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> Why don't you ask the union organizers in the Alabama union drive what they are hoping for.

I've read many lists, like the one you posted (thanks), and mostly I do not find them believable and where I do, I don't find them compelling.

> but what if I need to pee more than once in 4 hours?

OSHA specifically forbids limiting bathroom breaks for any employee. Sure, they'd like you to pee on your break, but they can't enforce it - they cannot fire you for this, despite that it is at-will employment.

Ditto all the health/safety claims made. All this is covered by existing law and the courts are very worker friendly.

> Job security - currently you can be fired without cause

Which are the conditions under which I hire a babysitter.

> or with causes like falling behind on the absurd production quotas.

Quotas are the exact opposite of unstated rules, and are generally good. If you can't pack n widgets in an hour, don't take the job.

Also, if someone can perform at quota it's not absurd.

> What's stopping them from cutting that wage or cutting those benefits if costs from another sector cut into profits? Nothing

If your job stopped being productive or profitable they'd stop paying you to do it. And you think they should be prevented from doing this?
How adorable and useful for $130.
>I wonder if GPT4 or 5 (hypothetically) will allow these businesses to fire most of their workers.

The real inflection point is slightly different: when we switch from human preference to AI preference. Let me explain:

The current "gold standard" is human-created content. At present you have humans, algorithms, and AI on both sides (newspapers, Google) trying to out-wit each other by, respectively, pretending to be humans writing content, and by detecting non-human writing.

At present the humans are a necessary ingredient, and combination of algorithms and AI is unable to match the value.

However at some point the algorithms and AI writing content quite possibly will exceed humans' - and so Google and the likes will start prioritizing the machine-created content over the human-created content. Once that tipping point is reached, you can expect a somewhat rapid flip in content authoring. The funniest part of it is that we might not even become aware of the flip for a while - due to the sheer complexity of the algorithms and AIs that Google employs to grade the content.
They can have panels with bad UX and still be better than most everyone else.

In fact that's really the point- not that Apple is perfect, but that the general state of things is so abysmal in comparison.
People engaged in relationship infidelity want those features.
Vote with your $$$. Get a new mobile network.
You delete an entire conversation in iMessage by swiping to the left and then tapping a button on the left, FYI. Which is easily fumbleable, or possible to trigger with a wet screen, and is what happened to my girlfriend.
I'm afraid I probably still botch it. But About Face has at least helped me to try not to.
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This is a great insight, thank you!

I *try* to make my software initially intuitive and gradually discoverable. I think a gentle learning curve is better than a completely flat one.

I thought quite a bit recently about the problem that you are talking about (diminishing end user value in software). I think the source is that we have a lot of devs and designers whose only experience is designing for maximized conversion rate or maximized engagement. As opposed to professional software.

They have no habit of designing for value.

And *that’s the culture*. Go to any awwwards gallery - all of the websites or webapps mentioned there are essentially ads with minimal content.

Which isn’t too bad, since it leaves a market untapped through the collective arrogance of the incumbents...
I just use the very large subset of JavaScript supported natively by all major JS engines and avoid a transpiler entirely. Infinity times faster. That's subset is ES9/ES2018. https://wwwperiodictable.surge.sh/
anyone else doing this in 1995??
Women are neither a minority nor disenfranchised. And before someone points to male over-representation in government, maybe think for a moment: whose votes put those men there?

This failure to think critically leads to some very silly arguments, for example abortion control being "male politicians controlling women's bodies", when in reality men's and women's opinions on abortions are extremely similar (in the US, at least).

Not only is this toxic, it's also counter-productive when we're supposed to pretend that women aren't half of society and thus perfectly capable of contributing to gender roles, e.g. [1]

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/boys-don-t-cry-study-suggest...
Pointing out unintended implications of what someone said isn't misinterpreting them. It's connected to the claim parenting is a socially acceptable way for women to avoid work. Their point was clear. The verbal meanings of tangent and point don't disrespect geometry.
Yeah this is the issue. Is it a backup or is it sync? It's not like "left for backups, right for sync", it's just on or off for "iCloud". Which isn't even consistent across apps.
Yep. Even with this incident, T-Mobile is still most likely the least bad of the bunch. Which is depressing to think about.

As I mentioned in a cousin comment, it seems like we're overdue for a cellular cooperative, much like how credit unions work. It's becoming increasingly apparent that traditional corporations can't be trusted to act in the best interests of their customers, especially when they exist as natural monopolies.
Suggesting to somebody else that you’ll inflict something on them that you did not appreciate having been done to you is basically a textbook violation of the golden rule.

If you think what is happening to you is bad, the suggestion that you’ll inflict the behavior on another is also bad. If you don’t think it’s bad to do this to the support rep, the blog post is a bit of an odd move.
Neither leetcode nor homebrewed are what we want anyway. But homebrewed is IMO worse because it could be a weird format and people have issues with surprises during technical interviews, least of all anxiety. And when there's a bunch of different flavors and formats, candidates either prepare for them all or accept that they won't do well at some formats and forgo those jobs.
There's plenty of evidence that the Brits took anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli actions after 1942 and even 1945. This evidence is in the links I posted, and you haven't read.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_insurgency_in_Mandatory... links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hametz

> British troops intervened to stop Operation Hametz, leading to a small battle with the Irgun. The intervention succeeded in preventing a Jewish takeover of Jaffa, while it failed to expel the Irgun from Menashiya due to stiff resistance. To put pressure on Ben-Gurion to rein in the Irgun, British planes flew over Tel Aviv and also bombed Haganah positions in Bat Yam. Eventually the British issued an ultimatum to Ben-Gurion, threatening to bomb Tel Aviv if he didn't stop the Irgun offensive. The next day, an agreement was reached in which Haganah fighters would replace the Irgun in Menashiya, and the Haganah pledged not to attack Jaffa until the end of the Mandate. British troops were allowed to reoccupy the police fort in Menashiya, but the town remained in Jewish hands.

So the Brits fought directly against Jewish defense organizations, engaged them in firefights, bombed their positions, bombed Jewish civilians, and threatened to bomb civilians in Tel-Aviv - Israel's effective capital and largest city.

All that happened in April-May 1948, just as the Brits were being forced out of Israel.

Yet I'm sure you'll keep claiming that Israel was founded with the help and support of the Brits, because you aren't here to debate facts but to promote an agenda.
I take it as axiomatic that if I use a medium to coordinate a murder, it's a misuse of that medium.

OTOH, I do not take it as axiomatic that if I use a medium to coordinate commission of a crime, it's a misuse of that medium. There are plenty of crimes that are not only perfectly fine to commit, it may even be immoral to not commit them.
I'm not an engineer, but I've used computers often enough that I understand deleting synced folders deletes files in both locations (dropbox, onedrive, etc).

> I'm resolving that for the future by swapping her to an Android phone where I can manage backups myself as I do for my own (a combination of Syncthing, ZFS, and off-site backups for me).

So, rather than learn the implications of the setting and take the L in a way that his gf could manage after she dumps him, our very smart author is going to double-down and manage her backups.
Two many.
I'd caution against judging people too harshly based on their reaction to lockdown conditions. There are some people who I like a lot, but I've been completely unable to socialise successfully with them online - for whatever reason it's awkward and I've just toned down contact until I can see them again in person once things get back to normal. Also, a lot of people I know are reacting badly to lockdown (depression/etc) - I have no ill will against them for being weird/not being able to keep things up.
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Every time I’ve seen someone retain the old ways of RSS it always looks like an ADD workflow. Very little different than Twitter.
My company has 1 day / month you can use as an educational day off. In addition to that i would say about 10-20% of my day - i do a lot of consulting and architecture work so i like to keep up with the newest developments.
Why would the French government take taxpayers' money, put that into nuclear facilities, then sell the surplus to other countries if it's such a clear loss of money?

Because they've built them to serve peak demand.
I saw this today and am unhappy with the news. I'm on a Pixel, but my wife is on an iPhone. We're both on Wi-Fi 90%+ of the time. Since I'm heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, potentially switching to Fi just looks better and better. I hear it even works on the iPhone with some limitations. We're not huge data users, so having truly unlimited data, while nice, is not really required.
This is pointless. Everything we do kills people. The choice we can make is between something that kills more and something that kills less, amongst other tradeoffs. Quantifying the number of deaths or cancers in this case tells you nothing relevant to make a decision or risk assessment: what are the costs of the alternatives?

The problem with pressurised water reactors is that failure is a very low probability but potentially very large consequences event. The advantage of fossil fuels (for public acceptance) is whilst the risk and the number of deaths are much higher (by a couple of orders of magnitude), the effects are spread out across space and time, and so are easy to ignore in our daily lives.

All this is a tragic misunderstanding of the situation we’re in. Ultimately, 100% renewables is a worthy goal. In the short to long term, shutting down nuclear power plants means burning fossil fuel. Climate is already spiralling out of control. The time to clean up our acts was 50 years ago, and now every decade we spend burning gas, oil, and coal is something we will pay dearly.

So yeah, nuclear is not ideal. It’s still part of the best strategy we have to produce clean energy.
I've had git repositories on vfat formatted usb drives before. This isn't something I do with much frequency but it's not that exotic of a use case.

There's also the possibility of a git repo on a SMB share. That's not a use case I have, but it's not too difficult to imagine in a corporate environment.
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Nowadays code won't allow you to skip insulation (or solar), but with earthquakes and high land prices you still aren't getting stone or brick homes.

Structural stone and brick homes aren't really a thing in the US that much any more.

Beyond seismic issues, when it comes to insulation and efficiency and air/water leaks, homes built using bricks and stone are terrible, because those materials are very difficult to seal.

Most newer homes that have brick or stone exteriors use it only for aesthetics, and do not rely on it for structural integrity or resistance to the environment. Their actual skeletons are wood frames, and the weather resistance is provided by layers of materials over that.

You can build incredibly sturdy homes with wood - not ticky-tacky at all.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/energy-efficient-home-des...
If you're serious about security I recommend against wyze. You're locked into their platform and it isn't fully reliable.

If you want something like a video of that opossum sneaking in the attic, coyote peeing in your rose bushes, that kid across in the street with the razer scooter and german shepard not cleaning up the poop off your lawn or what your iguana is up to when you're not home then it's great for that.

The UI is probably worse than your gdrive setup. You have to use the wyze app to access it, which has a terribly slow scrubbing interface. The more convenient part is to check the motion/sound triggered 15 second clips which are upload to their cloud servers. Other than that I find myself frustrated and just take out the microSD card and browse it on my computer.

Also don't buy the sense kit. It just doesn't work. I've even tried experiments with it right next to the camera and it's not consistent enough.

If you want to use the wyze cams are generic IP cameras they offer unsupported firmware for that but then you'll need to roll your own DVR and I'm not sure if that supports all the new features the V3 offers or follows the genric protocol for remote pan control.
Can anyone recommend any good blogs to add to my RSS feed? I see a lot of really interesting content being shared here on HN, especially the material that isn't super technical.
I see zero problems with Hertz being allowed to do that. You either forbid stock markets, or you let people sell what other people want to buy.

But in the hindsight, I don't really understand why Hertz wanted to do that. It's obviously good for bankruptcy court, that's clear. It might be good for WSB, for some independent speculators. But what does Hertz as a company gain from that? How can it benefit any of decision-makers? They are going bankrupt anyway, whatever they raise is not their money anymore. Surely they didn't hope selling stock would save them from bankruptcy? So why even bother doing something so sketchy?
It might be far cheaper and practical to just make an "exclusion zone" out of the areas around Fukushima rather than trying to clean them up.
i wonder if anyone owns the rights to the name "flipper" from the TV show. could potentially be argued that it's IP theft.
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Surface temperature may vary widely from internal temperature. Also, if an IR camera is to detect hot spots, you'd need some intelligence to analyze the image. Sounds like the development of such a gadget wouldn't be so simple.
It appears the NuScale pilot project is floundering. They announced cost raising about 50% and about a 3 year delay. Several of the utility customers have backed out of the project as a result, putting it on iffy grounds.
It's amazing to see genocide deniers on the age of the internet. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
There are plenty of use cases, such as the various forms of analysis with ML, which are often only implemented outside the "company firewall" (this idea is antiquated.) Of course, this could and should be handled inside a trusted boundary (I can't think of a better term for today's networks), but in practice security here is fairly immature and people try things when there isn't good governance in place.
I believe there were changes between that draft and the standard, e.g. removal of the 24:00 end-of-day designation.
yeah thats what I immediately thought as well.

Unfortunately FB has somewhat successfully added a lot of services to its product that are now the "default".
Is this anything more than a pipedream at this point? I've seen it come up multiple times over the last year, and yet a quick skim through the Github shows that there's not really anything done other than some basic planning/brainstorming. Seems a bit early to be taking preorders.
Hard to do when "# of alternative networks" is tending asymptotically to zero.
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> Safety is not about deaths alone. You can’t ignore the massive costs and [...]

Actually, if we're talking about safety, we can. There are some good total cost analyses, since governments also want to know how power can be produced most cheaply. The US and UK both published reports about this with somewhat varying (but ballpark similar) numbers. But anyway, we were talking about safety.

> [...] and negative personal effects

Okay, please bring on the stats then. I agree that this is relevant to the safety discussion and, thus, the discussion whether we should use nuclear fission going forward, but I never see anyone cite comparative stats on displacement, illnesses, etc. All I ever see is that nuclear kills very, very few people per TWh compared to current energy sources, making it seem very attractive to build as a replacement when looking at this metric. You'd have to have a huge number of people falling ill or being displaced (but not dying) due to nuclear disasters or uranium mining to make it better than our current energy sources.
We need nuclear because closing the gap between 80% and 100% clean energy will be much harder and more expensive without it. Comparing the cost of building energy sources today it may look that nuclear is more expensive than renewables, but that's because we are not counting the cost of the additional infrastructure needed by them, which rises exponentially with the share of renewables in the mix.

Also, no energy source is environmentally neutral. Building renewables and it's supporting infrastructure en masse will have a huge ecological impact. You can reduce that impact using nuclear energy (that also have it's impact on nature, but elsewhere). For example, nuclear power plants kill fish, wind turbines kill birds. By using both energy sources it's easier to limit building plants only in areas, where the impact will be low. We'll be still killing some birds and fish, but the chances that it's well within the ability of populations to recover will be much greater, than if we decided to focus on one source.

We need nuclear because it saves nature.
Here's another demo featuring the methods discussed in the paper https://d3fc.io/examples/sample/
I'm not misrepresenting anything. You asked "what if feelings are an imagined experience" and I responded directly to it. Feelings are a type of conscious experience. Consciousness is not independent of affect, affect is an aspect of conscious experiences. These are just the definitions of words. Nothing new is "discovered" by redefining words in this way.
> ... better remunerated than a career that makes use of knowledge of languages.

"Good oral and written communication skills" are a requirement of virtually all high-paying careers, including STEM.
It’s copyright by the author and you are not licensed to use it
I’m pretty enthusiastic when I learn something at work. But the learning comes from a task I seek/was assigned. And I’ll do work appropriate for my skill level. Starting small and growing in complexity. Naturally to do the work there’s a bit of reading and understanding. Indeed starting out, doing a small change, is mostly an activity if gathering context on the code base and tools. But just enough to do a reasonable job at my assignment, and to get feedback from peers.

Instead of “studying” during work I write about my learning process and document my learnings. These are artifacts others find useful, so I’m still building work products.

But if it interests me enough I will read books on it in my own time.
“We’ve heard many say they prefer more relevant ads so we’re defaulting to this setting,” a T-Mobile spokeswoman told the paper.

Can a company be legally liable for this kind of lie?
The typical term for your position is “butwhataboutism”, used to great effect in the Trump era.

So when someone points out something like the suppression of the Uyghurs and you point out “but what about atrocities committed by Western countries?” that’s a distraction where you’re trying to divert attention to an unrelated issue.

The USA committed atrocities against native Americans, engaged in centuries of slavery, interned Japanese citizens in WWII and dropped atomic bombs on civilians. All of that is true. But just because it’s true it doesn’t negate or excuse Chinese human rights abuses.
You're right. They did say this was a serious attempt to address mosquitoes and disease.

I apologize for thinking this was just for shits and giggles.

In regards to it's design for that purpose I think it's probably awful.
They recently introduced their own cable-TV-like streaming service.
100% agree with this. Determining the "direction" of dependency like this is one of the main considerations around implementing something as a library or a service.

I've built services that expose the latest/current version of an underlying library, with various versions of that library used in products across the company.

There is also a question of overhead - calling a library is almost always SO much faster and lighter than calling out to some service, especially if we're talking JSON or XML over HTTP.
Well I guess I'm just a big piece of shit compared to you.
Provided you sometimes meet your fellow criminals in person, or you have deaddrops or runners who can distribute things for you, you could just hand out a terabyte+ harddrive worth of pads every once in a while.
As I understand it, committee members also have to pay to contribute to ISO standards development.
If I am not mistaken, this is a massive under-estimation of the number of deaths related to fossil fuel, as I do not think it includes things like victims of freak weather events (droughts, hurricanes, heat waves) that are a consequence of burning fossil fuels. AFAIK the 8 million figure includes only deaths from direct pollution.
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Some of it is relatively benign cosmetic items for your avatar, like Fortnite. There is definitely a stigma associated with having "bacon hair" which is the default. Or the ability to play on a server with just your friends.

Other times it is a shortcut to stuff that you could get by grinding. $5 gets you twice the XP (experience points) so you can unlock new weapons, levels, etc. Individual games sometimes take this to extremes, I once calculated I would have to play an hour a day for a week to get an item I could unlock for a buck.

The worst ones (Epic Mini-Games, I'm looking at you!) are the ones where you can outright pay to win by breaking the game mechanics. Turn yourself invisible, big honking sword that you can't earn, double your chances of being selected for something special.

For the most part the games are truly free to play. You can play in all the modes that are available to paying customers.
Oh, a hacker dolphin. We are now only one laser garotte away from possessing all the tech in Johnny Mnemonic.
Sybase MobiLink does this. It has a central sync server that manages syncing data between a RDBMS and the phone's database. It got bought by SAP and might have been deprecated.

https://help.sap.com/viewer/4949f39728bd400ebee2fb94687cc74f...
> COPPA is about the fact that 9-year-olds can’t meaningfully consent to privacy policies.

And 13 year olds can? I'm probably preaching to the choir, but it seems like COPPA set the bar too low.

And further, it's pretty straightforward to be COPPA compliant - even with toddlers using your website - if you, you know, don't collect personal information to begin with. Again, probably choir-preaching...