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One of the problems with supermajorities is that you give greater weight to status quo.

With supermajorities required, few countries would ever get rid of slavery or the death penalty, give voting rights to women etc.

A lot of the grandfathered defaults aren't worth a supermajority to overturn.
I'm just arguing because I feel like talking to someone.

But perhaps it's okay for this one distro to have an obsession with visual design? Maybe your anger should be at the distros that do all the things you want but are too ugly to use?
Hmmm I did not know this, but I am also not very surprised really. There are so many customizations they've made in post versions though that I imagine this probably isn't the first time they did not offer an upgrade path.

They are also very slow in supporting the latest LTS builds. I think people should move on to something like Ubuntu Budgie when they want a simple and clean experience for themselves or others.

Ubuntu Budgie keeps their LTS and interim builds in sync very well with upstream Ubuntu and upstream Budgie & I have never seen fossfreedom shoot down a PR that makes sense. He's often encouraged others to contribute to the distro in very healthy and normal ways.
This is a tricky one, and I can't really fault an interviewee if it's a 30 minute phone screen. Cafes can be just as bad as out on the street for noise, most candidates won't be comfortable getting a meeting room in their office, and finding space to have a quiet call for just 30 minutes can be really difficult.
I've always liked Rec Room. It was one of my early favourite VR activities. Paintball and the Quests are best in class.

I've not got much interest in the creation tools but I appreciate others are. More polished 1st party content is of greater interest.

But I have to mention the elephant in the room. Most people who avoid Rec Room avoid it because of the "squeakers" - the kids and early-teens that dominate public spaces and hurt ones ears continually.

If you don't find a way to separate kids from adults, then you'll just be a platform for kids for the most part.
I am looking for java library which logs metadata about any egress call (HTTP or others) from JVM. Do we have any?
> It‘s a CDN

Yes, the GDPR has rules that very clearly apply to CDNs, hosting providers, and etc.

What is new is that Akamai breaks those rules. I don't know the situation of the other ones you cite.
I remember Fry's used to have cops visiting daily to pick up the shoplifters they had detained. I think policies tended to be more along the lines of try to detain them, but if they become dangerous to let them go.

Just watching a thief pocket something and walk out the door without saying a word to them seems nuts. I still have difficulty believing this happens in most of the country, apart from urban areas. Certainly where I live there's lots of employes working in stores and no homeless around. meanwhile downtown the stores all seem to have minimal staff and incidents seem to be pretty common.
How did you go about getting purchase orders for products? My contracting work has always been on a time and materials basis. Have always felt it felt rude / awkward to offer the building of a product on different terms to the rest of the work I was doing, but it is something I'd like to try.
What a horrible answer.

Prolog is hard to write. When you modify it, you have to understand the logical world state.

Outside of academia, there's no use for prolog.
At least in my area, it feels unsafe to drive the speed limit on the interstate because you will be run off the road by impatient truck drivers.
The biggest problem with my approach was not understanding my product well. What was it trying to solve? I had no answer. Besides that, identifying distribution channels and lack of marketing were primary reasons of failure. I wish I could have spent more time learning Sales and marketing giving me a better shot at success.
Do you have any more detail to your approach? Do you use graded readers, or do you find that a dictionary and basic grasp on grammar is enough to struggle through pretty much anything?

... Do Old Norse graded readers exist?
Or she could be unhappy to hear about the problems and take action to fix it.

Ultimately, it is your choice, but I've found that my best jobs are the ones with healthy, open communications with my boss. This seems like a perfect opportunity to find out if that is what you have or not.
> subverting an organization's decision making processes and channels is a core competency of good sales departments

Know of any good books on this aspect of sales?
> this threw a whole bunch of entry level laborers under the bus

Was it the law, or the shitty companies taking advantage of a "loophole" in an unethical manner? You're attributing the fault incorrectly, IMO.
Maybe for new hires getting a lower rate, but if they try to cut back pay for doctors/nurses after the pandemic, you'll probably just end up with a strike. We already did jack shit for healthcare workers and a base pay decrease would infuriate people.
here's the pdf mentioned in the influences

https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/TechnicalReport/19...
The current workweek expectation has been 40 hours for my entire life, but certain companies have never hesitated to completely ignore it. I don't honestly see how this would change the situation.
I've had this, and it's honestly just better to duck out, apologize and reschedule the interview. If you're worried about candidate experience make sure to get back to them within an hour or two - if the production issue takes much longer than that you've probably blown your chances anyway just by virtue of giving the impression that multiple hour production issues happen with any regularity.
Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers
I'm genuinely curious how this is the case. Every desi person I see working in the jobs you mentioned has usually turned out to be Bangladeshi or Pakistani - For every Indian Uber driver, I've gotten 5 Pakistani ones. I'm in NYC, which has a large South Asian population. The city is quite tolerant of undocumented immigrants, so I'd expect undocumented Indians to occupy some significant fraction of those jobs as well. Yet even Indian restaurants here are mostly staffed by Bangladeshis.
But that is sort of a performance art response isn’t it? Unless you think that whiteboard interviews are so bad that they’re universally seen as wholly inappropriate.

The thing is they’re not. Sometimes we want to see code that runs and compiles. Sometimes people want to see how you think. Whiteboard interviews are designed to do the later, because coding is not thinking.

I think the whole whiteboard interview = bad phase of blog posts from thought leaders was half hot takes from people who didn’t like how they were evaluated in that dimension, and half actually companies trying to push products that they sell. I don’t however think the consensus among senior engineers ever really bought that. It was more nuanced, like a “yeah, it’s not the only thing we should do, but programming interviews with an IDE shouldn’t come at the permanent exclusion of whiteboard interviews altogether” sort of thing.
Exercise, nutrition, sleep, seriously. There are no better solutions.

I lift weights (either at gym or home) and do cardio (depends on the weather). I also keep junk food to a minimal, mostly have protein (chicken, meat, etc) and vegetables. Finally I make sure that I get enough sleep, this means that I have a cut off time at night (~10-11pm) no matter what. To make this easier, I usually have a book that I read before sleeping which helps me avoid screen time.

Of course there are many other things that will help such as relationships and spirituality however in my experience, those are secondary and unless you have your health and nutrition under control, they won't contribute much.
Artificial Intelligence: How to Make Machine Learning Cyber Secure?
People on Windows are about to go through a similar experience as Microsoft removes ways of capturing your desktop without an obnoxious orange border around the window being recorded. The logic is there…you want it obvious and in the user’s face if something malicious is watching them, but it makes benign use cases obnoxious.

Stuff like this is bad security design because it punts responsibility to the end user. It doesn’t actually stop anything bad from happening. If your design can’t decide whether to stop a program from capturing the mic, how do you expect my grandma to?
shelves are empty, ships not getting unloaded, not enough deliveries being made by truck - 10M open positions that can't be filled - who is the genius that thinks knocking 20% off the work week of people already doing those tasks is going to make things better?
Cool! nice initiative.
For me is important my privacy, and using EEUU apps/services/dns/cloud/third parties things for using internet it should pass through EEUU services, threath analysis, NSA, FBI, Goverment interest, that's why this kind of initiatives are important.
Some woods like cedar are more resistant. Some kinds of ash are more or less susceptible to beetle damage. It all depends of the application and environment, just like plastics might in this scenario.
Hi HN, I wrote this.

Admittedly Fiber is not the best name — in the current implementation we don't yield to the scheduler except for recursive function calls, and our "scheduler" only runs a function to completion. These things could be fixed of course, but I didn't have time.

I called it Fiber because I thought coroutine + scheduler is approximately equal to a fiber implementation, and other schedulers could be added in the future with more clever behavior. Plus, you could change the yielding behavior to match what is necessary: for example, to yield at an arbitrary point one could modify the decorator to emit "pause" returns whenever a special `yield_()` function is called. Or you could create a list of special functions (e.g. functions associated with normal syscalls) that cause the coroutine to yield, and have a scheduler that will resume the function when the syscall completes.

One point behind this project is to demonstrate that if you want to pause and resume functions, you don't actually need runtime (kernel, VM) support; some hacky AST rewrites are also a feasible (if slow) implementation. One thing to note is that our overhead is mostly per pause/resume; hence the "sum a list" benchmark is really a worst-case benchmark. If you have some recursive function that does a lot of non-recursive work that needs to be paused and resumed (hint hint, React rendering and reconciliation) the performance gap will be much narrower.
I haven’t experienced issues with Nvidia drivers, but I did face this with AMD drivers which can be oddly specific in terms of Linux distro support [1]. I was forced to abandon Elementary and instead tried Ubuntu Budgie [2].

[1]: https://www.amd.com/en/support/professional-graphics/radeon-...

[2]: https://ubuntubudgie.org/
> On the contrary, today's automation is half-assed machine learning bullshit for shits and is giggles, because there is not enough labor shortage to make the boring stuff (more kiosks, more trains, etc.) a good investment.

We have plenty of kiosks, self-checkout, automated fulfillment and logistics, etc happening. We also have plenty of higher skilled jobs having portions automated. Productivity is way up in the last 50 years, and that's through automation and mechanization.

> Cheap labor is the cause of automatino and undermines the capitalist drive for automation.

Honestly, I cannot figure out what you're saying, between the pronouns, typos, and jumbled sentences.
So that just means employers will cut hours to no more than 32 a week to avoid paying OT. Aren't progressives already complaining about people working multiple jobs to get by?
The insurance from my Fortune 500 company is very cheap, and if you like the insurance options they have then it is very good. But if you'd prefer something else, there is no option at all.

I would like to be able to keep my preferred doctor when I switch jobs.
Impressive level of paranoia from a citizen of a country with 800 bases around the world. Mad propz for your mass media.
Too bad I don't enjoy bullshit, its one of the reasons I want to leave this country. The politicians don't actually seem to give a shit about their constituents, but they're happy to pretend they do.
For accessibility I recommend Yannic Kilcher video review of "Attention Is All You Need"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDulhoQ2pro

Yannic has been making about 62 other transformer paper reviews since. You can find the usual suspects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_qMdb0kYU&list=PL1v8zpldgH...
Don't build content formats into communication tech. Imagine if tcp could only send text and gifs, or http only send html and images. Sure you could try to have 6G define everything all the way up, but why? Instead, understand how to decompose characteristics such as latency, or multicasting, detection and reporting of missing data, etc. and build those mechanisms. Have the content use those capabilities to send, receive, reconstruct whatever using their own evolving formats and algorithms.

On top of that to mention the privacy/security issues if Huawei or whoever hardware vendor not only had the bits but also all the semantic information.
Show HN: Media Chrome – web components for building video players
Crisp Sandwich
> Perhaps I should build it.

Do it! Be the change you wish for. :-)
If you take a $1MM loan from a bank:

- Your bank account (an asset) goes up by $1MM

- Your loan account (a liability) goes up by $1MM

So equity is unchanged at that point.

But every month after that, you'll be charged interest:

- Loan account (liability) increases (CR)

- P+L account (equity) decreases (DR)
I don’t understand what you’re saying- infection from omicron probably only provided limited protection from other variants (we agree so far) - isn’t that protection valuable in and of itself? You’re saying that we should forfeit partial protection because it’s not complete protection? To my thinking, if the partial protection you get from omicron is greater than the damage caused by omicron, that protection is valuable.
There may never have been a better time to build websites, but there's been a better time to design them.

All this over-engineered, developer-centric stuff while powerful and handy in some regards has destroyed the art of web design.
Indeed, this is a solved problem. Everyone gets healthcare, it comes out of their taxes.

40% of Americans are already covered by socialized medicine, between Medicare, Medicaid and the VA. We're really only looking to expand that from 40% to 100%. It's not nearly the jump into the chasm of socialism the right is painting it as.

If we can't bring the Manchins of the world onboard, at the very least require all employees, regardless of hours worked, to receive healthcare and if you work for multiple employers, then they can sort out amongst themselves.
Don't companies get to deduct their contributions to health care plans from their payroll taxes, which means the government is effectively subsidizing employer coverage (as opposed to individual coverage)?
Intel gets credit for their drivers being open-source but IME their drivers are also plain bad. WiFi drivers disconnect you to scan, graphics drivers seem very poorly tested so depending on what acceleration profile you use, you get weird artifacts and other stability problems... I strongly prefer Atheros for WiFi and AMD for graphics, wherever possible.
It’s usually possible to see if a certain piece of code allows gotchas or not. Global variables, implicit dependencies, undocumented apis or magic strings to give a few examples. If you have many such, then getting a reviewer calling out those bad practices is even more valuable. Even more valuable that they are external, because often many such smell-patterns are stuck due to some political stalemate or cargo-cult within the team.

Most gotchas are actually carried over from the open source framework you build on top of. Such knowledge is transferable and can’t hurt to get another pair of eyeballs to help you with them, assuming you haven’t spotted them yourself already.
I had one interview at a financial "family office" where a rich person forms a company to manage their investments. In this case it was a high profile trade who was banned from taking customers.

I was brought in, I mined the front of house staff. Its always good to see how they are feeling. Plus if you are nice to them, you get the good biscuits. They looked fine, until they started talking about the CEO/boss. They then looked stressed.

The interview started started a bit odd, the first person that interviewd me was nice, but looked at my CV and said: "well youre a linux guy like me, but they really want a windows guy" I thought it was a bit odd as the job spec was mostly linux hooked to AD (which was a dark art at the time, one I had mastered.)

Interviewer one went out and brought in the "head of engineering/systems/something".

I was treated to four sneering people. The "Header" started off with "oh you can't do windows can you?" I replied that I can hold my own(insert story about AD migration) This shut him up a bit, and made him more hostile. His acolytes (think crabbe and goyle plus two extras)

The interview reached a natural end. I was then told to go out and get lunch, and come back for more interviews. I leave my stuff there and go out for lunch, and come back at the ascribed time.

I walk through the door to where stuff was, I can here a stage whisper "OH my god, he's come back, whats he doing here? No you tell him to go."

Neeedless to say I did(Edit did not) get the job.

I wrote a message to the recruiter explaining what happened, and that I expect grownups to tell me to my fucking face that they've made a mistake.
https://archive.md/Z5Tkp
I understand your concerns I personally hate short generic links. They are a big security risk especially phishing ones.

The way I counter this is by not allowing people people to create generic links in the first place unless you are a paid customer. Plus, you need to add your custom domain to do something meaningful on the platform.

That pretty much weeds out 100% of scammers.
A developer once asked me if I optimized my short/frequent inner loops or my long/infrequenly run code paths.

But I agree. Watching someone weave past me to sit at the same red light or passing them when they pick the wrong lane in traffic always makes me laugh.
I witnessed candidate being rejected literally because in his take-home assignment "he did only what we asked for and nothing extra on the top".
Right, so legislate that companies with health insurance plans release the amount of money per employee they're paying to subsidize the plan, and force them to increase wages by no less than that amount.
The concise part is one I've been working on. I find that I've said everything I need to and I keep presenting a feature by just repeating what I've already said in a different way. Same with text via email and Slack, but I've been pretty good at catching myself recently.

Anyone have any tips for communicating more concisely?
> means that those people are also ok with notifications, OS alerts, and any other OS chrome being OK on the screen

All of those things can be controlled though, unlike this new dot. I've had my personal laptop hooked up to one of these huge screens with a live audience of 20,000. Yes, you better be careful to close out your messaging and Gmail and everything else. But also, since it's running as an extended display and the program is running in full-screen mode, the OS generally will not show the things you mentioned anyway, in my experience.

An orange dot would not have been tolerated in this environment. "Unusable" may not be the right word, but the people who set up these kinds of things are very particular about how things look, and so is the client who is paying millions of dollars.
I mean we could have like a bar but that would severely limit opportunities of smart people who can code. It’s one of the best/worst things about our industry.

Personally, I wouldn’t suffer, but I think as an industry we're unique in this way and it’s kind of overall maybe slightly better than not.
Well here's something that may make you feel a bit better about interviewing:

When I'm asking you a technical question, I'm looking at the code you're writing, not you. The camera is only on to make sure you're not lip synching or something. The layout of your code and the logic that went into it is more important than your mannerisms.

I refuse takehomes on principle because I've had enough bad experiences with poor reviewers so I'll never give one out.
Mostly by fucking about the pay:

- By refusing to disclose salary range and insisting I should go through the process before they can tell me. They don't get an interview.

- By trying paint their company as a startup despite over a billion dollars in investor money or, in one case, being publicly traded. Used to justify below market rate salary.

- By claiming role is fully remote and then slashing salary range at the very end of the process "if you want to work remotely".

- By offering salary range reduced by 40-70% if you are not in US. Doesn't matter that cost of living in Canada or western Europe is not lower. They are paying for the value I'm bringing, so my location should only matter for tax and timezone purposes.

As for situations you described only once I've had someone join the call while driving - 2nd interviewer. I made a joke about the purpose of the whole process for them to have one more employee not one less because he's driving distracted, suggested we should reschedule when everyone can safely fully focus on the interview. They apologized, rescheduled and then offered me salary of 45% of the lower end of the initial range, because while I was "more than qualified for the role they had a multiplier for Canada that applied here".
> That is why there are legal contracts. This is just automated repossession.

There is value in adding friction to enforcing law/contracts: I don't know if FSD-repo crosses the line for me, but I know automating enforcement is bad for society.

What if everytime Tesla cameras detect the car speeding, or has crossed double-lines, it helpfully charges the fine to the linked credit card? After all, its just automated ticketing, right?
They block the shopping streets and their music is terrible. There are no empty streets in the Netherlands on a Saturday and there is nothing more depressing than a Eastern European on an accordion.
It’s similar in my area, but not just limited to truck drivers. It’s amazing to me how angry people appear to be when I drive exactly at the speed limit and refuse to tailgate the car in front of me.

They seem to think that I’m the one in the wrong for treating speeding hunks of metal that weigh thousands of pounds as dangerous things that can and do kill people.
No, we're not. The only difference in what we're talking about is that you were ok with the exact same thing as now because you liked/agreed with what the OS was putting on the screen. Whether it was because it was rare or uncommon is completely besides the point. This whole thread is about people who are saying that the dot makes the display "unusable". If that was the case, then any other OS chrome would also make it unusable.
I applause his efforts. You can't be perfect, and someone will always call you a hypocrite, but do what you can, when you can, for as long as you can. And when you can't, don't beat yourself up over it.

I have managed to get rid of all social media except GAB, and Google is next.

I will buy a Huawei P40 pro, and feed the Chinese governments dragnet. At least they arent actively trying to exploit me with my info, just dump it in an NSA style database.

The only thing I will miss is maps. But I've weaned myself so that is the only product I need to give up to be done with Google.