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> in order for employees to actually be well, they need high wages, plenty of time off, and good healthcare

I feel like this is the point of the first half of the article. Obviously if you work for a generous, profitable company, and you get good remuneration, healthcare and work–life balance, then workplace wellbeing may be honest and beneficial for both employers and employees (this side doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the article). If you work for a company that pays poorly, has poor benefits, and low margins, then workplace wellbeing is more of the same. That all seems pretty obvious (there are benefits which are perhaps harder to fake, like pay or vacation days or limited working hours per week.) I suppose there is also a third kind of wealthy employer which tries to pamper employees into not wanting things the employer doesn’t want (eg collective bargaining).

The first half of the article seems to just be a vehicle for a proposed solution to poor working conditions, which doesn’t really seem so connected to workplace wellbeing.
I am very much hoping for a "macOS in a VM" feature, but I don't think it will ever happen. The iPad Pro being great for certain professions seems to be enough for Apple. Targeting all professional groups does not appear to be a goal.
In Germany BioNTech also involved in the production.. so it is also fair to call it as that..

But I'm a tad annoyed that they pronounce it "Bion-Tech" rather than "Bio-N-Tech", the latter was the intended pronunciation by the owners, I think.
Exactly, I thought the reason that US developers are so highly paid compared to everywhere else in the world was to offset the high cost of living in silicon valley.

$132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK. They could easily get 2 full time UK devs for that, or even more in many EU countries with lower cost of living
Apple May Compensate All the UK iPhone iPad Users for Charging “Unlawful”
> Any team building stuff means that HR didn't do a great job at hiring

This is just wrong. Team building has a place like anything else and reasonable people can disagree about how much is too much.
Dystopic cable cutting is weird
Sure if you want to build a business. If you just want to write some code and have a bit of fun with friends and learn a few things then it doesn’t really matter.

I built something similar during Covid, another parlour game we call “Colander of Death” (it probably has many other names). It’s never gonna go viral but we had fun with it.
I prefer to code on a 27in display, the iPad it still too small. I know people who just use the MBP display but I never found Xcode usable on a small screen.
Well, you see, we need Windows admins, and we find that people who can master the convoluted nuances of the English language are naturally suited.
>> The biggest technical hurdle is the inability to run external processes on iOS and iPadOS.
>> Apps on iOS and iPadOS must use Apple’s Javascript interpreter, JavaScriptCore.

> Both of these really suck because they are policy, not technical, decisions.

They are policy decisions that kind of make sense for a device like a tablet or phone though. Even though you could technically allow installing a complete development toolchain on an iPad, I can't imagine what the process would look like in practice. Download and install a complete *nix userland through the app store? Plus a compiler toolchain and each and every tool used in the build phase for your product? Who is going to maintain and distribute all these parts if the whole ecosystem is designed around the idea that apps are sandboxed and distributed through a curated app store? Imagine the customer support burden if you are the maintainer of some app that depends on external tools that can be used in a zillion different build/deploy configurations.

You could of course argue that the iOS ecosystem should not be based around a curated app store and sandboxed applications, but that would make it a MacBook...

Maybe we should put the whole idea of having one device that does everything to rest and accept that there are advantages to have a split between 'real computers' and tablets/phones. That's just my opionion though...

Edit: ah great, an immediate -3 because apparently people here think it is absolutely required to downvote straight away because they disagree with some opinion that is not their own.

Goodbye Hacker News, after ~10 years I'm finally done with the comment sections here and will deactivate my account and ask for it to be deleted
The only time your boss will give you a raise is when not giving you the raise would cost more money than the raise.
One good thing is that today you can run VS Code on an iPad, in the browser, with all the dev tools running in a remote container. Not a bad experience.

Edit: I've always thought that Panic could take a similar approach with Nova. Run locally on the iPad, as a native app, while connecting to a remote machine to compile, debug and run the actual code.
I love this article, clearly you and your team have thought deeply about the process of code review and Pull Requests. By having strong principles you make sure you're not dominated by the process.

I actually don't think Pull Requests are "zero trust", in fact they work much better when they are high trust. They're a formal point for collecting comments and discussion in the workflow. I really value the feedback I get from my team in PRs, it makes my code better and doesn't slow me down because we are able to reach consensus quickly.

Plug: I'm working on a tool to make Pull Requests much better for teams who work on GitHub. If you're interested check out https://codeapprove.com or email me at sam at habosa dot com
In my advanced cardiac life support training, an EMT once put it this way (addressing some nerves at being responsible for a critical life or death event):

Their heart is stopped - they are dead. You can’t kill them any more dead, you can /only/ bring them back to life. So what’s to be nervous about?

Don’t pick it apart. It’s not hard to pick apart. But thinking about it that way really does help take some of the pressure off and let you focus on doing the deed.
That does not contradict the parent. The UK has a better vaccine roll out strategy than the US since the figure of merit is not the number of people with two doses. The big gains are from the first dose so the UK has prioritized getting those into as many arms as possible. So, while the number of doses given per capita is almost exactly the same in the US and the UK, the UK has a significantly better level of protection. In addition the UK has very strongly prioritized the most vulnerable. The net result is that I expect the UK to have an entire day without Covid deaths within the next two weeks, something which would have been unimaginable during the peak in mid-January.

In more or less every other respect the UK government has done a terrible job of managing the pandemic but the vaccine rollout has been very well thought out and implemented.
20 million people tested positive before vaccines became abundant. Let’s stay on the topic of those people protection levels :)
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You tend to get what you measure. It’s the effects of that measurement on the other facets of an organisation that are unpredictable.
I think my wellness is inherently my issue, and I'd prefer that my employer stayed out of it.
0.1% of $100K is $100, not $1K.
How so? You can still use remote/local machines to develop. People use(including myself) great success apps like Blink Shell(https://blink.sh), Inspect Browser(https://apps.pdyn.net/inspect/) or code-server(https://github.com/cdr/code-server) to work full time on iPad. By full time I mean #iPadOnly way.

I do JS front-ends, back-ends in Go, I design in Figma(https://figurative.design/) and Affinity Designer/Photo. For coding my daily driver is Blink Shell(They released a free community edition if you want to try: https://community.blink.sh) with Mosh. I never had a feeling that my terminal is just connected to VPS. Whenever I open Blink, everything is still there as I left it. Slow connection? No problem with Mosh. Constantly changing networks or IP addresses? You will not lose a connection even for a minute.

After a long year after the switch to my only device at home, I can tell you that I never looked back nor needed any other machine. Maybe it doesn’t cover everyone’s needs, but you can’t say it’s close to zero. Most of current development can be done on it. :-)
Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains
Yeah, but how much of that is your current employer fault? Let's take housing costs. Absolutely insane in California, Canada and some other places. Education/student loans - modern day slavery for many. Healthcare costs - seem to grow much faster than inflation or wage increase. The end result - destruction of the middle class as we know it. Or 'shrinking middle class' to put it less dramatically. So, I take it you live in Canada and this is the type of experience you describe. Is there a list of Canadian corporations that are to blame for this? Or is this more of a government fault? Or is this the problem that's not limited to Canada but is a general trend for most western countries because the neoliberal economic model is broken and it's silly to pretend that it's not? Personally, I am hesitant to blame some specific corporation for general economic misery.
Time to invest in companies producing faraday's cages for houses.
It's also a cash grab by the "Mindful Mediation" consultancies. I am surprised by the number of corporations with Mindful Meditation programs, and how much they pay for these ineffectual band-aids. The fact that mediation consultancies have significant traction in today's "Human Resources" world is just nonsense and corporate doublespeak that pushes blame reasoning on the employee for 360 degree poor management. (FWIW, I'm a person that started mediating decades ago (due to being a youthful Beatles fan.))
Your poor grammar makes your sarcasm hard to read.
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No need... the builder used tinfoil-based insulation when they built my house.
> Did you file a bug with your system's firmware provider or with upstream?

Nope, I patched my code to mainline the bits directly to where they were going.

> ...it's how OpenBMC provides the console via IPMI, Redfish, SSH...

Which is why I didn't bother with upstreaming :) I'm all for it generally, but in this specific case I saved myself and others time (distilling a reproducible test case, crafting code for public consumption, arguing my case, etc); I'm not the target market - I'd cut the BMC traces if I could without wrecking the machine.

> ...was pretty important for getting the project off the ground.

Sure, but far too close to the metal for my liking. But then I've always bristled at the sight of it being used to replace far more constrained tools - where constraint is desirable (like build systems).

> There's some nuance to this...

That was mercifully high-level, but touches on an major concern of mine that is more to do with Aspeed than OpenBMC: backdoored blobs. The AST2500 is constantly sniffing a software defined uart for a magic sequence to drop it into the debug shell... this is the opposite of what I'm looking for in a secure or performant system.

> I agree it can be difficult to debug where things are going wrong in the console pipeline.

Yup, without even considering the client hardware/OS/application stack, or the getty process on the host you actually want to talk to. I've actually been researching a bug that made it into BSD4, the fountain head. Nobody seems to have noticed that a bunch of terminal attributes, when set from gettytab, stopped having any effect 30 years ago (aside from a single potentially related unanswered complaint on Usenet in 91).

http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/aspeed-edac.html
What about the probability from having had a very bad infection?
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This looks like a disaster, and looks like a hackers wet dream. Wouldn't be too hard to hack an Echo or another device and essentially create your own portable access point and piggyback off of another persons connection.
Even worse, I bought a 4k Firestick about a month ago to replace an aging first-gen Firestick.

I had other things come up and did not unbox it yet.

After the first week, I have begun to receive emails from Amazon urging me to setup the Firestick, at least once per week.

This is the opposite of motivating, Amazon.
Procreate is very successful. By all accounts I've heard from personal friends, it's a wonderful tool for drawing and illustrations. It's a one time purchase for an extremely fair price (around 10 USD/EUR). I bought it years ago just to play around and still receive updates.
I think there is a context to Chernobyl or Fukushima - they were industrial accidents, and there is a very long history of industrial accidents, many of which were far more deadly.

Obviously, in both the USSR and Japan, there were/are problems with regulatory capture, and in the USSR, safety culture. I think people overfocus on the dramatic explosion and underfocus on the legion of maimed, poisoned, and permanently disabled people that suffer from industrial accidents every day. It's both unjust and ineffective - you can't make a dangerous industrial process safe in a society where civil servants see their job as to promote the interests of big industrial concerns, and that's at the root of both Fukishima and Minamata disease.
> Can soldiers slow down while they’re being shot at?

What's there to think, either shoot back or run. OTOH planning war strategy is thinking.

> Can epidemiologists slow down while a pandemic spreads exponentially?

They have to if they have to invent the medicine. I think you are confused b/w hardwork and thinking.
I mean, sure, but my TomTom 5000 which I bought like 8 years ago for £200 has a sim card that works worldwide, I've used it all over Europe, briefly in North America and in Martinique, it just has seamless GSM connection wherever you go. If a small satnav manufacter can produce such a device for £200 and clearly afford to pay the subscription fees for nearly a decade(I don't pay anything for having this) then I think it's literally a matter of time until we start seeing this in TVs.
I just got a 65” UHD sceptre brand TV with no smart features at Walmart for $329.

It’s pretty great that such a desirable feature is at the bottom of the barrel
This is the route i went (though admittedly mostly by accident), unfortunately do have a "smart AV receiver/amp" but the functionality there's too convenient for me to kill all networking.

If i had to buy a TV now I'd avoid a smart one like the plague.
Exactly, pre-COVID we would go out for a group lunch maybe once every month or two. 7 or 8 people total. Everyone paid their own way so it wasn't seen as a benefit but everyone did acknowledge it as a good bit of team building/cohesion around something everyone was going to do anyway (eat) so it was much better than trying to do something after hours or on a weekend when we have better things to do, or during the work day when the company has better things for us to do.
Or if you're a TV maker with an agreement with Amazon to use this network, it's enough to send content-based media identification information - which report on what is shown on the screen (whether broadcast, cable, stream or game).
>If you are miserable in your current workplace, the only real change you can make is moving to job that brings you joy.

I have no doubt some people manage to find this, but at this point I want a job that pays well and is tolerable, I've done the fun job for less money enough to know I'm terrible at predicting what's going to be "fun" to work on.

If I'm paid more I need to sell less of my time and get to find things that are enjoyable without my livelihood being tied up with it.
Agreed, and sometimes it would have been better to just HOLD instead. But there's plenty of bots with different approaches and risk management. Some do better on side markets or even downturn markets. Some do better on a bull run. Just need to adjust you portfolio accordingly.
Minimum wage in the US would earn you about $21k for a full time job. That's objectively nowhere near $130k
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Maybe the future is having some kind of Faraday cage around your devices.

Or maybe even around the house. This might be possible in apartments.
If you shared your bandwidth with 8 neighbours, you’d have 8x the peak bandwidth.

Instead of 100Mbps you’d have 100MBps.
Amazon is doing the right thing to ensure a healthy piracy ecosystem
I think developer salaries outpaced inflation by a decent margin.
Why wouldn't they want that?
> I think this is a much better argument than all the overheated comments about how I'm a misogynist pig.

What is the purpose of this kind of victimisation? Nobody said such a thing. Or do you simply want to let everyone know how brave you are to voice such an opinion knowing full well the PC firing squad will be knocking down your door at any minute and yadda yadda?

I don't find this kind of flame-baiting productive at all.
Why does the backer feel entitled to be paid for their bread?

They need to convice people to stop taking it from the expositor.

Why does the mechanic feel entitled to be paid for their repairs?

They need to convice people to stop driving away.

Why does the .... feel entitled to be paid for their work?
What a colossal shitstorm.
Europe is a diverse place, low end of salary for new grads (computer science) in Denmark is 5-6k USD/mo.

Senior engineers can go for twice that... Of you live in the EU, have a CS degree, make 2k USD/mo, consider relocation to maybe Norway :)
20 million people already had the virus. I’m one of them. Are we the red headed step child that we have forgotten about?

Let me change the perspective: when I get the flu because I stupidly did not get the flu shot that year, I don’t rush out and get the flu shot after the fact. I’m wondering why I would do the same with this vaccine when there are lots of evidence that first rounders are not likely to be infected even by variants (assuming low viral load)
> We’re working on a new version of Prompt, though!

Ugh-oh. Not again. The last time it happened, they took the old version off the AppStore and ultimately forced everyone to re-purchase their new and shiny remake for the full price. I'm still bitter about it. You want to make a new version - fine, but taking the old one off was a real shitty move (* see EDIT below).

So despite of how it sounds, that ^ part is the exact opposite of good news.

EDIT - I misremembered, my bad. They refused to rebuild the original prompt for x64 target. That's what it was. They didn't take it off the store, they just claimed that rebuilding for 64-bit platform was such an immense hassle and monstrously complicated task that they just can't. But! Lucky for you we just happened to have this brand new version that is 64-bit. It has few things improved, but largely the same. You'll love it. $15.
Is compensation really meant to derive from productivity? In practice, your compensation is a factor of how difficult it is to find someone else to do your job.
I see a lot of legitimate concerns being voiced here about this being a propriety network.

It’s also a massive innovation, almost, wow the future is so cool kind of innovation.

Why this reaction to focus on all the nightmare scenarios instead of a sense of appreciation, awe even, that a new thing has been invented and is being deployed?

This is how we move technology forward. Sometimes it is open source, but often it is driven by a large company.

I would love it if the internet in general was more mesh. I would love it if my internet provider going down when I’m out of town didn’t equal my security system being rendered useless.

I think it’s possible to keep an eye on the dystopian nightmare scenarios without being knee jerk anti-progress.
OK I conflated the two. But law and justice are not the same thing.
In this case he felt the need due to outlandish and incorrect claims about the nature of the accident.
Speaking as a survivor of the EA Spouse era, the last 20 years have been holding the status quo of abuse established by EA during the 90's. Their horrible form of 24/7 crunch time management has simply spread throughout the rest of the corporate world, but not as extreme as they drove it.
> assuming there is greater difficulty to achieve things as someone with a particular quality than the difficulties others face in achieving similar things leads one to naturally consider that without those difficulties perhaps they would have achieved much more.

This might apply to Warner just as well, since it seems that his work was dispersed and then likely destroyed after his death. It just goes to prove that minor and largely unacknowledged figures are pretty much ubiquitous in history. Many of these figures could have valuable books written about them; it's just a matter of doing the work.
The broken page is inlined, scroll down to "Myths and Facts: Running Open Wireless and liability for what others do"
1904 summer Olympics: men’s marathon
Edit: I was wrong. Please disregard this comment. Someone links the comment below. And the sub thread that I remember being removed appears to still be present.

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I commented the other week about enjoying my LG oled smart tv. Someone mentioned what about the evesdropping. (Which I’m aware of) and it started a small thread of people discussing that. These replies were removed about 24-48 hours later. I found it odd the comments about smart TVs evesdropping were removed. So I’m commenting to bookmark this, and see if this discussion is also removed.
> ensure you're not I/O-bound

The biggest thing holding me back from using pg as a data warehouse is RDS not having support for instances with ephemeral drives / cost for PIOPS.

I need 100s of thousands of iops not thousands.
You seem to be having trouble grasping the core concept here.

There are some jobs people really want to do and would do to some degree anyways even if they weren’t employed to do them. This is not the same idea as ‘there are worse jobs out there’.

Making games is one of these things. Working at a fast-food joint is not.
That's because Janssen is a wholly owned subsidiary of J&J.
With this level of reasoning, SMS also makes sense for phones, and banning messenger apps is no big deal.

People have different needs, and a minority is always pushing the edges, and this pushing needs to happen so that the mainstream can pick and choose from the newly explored territory.
This is a limited view akin to thinking you're doing your part for addressing climate change by staying off the grid.

I agree with b0surk that this is redirection and fundamental changes to society need to take place. Like an end to wage slavery.