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> Otherwise, if a person is generally toxic enough, they will be worked around.

Echoing simiones,
'worked around' here means that other productive members of the community will become disillusioned and leave.
The toxic person will become a 'known problem' that is talked about in hushed tones.
People will devise small scale strategies for avoiding the bad behaviour.

> Note that expelling a person from a project for being a jerk in one or more instances may do more harm than good. What is the value of their technical contributions? Just how much of a jerk were they?

We had a publicly 'productive' architect for many years that loved to talk about his technical contributions to the President and CTO, but the actual effect of his contributions was negative.

He refused to coordinate with other teams, and everyone who had to interface with his work were forced to rework APIs according to his current whims.

He belittled people publicly when they weren't present, and I watched him steal credit for other's achievements. He would then complain that no one appreciated what a hard worker he was to anyone who would listen.

On top of all of this, his actual architectural decisions were unsound, as they centralized his work, that only he could maintain, as a core component of the system. In 10 years, he only had one direct report that could tolerate him enough to help with his codebase.

> For better or worse, competency often makes people a little rougher around the edges.

An unsupported assertion.
I've personally found that toxic people are much more willing to aggrandize and lie about their competency to people who don't know better.
The best programmers I've worked with were all cooperative and positive 95+% of the time, focused on the product and not their ego.
> The accusation is not vague and it was substantiated. Just not to you. Not to me either, and I think that's a good thing for now.

Of course it's a good thing. It's part of the strategy behind this move.

If (when) the accusation turns out to be a relative nothingburger, the Moderation Team would lose the moral authority and hence the power they think they command by going "well fine, we'll take our ball and go home".

Better to let it be vague, so that the public can imagine serious violations that cast the Core Team's legitimacy into doubt.
Yes, this is also true, but I think the bigger problem is just speeding. People on the left are usually moving faster than people on the right or middle, on average, but some people want to go 20-30 mph over the speed limit. Normally I'd pull to the right so they can pass, but by the time I start doing that they're already starting to change lanes too!
I haven't tried Supernote, but FWIW reMarkable can work totally offline as well.
I think its about opening an avenue to regulate internet. For instance most regulations start at the extreme (e.g. child safety). And over time once that avenue is open, special interests and police state can use those channels to impose their will. Going from 0 to 1 is the difficult part. Going from 1 to N is a lot easier.
The EU is a fairly massive entity at this point and its government(s) are no exception. There are several arms of that government that are firing on all cylinders, privacy, and the cartel watchdog come to mind. There are also arms that are not effective or even detrimental. But these operate relatively independent of each other.

Note that you are comparing a proposal on the one side with a law on the other.
And not even just contributors. Users of your project might not want to interact with your team. If I encounter a bug and want to create an issue, but I either see racism within communication, or just overall negativity in comments from members, why would I continue with your project? I could just as easily be subjected to it.
Yeah, unfortunately that is a big problem. People don't care about privacy until it affects them, but then it's too late.
https://archive.md/nDCOG
Far too many promising open source projects have disappeared because the benevolent dictator lost interest and disappeared without leaving an empowered community. Far too many promising open source projects withered and died because the not-actually-benevolent dictator turned off every would-be contributor.

In the scope of things, these are much more common that the few examples of projects that succeeded in spite of low bus factor and toxicity.
The entire rest of the book provides examples. There’s even a direct comparison between initializing a scene in an OOP way vs a DOD way in the next chapter.
The long version is https://www.talospace.com/2020/01/another-amiga-you-dont-wan... but the tl;dr version is that the Amiga diehards who would buy this still want to use Amiga as their daily drivers, yet these are CPUs that a 15-year-old-plus Power Mac would mop the floor with. It's just handing their detractors another stick for a fresh beating. As a strictly retrocomputing solution that wouldn't be a problem, but that's not how these newer Amigas are positioned and by playing into the "Power is dead/underpowered" trope they're bad for the community as a whole.
I agree. Lets put it this way: I'll be surprised, but not shocked, if the assumption turns out false.
How about we make privacy laws that are easy for everyone to comply with. No moats, no exemptions.

We need strong personal privacy and the peeping tom corporations can offer value other than attempting to hack our wetware for profit.
> No offense, but what do you expect to be able to contribute to this situation as an outsider?

That's a pointless question.

I might want to understand what's going on to understand if it's even worth it to be contributing to the community at all.
> hire

Not hired, but voluntary.

> moderation team in the first place

Because a community of any larger size needs moderation (small communities tend to self moderate, larger communities without any form of moderation are at serve risk of becoming toxic and/or unwelcoming places).

> OSS version of HR

Oversimplified it's a Team which steps in when the Code of Conduct is (potentially) violated to moderate (i.e. resolve) the situation with the goal of keeping the community open, friendly and well coming.
Check out envfs, which automagically puts symlinks like that in place for you in a systematic way!

https://github.com/Mic92/envfs
The cookie banners are a good example for a perversion of the law and if companies will keep up the dark patterns and law-hacking, the EU will update the GDPR laws to also forbid dark pattern cookie banners and BS EULAs and all the other crap.
This won't work for the same reason it didn't work last time (see: Clipper chip): you can't outlaw math. Phil Zimmermann showed this exhaustively, why the EU wants to ram their head into the same stone I do not know but the end result is quite predictable.

Besides that, all they will end up with is more information on how to make chocolate cookies and who is sleeping with who, it won't tell them where the next terror attack is going to take place or who will do it.
And sometimes it is knowing what you don’t know that makes one a good developer.

Leet code interview question where I could just find the answer in 5 seconds with a google search, might actually be good interview questions if they just let me use a google search.

You still have to know what to look for.

Being good at word problems in math I think are the only place where “being a math whiz” is what it takes to be “able to code”. How you setup your equations to solve a simple algebraic word problem, can make solving the word problem super simple, or more complex.

My kids do Singapore math, and holy crap does it force you to think about other ways to approach solving problems, a valuable skill.
My breaks have mattered “occasionally” with a few companies but by and large what you say is correct and it barely made people scratch their chin more than a few seconds, and I've had breaks (intentionally) of anywhere between 2-4 months every couple of years.
And adding STOP and road SIGNAL signs to the maps please too. Apple Maps does it for a while.
No internet connection is required!

Q: You won more than US$2.5 million dollars over 75 episodes of “Jeopardy!” How did you do it?

Jennings: I’ve always considered myself to be a very curious person by nature. If I don’t know the answer to something, it’s like a mystery I need to solve; it spurs me on to find out more information. I read just about everything I can pick up, I watch a lot of movies and I also like to enter my questions into Encarta; it’s a great digital encyclopedia with the answers a mouse click away.

https://news.microsoft.com/2004/12/06/q-what-are-ken-jenning...
Ask HN: What life or career advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
USB-IF criticizes Type-C as the standard for charging devices in the EU [pdf]
Cool! I am glad that it might be possible and that this might even be able to help those who have old injuries then!

My wife has internal scarring and adhesion(filaments of scar tissues) from appendicitis. This causes complications and her intestines can get twisted instead of moving freely over each other like they normally would. I asked if the adhesion could be cut to allow free movement but unfortunately it's sort of like a hydra, you cut one and it will form more/new adhesions.
15ish years ago,I had a pen that could draw on special paper, and do interesting things.

Anoto (https://www.anoto.com) holds the IP on the proprietary pattern of dots used on the paper. Sure, you can make your own pattern, but Anoto's technology allows the pen to not only know where it is at on the paper (allowing it to capture pen strokes), but it also knows which piece of paper it is writing on...out of the gazillion unique sheets of paper the technology allows. So, cool stuff, but all depending on the good graces of one company. I used to work for one of their partners (now out of business), and a large part of our secret sauce was allowing one to print any document, but with the dot pattern printed under your Word doc/map/PDF. IOW, print anything and now you can write on it. Imagine printing your city map from MapGIS/ESRI, mark it up with (for example) fire hydrants, dock the pen. Now your GIS database is updated with fire hydrant locations, and you didn't have to carry a pricey PC or tablet into the field.

You can still buy the technology via LiveScribe, but I don't know how it is used in enterprise scenarios, if at all anymore.
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> I'd be interested in hearing from a down-voter on what their objection is.

Firstly, you alleged the mod team was engaging in a "power grab" by resigning immediately. Others have pointed out that is illogical. At best a resignation could earn them some level of sympathy, but it eliminates their current power along with any potential for them to acquire power in the future. If there is any way for the mod team's resignation to increase there power, you have not shared it.

Secondly, your claim seems to be baseless. Nobody in this HN thread has shared any details beyond what is in the resignation PR - much less enough to suggest a power grab. I consider baseless allegations like that to be harmful to the overall discussion. Until additional details regarding the conflict are made public, we should not encourage people to form character judgements on either party.
Ha! Then butter your pan! Best of luck to you.
Not sure what you're talking about. Which other phones allow to run unmodified desktop apps?
> Usually because it's not a simple matter of "this guy is a massive dick to everyone and contributes hardly anything."

No, but if someone is a massive dick to everyone, the quality and quantity of their contributions shouldn't matter. Being a dick is being a dick. Doesn't matter what they contribute.
While I believe this is one of the worst written articles I have read in a while, the point they are trying to make still stands. At what point do we consider this a failed experiment? I also think it's not really for the 'outsiders', people that have not bought the game, to determine. There is a playable game there, just not the fully featured promised delivery.

I personally have hopes for Star Citizen, as it would be something I would enjoy playing. I also have a lot of hope this does not become another E.T. for the industry.
Thanks for noticing my research. I appreciate it.

The casual graph is not from the research. It is very difficult to establish causality. It's reasonable to question any casual claims.

The waste taxonomy groups examples of wastes into categories. Team churn is an example of the knowledge loss waste.
As far as I can tell, Real ID does not require fingerprints, only digital color images of the face[0].

[0] https://www.biometricupdate.com/202101/real-id-law-quietly-p...
Unless you have a very desirable and unique skill set I think it's naive to think you're going to eventually win, they didn't build that gigantic HQ for it to remain empty and the waste of money that is your empty desk in the donut will be pinned on you not sitting at it not them for building it.

Not saying I agree with it, but I think this is one area of Apples culture that is going to go against the tide.
I have a feeling Apple would be happy to have mediocre engineers as long as they are willing to be in the small subset willing to commute daily, showing the ultimate personal sacrifice to their employer
> So contrary to the traditional employer/employees balance of power, there is also a employees/employees thing going on here.

We have that on my team at work too. About 10% of the people on the team prefer to work in office, but they always caveat that with, "but I don't want to come into an empty office." Meaning being, that want the rest of the team in the office too.
Dunkin Donuts also doesn't bake their donuts on premises (with a few exceptions). Surprise, you can get even cheaper (and shittier) donuts at the dollar store!
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Not sure that I'd call a PR a "whole big public announcement". Sure, it wound up here, but I don't think you can blame that on the mod team.
> sales

Most types of sales labor is a complete commodity. For every one high-powered b2b software sales person there are hundreds of folks selling commodity laptops to rural schools, pushing trim upgrades in car dealerships, cold-calling convenience store owners, etc. The high school politics in those sorts of sales shops are next-level.

> trading

Trading desks are often whole orgs, often with diffuse and difficult to measure contributions. Not so dissimilar from software shops, really. In fact, often literally are software shops!

> sports

I don't have first-hand experience with anything other than climbing and skiing, where "hussle" and getting along with everyone from sponsors to gym/resort owners to random community members is way more important than raw talent. At the end of the day you're basically an influencer. Instead of HR imposing rules to help with reputation management work, you're doing the HR reputation management job yourself.
Is GEB considered to be one? It's not exactly CS but can be related, plus it was very well written.
Can someone explain the legal structure under which the EU parliament can (according to this post) dictate laws for service providers inside all of the sovereign nations inside the EU? I would've thought that this was outside the scope of the EU -- is there some kind of "commerce clause" type loophole for this, or was power constitutionally transferred to the EU parliament at some point? If a member nation refused to obey an EU law (or whatever it is), what sort of punishment or sanction could be applied to them?
Middle shared turn lanes are quite safe though, though I don't have actual stats. It's very hard to hit someone in one because no one is driving more than 50 ft in one, and you're always coming to a stop to prepare for a turn. On busy streets they are usually a bit wider than a normal lane, and on 80 km/h highways, they are a full lane-and-a-half wide. On busier residential streets with lots of single family homes, they are a great alternative to two lanes in each direction, because they allow for separated bike lanes and left-turning cars don't block traffic flow. Many 50 km/h roads in my city have been converted like this.

You would never put one in a newly designed road, but when a road needs to be upgraded, they are a great solution.
GDPR also applies to the data you process about your prospective, current and former employees; the data you hold about your customers in order to fulfil your contracts with them; their feedback; etc. You can't avoid GDPR just by not tracking users; that does help you avoid a different law though (the ePrivacy directive's so-called "cookie rule".)
Loyalty doesn't build or design good products
> Wait, so unless I can come up with an exactly perfect list that flawlessly prioritizes every possible action that humanity could ever undertake, then I'm not allowed to have any opinion whatsoever about whether any given action is more or less important than anything else? By that logic, we should never choose to prioritize anything over anything else, and we should just select all actions by pure random chance.

No, we do the things people think are worth solving. In this case a team of scientists regarded a bill to be inconsistent with modern findings, hence they asked the government to keep up with modern science. The government, which was elected by the people, now did exactly that and made the bill more consistent with science.

And you still don't get it, no matter which problem you think is really important and really worth solving, someone will always be able to think of an even larger problem, which could be solved more efficiently. By this logic you're never going to do anything.

> Clearly they didn't drop everything, but they are introducing a new regulation which is going to require resources to implement and enforce. Is preventing 2 seconds of lobster suffering the best use of those resource? I guess if we just have to randomly choose actions and we can't say one action is better or worse than another unless we can list the relative priority of all possible actions, then it doesn't matter.

So what exactly are you asking for? Should those scientist, not work on the stuff they care about, but something more important instead? Should the government not listen to science? Or should the government not make their bills consistent? Should the government not introduce any bill at all for an issue, when someone can think of an even larger issue and who should that be?

> We already have a system. We engage in reasoned debate where people observe what costs an action will have, and demonstrate how many people will be helped by it and they argue for why those benefits outweigh the costs. If your best defense of a given course of action is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ people want weird stuff sometimes! Well, maybe that's not very convincing.

What costs does this action have and what would you have the people involved rather be doing?

Also did you even consider that you often can't anticipate the value of an action? Like the number of scientific findings alone, which first no one thought to be of any meaningful use and later revolutionized our lives in so many ways, is endless and none of them would have happened if you simply fund science by the most promising outcome.
How the heck did they get the fingerprint from that? Is there actually tech to enhance blurry images like that?
Tough times for Rust. The hype resp. honeymoon is over. Adoption is kind of plateauing - at least from my perspective.

I've invested in Rust and don't regret it so far. I love the language and the tooling.

However, I'm not sure if I'd choose Rust again.

Those politics are really disturbing, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306.
The projected warming has shifted from 5 degrees to 2.6 degrees. So obviously quite a bit has been done. For example Britain is down 50% from 1990 levels. It's not enough, but to say "very little has actually happened" is disingenuous.

IMO, the biggest thing that has been done is that renewable power and EV transportation have now become cost competitive. Both of those, especially the first, required a lot of government subsidization to get volumes up so that the learning effect could take effect.5
Persecution: hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.

What I read does not seem to fit this definition, but maybe to others it does.
Google, Amazon, and lots of other companies are in the same stance as Apple.

Deep down, I think the issue goes past working flexibility down to a multi-billion dollar financial question of what do these companies do with their real estate assets?

They've already built or bought gigantic office buildings and campuses across the US, so what do they do with them? Turn them into warehouses? Just let them sit at <50% capacity?

Idk what the answer is, but I'm sure lots of CFOs are probably busy with this, since it seems like it would be "paddling against the current" to counteract remote preferences.
Rare 'WristMac' Wearable from 1988 Could Sell for Up to $100k at Auction
in my short experience in software (7 years), it almost feels like there is more drama when a CoC mod team is involved.

without a mod team, you will still boot trolls or resolve a dispute. I think it's better to have a judge who can step in and resolve a situation than proactive police when it comes to OSS moderation.
C++ does also not have a compiler team nor any C++ day-to-day development team.
They avoid Linux, because it's GNU/Linux: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html. (FSF requires calling the OS GNU/Linux, not Linux, in order to get the endorsment.)
These are different, though. "Web" in the context of the world-wide web is being used metaphorically. "Crypto" is clipped from "cryptocurrency."
It's definitely interesting! I don't know if I've ever met someone who finished the book though. It's a skewed definition maybe, but I don't personally consider things well written if it requires inhuman dedication to finish. :D
This is what happens when you try and own a prefix, Facebook.
You will win though, just not at apple. Plenty of employers are fine with remote.
I like the trays. Back when I rebuilt mine from Pi 1Bs to 2Bs* I printed a vertical holder where the Pi itself was the slottable unit, but if I were to rebuild mine today I'd print some trays and use an existing box.

One thing that I did that might make sense for that setup was that my master has a Wi-Fi dongle and performs NAT/DHCP for the other Pis - this makes it easier to do a lot of stuff, including auto-configuration.

* https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster
Sure. I just don't want to get my hopes too high that I'll get what I want in that arena...
I'll give that the benefit of the doubt, but if that is the case then Rust is dead because if the core team can't be trusted to handle something like this then probably Rust as an experiment has failed, you won't get further corporates taking a gamble on Rust if this sort of cloud is hanging over the core team.
Aye - I wrote the front end, a loooong time ago now.
Amazon delivery vans scan nearby WiFi networks for SSIDs and tag that with geolocation. Amazon knows all about your home network.
Brex is moving away from Elixir to Kotlin
There is no substantiations of the claims of bad process by the mod team. There is nothing to be sad about except that the mod team has succeeded in creating noise with no signal.
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Nice example, arxiv papers (and any decent paper in general) contains an abstract to provide context about the contents of the papers as well as references to other papers cited within.

Arxiv papers might not be written for me now, but if I got interested in a paper (and had time to spare, of course) I would probably have most of the content I need to at least grasp the general content of the paper.

Thanks for the example, it fits perfectly.
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