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> inappropriate conduct with children

Please specify, precisely, what can and cannot be discussed within the bounds of universal appropriateness with children under the age of 10. If your response is not universal, then you simply reveal that the law under discussion is authoritarian and has no business existing.

Children under the age of 10 can be victims of abuse. Most kids by age 10 have a rough idea about the mechanics of sex. Children can live in homes with loved ones who are gay, lesbian, transgender, asexual, intersex, queer, and more. Children may themselves be homosexual and realize this about themselves before age 10.

An authoritarian approach is to ban discussion and attempt to wrest control in domains the state has no business being in.

A wiser approach is to lay down recommended principles, and allow common law to adopt those which actually are useful for the society of the governed.
What if you have finance customers who don't like commingled data, and you want to sell them a service and tell them with a straight face that their tenanted database isn't one bad query from serving up their data to someone else?
I do this too. I find that if I don't occasionally stop and listen to my brain (sometimes for extended periods of time), I find out later that it was trying to tell me something important and I was too busy to listen.
The only bad managers I've ever really had are the ones that don't realize they're responsible just as much as their reports when shit goes sideways. To that point, I've had technical and non-technical managers and it doesn't matter, we can speak a different language but as long as we realize we're on the same boat and heading in more or less the same direction things are great. This requires trust, understanding of goals not implementation, and empathy.

Almost every bad manager I've had basically lacked at least two of those last three things if not all three.

I will say, the one big advantage of a technical manager is they can often be used as a good rubber duck for logistics around changes. Should we do {A, B, C} or {X, Y, Z}? You can get into the technical with them and explain the intricate trade-offs of the decision and how that might impact things. Their technical and political knowledge of the situation can give very good clarifying answers.
It's rational for most candidates to study interview prep books because that is what the majority of companies want. Not saying I like it, but why would you want to filter out candidates who are just using basic common sense?
Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shilling? (2020)
Who said that you have to use inheritance for shapes? I do know that it is an often used example, but similarly to Animal/Bird it has no real world relevance.

I would even argue that inheritance is not the most important feature of OOP, but objects are. Inheritance is useful, for example GUI Nodes are famously good fit for it, but object encapsulation is the essential feature, missing that would pretty much disallow large swathes of programs from existing.
We already have car immobilizers on leased cars. This would just make it innate to the car's computer instead of an external tool, making it more reliable and harder to remove.
DNA is a highly dense information (low entropy) storage and transmission medium that (under the right conditions) is able to self-replicate (Similar for RNA). DNA contains the blueprint to construct the "computer" that it runs on which is pretty amazing. An inanimate object contains no DNA, can't replicate, can't "decide" to act. Living organisms composed of and constructed by DNA can process inputs and use the incoming data to decide to act upon their environment. Even simple worms,fungi and bacteria have processing capability and the ability to manipulate their environment. Rocks? Not so much (ok, to clarify, not at all).
In some cases true. In my case, I don’t allow keys to come and go: they’re always defined. The JSON schemas validate that. But I use null to describe “there is no value for this key yet” (such as dateDeleted). If I were to implement merge patching, maybe by turning on a flag in my given framework, I’d be in for a surprise about what my null values now mean (that the schema catches immediately and never makes it to prod.)

I’m of two minds. I like how simple it is. But they’ve basically ignored a problem because the solution is complex. And so they’re hijacking a data type in a rather perilous way. Maybe they should have specified a magic string value that is treated as “DELETEME” ;)
You would be astounded how many people care about the form and not the function. They live among us. They vote.
Thank you!

F-Droid is one of those projects that adds so much peace of mind and usability to my computational life. It is a must-have.
Well for my own startups I don't do system design interviews. I don't think they're perfect and there are better ways of measuring the same thing if you have more time per candidate.

Big companies like Google have to sometimes choose mediocre processes that are Lindy and agreed on. System design interviews are less bad than coding interviews IMO, and they are much more scalable for Google.

I think I'm better at spotting genuine experience vs preparation than most interviewers because I've done a lot of interviews. On the other hand I don't think I can tell 100% of the time, and it's not black and white to begin with.

Another point, your specific background may not matter for L6 roles. I want to know if you can build the sort of thing you will be building in the role you're interviewing for. I don't care if you're good at building something else. This is less true for L4 and L5.
In general, 90 day acute care stays are unusual and the reality is that you’re looking at a transition to a nursing home or rehab facilty.

Once you stop progressing and exceed that limit, at that point you’re self-funding your care until you cannot, and then become Medicaid eligible. If you live in a place with beds and have family that can fight to get you into a good facilty, you’ll love out your life there or transition to home care.

All the critiques dance around the fact that the US doesn’t have universal healthcare so there a variety of hills and valleys that people fall off of and waste billions in the process.
Agreed. This reads like the $1 million system did what the company needed it to do (safely archive code to prevent more loss of old games) but it didn’t do exactly what this developer wanted.

There are various good points scattered in the article for the author’s specific use case, but it’s written as if the entire company was mistaken to not make this decision revolve around this one developer.
The Department of Homeland Security paid out a lot of money for the standardization of addresses. Plenty of people who used to have RR (Rural Route) 4 for an address now have a five or six-digit house number, calculated from the center of the nearest town that somebody thought should be counted.
We already have that though, it's called repossession. This feature just removes the human barrier and makes it vulnerable to hacking.
That is meditation.
But programming languages and frameworks do compare themselves with others, regularly and in many different ways.
As I said, "Overriding a website's fonts with your browser settings doesn't really help, because sites often use pixels and other dimension units that make your site unreadable if you use a different font than what they tested with."

Of course that can also be fixed, but there's only so far you can take this. I have the technical ability to edit CSS, but I don't reasonably have the time to do it for every site I visit.
They always tell us, when you're interviewing candidates, they're also interviewing you. Show them why they should work here.
This proposal is not intended to force Apple to work with anybody else. It’s intended to stop them from actively preventing others from working with them.

The example given in a few other comments is allowing anyone to build an iMessage capable app for Android. There’s no requirement that Apple builds this themselves, but it’s currently impossible and/or restricted by Apple. I don’t know enough about the How to comment on that part.
I wrote the article in a fit of anger because someone (on hackernews) said that Amazon spent a lot of money on security therefore its better than whatever [you] could possibly need.

The main thesis of the post is that sometimes incentives are not aligned and you still need to think critically about what you bought and what its intended purpose is, the cost of a thing does not mean it fits your need.

You can pull a train with a Bugatti Veyron, but its not the right tool just because it costs as much or more than a train does.
Full article here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368849088_A_highly_...
You can still have separate ACLs, databases, tables and even row level access control even if you share database servers.
A number of vendors sell address correction software, and I imagine that the DMV can afford such a product.
Totally agree. For me, the original is far easier to read than the "better" or "best" versions.

Initiate rant mode:

- The gray on gray is like a joke, except it's not. I get the theory and alleged benefits. I get that some do prefer it, especially for IDEs. I get that some are happy to see (or at least apply) it all over the web. It just does not seem to apply here. Man alive. Literally making it harder to differentiate the text.

- I don't mind adjusting the browser width to get the lines exactly the right length for my screen and reading preference. Actually, I far prefer it over all the other options. This is like a tragedy-of-the-commons or lowest-common-denominator or dumbing-down-on-the-false-premise-of-being-smart issue. Instead of utilizing what we have, and encouraging people to learn and become capable with the simple and flexible tools, it's one size fits all (or, you pick the size you think I want). Only it's not.

End of rant. Sheesh.
Well, no, coz you can use refrigerant like CO2 and that could be taken from atmosphere.
Just like with the deliberate sabotaging of non-certified (read: cheap) USB cables to make them slower, HN posters never fail to defend Apple at every opportunity.
> and therefore the value is null

That depends on the interpreter: A good implementation of json distinguishes between defined and undefined keys in the object. Think hasattr(obj, "key") in python, or undefined != obj["key"] in js.
Long ago, I lived in Alamogordo, NM. My wife and I got a Christmas card from my mother, never one for details, addressed simply to "my last name, Alamo, Mexico" - no zip, nothing. Somehow, it got to us. I always guessed it was a small enough place at the time that the newest person with that last name was known to the postal employees.
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CEO salaries alone are the wrong metric. Not that I'm defending them at all (they're ridiculous) but another way to look at it:

As one example, the CEO of Kaiser was the highest paid nonprofit CEO at ~$18m[0] in 2021. That seems egregious until you realize Kaiser had $93b in revenue in 2021[1].

As one example from healthcare, the CEO of Moderna was paid $18m in 2021[2]. Moderna reported $18b in revenue in 2021[3].

You see this over and over in discussions about nonprofits, charities, etc. In most cases the executive leadership team is running a huge organization - in the case of Kaiser nearly $100b in revenue and 300k employees. Competent leadership at that scale is expensive.

In an ideal world this wouldn't be the case and individuals with these qualifications would be willing to take even more significant pay cuts for the "greater good" of whatever the mission of the nonprofit it. Per usual that's not the world we live in.

Speaking personally, I'd give pause to working with, donating to, etc an organization doing $100b in revenue with an executive team making 1/20 (or whatever) they would make elsewhere. In some limited cases for those who have "made their money" it would be a great thing. For anyone else I would assume they're either taking a HUGE pay cut for the cause (great thing, but unlikely) or completely incompetent, embezzling, etc.

[0] - https://www.erieri.com/blog/post/top-10-highest-paid-ceos-at...

[1] - https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/kaiser-foundation-he...

[2] - https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-lobbying/34...

[3] - https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder....
A hot seller, that was. Wikipedia says:

> Reasons cited for the failure of the System 9000 were its poor performance and high price, which led to the IBM PC being used where price was of concern, and to other 32-bit microcomputers being used where performance mattered.[10] IBM closed its Instrument division in January 1987, reassigning the approximately 150 employees that had worked for it to other positions.

150 employees? they'd use that many people to give names to the broom closets.
If it's clear that you have good reason to close the store, then you close the store. If you're closing a profitable store to avoid unionization, then you don't close the store. There's no need to wait, just don't close profitable stores in retaliation for union activity.

It's just like now: if an employee is bad, then you document it and fire them. If you're firing them to avoid unionization, then don't fire them. There's no need to wait, just don't fire employees in retaliation for union activity.
the volume in a pipe is a lot less than what you'd find in a tank, especially considering the pressure in said pipes is usually one tenth of a psi (.6 kPa)
Since that conversation was so popular, I thought people here might be interested in more information. Guess only one side of this story grabs people's attention.
An entrepreneur is someone who "who organizes and operates a business". So unless you become a free peasant somewhere, you will invariably be part of the cycle of buying and selling that "supports" some entrepreneur.
> If that piece of plastic was made with the intent of being eye-catching than I think it's fair to say that "it's trying to catch the eye"

Ok, but the intent does not reside in the plastic, the intent was in the person who designed the piece of plastic to catch the eye.

> Your thought experiment doesn't hold; if someone were trying to dress attractively and a blind person doesn't see them, does that mean they're not trying?

The article seems to imply that these inanimate objects exert some kind of influence on us (and possibly on other inanimate objects?). If they possess this kind of woo-woo influence why does it matter if we can see them? The philosopher in the article seems to be saying that they can draw her form a distance without her even seeing them.
If it was already in Warsaw, it's possible some bored civilians found the postcard and decided to go to your address and put it in the mailbox...
https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
Interesting; I think this should be more or less the same all over Europe, but it apparently is not. The Swedish tax agency has never required such a certification but the manufacturer is required to self-certify the POS, in addition to that you need a serial connected certified control unit that stores all the raw receipts (actions) of the POS.

Swedish info; if yo have the same for from france I would be interested. It's not easy to translate the PDF:s into something useable sadly.

Webpage about this process:
https://skatteverket.se/foretag/drivaforetag/kassaregister.4...

Cryptographic control unit:
https://www4.skatteverket.se/download/18.7d4d4f0515244e542f5...

Requirements of the POS:
https://www4.skatteverket.se/download/18.566df4d617d171254ec...
You could just call them asians as is widely accepted since forever.

There is nothing wrong with using more generic term if you don't know exact nationality of the person.
This should be put into a resume.
TLS doesn't add that much complexity unless you're actually writing your own handshake code.

> with it come additonal vulnerabilities that a HTTP-based site doesn't have

This strikes me as being a very strange point to make. HTTP includes no security whatsoever. HTTPS includes quite a lot of security. HTTPS may have vulnerabilities, but even so it's still certainly far more secure than HTTP.
And they pay well like FAANG? Examples?
Wow I wish this had been published a year ago!

This is exactly what I've been looking for (but now I'm heavily invested in a full fledged CRM)!

Thank you for this
> I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but why should a person be allowed to maintain use of an item they don’t own and are delinquent on?

> an item they don’t own

That's the problem, you don't own anything. We're already quickly moving into a future where cars you "buy" have random features locked behind yearly subscriptions that can be remotely disabled if you don't pay, the only reason you can even still "buy" cars instead of renting them is because full self driving isn't capable of safely driving the car back to the manufacturer on its own yet.
Network effects can be overcome locally, by talking with your contacts and getting them to move to a new app/communication mechanism. It takes time, but compelling arguments will win in the end.
I didn't realize the app was still being worked on. It's been years since the UI update and it's always been amazingly buggy (across 3 different phone). I'm always impressed by how broken it is - especially if you have a slow connection. Downloads will randomly go into a weird frozen state where they can't be stopped. The download status will change when you change tabs/sections. Sometimes download will go past 100% (I managed to get past 200% the other day). If you leave FDroid in the background or lock your phone then it's almost guaranteed to not work

I almost exclusively use FDroid, it's an amazing project. But I've never seen an app with so many issues
So given that they have the legal right to come to your house and forcibly take a leased car from you if you miss payments, a few nag features honestly seem like an improvement.

I would just want to be sure as hell that a car I own outright wouldn't even have the hardware available to do such a thing.
Getting people to agree on what the problem is and to agree to a common solution is usually the biggest hurdle to solving any big problem. The first step is to get people to agree on the problem as a group. Second, build trust among the group. You build trust by making sure that people are laser focused on the outcome. Don't let people forget what their goal is. Third, define a solution in which everyone has input on it. Finally, plan and implement the solution. It's a long and difficult path but otherwise people will not help or, worse, people will work against it in spite or with the idea that they have a better way to solve it.
Hi, Author here. thanks for reading my poorly written rant!

The issue was that nobody ever said what the system was designed for and equally nobody was open to the idea of doing things differently until things went pop.

The main thesis of the article is supposed to be that it doesn't matter what something costs or how much money is invested if it doesn't solve your needs.

I wrote it a long time ago in a fit of aggravation over someone on hackernews waxing poetic about how much amazon invested in their security- without much regard as to what it was actually spent on.
While ADHD medications are relatively safe, you really don’t want to start messing with anxiety medications. All of them have side effects and need to be dosed properly. Benzos are very quickly addictive. Beta blockers can kill you. Antidepressants can fuck you up.
The IRS also has some of these dedicated 5-digit ZIP codes. For example, 00501 is the IRS processing center in Holtsville, NY. (According to Wikipedia, this is also the lowest-number ZIP code currently in use in the US.)
I think the overlap between meditation and reflection is significant but hardly total.

Listening to your mind is reflection, but meditation usually involves broader mental activities including ignoring your transient thoughts and focusing thoughts.
I do both! I have an active imagination so sometimes it can be very pleasing to drive without music and focus on my thoughts. It can also be great to crank the radio. Different strokes for different folks is my guess on this
The problem with this is that I think it plays on good nature of people. Ford right now says it's for leased cars but it feels like a step to normalize restricting and milking people later on. It also open a whole new attack vector these companies are not ready to secure
2 years old, article about paywalls behind paywall: https://archive.md/IqRY3
> Always pisses me off. University teaches the principles of ACID and how hard databases work to adhere to these principles, and then so called "NoSQL" comes along and says "lol we have eventual consistency".

99% of the organisations that pride themselves on using "real databases" and ACID aren't actually using those guarantees or gaining anything out of them. Transactions are inherently useless in a web service, for example, because you can't open the transaction on the client, so the part of the system where the vast majority of consistency issues happen (the client <-> server communication) will always be outside the transaction boundary. ACID fanboys love to talk about how all the big name internet companies are built on RDBMSes, and fail to mention that most of them were built on MySQL 3 which never actually had working ACID in the first place.

If MongoDB had come first and SQL/ACID RDBMSes had come after, we'd recognise them for what they are: a grossly overengineered non-solution to the wrong problem.
Hopefully ford patents this and then decides to bury it so nobody else will be able to use it. Too much potential for abuse by 3rd party, or even nefarious actors.
You can do the same thing with objects though.

I have "utilities" which can be used with objects. Per your example, if object(wall) and object(chair) both share the attribute(color) then they both can utilize function(paint). The only prerequisite would that they are paintable.
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Not even that. Simply being bored... good, old fashioned bored with nothing to do, no feeds to check; a lot of us are missing this part of the human experience these days. We constantly distract ourselves and I think we're missing a crucial part of the ideation/inspiration process.
Agreed. I wonder if it falls into traps that simply didn't exist in the past, and release notes about breaking changes regarding those increasing blurry-but-not-killed modes were ignored.
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People rate their mood lower and show changes in behaviour after a period of doing nothing.

The main thrust of this paper is that research should consider a rest period as a factor in studying human mood and behaviour.
The obvious problem with this is that you'd be sending all your (presumably proprietary) source code directly to ChatGPT, i.e. OpenAI, i.e. Microsoft, with a dubiously vague license to use it to improve the ChatGPT product.

I can't think of a single company I or someone I know has worked at that has a security department/person that would allow this. Maybe very small businesses wouldn't care that much?
As a kid I had two recess modes: maniacally active or laying on the hill staring at clouds the entire time.

I miss the cloud staring. I did my best kid philosophy work then. I tried it last week and I just hear tinnitus. But even without grown up problems I would still probably be distracted by other grown up problems.
There is a nonzero amount of computation and information existing in the dynamics of a river. This suggests a difference to humans in degree, not a difference in kind.
this comes from the leetcode oriented hiring process

the process optimizes for people who can repeatedly practice and memorize a set of problems 1000s of times until they can solve them in a few minutes

building real software in practice requires creativity and experience which is not what they hire for