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The need to schedule meetings at unreasonable times is one of the drawbacks of outsourcing and globally distributed teams, no disagreement here.

It's within the (usually hard-fought for) rights of employees in many countries to refuse such meetings. Unless they explicitly signed up for such a schedule of course. However, I would be very surprised if freelancers and people in leadership positions can refuse to participate in such meetings. In turn, they usually have higher salaries.

Of course, it sucks for people in other countries not being able to refuse to work at weird times. But if they could refuse, their country would immediately be much less attractive as an outsourcing destination.

Edit: tl; dr: regular remote meetings should between people in leadership positions. Day-to-day work should be managed by local managers, else it will either suck for everybody or suck enormously for workers in the country with weaker worker rights.
How is having a structured workday where you consistently work the same 9 how window and expecting to spend your evenings with your partner/kids/friends unreasonable?
> With this on-call culture thanks to the 99.99 uptime thats become the de-facto industry standard for most companies, I wonder whether such companies exist anymore !

A lot of companies have terrible on-call processes, bad infrastructure and not enough cost-pressure to fix the infra.

We do offer systems with 24/7 99.9 uptime in SLAs - yet, people are happy to take on-call for a week. They do, because a normal week has zero, or one incidents going on out of hours. Two is considered a lot. At three interrupted sleeps, rotation is offered. At four, rotation is forced and at that point, we usually start to go through full post mortems for all pages to squash this problem.

On top, a long escalation at night means the person is legally not allowed to work usually until noon the next day or longer (10 - 12 hours of mandatory rest). The latter alone is a very good incentive for the company to fix technical issues or processes causing these incidents, because all of a sudden, a person pretty much isn't working for a week. Besides them being effectively drunk after 3 interrupted sleeps, just without the fun.

And similarly, evening work is usually planned 1-2 weeks ahead so we can batch 2-3 hours of evening work together. The person then in turn doesn't work the regular day.

With measures like that, even us as the ops-team can have normal working hours from 8-10 to 16-18 usually. Unplanned work after 20:00 is very rare.
Joyful weekend everyone
"Fear" could be a wrong word here. I think there's contempt involved instead. Which isn't justified either though. Everything is a tool, and should be used in a right context. I.e. for loops can be better justified sometimes (I find them useful around 1% of cases, but when they are they do their job well)
Hold on, so you raised to your manager that you're getting burnt out my late night meetings & his solution was to move you to a role where late night meetings are inevitable?

To be honest, he doesn't sound very good — I'd either try to change manager or change company.

To your wider point — there are still companies that have a more traditional dev vs ops/sysadmin separation. Especially bigger, more traditional businesses (non tech start-ups) that still do their own software dev in-house.

Otherwise, you could get a role where the quality of tooling & support while on call is better. There's a difference being 1st line support in a place where things are always on fire and being 3rd line support in a place where the only time you're getting a call is once in a blue moon and there's a postmortem afterwards to work out how it could've been prevented.
Like signal that still refuses to put their client on fdroid?
The number of Hindi medical degree holders who will seek TEFL TOEC or OET accreditation will be the real test.

As a move to improve domestic medical staffing, it has potential to have huge upsides. But, only if these MD don't seek higher income in the west.
Structure and boundaries in a workday is less a function of the industry and more of manager competency. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, I've seen both sides of the coin.

Preemptive reply: yes, it also applies to 100% uptime services. The trick is to have redundancy at all stages - which is what managers are paid to ensure.
A dirty bomb would render areas uninhabitable - or at least dangerous - for decades after a war is over.

I really don't understand why nuclear power is still being taken seriously. It's expensive and slow to build, expensive and slow to decommission, dirty, unsafe, and strategically risky - not just because of the dirty bomb issue, but because it's not a distributed technology and operates from a small number of critical locations.

Renewables have none of these issues.
That's just plain old corruption... Which is already illegal and immoral as far as I know, no?

Please, I expect deeper conversations than this from HN, don't just create a new account to use whataboutism and a dumb rhetoric of asking simpleton questions instead of refuting my arguments, that doesn't foster any stimulating debate. It just makes you look pathetically dumb.
But right now we are replacing them with coal plants, which has an estimated death rate (only for power generation) of +100k/year.
Don't we have similar terminology for some of human organs. Appendix or some other organs are assumed useless. Personally I feel it's insane to call DNA or organs useless instead of acknowledging that we don't yet understand there true purpose.
See how your wording is super biased? "Charlatans"
the exclusion zone is open to tourism and has accidentally become one of the most successful wildlife sanctuaries. most parts of the zone will expose you to around 1 uSv/hr or less, or about 1/500 the exposure from an hour in an airplane. people go there without PPE
Vlang is younger than the other languages mentioned and just went into beta this year.

It uses GC by default, but its optional (can be "turned off"). Can also manage memory manually. Autofree is to be another option, where the user doesn't have to know about memory management, but will have higher performance than GC. Which will be interesting. Because right now, Vlang with GC and tweaks by the developers, its performing quite well. As mentioned, for autofree, the compiler adds free() calls and the rest is handled by ARC/GC.

The goal, from comments by developers, is to have 3 memory management options. GC, autofree, and manual.
The way I see it, the pressure has been "outsourced" to the employer rather than being an implicit pressure on the employee. Western European companies can also require workers to be on pager duty or work outside normal working hours, but it needs to be treated as actual work, adhere to the regulations, and be appropriately compensated. Prohibitive costs may convince the employer not to exercise this option and instead "outsource" the pressure to employees in areas with more lenient regulations. This is the choice of the employer, not of the employee working in the western European country.
people like to forget DNA has a 3D structure. A lot of the DNA that doesnt encode proteins might be involved, for example, in the association of 3D topological domains or conformational switches that impact chromatin accessibility. Interesting also is when sufficient factors bind to a local region of DNA to change the local chemistry and initiate phase separated domains where regulatory factors might preferrentially bind and thus drive the transcription of the few coding regions, and that's pretty cool too. Just to add some context to your bits-analogy.
I would even say more. Ukraine had a meltdown disaster and all the Jupiter satellites survived so stop caring and refuge yourself under a picnic blanket. Saturn will be fine!.

Europe survived because has paid for very expensive and very urgent fixings. Oh, yes, you always forget that.

And we are again in the starting point, looking at our blankets
Moody’s downgrade UK outlook to negative
As long as we replace nuclear with coal plants, which is what we are largely doing in Europe, I'm strongly pro-nuclear. Coal has an estimated death rate (only for power generation) of +100k people/year.

I am really positive/hopeful for battery tech and solar panels getting better AND deployed more within the decade, and if we were replacing nuclear for that (or wind, or hydro) I'd be happy, but right now we are not doing that and there's just no comparison of the dangers IMHO.

Nuclear is the "big and scary" airplane accident where lots of people die at once so it's in the news around the world, coal is the thousands of people quietly dying every year on car accidents.

Edit: it seems I was wrong and coal itself has not meaningfully increased in EU, it's other non-renewable (gas mainly) that are less dangerous. I believe my point stands though for 2 reasons: they are still a lot more dangerous than nuclear, AND closing/not building more nuclear probably has delayed the closure of many coal plants.
it is in fact objectively the safest base load power source. and economical when financed properly.

but you're right, you can't run paxos on an AP1000
> A dirty bomb would render areas uninhabitable - or at least dangerous - for decades after a war is over.

Russia has literal nuclear weapons that are made specifically for that purpose. They've threatened to use them. Why would they bomb a nuclear power plant to get an uncontrollable release instead of simply dropping a nuclear bomb if they want a nuclear war? Because obviously, that will happen if they're blowing up nuclear power plants.
>I think the issue is that “the disabled don’t need access to everything” ends up with the abled deciding what the disabled deserve to access.

We’re talking about privately owned establishments. No one deserves to be able to go to these places. It’s a privilege to go, not a right. The disabled should have access to any public spaces, but extending that to private spaces is asinine.

Sorry no, I haven’t been to the ramen place, the state mandated they add a wheelchair ramp and they couldn’t afford it. Now it’s a Starbucks.

Who is actually winning here, again?
They never stop. Where is my documents folder ?
Because the crypto in cryptcoins stands for cryptography.
I'm going further to say that every investing is speculative in itself, because investing is the activity of buying an asset, speculating that there will be a return.
that _is_ more likely with batteries, just put them somewhere especially cold or hot--like near an offshore wind farm or a desert solar array--and cut power to the thermal management. they're also more flammable and easier to use as an explosive than a modern reactor
Also tells you about our society where money rules. Most everyone wants more than they have yet will vote for every thing that gives them less today for some theoretical future of being mega wealthy that will never happen.
I am not sure if this counts. Also second hand information but apparently safety in mines has been improved through AI monitoring camera feeds. Alarms/warnings go off when people get to close to certain equipment. This most likely has prevented not only economic losses but probably saved lives.
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I like all those things though...
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It's mind blowing e2e is not a standard. I guess the equivalent is looking back and realising cars and homes did not have locks at one stage
One coroutine crashing and the others continuing to send it messages without noticing was my $40,000 bug.
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Please don't lie about proven facts. It's embarrassing to read it again and again.
"Is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field?"

Yes, it is even the norm outside of the more exploitative environments. Most stable are the in-house dev teams in non-IT industries like financial services, retail, logistics etc.
I'm not convinced that "The catastrophe was limited to 1000 square miles of Ukraine and Russia instead of all of Europe" is the positive selling point it might seem to be.
> then fossil fuels should be a priority ahead of nuclear

We are capable to focus on more than one thing at a time. Of course it doesn't make sense to instantly shut down all of nuclear power stations, just like it doesn't make sense to retire every fossil fuel powered engine at the same time or shut down coal from one day to the next. It's a long and slow process.
Thanks for putting it as 800 years. In fact, we are closer to the black death now than they were to the justinian plague. Just a small thing that was interesting to notice.
which civilian meltdown since chernobyl has attributed cancer deaths? i'm not aware of any confirmed for tmi or fukushima, where the exposure was measured as safe by a wide margin. maybe i'm missing another meltdown?
You know we can have successful wildlife sanctuaries and big tourism zones without a nuclear power plant disaster right? It's called a national park.
>she feared crypto was going to wreak — not just on the startups and investors rushing into the field, but also people betting their life savings on tokens they’d barely researched after hearing about them online

Sorry to sound rude, but if you bet all your savings on something you saw online, something you've barely searched, than you can fall a victim to any scam you come across, online or offline. You can become a victim by investing in something at the bad time, in a bad way, so being a victim is mostly your fault.
Same with self-driving cars. State of the art AI-based classification has an accuracy of 90%. Even if we can get it to 99%, that's still 1% error. Now imagine a car taking hundreds of decisions in a single ride.
More 3D-printed steaks are coming to Europe [video]
And the civil unrest would suck also.
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zero deaths tmi, zero deaths fukushima, what am i missing here?
...good? That's what google fonts is for.
At some point even those tasks must be cleanly stopped and unless you want to play erlang and "let it crash", the actors have a lifecycle as well. Making it explicit will avoid much pain, and ease testing a lot. Also it will make resources consumption more predictable.
Gas is the complement to the intermittency of renewables. This has made it indispensable, even if it is not the largest source

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...
This argument is like - never do anything because we all die.

Maybe other counter argument would be thinking about meteor strikes - don't build nuclear reactors because meteor can hit it.
Elasticity of a market is a scale. Elastic markets quickly adjust demand or supply while inelastic markets require a lot of time if they change at all.

Housing on the supply side is relatively inelastic when compared to other markets. Even if demand is high it might not quickly lead to new construction.

On the demand side the market is also relatively inelastic as moving has a lot of friction compared for instance with not making a luxury good purchase or postponing a holiday.
It can be, but people have to be a bit flexible on both sides.

The most extreme example I have is myself, in France, having calls with people in New Zealand. That's an 11-hour difference. Basically, we'd have them at 8 AM CEST, which is 7 PM NZDT.

8 AM is somewhat early by Paris standards (usual office day begins at 9 - 9:30, with many people coming in around 10) but it's still feasible. I don't know how the day is organized in NZ, but I'd assume being done at 8 PM is a bit late but still tolerable.
But you need to have a pretty large ecosystem / platform to be the size of Apple to be actually benefiting from the huge investment it takes to maintain an OS / distribution like that. Especially the rewrite to Rust, it just makes me wonder the costs / benefits of this.

Isn't there a more reasonable middle-ground, e.g. just saying "we officially support Ubuntu / Fedora" or something like that, and making sure those two distros actually work well out of the box?

As an anecdote, I have got my framework laptop this summer, and it works really well out of the box pretty much anywhere. I'd argue that framework is a pretty direct competitor to system76, except framework seems to be innovating on the hardware part rather than the Linux distro part. Which makes way more sense business-wise to me.
you're moving the goalposts
That's a good point, and I agree - I only wanted to pick up on the point about 'cartoons'. As for whether realistic generated images with real human data sources would have a good effect, it certainly wouldn't have a good effect on preventing further child abuse, and again, as far as I know there's no evidence that it would 'placate' them in the sense of the (widely debunked) catharsis theory.

And of course, I'm not looking forward to the world ushered in by free roam with this technology, mainly for the reasons you stated.
An American company recently rescinded an offer that they made to me because I mentioned the mandatory rest hours between oncall procedures in the interview.

I felt like I dodged a bullet.
Are you confident enough to audit the free software yourself - or pushing the trust back to someone else?
Isn’t that already the case? If a restaurant has a wheelchair ramp, but I still can’t afford to eat there, have they discriminated against me? Where do you think my “rights to patronage” should start and stop?

Why arbitrarily stop at wheelchairs?

Ultimately, if society thinks disabled people deserve full access to all private establishments, society should pay for it. Raise taxes, and fund it.
"The business transaction data included names, email addresses, email content, company name, and phone numbers, and may have included attached files relating to business between a customer and Microsoft or an authorized Microsoft partner."

I'll remember that for the next time someone tries to sell me on overpriced cloud services with the argument that Microsoft is better at protecting data than internal IT is. Maybe they are, but then again, they have a billion dollar bullseye painted on their back. Nobody is going to extend any comparable effort to break into a small local business.
What do you do when there is no sun nor wind ?
Do you agree that in order to come to a fact based conclusion all pros and cons of each power source need to be considered?

I am asking because you only cared to mention the down sides of nuclear.

EDIT: this is not meant to be a provocation, I am genuinely interested to understand if you agree that up AND down sides need to be considered.
> i'm sure no malicious person/business can hack or change it

Words that precede every DeFi hack with a ridiculous nominal dollar value.
I don't believe in self appointed prophets fight for something or against something. I disbelief them the more they don't have any proven expertise in the domain.

The media goes the other way around as they love hype.
>UPDATE: Celebration for S.F.’s $1.7 million toilet canceled after backlash: "The cost is insane."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
Sorry, I got lost in the comment thread and thought your reply was to something else. Honest mistake but I will keep my soapboxing-ish comment up as I believe there is some value for other readers.
North east of Spain and south west of France properties prices will skyrocket now.
Because the political fallout is lower. Reportedly, the US has already outlined the consequences of Russia using nuclear weapons. I haven't heard of anything similar for damage to a nuclear power plant.
Are you perhaps mistakenly attributing deaths caused by the (now known to have been unnecessary) evacuation from Fukushima to the reactor meltdown?
What kind of timezones are we talking about here? Unless your partner is on the other side of the globe, ie 12 hours time difference, you should be able to find a reasonable time for both of you by shifting your work hours a little for the meeting day. Even a 9 hours difference means that one side can have it on 8:00 - 9:00 while other one is 17:00 - 18:00.

Even at 12h difference, otherside can have it on 20:00 - 21:00 (or one hour earlier if you are ok with 07:00 - 08:00) which I wouldn't call late night

A late night meeting implies the other side is not having a similar compromise.
He also seem against the move from Bitcoin as usable money to just a store of value.
The simulation reminds of https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/ just with much weaker graphics
They don't mention what software is used and whether its a commercial package - just "Martin isn't clear on how the de-mixing process works, but he knows it involves elements of AI and machine learning"
Wasn't this a typical reaction of traditionally educated readership to the Modernist literature? Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's La Recherche had a similar reception at first, didn't they? How did the public acquire a taste for this kind of literature?
Here's the obligatory contextual mention of the excellent UK film "Threads": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
Sums up the LaTeX experience quite well imho:

> LaTeX is great for typesetting math.

Q: Ok, great! So how do I typeset this bit of common math?

A: a 20-line barrage of import statements, makeatletter's and definitions that you copy-paste into your preamble and cross your fingers that it won't conflict with the half-dozen other barrages that you copied there to do other bits of common math, often hidden between other Google results with wildly different answers.
Because dropping a nuclear bomb is a clear and attributable act that comes with clear consequences.

An "accident" at a nuclear energy facility can be very easily made to look like it was the work of your enemy, or the work of third parties, or ... who knows? The ambiguity and confusion works in your favour and you can lie at will.

This is a state that most likely just blew up its own undersea natural gas pipelines to send a message and make it clear that it is capable and willing to perform such actions when cornered.

Now, I don't think irradiating Ukrainian territory makes a whole lot of sense, tactically. But I fear what this regime can and will do in desperation.
just make it look like an accident and you are not responsible for starting a nuclear war. counting the number of people accidentally falling out of windows these days certain organizations seem to have more of them..
How do you know if the Signal client running on your phone right now doesn't include a backdoor? Sure it's open source. But how do you know how it was compiled?

What if someone changed the open source before shipping it to the app store?
Exactly. Demand an open source for every encryption app - or at least those offered to the public en masse.

It's not enough that a FOSS alternative _exists_; it needs to be the case that closed-source encryption is not considered as an actual encryption "end".
> but because it's not a distributed technology and operates from a small number of critical locations.

I would also think from a defense point of view, this is good, as if you have a strategical asset, defending could be easier to defend a set of wind power sources or solar, which are distributed. From an attacker point of view, if they want to smash a country's power sources to gain an advantage it could be easier to send few missiles around low protected wind / solar sources, than put off a well defended nuclear plant