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You're right it does not help in the short term, but we've been speaking about the Bay Area problems (for example) for two decades and vigorously discussing it in the past decade -- building five years ago could have solved today's problem.

Similarly, we could speak about it for another decade, or we could build now and solve part of the problem in five years.

This also doesn't exclude other fixes that can happen orthogonally.
Cool to hear about this
If that's your approach, and you think you need that kind of leverage, then they should leave. Be better than this. This is a child's view of how management works.

Imagine they're contractors if you must.
I think regime change should've been pretty high up on the list for everyone already. The Soviet Union lasted for less time than the lifespan of people in developed countries. Around half the countries in Europe have only existed in their current form for a few decades.

It shouldn't at all be something unexpected.
The issue isn't just that she's disappearing, it's that she's setting a precedent that she doesn't actually want to be a full-time employee. She's not actually leaving the company; She expects the company to backfill her position for a month and then return the position to her when she decides to come back.

In practice, people are generally quite forgiving and happy to step in to cover for someone who has to leave for family emergencies or a normal vacation. It gets a bit harder when someone has simply decided that they're not working this month.

Unless her work can simply stop, this means other employees will have to pick up extra work. They can't hire someone new to backfill because this person will be returning soon. They could hire someone new to add extra capacity to the team, but then why give this person their job back in a month when they return? Why not just give it to someone else who plans to actually work full-time?

It's actually a much more challenging logistics problem than it sounds, unless the person really does work in a vacuum on work that can be paused for a month without consequence. The impact extends to the rest of the team's workload.
It would be than at least 3/4 of a page long I guess.

The fun part is this is not even the full truth. As the list of TLD isn't very static any more it's additionally difficult to determine whether a host name is valid. That is only possible with some dynamic list (or a regex that would grow indefinitely and ever change). The presented solution doesn't even take this into account.

The source page I've linked is a quite interesting read on that whole topic.
And after living in the USA myself, I can see the other side of the coin too, and I understand why some people will fight extraordinarily hard to keep the status quo.

Keeping the workers "engaged" certainly helps the economy, and it helps the asset owners get obscenely rich beyond belief.

After all, if Walmart had to pay all their employees in the USA a minimum of $20/hr the Walton family would probably only be worth a few tens of billions, instead of $235 billion.

In countries like Australia and Canada good living conditions for all is more important than obscene riches for a few. The USA just flips that around.
And with DXVK you also get Direct3D for free too.
Everyone uses toilets. Maybe everyone should clean the toilets?
People who are compensated enough to do so despite having other options.
People who want clean toilets.
I’m thinking, why would you refuse a month of unpaid leave to anyone at all? Surely hiring someone new is way more expensive and takes longer than a month.
Thanks for the perspective. Exactly like you said, tasks I assign are menial/entry level and make no monetary returns for me, but will be really helpful to the intern.
3 of the times I was under 15. I liked to play in the woods and did yard work. I used deet, etc, but I guess was just unlucky. The last time I was 22, had just moved back to CT from college and got a tick while mountain biking. I noticed it when I checked, but I guess it had been on long enough.
> The quip about not having leverage over the employee is poor phrasing, at best.

I actually think she handled this quite well. She shortly pointed out that this is not a good way to phrase our think about things, but then she actually discussed the real underlying problem of the employee possibly leaving on short notice.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Claims Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
I don’t know enough to comment on replicache, but you can also do OT on top of an operation based CRDT. For diamond types we’re making it support both - so if you want to, applications can do OT (which is simple, small, and fast) to talk to a server (or local proxy process), and then that process can do p2p server to server replication using CRDTs.

The result is we need way less complexity in the browser, or in applications. And still get all the advantages crdts bring - namely, no need for a central server acting as the source of truth.
Yeah, this isn't about COVID. It's a deeper issue with The Culture.
Sounds like the current system.
It's mostly not inflation. Inflation-adjusted house price is also up.
I think it depends on what management means. I work (well, until they turfed my department today) for a project manager and they manage my day to day activities. I suspect they do disagree with this part.

I am officially managed by the director of software development. Formal employment stuff is run through him.
Daniel Kahneman's Bias Checklist
If it’s a job that needs doing, the wages offered will rise to compensate.
Modern LZ Compression (2019)
This seems to be a viral inaccuracy: https://www.howtogeek.com/664624/does-zoom-really-monitor-wh...

That article claims that Zoom does have a feature allowing hosts to see whether people have the zoom window focused while someone is presenting, but it doesn't allow the host to actually see running processes. Note that I can't, nor do I claim to, vouch for the accuracy of the explanation in the link. Just something I found.
Ideally a robot, tbqh. Anything that doesn't require actual human thought, we should push off to machines.

But lacking that—we could also offer people the option to clean toilets in exchange for larger homes or more lavish hobbies. But unlike today, they'd also have the ability to quit their jobs and lead a simpler life, without starving.
I'm sure you are aware that contextual ads are a thing, and would still be quite profitable. I personally would be fine with wealthiest companies in the world making moderately less money in exchange for everyone having vastly more privacy.
Ah, so what you're saying is that a big problem that dev+design teams will encounter is that they need to be able to iterate on designs together, so a real solution here would need to be able to integrate updates to the design into the codebase (and possibly vice versa). Am I understanding your point correctly?
I've heard that, at an air force base where civilians work, there's a blue light that turns on both on the door and inside the room, when that room is in "classified" mode, and they are only allowed to do classified work when the light is on and the door closed.
Good day for fusion tech it seems. Two stories on hn for different projects
A family owned business and one of their employees has more knowledge of the business than the owners, 4 years and they never thought spend some time documenting that knowledge.

Not everyone is capable of running a business.
1,800% increase in CEO pay vs 10s % for worker pay.

Gee, I wonder what the problem could be?
You need to plan for this and it sets a precedent. This company has 4 employees; 25% of the whole workforce suddenly missing for a whole month is probably not easy to handle and definitely not something you want to establish as okay.
Agree.

We have literally got to the point of commisioning fonts so we don't have to worry about licensing (bonus: we will also be able to make them freely available, and hopefully fully open source too).
What's the difference between that and "indentured servitude"?
You can edit /usr/share/applications/Zoom.desktop to run inside of bubblewrap, similar to how the Arch Wiki suggests doing this for Skype: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap#Skype_for_Linux

Since this puts it in its own PID and mount namespace, it won't see any processes except itself and its children. You can even try not mounting /proc in the container this makes at all and see what happens.

This is effectively what flatpak does, but doing it yourself doesn't require installing flatpak.
This was my reaction.

Feel grateful for the time someone gives you. You might not be able to replace them when they move on - but that should make you appreciate what they have given you even more.

Are you better off muddling through when they are gone, or never having them at all?
Interesting, do you have experience with web agency work? I've never thought about the challenges they face, but they must face this challenge all the time
If their work is isolated and can be paused while they're gone, it doesn't matter. Well, other than dropping productivity for that duration.

But for most of us, we're operating as part of a team. Our duties don't stop when we're gone. They have to be covered by someone else. If I'm disappearing for a month, the rest of the team will have to pick up the slack and do my job for me.

This might be okay if you're working on mythical man-month projects where the work can be redistributed and deadlines pushed back at will, but at most companies it just means everyone else has to work harder to cover.

If someone wants to come and go for months at a time, it's better to restructure their employment as a contractor and provide the work in contractor-sized blocks. Full-time employees are expected to make an effort to be available full-time for the team's sake (excluding emergencies and such)
I look forward to the day that toilets are the last problem on earth
Probably quite highly paid people who don't mind manual labour.

I find it really interesting to think about how prices and practices would have to shift if we couldn't "force" anyone to do anything.
I think having an employee that is not interested in money, is also not interested in the success of your business. Its that simple.

It might be that their interest in the code happens to coincide with your business interest right now, but you can guess what will happen when you change direction and have to throw out all the beautiful code they have been creating. Or perhaps you have to add an ugly feature for a client, or you hire somebody who writes ugly code.

Your employees need to be motivated by the same things you are, and if not, you should part ways and find better partners.
Robot self cleaning toilets? For fuck's sake
"I can't condemn this person to starvation and homelessness" certainly makes it clear.
If they are that critical then they are an unrecognized partner. You could consider giving them a cut of the business.

If you don't want to do that, then I think you need to start finding a way to spread their responsibilities around to less critical people who will have no ownership of the business.
...all true, but from the way they asked the question, it sounds like they're not ready for any of those other scenarios, either.
> It does seem overwhelmingly likely to me that Apple intended to clear a path to E2EE

Some people say this, but the government doesn't just care about CSAM. They care about terrorism, human and drug trafficking, organized crime, gangs, fraud etc.

Unless Apple plans on expanding their system to detect those other things as well, I don't think CSAM detection alone is indicative of a clear path to E2EE. In fact, I see no evidence at all that indicates their intention of this project is to implement E2EE.
Is that a serious question? Do you consider C-suite executives exploited indentured servants?
It _shouldn't_ be too much of a problem for large corporations, but from what I've seen it often is.
Don’t know many people who use Zoom except one of our software vendors.
Firefox 91 on Windows. 2011 CPU. Radeon RX 570 GPU.

I have a low spec PC, and it is running just fine.

Maybe some extension slows down your Firefox? I don't use an anti-ads and anti-spam extension, I deal with that via hosts file.
Whatcha gonna do if the "meaningful role" isn't so meaningful to her?

Then it's not a meaningful role -- clearly the role needs to be meaningful to Jean or it's no incentive to work there.

My wife has a "Jean" at the nonprofit she works for -- she and her husband both come from wealthy family. Jean continues to work there purely because she believes in the mission of the organization and feels that she's making a valuable contribution. She draws a token salary but donates that back to the organization at the end of the year.

It's certainly possible to find meaningful roles that people will enjoy working at even if they don't care about the salary.
Sometimes more than the content
East Germans has first hand experience of mass surveillance by the state secret police (Stasi).

"Over 80% of respondents oppose its application to end-to-end encrypted communications."
Yea, that's how I read into the phrasing too: "We can't get her to do what we want by holding a threat of her paycheck or job over her. How else do you motivate someone?" Yikes!
Can one flip this and say that America is the only nation that might still have some classical liberal principles left? Quite the list of positive rights that the rest of the West has come up with.
An automated Toilet cleaner and a small number of people who enjoy the work
Increase interest rates.
Perhaps a better question to ask would be "why is any process allowed to do this by default in 2021?"
Does "whistleblower" apply to people not working directly for the company being reported? I've always understood it to be employee reporting against the employer. I could totally be limiting it from what other people use it though.
I didn't necessarily mean double the amount of people...but at least have enough cross training that a single person won't cripple your company. I've seen this far too many times that one or two people have too much of the key knowledge for a group and if one or both are all of a sudden gone (for any reason) then the rest of the team is absolutely screwed. Rotating job scopes and responsibilities is one of the best ways to ensure you have knowledge redundancy in my opinion...although depending on the team this may be extremely difficult, but still necessary.
I'm doubtful of the harms of misinformation and the role it plays in persuading people's opinions (I believe people are fairly intelligent rather than undiscerning parrots of thought). However, if I were to accept the claim misinformation is rampant and that it is persuading large numbers of people, then I would think the solution would be to better educate people on how to "not believe everything you read" by checking sources, questioning what motives the author might have, checking who the author is, finding a related article from a different source, etc. IMO this would prevent the need for platforms to remove misinformation (something that can be easily abused to remove content that doesn't fit a certain political agenda or similar) since the public would capable of filtering out misinformation themselves.

The war on misinformation seems to be driven by the democrats today; however, it could easily be driven by the republicans in the future. Regardless of who is pushing the war, IMO a war on misinformation will always lead to polarization. After all, your opponents aren't rational, rather, they've been brainwashed. As such, there is no need to engage with your opponents views, conveniently leaving your own views completely unopposed (and thus obviously correct and good).
It is expected that children aged 7 and up will go to school on their own in Estonia. In some cases that involves walking a kilometer and crossing multiple roads. By later years some families have moved around and it is not entirely uncommon for them to take the bus to school (public transport, not a school bus).

I think kids can navigate around more safely than lots of people give them credit for. Although, American suburbia does look a little more hostile.
There’s some more info about that vaccine that might interest you. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/articles...
I find it saddening, and yet too usual, that managers/business owners feel that they need to "have leverage" on their employees, say, use the stick while dangling the carrot.

With the risk of coming across too philosophical/impractical I'd start with _why_. Why you as a business owner wake up in the morning? Why did you started the business in the first place? Employees that are not motivated by money or that can easily find a job anywhere else can are motivated by a vision, purpose, meaning. They can also be motivated by the inherit pleasure of working (the book "Deep Work" by Newport come to mind).

I personally identify with Jane and in a recent experiment it showed that finding a job as a senior software engineer is no trouble at all. And thus, it is the mission of the company, the problem that we are solving, SEEING the results of my work in happy customers, etc.

Companies that do that have me for the long run!
Where is Open Source taking Telco?
That's correct. I believe firms should not have more than 200 employees, based on life experience.
I would love to see this, getting rid of all the less than 20% down and 30 year fixed rate taxpayer subsidized mortgages in the US would help lower house prices very quickly.
You could be right, and I can say that I don’t really enjoy being project managed all the time. But, project management is not always abuse, even if it sometimes seems poorly aligned with corporate goals.

Management, like other disciplines, is hard. The odd part is that it is frequently treated as a secondary responsibility for people who also have other jobs.
The idea that the employer just needs to incentivise the employee the right way is absurd.

Why is that absurd? Who would work at a job if they aren't incentivized the right way? My employer incentivizes me with a salary and interesting work. Take either of those away and I'll look for a new job. For "Jean", then interesting (or otherwise rewarding) work is the only way to incentivize her.
If it actually trains him and gets him ready for a job and is not preventing him from supporting himself currently, I see no problem with this.

The argument against unpaid internships is usually that it means only the upper classes get access to a jobs pipeline for the better jobs because very poor people can't afford to work for free.

But I've done freelance work at below minimum wage rates because I controlled my hours and was paid by the "piece," not by the hour, and that helped me develop skills and an income. I was homeless at the time and too sick to work a minimum wage job.

We let privileged people work for "nothing" in order to have a shot at something better. That's the typical deal for a lot of company founders.

Saying that non rich people aren't allowed to work for little or nothing in order to better themselves is a form of denying them rights and access to a better life. It helps keep them stuck in minimum wage jobs with no hope of a better future.

As long as this isn't some undue hardship, some bait and switch deal where he is enticed with promises you have no plans to fulfill and he actually gets value out of it, I see no problem with this.

Gambling on something better is a long human tradition. All people should be allowed to make that choice if they so desire.

They just shouldn't be conned into "gambling" on something with no real payoff for themselves like so many college students have done in recent years where they are saddled with student loans, the glut of degreed individuals means their degree isn't practically a guarantee of a good salary and the only people benefiting are the banks issuing the loans and raking in the interest.
Depends on your definition of inflation...

>In economics, inflation (or less frequently, price inflation) is a general rise in the price level of an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy.
We've spent decades rewarding managers for "cutting the fat", while ignoring that fat is the reserve the body keeps to stay alive in times of stress.

Like a bodybuilder who has cut for competition, we have no reserves for day-to-day living.
> I feel that we have no leverage over her at all.

Shudder

That sentence, right there, is why I have no intention of working for anyone, ever again.

If I sign a contract, then I am bound by that contract. It doesn't matter whether or not I "need" the money. I have signed onto the job, and have agreed to deliver something, in return for something else. Failure of either party, to fulfill their end of the bargain, will result in legal action.

Employment should be considered to be a similar arrangement. The deliverables and payments are different (as are the laws), but, at the heart of things, that's what it's all about. Me give, you give. We happy. Me no give, or you no give...We unhappy.

However, I have noticed that the current HR mindset, has become more like a "Dom" one. The company is in charge of the relationship, and assumes that they have more power than the agreed-upon contract.

I've seen this taken to ludicrous extremes.

I have a couple of friends that are very rich. They got that way, the old-fashioned way. Built a small company into a big company.

I am often told how they pretty much owe everything to their CFO, who they value, and compensate extremely well. The CFO doesn't need the job at all. She's been set for years.

But they treat her with Respect, and give her a satisfying work environment, and everyone makes lots of dosh.
You could also disable notifications if your OS has that kind of feature. Mine does, so I took advantage of that after the first incident of being interrupted. It's a nice feature.
Indeed. I’m reading now - wait, that’s obvious - and the comments look broadly positive to me.
What's your excuse for being with a world where dominance and submission is tolerated as a requirement to survive?
Nobody is forcing him to take the internship.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments and/or shallow dismissals to Hacker News. It degrades discussion noticeably, and we're trying for better here.

(Of course, the greater part of this damage is done by upvoters, but they can't upvote nothing.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“..compensated more.”

How much more?
Yes. In some regions, this is viable.

One issue is that we'll soon use up all the low-hanging fruit of windy NIMBY-free onshore sites.

Offshore wind is progressing rapidly. It should be ready to scale up just at the point the issues above get critical.
I've spent time researching (space) toilets. In a post-scarcity world, I might spend time to improve their design, or those of the robots that'd maintain them.
I think we could be more open-minded about it though. Maybe “manager” could be a position that developers rotate through, like I’ve seen done with the position of scrum master.

No need for a dedicated person and everyone gets management experience.

Or maybe management could be automated away somehow. I mean in an ideal world, if a person isn’t a worker then they’re redundant in a way, aren’t they? Let’s have computers doing the organizing.
> Most people work but most dont necessarily have to, at least as much as we do. People enter the "rat race" because it gives them something, not just a source of money but other achievement and identity stuff.

You also have less incentive to be in the race if you do not have kids/spouse, which fewer people have.
Won’t cure all. Building costs are soaring. Try building something new for less than $200/sf and you’ll see that the price of dirt is only part of the cost.