skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing LaTeX doesn't make you a good employee.
More unnecessary ridiculous bureaucracy. I grew up in California and bartend in Oregon (where a permit has been required as long as I’ve been in the industry). The permit test essentially is, “Do not serve people too much alcohol.” An incredibly pointless waste of resources. You have to re take the test every few years, you know, in case you’ve suddenly forgotten how to do your job.
Made Tetris in Google Sheet
From the article, it includes people I wouldn't have thought of:

According to California’s Assembly Bill 122, alcohol servers are defined as anyone who:

- Checks IDs for alcohol consumption or entry into a licensed establishment
- Takes alcoholic beverage orders
- Pours alcoholic beverages
- Serves/delivers alcoholic beverages to patrons

All of the above are required to be licensed according to the new law.

Furthermore, any managers and supervisors are also required to become licensed. A manager/supervisor is anyone who:

- Directly hires or oversees alcohol servers
- Trains alcohol servers how to bartend (including how to check IDs and/or when to refuse service to patrons)
Ah, great catch. I keep forgetting about sexual reproduction. To correct the point while keeping the math easy, make it 8 kids each, half of whom have 8 kids and half none, etc. Then each couple contributes on average to two couples in the next generation, etc.
Maybe try Fabric (https://www.fabfile.org)
Do the photos show illegal activity? How serious is it (like, is it just some weed)?

It's possible the consequences of exposure aren't as bad as you expect, if you go to the police, and then to your employer, and explain what's going on.
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 644,100 bartenders working in the US in 2018. That number is forecasted to grow faster than most jobs, rising 8% between 2018 and 2028."

So apparently California has all of them, plus extras.
Actually, they seem to be presupposing that you're using these metrics as a target to judge employee performance by (in the style of key productivity indicators), rather than as a diagnosic tool to debug your/management's own mistakes/potential improvements in how the team is organized, and then pointing out in what way the former approach - which always fails regardless of which metrics you use due to Goodhart's law - fails with this particular choice of metrics.

Edit: granted, sometimes the result of said debugging is that it really is a hardware problem, and with how unstandardized people are, that's actually common enough that you'll likely run into it. But you don't fix (for example) a disk drive that reports writes as complete before they're peristed by stack-ranking drives and trying to pick the ones that lose data less; you fix it either by replacing the faulty drive immediately (assuming you can get working drives), or (more relevantly to dealing with people) by working around it in software.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
I followed the instructions and got the confirmation email. But in Admin console under billing > subscription, my subscription is still showing google workspace business starter. Are you seeing the same?
> cats are pretty good at training them, too.

Mum has a cat who has this particular (and peculiar) habit of drinking from the faucet whenever he's had treats.

It's pretty hilarious how well he's trained the humans. Whenever he's had a treat, he'll walk toward the bathroom and flick his tail, ears turned back, expectantly waiting for someone to follow. If no one follows, he'll continue on his way and jump up on the counter top. If he still hasn't collected anyone's attention, he'll emit a distinctive (and very squeaky!) meow that he uses for no other purpose than "I want a drink" and will do so periodically until someone comes to turn the faucet on. Otherwise he'll lay there until he's noticed (if not, he'll give up and finally go to one of the water bowls).

He's also finicky about the flow rate. If it's turned up too high (he prefers a gentle stream—almost a dribble) he'll stare at you until the flow rate is corrected.

Talk about training his humans indeed!
You think there's only 118M people in California?
I don’t know what precise control you need over the document in the use case served by Google docs.
Yeah that and the knowledge we now have that N95 masks work great for both the wearer and for those exposed to the wearer while cloth masks are basically useless for preventing any kind of spread without some additional filter that most cottage industrialists do not include in their design and manufacturing process.
From the article

Why is California Requiring Training?
According to the state of California, studies have shown that mandated alcohol server training has led to a reduction in drunk driving accidents and alcohol involved accidents, and that excessive drinking costs the economy billions of dollars every year.

Therefore, the state of California believes that required training is overall beneficial to bartenders, patrons, and the local economy.
Anyone in the chain from storage to the table is involved, including servers, managers, etc.
So, a dead man’s ship.

Sorry. I had to. I’m a dad.
Author here. Things that have changed since I published this.

- Doom emacs does most (all) of these with a bunch of cleverer techniques than mine. I’d recommend doom over rolling your own emacs.

- I use IntelliJ just about exclusively.

- I now do the minimal amount of customization I can get away with.
Even though I have a WSJ subscription, I come to the comments to find the archive.is link. I’d rather read it someplace like that than try to login to WSJ, which gives me an infinite login loop “ Welcome Back

We noticed you’re already a member. Sign in to read The Wall Street Journal.”
Agree 100%. Also, thanks for hiring me into Heroku at the time, even if it's behind both of us now <3
It's nothing so bad as that. Just relatively mundane sexual stuff as you say. I'm really not so concerned with the images themselves, and moreso am concerned with losing my job as a result. They could be hung on posters around town for all I care, so long as I don't lose my job.

I just worry that if they were sent out to my coworkers she found via my linkedin, that it would create a work environment in which they would really have no choice but to let me go.
Hey, those bureaucrats need to be able to keep making payments on that second house!
I have it on Android. :D
Yes. There really should be both an obvious way to do something that is also the most performant.

People talk a lot about tech debt and it should be understandable that if a random coder meets a random set of code, the more permutations of performant code makes it harder to grok
Maybe I'm missing something, but what are the major differences between Perfetto and an OpenTelemetry tracing / metrics approach? In other words, why would someone choose one tool over the other?

Naively, it seems like Perfetto was designed around tracing on-device behavior while OTel focuses more on distributed tracing. However, I'm not sure why two distinct solutions would be required for that constraint.
I feel the same about GDocs. And GSheets is just insane. I have mixed feelings about Google but they knock it out of the park with their drive tools.
Nudity/sexually explicit acts. Nothing illegal or particularly extreme. My concern is with losing my job and source of income as a result of those photos being shared, not the photos themselves as much.
Summary:

The "certification" is a 2-hour course that can be taken online. It costs $3 and lasts three years. It's a certification to pour drinks responsibly (not some sort of mixology test).

It was planned to go into effect last year but CA legislation pushed it out another year to help with transition.

Honestly, seems like a reasonable move when 18% of Californians are identified was excessively drinking. (US average 17%). [1]

[1]https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measur...
I will be very happy if one day I open up Inkscape and I'm not presented with a virtual sheet of paper as my starting point. I find it extraordinarily off putting to have to pretend I'm going to print out the end result.
I'm a big fan of working while reclined. It gets a lot of naysayers, but as long as you're still moving around regularly, my setup has been amazing for me. Pic of setup: https://i.redd.it/8oh29a2zwqu81.jpg
I disagree with part of the thrust of this argument. One of the most hidden things in crypto (despite the transparency of the chain), is who owns, controls, buys and sells coins, in particular related parties to the founders. The disclosure in the regulated markets of insider trades and conflicts of interest is much more robust than in crypto. Yes you can see transactions and wallets, but most of the knowledge is speculations and assumptions, rather than disclosure that can be litigated over. Harder for it to be up to the consumer when founders chose what to disclose, and what to obfuscate.

I don't disagree that there are ETNs that work generally as you describe.
California occupational licensing strikes again. Just like the handyman who can’t do jobs > $500 (including materials). There’s a dead spot in that market between $500-$5000 which is the minimum most GCs will do work on.
I think chat support is a paid option only. When I did the transition option, it put me on "Business Starter", but I wouldn't be charged $3 until next month I think.

I posted more details about this here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/comments/urb8...
SD cards have short retention lifetimes (5-10 years under optimal conditions when new, even less with wear), and therefore are undesirable as a component of a "after civilization goes away machine".
Yeah, I am forever thankful that my browser isn’t vending my Bluetooth devices to random websites. I don’t understand why so many people want so much of their machine state to be vended to random websites.
What scenario involves the UK losing an enormous amount of money would be one where they are attempting to "hold a peg"?

I'm confused. Countries manipulate their currency supply in various ways in order to make their money cheaper or more expensive, I get that. But I thought the main goal was to keep exports or imports to a good balance to avoid wrecking a real economy. Like, actual people's lifestyles and jobs and well-being, beyond just the value of an investment instrument

I'm not sure I see the metaphor holding up here, isn't the issue that came up an arbitrage opportunity caused by a peg that in the real world doesn't really exist or which is easy for actual human beings to intervene in?

Are you describing what Russia did? Did they "lose money" with the actions they actually took? It seemed more about adding rules and changing contracts than by spending money on anything in particular, I'm not sure how one would calculate how much money they lost doing it. Or if that's a useful way to think about it really even, nations just have so many other priorities and their money policy is not at all algorithmic...
I don't think threatening to reciprocate the blackmail is something I'd ever want to do, both for moral and legal reasons. I don't think they'd fire me for being a blackmail victim, but I wouldn't be surprised if they fired me for creating an uncomfortable work environment should my coworkers receive those photos.
According go the bureau of labor statistics there are 1.8m people in the entire country who quality as servers and another 720k who are bartenders. Again, that's the whole country.

California as a whole has 60k bartenders and 171k waiters/waitresses- and that includes places that don't serve alcohol.
"This leash demeans us both".
The Myths of Zettelkasten
Maybe Elon is trying to do us all a favor and destroy Twitter by, ironically, embodying the worst qualities of Twitter.
And ID checkers. Think security (commonly referred to as bouncers).
Unless she’s an underage why would you be fired for exchanging pictures with another consenting adult? Perhaps there’s more to it than you’re sharing.

Can she post them publicly to shame you? Perhaps… but I think you’re overreacting. Paying was the first mistake to be host with you. She smelled fear and now will continue to blackmail you!

If I was in your situation I’ll most definitely file a police report asap.
I doubt the audio fidelity over a video call would be high enough to do this same thing, though. Esp. since all of those services have noise reduction stuff in place by default.
Crazy, I also grew up in CA and work in OR. When I read the title I thought this was a classic example of CA's government overreaching in ways OR's would never. I never would have guessed OR was first!
As an early adopter of actions I remember that it was wildly different in its first version (beta perhaps?) than it is today. I have no source to back this up because it was too long ago, but I feel like I remember hearing at the time that the reason it changed so much was _in part_ because of the ADO presence. So I think you're right that the vision was there before hand, but what we have today is very much because of the influence of ADO (in particular, the mandate to run actions _on_ Azure, IIRC).
Is "work" meant as "were" here? If so, I think it's familiarity and wanting to socialize and be around people again that will bring things back to the way they were. There are a few benefits that some people have discovered, like a culture of remote-first work, or living in a smaller city, that won't go back, but I would bet that most things go back.
I would certainly leave again - I'm really surprised that this happened to you twice, but any reasonable company would respect your wishes rather than forcing you into a role you never asked to do. It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong based on your description of the events.
kind of an average mixed environment company with way too many machines : bash, yaml, powershell, a lot of python - everything thats easy to pickup and get to work with
I'm not sure they could fire you for that if they wanted to. I would raise it with HR and file a police report. You are victim and should be treated as such. Understandably it will be embarrassing and you'll have to assess your long term level of comfort with that (like if you want to get another job), but I don't see how it's a fireable issue if it's really just consenting sexual stuff and you come clean.
When I open up Inkscape 1.1, it prompts me for what size of image I'm going to be starting with. This can easily be changed later as well
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I'm disappointed by the lack of mixology portion, because it would've provided an opportunity for a real value-add of any kind. I've had simple 2-ingredient well drink orders made incorrectly at my local watering hole.
You can be salty if you want but the majority of the word has moved on from archaic desktop apps.
Not underage, and there truly is nothing more to it. I wouldn't create a throwaway account on hackernews only to leave out critical information such as that.

I don't think I could be fired for exchanging the photos with her, but if she sent them directly to the people I work beside every day then I can't imagine that'd foster a positive work environment.
> Except that we can trace these transactions on the chain and the on-ramps, exchanges, etc will delist privacy coins and also use the chain to blacklist addresses tied to the scammers, preventing them from actually using that ransomware money and converting it to fiat; rendering it useless.

So centralized action is required to prevent abuse on this supposedly decentralized technology? Seems entirely counter to the point.
People all across the world are going to starve this winter.

In the rich world, probably we mostly will have plenty of food -- just not the bountiful variety that was the abundance our advanced societies created back in the days when we valued abundance. We'll pay way more for it, and those who can't afford to pay more will end up having to make do with what they can get -- but citizens of the rich world won't starve.

Elsewhere around the world, though, it will be a tragically different story. In many places, basic foodstuffs are becoming so rare and expensive that they're beyond the means of everyday people (for example, in Nairobi, where black humor memes about measuring cooking oil with a syringe have become popular: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095396921/the-rising-tides-o...).
Who would you trust instead? Some random guy with a phd that you've never heard of? We're already using NSA recommended algorithms today that are getting weaker everyday. Unless you plan on living off the grid and transact in cash, you don't have much choice except to trust them.
Did you know, Inkscape used to have live sharing of documents.

It was removed because no one wanted to maintain it.

It's not impossible to imagine it being added back in though. Maybe with updated technology.
Also one must purchase the training course itself. The article recommends this $10 course: https://servingalcohol.com/california-responsible-alcohol-co...

Why do you think this course would move the needle at all on binge drinking? Overservice is already illegal. Its much more likely excessive alcohol consumption is happening at home.

On top of that, oh boy, more nanny state totally-not-prohibition-lite.
> Just relatively mundane sexual stuff as you say.

I believe you're over thinking this and honestly shouldn't have sent her any money. Sorry you're going through this.
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“Draft PRs” for the win
I disagree. Controlled substances should have some guidelines and this seems pretty low cost and low overhead on time.

I do agree that most jobs are over licensed. From barbers to landscapers, there's generally too much paperwork. But I'm ok with something that'll help the 3rd leading cause of preventable death in the country.
It's a very nice bonus to whatever companies the state has allowed to issue these certifications. More jobs for those companies, who could argue against that?! Hey I bet some of them are even friends with the governor! :)
That’s something that I’m comfortable leaving up to the market to handle (in a way that safe service feels like something the market won’t address adequately).
Inflation was 4% in 2021 and is aiming at 8%

It's literally inflation rates.

So was 2-4%.

So they didn't do anything but recognize inflation.
Medication, exercise, and building out a list making / journaling process that works for you.
I see you haven't given a single reason to think this actually happened. I suppose there must not be one.
What is your objection, specifically? Is it that canvases are finite? That the default finite size is a paper size? That the background is white? Something else?

I have a lot of complaints about inkscape, but this wasn't one of them.
And? Only advertisers see the harm from bots - being charged for bot impressions.

Outside of that, bots cause the same problems that real people do, making twitter a place people don't want to spend time on/view ads on.

The advertisers need both bad groups removed
The batch export will be super useful. The tiling feature also looks like a lot of fun
Same. I left early 2000's. At one point I wrote a an OpenGL game which ended up on the demo CD that came with the Ultra workstations. It contained a big 3D Sun logo that I created by manually writing the appropriate code in C. It was easy once I figured out that the dimensions of the logo are all very nice even values.

The game itself should still be available on one of those discs. Perhaps someone created an image of it.
> the defense offered the testimony of stereotypical virtues of women such as ‘consensus builders’ and ‘less risky behavior in investments,” the judge wrote in the 23-page opinion. “The court is unpersuaded by this offer of stereotypes for a justification” of the law.

amusing problematic behavior from the defense

> a conservative legal advocacy group that challenged the measure as reverse discrimination.

amusing phrasing from the challenger. conversatives: its just discrimination. don't worry about how academics redefine words to rationalize their own prejudiced behavior, you won't be cancelled for just calling it discrimination
No I like it and I never had a problem with it.
It is tempting to be flippant and to say "well, if Snowden says it's safe too, I'll feel better"

But, realistically, we live in something pretty close to a zero-trust world, and that is especially true with government agencies, be they U.S. or otherwise, as governments around the world have stepped up quite heavily their assaults on their citizens.
At current cost, $100B gets you a 100GW solar PV, peak. Cost is still falling fast.

That much money would better be split with wind.
You obviously know the company/situation better than me, but I think it's pretty unlikely that they'd sack you.

File a police report first, and then take the whole thing (including the police report, and maybe the photos, if you have them) to your boss. Explain that you're really embarrassed, but you're being blackmailed for something that is NOT illegal, that the police are involved, and that the blackmailer has threatened to send the photos to your employer. Ask them to just let you and the police know if they hear from her.

Then tell her you've told your employer already, and she's got no leverage left.

I wouldn't tell her about the police: if they end up charging her (which hopefully they do) she'll hear about it soon enough, and better it comes from them than you.

Good luck!
I really think that the future is Local-First software and FOSS can greatly benefit from the new paradigm [1]. With Local-First software the cloud is just the natural extension for backup and collaboration (real-time or offline) not the sole repository for the data.

[1]Local-first software You own your data, in spite of the cloud:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
Love this stuff.

If you want to really appreciate it, watch one of his videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHksi9lvuHM
Technically the SPARCbook/SPARCbook 3 logos aren’t Sun Workstation boot logos.
Woah. There's not been a requirement for responsible service of alcohol until now?
If the user was banned from Discord for voilating Discord TOS I don't see why the burden should fall on server owners. It should be Discord's responsibility to enforce sitewide rules and take down hateful content.
All those things are single percent of the market, but they are lending legitimacy to the idea of cryptocurrencies.

Yes, using XRP does not burn planet.. directly. But any time businesses say: "We support cryptocurrencies like XRP", plain people hear first 3 words, and become more likely to invest into cryptocurrencies, which are statistically most likely to be Bitcoin or Ethereum.

So if you care about environment, or lack of ransomware, or anything else the OP talks about, the responsible thing is to reject all cryptocurrencies. The small amount of innovation and financial tools provided by XRP, Stellar etc.. is not worth the huge negative effects from bitcoin and ethereum and all the other PoW, [pseudo-]anonymous cryptocurrencies.
Thanks for the correction. He was in jail for 10 months during the investigation, until he was finally released on bail. I think I conflated that with the sentence that he was ultimately handed (with some credit for time served).

So he did serve some time. I'm not sure though if there is a big distinction between jail and prison in Japan like there is in the US though.

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/mark-karpeles-from-mt-gox-out-o...
The tortoise is fine. You think it's never been on its back before? There's a thing called resonance that lets it's get back on its feet.

The real question is how strong am I to flip a hundred fifty pound tortoise without injury?
Same, 1988-1992, then Tadpole until 1996
100% agreed. I already see myself doing this with Github Copilot. If I write a comment or start a line of code in a certain way, I get a much better suggested code completion.