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YouTube deletes German-speaking Russian state channel over Covid misinformation
A normal company would recognize that the employee's hardship is temporary, that treating the employee with compassion will buy long term loyalty that will far outlast the lost-work of the temporary hardship, and would treat the employee with basic human moral emotion and empathy.

I broke my arm in a bad vehicle accident ~5 months into my last work position. I couldn't code for ~2 months. I couldn't commute into the office for another ~2 after that due to personal fragility from the injuries.

My direct boss offered to come help me fix up my apartment in case I couldn't reach things in my apartment. My employer worked with me every step of the way.

I was so touched, having come from a 'fire first' mentality shop before that, that I worked at that firm for another 7 years. I rose to a directorship, and ultimately ran half of their engineering department. I worked countless nights, because I cared. And when I did finally leave, having long since outgrown the organization, I went to work for the boss that had offered to help me rearrange the apartment.

Human empathy is basic, good business sense.
But we don't know how much. What if they made one small bug fix in a week? What if they literally did zero work?
Thanks, I've started reading it and will continue later, the material seems to be perfect for a non-Aerospace professional.
Thanks for sharing, this is a great read!
I consider a 22% improvement (110° instead of 90°) a significant improvement.
It’s so fucking simple.

Let them do their work as best as they can under the circumstances. maybe allow them to work less hours / part-time if that’s what they need.

Really, work isn’t all-or-nothing. Like either you do 60h a week or you’re worthless, that’s just a typical American cultural thing to make you a work slave.

A decent company accommodates people who have a spouse with a terminal illness.

It’s that simple. You treat people like fucking human beings.
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Why do I need a NYT account?

Yeah, that's why.
Are there any plans to add granting permissions to roles based on space membership (perhaps spaces which are not room's ancestors in any hierarchy but instead a cousin) instead of gradual power levels? And also sharing those permissions across all rooms in a space?
Slight nitpicks, PHIPA is provincial legislation for health information privacy, and you're likely thinking of FIPPA and MFIPPA as federal.

A passport is going to be a debacle, and there will be leaks like this one and likely worse. If you happened to look at the clerks screen on their tablet when you got your last shot, the vaccination rollout was done using a salesforce app, and it's very likely it didn't go through the same checks and balances (like a privacy impact assessment) as internal govt apps.

IMO, it's got a huge legal problem where it doesn't collect consent in any meaningful way (an anonymous clerk ticks boxes on a screen you can't see, with no way of verifying they have obtained your consent). At least when you sign a physical consent form, you can write-in that you are getting the shot under duress from your employer, but the rollout doesn't track that, and that's by design.

The same can be said for public sector employers collecting vaccine certificate information as a condition of employment (have fun with the unions on that one), as they are also subject to PHIPA, and most of them do not have the facilities for PHIPA compliance in the handling of employee health information (PHI). There are so many technical issues with passports that it's going to be a complete discredit to government, but my impression is they don't actually care. This is a putsch to elevate a class of apparatchiks who do not assert their freedoms or rights, and where they are headed, they don't need legitimacy or credibility.

There is a generation of people in government and other institutions now who are basically terrible people whose plan is to squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube in terms of data, "temporary measures," and passing laws that won't withstand court challenges, and they imagine themselves as being muscular about policy. I'd predict it ends very badly for them, and if not for them, then definitely for the rest of us.

One wonders why they think it will work this time.
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If I'm paying a person $200-$300K to build a house and his wife gets cancer; it doesn't entitle him to keep my money. He gives it back because he didn't do his job.

Same principle.
I was surprised at how easy it was to use. I was expecting it to be difficult, as is often the case for software that is packed with features for advanced users, but it turned out that recording a window is just a matter of pressing a button.
They don’t do that for a large portion of the water - they dance around that with weasel words (like ‘return to the environment’), aka evaporate. You can see they are constantly weaseling out of giving anything concrete that someone could accuse them of lying, or could use to point out the actual impacts, and stating ‘a lot’ can be reclaimed from evaporation for instance in the building - while ignoring cooling, which is evaporative at these scales [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/04/why...]

It’s pretty typical corporate green washing of a real problem that other folks will end up having in diffuse, hard to pin on them ways, that with some nudging on the right officials will never be pinned on them. In my experience, anyway.
How are the hypersonic missiles guided and what is their range?
Maybe you are more of a power user. Also I'm not concerned with the SVG output, as long as it does not take ages to render.
"Earlier in the day, the Calgary-based company's CEO Zakir Hussein had denied the app had verification or security issues and accused those who raised concerns about it of breaking the law." ...

"'Someone that's out there is trying to destroy us here, and we're trying to build something good for people," he said.' ... 'There's holes, and what I'm realizing is I think there are some things that we need to fix here. And you know, we're trying to play catch-up, I guess, and trying to figure out where these holes are.' "

We're trying to do something good, so when someone discovers we've done something bad, they're automatically trying to destroy us. Uh huh....
You might work part-time and so balance work/income and care.
I'm wondering how they were even allowed to store this data. Doesn't storing personal medical info of any kind require a bunch of official certifications?
Or atlasobscura, or two words titles that have no context.
You're going to have to elaborate for me. Given that certain races are genetically predisposed to certain diseases and conditions more than other races, how am I to make sense of your comment?
On the same note, why do I have to take off my shoes and can't bring more than 100ml of liquids through airport security?

/s
I should have posted references to back up my concerns. Here are just a few:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-h...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/technology/personaltech/r...

https://www.bullguard.com/blog/2015/07/did-you-know-that-you...

(Edited to fix link formatting)
> China could nuke US carrier groups assuming their satellites aren't taken out first. That spells game over for US projection of power if successful.

Incorrect, the USA will probably just shrug, and call in the other 11 super-carriers and 9 amphibious assault ships.

At the same time they will invoke NATO article 5 and a few other Asian mutual-defence treaties. 2 UK, 1 Spanish, 1 French, and 2 Italian carriers will arrive soon afterwards.

As will 4 Japanese, 3 French, 2 Australian and 2 South Korean helicopter carriers.

The trick isn't to take out one aircraft carrier: its to to be able to take them all out.
That is not how that works. Las vegas is full of pools and fountains... INDOORS. they retain the moisture in their enclosed ecosystems. We have ACs that pull water out of the air, and we also know how to make buildings.
I don‘t understand how someone smart enough to make 300.000 a year (That is an insane fortune to almost everyone, even in first world countries) feels entitled to a month-, year-long reduction of performance expectations because of personal tragedy.

There are thousands waiting for his position and they would kill to get it.
This is actually not about money. It's about a human life.
Employment != Sole proprietorship. Employer != Client.
> I am obviously sympathetic to his plight, but at this point Amazon has that reputation as a brutal employer. Every ex-Amazonian I have known in real life has told me that the pay is so that they own you, whether 3PM or 3AM and they have no qualms about firing you (a former co-worker who was with AWS said that if I ever take an AWS role, don't get a full year lease for a condo in Seattle). Not to blame him, but it is unfortunate that he didn't have someone who could advise him that taking a hard job at a notoriously uncaring company with a sick wife would be unwise.

Make it illegal to companies to do this. Simple. Companies operate within the laws of the society they're based in. If Amazon doesn't like it they can take their bags and go somewhere else.
It's not about "your rights", it's about "what's right". Sure, you're within your rights. But when you're a trillion-dollar-market-cap company, you can eat $300k for a year and let the employee get through his grief and come back to you.

Also, you edited your comment in a way that was deceptive, and didn't say the reason for the edit -- but your comparison is still flawed. $300k to you is pennies to Amazon.
>“How did it happen? Why had I or no one ever heard of it, given I know a lot of folks in the government tech space?”

I had a good LOL at that too. I remember people in uni were even talking about this in a business course like 10 years ago. This is not like a groundbreaking idea to digitize an ID.
Except that the digital ones allow frequent invalidation as the commercial and bureaucratic power centers collude.
People need to accept that the moment you’re face to face with a cop, software isn’t going to restore accountability on the spot or give you an edge against an adversary that has the monopoly of violence. If your threat model is that you should be prepared for a cop to seize either your physical driver’s license or your phone, you should make sure you carry the one you care the least about with you.
Exactly. Setting aside all legal concerns and whatever anyone's philosophy is about piracy or moderated content, you still have the enormous concern about what kind of community you are fostering and what kind of people you are attracting based on what content you allow to be surfaced.
just a pretty standard certificate hierarchy, in germany the pharmacies can sign your information (when given your paper vaccination pass) and give you a QR Code, or you get it right when you get vaccinated. Obviously those are then the weak points and afaik there are ~25 root(/revocable?) keys for germany alone. Contained in the QR code are your name, DOB and which vaccinations you already got. So the QR code is only valid together with your Photo ID.

> What I’m getting at here is how are they validating keys without leaking the keys used to sign?

Public and private keys. Pharmacies and doctors have control over private keys/keys signed by the "root" keys. The checking app has the public keys and can check if the signature of the data is valid (matches the data and the private keys).
The issue here may have been that the manager had no baseline of 'good performance' that they could expect this individual to 'return to'.
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Believe it or not, this isn't a rare attitude among managers at Amazon. A significant percentage of SDMs believe they must "keep a high bar" and remove any dissenting subordinates. Word has gotten out about it, mostly on the blind app, which forced Amazon to raise pay bands for engineers 50-100k. This is costing the company a lot of money.

The difference going forwards for Amazon is that the stock is mostly stagnant, and so employees are no longer putting up with miserable harsh working conditions, the financial incentives are no longer there.
I have curtains and blinds on my windows because I don't want strangers (of any nationality) looking in.
Clearly more recent than April 15th, 1989.
And bitcoin has increased in value in the last 2 years
There's been a groundswell on social media wherein everything functionally becomes ADHD, ASD, neurodivergent etc. - many people have taken up these diagnoses as a self-identity, and I don't think thats a bad thing to try to build community around an idea.

However, the net of symptoms and behaviors is cast really widely, and I think overall the definitions really start to lose their usefulness when so many traits are bucketed into these categories. To start, a disorder is only that if it is causing difficulty in your life, in reaching your goals, doing what you want or taking care of yourself. Most people identify as that but can't necessarily put a name on it.

My personal experience is I was Dx'd with ADHD, and then ASD (then Aspergers) at an early age of 10. The reasoning was I presented with some oversensitivity to sensory input (loud noises, etc) and had trouble socializing. I internally accepted (or was forced to accept) this definition for myself for a very long time - I was literally told as a child I couldn't read faces, and so I never really tried until I rebelled from the given model that I was somehow incapable in my late teens.

It turns out, at the very minimum the ASD diagnoses couldn't be further from the truth. I am just a very sensitive person, I read faces and expressions extremely well and if anything I'm a natural social butterfly, though emotionally very anxious.

A good few differential diagnoses for anyone looking at what they might identify with include both CPTSD and Attachment Disorders. The commonality between them is that both of those are caused environmentally rather than some innate genetic trait which is usually proposed regarding ASD/ADHD. And its also true that two people in the same environment won't necessarily develop the same disorders, or any. This is a bit of a long rant, but for me a CPTSD diagnosis and related treatment modalities has helped me develop more in the past year or two than literal decades of work around ASD/ADHD - everyone is different and YMMV, just wanted to show that there are some other options.
"The display is allegedly a Dual-Cell LCD from BOE with the same resolution as Quest 2..."
He was offered a Family Leave option, but the details aren't shared so it's hard to judge...

Terrible situation for the author, but expecting the company to eat the 500k/year he was costing them doesn't seem fair either.
OBS is truly a great piece of software. From what I can tell it is built in a pretty modular way, especially looking at plugins. Is anyone using OBS (or parts of it) as library for their project?
Word, that sort of claim begs for an associated reference to a study.
This should really be normalized as MB/capita. Basic data/voice coverage in the vast wilderness is important for safety, but speed is really more relevant in more populated regions. Geographic maps like this aren't useful, especially without more powerful filtering tools (e.g. specifying a minimum speed & showing that coverage).
I think we are just speaking the same thing.

You might assume that I sided with China mainland. Well, that not where I stand. Neither do I side with Taiwan, nor US.

I stand with the safety and prosperity of people.
"In order for the scramjet engine to ignite,..."
"What if it's a giant shipping boat with thousands of containers?"

Firstly, what kind of excuse is this - imagine the same argument applied to social networks, should they just leave child porn on their websites because it too difficult to keep track of? What if a social network has billions of photos? Business has to follow the law, just like I do.

Secondly, we have armies of people collecting data on these containers and doing data science to manage and optimise supply chains, and they have the containers, their weights and contents documented for customs, to make sure they are safe and not overloaded, for insurance purposes, so they can be delivered to the right customer, many containers are independently GPS tagged, etc.

All this data already exists for every major carrier, haulage, etc. The hard part is like one guy delivering donuts part-time, but we don't need to go after that.
Code is speech.

Your proposed law sounds more draconian and dangerous to free thought than the thing it’s supposed to prevent, and can be abused to have the opposite effect of what your intentions are.

We need more general technical literacy, not further increasing the gap between those who have and know between those who don’t.

Regulation around tracking, fine, but the consequences seem to far outweigh any benefits with the rest of your proposal.
Ahhh the next Stephenson I have on the docket
I remember this being posted as an Ask/Tell HN message a few weeks back.. although several people suggested at the time he might want to delete, since it could complicate things for him. (Which seems to have happened) It's a bit meta for an HN story to come back to HN.
side project idea: create a bot that takes a screenshot of all new Show HNs, and post a comment to the thread with the screenshot
I read the timeline and it seems like he started in mid-late 2018, was having performance problems throughout 2019, and didn't even get fired until mid-2020.

This is super generous, and while I have a lot of empathy for his personal situation, I think he could have had a much different outcome if he would have been more proactive about managing expectations:
- Amazon does have a bereavement benefit that you definitely should take if you lose a brother like he did.
- There are many opportunities to get help from doctors and medical professionals and document any disability you might have, which can help accessing disability benefits
- While family medical leave is typically unpaid, if you are making $300K a year and were presumably making a lot less before you took the job, I think you can reasonably take a few months of unpaid family medical leave knowing your job will be there when you return.

I feel bad for the guy in this situation, but I think Amazon was very generous and gave them every opportunity to perform. How many years should a company wait for an underperforming employee to perform?
Instead of requesting this or that, I would just like to say that this is great work presented in a very nice way. The effort put there is impressive :)
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It's not like Jeff Bezos personally fired him. His direct manager is not working with a trillion dollar market cap.
In my case, this was in New York.

This was a Christian monastery, but not Catholic.
The end of that article is a good reminder of the units command, I've been using Google for units conversion for so long that I forgot about the standalone units. It even comes standard with OSX.
Note theres a difference between advertising and surveillance. "Adtech" proponents are likely to conflate the two since adtech relies on surveillance.
I think France has a particularly bad record in this regard, having both pretty lively politics, and Napoleon's 'whiff of grapeshot' in its DNA.

Still, this is more or less the basic pattern of how nations and armies work together. For example, the fascist coup that started the civil war in Spain was originally stymied by the fact that many of the insurrectionary military units were stuck in Africa in the Spanish colonies.

The problem with armies is that even with the best of intentions, you end up using them, and if you use them, sometimes you win and end up having to do counterinsurgency in conquered territory. Then you get a whole load of people coming back home who started their professional career thinking of the population around them as the enemy, and have all the counter-insurgency methodologies as reflex and came of age in an enviroment where such things were normal.

From a UK perspective, it's always interesting to follow the careers of people in the early 20th century, as they move from one counter-insurgency to another, and they take techniques with them from one conflict to another, so you get guys who learned to torture people in Ireland ending up torturing people in post-war Greece, then they get jobs as police officers in the UK, and you can't help but wonder what they might have done there, what attitudes they brought to the job.
Human beings are entitled to a little empathy from other human beings.
What is infamous about it? People have to lie constantly to attack it and create outright alternative universes with distinctions that don't really exist.
> If you merely censor illegal content, you will become a home for disinformation and ultra right-wing conspiracies. See Parler.

What do you count as disinformation and why is it a problem? If you disagree with something you can ignore it and move on, or engage with it and respond with your own counter-argument. It doesn't seem like a problem that reduces the viability of the entire platform. It is also strange to me that you seem to think a lack of censorship only favors "ultra right-wing" conspiracies. I saw a lot of disinformation about policing being spread throughout 2020 without much evidence. Those who pushed those narratives did not face any moderation for their misinformation. I recall as well when Twitter, Medium, and others banned discussions of the lab leak theory. The pro-moderation crowd unwittingly aided in the CCP's avoidance of accountability and smeared some very rational speculation as disinformation. I don't think I want anyone - whether the government, powerful private companies, or biased moderators - to become the arbiters of permitted opinions.

> In either case, and especially the first, you're likely to get kicked off your hosting platform and get a lot of attention from the government.

It's also curious to me that you mention Parler, because January 6th was organized more on other platforms than on Parler. Silicon Valley acted in unison against Parler because they share the same political biases among their leaders and employees, and because they share that degree of monopolistic power (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...). The darker part of this saga is that sitting members of the US government pressured private companies (Apple, Google, Amazon) to censor the speech of their political adversaries by banning Parler (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure...), in what can only be called an abuse of power and authority. When tech companies are facing anti-trust scrutiny and regulatory pressure on other issues, why wouldn't they seek favor by doing the incoming government's bidding and deplatforming Parler? I feel like the actions observed in the Parler saga are less about moderation and more about bias and power.
We must be living in very different universes, because in my country full-time consulting pays off a house in maybe 20 years. Most people never get a second one.
and those places have hurricanes or tornadoes
I came away with similar sentiments.
I've absolutely no issue with anybody criticising their employment practices in their warehouses or delivery arms - especially the use of contracting companies to isolate themselves from the questionable practices that seem required to get the job done.

However, if they're paying you $300k to do a job, it strikes me as fair that if you cease to do that job you get terminated. Also that's enough money for you to have put in place your own safety net if one wasn't provided by your employer in your benefits.
This really should have a title update so it's clear.

The AND in "broadband and LTE" part of the title is a huge hint that the and part is _not_ LTE (non-mobile) data.
You can bioremediate lead using sunflowers.
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