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First African-American to be nominated for Best Song at the Oscars (not the first winner, that was Isaac Hayes for the obvious.) Guy who made Michael Jackson and Will Smith megastars. And a LOT more. He was one of the most talented people of his, or frankly any, generation.
That's fine for some. However it's not always that. I wrote an entire site on my ipad in spare time with GitPods. Maybe you are at a small company with a small team so if things get critical you are likely to get a call. Do you say F'it, do you carry your laptop, or do you carry your ipad like you already are knowing you can still at least do triage if needed because you have a perfectly configured gitpod to use.
>I didn't make any claims other than saying that in my circles I see some of my friends and colleagues have trouble making it by on $70k. I'm not sure how you would be able to tell me that I'm wrong about that.

Okay, then let's make this rigorous.

Falsifiable Claim: People live a life of struggle on 70k a year in new york, where struggle is defined by constant worries of physiological needs, safety, and security, as categorized in Manslow's hierarchy of needs. https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Falsified by counterexample.

QED.

For a lot of people, they may mean 'struggle' in the sense of living below where they want to be, which is relative. Maslow's hierarchy is helpful to categorize.
The NYTimes journalists are also unionized; they should sympathy strike.

Excellent time for their strike too; they've got a good sense of strategy.
Google Pixel reportedly sees 3x growth in North America in just one month
Fairly as I don’t use systemd.
TBH, i don't see the crappy angle at all. I think the country will be just fine without its favored boutique-news-coverage-election-needle-software. Besides, the actual coverage isn't being effected at all.

EDIT: spelling
What they're asking from readers is far more limited in scope than not using the whole website:

> The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app. Members of the newsroom union, Times Guild, have pledged not to do struck work, a right that’s protected under their contract.

https://nyguild.org/post/new-york-times-tech-guild-walks-off...
Smalltalk: the object/message model so powerful that the language itself doesn't even need any special syntax for ifs or loops.
It sounds like it is. What's wrong with that?
If they just want to count unique installs, then the comment on that thread I believe partially works:

set -x
stat / | grep -i "birth:" | awk '{print $2}'

Then use the output piped to md5sum to make a user-id.

And then finally use an opt-in on demand ephemeral instantiation of Tor to submit the results so they can not get the real IP if they wanted to. In my opinion all telemetry should be opt-in and provide a text/plain preview of what is going to be submitted ahead of time. This gives the system owner a chance to back out of posting the telemetry should they see something sensitive. set -x to show an audit trail for what commands were executed in plain text.
My point is business should (but never do) think about their employees as humans and not just numbers on a spreadsheet.

So, rather than try to balance the individual worker against the company with a union on the off-chance the union becomes more "powerful" than the business, you'd keep the business (i.e., billionaires and capital) more powerful than the workers.

You: Unions? bad for workers. No union? also bad for workers. Whelp, can't do anything like other countries have done with stronger labor laws

This comes down to your valuing a "successful" business over humans, where "successful" means American exploitation of profits to owners, whereas some of those profits should go to the workers.
The point is that he wants to be employed at a company because the company values him, not because they're forced to keep him around. This shouldn't be an alien concept. In personal relationships, you want your friends/partner to stay around because they like you, not because they're forced to. In other business relationships, you want to get paid because you're delivering value, not because you'd be a pain to get rid of.
I have no idea why Microsoft even maintains a Chromium fork. All Edge does is give Google something to point at when regulators call them a monopoly.
I've had a manjaro update break an install 3 times in a several year span. Ironically, given the vetted package system, it was the only Linux distro to ever break an install for me.

Since switching to endeavour a couple years ago I've never had an update break anything.
Manjaro doesn't have region specific isos, so it sounds like this will end up being the global policy. However international compliance isn't something every developer is aware of so it may take time before the project is releases a compliant version.
This is so user-hostile. I do not want a spyware in an OS. All telemetry should be opt-in and voluntary.

Also, what would be the use of the telemetry? Find a reason to close a bug report with WONTFIX?
you and I make $1T transactions daily, it's true
Does that only hold if the data collection contains PII and isn't considered necessary for the product?

Either way I expect Manjaro's collection would be an issue if its opt-out, just curious how those edges of that law are defined.
Most operating systems do this. Ubuntu uses http://connectivity-check.ubuntu.com, the Arch wiki suggests http://nmcheck.gnome.org/check_network_status.txt (used to default to http://www.archlinux.org/check_network_status.txt), Debian uses http://network-test.debian.org/nm if you install `network-manager-config-connectivity-debian`. Of course Apple, Google, and Microsoft have servers of their own.

You can disable the check, of course, or upload a text file somewhere you control to maintain the connectivity check without sharing your IP address with your distro.
Hundreds of cosmetic goods contain toxic levels of PFAS, says EU agency
I’m not sure it’s even debt really. At a product level you can device to just tolerate the slowness indefinitely
In most Berlin clubs, phone cameras are strictly banned. This seemingly small technical detail creates a significant change in the social environment, which is interesting.
https://zombo.com

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I remember being shown Virtual Barbershop on 2000s YouTube as a teenager. I was absolutely blown away by the experience, it did for my ears like what 2024 VR does for my eyes. Total magic.

https://www.qsound.com/demos/virtualbarbershop_long.htm

Very cool to see it’s from the same company!
The actual development of capitalism around the world has shown that when business is thriving, there tends to be lots of employers willing to mop up any excess labour.

We’ve seen a ton of automation and offshoring for centuries now but employment around the world just keeps improving.
One year was insightful, when in a meeting we watched our management rewrite their own performance plans on the fly to pass them. They even threw in the minor only partial success or two, so that the results didn't look too perfect.

Another time, at another job, while we had hiring and expense freezes, my manager walked up to my cube with a 12% raise -- out of the blue. Because my previous management had screwed me (causing me to accept his internal hire offer) and I was "doing the job" he'd hired me for.

Performance reviews, of themselves, are bullsh-t and serve primarily to generate a record that your management and HR can use to accomplish and "legitimize" whatever they want.

Once you know this, and if you're still in a position subject to them, it feels like a hostage situation. Any information you provide to them is subject to use against you or someone you care about (and/or just in violation of your own ethics -- "s/he's not my friend, but this just isn't right" -- if you have them).

Mr. 12% and I learned, through experience, to trust each other. No management process is going to replace that.

P.S. And, in my experience, if you don't "provide them enough ammunition", they will actively "guide" you in rewriting it until you do, refusing to accept otherwise. They are not really soliciting your feedback. They are soliciting your tacit endorsement of what they are hoping to accomplish -- regardless of how and whether that aligns with their and the business's public statements and objectives -- internal and external).

Sorry, my language went a bit into the weeds, there. Stated shortly, I've had managers insist I write what they want, contrary to my own actual opinions and feedback. The process was entirely rigged. Glad I don't work for them, anymore.
Amazing. You just proved her point with data and then drew the exact opposite conclusion.
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I'm not going to second-guess what works for you, but Python makes it so easy to work with an ephemeral environment.

python -m venv .venv
What makes you think they don’t have that?
This is precisely why I consider the notion that the IC track and manager track are somehow parallel to each other.

Only managers truly have any say over employee performance; there is an inherent power imbalance that always puts ICs at a disadvantage.
> Same reason cable modems don't mess with anything above L2 but are still reachable at http://192.168.100.1/ (no IPv6 equivalent).

Isn't that what fe80::/10 is for? (Or ff02::1 but I grant that's harder to use)
I will never, ever understand how Manjaro has the audience it has, including SBC manufacturers, etc. They don't work with the community particularly well, have a horrible, awful track record of distro stewardship.

And now this.
Regarding Fabric in particular, I just happened to see this today: https://old.reddit.com/r/Techno/comments/1giwz2l/dear_fabric...
Please no... at least with cash. Cash is one of the dirtiest things out there. You don't even want to think about how dollar bills get dirty.

Source: bank teller training years ago. We were supplied (always) with little moistening pads at our tills.
Still no concepts about P2P file transfers. Disappointing. The RFCs exist and just need to be discussed. People to implement that stuff are there and ready to go.
I like that you called Benedict 'Cumbersome'. He is indeed cumbersome in so many roles.
This might be the most "hackernews" comments I've seen in awhile.

Can we maybe just have a normal conversation without trying to flex our superior debating skills?

I was curious how many people that make the median wage in NYC are living comfortably solo -- that's it!

You're making up claims, disconnected from my comments, and then falsifying them yourself in some sort of weird self-debating comment.
> we need at least some data about how Manjaro is being used

No, you don't. It is my computer, not yours.
Of course it is reasonable. But it is equally reasonable for workers, as a condition of employment, to be able to work remotely. Everyone gets to choose what they want for themselves.

If an agreement can't be made... Oh well.
I agree. And as was said in a comment by the author in the thread:

> True, that. I wasn’t even thinking about the GDPR when I wrote that. :man_facepalming:
A long time ago I got a paper with my name on it in PNAS because a professor I knew had been invited to submit one as part of a conference (bypassing the usual peer review) so I got together with another prof and a student and we smashed together a few student research projects into

https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312018

which I think is a good paper from the viewpoint of "correctness" but on another level isn't a normal research paper as it isn't about one project. A lot of weird stuff goes on like this in academic publishing. When I was studying physics I got invited to present at a CS conference on Java in academic computing and didn't really understand the opportunity I would have had to have gotten a paper published pretty easily based on my attendance (e.g. really connections, I knew people who knew Geoff Fox who was organizing it)
I think you'll find that many people find it both reasonable and desirable to preserve reproductive rights, despite your casual "of course."
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> Three presses in a Mercedes on its speedometer screen

> speedometer screen

> screen

So a setting behind a screen instead of a dedicated hardware button/switch/toggle for it.
Serious doubt on this one. If I were to guess I’d imagine those people are recycled into different positions with a different bar.
I agree it should always be opt-in, but there are plenty of reasons this data could help them make Majaro better.

Their install process likely gives them data already on things like user hardware, Intel vs AMD for example. Telemetry could help find performance issues though, like if one processor type is always slow to boot or if AMD graphics cards have frame rate issues with certain tasks.
Cron is probably the worst example you could have chosen. For my uses cases that, you know, involve manually running jobs to see if they actually work, cron has been broken for decades and is still to this day basically unusable. Systemd timers work far better than cron.
This isn't really an argument in favor of Rails so much as it is an argument against being indecisive and scattering your efforts too widely.
> the current definition of progressivism

It's a fairly pro-business paper, certainly not very critical of Israel, and you appear to have completely missed all of its somewhat trans-skeptical reporting and opinion. (The latter pervasive enough to rankle many of its own employees about the tone and tenor of NYT coverage of trans issues.)
I have never seen such a system that I thought worked or wasn't just gamed into uselessness.

Do you have any examples of systems that worked well?
Because the union is striking over it
Yes, a business would use all their advantages at the maximum, with disregard for any other consideration than money, and tell you "it's just business". Or "it's fiduciary duty".

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, suddenly they want to be reasonable? Funny that.
Why bunch Node w/ Express together with the others and dismiss it? (genuinely curious).

Rails has a high learning curve. Perhaps people working with it for years don't notice it. Node + Express seems faster to learn and ship, but my experience with Rails is limited.
Yes, you should go talk to compliance.
But for a lot less effort, you could ignore it and talk to no one.
Why would anybody trust a NYT article about internal drama at the NYT? Does HN not understand bias?

Compare the NYT article to other reporting, and you can see the difference. There's a few things the NYT forgot to mention, like the fact that these negotiations have been drawn out for 2 years now. Or this:

"Throughout the bargaining process, Times management has engaged in numerous labor law violations, including implementing return-to-office mandates without bargaining and attempting to intimidate members through interrogations about their strike intentions. The NewsGuild of NY has filed unfair labor practice charges against The Times on these tactics as well as numerous other violations of labor law."

https://nyguild.org/post/new-york-times-tech-guild-walks-off...

The NYT does include a quote blaming everything on the Tech Guild though: “We are disappointed that the Tech Guild leadership is attempting to jeopardize our journalistic mission at this critical time,”
They can host all the default mirrors themselves, either by serving the actual data (with a CDN) or by redirecting requests to a 3rd party mirror by GeoIP.
For anybody wondering "why couldn't they just...", there is a lot of complexity in TTYs and PTYs. The kernel is even involved in line discipline and job control. Those Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+C keys you press? The kernel gets involved.

It may seem strange that there's a process signal for window-size changes, but that's what was needed back in 1985. There's a similar dance with the Amiga's console.device, but both Unix and Amiga TTYs are better than Windows' terminals where there was no such thing as a PTY until Windows 10, you had to make direct API calls, and even now it's still pretty slow: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...

This page is a great overview pf the Unix TTY/PTY subsystem: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
The main theme of the essay is his work which helped the foundation of AI, In their book Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach (Third Edition), Russell and Norvig give limited (cursory) commentary about A. Church, but Turing gets the foundational credites, I think that is an oversight - and this book has sold in the hundreds of thousands and is used on AI courses extensively!
This can also be useful if you are looking for funding e.g. grants etc. to show how relevant your project is.

Just to add a different interepretation: To me this does not imply planning on infrastructure at all.
> I want management to develop a system to determine who is low-performing

You're asking them to solve a problem people have been working on for decades without success. How can they measure productivity of tech workers?
This has happened with several offshore manufacturing destinations already.

These formerly poor countries become middle class and then manufacturing has to shift to one of remaining poor countries.
To be fair, Arch's base NetworkManager package does the same thing:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Checking_con...

Though Arch has a decidedly more privacy-friendly stance on their ping endpoint: no logging at all.
Interestingly, this comment can be interpreted both ways. The act of pushing people through a lower barrier based on their race can be inferred as racist, or the claim that such a thing is happening can also be inferred as racist.

I spent eight years at Google, starting long before these DEI mandates came in (and did over a hundred interviews during that period). I think the person you're responding to is being sensationalist, but I also feel the way these measures were rolled out did end up missing out on a lot of great hires due to them not fitting the perceived makeup of the company.

Funnily enough, I recall a specific meeting where they were planning to roll out measures to equalize pay between male and females. Prior to the rollout, they did an internal audit to understand the extent of the problem, and the audit came back highly favoring females over males. To Google's credit, they didn't move forward with it.
IMO asking for consent (or not collecting data at all) is always the right move, regardless of legal obligations. Might as well just ask everyone for consent.
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Dog poop is often also wet, and it's right there.
Maybe there is little trust left? I don't know about NYT in particular, but the news regularly suggests employees trusting businesses are nothing but suckers.
I'd guess that they'd target the system that collects the data as usually that isn't distributed (I'd be more concerned if telemetry was collected and then available for anyone to peruse rather than just the Manjaro organisation itself).
Interesting counter-points. Thank you for taking the time to post them.

I don't think I have anything useful to add without giving the issue more thought. Your reply definitely adds new dimensions for me to think about.
do we really need them there?
If they are tech workers who only need a laptop and can work remotely 3 days a week normally, and therefore 5 as well? Yes, its unreasonable as their specific location at a specific time is unnecessary. If you don't need to be physically present to work, then it is unreasonable to force someone to relocate or to come into an office.

Is it reasonable to tell your factory worker employees that they have to be at the factory at certain times? Yes, that's reasonable because these workers must be physically there.

Using broad words like "employees" and "employment" simplifies your thinking.
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You've misinterpreted their comment. US companies that offshore usually have offices in other countries and these offshore offices typically have stricter RTO policies than the onshore offices. They weren't saying that all of the workers for a given company were in an offshore office, but that the offshore employees were required to be in-office.
> But to return to my initial idea: I do think that we can arm ourselves with certain principles that, if applied, will move us away from biased thinking. Simply being aware of "confirmation bias" and other psychological pitfalls might make us more capable of figuring out where we're going wrong. As the article notes, people are famously blind to their own errors, but quite good at pointing out others'. So it's not like it's impossible for us to become better and stronger thinkers.

This is why it's so important we teach our children things like critical thinking and reasoning, educate them on the various biases we're all prone to, and teach them how to recognize propaganda that works on those biases.
It really depends on which part of the corpus, though. I do expect my LM to be able to reproduce culturally important citations, for example.
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The point is you may not know a system is infected. There's more use cases for storing data on tape than only making backups. We clear data off spinning disks that we aren't actively working on. When we need it again, we get it from the tape. With a hard drive, you plug it in and the compromised system can infect the hard drive without you knowing. The malware doesn't have to actively destroy things for it to be a problem, it can take action at a later date, so with hard drives they can be a problem even when you don't know you've been compromised, and even after you've fixed the compromise if you've ever plugged in that hard drive while you were compromised. There is no write-protect on a hard drive that I know of. Tapes even come in "WORM" variety which is write-once, once you write data to the tape it can't be changed or erased.