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I'm a tech geek with 10+ years of software and data experience looking for a full time role with technical and product leadership challenges, whether it's building a brand new startup, or helping accelerate a global team. Open to software engineering and product development roles. I've worked and consulted for companies like the Los Angeles Times, VideoAmp, and many others.
however, in a hospital setting they are required, by government mandate.
Woman Who Sued Walmart over Shoplifting Arrest Is Awarded $2.1M
Thought this part was interesting:

> Throughout the ordeal, Ms. Nurse said, Walmart refused repeated requests by her lawyers for security camera footage from the store. She said that the video was critical and would have shown a store employee helping her to scan items at the checkout, some of which had to be manually entered because of a problem with the kiosk.

> “I believe that they’re so intimidating and so big,” Ms. Nurse said of Walmart. “They’ve grown to be so enormous that they feel like they can do anything to anybody. That’s not right. Shame on them.”

> During the civil trial, which lasted about three weeks, the judge criticized Walmart for the “intentional loss” of the security camera footage, according to court records. The judge, James T. Patterson, said that the court would advise the jury that the videotapes “were destroyed by the defendants with the intent” to deprive the plaintiff of the benefit of seeing them “and that the jury therefore is to presume that the content of the missing videos would be adverse” to the defendants.
Automating crop picking might be profitable for the growers, but it isn't going to unlock much productivity, it's currently done in a few weeks by a (relatively) small number of people.

Probably the same deal with quick serve. They already automate individual tasks as it makes sense, they aren't trying to automate the job.
Dan Abramov struggles to center a div
I'm really puzzled why anyone cares about this so passionately. I'm not a YouTube diehard but I use it pretty regularly to watch a handful of channels I like, maybe 2-3 hours per week watching videos on the site. Occasionally I'll search for how to video and click on whatever is in the top few results on Google. I've seen several posts now across different sites lamenting this change, but I've yet to see anything remotely persuasive that this is a bad thing. Sometimes I think it's just people being grumpy about any change at all, the way some people will grumble about a logo change despite it having no real consequence of how things work.

In my personal experience, I rarely even noticed the dislike count. Sometimes I'd wonder who the few unfortunate people were who disliked a video with about 1000x as many likes. It reminded me of the 1 star reviews you see on Amazon complaining about the postman for a product that otherwise has a stellar record. I just assume something is wrong with those peoples computers which made their video glitch out or something. I don't really trust negative feedback that much when it is paired with an overwhelming amount of positive feedback for the same thing. And I don't think I ever encountered a video with anywhere near the number of dislikes as likes, let alone more dislikes. I personally have never disliked a video. If I'm watching something new, I'll just watch part of the video myself, and decide if I want to watch the rest or click away to something else.

When I heard the announcement of removing the count as an effort to combat brigading, it made a lot of sense to me. I've seen the growth of negativity across the internet in the last few years. People are actually addicted to outrage these days, so anything that can help eliminate that seems like a good idea to me. The fact they kept the button there and still show the count to the uploader seems like they've at least tried to appease the diehards who appreciate having that dislike button - pretty fair if you ask me.

You may challenge the assumption that only diehards care about this, but I've just looked at a few videos in my feed to see the number of likes and it's abysmal. 40k likes for a video with 4M views. 18k likes for a video with 800k views. They're all like that. The like/dislike metric just doesn't have much engagement. While you predict dire consequences for YouTubes future and panic among their employees, I am thinking that casual users probably have not even noticed at all.
LEGO has created a truly immutable blockchain.
What was the item?
I recently had to package a machine learning Jupyter notebook created by a very smart person, albeit a scientist, not a developer. Getting the tool somehow into production, making it reproducible, testable, and maintainable, has proven to be a major headache.
Before, I only casually dabbled in the python world, but this was the first time I had to care about packaging, dependencies, CI and the like. Turns out, as TFA said, nobody knows how to package python apps right. For what it’s worth, I wasn’t even able to find some kind of best practice to manage friggin dependencies. There’s like a myriad of package managers, all of them work differently, and nobody seemed to had something like redistributing an app to other people on their mind. Coming from PHP, JavaScript and Go, this was utterly ridiculous to me.
Go ahead, tell me I got it all wrong and it’s really easy using tool Xyz, but if a developer with some experience under their belt isn’t able to figure this out in a few days, things are just broken.
"Here in germany have free speech, except for denying the holocaust"

Well, technically, there are also a lot of other things you cannot say (like with most states).

Insults, false accusations, hate speech, riot speeches etc.

But interestingly we still also have a blasphemy law, even though it is very soft now, from what it used to be.
I've noticed that if someones impression of Blender is pre-2.8, they see it more akin to GIMP compared to Photoshop. Post 2.8, especially with a lot of digital artists I know, are very enthusiastic about the tool.
It might have been standard on web pages...
But there was a reason green screens and especially amber/yellow displays were popular long after color displays came out...

I still find amber on black one of the easiest color schemes to read.

edit: s/on/one/
LEGO has created a truly immutable blockchain :)
> he called himself Legoheld and then he tried to trademark that name

can you give any citation for that? Because i can find zero sources for that claim. Sources for the conflict around the logo design are ample, see his filing for the logo (1) and the one from the corporation (2). I can find no filing for your claim about the name in the official database and no media reports supporting it anywhere, only that in 2013, years before the first conflict with the corporation, his brand was already established as "Held der Steine".(3)

1: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/3020182...
2: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ...
3: https://www.welt.de/regionales/frankfurt/article121164920/Ve...

> if his trademark claim had succeeded, Lego would have lost theirs.

no. The marks would be seen as reasonably different. As others have noted the corporations ability to sue in similar cases might be reduced if they create a history of tolerating such "reasonably different" marks, but they would not have lost their design trademark, especially because theirs is a 3D design mark and his was word+logo mark and they are filed for different things. I personally think his mark would have had little to no effect on theirs and he might have had an actual chance of winning in court, albeit a phyrric victory. He cancelled his filing and filed the same name with a different image.

For the whole "invalidating of design patents" there is a far more interesting case that has nothing to do with him: Delta Sport Handelskontor GmbH vs LEGO A/S where the former tried to have EU design patent 001664368-0006 invalidated so they can print and sell the exact same plastic piece under the PLAYTIVE® brand on the market. They lost in court during appeal.
Hard disagree that most of these are metaphors in actual use. They’re more like mnemonics, arbitrary names for highly abstract concepts that are only incidentally borrowed from ordinary languages.

For example, I never think of a physical dictionary when using the data structure. Much less a heap or a tree (we even draw those with the root at the top!). And the stuff in the article about database queries being “supplications” is just ridiculous. It’s again an abstract idea. No idea of a the social relationship between humans ever enters the picture in any way, metaphoric or otherwise.

What’s hard about programming isn’t the names, it’s learning the concepts. At least in my opinion.
I don't understand why you are getting down voted. You are dead on.

My wife worked with geriatrics. She directly saw the impact of having friendly people around the elderly. Even if you aren't visited by your family, any visitors can help. The pandemic made this especially difficult. My wife worked to overcome this: she partnered with a local "sniff" (think: old people left the hospital, but they need some help before they go home, so they go to an old-people hotel) to have fun events where people from our church would visit the elderly and just have fun.

Please visit the old people in your life.
My experience is somewhat similar to yours minus the call related stuff having used a secondary iPhone for work.

I find a lot of things that Apple does infuriating as a user (I.e. locking an apple account to an iPhone [seriously, how do I login if I ever lose that device?], no CarPlay without Siri, etc...). But, they clearly don't care and they're one of the most valuable tech companies so what do I know?

That being said, I realize that a lot of people won't care about power features, options, or customizability. And, if I had to recommend someone with little tech experience (ie parents or grandparents) the iPhone mini would be my recommendation unless they were seeking out something specific.
The limitations of iOS in cases like these can be a positive thing sometimes.
I gotchu fam: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

Note: this bundles external resources like images, css and scripts inside the file
I think in china you could make one for a lot less than a million dollars. They have some pretty good electronic fabrication facilities there.
React is like 35 KB gzipped. Pretty huge in terms of JavaScript bundle size, but still physically very very small!
The computer also does not take time limits into consideration. If the players could take as much time as they wanted, they might have been closer to the perfect match.

Maybe that would be a fun concept. A game where the players would start with 1 year on the clock?
Gotham is focussed on entertaining the masses and aims his content for folks below 1500. If you are closer to 1800-2000, you aren't going to enjoy GothamChess content much.
My work computer can’t take video calls. It is better that way.

I have an iPad for that.
>What do you mean by this? ...

Configuration management is not a solved problem. I have extensive experience with Puppet and Ansible and used to manage a fleet of thousands. and I can say frankly they suck.

>Livepatching has been a thing on Linux for close to a decade now

Yet nobody does it because the option isn't there. To get livepatching on Ubuntu you've got to go via Canonical and pay for their livepatching suite.

>mitigating CPU flaws

What I actually meant by this is that the design of the kernels we have rely too much on processes theoretically being isolated, even though we now know they aren't. Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer, and so on completely break the foundations of every kernel. How can we trust that our browser isn't going to read our disk encryption password from memory? We can't. We built everything with the assumption that can't happen.
What are those "geometric proofs"? I've never seen this term before. Geometry is really just numbers in disguise, e.g. a circle is really numbers that define its center and its radius, and sometimes those numbers are defined implicitly, e.g. when its a highly complex curve that's not reducible to simple circles and lines. In this sense, all proofs are about symbols and numbers, geometry is only there to guide our intuition.
+1 Amazon has always been a "lower margin" business. One argument for why and how AWS beat all the tech vendors to the punch was that everyone else had businesses build on higher margins (Google, MSFT, Oracle, VMware, etc). Now that AWS delivers most of Amazon's current profit, it will be interesting to see if Jassy asks for more margin out of them or tries to find it in other parts of the business.
"Are your systems going to scan every item that gets uploaded and then erase my account and all my files if one PDF comes up as having a current copyright issue?"

This is who we are:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

We were the first provider to publish a Warrant Canary and it appears we're one of the few that still update it.

So, no.

No, we do not scan accounts for any purpose whatsoever.

Please review our extremely short and simple privacy policy:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/privacy.html

... and do be in touch about the HN readers discount.

EDIT: rsync.net has, in the past, donated a lot of resources to Jason Scott and Team Archive for archival purposes just like you are describing. I am also, personally, a sustaining donor of Internet Archive. All of this to say: I am very interested in this archival work you are doing and would like to help support it - please do be in touch ...
Every citizen is supposed to be given an SSN.
I can believe that a foreign hacking group, who can zeroclick the most widely used personal device to obey a remote control center, who sells this service to totalitarian regimes and to corrupt governments, has exfiltrated as much data as they can. They are careful enough to cover their tracks as part of the service.

What I cannot believe is you dismiss concern over ongoing security risks, however exagerated, by suggesting a head of state might have been replaced by an android. Please don't troll.
Do you contribute code to rclone?
Redwood JavaScript v1.0.0-RC.2
Why is lichess so good? Just because it’s free?
My bet is that people will start posting a comment saying "upvote this comment if you want to downvote", the comment will rank first and it will be as if you have a public dislike count
Yup. I believe it.

Consider, also: not all old people are mobile enough to leave their home (or even bed!). They need friends and happy people.

If you work with elderly, please be friendly. If you know elderly, please be friendly to them.
This is a worrying trend across the board. Everything has to be equal and politically correct, because if not then it has to be racism or something else evil.
It’s not moot. Choose devices with FLOSS like https://pine64.org/pinenote.
A one-pager for AWS announcements at re:Invent 2021
It is.
Another good alternative is lftp.
This is really cool from an engineering perspective, but there was a sort of uncanny valley vibe that makes me fear for the psychological health of someone listening to this all night.
Yeah Judit/Anish and Judit/Surya combos have been amazing for the 6 matches so far. It helps that Judit is a Catalan player and Magnus is choosing her opening.
I wonder if it's one of these?

"The [57mm] 6-pounder first saw action in May 1942 at the Battle of Gazala. It made an immediate impact on the battlefield as it was able to penetrate any enemy tank then in service."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_6-pounder
Etsy has been moving into this space.
Hacker news has a minimum karma requirement for downvoting; you can't just create an account (or a dozen accounts) and start downvoting something you don't like, or to harass someone with serial downvotes. You must first attract a certain number of upvotes for your comments and submissions.

That fixes many of the abuse problems with downvotes.

HN situations are also monitored by the site operators themselves, who intervene. YT is too vastly big for that.
These look awesome! I am just getting into cycling but have yet to invest in a bike computer. Currently use the Apple Watch to track everything. Do you know If you can speed/distance/heart rate from the Apple Watch? If so, it would be an instant purchase.
Well, these are not changes yet, these are intentions (though good ones). Let's see what they can achieve, and whether they will stick to their promises when confronting tough problems.
RedwoodJS v1.0.0-RC.2
Which is frankly still a wild concept to me because when I was of prime YouTube-binging age, the maximum length of a video was 10 minutes.
>>There also seems to be some scientific evidence that dark on light text is generally easier on the eyes than light on dark text: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/15152.

I've seen this idea mentioned before, and while I don't know for 'average user' for my near sighted old butt, generally working in a fairly dark room...
'Dark themes' are much easier for me to work with for long periods.

I like 'medium' contrast (ambers, yellows, greys, greens) on a dark background the best.
And who are the 0.1% going to sell the output of their robot labour to if everyone else is in ghettos?

Anyway, I’d hope in such a scenario some smart underdogs would illegally repurpose some robotics to create their own abundance. Might make a good TV show.
> But the government doesn't get involved at the outset of new contracts between businesses.

Sure it does, depending on what the contract is about, even between individuals -- at least in most countries: A sale of real estate isn't really done until the deed is properly registered with the appropriate authorities. (I'm guessing this goes even for [at least most of] the otherwise so often wildly different USA.)

Marriage works the exact same way (again, at least in most of the world), and for the exact same reason(s): It only comes into force once properly registered, because it affects not only the parties and the relationship between them, but their relationship to government and the rest of society. For married people, taxation may change if the authorities know they're married; for property owners, they're the ones that can have others arrested for trespassing instead of themselves being arrested for it if the authorities know they're the owner.

That's pretty much how it has to work, otherwise it can't work at all. Isn't that rather obvious?
Likes and dislikes are a horrible way to judge a video, ime. I don't know who liked or disliked a video or for what reasons. A like by someone may be a good reason for me to watch the video where a like by someone else might be an excellent reason not to watch it. Similar for dislikes. Of the two, I guess I prefer likes. People who dislike videos are usually upset about something specific, often things I don't really care much about. People who like something generally actually like it, as far as I've seen.

When I'm considering whether I might like to watch a video, I do the unthinkable and just give it a go for a few minutes if it looks like it might be interesting or entertaining. I don't really need aggregated opinions from random people on the internet to help me make my decision on whether I like it or not. I couldn't, for example, tell you if I'm currently seeing dislikes on videos even though I've watched a fair few of them recently.
https://hypertele.fi/temp/gin3r0fe2rb9feqb9ufe90iun.png

You are correct, there's very little pure black and white in the photo. Only a handful of pixels.
Its just a relative number. After getting to your stable rating, you don't care about the actual number, you are just focussed on improvement.

Lichess is overall better in my opinion, better & slicker product, free analysis, opening explorer etc. Chess.com only leads in video content imo.
Sounds like he's not charging enough
Yeah... my eBay account is very old (maybe 1998 vintage?), and I almost never use it anymore.

But I have a fondness for out of print, obscure tabletop RPGs, and eBay is probably the only market I know of for that, outside of knowing a guy who knows a guy.

Losing access to eBay would be annoying. Not world-ending, because perspective. But annoying.
Do any of these content creators posting to other non-YT sites mention the availability of these sites in their YT videos?

Yes. EEVblog mentions Odysee all the time, and many many channels mention Nebula when shilling Curiosity Stream. They tend to tread lightly on YT itself because of the reverse of the prisoner's dilemma.
I only wanted to let you know what the argument was.
Yeah at this point I assume my SSN is more of a UID username that isn't just fully-public, but I need to monitor credit and be pro-active about it, rather than some secret value.
US law requires your bank to collect and verify your identity and crosscheck against a series of loste. It is part of the Patriot Act post 9/11. Unfortunately for most banks this means that they require an SSN. Technically an ID or ITIN should suffice.
FWIW I would encourage you to start by seeing if you can find an answer to your first question.

As a general tip over recent years there has been a growth in "standard" ways that a project can communicate tasks/bugs/issues that are particularly well suited for people to start their involvement with a Free/Open Source project by highlighting ways someone can get involved as new contributor.
Where did you get that from? I wrote two specific criticisms which are quite different from your characterizations, maybe you should reread the comment?
What a badly written piece. It creates a narrative simply by juxtaposing unrelated and inaccurate facts in the same paragraph. For example, Covid tracking or apps utilize phones location services, same ones that pinpoint phone location for road navigation. These apps were tried in many countries and found mostly ineffective and intrusive. This has nothing to do with phone hacking, NSO etc. Talking about Covid and Pegasus in the same paragraph without additional context just doesn't make sense. Mentioning Bennett and NSO CEO together might try to create some link that just isn't there either.
Contrary to the picture painted in the article, most Israeli cyber companies, including most unicorns in this space, are dealing with defensive cyber (intrusion detection/prevention, anti-malware etc).
The IDF unit associated with cyber is 8200. Unit 81 mostly creates new hardware/electronics.
The Israeli officer who committed suicide while incarcerated wasn't an Israeli Snowden. The unofficial version/rumor is that he intended to start an
unsanctioned cyber attack that would have exposed some secret capabilities. And so on.
Any chance Privacy could accept ITINs as well?

I've tried putting mine in, but it says (rightly) that it's an invalid SSN.
You can do this sort of thing in ITA Matrix, it still takes a lot of work to craft the itinerary and learn the syntax, but I have used it to do exactly what you suggest, and found cheap 36 hour bonus stayovers.