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There was a time when I used to say "What? Another pointless meeting? Oh c'mon that just distracts me from working on features/writing code!". I don't say that anymore. I'm fine with useless meetings because:

- it's work time. I don't really mind how I spend my working hours. It's 8h and no more (well, with WFH, it's more like 5h or so, but the point stands)

- if the meeting is pointless, I just disconnect. So, the meeting is actually like a break for me. I grab a coffee and let it go

- if I have too many pointless meetings that do not let me do "my job" (but remember, pointless meetings are your job as well!), well let it be. In the standup of the next day I will clearly state: "I spent 2h attending meeting X". If someone asks "why aren't your Jira issues done on time?", I just answer "Oh, I was working on something else (meeting X)".

So, pointless meetings are actually not bad. Just keep your soul free of noise, work (code) when you have time for it.
I commute from Jersey City to NYC every day, and there are plenty of homeless on both sides of the river -- on the streets, under the highway, in the train stations, even standing on highways begging. Some of the homeless appear to be mentally ill; many others look like they would rather not be homeless but cannot seem to find a way out of poverty.
No. They simply are not everywhere. !!!!!

People living on the streets are not apparently more numerous in NYC, Boston, DC and the litany of other east coast and Midwest cities I have lived in or gone to for business than they are in London, Belfast and Antwerp (my limited first hand experience with western europe). You'll get the occasional tent somewhere, a car being lived out of in a parking lot, but it is by no means rampant. Heck, places that are known for being dumps, Chicago, Gary, Baltimore, Newark, etc. have far, far less homeless people on the streets than Seattle does.

Now, if you has said "Seattle, LA, San Fransisco" I would agree with you. Other than a few wealthy suburbs that actively kick out the homeless you'd have a hard time finding a park without a tent in it. But to frame rampant homelessness as a US problem or a liberal cities problem when it is almost purely a west coast problem is pure falsehood.

Just stop lying!
> Many poor have the option (depending on location and availability) to live in homeless shleters.

Homeless people don't "live" in shelters, they temporarily occupy them. Every morning the shelter kicks out the people that slept there and every evening people must queue to re-enter the shelter. Night-to-night, no one is guaranteed a bed.

This is not an "option" that enables meaningful participation in our economy and society nor does it facilitate the health and growth that is necessary for escaping poverty.
It is impossible for the wages at all large companies to be below what large companies pay. What large companies pay is what defines the market rate because most people work for large companies.
Textbook projection!
> I think I understand the intuition behind that... in other words... coding an os kernel seems to have less entropy, less degrees-of-freedom, less subjectivity ... than frontend programming like painting GUI pixels and Javascript-framework-of-the-month.

I don't think that's the right takeaway. A decade ago I worked as an SAP consultant, and did some payroll projects in it. The display part of it was easy. All they wanted was a great big table display, the moral equivalent of a read-only Excel spreadsheet. No faffing about with CSS or Javascript or whatever.

No, the real complexity was the freaking business logic. Office workers, executives, contractors all had different rules for how their pay was calculated, there were all sorts of line items that applied to different classes of employee differently. The company had spent years building those reports by hand and there was a whole lot of organisational knowledge hidden in their heads, corner cases and exceptions all over the place. The sort of thing you can navigate in your head relatively easily if you've been doing it for years on end, but a newcomer has no chance of understanding - so a lot of iteration was involved in getting where we needed to be.

Put fiddly business logic and rapid iteration together, and you're burying yourself under a massive pile of spaghetti code in no time, flat. Trying to keep all of that sane both for myself and for whomever came after me was challenging in ways that none of the more systems-y work I've done since has ever replicated.
Nikola Founder Pleads Not Guilty, Freed on $100M Bail
the problem you have is that you think fighting the unionization is amoral, when in fact doing what is right bye shareholders is the moral thing to do. shareholders is small private investors like me (although I don't invest in Blizzard), your 401ks, etc, to whom they are managing our money for us.

unions sounds nice, but we are just giving up money and freedoms for another layer of corrupt bureaucracy. I don't know much about this particular story, but more often than not I find these union pushes are done by people looking to increase their own power. its a very lucrative career move.
It's just rhetoric clichés. I used to reply "I am surprised some people are surprised that company did X" but why bother.
https://archive.is/ZNEyP
The majority of SWEs at FAANG companies do not make that. Depending on company and location, they might get a sign-on stock grant that could theoretically get them approaching that, but that doesn’t take into account vesting schedules and cliffs. It’s assuming a best-case scenario and certainly not “the majority.” And even then, a new hire low level SWE straight out of college isn’t often going to get a $500k stock grant on-hire, no matter what levels says. And certainly no matter what Blind says.
I think their point was that the answer is a literal "zero seconds".

The CDC should not have the authority to appropriate property, not for a month, not for a minute.
Interesting idea. A sort of PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER + "if I die, send SIGKILL to all my children" option. That would be handy...
Blizzard has been under a lot of bad press because they have screwed game releases lately (mostly because of shitty management?). They've also had bad press on political issues like the hong kong esports things and others iirc.

for warcraft3: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-botched-warcraft-iii-re...
GPL used to be targeted at DEVELOPERS of software - the share and share alike model. These developers would in some cases use the GPL'ed software in locked down devices (many / most android devices are pretty locked down - but developers contribute to a GPL kernel).

So yes, FSF created GPLv3 to focus on USERS freedoms, but the users are not writing the software - so it remains the devs who pick licenses.
I doubt an average tech worker knows the extent of the non-compete clause in their contract. And I doubt anybody except skilled lawyers know whether the non-compete clause will hold if they are moving to a new startup which is registered in Delaware. It is enough for Activision to threaten to sue, and surely that will deter many enough workers from moving together that they wont be able to move as a team.
> "Is there any way to break the stranglehold of large studios and enable smaller studios to build high quality games?"

Game engines are now cheap/free but what deep pockets buy are more and better artwork, level design, story writing, voice acting, sound design, background music, motion capture, etc. that are the hallmarks of AAA games. While small studios can (and do!) build great games, they can't replicate that because of the cost and I don't see a way to work around that. There's no way to automate artistry.
That would matter if it were possible to introduce more new homes to the market. In many if not all large American cities the government restricts new housing construction to the point that practically speaking the rental market could crash 10% and still support a doubling of the amount of new construction.
Any advice to totally remove this from my system? I ran the install script, but after finding out about the telemetry I'd like to remove it. Is there an uninstall process in the current build?
> it doesn't mean every single line in isolation is copyrightable

Microsoft did not just copy individual lines. They fed whole repositories into their model, ignoring the license (if it exists) even though they knew from the start that information generated by the model will be publicly available. Available usually out of context, but nonetheless - the scope of the input and intent are very clearly "everything" and "redistribution".

Just adding a filter/ML model to the output shouldn't matter. I dare you to build a Copilot clone trained from leaked internal Microsoft code and then trying to argue the output is a bit mixed up.

That is a clear violation imho.
> But the negotiations happened probably prior to the pandemic and the new situation probably was unthinkable.

Apparently Warner dealt with this unexpected issue differently:

> WarnerMedia chose to renegotiate many of its talent contracts that, like Ms. Johansson’s deal with Marvel, were tied to box-office performance. Warner Bros. paid more than $200 million to talent as part of the amended agreements.
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This is anecdotal but I have memories of people freely bashing the USA in POE chat rooms, while I got a warning for making comments about China.
I don't think a Kindle would need broadband, though there probably weren't all that many dial-up connections plugged into wifi routers.
Well as an European who bought the kindle keyboard back in 2011, I received nothing :(
My hope is that I can contribute in my small way to making moral behavior more profitable than immoral. IE voting with my wallet.

I'll also vote for policies and representatives to enact sensible (opinions will differ, obviously) legislation to enforce better morality and better safeguarding of the commons, especially with respect to externalities -- as I see those as a major source of the failings of capitalism.

Beyond that, I don't really know. And I'll readily admit that looking around at where we as a society are and where we seem to be headed, especially with respect to things like climate change, those seem like very small measures. I just don't know what else to do.
Thank you, this is exactly my argument. Early COVID, late appointment, we had days to decide, and once the limit had passed, I/we no longer considered it an option and the only other options were to intervene with surgeries, or, to have her live out her natural life.
Edit: I was wrong about how much he is relying on his family - didn't realize how much Patreon support the project now has compared to when I last looked. My bad, should have checked. I still agree with the below in the abstract but I retract my criticism in this case

I can get with that take when it comes to Patreon but it's harder to demonstrate ok-ness-with-it with family. Let's say she's really not all that jazzed about it, actually. What is she gonna do, throw her son out on the street? A lot of parents don't have it in them to do that even if they think they would be justified and it would be the best thing for their child. An adult shouldn't put their parents in that position. He should be making sure his mom is provided for, not the other way around
Hey folks, I’m Tyler! I’m the guy who did the original work on this. I’m happy to answer any questions!

You might also be interested in the discussion happening on the associated Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1420782381825503240
The tenants would owe the government, and Congress or whoever could decide how to deal with it after the pandemic ends.
Of course: https://github.com/deref/exo/blob/main/doc/uninstall.md

For what it's worth, the only telemetry right now is occasional polling for new versions (which are not automatically installed) and you can turn this off with a config setting. Also documented in the README.
Looks pretty cool! I've recently become a fan of Overmind (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind), which does something similar. I like the GUI of exo, though, so I may give it a shot sometime as well.
https://archive.is/R2tUd
Now that it's closing, it seems safe to reveal - the SIM cards from these kindles made for the best emergency data SIM that money could (not) buy.

Everything passed via an http proxy, with a key that could be easily extracted from the Kindle via SSH.

The SIM worked globally - I'd used it in China, Iran, Iraq, etc - all sorts of places that normally are not covered by providers.

At some point others must have abused the system, because the unlimited data got capped to 150MB a month, but in a pinch, it was an incredible tool.

Ditto with first generation Lime scooters that had unlocked global twillio SIMs ...
What world is this where companies hire union-busting mercenaries? Is this the Pinkertons in 2021? What kind of lawless place is the US where you can hire services to stop unionisation?
Current fuel cell tech with compressed hydrogen has an energy density of above 1,000 Wh/kg. It's already far beyond what li-ion can provide.
Sure. It's not the NAT gw. But it is NAT. Op was complaining about having to use 1990s NAT, and I was responding to that. NAT gw isn't really 1990s NAT either, since it autoscales. I assume the sentiment was the complaint about having a "public" subnet and a "private" subnet, and using a NAT to route traffic for the "private" subnet. Its been a while since I used AWS, but I was at a large company and that's simply how IT Security demanded it. So, of course, AWS offers a solution for that market.

But if you use IGW, then your "public" subnet is still actually a private subnet: all networking to hosts inside the VPC occurs with private IPs. The public IPs are 1:1 NATed by the IGW. Your instances never see packets with their public IP. And you can launch instances in the "public" subnet without a NAT mapping if you want. For IPv6, you can have an egress only IGW.

So you can do "traditional" NAT if you want, or you can do "modern cloud" NAT using IGW. It is really your choice. I'm not saying one is better than the other. I'm just letting OP know that there is a non-1990s option. =)
Not quite. If you visit the site without an adblocker, then every sentence of the article is separated from the previous one, by a horizontal-format ad.
Yeah this is what I recall being the case as well.
Ask HN: Any thoughts on using No Code for MVPs?
I’m working with a UX/UI designer for my app and recently found there are some No Code options(Bravo Studio, Bubble, Abstra)to test my MVP.

I’m curious if anyone has any experience with going this route for building an app.
Why would a month-old domain cause a problem for access?
I'm still awaiting that nomination, and my cat isn't obliging, but I'm smart enough to smell that I touched a nerve. Are you vaccinated, calsy?
If they wanted the US to leave they could ask e.g. Philippines.
Doesn't seem to ignore it for me -- on the first page I only see "headphones" word in the search string itself, in "related searches" and in google maps listing shops that sell them.
Edit: parent deleted their comment, but it was a question about isn't union busting the logical capitalist move and what can we do about it.
AFAICT, this is one of those counter-intuitive cases. Mission-driven companies tend to (AFAIK) do better than pure profit-driven companies; similarly, AFAIK, companies that take morality seriously tend to do better. A significant aspect of this (IMHO) is employee empowerment, which relates to the common theories as to why Silicon Valley happened rather than the Boston corridor (legal situation advantageous to employees).

Other things that come to mind:
"Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ags - "If the stock market made any sense, you'd be able to exploit that sense and capitalize on it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

So it makes "logical sense" IFF short-term improvements/non-losses of control, power, and position lead to profit, and that's not something that's logically provable. Rather, that's something that's got to be observed experimentally, and AFAIK it ...isn't.

If your goal-metric is money, you run into both what SMBC is pointing out, and Goodhart's law. If your goal-metric is something else, money is an "easy" by-product.

> how can we work to promote moral behavior?

IMHO sociological studies examining this. "Seek money, make nothing. Seek to make, get money twice", or something.
I bet you applauded when Twitter censored people they didn't like.
>>Collective bargaining is not at all incompatible with a "free market.">>

For what it's worth, collective bargaining is, from an economic perspective, a monopoly. In anti trust terms it would constitute an illegal combination in trade if it weren't for statutory exemptions that explicitly give it a pass.
The government also allowed for penalty free mortgage forbearance and has allotted significant amounts of money for rental assistance. They may even allow landlords to apply for that assistance on the behalf of their tenants.

For the above reasons. I struggle to be sympathetic to landlords. They were taken care of. And quite frankly, I think they are the least deserving of the assistance. Rent seekers and speculators should be last in line for help. When you buy an expensive house or a hot stock, things like pandemics, wars, and financial shocks are part of the risk profile.
No more than a contractor with a fixed length term loses at the end of the contract.
Dwarf Fortress seems incredibly hard to start to me. The UI is chaotic and the "graphics" verge on incoherent.
I wonder if anybody used this eviction moratorium as an excuse to stop paying rent and instead save to become a home owner.
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Works well. Just make sure to use a washcloth to exfoliate the dead skin. Although, I do use shampoo every other day, because I have super greasy Italian hair.
These negotiation most likely precede the pandemic, considering the original planned release for May 2020. Regardless though, a deal was struck and no pandemic or other unforeseen circumstances will change that contract unless it is renegotiated in mutual agreement.

Disney may argue why it deviated from their contractual obligations, and some of that might sound reasonable in light of the pandemic reality. But that doesn't change that they still violated their contract.

Doing business is a lot of taking (calculated) risks and trying to make a profit that way. Contracts exist to protect the interests of those involved. Of course Disney couldn't foresee the pandemic, but they still made a calculated risk by locking something down in a contract. From that moment on, they were stuck to their deal. If reality made that a tough pill to swallow, tough luck. That's the risk of doing business.
Is Bloomberg sufficient?[1]

Perhaps straight from the horse's mouth?[2]

Or is the issue more with the claim they're a union-busting law firm? Because they even basically claim that on their website.[3] That said they otherwise look like not a terrible choice though as with all things like this the optics to something like this are incredibly sensitive.

[1]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/activisi...

[2]: https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

[3]: https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/solutions/labor-and-employment -> Executive and Workforce Training:

"Throughout the United States we offer a wide range of customized training programs and workshops at our clients’ premises, as well as seminars and innovative programs adapted to clients’ specific needs. Our training programs include: providing a legal-psychological perspective on managing employees through effective communication; preventing, identifying and dealing with sexual and other unlawful harassment; *advising on union awareness and avoidance*; dealing with violence in the workplace; managing the interaction between the FMLA, ADA and workers compensation; enhancing interviewing skills and hiring while minimizing legal risks; and understanding restrictive covenants (e.g. non-competition agreements). "
Not hard at all, actually. All stars have very savvy agents and lawyers, and the movie industry has always been a cutthroat business. Don't let the glitz and glamor blind you to the fact that it is an industry which selects for people who work very long hours and drive hard bargains, at every level.

Every professional contract I've ever seen contemplates expansion into future media and markets; it's a technology driven business that has to follow customers to where they are going, and industry lawyers are fully aware that if studios or production companies had the option, most of them would happily relocate to the Moon or Mars to avoid paying out, while maintaining an office on earth to litigate their own copyright interests.
Yes, as I acknowledged in my comment. But notifications have been so widely abused as to reduce their utility for cases where they would have been useful.

For me, the notification bridge has already been burnt to the ground, though. There is every reason to expect that allowing any application to do notifications will result in garbage ones as well as useful ones.
It was actually wonderful. My girlfriend at the time, now wife, had a grandmother who was an avid reader but didn't own a computer or have internet. They were able to get her to switch to a Kindle because of the cellular delivery feature. She was able to figure out how to buy stuff directly from the device, but I always thought it was neat how they could buy Grandma books and have the auto delivered to her a device.
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This is a lazy non sequitur. You really think there are americans on the korean DMZ so that "american owners" (whatever that means) can get a profit?
It isn't that clean cut of an option. Think of it more like a hostel, except you can't get a spot for a certain amount of time, you just need to show up on time and hope each night. Oh, and in addition to being dry, you have to worry about violence and theft.
Put another way, I don't think you would choose to stay in a shelter if you thought you'd be safe sleeping out doors instead.
"Maybe Not" talks about these compositional ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
Actual headline that would get less clicks from the Amazon-hate-train:

"Amazon sending free kindle upgrades to customers affected by carriers removing 3G network access"
An article for you https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Lazy_Newb_Pa...
Path of Exile 2 is still in development, you probably meant Path of Exile? By the way, they just released a new free expansion so it's a great time to check the game out. It's considered by many as the greatest ARPG.
Hah, this is like EVE Online for me. I love reading about the espionage and cloak and dagger and pure insanity, but other than a brief toe-dip...oh no I will not play it.

DF lives in my blood, however.
Yeah, that’s the economics 101 answer. The same textbook will mention, in a footnote, that solving their system of equations will show that, at equilibrium, no company makes a profit.

To be slightly more specific in my criticism, there are plenty of economies with far more protections for tenants, even non-paying ones, and they tend to have similar or lower rates of homelessness.

The effect on tenant selection would also not manifest in the current situation, where it’s a measure used once for a rather rare situation. And even if landlords were to try to avoid such risks, it isn’t clear how that would differ from the status quo? Presumably, they have always chosen the more financially secure tenant when given a choice.
Just trying to dodge emails/threats/repercussions D:
"Said". Good luck with "said" in the court.

Movie was bad nevertheless.
"Identifying and dealing with sexual and other unlawful harassment" seems more relevant considering the lawsuit.