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That's how it works in theory, according to the treaties.

In reality the head of the Commission has a lot of power over who the commissioners are and have developed a habit of placing many criteria upon national governments in whom they may appoint. The most obvious example of this is the way Jean-Claude Juncker illegally and secretly rejected candidates many times, against the treaties. This only became public because he bragged about it when telling countries that they would not be allowed to nominate conservative Euroskeptics to Commission jobs. He said:

“Nobody knows this, but last time I rejected the candidacies of six of the Commissioners presented to me by national governments”.

Note: this is totally illegal by treaty. As normal, nobody cares. The EU violates its own treaties regularly, this is just one more way.

This system has now become institutionalized. For example vDL has required that half the commissioners be women and have rejected individual countries proposals, in order to get that. There have been quotas for women in the past too, just less than 50%. In theory this is not possible, in practice it is.

As for the European Parliament, it's useless. It doesn't make laws, so elections to it devolve into pantomimes with candidates all explaining that their policy is either to strongly agree with whatever the Commission wants to do, or to just oppose everything. The level of democratic respect it garners was indicated by how it was totally bypassed last time - in theory, the head of the Commission is voted on by the EU Parliament. So what happens: they were given only one candidate on the list to vote for, vDL.

A puppet pseudo-Parliament in which parties cannot have any policies, is not a real check on anything. It is a form of makeup covering the uglyness within, nothing more.
I think the answer is that contributing to Bazel will not get Facebook devs promoted, but creating something new will.
I used to work for a company that had a very hard time getting used to the culture.

The "You will do X", followed by our "well actually..." reply, was quite common in the early years.
I’m at Amazon now. This is not true.
It's a bit late for that. There are already 3 more Fantastic Beasts movies in various stages of development.
It's on Slack. See a previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981397
Acid League is somewhat decent, not quite as good as a really nice bottle of wine but pretty good. Sadly the cost is a bit prohibitive, especially for what it is.
> The ones you mention, patent trolling and length of patents might be tuned in order to optimize innovation.

Maybe there should be at least a differentiation between tech sectors for which the patent is applied (e.g. IT vs. agriculture vs. materials vs. <all the rest>) in relation to how long the patent would be valid?

Having a patent in IT valid for XX years is in my opinion a lot more counterproductive than the same for other sectors.

I could have tonight a great idea about software and implement&test&prove it within days but to do the same with new materials/crops/engines/whatever can take a lot more time/effort/resources => maybe IT patents should always have a shorter max life than the rest? At least the ones purely related to software.
It doesn't seem crazy to me on the surface. You say you are worried about "toxic culture which breeds stress" but I think you could equally say that constantly getting notes that you are a below-average performer would be just as bad.
Ask HN: Could downvoting be required to include a comment?
I know that downvoting is a controversial topic, and while I would prefer that there was no downvoting at all, I also understand why it exists. I also think that in HN downvoting is used very responsibly, signaling comments that don't follow the proper etiquette.

However, what I don't see so often is a reason for the downvote that would inform the OP of the undesired behavior and maybe give the opportunity to explain, elaborate, or even apologize. Downvotes seem to be "fire and forget" in nature. I wonder if anyone ever removes a downvote after an exchange with the OP.

That's why I'd like to propose, could we force those who decide to downvote a comment to leave respectful feedback for the OP? Assuming that downvoting is not a way to retaliate against a user but to correct unwelcome behavior, I think that a comment would be much more effective in reaching that goal.

Edit: Autocorrect.
As an engineer I don't accept that things have to suck.

If other people think failure is OK I can't do anything about it, but if I have the problem that "Adhesive X does not work in Environment Y" I am going to change the adhesive, change the environment, or not use an adhesive.
I didn't read OP's comment as "performance issues should be publicized within the workforce" and more "performance issues should be known to the individual employee"

If management thinks you're doing a bad job, it's not needed to make it known to the entire team - but you should know.
Hiring isn't a problem if you want to use a language for your own project or for your own learning. Do whatever floats your boat.

Hiring (or having others on the team who can work on the code) is a problem if you want to use a language in a company. (I mean, it's not if you just want to write a one-off program. It is if you're writing a program that is going to survive for a long time and be depended on by others.)
I really like ML-likes, but I feel the same way about Go. I hoped for some time that a equivalent of F# would appear for Go and gain a bit of traction, as I really like algebraic data types, immutability by default and a few map/filter/reduce from time to time, but sadly that didn't happen. It's really frustrating because sum types and pattern matching would have been a good alternative to if err != nil that could be cheked by the compiler, and the language already has a more powerful switch. On the other hand, the language is nice to use, the tooling is good, and popular enough to usually have what you need.
"The Tomorrow War" is not an Amazon movie, they only bought the distribution rights.
It's a Paramount Pictures film.
Related: There's also a Copyright Modernization Committee at the Library of Congress, and Brewster Kahle is joining it! They also have virtual public meetings, including one on July 22.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27732887
Copilot is clearly a toy.
The only device that gets that small is a Peltier cooler, and those have far less efficiency than a proper Air Conditioner / Refrigerant based pump.

You can experiment with Peltiers yourself: they're widely available on Digikey and are extremely small and effective at "air conditioning" like tasks (moving heat to the hot side, while cooling the cold side).

But due to their lack of efficiency, they can never properly compete against a large scale central air conditioner: be it a proper dehumidifier, refrigerator, or actual AC / HVAC unit.

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A 100W Peltier might be able to move 50W (meaning the hot-side is 150W of heat, while the cold side is -50W of cooling). Perfect efficiency (50W heat hot side / -50W of cooling cold side) is impossible, much like perpetual motion machines.

In contrast, a proper air conditioner might be closer to 100W of power delivering 300W of cooling (Emit 400W of heat on the hot side, and provide -300W cooling on the cold side).

Furthermore, the temperature difference from a Peltier is small, maybe 10C or 20C (and the bigger the delta, the less efficient a Peltier gets). A proper compressor / refrigerator can handle much larger temperature differences at much higher efficiency.

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So the key for Peltier is to find low temperature differences (maybe keep it to 10C to minimize the efficiency loss), at low-wattages (so that the inefficiency won't generate too much heat). Maybe 10W to provide -5W of cooling (cold side) and 15W of heating (hot side) which won't raise the temperature of the room too much, and still provide some degree of comfort to the people wearing the jacket.

But its clear to me that "air conditioning" is one of those "bigger is better" deals. You'd rather more centralize the hot-side vs cold-side (ex: make sure the hot side is outside, rather than having many hot-sides inside fighting each other, raising the temperature of the room you're working in)
Avoiding the software delivery Death Spiral
Aren't oranges typically picked well before much if any fermentation has had a chance to take place?
Basic math too.

Suppose “ability” is normally distributed in the population and in your initial team too. Replace people when the new candidate improves the team’s median ability (supposedly what Amazon’s “Bar Raiser” checks).

I kicked together a simulation of this process. The first replacement is pretty easy (50/50), but the hundredth hire on a team of ten often takes tens of thousands of interviews, and sometimes over a million. No one is literally doing this.
I believe that you ain't seen nothing yet. Superhero comic films are king but like, say, zombie media in the 2000s, it is a mammoth fad that will eventually be overthrown by another one. Once Hollywood finally figures out how to make a good video game movie adaptation, expect the true licensing deluge to begin. Marvel and DC are but two companies. Imagine the amount of IP adaptations that an entire industry will yield.
A toxic culture of fear is the intended effect here.

People at amazon love to discuss the flywheel effect[1]. The flywheel here is the culture of fear that keeps employees on their toes. Bezos believes that employees are inherently lazy[2], and it seems like fear is tool the S-team have chosen to solve the problem of lazy employees.

This has a lot of unintended consequences[3], but the executives with the power to change this don't care as long as they keep getting rewarded with a higher stock price, and fresh college grads who are willing to sacrifice themselves at the altar.

[1]https://feedvisor.com/resources/amazon-trends/amazon-flywhee...

[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27786829
But I can type α with two keystrokes. “alpha” is five.
Any product that leads to people spending more time on the internet increases the number of ads google sells.
No linux tag mumble mumble

Note: I know there is a GTK tag, but not everything is GTK
> This is also another reason why the crux of the problem is not with developed countries.

By far the most emissions, now and historically, are in developed countries. The cause of our current problems is the failure of developed countries, the US in particular, to act.
I guess the Americans here may be blissfully unaware that this word could have other connotations on the right-hand side of the pond.

https://british-american-dictionary.com/bad-words/spunk-uk/
As others have already mentioned in the thread, they didn’t kill it, it is just not compatible with GTK4 out of the window. But a similar program for that is being done.
I mean, I don’t disagree with him, but he dates back to the birth of the blockbuster, which was the 70s version of “algorithmic things that last 100 minutes”.

The movie industry has had seismic shifts every couple of decades and has been shrinking since the 1950s.
Have you considered very low alcohol beers? I remember one called, amusingly, "commercial suicide". it was a bit difficult to find. ABV was 3.3%

https://jesterkingbrewery.com/main-blog/commercial-suicide-b...

Becks also has an unusually low alcohol content beer, Beck's 'premier light' which is 2.3%.

That may still be too high for you though, and for people who must never touch alcohol, even 2.3% is probably a bad idea.

Neither of these or anything like them are likely to be served in a bar, so for socializing, probably not a helpful option anyway.
Your view of gaming laptops is a couple of years out of date. There are plenty of capable gaming laptops now with slim profiles and while battery life is still not their forte, that's only when they are actually gaming which isn't usually something you engage in without at least being relatively close to an outlet.
You’d be surprised. Do they pay well? Do they have cool products?

“I’ve done a lot more for a lot less” - The Office.
I'm reminded of those honeyguide birds in Africa that have co-evolved with hunter-gatherers and help them to find honey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ETvF9z8pc0

Absolutely fascinating to watch.
I think the idea that we need to work 40 hours is a relic of a time when most work was manual labor. It does make sense if your job involves physical labor. Mining, working industrial machines, cooking food all requires you to put in those hours and kind of makes sense that your productivity is proportional to how much you work.

However, modern white collar jobs don't necessarily need 40 hours. A lot of weekly modern work could be done in less time. In fact, in a lot of jobs, people try to do unproductive work just to fill out the time requirements. Unnecessary meetings, inefficient workflows, paper pushing, make work etc. would all disappear if we just worked less. Another problem with work that requires you to use your brain is that it is literally impossible to stay fully focussed for 8-9 hours every single day. There are going to be unproductive stretches, and you'd rather not work during those than to force yourself into working through them, because those are the stretches when you make mistakes and create more work for yourself, thereby reducing productivity.
French Senate considers mandatory Covid vaccines for adults aged 24-59
I don't have a ton of experience in E&O, but I do work in insurance and I don't think this is right. Buying a policy to file a claim for an event that already happened is called fraud, and while it does happen, it's generally pretty easy for insurers to detect and prevent.

In general the advantage of claims-made policies from an insurer's perspective is that they don't have to hold incurred but not reported (IBNR) reserves after the policy term. With an occurrence-basis policy on a relatively long-tailed line like E&O, the insurer generally needs to hold IBNR for several years after the end of the policy term. It's expensive to lock up capital for that long - as the insured you effectively pay for that capital (through higher premiums) at the insurer's cost of equity, generally upwards of 10% annualized for stock insurers.

Obviously the insurer's tail risk is also lower for a claims-made policy, but that's less of a factor at scale since it's diversifiable. (Or at least mostly diversifiable - there might be some contagion risk.)
A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China’s Rise in AI
Not sure about the US, but in Canada there are a couple of yellow label grocery store brands of non alcoholic beer which are very surprisingly good as well. Seems like there are more and more options every day.
The purpose of air conditioning in comfort -- so arguing that people can make themselves slightly less comfortable by doing something different is moot. It's even more energy efficient to not run the AC at all so why argue about vent position?
You are so generous. If I discover a pink unicorn, I'm totally naming it after myself.
This sounds so weird. Like a place that has no general store in walking distance implies end of the world but then you say it has bad traffic too. And 2-lane road with no shoulder implies it's not a highway in the middle of nowhere but a place where people live. Why has nobody opened a shop closer? Seems like easy money.
That's usually not how it works with employment contracts, especially at big software companies. I'm fairly certain this was given to the candidate using something like Digisign, which can be configured to not allow revisions from the signer.
> Biden is pushing the FTC to restrict “unnecessary occupational licensing” that can create barriers to entry—sometimes costly ones—for people seeking to enter a new field.

This is surprising to see coming from a Democrat. Usually it is the libertarian wing of the Republican party that pushes for reduction in occupational licensing.
Not to detract from the message here, but

> It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us

The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group.

I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess people feel like they would speak the sentence with a pause after the conjunction and therefore the comma goes there in writing.
Django Ninja
Copilot appeals to bad developers, which it's going to learn from. It's been trained on a codebase that is mostly bad and/or outdated. It will produce code that is usually bad and the bad programmer using won't properly review and fix it, so it will never learn how bad it is.

If copilot replaces anything, it will be the legion of failed developers that end up working for Oracle and Comcast currently doing god-knows-what with all their time. Those systems are already giant festering mounds of technical debt; imagine how bad it will get when literally no human has ever seen the code producing that weird bug.
Including the misspelling in clause 5? "I will submit it for sate [sic] on the Amazon platform"
Listening to podcasts means using feeds.
What you need to know about Vue.js
That looks like a good read. Can you publish it on Google Play Books too? I am not in the Kindle ecosystem.
We're not talking about plane crashes.

We're talking about the significant demographic trend that is clearly there and it signifies the utter failure of CA
politicians to keep productive and creative people as well as businesses.

The trend is there whether you like it or not.
I can't understand how people are so insulted by a downvote. If people are so thin skinned no wonder they are in arms about "cancel culture".

When I was a kid people called me names, kicked me in the face, etc. Many of the most successful people in history (say Benjamin Disraeli) took the worst kind of crap from people and spun it into gold. Complaining about it is going to get you more downvotes at best.
> Amazon instructs managers not to tell office employees that they are on a formal performance-management plan that puts their job in jeopardy unless the employee explicitly asks, according to guidance from an Amazon intranet page for managers.

Wait, what's the point of putting someone on a PIP/PMP if you don't even tell them their performance needs to improve (or they need to jump ship)?

They aren't likely to change if you don't tell them to change.
That just makes you sound like you have no idea what the company does, and you're only here because a recruiter said they have a great ping-pong league (which is pretty common, actually, I've had candidates who couldn't describe what the company does).

But it's a fine answer if you can remove that aspect. "Oh I'm interested in a company that does Widgets, and I hear your company is one of the best in the Widget business. Tell me, is that true?"
The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make – Michael Seibel
Would you say the 99.99% reduction in travel time is “brilliant”?

Me, I like sight seeing. A bicycle ride sounds brilliant. Even though it is much slower.
Hiring manager in CO here, watching salary ranges that get posted and having discussed it with more informed people on the HR side. Here's what I've been seeing:

* Yes, plenty of companies posting a lower range than they are willing to pay. Some are explicitly saying that's the starting range, others leave it implicit.

* Some but not many companies in technical compliance, but failing to meet the spirit of the law. Ex: posting a range of $50-150k.

* Lots of companies are still not posting the salary range. Many of these are out-of-state companies posting remote positions, but labeling them as Denver or Boulder to attract Colorado talent.
Newsflash, most taxes have loopholes in them to allow the money to be used on things other than what they were intended for [1]. Vehicle taxes are used for multiple purposes, not just roads. Currently, 7.2% of GDP goes to pensions [2], and that is just the federal government's part. States' contributions would easily double that figure.

[1] https://reason.org/policy-brief/how-much-gas-tax-money-state...

[2] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/pensions_spending
Please forgive me if I don't take your word for it when TOS allows it.

> including but not limited to improving the Services, developing and improving other Nordigen products and services, and distributing or licensing such data to third parties with whom Nordigen has a business relationship.

That means if you don't now, you might do it in the future. If if you don't, you might sell the whole thing to another company who will do this.
These really are my sweet spot. I'm a very cerebral person (for better and neurotic worse) and the "dumbing" effect of alcohol is sometimes welcome but often comes on too strong. ~2.5% beers are something I can enjoy.
"The Tomorrow War" is not an Amazon movie, they only bought the distribution rights. It's a Paramount Pictures film.
Also supposed to be one of the best post-exercise drinks.
Movie industry is largely driven by massive advertisement campaigns. My guess that all of those spikes before 2020 were driven by massive AAA releases with big of ad budgets. Nothing like that happened during 2020. I think it's too early to ring the funeral bell, let's see a few massive releases first.
Boycott this retarded organization. They're more concerned with defending their little symbol than helping those in need. The red cross was literally equivalent to "health" and that's why health kits that instantly healed you had this symbol on it. Way to destroy a brand. Stop terrorizing video game producers and focus on your mission again, morons.
I agree, and OP, remember you can use the support email at the bottom of the site for this sort of thing (since you probably can’t edit the comment yourself at this point).
As you apparently already know WINE/Proton is just for games that are not available in native Linux versions.

My own Steam library is packed with games (thousands of them with many thousands more available for purchase at any given time), and very few of those require the use of Proton, but it sure is nice to have available, since it adds the ability to play games which would otherwise bit-rot there in my library.
Sony WF-1000XM4 teardown shows what's inside the wireless earbuds
How big is your screen?
I bet cinema screen is bigger.
Putting aside everything else, having a formal performance-management plan, in which those put on it will be informed of that fact, normally means that most employees will have some evidence for not feeling afraid that each day they walk into the office may be their last.
100k is pretty easy to hit with 75-100 employees. 100 desks, chairs, and computers is going to be at least that much. hopefully you don't have meeting rooms, printers/copiers, a waiting area, a break room with fridge/microwave/coffee/table/chairs...
As the runt of the litter in my AWS team, I thankfully have avoided such plans.
I’ve never been at a company so willing to frame mistakes and shortcomings as chances to grow.

Other people clearly are having different experiences.
Most grocery stores near me (in MN) have added separate liquor stores that are attached, but separated. But then they also still sell 3.2 beer in the main portion of the store. Seems weird to me. I assume it will disappear if they think of something better to put on the shelf.
How many years does it take a team of 10 to get to their 100th hire? If they only replace 1 person a year, ~100 interviews a year sounds pretty normal to me (it actually sounds low compared to where I last worked where I sometimes interviewed multiple people a day).