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Just during meetings? Since January my office (~30 people) have needed to be on our webcams and headphones on 9-5 each day. The headphones are so people can ask you to quickly jump into a virtual meeting.

While I'm not interrupted very often due to my role, it's been quite a frustrating experience.
FYI that video is still the main feature on tesla.com/autopilot
That's a good point about recording.
> He added that managers, especially male managers, should turn off cameras during these times or employees will otherwise feel pressure to show their faces.

What a ridiculous article. In this time of remote work, connecting is hard. Humans are not input/output devices. We need to be able to see each other in the eye. Managers, especially, should set the right example and turn their on cameras - and ask their team to do so too.
It is nothing short of astounding how small amounts of power corrupt otherwise intelligent people.

Sometimes I despair at the state of democratic politics, but looking at the edit wars of Wikipedia, it could have been worse. So much pettiness for nothing.
>he told The Register, "Talking to Apple Product Security is like talking to a brick wall."

>The Register asked Apple to comment, but the brick wall did not respond.

Seems about right.
As someone who’s day job is Laravel it’s cool to see that this stuff can be implemented safely and performantly in a strongly typed language.
Meanwhile, this is standard on some European market cars under heavy braking.

Instead of blinking the brake lights, some U.S. cars automatically turn on the hazard lights under heavy braking. It's standard on mine.
Camden council here in London has put in Siemens/Ubitricity chargers on lampposts. Now it’s hard to find one that isn’t ICE’d by a petrol car because those parking spots are not marked as reserved for EVs like Source London’s. The government is requiring all new construction to have chargers, and parking difficulties are hardly an EV-only problem.
> In a society without a history of male dominance over women, having a legislative body with more women than men would be commonplace or at least unremarkable. In virtually all societies through all of history, this has not been the case. So the fact that such a thing has now occurred is an indicator of reduced male dominance, something we should all be happy about.

You can only come to a conclusion like that through an ignorance of history, or willful ignorance of societies where females exercised power. Although, I would separate matriarchies from matrilineal societies, and also, societies in which women exerted a great deal of power through soft means.

For example, a list of pure matriarchies

Ancient Amazons

Iroquois Confederacy

The Mosuo people

The Hopi people

Some Celtic tribes

A list of kingdoms with female rulers of note:

England, during some of its most important years [1]

A list of Queens Regnant which includes ancient Egypt, Rome, and many, many others [2]

Additionally, this would also include periods of Queen Regency too [3]

Just to name a few

A list of Matrilineal societies:

Jews

Sparta

Scotland

Much of Africa

If we remember many monarchies, autocracies, and other forms of government had powerful women (Queen Consorts) that provided input into decisions being made. Modern day lobbyists have nothing on a queen that is sleeping with the king.

However, when you think about actual legislative bodies, in a democratic sense, that greatly reduces the numbers you can use throughout history.

When we think about wide spread democracy, it is actually a fairly recent invention, and normally came with some very specific rules around property ownership, power/wealth, etc.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-I

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_queens_regnant

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_queens_regnant
I am always shocked when I find out how lax security is handled even by parties of whom I thought they would take security very serious.

Did you know that you can bypass the lockscreen on Linux Mint by plugging in an external monitor?

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/9123

Did you know that when you use Chromium on an up-to-date Debian stable, it has over 100 unpatched security holes?

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...

If you cannot trust Debian - whom can you trust? Any suggestions which distro takes security serious?
At least where I work, it's company policy that, if you have your camera on (this is optional), you either blur the background or replace it with a virtual background. Doesn't that address this concern?
> So if women voters for the most part have thought that a man is the better candidate there is a problem?

Why even bring up women voters? Are you suggesting the 50/50 split is now because women voters have female candates to vote for?

The electorate chose a 50/50 parliament. We have no idea whether it was mostly men who voted for women or whatever it was.
Everybody else counts suicides. Also, not knowing your state I am willing bet there are confounding factors. The vast majority of firearm homicides are in urban areas.

I am not going to be able to get the exact same figure as you since the way the search form is set up it is pretty easy to get slightly different numbers. But the only state from the last 3 years of data that would seem to fit your comment is Minnesota. Obviously if you move away from some of the largest metropolitan areas in the US crime rate goes down. But that does not even matter. California still falls in the bottom 8 states despite having several large, difficult metro areas, and the highest percentage of its population living in urban areas of any state, at 95%. In contrast, Minnesota is at 17th, with 73.3%.
Let me tell you something that you will have great value from in life.

The cost of free will is to sometimes be difficult to understand for other people.

My webcam is always off. Nobody expects me to have it on anymore. In the beginning I got a few questions about why. I said I don't like how I look on camera to other people. Nobody even tried to convince me to have it on.

You are not an adult until you learn to do what you want and handle other people's opinions as exactly that - their opinions. Its what they want, not what you want. The difference is very important.

Tldr... Grow balls, learn to do what you want and be OK with what other people may think. After a few days or weeks, it becomes normal for them and they can focus on other important topics like who wins the bachelor this year.
The scheme standard mandates things that are not in the wasm spec yet (tail calls and GC being probably the most notable ones, being available only in chrome).

There are quite a few open questions regarding RnRS schemes on webassembly. Currently it seems that the ones available are either discouraged by the limitations of wasm, or are implemented to specifically test non-standard proposals of wasm.

In other words: no fun at all.
Characters in Doom will soon discover that they have no plausible gradual explanation for the mind that controls the player. No matter how many fMRI scans of the player head they take, there is no signal.
Speed cameras I can (kind of) understand, but what possible reasonable explanation could they have for blocking red light camera installation?
Both your statement and parent's are both true.

H-1s are being used to drive down tech wages, and are also used as a way to create indentured servitude in that the worker leaves or is fired they lose their visa.

At the same time tech is and has been vastly overpaid, WFH is bringing wages down too.

The overpaid tech argument was always 'well you need engineers and you'need to be in SV so you need to pay whatever FAANGs are. But that bubble is bursting before our eyes, and just like last pop, they simply can't believe it until the end.
an authoritarian ruler and hatred. cultures are being erased today

https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/china-doubles-down-on-xinjia...

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-violent-effort-to-rewrite-hi...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/taliban-pose-threat-afghan-c...
According to all the apple apologists on hackernews that think having an open app store ecosystem is bad, "apple knows what's best for me" is the response they should be giving right about now
This is pretty silly. It takes seconds to jump into a meeting w/o being geared up already.
> hiring the top talent in the world

This is the wording of H1b visas as well - hiring for talent with special skills that can't be found by workers in the US.

Studies by Norm Matloff detail, and anyone with experience with Cognizant coders know that these are not visas which are only going to "top talent". It is going to imported coolies in order to undermine wages, and have a captive workforce tied to the company, effectively unable to leave.
> Apple is shipping iOS with known bugs

Shocker
Agreed. I have a 4-6 person remote team and we have daily 1/2 hour meetings that are supposed to be an active discussion. If someone was at their desk and didn't turn on their camera on, I'd find it strange.

On the other hand, last year I had to go to a 20+ person "remote offsite" full of content I didn't care about delivered with very little interaction. We were told we had to keep our cameras on for that, I just pretended I didnt hear that part.
Nope. Nobody has the right to forcefully film other people, including your manager and your coworkers.
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You're projecting your personal needs onto others while not being empathetic to the needs of others. Human connections are two way but don't always involve the same avenues.
Hi,
I am the developer of the app in question, accessible hangman, as well as the other games I hve made for iOS.
I am a blind developer myself, that is why I thought htat making games for the blind would be the best approach for me. I chose Apple's platform, instead of Android, because of the way that SwiftUI lets me write the UI via code and change visual appearance of buttons, etc just by adding button shapes, icons, etc.

Now, I do understand that every app needs to go through review every time it is updated, of course. But this is verion 2.5 of the app, this is in no way the first or second version.
So yes, Apple seems to find a new issue when someone just finds a little light in their brain clicking into place, the first version had no such issue. But after 4 or 5 versions, oooooh wait, your app does not comply with blah blah blah.
So, yes, I think this is unfair.
Anyway, I have some news regarding this whole hing, the update was pushed through and approved finally so I'm a bit less worried, they still say I should talk to them on the phone so they're going to schedule a call with me.
Let's see how this turns out. Thanks all.
Many people oppose automated law enforcement in (almost) all forms.
Agreed with all of your points!

A treatment for psychopathy could be possible through magic mushrooms as they seem to promote neuroneogenesis, and restructuring of the brain in depressed patients, so that is a very promising angle, and a lot of further research needs to be done on hallucinogenics because they seem to have profound effects on our perception of reality.

With psychopathy, one of the major problems is with the mirror neurons of the brain, their absence prevents the person from being empathetic, so very targeted treatment would be needed, but in the end, it is better than suffering and rotting in prison.
This is a terrible situation. As the kid of an H1-B I can’t imagine being in that predicament.

At the same time, this is what happens when the basis of your immigration system is “legislation by hostage taking.” Ever wonder why the H1B says “temporary” status on paper, and you have to pretend like you plan to go back home at some point? (“Dual intent?”) That’s because it’s because it was never designed to be a permanent immigration system. No permanent immigration system designed for that purpose would let you build your life in the country first and then decide only a decade later whether you’ll be allowed to stay. It’s absurd.

Since the 1960s the executive branch has been doing with fragile regulation or executive action things that it can’t achieve consensus to do through Congress. The 1990s reforms that created the H1B did nothing more than paper over the most egregious shortcomings of using a temporary worker visa as the main vehicle for permanent immigration. DACA is a prime example of what happens when your political system is so broken that you have to use executive action because you can’t get concensus in Congress. And it shows how fragile that can be.

Folks considering immigrating to America should understand: H1B is not meant for permanent immigration. Proceed at your own risk. Maybe try the more sensible immigration regimes in Australia or Canada.
To whomever is saying that "only position of the light matter" I invite you to try playing a car simulation game where all the arrows are inverted.

Arrows are so well used (especially in the driving context) that the way we react to them is down to subconscious reflex. Imagine that the light is replaced by and neon written ("RIGHT" on the left side, and "LEFT" on the right side)

This is stupid and just plain dangerous.
Even with the abundance of plant and animal food, they were preoccupied with survival. There were too many things to be taken care of: avoiding falling prey to carnivores (including fellow humans), injuries, sickness; need to hunt and/or collect food, tend to children. There was just no time to think about much else. But the prehistoric form of communism made survival easier. In the later, more individualist, times, if you wanted to be able to spend time and your thoughts on something other than mere subsistence, you had to have servants.
So the -just released- iOS is buggy.

Uh... Really?

This is just someone penning words for exposure, or to pay the rent. It's just not news.
My paternal grandparents were married 68 years.

My maternal grandparents had been divorced and remarried three times.

Guess which set were happier with their station in life when I knew them? In my experience, pursuing your immediate happiness at the expense of long term fulfillment is a losing wager every time.
Are you saying that parking spaces do not produce value? Just from the fact that people voluntarily pay for it, would suggest that this is not the case. Personally, I think it's good for parking to be handled by the free market and not the government.
“We” need? Not me, I prefer making connections to other humans outside of work.
The problem with your statement is that the people being discussed here are ones who have applied for a green card, and already been approved. Their application has been vetted, they've proven that they serve a need in the economy, and background checks have been completed. However, the number of annual green cards have been capped, so even though it's approved, it cannot be given to them yet.

The fact that they are working on an H-1B visa is an embarrassing hack to make up for the fact that the US has made a promise to these families that they haven't been able to keep for decades.
Prolog and side-effects are a really unfortunate pairing. What I would love is when backtracking over a side-effect, that effect would be taken back. With transactions that might even be possible.

As it stands, quering (pseudocode) "connect(C), insert(C, data), false" has no solution but side-effects.

SLD-resolution probably just does not work with side-effects.
Apple killed one of the best voiceover enabled single-player poker simulator about 2 years ago. THETAPoker was absolutely great, and the author invested a lot of time and energy to make the game perfectly self-voicing. Until Apple review falsely identified it as a gambling-app which needs to be banned. The author tried to get someone to listen at apple, and was totally ignored. Now, Apple has a similar poker simulator, called hold'em, which is by far not as good regarding VoiceOver support. It feels like a scam to kick someone from the AppStore who did a very good job just to make your own botched copy-cat app more prominent.

That said, Apple VoiceOver is still one of the best shipped-by-default accessibility systems. However, we have to thank Steve Jobs for this. If it were only for Tim Cook, apple wouldn't even know how to spell accessibility.
> a rapid soil and water half-life

One should keep in mind that degradation and half-life are technical terms with specific meaning - while the original substance is no more, in no way does it mean the products are less or more toxic. Often they are less toxic or even degrade fully (into CO₂, H₂O etc), for the most part, but not always and all of it.

Landfills are one of those places where numerous funny reaction take place, creating wondrous chemicals, that people haven't even dreamed of.

That being said, I don't worry much about chemical composition of fruit packaging and their degradation products in non-smoldering landfills.
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye.

This isn't what happens during webcam meetings. If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you.

> Managers, especially, should set the right example and turn their on cameras - and ask their team to do so too.

Definitely not, and I wouldn't work for a manager that cared if my camera was on or not.
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Double down on stupidity. Nope, we're not gonna fix it. We'll insist that we're right and you're an idiot.
I hope that a big consumer country, like US, bans this idiocy.
I don't want to open them or see others because it kills my CPU and causes throttles, and if I share screen it's like a meltdown is happening. Macbook 15 - 2018 with 6 cores and 32GB memory.

On the other hand, my personal M1 Macbook does not even go past 50C on 30+ person Zoom chats.

I'd still close my feed because the problem I have is too many meetings, and more than half of them are not important. But when you say, this Zoom session should have been an email/slack/document, I come across as "that" person and get shunned.
If you liked this, you might enjoy this little trick you can do with moiré patterns -- near the end of the post, I talk a little bit about the math behind the FFT connection. https://hardmath123.github.io/moire.html
Plane geometry, arguably the OG mathematical theory, would probably take issue with who gets to be called 'most illustrated'.
All your reactions, manners, and living conditions can be recorded and later judged by your collegue's mother in law during a Zoom call.

First, you can tell if a zoom is being recorded, and I'm guessing most of the time they are not. 1 in 200 of meetings I've been in the last 2 years has been recorded.

Second, that's quite a dramatic stance. Colleague's mother-in-law? Seriously?

The benefit to seeing and being seen by your coworkers is very great.
A bit dramatic, truck drivers get paid really well for Eastern Europe. 2x-3x the average wage nowadays.
another way to arrive at your same conclusion, top down if you will, is to point out that the whole idea behind Proof Of Work is to perform an expensive operation, "wasting" it so to speak, on the mining of that coin. If BTC costs $40K+ to mine, then till you're (collectively) "wasting" that much work to mine it, more miners will be incented to join in.

If you come up with a scheme to make economic dual use of the Work (mine bitcoin and heat houses) then it will no longer cost enough Work and again, more mining will be incented till the price equalizes again.
Estimates that are most successful, in my experience, leverage four perspectives: realistic (for people who prefer a quick approximation), optimistic-pessimistic (for people who prefer ranges and risks), and equilibristic (for people who leverage critical path and critical chain). The mnemonic is ROPE.

https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_project_management_rope_est...

Estimates as work-hours by the person most-likely to do the work tend to work the best in my experience. Estimates as work-hours also are clear and direct for upper management, or across to other stakeholder organizations.

If your estimates are solely within one team or sprint, then story points tend to feel fun and easy. If you can skip estimates all together then that's superb-- it helps to have a skilled team and also a high trust environment.
I usually just put some text to the extent of "this code was written by myself for myself and I'm really not looking for pull requests" in the README.
Aren't people fleeing drug gang death threats fleeing persecution?
The guideline is about discussing upvotes/downvotes in any comment, not just your own:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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Well, yeah, because electricity is fungible. Other power providers that can't get the electricity they need from gas are turning to renewables, driving up prices for everyone.
I mean, the software has been in beta for so many months now with active users using it constantly, and I additionally believe that they dogfood it internally before release, that it seems weird for them to push software that is buggy to people... they could at least make it more-obviously opt-in only--maybe even with a warning, as this is arguably then still a true "beta"--for a while until they think it actually works.
> The simple truth

It's not simple at all.

Sure, you cannot replace an in-person experience with an online experience with no other changes. But why would you? You can't replace a car ride with a motorcycle, but you can absolutely travel effectively with a motorcycle. Thinking there's only one way to work, and if that way doesn't work in all contexts the working context is correct, is just silly.
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> Polish drivers paid Polish wages were driving in the UK

There is a law specifically against that. Basically, if you drive mainly in Belgium, for example, you get paid local wage regardless of where your employer is based.
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May the lessons of history be never forgotten!
From step 4's second image[0], three of the components (maybe dot projector, IR, and Camera) are in the main housing. The YouTuber shows that Face ID works even if the 'sensor assembly' is unplugged[1].

0: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/QtDRKJPM5CKm31ki.hug...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663852
Then you might as well equivalently argue that MongoDB is a reliable basis for LTS software because every distro packages it and there are Python drivers for it.

The initial argument implied that SQLite was totally embedded in Python itself, which is not quite true. It still depends on the availability of separately-maintained & compatible SQLite libraries.
Me & my coworkers with 2018 Macs all have this problem in Teams. I tried to search for a solution and can only see other people complaining. I really can not understand how I can't even seem to be able to scroll in Slack sometimes when I'm in a Teams meeting, and how seemingly this is the case for so many people!
An increadibly well explained piece on the magic that is the frequency domain visualized as power spectrum.

HN please, make a FFT of the Day tag to not miss those, just on the title.
They shipped multiple serious regressions. That's absolutely news
Wait, did you just imply that apps by certain big companies dont need a review because you think these special biig companies deserve a bit of extra trust? Fascinating, how did you arrive at this conclusion?