in a couple minutes of googling.

Look into Last.fm. They do a pretty decent job of recommending similar artists but its more of a what you played tracker than true music discovery.
By that logic, you would want MacOS to be the same, apps only available via the store? It would give you all the same benefits, why is MacOS still 'open'? Why is there a terminal?
Interestingly enough this is also what gmail does, however, then they notify the origin server on every email open even though they're serving the cached version, pure evil.
> I couldn't believe the WSJ Editorial Board came out with an article saying otherwise. Wouldn't being blatantly factually incorrect about business analysis hurt their reputation among their target audience?

Who do you imagine the audience is for the editorial pages of the WSJ?

Even long before Murdoch took it over, that part of the paper has a very different reputation and appeal than the rest.
> So? I still think it is worth it.

The 'so' is that your complaint was that these cars are too complicated and expensive. I think an actual public transit system is undeniably more complicated and expensive, even if it's worthwhile.