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> If you have a law that would be impractical to enforce fully and in all cases because you'd end up penalising almost everyone it affects, it's a bad law.

I think this describes almost every law, not just speed limits and GDPR but also copyright violation and drug use and… well perhaps not literally every law, but enough of them.

> I don't believe we should legally prohibit normal behaviour for fallible humans, particularly if no real harm is caused and no ill intent was present.

I don’t believe this describes GDPR. First because websites don’t really need to grab analytics, because stuff you genuinely need to provide a service is explicitly exempt from the GDPR informed active consent requirement; second because website and app development isn’t normal behaviour for normal humans, it’s a profession; third because this data does cause harm.

Yes, there are all those risks you list from selective enforcement.
A feature present on the most popular text editor which modifies text based on political beliefs is not a big deal?

Really?
I have heard this attitude in Eastern Europe and Russia. Here in Switzerland, nobody cares about the size of the car — road safety is exemplary.
Ok, I didn't know that. But still, in what way is Victoria responsible for immigration? Do they normally decide anything about it?

It seems like states can nominate (in other immigration cases) but it's subject to central rules too https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/nomination-process/about-sta...
But he did it for Love!
Well youtube has lot of guns games videos, nonsense pranks, knife games in counter strike etc.. Are we going to ban all of those videos?

I don't expect 12 year children to know about acid so it would be surprising if children discovers such video. And parent has to decide which video their children should watch otherwise children can easily go to google.com and do anything.

I really don't think youtube should act like judge in such cases. Outright deleting video in minor thing like this sets very bad precedence.
> In practice, you should typically only send write traffic to 1 galera node

Yes, we did that too, it's the only way to reduce the deadlock and certification failure with Galera. However, it won't prevent a single `ALTER TABLE` to lock up the entire cluster. You can use `pt-online-schema-change` to workaround that, but it's not perfect.

We've switched to simple Asynchronous Replication with Openark Orchestrator for the majority of our clusters and the DBA team is much happier now.
The judge's opinion does not concur: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/1/10/judge-reinstates-...

Judge Kelly noted that Djokovic had provided officials at Melbourne’s airport with a medical exemption given him by Tennis Australia, which is organising the tournament, and two medical panels.

“The point I’m somewhat agitated about is what more could this man have done?” Kelly asked Djokovic’s lawyer, Nick Wood.

Wood agreed with the judge that Djokovic could not have done more.

All this posturing about "rules are rules" seems to be an after-the-fact finger-pointing exercise and trying to get someone to own a decision that should not have been made in the first place.
> get rid of physical security, as everyone should have the right to protect themselves and their property.

This kind of individual-first-thinking is probably one of the main reasons why we see pictures like in OP in the first place.
FWIW it's called Motion sketch in After effects and it's basically the same thing. It allows you to edit the curve after though.
In the asn1 readme, and in some comments in these threads you mention the perils of the tag-length-value scheme, but you never seemed to explain whats wrong with it?

At least in file formats it to me seem they would be instrumental to have a extendible and flexible format, where you can skip unknown or uninteresting chunks (in say, PNG chunks, or IFF-based formats like OBJ, etc.).

Do you feel that the same doesn't apply to serialisation formats? How are the non-tlv binaries encoded then? Just implied offsets according to the schema? Can you then evolve the schema at all, or do you feel that both producer and consumer should have always access to the full schema, and flexiblity here is a non-feature?

Sorry about the wall of questions, but I'm just so confused.
The cause is the same as it always has been: it is easier for some people to get to the desired standard of living by stealing/other crime than by working.

Why crime us going up? Because of higher desired standard (every body needs an iPhone, brand name shoes and hats), more difficulty with earning a wage (largely, difficulty getting a job at all) and decreased difficulty in crime (defunding police, more aesily available opportunities to steal, etc).

For well-off people it is easier to earn their standard by earning money by work than by stealing. Or they have more comfortable ways of stealing than haulig a paltry 10k in av equipment...

I wish i could be an idealist and to believe in a world where every one is happy with what they've got. But that's a utopia. Humans will always crave to have more than each other ad will steal, loot, defraud, do anything to get there.

Lock your trains well.
What's the public benefit of letting him play? Letting everyone know that the rich and famous are above the rules?
No wonder if the goal is mainly collecting money and is a basis away from a free software community and is not associated with any relationship with it,Now there are people who do not recognize between free software and freeware software.
I haven't seen this. Thanks
I don't think you need to be logged in to instagram to view that link, I didn't.
Yes, definitely. For all languages, for which you have a major mode installed. I think you need to look for "fontify source block emacs org mode" or so. Basically org hands highlighting off to those major modes, if I understand it correctly.

Edit: Found it: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/fontify-...
I didn't see that as an "unsolved problem" at the time. When my kid was little, spending a good chunk of my time tending to them was par for the course. I never saw that as an obligation or a "problem", but rather as part of a conscious choice regarding lifestyle I had made.

Of course, that doesn't mean one can't have hobbies or can't learn. But it did mean that I wouldn't be able to dedicate a comparable amount of time or focus to them, as I would have if I didn't have a child to tend to. Accepting that as a fact of life was really helpful.

It does help to put in active effort in equal measure. Like, alternating taking care of bedtime routines, cooking, eating, care, etc.

Regardless, I can understand the sentiment. Inevitably, you're going to reflect "Why am I doing this again?" and "Oh, I could have done x or y while I was playing with toys!". That's just par for the course as a parent. And it's totally valid. Inevitably, there's some frustration involved in raising children. It's just that you can choose to let that go, or dive into a negative diatribe about personal choices directed against yourself, which is just a ticket to misery.

In all of this, it does also help to remind yourself: It will get better! And the time you invest in your children when they are small really does pay off dividends as you all grow older.

It really is a phase in life. A teenager is very different from a small kid. You don't have to spend every second tending to them anymore. They start to live their own lives with their own habits, gaining their own independence. As a parent, you also regain freedom to take up hobbies again. Of course, a teenager comes with different challenges, and you still have to pay attention, but between 6 and 16, everyone's lives look quite different.
If a champion did steroids and were disqualified, it would be the same. A victory is a victory.

Its not like he is some hapless victim. He knew the rules, he had enough time to get vaccinated but is choosing (and relishing) his anti vaccine posture.
you can't compare NZ and DK with US legislative member. The effect of their policy making in terms of nominal number ($$) is multiple order of magnitude different.

I agree with the OP, where in nuance, paying policy maker more would more or less reduce corruption. It doesn't guarantee that it'll work but at least worth the try, cost wise.

Just like in sports gambling, one of the most efficient way to tilt the favor to your bet is pay the arbiter.
You are missing the point

> Having those guys memorize those won't make them better engineers, right?

They can't realistically memorize all the algorithms, they have to develop an understanding of graphs and algorithmic complexity to be able to get through. They should be able to map arbitrary problems to a corresponding graph problem. These are absolutely fundamental. At least I should be able to communicate to them, "use a topological sort" and they should be able to understand what I am talking about.

Sure, some one could set aside their job for 1 year and memorize everything and they might just get through the interview loop. But it is impossible to have a perfect filter, however DSA and complexity analysis is a bare minimum.

> Your next project is a video encoder. Write an arithmetic coder in a 20 minute interview? Motion detection? Your next project is a chess engine. Write minimax with alpha-beta cutoff in an interview? Your next project is public key cryptography ... A distributed k/v database... Can you write a bloom filter for me in an interview? Gradient descent in some machine learning application?

Funnily enough, none of these questions are asked in a FAANG interview at all. So, I don't know why you are constructing a strawman and demolishing it. The questions actually asked are from basic CS201. These are very specialized questions.

FWIW, I have already built a bloom filter, minhash and consistent hash at work and I am a machine learning engineer. So, I can implement an in memory consistent hash store, bloomfilter, minhash, count min sketch and gradient descent in an interview setting comfortably.

For motion detection a 2 dimensional derivative function should work. A simple delta between 2 images is a basic implementation . Huffman coding is not too complex to write. The basic entropy formula is pretty simple. In fact, most ML classifiers minimize cross entropy loss, so I am very familiar with entropy. Minimax - I have partly forgotten. But if the interviewer prompts me with some high level details I should be able to do it.

I have actually been asked to derive gradient descent in a Google staff eng equivalent interview and also demonstrate that gradient descent converges to global minima for the single layer perceptron[1]. Mind you, this was a specialist ML IC6+ position. Not a new college hire loop.

[1] You need to prove that the Hessian is positive semi definite. I did the basic set up but couldn't complete the derivation. However, I got an offer.
This distraction has worked marvellously. No time to cover the lack of food and tests in the supermarkets or any strategy other than sacrificing the weak for the sake of 'the economy'.
Regarding immigration rules - it seems that if you're an au pair for the right family, incorrect entry forms can be fixed with a direct call to the minister.
> Basically don't police your coworkers for the sake of your company.

Exactly, don't start a culture of surveillance by peers, that's what the KGB or the Stasi did to sow distrust and fear in societies...
The UK has never required a vaccine to enter. The only difference is that non-vaccinated individuals need to quarantine on arrival.
> Are you checking Bayesian priors in your interpretation of the news or other risk?

Pretty much my day-to-day existence right there
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Yes, but this one had no good basis. He is in the highest risk group for myocarditis and he already had Covid in June. Omicron is dominant now. Vaccine efficacy against it is low. What is the actual reason to mandate that he must be vaccinated?
That's just plain escapism or veiled hedonism. There's more to life than enjoying yourself 24/7.
Exactly, I feel like the problem is that these days we no longer actually play Age of Empires (which, again, would be fine), we share this time between playing Age of Empires, looking at Instagram and checking out work emails
> I'd much rather we arrest them so they can be rehabilitated or helped.

This is not what happens when people are arrested.
If you catch Omicron, and are double vaccinated, which is almost the best case, then you're still much more likely to die from COVID than the flu.
I'm a Serbian who used to be a fan of Djokovic in spite of the fact that I'm not big into tennis, but after losing a family member to Covid seeing him deciding to die on the anti-vax hill broke my heart and I don't want anything to do with him.
He actually flew back to Sydney to visit his kids during the middle of a lockdown when people couldn't visit dying relatives, because it was fathers day!
These tech workers who hate interviewing and get "stuck" with cost of inflation raises

This is why you should keep your Leetcode chops up as well as your whiteboarding and interview skills. Don't let hating interviews stop you from fielding another offer.
> This is bizarre logic. "I got screwed, so someone else should get screwed too!"

Or, I had to follow the law, so everyone else should too. I'm getting upset if the law is only for the simple people like me, but not for big sports stars and other hotshots.
I don’t want management in Microsoft making ideological ”corrections” to what I write. That’s simply unacceptable. Thank God we have open source alternatives like LibreOffice.

This feature seems to be opt-in, but in the future it might get enabled by default.
The more they are obsessed with taking down youtube-dl, the more they advertise it and let other people know that it exists, the more I feel like I'm doing the right thing using it on a daily basis.

Seriously, we're talking of a tool whose purpose is to download publicly available videos. What's the big deal? It's not even used for music piracy, for God's sake. I've never seen anyone download their favourite album from YouTube videos and use ffmpeg to extract the mp3s. Most of the folks just use Spotify.

So what's the big deal? That if we use youtube-dl then we don't see ads and we don't get tracked? Oohh, actually that's the whole fcking point, you know? youtube-dl pisses lots of people in the majors not because it's used to illegally download musical content (I'm pretty sure that's only an insignificant fraction of its usage), but because it hurts their "new" way of doing revenue: ads, tracking, and more ads.

And you know what? I'm more than happy to hurt such a shtty way of doing revenue!
> No, they should not have accepted being barred.

But what if most accepted those limitations, and while personally a disaster, found it on the other hand right to follow common sense and obey rules applying to everyone for the greater cause of society?
Rules applying to everyone the same is one of the basic foundations of a just society...

> Also expelling a person who has already got in the country physically and attended a courts makes no sense from the epidemiological point of view - he has already brought the virus

No matter what you argue beyond, the epidemiological aspect is now not really the point here anymore. He faked stuff for entry one or the other way (I think it is even more likely he wasn't positive at all, but that the second test was just created so he counts as recovered, which was the requirement to get in if not vaccinated..) - so its good to see consequences on that.
It’s not true.
In all the world covid caused way more deaths than smoke related diseases.
If in Slovenia it’s not the case then they are massively undercounting covid deaths.
And the covid mortality is 1%, not 0.5%. Stop spreading dangerous misinformation.
thanks - love it, nice, simple and effective
I personally use OSSEC for File Integrity Monitoring. And it has also actually caught an intruder that modified some PHP-code on a webserver. The attacker forgot to use the prefix @ in the PHP-code so a new error message was sent to the logfile and reported by OSSEC.
So if the train cars, or the containers thee packages are kept in within the train cars, were at least so secure that they prevented access for say an hour or two, then this likely wouldn't happen?

What is this, open crates or sacks of packages, in traincars locked with a small padlock?
And the government is breaking them by going back on the exemption they gave him
What is Australia officially afraid of? That the person driving over the speed limit might crash? When all Australians are covered by compulsory third party insurance?
Yup. This is the move.
After the current champion showed how little respect he has for other people's lives? Lots of people.
1. Statistics show that crime levels strongly correlate with economic inequality

2. ?

3. Most criminals are just poor people scraping by using the only means available to them; veritable street kids stealing a loaf of bread

Honestly, I don't understand this logic at all. Specifically, how people arrive at #3.
Stalin could have only dreamed of such things.
I can vouch for them. Great web hosting service.
I pasted the text on the parent thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29931975
It's different from culture. A culture makes everyone think in a similar way, there is one role: a participant of it. A corporation doesn't have to make everyone think the same, because it has many roles and written processes and KPIs which modulate anyone taking a role into a gear that rotates accordingly to the big schema. Corporations may have culture and it may be definitive, but it's not only that.
I'd suggest a bit of "respect what came before" and Chesterton's Fence here. A couple of thoughts from a principal at AWS who's had to use, create, and review a handful of Service Linked Roles:

The absolutely most important aspect is that requiring individual role & permission management for each service/feature is a HUGE painpoint for both customers and service teams. Having AWS "just do it" on the customers behalf simply eliminates a lot of friction in your app, the console, the CLI, etc.

Some services do support templated _service roles_ but these are difficult to maintain with the appropriate permissions over time. There are other services that will allow customers to provide (via API param) a customer managed role that the service can assume. That is better for sophisticated customers who want more control, and know the permissions necessary. But is substantial muck and another thing to get in the way of their actual intent for many (most?) customers. Both of the later approaches with customer managed roles also introduce problems with role proliferation, aging security policies, opaque authnz failures, incompatibilities as services add new features, etc.

Customers arent "forced" per se to use any Service Linked Roles (SLR). They absolutely have control over SLRs with APis like CreateServiceLinkedRole & DeleteServiceLinkedRole. Yes, its true that you may not be able to use a service without a specific SLR. But that's an issue of dependency management, tied up in the other points.

SLRs are only created by the customer via CreateServiceLinkedRole or on their behalf when accessing a service API (or similar interaction) that requires a SLR to function. Again, visible & controllable by the customer. It's not opaque nor is it forced on customers who dont use the associated service/feature.

Service Linked Roles are being improved in the last few years with much more explicit naming, permissions, and documentation of why/when/how they're being used. It's important that this is all done in the context of the customers account, and entirely visible through things like managed policies & cloudtrail.

Yes there are some roles (and other managed IAM policies) that are quite broad. This is an ongoing trade off between friction and minimal surface area. Unfortunately "fixing" these policies is also at odds of the principle around providing a stable, predictable, cloud that does not break or deprecate functionality unless absolutely necessary.

My own take is that SLRs are the best available option at the moment. I'd love it if every service/API provided an optional way to pass a customer managed role, accept a templated service role via console or cloudformation, or by default create & use an appropriate Service Linked Role. But that's a big change in a huge surface area which may or may not be appropriate.
Stellar, perhaps, if deaths is your only metric.

I don’t consider leaving 10,000s of your own citizens stranded abroad for up to 18 months a good metric by any means. That’s suspending citizenship, and will have done irreparable damage to rights.

They of course also prevented people from leaving

This is before we get in to the whole topic of quarantine “hotels” and the force with which people were escorted to them and the conditions there

https://amp.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210406-stranded-a...
What difference would a driver do? A driver is instructed to not interefere if robbed. The difference I suppose is that what would otherwise be a robbery could be a mere burglary which could have less legal risk as well as less risk of violence (In the case a driver interferes, against his instructions)
Crime rates go up when inequality goes up.
Yes, omicron is much worse than a common cold or the flu. Completely unvaccinated persons are still in quite a danger for life through it.

The virus is known not only to cause death, but to cause organ damages even with lighter case and having likely long term effects.

The whole affair isn't because he is likely a major risk to the population of Australia - that can be easily ruled out by a test, but about failing to comply with the regulations of entry, especially if there was fraud involved with his documentation.

And no one understands why he didn't get vaccinated in time. Not only would that be of personal health benefit, it would make working in his profession much easier.
HR departments are eventually going to realize that services like Deel exist, and that its not actually that hard to hire employees overseas

The only fly in the soup there is that I see loads of remote roles that can only be performed in the USA because of PII. It's not so much that the workforce is getting globalized, but that the country-specific workforce is going remote in whatever boundaries they're legally allowed to work (in this case, within US borders).
I wonder what the cost of engineering secure containers would be vs. addressing the societal problems in the USA that lead to situations like this would be.
Unfortunately whatever they do is not going to go well either locally or globally.
Not to meander too much, but I think this is a genuinely interesting question. Is theft the 'easy way out'? I'm not so sure. It's a job like any other, requiring skill to be successful, and comes with a slew of stressors that are non-issues in legal jobs, like the risk of apprehension for starters. The higher risk may also at times yield higher reward, but I wouldn't say necessarily 'easier'. I think showing up for a generic 9-to-5 is significantly easier than robbing trains successfully.
What you're saying is, if the crooks have their basic necessities fulfilled, they would become politicians and CEO's instead of thieves?

Only half joking. You're right that you can fix 90% of crimes your way. But there is a group of people that, for some reason, just want to see the world burn or feel the power to make others miserable. We need to deal with them somehow.
How is stealing electronics and covid tests an act of desperation? They are not stealing food and hygiene products, right?