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> I think you'll find that unions are... whatever you and your colleagues want them to be

This is not a realistic model at all. The kind of people who tend to accumulate power in unions, especially more white collar unions, do not tend to be the same kind of person or have the same personal or political goals as the people they nominally represent.

Fledgeling tech unions in particular seem terrible here; I don't get the sense that they represent my interests as a tech worker at all, but rather that they come with a ton of political baggage and they only want my membership as a pretense for demanding random crap that I don't care about and doesn't benefit me.

For example, the (unpopular) Alphabet Union "aims to stop Google from allowing its social media platforms such as YouTube to function as a hub for right-wing extremism and white supremacy". It has nothing to do with improving the material working conditions of union members.
Nope. I'd much rather unionize for better wages, better conditions (that includes this topic), collective bargaining, and to wrench some of the power back to the people doing the actual work. Not every software developer is making six figures working for FAANG, some of them have to put up with some awful conditions, and the whole "just get another job, it's not that difficult" attitude is a bubble that a lot of HN lives in.

In short, I want democracy to extend to the workplace. The line we've drawn is artificial and one-sided.
I expect my boss to be monitoring me. I expect him to have reports of what I'm doing, what I'm working on, and who I'm talking to.

All of those can be collected by talking to me, and few can be automated from the chat and email programs I use for company activities. The tooling they're talking about in this article is a whole other level - surreptitious screenshots and logs of which programs are open. Camera shots without warning.

My boss should know what my work-product is like and what my coworkers and customers think of my performance. They should expect me to be presentable with a moments notice while I'm on the clock, but I can do that while I'm sitting on my couch in my underwear.

Quite frankly, the ability to remotely trigger a camera without warning is a nightmare - for the employers. It's a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. Someone will time their shots (or simply take one a second and more when they see something salacious), and it will leak. There's no business need for these tools and we should make clear in our reactions no jury would question large judgements in harassment suits for use of this software.
While I agree, Id also argue virtually every posters opinion on HN about design of the Windows CP is useless. Most of us are power users and it we are not power users we are incredibly opinionated about some UX stuff.
Omicron spreads 70x faster in bronchus but slower in lungs
If you work for an employer that has rolled some monitoring service out, or is considering it, and you are in a place of power or privilege to influence that decision: do so. Resist the temptation. Just say no.

I've yet to hear a legitimate argument for monitoring employees against their will. If there's a security concern, patch it another way. There's always another way.
What can't they be trusted to do? Certainly you can trust MS to serve their customers, and if you're a customer, well...
Something that gets lost in the US is that the Union is made up of members. Many Americans appear to have the idea that the Union is the HR department for the employees. As a result, members often stop attending meetings, advocating for policies, etc. The unions devolve into a corrupt body because the lax democratic oversight allows a populist leader to provide just enough bread and circus to member while lining his or her own pocket.
I don't think he is healthy just because of eating meat. He is healthy because of a number of factors.

1. He ate good quality food, that includes both meat and vegetables that he grew for consumption.
2. Farming is hard work so he physically quite fit. In fact even at this advanced age he still rides bike around.
3. Portion control: He never eats more than he needs.
4. He is quite stoic and usually doesn't give shit in the face of adversity.

It's important to eat a lot of vegetables along with meat. I don't think eating anything in excess is good for health.

>> Also, keep in mind that animal protein is not necessarily meat, meat would be a subset of animal protein..

Yes, I understand what animal protein means. I also understand that you're possibly a vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for 13 years but I'd to start eating meat again for personal reasons. I think I feel a lot healthier with a meat based diet. Also, I didn't insinuate that vegetarianism is less healthy. I only reported by observation in my family circle. Most of the people who're eating a pure vegetarian diet have serious ailments. And most people who grew up eating meat are comparatively healthier.

Although, in the current times I don't think it matters much. Most of the food produced are full of toxic shit. And it could be the reason for their ailments not just meat or vegetarian diet. Just to clarify, my family is in India. The quality of food has gone down drastically in the recent years.
Just because you think the cost of voting for small extremist parties should be high doesn't mean you're in favor of absolutist majority rule?

+ liberal democracies have (at least in theory) unalienable basic rights that can't be taken away, even by majority. Eg just because a 90+% majority votes to revoke citizenship from all muslims that doesn't mean that it will go through.
It incentivizes the welfare-maximizing result. I don’t have a short “intuitive” explanation of why handy but the math is covered in section 8.3 of Public Choice III (should be easy to get in college libraries, pdf copies can be found online if needed).
Fair; I should have been more explicit - your code can't fall into spaghetti (since the services are so small). Of course, you're just moving that complexity into the infrastructure, where, yeah, you still have the same complexity and the same pressures.
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same authors and their previous paper about magnetized cockroaches

https://www.quantumlah.org/about/highlight/2019-09-cockroach...

>The award was presented for the paper “In-vivo biomagnetic characterisation of the American cockroach", published in Scientific Reports in March 2018 by Rainer and five collaborators
OP mentioned “creditors” and 2nd statement is about “creditors”.
My point wasn't that any writing tool is better than the other; I was expanding in the GP comment's observation that it very much does affect writing (as you also seem to agree).

And my remark was specifically that I wouldn't find it enjoyable to write that long comment with a pen. Maybe it'd be better for it, maybe worse, maybe I'd go and play piano instead; the point is, it'd be very different.
Which isn't unprecedented, and lots of very widely used languages use other brackets for array literals or other array literal syntax. Even in languages which use brackets that way, they're often overloaded (see both TypeScript and JavaScript, but also JSDoc type annotations).
Omicron does not grow “70 times faster” (bad math alert)
All we have so far is this press release: https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection

If the numbers in the graph are total growth in 24 hours, then omicron=10000 & delta=~140.

Calculate log(10000)/log(10000/70) = 1.86

Ie, omicron grows 1.86 times as fast as delta, or 86% faster.

That's significant, but 1.86 is a whole lot smaller than 70.

(If the numbers in the graph are something else, then we actually can't tell what the ratio is.)
What is a Bitcoin worth?
The market cap of Ethereum is a worthless estimate of value. Ethereum has no backstop for value, unlike a casino or a company. Microsoft trading at $300 will never go to $0.01, there are enough raw assets at play to keep Microsoft worth $1. But Ethereum can go to $.01 there are no fundamental reasons for it. So, the price is purely speculative, so you can in no way whatsoever compute the total value of Ethereum as marginal price * number of Eth out there
Vaguely off topic, but I plug my devices into my mac to charge and make local backups. I guess theoretically backing up locally works over wifi (it's an option, anyway), but I've not once had it succeed. I just tried it on two devices for the sake of this comment and both failed.
Look to Jesus. What is going on can’t be defused by purely physical responses. There are deeper things at play.
If you care enough to try, then try. No one else can make the decision for you, and naturally asking here will just get a million replies from people, who have or have not, and none of them are you.

Clearly there are billions of people happy with Windows, but many millions are happy with Linux, so clearly that works (for some folk anyway).

So if you care enough to try then go for it. It's probably worth understanding your own goals (what are you looking for?) and then make up your own mind.
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What's most intriguing is that it lends support to Roger Penrose's theories of the role of quantum mechanics in the brain. Here's a nice article: https://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-wh...

And if that's true, then our notions of AI are seriously underestimated. (Which is what biologist Brian J Ford has been saying for a long time...)

Quantum mechanics rocked the physics world a century ago, perhaps now it will do the same to biology and computer science...?
In a single-winner election, why would you think that? The "minority extremist parties" are going to lose anyway, so why not try to let people vote more honestly, so that they don't need to strategize? For example, I don't want people who naively vote Green to end up wasting their vote just because they don't know how the voting system works.
That guy, a vishal garg, who fired 900 employees, domestically and internationally --most of them were not developers/programmers, etc. Just run of the mill white collar workers --who presumably he had statistics on given he mentioned many "only worked two hours while claiming eight". So... like everyone who works using a computer then would have to be unionized?
don't feel too bad. There are a lot of CEOs that get $20M salaries for doing nothing. If the company succeeds due to market conditions they are seen as heroes- if the company fails for market conditions they are seen as losers. They may have some impact but mostly its luck.
I suspect that you and I disagree on the politics, but it sounds to me that the unions haven't found the right issue yet that is broadly appealing enough. This issue of surveillance might be one.
I prefer the "God mode" one, on all versions of Windows.
In a society dominated by signalling, few want to risk looking like they don't know what they are doing. They fear people will mistake humility for incompetence
If there wasn't a search function, I'd absolutely never figure out where anything is in there in Windows 10. It's an absolute mess.
You can install different browsers and set them as defaults but all of the browsers on iOS must use webkit.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...
I bought it before I tried; I have "Show this iPhone when on WiFi" checked in Finder / Locations / myiphone, but alas - my iphone does not show up in the menu. My Apple Watch showed up in the menu for a few minutes (with no battery level) and then disappeared. I guess I'll try restarting each device to see if that helps.
160kWh is twenty 8 hour days at 100% efficiency. That will almost never be worth it. I guess that’s the end of net energy metering in California.

According to an article about the legality of the fee linked elsewhere in this thread, customers can still opt out of NEM, and just waste the excess electricity generation.

That will essentially always be the right financial decision.

It would actually be less hostile towards solar installs if they simply paid $0 for excess energy, and didn’t introduce the fee.
The key differentiator is improving engagement by adding interactivity. It's an interactive FAQ presented in a chatbot fashion. There are other use cases as well.
There can be no doubt to the dedication and bravery of the men in that battle, but it would be incomplete to leave out the crucial role of the proximity fuze.

https://www.historynet.com/proximity-fuze.htm

In the words of U.S. Army General George S. Patton: "The new shell with the funny fuze is devastating. ... I think that when all armies get this shell, we will have to devise some new method of warfare. I am glad you all thought of it first."
> It allows you to give more support to your preferred outcome.

Probably unpopular to say here but...distracting nonsense.

The preferred outcome?

Let's start with an end to thumb on the scale gerrymandering.

Then how compaigns are financed, and post-term compensation.

Congress is effectively allowed to practice insider trading.

A Fourth Estate that lacks substance to the point of undermining democracy.

The Media's shameless commitment to a two party system. A commitment so polarized that divisiveness is a natural and expected byproduct.

That two party system, effectively a cartel, corners the mrket and intentionally limits choice. They get their preferred outcome. Voters get the illusion of impact.

Finally, let's not forget the excessive amount of tax dollars that finances The MIC.
Well, (a) management lies but it's possible and (b) bigger unions are better!
Not peer reviewed. Could mean it’s faster to spread but gives you time to build resistance before severely impacting your lungs.
It's on my todo list - thanks for stopping by the website!
Look if all companies are bad then everyone in the salaried class is living a miserable existence, which isn't true. There are lots of places (with proper compensation) that will appreciate the skills you have right now and your capacity to acquire more.

Lots of things you can do to improve your chances of getting an offer. Think like an IT pro and don't shoehorn yourself in this Neoxam/Filenet space. Get AWS/Azure certs to show people that you have some understanding of the subject matter and are keeping your skillset current. You will get something better.
I used to be my company's union rep when I worked in Norway. I had zero need to fight for anything my coworkers did not want. Actually, I was very happy to do nothing until my coworkers complained and asked me to talk to management.

Not all unions are the same, if you think those others are bad you can make your own.
I’ve been reading Dave Farley’s new book, “Modern Software Engineering” He has a few rants related to GitFlow vs Trunk development. Many of his points agree with OP in that merging is a big pain point in GitFlow.

I’ve both used strategies on many different projects. Regardless of the development strategy I’ve seen nasty merge parties. The way to avoid those merges is to reduce your batch size and keep your un-integrated changes to a narrow scope.

If you need to make changes out side of that scope. Stash your work; create a new branch; make the change; let your teammates know what you did; before going back to your other branch. You can then integrate that fix back to your local copy. But the important thing is that your team mates can also sync that one off change to their local copy too.

The worse thing is when two developers find the same bug and fix it simultaneously in different commits. Trunk-based and GitFlow both have this problem. Stick to the scope of work that was coordinated in your standup meeting for the day and let your coworkers know if you need to go outside of that scope. Be conscientious.

(Complete aside: Try to do trunk based development in a Perforce code base and you will learn a lot about reducing your the batch size of your commits and communicating the scope of code changes. Perforce requires you to be team oriented when developing)
I’m a remote team manager and I’ve considered putting tracking software on low performers computers, and have not gone through with it yet. I’m super happy to put in the time to coach someone who is trying to make it work but if they’re putting in 2 hrs/day on a remote job and not making the cut it’s not worth my effort to try to coach them out of that.
I'm guessing this is a reference to "MIME, someday, maybe" - http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
Can you say salary too?
"84 American prisoners were summarily killed by German Waffen SS in the largest mass execution of the war." I think they meant largest of American soldiers.
You mean like https://pkg.go.dev/io/fs#File?
please exclude me from your generalisations
Maybe you can elaborate? 100%? I’ve worked remotely for 3 companies over the past decade as an SWE. I’ve got admin access to my workstation, hardware usually comes from the office or new in a box shipped to the door, nothing out of the ordinary.

I don’t think monitoring is even remotely the norm, but I can see how it could be. I recall MS Teams has some kind of “productivity” monitor that could definitely be abused and eventually normalized.

The companies I’ve worked remote for can generally tell if you’re slacking off by whether or not you get shit done. No need (or time) for monitoring nonsense.
I'm shocked anyone has ever accepted any of that as reasonable. At a minimum a contract should specify a protocol for reconvening and renegotiating terms. Anyone coming to me with a "these terms can be changed at any time" is told to get packing and come back when they want to do business.
That demo looks very demo, as in works only in super special narrow circumstances.
EDIT: ha, only the blurry chameleon is generated by their tech, diorama is IRL Meatspace prop with good old mechanical actuator. Its a trick.

I was expecting a story on https://voxon.co. Dude who started writing Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D etc) while still in high school works for them https://voxon.co/behind-scenes-voxon-chief-computer-scientis...
the point is, Australians in particular are very very quick to hype their system

and they have a fairly good understanding of the alleged benefits of their system

and they get told this over and over throughout their schooling and by the electoral commission

but not once have I ever seen any Australian ask themselves if the alleged benefits of their systems are really true in the first place, and even if they are, what the inescapable downsides of their system are

it doesn't even occur to them, the question doesn't even make sense to them

as for this quadratic one,

try the online demo they made at

https://www.economist.com/interactives/2021/12/18/quadratic-...

it's cool but tbh I would rather have infinite points to spend, at which point you might as well have binary endorse / oppose votes (maybe with an added option abstain)

point being that I don't think the intensity of my endorsement of policies to combat climate change should cost anything for my equally intense endorsement of paying reparations for colonialism - I consider both incredibly important and essential policies
It’s been making some tqdm lately
Non-partisan primaries in the inner Bay Area are usually Dem vs. Dem. For all intents and purposes they are effectively partisan (ignoring the bad blood between “moderate” Dems and self-styled “progressives”), with Republicans relegated as essentially a distant third party.
What bothers me about him is how i see his behavior becoming a norm in places that are not startups. My managers are some little version of him but luckily the company has in place some standards of behavior.
The creator of Elixir was on the Rails core team and involved in the Ruby community, even for a little while after Elixir was released (until about the time Phoenix came around). The Ruby community is where Elixir gained a big chunk of its initial attention from.
This problem flies in the face of their customer-centric view.
"Unfortunately, there was a time when compiler writers considered it important to get most programs right but not necessarily all programs. When the programmer used some legal features in unusual ways, the compiler might implement an incorrect version of the program. This gave optimizing compilers a bad name."

The first optimizing C compiler for DOS (using data flow analysis) was released as Datalight Optimum-C in the 1980s.

One of the programming magazines at the time decided to do a compiler roundup and prepared a number of benchmark programs. Optimum-C did incredibly well on them. The article writer did some investigating and concluded that Optimum-C cheated by deleting the benchmark code. We received a disastrous review.

The problem, though, was the benchmarks would do things like:

a = b + c;
a = b + c;
...

and the compiler correctly eliminated the dead assignments, and hence most of the benchmark. The other compiler vendors weren't fooled, however, and quickly added data flow analysis to their compilers, and the benchmark code was forced to change.

But that review hurt us badly. The author at least could have contacted us over the unusual results.
I actually had this exact talk with my manager pre-emptively about a month ago. I told him that I wouldn't quit that very day, but that I'd fight the hell out of it and immediately look for another job and immediately jump at the first employer who DOESN'T do this.

Shots fired: you want to hang on to talent, you fucking respect them, AND their rights.
This seems like like it would only work in a country like Japan where the mail carrier would be on time. What if you're not home when they arrive? In the US they'd give you a 4 hour window and then show up 2 hours after the end of it.
You want to monitor me in my home? Then you fucking PAY. MY. RENT.
> But, when you have the opportunity to work under an excellent CEO or CTO you will learn that they do bring 10x or even 100x the value you bring to the team.

The same can be told about OP who claimed that they work 5-10 hours a week but their performance reviews have consistently ranged from mediocre to great. The point is, the hours you work is not an indicator for the value you bring to the team.
Am I the only one who actually liked what M$ was doing with Windows 8?
I wonder if this is flakey over a mesh network like eero?
That you would consider this. Maybe you are the problem?
It is people like you that drive high earners away from unions. Single issue unionization is a lot more important for upper middle class. If you cannot get enough high income workers to buy-in, then your plan is dead on arrival. Bernie will be proud.

Not everyone cares about the social justice issue du jour, most people just want more money. Ultimately, any union plan must show clear benefits and right now if you are earning more than 6 figures, unions are nothing but a waste of time and money. You have yet to demonstrate that an upper class union can go beyond crabs in a bucket gatekeeping.
Then just find someone better? I kinda doubt monitoring low performers will suddenly turn them into high performers
Many of those problems stem from our adoption of a shitty voting system that entrenches the existing parties. A different voting system could allow for making choices that arent possible in the existing winner-takes-all model