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If I look at my streaming platform subscriptions (very few anymore), AppleTV is still a source of more good series than any other: Separation, Ted Lasso, Acapulco, The Morning Show, etc. YMMV. If I think of cancelling it, I think, "well, but they do have good shows now and then."

So turning a movie almost no one sees into a hit series makes total sense. "Theatrical release" still has some prestige with actors, but they'll get over it someday.
For emails, I generally feel these are a 24hr thing. I turn off email alerts so I can focus on my tasks then check a few times a day only.

I used to filter CC emails into their own folder for reading maybe once a day which worked mostly well but occasionally people can't seem to use to/CC as they are supposed to.

Calls I always try to pickup or callback asap but my job calls usually means urgent.

Chat like Teams I'm mixed. Often it's urgent but too many people use Teams in my current company like email and it's really disruptive to work flow getting 50 unimportant messages a day + long "just one more thing' task requests. Ive considered putting an auto-reply of "if it's not on JIRA it's not a task" but that would not come across well.

But generally I feel a better law change would be right to work your contracted hours. Put the onus on the company that they have to get your workload to the contracted hours or pay overtime. Some exceptions for execs on top end pay, but generally this would be a better win for employees, and then you can get that after work call but your being paid extra, which in itself will make people think twice about calling etc when they know there is a cost.
> Not sure I follow - isn't rustc still only a compiler frontend to LLVM, like clang is for C/C++?

The rustc source tree currently includes LLVM, GCC, and Cranelift backends: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/c6db1ca3c93ad69692a4c...

(Cranelift itself is written in Rust.)
>> but every rule - however well-intentioned - steals attention and creativity away from entrepreneurs

Really? Every rule? How about safety in the workplace? Hardhats for construction workers? No more asbestos in the walls? I think the rules setting standards for cars/trucks have prevented vast numbers of accidents. Lord knows what insurance rates would be like without limits on how much a truck can carry, how fast it may drive. The innumerable rules that create and protect intellectual property rights have served entrepreneurs well too. And there was that ozone hole thing.

Here is an idea: Lets remove the rules about embezzlement. When an employee takes from an employer that employer can fire them and sue to get property back. No need to involve the police. Let the hand of the free market separate the trustworthy employees from the bad.
Startups, and anyone else can still roster support.
Despite claiming 24/7 it's a democratic country ruled by the rule of law, there's a lot ideological abuse of the laws used against ideological opponents going on in France. Somehow non-ideologically threatening criminals get a free pass to do whatever they want.

Source: I'm living in that lunatic asylum.
They're really excited about AI and its potential to act as a major disruptor so they're trying to get their finger in a lot of pies. There's probably some deeper planning going on beyond that, but I think that's the core driver.
But who really pays? The employer? Yes, at first, but the cost is passed straight on to consumers. Prices are sky high in Australia for this reason, businesses have many laws that each increase prices by a fraction of a percent - almost imperceptible - but cumulatively very noticeable.
Employment contracts here usually state that you work X hours a week, likely 38 or less unless your union did a bad job, and can only work more if the hours are "reasonable" according to a bunch of criteria. This was previously enough to cut down on most of this kind of nonsense, but has not proven sufficient in the age of smartphones.
It may not qualify as a life saving drug, but really it ought to be. The long-term quality of life with untreated and/or resistant psoriatic arthritis is awful.

Also, biologic drugs are money printing machines if they survive the FDA approval process, as they can manage the symptoms but the disease itself is incurable. Since they are brand new, they need promotion to raise awareness, and they pay for themselves after a few years.

Given all of that, irritating as they may be, the major ad spends make a lot of sense.
It has some really serious drawbacks, like needing to repeatedly synchronize and desynchronize orbits. That makes it crazy complex even on the context of crazy futuristic space machinery.

That "isn't competitive" is quite an understatement. But yeah, technically it doesn't break any law of Physics.
For a while I wanted Signal to get popular so I wouldn't have to use other less private and secure apps, but now... I use it with close friends and close family... and that's it. I don't even mention it to most... I fear that popularity would bring more attention to the app and, with it, political and legal issues.
I meant to type "no qualms"
I've dabbled in management a few times in my career. This meant attending manager-only meetings and trainings. I'll never forget one time when a manager in a focus group said something along the lines of, "The tech sector is going through a rough patch, so we can turn the screws on our employees and they'll have to take it because they will have a hard time trying to find a job somewhere else." This is at a company where most of the employees are on work visas, so losing their job can very rapidly escalate into having to leave the country in short order.

After I picked my jaw up off the floor I realized I simply lacked the scruples I'd need to be "one of them." I also started looking into every legal protection I had available to me in my jurisdiction.

I know not every manager is like that. I'd like to think I wasn't. But there are enough of them that think that way that legal protections often need to be there.
I work for FAANG and have had one page outside of working hours over that last 12 months. I do not respond to emails on weekends or evenings. I do not turn my work laptop on during vacation at all. I leave at home in a safe.
Yes, we know increased profits always go to the worker. Particularly when the business needs to rely on exploiting them to make those increased profits.

Let me try your logic here...

Employees benefit from no paid annual leave! How you ask? The employer is able to offer better service to customers, and make more money, and the employee can negotiate a higher salary from the more profitable business.

Am I doing this right? Workers give up more rights but in theory they can negotiate higher pay because the business is more profitable?
> This law reduces the extent to which flexible employees can add (and extract, via hight salary!) value, and the extent to which customers receive timely service.

If you're paying someone to be on-call, this is not an issue.

This is about unpaid out-of-hours work.
> Like the Russians who are invading Ukraine

The insinuation here is that even the civilians are invaders? OP is talking about what's brushed aside as collateral damage, especially easily when things go south overseas.
No.

If you have additional authority you also have additional accountability.

When acting as an agent of the government, you don't have the same set of rights (both more and less) as one would have when acting in a commercial (agent of a corporation) or individual capacity. These are all very distrinct and (somewhat reasonably) well demarcated legal roles.

These fundamental principles (with varying levels of default qualified immunity) have been established across many sovereigns for centuries.

This person is a moron.
I strongly urge you to attend a history class, because only part of that is comparable to funding international wars for no gain or defensive reason. If the America of 1943 had the choice between its people or Ukraine, it would choose its people. Because that’s literally what we did while England and Poland was being bombed by the Nazis. It wasn’t until the Japanese made us get involved that we did anything. The closer example to now is indeed the cold war, but a lot of the “war on communism” was not only incredibly disruptive to smaller countries, and its efficacy over the long term was questionable, especially considering the USSR died out naturally.
Can somebody convince Musk to start making planes now? Flying on Boeings is kinda getting scary now, and Airbus standing alone is not healthy.
Isn't what you're describing the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees? In the US, the protections you're describing exist if you make less than ~$60k. Above that amount and you're exempt from being entitled to overtime.
Unfortunately that is the minority use case.

Most currencies are dogshit remittance tools but have the benefit of being harder to regulate and monitor than PayPal, western union, swift etc.

You're probably right, but they will be centralised cryptos and thus kind of defeat the whole point.
Not just was, it continues to be a scam.
pre-dispute arbitration agreements are bad.

https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/

there are some very few aspects that can be positives under some conditions (speed, informality, etc.), it is almost certainly outweighed by the negatives.
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The article contains the literal quote "It means database partitioning — of worlds." I don't think it is claiming that UO invented partitioning.
> Employees benefit from calls out of hours. How? The employer is able to offer better service to customers, and make more money, and the employee can negotiate a higher salary from the more profitable business. Employees who are inflexible cannot offer the same level of service to their employer and its customers; they'll on-average be paid less and measures like this increase production costs, making goods and services slightly more expensive.

The business can put that into their contract so that a prospective employee can make a conscious decision:

For example, I have two offers, one for x% higher salary but the contract stipulates a requirement for me to be available after-hours between Xpm-Ypm on x days of the week, I can then make the decision whether the x% more money is worth the stress and the free time I have to give up.

That's how our business introduced on-call: it's opt-in and there is specific remuneration for being on call and for responding to an issue.
An unrelated point on that note -

The Russian army is trying to restrict phones amongst their troops right now, from what I can tell. The soldiers who need telegram the most to handle their own logistics and strategy, because that is horrificly a thing, need telegram.
That sounds awful to me. I spent maybe 1 or 2 days reading the woolidge bash guide, and the Dylan araps bash Bible and now I have that skill forever. Sure I spent more time practicing but I can craft exactly what I want without even thinking about it. I value that knowledge. Use shellcheck and the bash lsp and that's it.

But they way you talk about makes me feel weird. It honestly sounds a little insane.
I just thought of this, so separate reply. Didn’t CSIRO enforce their WiFi patents pretty thoroughly?
I have a project that uses a proprietary SDK for decoding raw video. I output the decoded data as pure RGBA in a way FFMpeg can read through a pipe to re-encode the video to a standard codec. FFMpeg can't include the Non-Free SDK in their source, and it would be wildly impracticable to store the pure RGBA in a file. So pipes are the only way to do it, there are valid reasons to use high throughput pipes.
While I agree with OP that this is a clear cut case of no 5th amendment protections, I can't agree with your reasoning: the fact that police officers have qualified immunity means that in theory they can, in fact, plead the 5th when charged with something that would fall outside of the qualified immunity. We've had several high-profile cases of police officers being charged with murder recently, and I don't believe a single one was compelled to testify against themselves.
It's just a very narrow rule. The government has an explainer on it (https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/hours-of-w...), and their example of after-hours contact which might be legitimate involves 3 hours of document preparation due the next morning.
non-shadiness: would u please explain?

they dont offer full cloud services, but if you can accommodate, Railway (https://railway.app/) has served me well
We could live in a peaceful world because there are circles of protection around the territory, people, organizations, etc.

For example, you can express all the democracy you want in the US but you have F35s, aircraft carriers, etc that supports the system. Like it or not.
Start with a theoretical employee who offers no value and gets paid zero. Dial up their usefulness and consider what happens. The greater the value an employee offers, the stronger their negotiation power in pay discussions. It's not more complicated than that.
Correct. It's a cool and unique piece of space history, even though it never went to space.

Early Space Shuttle designs had jet engines for powered landings or ferry flights. But they were too heavy and had to be removed from the final design.

https://avgeekery.com/201522how-the-us-space-shuttle-lost-it...
> But completely eliminating planned on-call rotations is not part of the goal.

It certainly should be. You want your app supported 24x7 then pay for three shifts.

If the government won’t make it a law then IT workers can make it a demand when they unionize.
I'm an Australian and I'm really surprised this law is needed. I would be very surprised to hear somebody was fired for ignoring email after hours.
New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls
I'm saying nothing about bootstrapping. What I'm saying is that difficult geography is not a blocker if the economics are sufficient. People built and regraded the hills around Oakland, Seattle, and LA because the economy was there first. The geography is an expensive inconvenience no one wants to deal with, not an unmanageable fact of life.
Interesting, thanks for the insights.
Same here. The fact is no one can be on call 24/7. People need downtime. I have never worked with a manager who demanded people be contactable at any time. I have been on call but that makes sense. Note that on a good team, being on call is easy because the service rarely goes down.
Typical whinging Aussie business owner. You lot won't be happy until you turn us into another America, with at-will employment and healthcare tied to employment like a yoke around an ox.

You are neglecting to mention the power imbalance that exists between employees and employers. Like economists who view all actors as fully informed and rational market participants, your viewpoint is fantastic on paper, but in real life there are centuries of examples of ordinary workers getting exploited if regulations like these are not in place.

And hey, you might be one of the good bosses who will shrug and say "sure, no problem" if an employee wants to prioritise their life over their job. There are plenty who won't, and this law will help reign them in.
Par for the course since at least 1947 when they ditched the name "Department of War" for "Department of Defense".
There are claims that Signal has already been compromised by the Five Eyes Intel Agencies, albeit through bribery rather than the overt coercion we see here. The key change is that Signal can no longer guarantee end-to-end encryption based on a passphrase tied to the app itself, and known only to the user.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974
Tech CEO swears off Silicon Valley's latest craze: 'I f–– hate gen AI'
Do you actually know they are easy to fix?

Here on hacker news we have a long tradition of software people claiming that some property of a tangible world, like ‘no such material physically exists’ are easy to fix.
Europe has OVH, Scaleway, etc, but why don't they grow as fast as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud? Besides being a cloud provider, there are some essential cloud-native applications missing. Take for example the area of Data Science: is Databricks or Snowflake available in any European cloud provider? It's not only a question of IaaS, it's having the same PaaS and SaaS offering as the others.
My cofounder from Life360, started Hubble Network, with this in mind. Add me on LinkedIn - Chris Hulls - and I'll reply to you there.
What possible bugs can there be in those? They are quite simple to use and work as expected.
I hate to say it depends, but, it depends.

If you have local hardware (16-24 gb of video card), you should be able to use a number of different ml approaches, including LLMs. You could also try a forest classifier, or other approaches, but without specific about your data, it might be a little challenging to rec one.

I would try OpenAI or Anthropic. You should be able to fit all your categories in a prompt, and then ask the specific item. Something like >>

You are a classifer agent. Here is a list of categories and subcategory.

-item 1
-item 2
-...
-item 776

The details of the channel are x, and here are a few descriptions.

---
The above could work if you can fit all the categories and description in one prompt. Both OpenAI and claude are pretty large.

The downside of this approach is that it's very hard to predict the classification with any reliability.

The upside is that it's fast and very likely to fit your budget. GL
There is literally a U.S. law nicknamed the “Hague Invasion Act” that allows the president to authorize military action if an international body attempts to prosecute American citizens for war crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...
> Why couldn't splice just be reimplemented as vmsplice?

A possible answer that's currently just below your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351870

> vmslice doesn't work with every type of file descriptor.
Nope - A large portion of the world works like this. If you work for a place which demands you work all of the time, you either work for an abusive employer, or you get paid a lot of money to be at their beck and call.

If the employer is abusive, find another job. If you are paid a large salary to be a slave to company, consider finding a job with a better work/life balance.
I had similar experiences at my last employer when hiring last fall.

In both cases, the fraud was easily made plain when I asked details about their work history. In one case, they claimed to live in the same metro area I had previously lived for 18 years, but couldn’t answer any basic questions about the place. In another situation, they claimed a workplace that was in a community I was familiar with and that was far too small to have corporate headquarters of any type I wouldn’t be familiar with.

After 5-10 minutes of probing, both candidates bailed on the interview realizing they were wasting their time.

They also exhibited some of the other signs as described at the link - no employment profiles on LinkedIn or just a basic profile, names that didn’t match their ethnicity, etc.

I have no evidence or intuition to conclude they were North Korean, as employment fraud is certainly not limited to North Korea. I can’t imagine either of the candidates I spoke to surviving even casual scrutiny, so I highly doubt this kind of fraud results in much success.
In Hungarian the people I know use felhő and not cloud. I don’t know what they say in actual IT circles but to my ears “cloud” sounds very awkward if stuck in a Hungarian sentence.

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felh%C5%91alap%C3%BA_sz%C3%A1m...
I would not really consider anyone “behind” when it comes to sniffing their own farts about LLMs.

Everyone is just engaged at a different cycle in the fraud.
Yes, it's unlikely that a defence industry won't ever seem 'necessary'.

However, if we are going to take an ethical perspective, it seems like a particularly inopportune time to be joining the industry given that the intended customer (the US government) has refused to abide by its own laws with regard to selling weapons to regimes that fail to meet the necessary standards.
For me, the interesting thing about Japanese work culture is that they pay white collar jobs overtime.

Paid overtime seems to be a blue-collar only thing in most English-speaking countries.
> This increases the time you spend proofing other’s work (tedious) versus time you spend developing a solution in code (fun).

I find that I don't use it as much for generating code as I do for automating tedious operations. For example, moving a bunch of repeating-yourself into a function, then converting the repeating blocks into function calls. The LLM's really good at doing that quickly without requiring me to perform dozens of copy-paste operations, or a bunch of multi-cursor-fu.

Also, I don't use it to generate large blocks of code or complicated logic.
FWIW, (i.e., for some historical fun) Dr. Dobbs Journal published a program called "Small C Compiler" by Ron Cain back in 1980. [1]

Later, it was expanded by James Hendrix into a full book with a more complete implementation. [2] (As a kid, coming across this book in the bargain bin at CompUSA was what led to me learning C. I still have my copy!)

[1] https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/p...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Small-Compiler-Language-Theory-Design...
This is not a Navy recruiting ad, this is an ad to recruit shipbuilders. The vast majority of those jobs are civilian. If this author had spent about 5 minutes of research, they would have discovered this.

If you're skilled enough to work on a nuclear submarine, you're probably skilled enough to be employed in a variety of different industries and make good money.

And I don't see how it's the Navy's responsibility to make sure that Gig jobs don't suck.

So often people see one segment of the US government (the teeny, tiny bureaucracy that it is.) doing something, and think that portion of the Federal government has the power to decided and change the rules for another entirely different part of the government. This may be one of the worst cases of this I've seen in quite a while. Shockingly, the US Navy doesn't actually write legislation pertaining to gig work.

I try not to cast aspersions on opinion pieces, but this was absolute garbage. Do better.
> who can only refuse to respond where it is reasonable to do so

What does this even mean? I didn't think employees had an obligation to respond at all? Presumably it's actually "whose right to refuse contact is only protected by law where it is reasonable for it to be so."
Who are "they"? I know plenty of cops who definitely do want this.

The internet is fond of talking about police as though they're a uniform entity that exists in more or less the same shape across the country (or the world).

They're not. The US alone has about 18000 law enforcement agencies spread across 3.7 million square miles and at least 10 distinctive regions and 50 states. Each reports to a different government body with different rules and different amounts of public participation, each has a unique culture. Plenty of our police departments are staffed by bullies, but plenty aren't. Many are staffed by people who actually believe that their role is to protect and serve, and those of us who live in communities like that are genuinely baffled by these conversations.
Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
Sounds like a great deal for the lucky 1/3 of developers who get assigned the day shift, but isn't it pretty rough for the majority? I'd much rather keep a normal schedule and get woken up every once in a while than work 5pm-1am or 1am-9am.