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makes unions unnecessary at Starbucks

Genuine question. When corporate spokespeople say this, and when people hear it, does everyone involved think it's bullshit for appearances, for a kind of collective playacting? Or is there a genuine mindset behind this that truly, honestly thinks that unions couldn't help Starbucks workers; that there's nothing they could do to make things better for Starbucks workers? Or is it stating they're unnecessary because it's not necessary for employees to have a better life; is it a kind of clinical, harsh Chicago school style assessment of the situation?
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Funny if you consider this years article even the Netherlands looks better: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/news/2021-04-20-ro...
I have a publicly routable dynamic ipv4 but it hasn’t changed in at least a year.
It would be interesting to see the statistics. My impression is that complex to learn things like unicycles have a high frequency but a large variance of injuries while "easy" techs like Segways and 4 wheelers have amateurs killing or paralyzing themselves right away.
And, as they were so close to writing, "reflections concerning worldwide trends".

The quality of thought in many environments and contexts can show as severely declined. Exposure is with certainty a possible factor impacting on blood pressure, whether it is brought to topic or not (one can perceive it). It is still unhealthy lifestyle.
The author has the “problem” of knowing too much. I’ve seen this myself where presented with a Singapore Math problem solvable easily by a 3rd grader I reach for more complex algebra because “I know that’s what the problem really is” when there are much easier ways to solve that kind of problem visually.
The Singapore Math curriculum is fantastic.
HN is great. Some IRC channels feel like a nano (pretty small) HN with selected users. There are smart dudes in there talking about tech in general. Since IRC is harder to use/access than a normal website/forum like reddit or HN, it tends to filter in some way. IRC by definition is an open network protocol. Hence there is not a single company or institution behind it. Thus, there are no adds or marketing around it. It is purely word of mouth. Finally, it feels more private because you need to login. Sometimes, people feel more comfortable to write speculations about future in a more private and perishable digital space than a public and persistent one like HN.
We are not talking about the last mile, since it's the easiest part in comparison to the developing world, and with regards to getting the right of way.

It's the intra-city fibre backbone which is either non-existent in the developing world, or extremely hard to get connection rights to in the developed countries.
I wouldn‘t stress the fact it‘s a stray cat too much. In my experience the situation wouldn‘t be any different if the aggressive cat had an owner in the neighborhood.
Disclaimer: I don‘t have cats myself but all the cats in my area (non stray) seem to use my ground as their toilette :(
That would be my guess: fear of radio waves and general tinfoil-hattery. Although, ironically, this is likely more like trying to silence the neighbour's obnoxious music by running a big white noise generator at top volume.

Except that since we can't hear radio, the observed effects look like silence - but it's not radio silence, rather the opposite. If you don't want radio waves, don't run a radio noise generator.
Just want to expand on how I feel this alone is most of the reason why accessing the right healthcare is such a pain. This quick fix culture of "let's get you assessed and we'll have you on some kind of pills in no time. Oh look, it's time for my lunch break!"

Similarly, I've noticed dogma in psychiatry discouraging of "self-diagnosis" and the consequence of that:
individuals with stories of spending years experiencing their state of mind, many hours researching it yet still having to go through multiple professionals to arrive at the "right" diagnosis (despite often spoonfeeding the professional the answer on a silver platter yet meeting resistance)
> something like this always comes up

Unsurprisingly.

> which just so happens to coincide with when they really started getting into computing

On my first job I've used Windows NT 4. Yet I agree with GP Windows 7 was the peak UX.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
Iron deficiency is incredibly obvious on even a simple blood test. It will result in a reduced hematocrit(among other things), which is always calculated.
I've heard a good example for the sunk coast fallacy, i'll share (because i don't think you're right with your examples).

You see a great-looking one-star restaurant, quite pricey, but you want to try. You pay 100$ for your meal, and sadly in the middle of the meal, you start to feel sick. You really can't taste anything, and you know that the more you eat, the worst you feel.

Saying to yourself "hell, i've paid 100$ for this, i WILL enjoy it until i'm done" is the sunk cost fallacy. Finishing this meal will at most give you 300cals.
I’ve been running windows 11 on a Ryzen 1800X (which is unsupported) and it’s been very stable and a much more pleasant and consistent experience than windows 10. 1800X meets all of the technical requirements such as TPM 2.0 but they announced a few days ago that older Ryzen CPUs will never be supported. Too bad and I hope a workaround will remain.
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Hey all,

I'm 3 years out of college from a Physics Master's, I went into finance and feel like I haven't kept up with anything since I left.

What are your favourite tech based books that I can read on my upcoming holiday.
So... a few anecdotes packed together is the new journalism?
Probably not. Signal jammers are illegal to sell, use, or advertise. You wouldn't find very many.

https://www.gps.gov/spectrum/jamming/
If you can‘t recognise that one cat then you could maybe somehow mark your cats?
Or try having a proper diet for your species! The only salt primates are consuming in nature are the minute amounts inside things like tomato and cucumber.
One possibility: kept boiling the oceans for no good reason 24/7 to generate something with three views per week.
Yes, but starting from there will generate resistance because of the initial expense and lack of percieved value.

If you can get the role of archivist created then later on there can be an argument to increase the budget without so much risk of the project being cancelled altogether.
See discussions from 3 days ago

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326698

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28321970
The blood test rarely shows Mg deficiency since the body compensates electrolytes in the blood w/ intra-celular reserves, according to my doctor. The diagnosis is always indirect by other symptoms (decreased reflexes, cramps, insomnia).
Yep. All ad money went to zuck, brin, and page.
The best example i know is related, it that you feel sick in the middle of a meal at a one-star restaurant (let's say on the third dish).
I like harvesting grass by hand. They only like a small subset of grass (my spoiled cats anyway) so I might as well get credit for it.
Also B1, especially when one's life is plagued by fatigue.
It’s The Guardian, journalism isn’t what they’re known for.
I got rid of my HBP that I had from 24 to 41 years of age through intermittent fasting and it never came back, even though I only fast sometimes these days. I am 43 now.

18/6 scheme works for me.
The comment about it coinciding when they started was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but surprisingly often holds true. My comment more broadly is just pointing out that most people making these arguments are doing so subjectively while framing them as objective.
Snap is awesome! Kids learning HOP
A technical perspective also includes mitigating denial of service attacks and other security issues, including scaling.
> This quick fix culture of "let's get you assessed and we'll have you on some kind of pills in no time. Oh look, it's time for my lunch break!"

That's what you get when wrong incentives are in place. Additionally, I believe it would be better to have a separate market for diagnosis (as in, technicians selling their services, not attached to any doctor or hospital) so that you can get tested whenever you want (at your expenses, or partially reimbursed by your insurer, whichever system works best) instead of having a gate-keeper for everything.
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On mobile, if I put the cursor on any word and press any key (even backspace), the word gets repeated at the current cursor position.

Something to do with touch events not being handled properly maybe?
Yup. I pretty much stopped caring at that point. My backlog is 6+ months long. If you need me to drop something and pick up a new project, it’ll need the blessing of product management and, depending on size/LOE, also approval from my VP or SVP.

PM will adjust when appropriate; they do care. But, I can’t just build every little thing an internal customer wants because I have revenue-producing/cost-saving updates to build and deploy. Make your case that this lost+button saves more money than something else on my backlog, and we’ll probably squeeze it in.

This is a mid-sized enterprise software company and I manage one of our SRE teams.
For America:

1. Sodium intake correlates with blood pressure

2. The sodium content of processed foods provide ≈80% of the sodium in the average American diet.

3. According to national food-recall surveys (which underestimate food intake and exclude salt added at the table), daily sodium consumption increased from 2262 mg in 1974 to 3375 mg in 2000.

Excerpted from

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/81/4/941/4753811
Mhh, i couldn't find it. But this website is fun: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...
> Meanwhile in Europe, Eurocontrol' s CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit) is written in Ada and successfully routes thousands of flights a day.

Was this a new system, or a replacement of old code? If the latter, could that have been a complicating factor?
> but I think it's pretty bad to criticize a woman for deciding to have a child.

Why? I think you shouldn't criticize the child itself but if the woman is bringing it into this world for a nefarious reason like likely playing for a jury's sympathy during a trial, revenge, exploiting immigration loopholes or blackmail. Why shouldn't she be criticized over it? It usually also means that the child will be neglected, in one form or another, after it served its purpose.

Have you ever met a real-life sociopath? I have. Holmes appears a like bona-fide sociopath trying every dirty trick to manipulate her surroundings, playing the "poor woman" card to weasel out of a harsh sentence.
The UK had loads of these at one point, but the really enduring one is Radio Caroline. They were broadcasting from international waters right up until the early '90s when the British government gave itself extraterritorial powers over foreign-flagged ships in international waters (!) in order to forcibly close down offshore broadcasters.

Radio Caroline are still around though, they've actually done pretty well recently with fundraisers. Their old pirate ship is still used for broadcasting but these days instead of using the old valve transmitters aboard they use 4G to relay their signal to (ironically enough) an old BBC World Service site which is then broadcast on 648 kHz with a much more modern unit. They've just been licensed to turn up the power considerably too so they'll be receivable in much more of the UK and northern Europe than they are currently soon.

It's kind of interesting to see new AM stations popping up in what's otherwise a dying band. I've always thought it's a bit short-sighted to get rid of AM because in a real national "shit hits the fan" scenario where power and networking are heavily affected it's an efficient way to reach lots of people. You can even build an AM demodulator out of a razor blade and a pencil if you're in proper trouble! I expect by the end of the decade the only things left on AM will be enthusiasts like Radio Caroline and hobbyist pirates (there's quite a few of these in the Netherlands and Greece).
Yeah, but after talking to a good number of people in a particular domain or industry, you'd have an inkling, though not guaranteed, what the core problem is and how you can solve it.

The discipline needed here, particularly by us developers, is to recognize the absolute core value proposition and to do just enough to validate it.

In the beginning, it might just be you and a sloppy script you write. No SaaS, minimal website. Your customer would have to email you to get anything done.

Once you get paying customers like that, you automate it gradually, and build out your SaaS.
Also, some people have so-called White coat hypertension. Basically, a medical appointment stresses them enough that they present with HBP even though they are, in fact, healthy.

To mitigate this, frequent measurements at home or at work should be taken. Those give you much more information about your status.
In part at least, blame Google and Bing. It's not the storage space or bandwidth. It's that you're expending a lot of time and money--sometimes literally in the case of paid search--to surface mostly the most current and relevant information. Personally, when I search for the fix to some problem I'm having, I rarely want a 2010 article about my problem and usually get mildly annoyed when I get one.

And technical content is just part of it. Companies have current things they're selling, marketing, and messaging. They don't want that all mixed up with whatever they were doing five years ago.
So the point of the article is that chrome users should abandon chrome because it's not getting rid of third party cookies when they said they would?
And by the way, sure one can probably figure out whether it's a button or not after some time of careful analysis. The problem is that if instead of it taking me 10ms to figure out it's a button I have to pause and understand it and it takes me 10 seconds, I get annoyed.

I have this problem right now with Firefox Proton. Since it has problems respecting my color scheme, it takes me some time to distinguish (in an inactive-colored titlebar) which is the damn currently active tab. Before, I would be able to do it almost subconsciously, without distracting me from my current goal. Now, my train of thought has to stop and search for the damn button, then I have to restart my thoughts. And we all know how that hurts.
I don’t get the “build server” example. It is expected that the author works crazy hours and do the extra mile to get the job done… but that same expectation does not apply to the teams/individuals that own/maintain the build servers?
The era of cronyism and nepotism is very much still alive, even outside of the US. The only difference is the large drop in clear corruption, although don't make the mistake of believing that is anywhere near gone.
500K doesn't seem much for VC.
That’s a good subtitle for my PhD thesis. “Novel but disappointing”.
i mean, even normal, decent people will try everything to reduce their sentence let alone sociopaths.
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> “I can’t imagine a Joe Blow citizen having that equipment to be used for anything other than malicious intent,” Morgan Hill Mayor Rich Constantine told KTVU.

I can't think of a reason, therefore it's malicious is pretty shady logic, for sure.

But an empty house with all this tech that has only this one obvious objective, namely EM-shadow the area, does indeed look pretty suspicious.

I'm quite curious now, and hope we get a follow-up on this, to find out what the real objective was.
The article opens with "a shocking new tracking admission from Google, one that hasn’t yet made headlines, should be a serious warning...", but I can't figure out what they're referring to? The article discuss FLoC, but I don't think that can be it: that's had a lot of coverage (and the origin trial is on hold in response to feedback).

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
All of their talk is performative. Most of their voters are found on Facebook. GOP knows that Facebook is by far their most important tool for organizing and rallying their base.

They would never admit it, but they also know that Facebook is an important segment of the right wing pipeline, which moves moderate conservatives into the rabid, paranoid, die-hard right wing where they will stay (and vote) forever, which keeps the Overton window moving to the right.

Zuckerberg has a well known bias towards the right, and spent a lot of time schmoozing GOP leadership.
Corporations are often also bad at archiving information that is of direct benefit to themselves. One instance that I am personally familiar with is keeping all the designs of past products in the live design system and relying on the backup system to ensure that they don't get lost instead of deliberately copying them to a curated archive.

Of course this didn't work. I remember getting a call from a designer asking me to restore a file. I asked when he had last seen it so that I could go and pick the right tapes from the fire safe. But he then said that he wasn't sure exactly when but that it was at least two years earlier. We reused our tapes annually so he was completely out of luck and had to reverse engineer the design in question. Turning what should have been half an afternoon's job into a week of work.
In France, most florists sell small tubs of "cat grass" which cats love, just a euro or so. I've never seen this in the UK, they are missing a trick, regular small-time trade, gets people used to coming in the shop etc.
"Jason graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology with a specialty in neuroscience.”

OK
In my view it's very pragmatic to leave dealing with ownership to the compiler. It's something that you have to deal with in any language (even if you have a GC) if you want to write correct code, but it's not something most programmers truly prioritize most of the time. Even those who do think about ownership can't get it right 100% of the time because they're human and get tired. Keeping track of any kind of state is a constant drain on mental resources.

Therefore, having the compiler deal with ownership correctly most of the time and maybe get in my way a bit some of the time when it's actually wrong (most of the time it isn't) is a tradeoff I'm happy to make.
Salt has been demonized for high blood pressure maybe unnecessarily. Morton Salt even sued about it once. Unless you are salt sensitive (most people aren’t, you’d know if you were, you would have high blood pressure) eating high salt won’t raise blood pressure. Salt away and stop denying yourself! I think it’s a masochism thing for many people.

https://time.com/3313332/salt-and-blood-pressure/

America’s high blood pressure is probably caused by that 42% obesity rate I saw yesterday…
Sure wasn’t a ding against Ada.

It appeared that mismanagement and misprioritization of the huge ATC wish list and a failure of system engineering to factor limited system resources … then to its priority list.

A different US contractor (that I can’t recall) apparently did ATC better and faster but for a set of different customers (also in Ada).

It must have been when “you don’t get fire for hiring IBM” was a mantra then.
Many approaches to modelling humans commit pseudo-scientific equivocations,

Discrete models of intelligence (ie., AI) fail to capture continuous dynamical phenomena (eg., growth, body adaption, etc.) The equivocation is, "a discrete simulation of (spatio-temporally continuous) X possess the same properties as X".

fMRI "investigations" into the brain look at region blood perfusion (etc.) as a guide to "activation". Equivocations here abound: "activity in blood" is "activity in dynamical behaviour response", etc.

Social psychology and behavioural economics: humans have no hysteresis (ie., individuals have no personal histories) so their aggregate behaviour is context-insensitive and can be studied "as a pattern". The equivocation: "situational behaviour" is "context-free behaviour".

And so on.

It is obvious, from the outside, that these maximally-reductionist projects are doomed to fail. The target of study (humans) cannot be reduced to one small category of explanation which can then be generalised free from extremely simplifying assumptions.

What we have in each case is largely hyper-specialised academics, routinely with no great deal of self-awareness, taking some paradigm principle in their field and forcing all human behaviour into it.

What is disheartening to me is how mindnumbing an effect this has on the public. The current wave of AI hysteria has left many unable even to parse ordinary questions such as, "What do you think of what I'm wearing?"

..which according to an NLP-AI defender is an invitation to have 1trillion historical documents summaried into a response.

Rather than the /obvious/ invitation to a particular human to exercise, based on their personal history of aesthetic experiences, a judgment of taste. For them to tell me their opinion.

The whole world of interior human life is routinely obliterated in this hysteria and we are left thinking that humans merely "generate text" on the occasion that otehr humans "generate text".

This, and all of these fields, are mind-numbing reductions of human complexity into toy models which barely function on their own critera -- let alone as models of any natural phenomenon. This is all pseudoscience.
I had high blood pressure in my mid 20s. Going for a run at least once per week (no matter the weather or mood) did the trick for me. Train your heart with endurance sports (weight lifting doesn't help because it's too high intensity), that's all there is to it for otherwise healthy people.

Edit: Also avoid caffeine. It spikes your blood pressure. Hard.
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Ah, the beautiful age of click-bait titles. Not going to read this just out of principle.
I edited my comment. Current glibc will dynamically choose buffer sizes up to 1MB of dirent structures depending on reported st_blksize. No idea when it started doing that, so it might well be it does better now.

I'm sure there are circumstances where a 5x speedup will matter, but most of the time where people use "ls" it's interactively on the command line and it's just not been my experience that it matters in the circumstances where I've had to help people with this. It's more of a "we're right in the middle of something and can't get any results back" kind of situation. I'd say 9 out of 10 times I've had people bring up an issue like this it's because they're uncomfortable with "find" and are trying to get a list of files to do something with that they could easily do directly with "find" and/or where "ls -f" is more than sufficient.

But as you say, YMMV.
+1 for Tailscale, the product is great. I've used it in a very limited scale but can vouch for quality and performance. No CPU issues at all (even on rPi).
I like the idea of priority queues driven by number of prior successful requests + wait time. Such that once you're in, you get reasonable performance, otherwise you get 503 "too busy" until you've waited.
Nothing wrong with the idea but getting agreement of all publishers would be the biggest hurdle.

We have already seen how a small subscription model has worked out with other forms of media. Which is that you end paying as much, or more, for the same content than you did previously.
A lot of companies don't archive anything not even the stuff they make a profit on. they just wing it and hope that when they need it that someone close to retirement will have a copy in the bottom drawer of their desk.
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