skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The message itself ("this call may be recorded") has given you consent the record the call, without needing to play your own version. The point was that this doesn't mean the employee themselves has consented.

Then again, the caller could use similar reasoning of saying their assistant placed the call and waited on hold, and only then did they get on the line. Or really any phone conversation where a new party comes on the line after the recording has started.

I think the call center employee would have a pretty hard time arguing some expectation of privacy regarding your recording, when their employer has made it clear that the call can be recorded. I'd be interested in any precedents to the contrary though.

However, talking in terms of "consent" might just be a red herring. A company hasn't actually obtained your consent by playing a notice that they are recording the call. What they have done is destroy your expectation of privacy.
Because if you look at their version adoption chart there’s a long tail between release and propagation. They’re still either supporting older versions for some time or making the arbitrary decision to ignore those users who haven’t restarted to get the new version.
That's nationalism. Not all of us are nationalists. But unfortunately, there are enough nationalists out there that the governments skew nationalist. A nationalist would say "if I had to choose either one of my fellow countrymen die or 7900 citizens of my neighbouring country die, I would choose to have that 7900 people die without a second's hesitation". A non-nationalist would not find this moral or justifiable.

By all accounts, by the time the US approves AstraZeneca vaccine, it would have enough Pfizer/Moderna doses to vaccinate the whole country. Yet it prefers to keep the stockpile (I know about the recent deal with Canada and Mexico. It's very small and very late compared to what it could have been in a better world) rather than send it to other countries, where they can save lives instead of sitting in a freezer to keep voters happy, not to keep them safe.
>Covid doesn't make people suddenly drop dead in the street

They do if they don't get treatment. Usual course for deadly covid is, high fevers, feeling terrible, then there's an improvement in symptoms for a couple of days, then blood oxygen levels drop and the person drops dead
I have been working on a setup with ledger (https://www.ledger-cli.org/ - https://plaintextaccounting.org/).

It takes some work and experimenting to set up scripts / feeds from all my various brokers & pricing sources into the ledger format, I'm happy with the approach overall.

Alternatively, I'd suggest using Quicken or Moneydance.

Once you get to a certain level of complexity with lots, fees, commissions, currencies, etc, any simple tools / spreadsheet approach will break down and you need a fully-fledged accounting system.

Things I'd like to see are just some more utilities / data feeds for the ledger ecosystem.
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> Most of these people would be much happier if they simply invested time and energy into finding a job they enjoy, or at least one that doesn't make them miserable.

I don't think there is such a job, not at 8 hours * 5 days a week. Even if it's unfair towards people who have to work longer and harder - I find it grueling. And I believe it's not due to job (I'm a software developer) - I'm pretty sure if I did my favorite hobby full time for a year I'd start resenting it. It's not for lack of vacation either - 5 weeks/year is just enough to get me to baseline where I'm ready to enjoy proper vacation.

3 days a week * 4 hours + 2 months completely off each year could work nicely, but that's not available in a regular job. It'd mean switching to consulting and my selling skills are non-existent. So I'll probably grind for 2-3 years then take 1-2 years off. I did that once already and the main takeaway was that I could easily and gladly not work ever again, if I could afford it.
> as if that would make the act ok, or make it not constitute "sexual assault."

It doesn't appear to me as "making the act ok", I'm not sure where that comes from at all. He didn't even hint that it wasn't a case of "sexual assault". All he said is that it wasn't "assault" (which was the exact term being used in the announcement), and that he dislikes the way the other term - "sexual assault" - leads to people misusing the term "assault" in the first place; and explained why.

Was that a proper way, time and place to do that? Nope! Was it in poor taste and prone to misinterpretation? Absolutely! Does speaking in poor taste (or even questioning the institution of age of consent) make you child abuse apologist? Heck no.

Regarding the context of belittling women and consent insensitivity - I don't have enough information about Stallman to accurately assess that. I've seen some stories that appear credible, but I've also seen some that are so blatantly misinterpreted that reading them makes me feel sick. Therefore I remain cautious, both ways.
Not saying this is a conspiracy, but it does make it easier to forcefully cover up a conspiracy if they always react harshly to even small "infractions".
> No, a bug in the release...was the bug.

So, there was a bug. A UX bug. Bugs aren’t software-exclusive.

I may be misunderstanding your point.
Nim does/can indeed compile to C.
More than that they should have helped invest in production im hope that things would work. The US wwasn't known as a vaccine production power before, but with some investment we have a significant supply now.
You are right, in the longer term, but hydrogen from electrolysis comes at a levelised cost approximately four times grey hydrogen. Of course that is comparing apples and oranges a bit (the grey hydrogen externalises some of its costs) but I think it is still over double as expensive as blue hydrogen. I would be delighted if electrolysis becomes two to four times cheaper than it is today but for a relatively mature chemical process I'm just not sure I see it happening in the next couple of decades.
There’s usually an option to not record audio in the software because in the states that require consent of all parties, audio recording is usually still not allowed without explicit consent of everyone in a non public location even if a notice is placed.
This one is pretty decent.

https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/Identify-Electrica...

I long for a better wire-to-wire answer than JST-SM.
For pity's sake, none of this applies to Richard's behaviour you supercilious twat.
No, but lack of money doesn't either.
That's in AUD.

What I've seen first-hand in some farming communities was closer to $10AUD/hr, but that is still far below our actual minimum wage of $19.84AUD/hr.
Oh, and here I sit in my lovely Japan with 1 out of 1300 people having had their first dose.

You don’t know how good you have it.
For those purposes, I run Windows in a VM? In my case, the only reason I even need to run it at all, is that my employer has some software that requires it.
You missed the point again. This isn't about forcing anyone to pay. This is about Google strangling their ecosystem in exchange for some short term growth.
Berg Electronics was founded in 1950. It blows my mind that we still use this connector after 70 years.

https://www.connectortips.com/breakthrough-contact-design-sp...
This, plus add prominent UX in the product to file tickets, populating version (and reasonably anonymized host/environment details) by default.
Workflows and form-related processes are a little like desire paths, true. Over time people establish ways of working that define the business logic of a company. Some of it is codified on paper, some in the culture and interactions, and it all tends to slowly change over time.

There is a lot of value in the existing processes. That's what the business is built on. Proposing to drastically change how things work while promising that the result will be at least as good or better -- that's a tough sell for a lot of reasons. It also seems incredibly risky, projects like that are no easy feat.

I think a gradual, incremental approach would have a higher chance of adoption and eventual success. Small asks that produce tangible improvements, building towards a systemic changeover.
Their money is also, ironically enough, invested in real estate.
Two party or all party consent puts the weaker individual at a disadvantage.
Move fast and break everything.
Some version spread is desirable.
Note that for a lot of countries, with perhaps less than competent governments, that money will end up right alongside where our tax money goes, in the hands of the corrupt.
I am happy that the EU allows vaccine exports but I expect this pandemic to be the last one they do. Voters in US and UK are happy and praising their government. Voters in EU are not so happy. They are going to elect a government which would put EU citizens first. Non-US/UK/EU citizens would of course be in favour of a robust export and sharing program, but they don't get a say, so vaccine nationalism will win.
Gas stations are closing because ICE engines are getting more efficient and now have a lot more range. I think this is going to make them more appealing in the short term.
It's likely that you'll run into some bug for any software release. What you can control is whether the user makes a deliberate choice to upgrade; the risk of bringing in new bugs or breaking changes may outweigh the cost of dealing with the bug, so in this situation, upgrading for a fix has known benefits and is intentional. This thought process is helpful for pitching your case with stakeholders as well.
Not to go too off topic - but out of curiosity, wouldn't you consider something like the four pests campaign to be a much worse industrial accident in human history? Or is that stretching the definition of industrial a bit much.
Some sources:

https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/museum/ddwfttw.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_%28land_yacht%29

The search term to use is "DDWFTTW"

It's a bit confusing, but some important points are:

* It only works if you're on land, you can't have a flying device that does this.

* Boats can sail faster than the wind speed, but have do so at an angle to the wind. (Just to convince yourself that this isn't completely strange).

* The wheels rotation on the ground is what drives the propeller, not the other way around.
Qubes can do the opposite, I think.
Would it really break that much to just get rid of referrer altogether? I would miss it on my personal site (self hosted, Foss analytics, no google analytics there), but it wouldn't actually break anything.
I'm not sure if everyone survives IIT by rote memory. I'm sure some people thrive by truly understanding the fundamentals. For those who want to really learn a hard subject, IIT is wonderful. On the other hand, I have a hard time imagining anyone could survive a STEM subject through mere rote memory. A STEM subject is built on layers and layers of abstraction anyway. If someone could use things like "any subgroup of a commutative group is normal" or things like BPP=co-BPP to solve problems via sheer rote memory, what can I say? Hmm... Kudos?

Seriously, though, we should look at statistics instead of individual samples to assess the value of education. I mean, how many students can really solve a JEE question like below by rote memory? I'm sure there are some who got lucky, but I'd rather believe most of the students who could solve such problem truly learned some math:

If f(x) is a differentiable function and g(x) is a double differentiable function such that |f(x)| <= 1 and f'(x) = g(x). If f^2(0) + g^2(x) = 9. Prove that there exists some c \in (-3, 3) such that g(c)g"(c) < 0.
> But a company that purpose-builds the rocket for you does not, for instance, have to deal with a RUD of the booster it wants to use for you.

Let's not forget too that EVERY booster for EVERY rocket other than Falcon 9 suffers a rude, if scheduled, disassembly EVERY time. When Falcon 9 suffers an unscheduled one, it's SpaceX's loss, not the customers. How can you possibly think that the occasional loss of a booster post-boost phase is a problem for the customer?!
the irony is that there is a bounds check already within the str.charAt() method...
Im pretty sure they did make it reliable, but the ship had sailed by then.

I haven’t heard of any trouble with the fourth gen (the last one before moving back to scissor-switches) at all.

It’s really unfortunate - a lot of people really liked the butterfly keyboard - but the reliability issues in earlier versions combined with the criticisms on key travel meant those voices just didn’t win out.
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But still, if there was no bug in 3.0.2, people wouldn't have tried to downgrade to 3.0.1 again. So the bug was not in 3.0.0, nor in 3.0.1, but only in 3.0.2.
"but the Arch community isn't onboard with the concept of WSL, or they aren't exactly comfortable with how easy WSL makes Linux installations for Windows users."

That's a bit disingenuous. WSL is generally irrelevant to a Linux user. I don't hear many discussions about pacman or yay amongst Windows users. OK, better analogy: I don't hear much about QEMU discussed by Windows users.

Good effort and nicely written up.

I happen to be a PHB that uses Arch and KDE (since I managed to get something like KDE 2.something to compile on my Slackware powered Pentium II back in the day.) I'm also a Windows sysadmin with 30 odd years under me belly errr belt.
I recently had the choice between a macbook pro and a dell xps. Saw the dell xps had HDMI, USB-C _and_ USB-A and was sold. Its nice to be able to bring my laptop in to a meeting room and just be able to plug in the hdmi cable without needing an adapter. Its also really nice to be able to use all my usb c accessories but without having to go usb C only.

And its not noticeably thicker than the macbook either. I can understand the pursuit of thinness or at least weight reduction in mobile devices. If the iPad was any heavier, you wouldn't be able to use it while standing. But on a laptop there is a lot more room for weight and thickness. As log as its comfortable to carry, that's good enough.
Those instant answer cards are often wrong. Perhaps more troubling are the instant answers Google gives you but you aren't aware they are wrong. It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia.

Considering 2/3rd of searches end there, I wonder how many people are walking around with false information that Google fed them.
Elon literally put in most of his wealth to build spacex and was on the verge of bankruptcy if he couldn't prove his launcher worked and get funding.
I wasn't previously familiar with the background on this, but it got me thinking how incredibly common it is for these types of large, public organizations to eventually become overcome by corruption. There is so much essentially free money flying around that leadership eventually tries to convince themselves that they deserve a bigger slice of some of those millions (or billions). Other prominent examples:

1. ICANN and the whole Public Interest Registry in the US.

2. The well-documented corruption in the International Olympic Committee and many national olympic committees.

3. FIFA, almost too much corruption to name.

I wonder if something could be changed about the mindset when these organizations are set up that could reduce this corruption. That is, instead of pretending from they outset that they exist for the public benefit, accept the reality that with the amount of money that they handle that they have all the incentives to become corrupt and have something like a separate auditor/oversight board with different incentives from the get go.
> parsing doubles will ever be the bottleneck in any of my Java code

In my C# and even in C++, profiler sometimes showed me I am bottlenecked on parsing or printing floats. Happened quite a few times.

In all cases the data was 3D models or similar things. STL, 3MF, VTK, G-mesh, G-code are all text based, either always (looking at you, 3MF consortium) or as an option (STL and some versions of VTK can be either binary or text). Even low-end modern GPUs can easily render 1E+7 triangles these days, thus high-poly 3D models are not uncommon.

Games are not affected because they preprocess the hell out of their assets, optimizing everything they can about the data format. But in CAD/CAM stuff you’re pretty much guaranteed to bottleneck on parsing numbers when loading these text-based formats.
Thanks, that is quite interesting.
> However, if I tell the company I want to record them, they have very little reason to humor me. In practice, this means I'm almost always being recorded anyway, but I can't generally record them back.

I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to record calls if a company plays that message. It’s implicit that if they are notifying you the call is being recorded, that they are also aware and agree to being recorded.
The U.K. did not do the same as the US.

Don’t conflate the ability to negotiate carefully with banning exports. The private company AZ signed a contract with the British govt according to which they can export once they have delivered the agreed doses to the U.K. the faster they deliver on their commitments, the faster they can start exporting. No one forced them to sign the deal and no one in the UK is banning exports of the vaccine.
Yes, but wrt nationalization, that was more a statement of where I would draw the line if I had to choose whether the EU was being a good/bad actor rather than the EU's actual capacity as an organization.

I would argye that the EU merits government status, given the degree to which it dictates standards in the eurozone. Even though it is fairly weak, and lacks enforcement capacity on its own, my understanding is that the EU as a body has the capacity to set standards for the block as a whole, restricting export of certain goods like the vaccine for example. I could be wrong, though?
I think part of Docker’s value proposition is that it’s both.
The OP post was about having governments force this exchange. If you are talking about google optionally taking part in it, I'm sure the finance people at google are capable of working out when its worth it on their own.
The problem isn't that it feels bad - that of course is personal preference and would not be grounds for a class action. The problem is that it breaks quickly, which is not something that you can find out by trying it out for 10 minutes in a shop.
perhaps it's easier to entice readers to click on a link to medium.com rather than randomjoedev.com
Randomized admissions were the implicit thesis of the satire we get the word from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
Don't even pretend that the market is some sort of natural phenomenon. That's got human fingerprints all over it
Honestly if it was the source, its probably just probability. It is not 100% guaranteed that an outbreak happens from an accident, but there is a chance. And with enough of them happening, eventually one of them will spread.
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A single vial of insulin costs about 3.30 USD in Brasil. On pack of 100, each is about 2 USD.

For those who use the public health system it is free.
Anyway it's a real programming language so that feature is probably just a matter of defining a function, which a user can do themselves
I don't think merit should focus on traits, I think merit should focus on effort. Though the problem with that is that traits can be a multiplier for effort.

I don't know what merit should really mean though. It seems like there will always be some sort of hierarchy in society, so I guess defining what constitutes merit is a pick-your-poison kind of situation.
Just trying to help, since I’ve been there! Your RSI symptoms might be correlated with but not caused by key travel / force.

I’ve found that the dominant cause of RSI is wrist pose (position + orientation), which is mostly influenced by keyboard height (relative to your body), and also to a lesser extent by key pose.

Using a split, rising-away keyboard at a position where elbows are bent 90ish degrees and the wrists are in a neutral position is a game-changer.

Lower key travel/trigger times change the orientation of your wrists, but not the position. So it might make things better, but no laptop keyboard will provide the optimal typing environment.
I now have RSI after using my 2018 macbook pro. I remember after those came out, everybody's typing was way louder and distracting in meetings - that can't be healthy for your joints. It feels like typing on a block of wood.
> the EU has literally millions of doses sitting around going unused because citizens won't take it

This is utterly false. The vaccine is being used as quickly as it comes in. As of yesterday, more than 75% of all doses delivered to Germany have been administered. (Source: https://impfdashboard.de/) this includes the slow-down from temporarily halting the use of AstraZeneca.
The Falcon 9 launch cadence is simply incredible right now. You have to start wondering if the uneconomical competitors will be able to stay on schedule while losing business and money. How does one perceive a "chance of a 2-year project delay" with SpaceX under the current circumstances but not with Ariane? It's quite a stretch. Would it stand up in court if shareholders sued over unnecessary spending of an extra $50m/launch?
This is actually debated. Check out DG’s book on the history of debt.
Its so subjective isn’t it? I really like the larger surface area of the BF keys, but I also quite like the loud clacks of the keyboard.

I came from Cherry MX blues back in the day and for whatever reason came to find the obnoxious nature of the super-clacks (which the BF keys also deliver in spades) oddly satisfying.
We will never know the truth to the extent that China would admit this.

It’s obvious in hindsight that what you say is likely true, but there is no feasible political route for the CCP to take blame, as their lives would be at stake due to unrest.
Google Chrome has been using auto upgrades for years and I haven't heard any complains about that. I'd argue it's also a really important tool in a dev's toolkit.
With "sum" functions, I mean that for money transactions the data will likely be stored in columns and the most common operation will likely be to sum each column. So you could store an "archive" with all the columns/transactions, then store just the sum of each column in the "hot" database. If the data is static/immutable you have a lot of options when it comes to caching and optimizing different queries.

Another strategy would also be to "shard" the database... I guess storing everything in the same database is the most simple solution, but problems will arise when you have to replicate/recover (an arbitrary) 100+ TB of data. Just copying it over a 100Gbit link will take 3 hours.
> Maybe someone will write the inverse of dxvk to allow Vulkan or GL apps to run on top of the DX12 driver.

Microsoft did. Mesa already has OpenGL to DX12 conversion, and they're working on Vulkan. https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/d3d12.html