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> privacy advocates

Who on earth is actually not an advocate for privacy?

> I want things to sense when I fall and call for help for me.

There's no need to sacrifice privacy to achieve this. [0]

> I want my routers to suggest that I'd get better coverage by moving it.

This is really more an issue of proprietary software than a privacy concern, no?

> Yes there is privacy concerns and they need to be addressed, but don't lose the good with it.

Communications are by default expected to be private. Highly public and non-private communications are advertised as such since the use case is so specific and often times, nuanced. In almost all circumstances there is hardly any "good," at all without best-practices privacy protections included.

[0] https://mbientlab.com/store/
FOSS donations which reach the roots
In my experience they are slightly lower than inflation but high enough to make people more or less happy. In any case, the expectations this year are extreme, so it will be interesting to see how they handle it this time (usually the adjustments are in March and we receive the compensation for January and February, too). It's not written in my contract but is a part of company policy as a means to minimize turnover.
If you have a math-savvy person in your circles, it might be a good idea to set up a chat with them. I think a good beginning point would be to identify a specific problem or concept that you've encountered that gave you some difficulty, and then talk it through with them.

In my experience as a mathematician, it is not always easy to identify the source of frustration in a problem. Having a different perspective can be really helpful. (Also in my experience as a math educator, a shockingly large proportion of problems stem from fractions, exponentials, and logarithms --- or not knowing what a function is.)
Unions serve their members, not the public good. Teacher unions do not exist to advance the education of children--they exist to get better hours, pay, and benefits for their members.
Isn't Afghanistan known to be sitting on top of ~1 trillion$ worth of lithium, and also Bolivia?
The idea that the US has the right to hand anyone anything in Asia is quite hilarious. I expect the civil war will end with a whimper and reunification.
>But a corporation is chartered to make money - we expect it to act accordingly and for the most part companies do make money (when they fail to make money, they cease existing

They are supposed to serve a higher purpose than just make money.

If you were being equivalently fair to unions you would say that their sole purpose is to take dues.

>a lot unions don't really carry out their core function and there are no consequences for this failure

Yes, they do, they lose members.
I care about decentralization.
The Australian gov should stop being a baby and accept some people will not get vaccinated either because they have recovered or just don't want to
Nice, I'd been looking for a good book that explains the context behind the conventions and thought processes. So many articles/websites/books claim to start out at the basics, but then they toss a bunch of confusing shit at you with barely an explanation. It's very demoralizing. I'll pick this up, thanks for the recommendation.
I can’t imagine there would be too many, other than it is a tedious operation not easily automated. Depending on your data, might take a while.

Can’t believe that neither MySQL or MariaDB has created a utility to do the conversions for you automatically.
It has felt to me over the last few years (and I have no inside knowledge) that Google Maps saw Apple Maps fail at launch, and didn't improve the service at all.

Meanwhile, Apple Maps and the OpenStreetMaps backing data has continued to get better and better each year.
Not just Google there's been decades of trash talking by businesses and politicians for their own purposes really works. The whole Cold War period really messed up the US discourse of any kind of collectivism.
It's so funny that if you say that actually the GPL is good because random corporations can't freely utilize it with zero consequence and make money off your labor, you'll get a bunch of bedbugs come out of nowhere saying uhhhhhhhhmmmm, actually you're the one hurting "free" software, somehow, for being so difficult, so cruel, because how dare you prevent others from writing even more computer programs, can't you understand N+1 programs in the world is better than N? And that you are the one who stopped it, you selfish selfish person? And that someone else could have even made money off that? You've practically robbed them pre-emptively with intent. And you wouldn't want to scare away the 9-figure corporation by being mean... would you?

Sorry but I don't consider letting Lucy set up the football and giving it a solid go to be kind and equitable. It's called "being a mark."
Really cool, sort of like how an ICE drives ancillaries
couldnt emoji fit in 3 bytes as well? I don't think there are that many ...
"If user A (repo copy 1) adds a package with `^1.0.0` but the lockfile indicates `^1.0.11`"

NPM lockfiles can't indicate `^1.0.11` so I believe this is where you're mistaken. They point to a specific version (`=1.0.11`) just like you're saying they should.
People behave more sadistically when they’re bored
It's interesting what happens when certain recruiters send a follow up message when I don't answer first time. When that happens I tell them to read my profile carefully. Some then get it and send me a colour and a few have got a bit shirty saying I am being unprofessional or that I am being unreasonable expecting them to read my profile given the pressures they are under.
Some web scraping can be unethical, say for example if you are scraping a site solely to mirror their content and add zero value to the original content owner.

However, there are a lot of web scraping use cases which are beneficial to the site being scraped and actually add value. Two examples:

- Google: Ahrefs & SEMRush scrape Google so they can provide SEO analytics to companies looking to grow their companies. Googles keyword analytics aren't great, so Google has effectively outsourced providing a good analytics tool to Ahrefs & SEMRush who products increase the value of the Google SERPs ecosystem.

- Amazon + Other E-Commerce: Amazon wants brands and 3rd party stores to list products on their site, and the companies scraping Amazon to provide product placement tools to their users make it easier and more profitable to list products on Amazon. Leading to more and more companies listing products on Amazon.
Do you have an example top of mind?
According to the docs, MySQL is a bit more explicit and calls the old "utf8" "utf8mb3" nowadays, and notes that it may be removed at some point. Although "utf8" is still aliased to the footgun at the moment.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8...
There's nothing better for filling math gaps than going through Kahnacademy.

Start skimming at the 1st grade level and then slow down and focus when you reach material that isn't easy.
When I started to work on PLC4X I was hoping people would be using it to build commercial applications and either making money with it, saving money or building better products. That's why I stronly believe in the Apache License and am not a GPL advocate.

However I would never have expected that allmost nothing is returned by anyone.

I mean, I'm an IT consultant and I was doing consulting with other projects that I work on and I'm fine with that. I love doing that, I love giving training, mentoring people and companies to become open-source contributors. I saw that the effort-to-improvement-ratio open-source could bring to the automation industry was just incredible 5 years ago. That's why I put so much work into the project and I continue doing so ... just differently ;-)
Hah, agreed. There's one route in particular where Google consistently wants me to drive straight across a 5 lane road.

I switched to Apple Maps for the gentler routes, and the (IMO) more attractive UI when being displayed via CarPlay.
Isn't the point of the argument that unions make the person give out the sweets that way?
> There are approximately 93 million adults (civilian noninstitutional population) that don't work

Which includes retired people, people with disabilities who can't work, stay at home spouses (who arguably are working, but not for an employer), students. Those reasons have nothing to do with avoiding "politics and culture imposed on them by managerial talent"

> maybe some study on this portion of the population's reason for not working would be useful

See above
Yup, I truly don't understand why people in tech are so against this. It will likely be a net positive for all tech folks.

In Hollywood they have SAG (Screen Actors Guild) so a large union for high paying jobs isn't unheard of in America.
Read up on the Johnstown Flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
Apple submits plans to allow alternative payment systems in South Korea
A old school server browser revived Titanfall 2s multiplayer
Yup, still annoying, just marginally less so!
> Apple has a longstanding history of intentionally ignoring or degrading open web technologies that could compete with its incredibly successful, lucrative, closed app store. Progressive web apps (PWA), a set of standards that allow websites to function similarly to native apps, are only half-heartedly supported, broken, or plain ignored on iOS and iPadOS.

Web push, webRTC - why does Apple actively undermine the open web, where browsers offer far greater privacy than apps from an app store?
> "utf8mb4" correctly encodes all UTF-8 codepoints by current standards.

Yes, all good and known, but not really what the misunderstanding is about.

"utf8" follows the definitions of UTF-8 as they stood at the time, adhering to Unicode's former code space limit.
Why would you expect to be paid without working?
For whom are hotel prices important?
Due to the monopolistic nature of copyright/IP, there is no option to avoid it.

But technically, nobody pays for it. They pay to access an on-demand and at-will service which provides the content. The content itself is never bought (by the consumer, that is).
You may also smoke for 13 years with no cancer, then boom, suddenly you have cancer. And those 13 years played a role in its onset.

There are expectations built into economy all around. Once enough people expect that the money printing will continue and increase, the change in collective behavior may be fairly sudden.
I live in a reasonably rural part of the UK in an old farmhouse with historic public rights of way criss-crossing the land around here. One day google decided that a footpath through a wooded area just wide enough for a quad was public highway and started giving driving directions through it. There's no place to turn, the gradient is steep and, once you're committed, the road surface is, errr, mud. Cue umpteen drivers getting stuck, panicing or grounding out on the occassionally fast flowing ford at the bottom.

I'm guessing image rec on some new satellite imagery convinced it it must be a road.

No amount of reporting a mapping problem to google has changed anything. When I reported something similar in Apple maps a couple of years ago, the change was reflected within a couple of weeks.
China Laws: Provisions on Management of Algorithmic Recommendations in Internet
That's why I install from curated package repositories (eg. Debian) as much as possible, and encourage users of my own software to do so as well.
Isn't network monitoring and logging the bigger issue for a VPN service? How can you provide transparency of the network?
Is this a problem? Flags in unicode are defined by several special characters. The flag of Scotland isn't really a single character, it's "<waving flag><tag g><tag b><tag s><tag c><tag t><cancel>".

All of these characters are multi byte combinations. The hex for the flag is not a single, super wide character, it's 0xF09F8FB4 0xF3A081A7 0xF3A081A2 0xF3A081B3 0xF3A081A3 0xF3A081B4 0xF3A081BF. You might get some weird results if you take substrings from that, but it won't be a problem for the backing database store; each separate "binary character" is a four byte sequence (as denoted by the 0xF at the front of the number).
will something terrible happen if i just convert my tables to utf8mb4? Will i have to upgrade each column?
I’m tempted to downvote mainly because at best this is besides the point and at worst is a distraction from the point.
And if cheap cloth/pseudo-surgical masks don't capture any exhaled droplets, I'd really like to know how they get so wet and gross while I'm wearing them.
The opposite principle of DRY is WET. Write Everything Twice
I’ve been using ptpython for a while because of its autocompletions. Really excited for that to come to ipython, but from a quick comparison ptpython’s still seems a bit better. You get automatic dropdowns where you have to hit tab in ipython (though it does seem faster than it used to be), and ptpython favors autocompleting arguments in the function signature.

IPython is more robust in various ways than ptpython so I’d prefer to switch back but maybe it still needs a bit of improvement. Open to suggestions if there is configuration I’m missing.

Seems like a great release though with tons of code cleanup.
Our unions are in need of reform. They need to serve a modern economy. They continue to act like it’s 1940.

If unions had the same internal checks against abuse: Financial compliance, ability and desire to fire corrupt officials, ability to fire abusive members as well as management, were active in progress (rather than protect against progress), and acted as an arbiter for the best interest for all parties (worker, employer, self (union), and economy at large) I think I’d have a better experience with them. As they are they are parasitic to a significant degree.

That’s in no way turning a blind eye to the reforms they enabled in the first half of the XX century.

They are now like the non-profit whose original reason to be ceased to exist but now want to continue existing for the sake of the management structure who find themselves with an evaporated mission.
the governments should invest instead i agree but it doesn't hurt if a private venture can help us all
Your annoyance is understandable, and yet this question and direct response from a founder is a very informative interaction to have recorded in this thread. Much more informative than if GP had simply stated the results of their Wikipedia research.

Sometimes a mediocre question is the landing pad for a great answer. No need to begrudge the question.
But DRYing your code can cause it to shrink...
I agree with this. I think that the way we teach math is a disservice to the kids. When you watch a talented mathematician's lecture you always see how relatable and intrinsically motivating it is.

On the flip side, I think that when people write about math in scientific reports for example, they don't explain the math they use either.
That's the fun thing though: if the only way to extract a COLA is by switching jobs, then employers have made the workplace so unfulfilling both intellectually and financially that employees have no problem doing so, which raises the costs of hiring employees.
Have you used this in real world scenarios? Or is it just a nice hypothetical that sounds great in theory but almost never works in practice?
Sample size of many, but correlations doesn't imply causation.

Evidence for limited spread on airplanes is pretty solid, but everything from here on out is speculatory:

* A lot of people get sick traveling. You're interacting with all sorts of people from far away who have novel viruses, many of which aren't circulating in your area. That doesn't mean you catch it literally on the airplane.

* Masks probably make a bigger difference on airplanes than elsewhere. Even cloth masks catch big particles. By the time droplets evaporate into small droplets, odds are they've passed through a HEPA filter many times.
Does SSL-Decryptand and rules-based analysis work? These are the times I've interacted with them:
1. Disabling SSL-Decrypt because it blocks HTTPS from PowerShell, bash, git, android studio and other comandline tools where I couldn't figure out how to trust our internal cert. I figured it out for Postman, but mostly I just couldn't figure it out.
2. Disabling or exempting rules that blocked our pharmacy app from going to webpages or perform SQL Queries that included legal drug names that were also illegal drug names.

I think it's tough for non-security professionals who feel burdened and never get to see the benefits.
The OP is wrong about the article being incorrect.
I mean, you named the precious few that don't suck, and two of them do essentially the same thing, and the other is a music player with a very questionable business model.

I'm with the op. I'm deeply unimpressed with the last decade or so of software development; and that's not just blowing smoke -- this is day to day practice. With the exception of Discord, I deliberately take pains to use old software because it's better.

Moreover, I find when I show non-tech folk "how I do things with old software," most want to learn more, and nearly none are satisfied with what they are "given."
I imagine it will get better performance from high pressure water instead of the few psi of a small elevation change.
I usually just submit www.notlinked.in and it has worked fairly well.
At the beginning of the pandemic it had a 10x death rate because it was new. Now that Covid is becoming endemic, people are building up immunity to covid and it's variants, and you should expect the death rate to fall substantially, which is what we are seeing now.
Lithium Ion is not sustainable for the long term - we have neither the materials nor the manufacturing to not only keep up what would be required for full scale car and grid uses, but don't forget Lithium Ion batteries have a finite lifespan and need to be replaced. The more you put into service, the more you have to manufacture beyond just the batteries needed for new requirements.
Sure, but it's less convenient to use.
This is the bigger part that bugs me, I don't my job description enforced by committee.
There are Chinese people living all over the world. That doesn't make every country the home of the PRC.

The point you made is nonsensical because Taiwan is clearly an adversary of the PRC and the PRC has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan. Referring to both of those parties as "China" loses the nuance that explains the conflict.
Yes, when considered along with the corrective responses, it adds to the discussion. This is why it shouldn't be flagged and removed. On the other hand, it's factually wrong and would be misleading if people were to trust the claims uncritically, which I think justifies a downvote. Keeping it visible but lower on the page and showing it in gray seems like a pretty good compromise. Can you suggest a better way of giving more prominence to correct information? Or do you think that's not the right priority for the site?
Where's the meaningful action against ISP's? In my opinion, ISP monopolies and collusion cause orders of magnitude more consumer harm than FAANG by a lot. If one is truly interested in helping out consumers, start with the less flashy lawsuits against monopolies that do more direct consumer harm than FAANG. Starting with FAANG (in my opinion) betrays the true motivation of this action which is political theater instead of meaningful action.
I do believe all superpowers are doing that, US has a long history too to back certain leaders/powers etc.
Cool indeed, but pretty dangerous and difficult to reconfigure. Electric wires and motors are so much smaller, and easier to protect, and more interoperable, so you can see why they won out.
In addition to emojis, I've also had issues with certain characters copied from Microsoft Word being 4 bytes.
Thanks, in particular for your understanding with Python 3.8. It's in huge part to give a signal to businesses that that can/should move forward, and to give reasons for "smaller" projects with fewer devs to also remove support for older Python which can be a burden to maintain.

I don't use VS Code myself, but I think the team is doing in increasingly better job, Microsoft is just a huge beast. I would also love for some IPython feature to get into Core Python. But that might just take time as I don't think many Core Python Dev do that much interactive coding, and thus don't see that much the interest of doing so.

BTW it's uppercase I and P, we don't want to be in trouble with a billion dollar fruit company, even if we predate their use of iPxxxx
Same. Inbound SMSes with emojis. Outbound SMSes with emojis. Names and labels with emojis etc. But the implementation of "utf8" still isn't wrong, nor a bug - just like the 20 year old specs of UTF-8, they just failed to take the future into account.
According to the article, there's no way to reserve the name or prevent others from creating an app with the same exact name, unless you actually pay the necessary fees and create an app in the app store. Meanwhile, now that others have created an app, he is now excluded from creating the same game.
The United States, this was at a private 4-year university. I've seen gobs of job postings on company websites that, on the application section, ask for your LinkedIn profile link as well and my current employer is a very active user as are virtually all of the c-level employees.
Great resource - thanks very much - I was looking at find just this type of thing, also I found https://www.jobs.ac.uk/
Are you fine being left high and dry if you get hurt and cannot perform as well anymore?
The anti-competitive argument here isn't that Chrome would be a good competitor to Google Search, but that Google operates both products in a way that makes it all but impossible for other companies to create viable competitors to Chrome or Google Search.
The round trip efficiencies for these compressed air storage have typically been terrible (<50%). That's mostly because compressing air is super inefficient (lots of wasted heat). Are they able to harness that waste heat in some productive way?

ETA: Just saw the video. Looks like they store the heat to boost generation on the return trip. This [1] says they get ~60% efficiency.

[1] https://www.inceptivemind.com/hydrostor-build-largest-compre...
I don't think that rhetoric is going to convince many people who think they deserve an above average pay rise to accept the average instead :)

Personally I don't think "stable labour policy" is more important than allowing people to ask for higher wages and receive or leave, but if I did I'd be more hostile to wage bargaining via collective threats to withdraw labour than individual ones...
Try NICE Actimize and some of their competition. Financial crime detection software for financial service organisations. They need to read financial regulations from FCA / EU, SEC etc like MIFID 2 and turn them into pattern detection software. Your data science interest would also be very relevant there.
You are assuming that its purely a racism thing, rather than an internal security thing. The Chinese have killed way more of their own ethnic kind in the last six decades than they have Uyghurs. All in the name of internal security and cultural leaps forward and such.
A really common one I get is emails about Java jobs where the recruiter praises me for all my Java skills and experience and talks about how I would be the perfect candidate for the job they have. The thing is nowhere in my profile does it say I have Java experience (I'm all C#/.Net), however it does mention JavaScript in a few places. They couldn't be any more obvious with their laziness.
Same. I definitely don't need math in my day-to-day. But I've been working on this side project for years, and haven't made much progress because I've hit a ceiling that requires math to transcend.