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Your ideas of morality are interesting for want of a better word.
Once the system is compromised the best repair is a full reset (and even better swapping the device, not that the restore image has been tampered with ...) root powers are needed for analysis. But that's nothing a normal user can do ...

But on the larger point: I agree there should be an option for suers to replace firmware and become root. But limiting root access makes work for Pegasus and others harder, which is good.
Sure, but this subreddit is unlikely to be something anyone stumble upon. Just like you might put up a flyer for an AA meeting in a bar but host the meeting elsewhere, you can advertise this community on Reddit (via promoted ads) but host it in a less distracting and tempting place.
> The only winning move is not to play

I recognise this from a list of "specification gaming" examples compiled by Victoria Krakovna at https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/specification-gam...

I found that list from a video on specification gaming by Rob Miles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJlF-olKmg
This is probably what Israeli advocacy groups that lobby against antisemitism would prefer.

They are typically happy to forgo criticism of anti semitism from, say, pro zionist southern baptist groups or hungary's orban.

They are usually much more concerned with completely nonracist criticism of Israel from the likes of UK's jeremy corbyn.

State comes first.
So let's recap:

Olympics:

- forces countries to invest in infrastructure, opening chance for corrupt governments to siphon money easily

- incentivizes countries to treat humans like animals and train them since birth (in some cases separating them from their families)

- countries 'dump' athletes right after they peak, few of them give them the support they need to survive with their highly tuned skills but with low demand

- athletes don't get a single dime (unless they win and depends on their country), yet ads and ticket sales flow

- allows coaches to have complete power over little kids, leading to abuse (mental/physical/sexual)

Why don't we keep the Olympics at a single place (i.e. Greece) let them have the tourist revenue and we avoid having to build facilities all over the world every 4 years. Let's invest that money on the people that actually make the event what it is. Let's give medals to countries that take care of their own. It is hard for me to not think of the Olympics as some vestige of the cold war. We could do better. The recent supreme court case involving the NCAA might be a sign that athletes can recoup some agency, so that is motivating.
I do wonder how much of the modern app or second hand selling community is based on grift and stolen goods. On my local OfferUp in Philadelphia it looks like 30-40% scams(Giving away for free for my birthday text at XXX) 30-40% obviously stolen goods(iCloud locked devices). The small remaining posts are clothes and other items, finding a legitimate item for sale can be a real struggle.
I guess that means you had them in a Mediterranean country, because elsewhere in Europe they still are rather bland in my (northern European) opinion
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Where the 'European' ones better or worse?

As a norther European, I've always found the tomatoes in the US far better than what I normally get.
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Cremation is relatively recent in human history (oldest record dating to 17,000 years ago), the vast majority of which we buried our dead who then decomposed/were eaten.
Funny thing is that the cathedral was meant to represent GNU, vs the Bazaar that was Linux.
Searches for "Inflation" are at an all time high
Yeah, I think a closer analogue would be asking something like "derive the conserved quantities of the gravitational two-body problem" and then dinging candidates for forgetting about the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector
Exactly. It does get you funny looks though, when you go back into the store to try to correct an error like that. I've even had employees tell me to get lost because it is too much trouble to fix the error.
I believe this is Andrew Lee, the guy that "bought freenode", with all the drama that ensued.
This has been discussed heavily here, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338
This is a really solid question with no clear cut answer on the surface. I wonder what sort of research is being done here?
Hanlon's razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Many or most people incorrectly assume that anti-Semitism has something to do with Semitic people because the words (but not their meanings) are similar.
Law school teaches you theory. The practical part is supposed to come from competitive internships.

The bar is hard for CA because we go to school for the theory and then no one really teaches you the formulaic way to answer bar essays. Add on top of that it's a lot of memorization and study. Most students I went to school with had egos and thought they had it in the bag only studying on the weekends.
How we reduced Next.js page size by 3.5x and achieved a 98 Lighthouse score
Isn’t it standard practice to set isolate if one has any highly contagious disease? Like the actual flu? Maybe it’s not a law but it sure is a sensical cultural norm and is just the polite thing to do as well.
Did the New York Times stifle lab leak debate?
ideas are cheap. execution matters.
Unless we just happen to have evolved very early on compared to what's normal, we should expect a lot of intelligent life with just a little bit of variance on these numbers. And some of that could easily be millions of years old. Interestingly, even if a life form populated new solar systems at a rate of a thousand years per system (where each populated solar system in turn populates more of them), they'd still fill up the Galaxy in only a couple million years.
Communication has also been always around. The problem is the abundance - same with fat and sugar and cocaine. A little is fine, a lot is bad.
Going to Home Depot in some places is to be treated like a thief. When you use the self check out they have a camera looking right at you and they show you looking at you, and they have the cameras in the departments that beep, and it’s just that much on the side of annoying.
It's always worth reminding folks that weak typing and implicit conversions can plague statically typed languages. C's implicit pointer array-to-pointer and pointer-type conversions are a major source of bugs for beginner and experienced programmers alike.
Very cool!
It sounds like your sorbent requires calcium to precipitate calcium carbonate from sea water. What would be the source of this calcium? Hopefully it won't come from reducing lime!
I read somewhere that the most likely "alien" visitor is a bacterium, virus, or other organism that rode here on a meteor fragment. That achieves interstellar travel without the need or intelligence or intent. It was also the subject of the terrific movie The Andromeda Strain.
It’s not just about absolute comp. If google will pay you more, then maybe you leave facebook. That’s not because google pays more than facebook, just that it’s easier to get a “promotion” by taking a hire role elsewhere than it is to get an actual promotion. It doesn’t mean you don’t pay market wages, but it does mean you don’t pay that person their market wage.
The average NFL player career is 3 years. So any profession is better financially long-term than the NFL, on average.

Head coaches are well-paid, but often change cities, which causes family and housing issues (some build large, custom houses for occasional team meetings.)
Which would also mean censoring the CDC a year and a half ago.

So, yeah. Let's not have governments deciding "truth" and censoring everything else, because governments can be wrong. Even with the best of intent, governments can be wrong. But if they're wrong and they censor what is right, they're going to have a hard time learning that they're wrong.

Worse, if they do learn that they're wrong, they have bureaucratic inertia built up. They're likely to keep censoring the truth for a while after they know it's true, because changing would mean that some bureaucrats have to eat crow.

Even worse, we have plenty of examples of censorship that is not "with the best of intent". It's to preserve the existing power structure. Let's not create the temptation to use our own governments in that way.

Yes, Covid misinformation is a huge problem. No, government censorship is not the answer.
Soviet writer/philosopher Ivan Yefremov (probably, the most influential soviet Sci-fi writer) argued rather convincingly, that humanss have ideal body size and layout for intelligent beings, and that extraterrestrial life would probably look somewhat similar.
While not, strictly speaking, incorrect (and I certainly do enjoy etymology) this reasoning disregards the tradeoffs; it leads to https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2473.
It's very true, and very natural. It's one reason why FAANG salaries have been getting so high.

If I change jobs, and find myself in a good situation, and need more head-count, I'm going to reach out to people I like that I've worked with before, see if they might be interested in a job change. I know I can work with them, know we'll build good stuff.

There's a constant drive in FAANG to hire more people, most teams have open headcounts. To the degree that it's extremely hard to build up that funnel of candidates. If my team has a head-count of 5, that realistically means I've got to find a bare minimum of 30-40 candidates to enter in to the pipeline from somewhere, to maybe get close to that target. That's a slightly optimistic conversion rate. Now scale that up across a company with thousands of teams that are hiring. Getting that pipeline filled on that scale is crazy. It's just one of many reasons why FAANG go all in on college hiring events.

I can almost 100% guarantee to get someone I've worked with in a FAANG co-worker through the interview pipeline and in to a job. They know their shit, they know what they're doing, and they know what the process is like.
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I'm arguing that this case stands above that. This isn't some nuance of either language; it's CS 101
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I like to challenge myself technically and in terms of responsibility; probably not a rare thing to find here on HN.
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> The company doesn’t have to prove that the employee was failing.

They do if the employee sues claiming age discrimination, for example. At least, they have to defend the accusation to show it’s not discrimination. When someone has been at the company for 25 years like in the parent’s example, and they get fired abruptly without notice for liking the wrong football team, it’s likely the stated reason is untrue and inviting a challenge.

> If an employee decides to sue, whether you had them on a documented performance improvement plan for 6 months or 6 days isn’t going to be the deciding factor.

It certainly helps show that the company isn’t discriminating arbitrarily, and gave the employee notice and a chance to improve the situation.

BTW actual legal action isn’t necessary for firing to be getting harder. The fear of legal action is all you need, and that is in fact going up.
I don't think a smart gun has ever been sold to consumers in the US. The technology simply isn't reliable enough to be useful. The one model that a company did try to market was so expensive and unreliable[1] that no store imported it. Also people were worried about the built-in kill switch.

1. https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2014/8/8/whats-s...
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And just like that, you owe Australia $11k.
We are a mid/small-sized company (~3K) which is hungry for "freshers" (those just out of college). We are out competed by the big sharks who pick the best of the students and we have to search among the remaining. Our hiring pipeline involves a written test (coding - mix of Multiple choice and coding - in favour of only MC nowadays and analytical skills) provided to us by a third party. The test isn't really great (fixed small set of questions which doesnt change, some arcane C coding questions (the likes of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28034019), etc.). So we have 2 rounds of TA (technical assessment) and 1 HR round at the end. This is resulting in a lot of filtering and we get a success ratio of about 4-5 per 1K students.

Management does not like this and blames the assessment team for having "high standards" and feels that we are wasting previous time (of assessors) and not getting desired results. The assessment team feels that the written tests are not a good indicator of coding skill and that most applicants fail in the basics of coding (logic, for loops, pointers etc.). Management has given a new target to reduce the time to hire and increase our hit rate.

The solution will mostly consist of removing HR round (no value add, can be assessed in TA), reducing or eliminating TA (!) and relying solely on the written test. Given the written test quality (though it has mininal configurability in terms of the split between MC and coding questions) this seems likely to get in a lot of "false positives".

My questions - is it really feasible to use only a online automated assessment (not specifically the one we are using) to get a right coding assessment done for freshers? is there a "good" (efficient and effective) "standardized" framework/solution for fresher assessment which one can follow which you have used? (Note: we are a software company providing solutions and consulting in domains like automotive, networks, devices, embedded, etc.)
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> I have found that complaining about it doesn't actually do much good. My complaints tend to get downvoted into the Mantle, and I just get pissed off.

IMO creating real change in an organization is almost never done through complaining, it’s done through pushing practical solutions in a positive/constructive way. It might not be the content of your argument, but the way you present it. This comment, for example, instantly biased me against your argument, because the tone felt complain-y and self-righteous. I think regardless of what your argument is, if you present it with this tone, you won’t be persuasive.
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So just to be clear, your response to the criticism that 'Israeli propagandists describe anyone who opposes Israeli war crimes or anyone that critiques their continued colonization of Palestinians as terrorist sympathizers'... is to label anyone criticising those Israeli propagandists a terrorist sympathizer?