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> It won't go unnoticed.

Of course the reboot itself will be noticed when the user gets back - whether it's the login prompt, or boot prompt, or just all applications being closed. I meant it might not be noticed as something unusual, warranting further investigation. Typical user, even tech-savvy one, will just think, "must have been a power glitch", or "damn, those updates forced a reboot again".

The latter is something Windows users are conditioned for. Coming back from the toilet to be faced by a fresh login prompt is common enough even in the age of Windows 10 - and especially when the laptop is controlled by your employer, as IT tends to force a stricter schedule on updates[0]. In my case, this happens 1-2 times a week. While I'm working from home this doesn't matter, but if I were back in the office and came back from lunch to a rebooted computer, I would've assumed it was updates again.

> You do have to check for any untrusted USB devices at boot on a desktop. No getting around that one as you need to be able to use input devices at boot.

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I was assuming at least some of these solutions are trying to eliminate this requirement, but ultimately it may not be possible.

(Or perhaps it would be, if USB had something like HDCP so that you couldn't construct a dongle that could be transparently inserted between the computer and the peripheral.)

> For a laptop you have a better story

Right. Also, in case of attacker forcing reboot, they can't rely on users assuming it was a power glitch because laptops have batteries.

> I connect my USB webcam to the one VM that needs it on demand, for instance.

I need to read more about such setups, where you compartmentalize your system with VMs. Is there any good primer you could recommend?

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[0] - I'm increasingly convinced Windows 10 update system is evil, and does this on purpose. It just so happens that it always forces an update and reboot on my work machine whenever I step away from it for more than 10 minutes. It's like it was monitoring idle time, and thinking "ooh, the user is away, let's reboot the machine and lose all the state". I also recently had to switch Lenovo updater malware to manual, because it kept choosing the exact middle of our weekly team meeting as the time to forcibly update video drivers, blanking my screen for anywhere between 2 and 20 minutes.

(Did I mention I hate automatic updates?)
Sorry, yeah, I see that now. I retract that statement, but will leave it in place for completeness.

Anyways…

Whether a thing is legal or not isn’t a particularly strong argument for or against it.

Hell yes people should be prepared to break laws in protest, and prepared to wear the consequences if they’re caught.

It’s normal, it’s right, it’s just.

We should be prepared to fight for what we believe is right.

Absolutely.
I hate to be a downer, but I found the following using anki - so basically anything with SM2 algorithm, no matter the UI - as a learning tool for my tech notes:

1) it doesn't scale. You'll be overwhelmed with repetitions once you're in the high hundreds, and you will be if using Q/A style questions. And what's your daily strategy once it hits thousands?

2) I've converted all my notes from libreoffice writer to anki using python and various formatting tricks, and while the import outcome was perfect, most of the notes are useless - too ambigious/too broad/WIP - you'll never remember those well.

3) premade cards are mostly useless for long term - say you want to remember linux stuffs - you can find cards with thousands of items, but to what point - there's only so much time in a day and you want to learn something different than the author did - you def won't spend a year reviewing them.

I myself am confident this problem can be solved with supermemo and creating tailored q/a from my notes and thinking hard what I actually want to remember long term.
The laptop boots, the key goes into RAM, then the OS asks for a login password. I don't see a simple way to get the encryption key or log in without the password. Unless cold RAM attacks got much easier recently, I don't see where the problem is for an average user.

Fingerprints are admittedly not a match against someone willing to collect mine and make a model of them, but I'm not expecting anyone to do this. If I were, I would disable the fingerprint sensor, of course.

The point of these features is that they make it very easy to get to a reasonably good level of security. If the only option were an (admittedly more secure) strong passphrase to type at every boot, nobody would use it, which would be much worse.
Empathy towards ourselves: the chaos of working as a female UX Researcher
More ghoulish hand-rubbing as people-you-don't-agree-with become ill. I've never heard of him, the article explains his crimes: "he has remained skeptical of coronavirus safety measures, including mandatory mask rules and vaccine passports", he well-deserves to die then.
Ask HN: What's your take on Akoya vs. alternatives (MX, Plaid, Yodlee)?
I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
Ok, I need to ask this question:

HOW is this scanning different than what antivirus has been doing since like forever?
There is a new alternative to Plaid that is created by a network of banks. Is the service live and well or is it just a concept? Has anyone tried it?

For context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottharkey/2021/05/20/the-grea...
Forum software (worse edition EXTREME)
Exactly, most of the time engineers already know what managers truly want - say if the manager asks the team about 4 standups per week, then obviously 4 times a week is manager's preference. Most of the time no one will object, and just do the bloody stand ups.

If a manger thinks that that's not the case in their particular team, and the team members always speak their mind, then I have a bridge to sell to that manager.

Or to look at it the other way around: how many times engineers themselves _asked_ their manager to do those stand ups? Yep, wouldn't be that many.
Meanwhile he pays his Latina slaves less than ten dollars an hour
Design for Safety
One of my favorite things about St. Petersburg is that there are no lawns - specifically the parks. They are weeds and wildflowers and let to grow (I have a friend who picks some she knows for teas and gives them to me) and then, before it gets too bad mowed down a bit. In North America when I walk my tiny dog I'm always afraid to let her go on the perfect lawns for fear of what is on there. Here we both walk freely.
What you say is pointless, because Note Garden was created to solve those problems.
I'm not sure what you're asking. Facebook Marketplace just list items, payment does not happen through it.
> If you read the literature, it is argued that for this to work it is absolutely forbidden for project managers to join these meetings. This is, however, a utopian view.

It's nothing utopian, we don't have project managers join stand-ups.

> Given that our team are distributed across several time zones, it is logistically infeasible to hold a daily synchronous meeting.

I understand that stand-ups are terrible for global distributed remote teams because people need to adjust their time.

But there's no need to ditch it as a whole. For onsite teams, it can be good: A team that only uses WIPs, no deadlines. The stand-ups are just a very short and informal meeting to let people:

1. Synchronize what other people are doing, in order to avoid conflicts and reworks.

2: See if anybody needs help.

And that's it. We also do some funny gestures that do not hold, or do heavy-lifting when speaking just to make it quicker and more informal.

It's just when the culture is bad, the stand-ups would be one of the whips that bad managers could leverage. If there are no stand-ups, they could still reach for other tools.

To practice stand-ups properly the key idea is to have a no accusing or shaming team culture. Strive for it even if you have a little bit of power to practice; Protest it if you don't; Leave if you can do nothing about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=galactanet.com

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I worked for someone who sounds remarkably similar to Holmes, in details big and small. No frauds were committed AFAIK.

My old boss would sometimes get bizarre ideas into his head and be hell-bent on executing them. Sometimes he would, for no good reason, love a junior interview candidate, call meetings, try to bend the company structure around them ("what if we made him head of X, then move Joe Blogs to run a new team of Y..."). He'd normally find no enthusiasm for them with anyone else in the firm, and drop them eventually, but not without droning on about them for weeks. Or complaining how his lieutenants have no imagination and business flair.

Other vanity projects included:

- Buying 2 (main and redundant) GPS clocks to make sure the office is on correct time. Can't trust this internet time nonsense.

- Hiring clearly useless academics to do projects with no connection to anything we did, just to name-drop. Once he hired a guy who used to map food chains in wetland ecosystems to do some unspecified work, in the field of finance.

- Writing numerous, lengthy, and clearly bonkers fake (positive) reviews for his favourite cafe (I think he had some stake in it too potentially). The kind that sound like members of a sect reviewing their guru.

Other examples have thankfully now been garbage-collected in my head.

So, after this therapeutic rant, it doesn't surprise me at all that Holmes suddenly went after some business school grad. Maybe one of the professors mentioned in passing that it's an excellent guy, or that he wrote a great essay or sth, and she would have made it somehow a point of honor to get him on board. Could be a fake story of course, but wouldn't surprise me if now.
Transaction based taxes (VAT, income taxes, sales taxes) decrease the distance money can travel away from the government.

I don't know if it is true but I make this prediction: High transaction taxes correlate with or even cause expensive government projects, excessive public sector employment and excessive welfare.

Edit: Greece was the first country that popped into my mind. I didn't know anything about the tax situation in Greece and simply googled "greece has excessively high income taxes" only to find this article: https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2011/number/2/ar...

Summary: Greece indeed has an impressively high progressive income tax. Young people aspiring to salaried jobs want to work in the public sector to decrease distance to the government. Half the households are self employed to avoid high income taxes and social contributions because of their high distance away from the government.
Diplomatic Value of Turkey and Qatar Surges After Western Leaders Flee Kabul
> [I]magine two submissions with the same number of upvotes and a different number of views. The article with more views probably has a lower quality than the one with fewer views, because more people have viewed it without giving an upvote. So the ratio of upvotes and views is a signal of quality.

I believe this creates a bias against longer articles. If a submission links to a longer piece, a user could take a long time to come back to HN to upvote the submission.

That's not to say this would be any worse than the current algorithm. By definition, a time-ranked frontpage and moving discussion will always favor shorter articles, or, if the content is long, produce plenty of comments that are only superficially related to the article.

As a submission ages, its rank wanes, and discussion gets more sparse: a piece that takes time to read, understand and digest will probably perform worse than a short one, since the discussion and votes will take place further into the future.
I'm not seeing how its "gaming the metric" to include travel time of the key on a keyboard. Typing is ultimately a physical interaction with an interface, not just data transmission over a wire. Therefore, if we are measuring the latency of the input we must include physical travel time. Consider an extreme example, if each "key" used a control lever, like the type on a tractor or used to control thrust in an airplane, we'll just say 90 degrees with a radius of 8", with a significant amount of linear activation force(relative to a keyboard). It wouldn't matter if the device had response time that was virtually instant when you reached the activation point, the input latency of this system would be so significant as to be impractical for most typing tasks. If anything excluding travel time would be gaming the metric.
From someone who's sort-of worked like this for a while - sure, the time off between contracts is nice, but the contracts themselves are much more intense than regular full-time work - partly because you're pretty much always on-boarding and catching up, and partly because client's management does not care about contractors and will treat you worse than full time employees. Just something to keep in mind.
I should quickly point out that this list is specifically tailored towards compression (so lots of names that you'd expect to be listed unfortunately aren't), but I think this is actually a really cool idea to expand upon.

Basically a sort of family tree of scientific and/or artistic innovators with documentation of their major contributions to their field listed in chronological order, that you can filter down to more specific search parameters.

Like if I wanted to view the "lineage" history of computer science vs history of physics, there should be a lot of common math centric "ancestors" in this weird "genius family tree" im thinking of.

Basically what I like so much about this is that it gives you a pretty good roadmap on how you approach actually learning how data compression theory works in a more linear and straightforward manner than if you were to just look up "data compression" on wikipedia and spelunk around following unknown but educationally perquisite terms.
"some business people and they ask me what the state of development is"

To me that's a discussion to be had with the product manager, not a developer. The feature is either done or worked on and that's it.

"I'd like to at least have some idea"

How far behind can you really get? Are you not involved in code reviews? Unless you're working with people going dark and raising massive pull requests twice a month, I fail to see how you could get to the point where you have no idea of what's going on, or on the opposite side how you could have anything but technical and implementation details to share with business people.
On Android, if you're rooted, you can always reinstall whatsapp from a backup through "Titanium Backup". That's what I did while switching phones a few months ago.
Ironically this thread contains a lot of people discussing their local experience with lawns, then other people from thousands of miles away in different climates saying "no you're wrong, my lawn is nothing like that".

The problems we have trying to maintain a monoculture!
Note Garden solves those problems by exploiting the tree structure and properly connecting it to SR algorithm. In fact, Note Garden doesn't even use a Q/A style.
It was never a utility problem, digital always beat physical in almost all regards there ('flicking through' notwithstanding). It's an input problem: some (many?) people just prefer to write.

(And maybe output? I didn't realise at first, but now seems more likely GP is referring to e-paper devices being easier on the eyes.)
The Nordic school that creates the perfect housewife
We already have, its just not visible. Those who had stockpiles of chips (Toyota, many other japanese companies affected by the 2011 tsunami) were able to supply and provide products, thus taking market share - or sell chips at a larger price as demand sored. This strategy of holding strategic reserves on premium goods already paid for itself. Similar to that, the scalpers - horders of rare/in demand products fullfill that job in capitalism - at the risk of sitting on a pile of lowprice good.
The science is pretty well established on *generalized* breast cancer screening not improving health outcomes despite being costly. (In short: cancer is rare, tests have false positives that trigger biopsies, biopsies are invasive and can be harmful, overall biopsies and pointless surgery on slow growth cancers do as much harm as cancer.)

But since screening has been framed as caring for women, pointing out the flaws with screening is automatically seen as hating women.
I prefer end-of-day reports of what was accomplished to morning standup.

Blockers shouldn’t wait until the next day, and predictions of what is to be done that day are rarely accurate. End-of-day reports keep everyone in the loop without meetings, focus on accomplishments, and doesn’t require a blocking meeting.
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Thanks, really hopeful. Not clear if powered on means NC, because that would be very good. I'd use my old QC25 cable with the mic in that case.

""You can use the headphones powered on or off when the the audio cable is connected."
Ask HN: How to negotiate stock options?
A start up is very keen to hire me and are planning on making an offer. I am not being grandiose in saying I would be a good catch for them (they know it and I know it).

My position at present is that I very much enjoy my current job, they are very good at rewarding me and give a good level of autonomy to run my engineering team that I acquired and grew myself. I don't have anything to lose here, only (potentially) gain.

However the start up is pretty exciting and I know I could achieve a lot there. I would really enjoy the challenge.

However, the real aspect that would make the difference for me is company stock, to the point that if they sell the company I won't have to worry about paying off the mortgage on my house and get a decent slice for retirement and my kids education.

Now to my question, I am don't know jack about working out what would be a good amount of stock to shoot for. How would I go about establishing this? I figure I need to work out what the company could be worth and then consider what a percentage of options would provide.

Anyone have any experience they could share?
Frustrating, isn't it? I feel the same way about YouTube celebrities and sports players making millions while actually useful professions make significantly less. From what I've read the better paid doctors make about 300k/year.

I also feel the same way about most consumer technology being developed today. It's mostly advertising and intellectual property exploitation. Nothing particularly useful, really. Yet the people involved are making ridiculous amounts of money. Actually useful technology brings us closer to a science fiction utopia, not some corporate world cyberpunk dystopia.
I’m completely with you on this: the power balance shifts as soon as you get the manager title, even if you wish it did not (I ended up managing former peers at Uber: one day I was a team member, the next day a manager).

This makes everything more tricky, as it’s true that the same behaviour as a manager or as an IC spark different responses.

It’s a tough one to navigate and I won’t say I have it all figured out. It also makes transitioning into management a lot more lonely, in my experience.
> I mean we should be moving to less labor intensive business models anyway.

It's true that technological progress will makes that naturally more sensible over time without using tax policy to make labor artificially more expensive through extra taxes.

> Companies that already embrace automation are getting rid of the workers

That's...tautologically true, yes.

> We as a society should get ahead of this and ensure that the people who need help are able to get it.

Shifting the tax burden from labor by not taxing labor income more than regular income (via payroll taxes) which in turn is taxed more than capital income (which, as well as not paying additional psytoll taxes, has a special, lower rate) of a fairly simple way to do that, or to reduce the number of people that need help, depending on how you look at it. Punitive taxes on labor income and employment make the problems worse. Additional punitive taxes on employment aren't a solution.

> I'm also curious why we need to make it cheaper to employ workers?

The reason we need to make it cheaper to employ workers at any given level of take-home pay is that it directly increases effective wages and reduces poverty.

> What does society gain from having people work for 40 hours a week but still live in poverty?

It... doesn't. That's why need to have the government stop taking a bigger chunk out of pay to workers than any other income-generating transaction.
Quite a rude response as these are just observations from someone who invested a lot of time into this niche.
I would love to test-drive this via a webapp. Any plans like it?
I guess ultimately it does come down to legal questions but reading some of the cases against them such as this [0] it doesn't seem like there's no ammunition for prosecutors to use. For example on pages (using page numbers listed at the bottom of the page) 104-105 that the Sacklers knew of several doctors that were suspected of prescribing opioids inappropriately yet continued to sell to them. Another example on page 112 states that Sacklers knew that they were selling to an illegal pill mill yet neither stopped selling to them nor reported it for 2 years. I note that other directors and executives are also named as defendants in this case. It most certainly doesn't seem that the Sacklers weren't involved in operations of Perdue, maybe not at a day to day level but they certainly were reported to and advised by Perdue staff very regularly (and they demanded plenty from the staff too).

[0]: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/01/31/Massachusett...
Jak and Daxter is a fantastic series, the fact that you can get it on PS Vita makes it all the better.

Along with Ratchet and Clank, some of favourite teenage memories
I don't think we should extrapolate to what kind of people work on linters or even on how the author thinks. I think the article and the contributions both come from good intentions, and I even agree with the two linting rules. What I don't like at all is the tone of the article. Part of the role of linters is education, and education shouldn't be done with that tone.
Haha, that's the standard upload limit for Streamlit[1] apps. We just slapped together a quick front-end using that framework.

[1] https://www.streamlit.io/
Spring Boot Styled – PHP8 Framework 
Spring Boot styled - PHP8 Framework. Easy Dependency Injection and Easy Aspect Oriented magic just with annotations (Attributes).

https://github.com/suvera/winter-boot
Just read the article. Forcing businesses to close at a certain time is not a curfew.

If it were you could argue that most places always had curfews since most businesses aren't allowed to be open during the night regardless of covid.
Studies are worthless if the data reporting by the source (hospitals) was inaccurate. We have strong reason to believe bias since emergency funds were allocated to places with the highest covid count
Etherscan: The most popular Ethereum blockchain explorer
There is no difference in outcome. VAT is paid on every stage on inputs by companies BUT they claim it back and if the input comes from a different country they don't pay VAT in the first place. The only one not being able to claim it back is the consume, like a sales tax.
It makes detecting fraud easier since you can see a companies input vs output vs profit.
> Silencing voices is generally a big part of what conservatism is all about

The same can be said for the modern Marxist movement, progressivism, and the social justice movement. Trying to paint the loss of liberty and liberalism as the fault of only one of the two big political parties is folly.