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I have been lucky to have managers who want me to succeed and I operate that way myself, so I take the above message at face value.

If I am your manager, my goal is to make you long run successful. That means if you are burning out, or are busy doing things that you don't need to worry about - it's my job to help you fix it.

What I very often see with people is the metaphorical trash on the floor problem. Being good employees, they pick up a piece of trash in the lobby. This is good. But over time, they may accidentally get sucked in doing janitorial work full time and ignoring their real job.

I see the manager's email as looking into this - what is going on with the employee, are they doing something wrong that's stressing them out and how can I help?

A lot of people in this thread tell you yo take the managers email at face value and I think they are right at least as the first path. Notice that you are probably reading this wrong as evidenced by your own outcomes - you always lose the job or quit which may be evidence that your ability to navigate this situation is poor. Your instinct to ask others (us) for advice is right and you should stick with it even if the advice feels counter intuitive to you.

There's also the question of how you find meaning in your work and I do think it's mainly up to us. If the company needs you to do X and you need the money and can't find another job, then part of your responsibility to yourself is to figure that out. For example, can you do X while learning how to do X more efficiently so you can do it in less time? Can you bond to your colleagues more? Is there truly no lateral movement in the company, etc?

My personal experience however is this - people who are genuinely interested in a wide range of experiences and roles already structured their career to maximize that exposure. If someone is mid-career and hasn't bothered to do it , chances are it's not their primary motivator. So likely it's not "the job" that's boring per se, it's the temptation to not work, to be outside in the sun.

By the way - have you tried the simplest approach? Take the laptop outside so you can work and enjoy the weather at the same time?

I am throwing a lot at the wall here but it's the same advice is give a friend who was "struggling" through this.
It’s hard to unpack this comment because it’s so completely car centered.

The simplest thing to do here is to point out that the overwhelming majority of the world does not shop for groceries the way Americans do. And they have families. Heck, many of them have bigger families than Americans.
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Don't do any technical analysis, trust your guts, short low, buy high, lose all your money, get paid in HN points.
My LinkedIn data leaked? Honestly, it's free advertising.
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This is why it’s good to only share data with ANY SERVICE that you expect to be leaked.
I know people that had these and later just opened them up and pulled the drives for use in a freenas box.

So it isn't completely trash, the drives were still usable even though they were done using it as a MyBookLive device.
It's all a matter of time. The plugins are a current workaround for when browsers don't natively understand IPFS content.

But the rate of growth of this space and with browsers like Brave gaining some traction, I won't be surprised if Firefox starts natively supporting Web3 tools at some point in the future and that would make Google and Apple think about it as well.

Definitely will take time but this seems like the logical next step given how far this tech has already come in the last 5 years.
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> Where are all the folks who were complaining about the LinkedIn anti-scraping court case destroying the open web? This is what LinkedIn is fighting against.

I find comments of the form "where are all the folks who were complaining..." to be tiresome. Asking "where are all the folks" suggest that "all the folks" don't exist because... you don't see them on Hacker News? ... because ... you want to make a dig at LinkedIn? ... because [reasons]?

Unless I'm missing something (let me know), this comment seems like a rant based on speculation. Why believe a hacker who says they got this from scraping?

I'm not defending LinkedIn, to be clear. I'm asking for more {elaboration, logic, specificity} and less rhetoric in the comments here.
The antitrust case against Facebook has always seemed strange to me. If we're worried about them having too much data, isn't spreading the data to multiple smaller entities just making the problem worse?
You mostly need to do that if you have a security division that's looking for reasons to justify their existence. One reason involving little actual work on their own side is to constantly nag other teams to install updates "for security reasons", regardless of how much this actually contributes to security. Which usually isn't that much in case of RDS not exposed to the public network at all.
Crunchy Bridge might be what you're after then.
On the general topic of "technology in restaurants", I've noticed an increasing number of restaurants where the waitstaff uses phones/tablets with some kind of specialized app. This happens often: we start telling them our order, and they have to say "wait a sec.... (taps phone for several seconds) okay what was that?". The "UX" as a patron is pretty bad compared to the waitstaff just whipping out a notepad and scribbling as we order, or better yet memorizing the orders.
> I disagree.

That's something we have in common :). My disagreement spans a few dimensions:

* I've already been through school. An undergraduate and graduate degree already taught me how to learn. I have good habits, and I know how to buckle down and study when needed. For me, I find that having something to do with my hands while listening to a lecture actually helps me stay more focused on the topic. Before and after watching, I like to review the slides, do some reading, and take notes.

* I already have degrees. I'm not looking for extra credential. I'm just looking to learn something new from someone qualified to teach me who can filter out what's important and what's not. It would be nice to have the opportunity to listen without necessarily jumping through all the hoops of a normal college class.

* Sometimes I already have background knowledge that overlaps with the course content. In these cases, it's really frustrating when a course won't let me skip around and focus on the topics that I want to learn. The quickest way to get me to drop an online course is to make me sit through lecture content that I've already learned before somewhere else.

* Different students learn in different ways. You might like that the frequent quiz interruptions hold you accountable. That's great! For me, I don't find it too helpful. Usually the mid-lecture quizzes are simple "are you listening?" questions that don't really test your deep understanding. I'd rather go through a set of exercises all at once after listening to the lecture.

Basically, I see no reason online courses can't be structured to give us more choices about how we want to consume the content!
I've seen plenty of numbers reported, but I think I made a reasonable estimate. I'd be curious to see what you have found. This paper does seem to indicate that the estimates have come down recently:

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/23/6345/pdf

Let's re-do my maths, assuming I over-estimated the CO2 output of manufacturing the EV battery by 100%, and this time we'll assume a charging grid (that is, where the EV will be charged) CO2 output of 0.3kg CO2 / kWh, which is worse than where I live, but better than the US.

I'll also assume an electrical power transmission loss of 10%, and an EV wall-to-wheel efficency of 80%, as well as keeping my well-to-tank CO2 production factor of 1.5 for petrol.

The answer comes out at around 25,000 miles. Better, but not great. At this point, your EV now continues producing CO2 at a rate of 0.12kg/mi, and the ICE car at 0.47kg/mi. By 100,000 miles, your EV has comparatively emitted 21,000kg CO2 (charging emissions of 12,000kg CO2 + battery pack of 9,000kg CO2), to the ICE car's 47,000kg CO2.

I have not taken into account the manufacture and maintentance of all of the EV charging points, which I expect to be substantial.

Looking at the overall - you have about halved your CO2 output for transport, as well as being able to offload about half of that again to whichever country manufactured the battery pack. You have also offloaded all of the point-of-use emissions, again effectively to whichever country manufactured the battery pack. To achieve this great success, an enormous amount of metals and semiconductors had to be used to manufacture all the charging points, as well as the attendant environmental damage and pollution from mineral mining, and disposal.

The fact that the overall benefits of EVs are even debatable, should tell you that this is not the radical change we apparently need to avert a climate catastrophe. To me, it seems like it would provide at best a modest improvement, all while seriously enriching a select few companies and economies.

If it really were about making radical changes to avert a climate catastrophe, it sounds like we should all be cycling, or at worst, using Honda C50 mopeds.

If you say "well, a 50% reduction is worth it", you could achieve that by driving half as much. Or by driving 75% as much, and changing to a car that is 25% more efficient. Or by car-sharing. None of those require enormous amounts of extra mineral extraction and pollution, but none of those make anyone any money, so there we go.

The unsustainable part of personal transport is the huge metal box we all expect to sit in, not the fuel used to power it.
At all the places I've seen doing this, they have a unique QR code for each table.
It certainly is more the environment than the language itself, true.
The HP prime is nearly double the price tho
If you haven't added the New pipe repository directly yet (instructions to do this on their website) I'd recommend it. The Newpipe repo is usually a few days ahead of the F-Droid one and means fixes for breakages usually come through more quickly when YouTube change their frontend.
I'm totally going to use my 0day iOS sandbox escape to steal the $50 order from the restaurant down the street.
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>Brazil, Kenya, and Congo

I've seen some liveleak videos that maybe could argue that Corporal punishment being illegal is either not enforced or definitely does not work for these countries.
> I fully agree with the addition that personal interaction can make waiting for 15 minutes acceptable if a reasonable explanation is given.

Absolutely. In this case however, there were multiple waiters refusing eye contact while passing right by our table and there were also other tables right by ours that got there after us and was being taken care of. It was as if we weren’t there.
> your repeating right wing nonsense by saying things like that

Please refrain from dismissing view points with ad hominem attacks "right wing nonsense". That doesn't further the discussion to anywhere productive and is equivalent to "she's a witch" from 1600s. You are not talking in objective facts. Ignoring the problem by yelling "La la la, I can't hear you!" and gaslighting people by claiming what they are seeing is not real and is some Fox talking point is not going to encourage those who are reluctant to make drugs legal to change their mind. There is a very serious problem with homelessness and needles/feces to the point where they literally have an app to report poop on the streets.

Here's all left leaning sources:

> 2018: Survey of Downtown San Francisco Reveals Trash on Every Block, 303 Piles of Feces and 100 Drug Needles

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/diseased-streets/16660...

> NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit reported a 20m² 153-block downtown area it surveyed was littered with refuse. The team found discarded needles on 41 blocks and piles of feces on 96. In July, a major medical association canceled future events in the Golden Gate City because of its filthy streets.

https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-needles-human-feces-1...

> 'It's raining needles': Drug crisis creates pollution threat in San Francisco, across US

https://abc7news.com/needles-found-in-sf-left-on-streets-rep...

> EPA Issues Violation Notice To San Francisco Over Needles, Human Waste

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/02/epa-issues-viol...

> Business Insider: San Francisco's dirtiest street has an outdoor drug market, discarded heroin needles, and piles of poop on the sidewalk. The block's homeless residents — including drug dealers, addicts, and the mentally ill — leave behind piles of feces and discarded needles.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.businessinsider.co...

> 'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...

Even this year's Academy Awards events had to clean up the homeless people before holding the event:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-ordered-out-of-la...
Well, it can be used in a chain of attack to jump from one compromised, external-facing machine to another only internal one that might hold more sensitive data. Or to run some inside-job (although in that case developers should not be able to spawn up a VM in production)
>How do you get more clear?

Consider this: "It's not our biggest account, but it does count for something, so I really want our team to get the demo online by Thursday, so I was thinking of having Jared work with you for for the next two days, or having you hold off on the Tachyon project until Fusion is ready. Which of those options sounds good to you?" These are the techniques used:

The message began with "Just wanted to check in and see," but they're not just curious and adding a layer of casualness confused the message. They're not just checking in, they are asking for reason related to the product delivery. Maybe things are going well, and the manager is seeking to optimize to deliver early. Or maybe the employee is about to delay something or maybe not until weeks from now. But with the intent hidden, the manager concentrates all of the power, setting the managed into an anxious or defensive posture. So clarify the situation with the appropriate level of urgency.

Next, add suggestions of what the manager can do. The employee can't be expected to guess or know what options are available. Is there $ for a consultant? Can a team member ahead of the game afford a few pair-programming sessions? Could tasks be reprioritized? Knowing these options is the manager's duty. Expecting the employee to come up with them is like expecting a boat to tell you how it should be washed. They are likely already pressed trying to perform technically, so generating a list of possibilities without knowing their feasibility compounds the stress. It's like picking movies with a friend: One picks a number of good possibilities and the other choose from that set.

Next, and you may pass this over as overly pedantic: There absolutely are things that a manager could do to help, so asking if there are sounds too simple. It sounds like a weak lead. And for someone struggling, getting led by a person full of uncertainty compounds everything.

Finally, I would suggest reassuring the person they're not going to get fired if they answer this question wrong. With the growth of "hire to fire" positions and stack ranking, employees often feel like managers are simply out to gather evidence of blood so they can be pecked to death. Just be level about how where this work stands in importance.
In Europe, they are seen as rats that can fly, which I find funny.
> "child laying down on the floor in the middle of a department store"

In more than three decades of living in Norway where corporal punishment is exceedingly rare I have never once seen this kind of behaviour from a Norwegian child and rarely from immigrant children.

So perhaps one should look to the behaviour of the parents and society in general in order to tackle this kind of misbehaviour by ensuring that it does not happen instead of simply reacting to it when it does.
The idea of "outsourcing blame" mentioned in several comments seems really weird to me: If I make the choice to outsource something, and whoever I outsourced it to fucks up, I'm still the one who made the decision to outsource it. The same goes for outsourcing to someone who does a better job than I could have: then that was a great idea, and yay for me.
Google already explicitly discourages “cloaking”.[0] They define it as:

> Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

You’d think they’d do something about it. Maybe it’s because Reddit doesn’t cloak necessarily, but when it straight up refuses to show without the app (sometimes), I’d call that cloaking (in spirit). News sites throwing up paywalls would fit that too.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
Right, there's no doubt that this is how American cities are organized today. What I'm advocating for is allowing that to change naturally over the course of a few decades by upzoning urban lots to allow for more density (everywhere, but especially near transit). As traffic increases in the denser zones, more people will choose to live there to avoid the commute (and because we know humans choose to move to densely-developed neighborhoods when they're allowed to), which generates even more density, and so on.

The status quo today is that these alternatives are illegal in most parts of most cities.
Not at all.

I believe that regardless of whether someone is at a financial disadvantage, neither business nor government should have the ability force them to surrender both dignity and personal financial information in order to receive aid.

It's hard enough to ask for help without having to lay your life bare to strangers in order to receive it.
navy ship-board reactors are portable, too
A lot of the problems with concrete are actually problems with steel reinforcement. Concrete alone is incredibly long-lived and durable, see the Pantheon in Rome. However steel rusts, expands and weakens within decades, even when you do everything right.
I didn't know it was banned in Portugal but I would say this as a portuguese and having a school aged kid, parents hit their kids a lot here. Maybe not in the middle of Continente (walmart) but at home. Not beat them to death, but spanking their butts and the likes is quite common (and between parent talks, they are even sorta 'proud' of doing so)
Babel is really good for grammar and explains well in bite sizes, but it's a little pricy. It could also do with some more repetition imo, however I would recommend it.
Not really accurate. $30/barrel is $0.017/kWh in terms of THERMAL energy, but that’s high entropy whereas wind energy is low entropy (electricity). To get that oil’s thermal energy into low entropy energy, you need to burn it and run some sort of heat engine, which throws about half to two-thirds of the energy away, so in low-entropy equivalent (ie electrical or mechanical energy), that oil costs $0.034-0.051/kWh.

Not only that, but some solar farms have costs as low as $0.016-$0.018/kWh before subsidies: https://www.pv-tech.org/bids-of-us0-0162-kwh-emerge-as-saudi...
I've never seen a website chug so badly on my machine, I barely got 5fps on any of that page
Oh funny I actually thought about same name

LinkedOut: A decentralized 'paid' job profile site for professionals, not recruiters. Where you decide who can see your profile/data and contact you.

I might just build this,but with a better name, lol
It was only after owning a Tesla that I realized how much of the noise from a car comes from its engine, and not the tires. I'd ballpark around 80%, especially at city speeds (less than 50 km/h).
> To date the furthest a Portuguese racing pigeon seems to have flown off course is 2,222 kms, straight into a bucket of paint in Plymouth, UK (click here).

That's one hell of a confused pigeon.
My solution was to attach a little board from https://www.particle.io/ to a doorbell ringer to detect when the doorbell rings, which pokes a port on a PC in my office that is always on anyway. The PC uses ffmpeg to play a sound.
They didn't even try to imagine it though.

According to the linked article[1] there's about 1.1 Tt of concrete on the planet. At a density of 2.4t/m³ that's 458 billion m³ or 458km³. That'd be a cube of with a side length of 7.71km or about the height of Mount Jannu[2] from ocean level.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhakarna_Mountain
> What I'm talking about is a much more active imaginative stance, the kind of stance taken by people like Bret Victor or Satoshi or Picasso

Is this entire essay basically just a physicist describing chemistry without understanding that chemistry is already there and has been for hundreds of years?
Radical Candor by Kim Scott speaks directly about this topic in the opening chapters and also the consequences of avoiding the conversation, because it makes you as the manager feel awkward. I highly recommend the book and I find it even better than Difficult Conversations or Crucial Conversations.
I've seen worse. All you need to use a credit card is the number printed on it and still we hand it to strangers to run off with for 3 minutes like nothing.
This all goes back to the fact that cloud based / cloud connected storage, that is not also backed up on disconnected media, is essentially insecure/unreliable.

I have cloud accessible storage that is backed up on two separate 2TB USB drives, in A/B fashion. For me, 2TB is enough to cover my irreplaceable data (mostly digital photos).
Thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense.
> Nuclear power is “orders of magnitude more energy dense than any other known technology,” Waksman told National Defense. “That allows the possibility to provide resilient power for years and years, without needing to refuel. … Refueling can be a real burden in remote areas.”
Which part?

If you're starting from scratch, I'd say start with the lighting. I put multiple Hue bulbs in my main rooms and then wrote some software to control them: https://github.com/wpietri/sunrise

I don't recommend using this software, but it's easy enough to write something similar. Basically make sure the amount of light around you is as if you were camping: bright mornings and days, dim evenings, dark nights.

Also helpful to me was looking at other things that might mess with sleep. E.g., gradually weaning off caffeine and other stimulants. Avoiding exciting things (video games, action movies) after 8 pm or so.

If at that point you're still struggling, I'd look at why. Look in the same way you'd debug an obscure software problem.

Is that helpful?
This seems to prevent states from legislating the kind of discrimination that caused this ban in the first place.
The only QR related issue here is lack of signal, everything else is irrelevant