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Yes, you should go talk to compliance. But for a lot less effort, you could ignore it and talk to no one.

Pulling together that meeting would only be if someone is complaining. That's what I meant by people having challenges. The goal being to head it off before it turns into a internal chat system flame-war or an HR issue that tries to single people out for blame. Hopefully people at the top will not be concerned for petty issues and are professional enough to put it to rest. It is a normal part of a companies maturing process.
I think almost by definition a layoff is to remove redundant/bottom performers to keep the machine clean and lean, that’s capitalism for ya
I read a review in the Guardian [1] which used a series of malapropisms for his name, and riffed on the concept.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/29...
Is it though? Microsoft .NET has telemetry that you always have to opt out always. Dark patterns like this setting not sticking but being overridden after an update, and of course the shell command that you kinda have to google each time, where you set a parameter to "1" and get no verification that you have indeed successfully disabled telemetry come with the territory (of software vendors not respecting the user much)
Wait, the calculator was a Java app? What versions was that the case for? That’s really funny.
What a stupid statement! They certainly have money and decided to not invest into P2P. And now they make it seem like the reason that it is unfunded is because of outside factors. Whoever wrote this should be fired...
Problem is that require the employer to define what an acceptable level of performance is, and that's notoriously difficult

So instead the choices tend to drift to "fire them on the manager's whim" or "practically impossible to get rid of short of murder"
Unions look out for themselves once they get big enough, like any bureaucracy.
With a big friendly cover and the words "Don't Panic!"
I think nowadays the value of source code is rarely a more valuable asset than the data being processed. Also I would prefer to give my devs just a second machine to run workloads and eventually pull in data or mock the data so they get moving more easily.
I don't know the law, but "build it yourself lol" is hardly easy, especially for software that needs to be constantly updated for security.
Archinstall fckd up my EFI partition for dual-boot. Had to reinstall windows.
It was probably my fault, but Manjaro just worked first time.
Sure, but that’s not what we want here?
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Why did it take so long to find giant squids? [video]
I don't see why not.

The whole point of an analogy is to expose a blind spot by showing the same thing in some other context where it is recognized or percieved differently.
I've seen tons cash come out of bras, socks and other crevices, and I was just working at a gas station. Let your imagination run wild!
I wish that I worked on a codebase that was so close to perfect that spending time worrying about things like ASCII boobs in comments was justifiable.
Building thread-safe abstractions in Java versus Go
To me if the word “bass” is in the name of the genre, then having subs seems like an obvious thing that would miss a lot without subs. That’s up there with judging a book by its cover
It's great the union was pushing for unscented cleaning supplies.

I have a friend who is very sensitive to scents. She may not be able to work in a typical office again because of it. I'm very sensitive to harsh fluorescent lighting and noisy office environments and get migraines. You can push through for a while but eventually you burn out.

We've also realized we're both "mildly" autistic [1] over the last few years, along with quite a few other software engineer friends. The sensory sensitivities fall under that umbrella.

Tech has traditionally been more accepting of neurodiversity than other careers, so it's great to see a tech union raising issue like this that don't cost much but make a big difference for anyone affected.

[1] Book: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
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My kettle decided to use capacitive resistance buttons (even though they're elevated so they could just be switches). Every time I splash water on them (which you know, can happen sometimes with kettles) I have to dry them off and power cycle the kettle to get them to work again.

Innovators gonna innovate I guess.
I am making that analogy, there are so many elements in common, and the analogy to other proxy wars like Yemen too.

You could argue Brzezinski and CIA arming the mujahideen was also “purely defensive”, or Soviets arming the PLO a decade earlier was “purely defensive”. Both are nonsense, of course!

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/09/01/how-jimmy-carter-st...

https://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and...

And of course, after Yugoslavia and Libya we know that NATO isn’t a “purely defensive” organization, and its member states like USA sometimes form coalitions to go invade other countries, like Iraq or Afghanistan, and occupy them for years just like the Soviets.

You must not know the history of cold war proxy wars very well to ignore all the parallels and the patterns that repeat and repeat.

Isn’t it a bit silly to just say “period, end of story” and just deny it? This is how people solve problems — by looking at similar situations around the world. You don’t fix a refrigerator by refusing to look at every other refrigerator and treating it as a special snowflake. Same here.
It's not fine. It sucks for just about everyone involved except the business owner.
Bc management never abuses the optics to force out people that they dont like, vs someone productive, ever.
I'm sure the paper feels it's excessive too. The union doesn't. They've already failed to work this out without a strike, so the question now is who can suffer the longest before the other breaks, or is willing to give some other concession in return for getting their way on this issue.

In other words, one side will win, or both will compromise. It's just another contract negotiation, like any other between two parties. Unions are allowed to do it with businesses, just like businesses are allowed to do it among themselves. This is literally the ruling ideology of the West and has been for generations, but somehow when a union takes advantage of it, that's radical marxism.
> And it's their software, not yours.

Arguably, the point of open source software (or at least GPL licensed software) is that the owner of the hardware gets to "own" the software and can do what they like with it.
Moral obligations, a sense of pride in ones work, ethical worldview...thats just off the top of my head.

It seems if the problem you allege were true at scale, the entire labor force is sitting around doing nothing.

Are you really claiming that the only reason all (tech) employees do their job is just to avoid firing? How do you operate in a zero-trust life?
I first used Arch over ten years ago and nobody told me about archinstall until a few weeks ago! I was using Ubuntu out of laziness because I was tired of manually installing Arch every time I got a new machine (until now, I use Arch (again, btw)).

I wonder how many Manjaro users are like me, and just don't realize that Arch ships an installer now.
a true icon for generations to come :) sadly the ip is hiding in some shelf, this stuff must be used!
> Glass, unlike plastic, is impermeable. In Germany, the pfand system incentivizes bottle return by around $.10 to $.50 per glass bottle; and they're washed & sterilized, then re-used.

Glass jars tend to have small fractures, especially around where the lid/cap are, making them unfit for reuse. Inspection is tedious and manpower-intensive. Melted down and put back into the blow molds, if reused at all. Industry works differently than the political perception of it. You might want them to be reused, but it's just not the way the world works.

Instead of jacking off over political videos, go watch some of the non-political ones of the "how it's made" variety once in awhile.
But the managers don't feel as important at the end of the day.

Didn't you think about them?
What's the hypothesis and the test statistic ?
Oh, no...

My cheap IKEA milk frother just broke. I'd been using it for years, with the same AA batteries I put in when I bought it. It doesn't require a lot of power.

If the replacement requires re-charging, especially with a cable that I don't usually have ready to hand, I shall be disappointed.
FYI, it would take approximately 99.3 billion years to complete the Hamiltonian circuit of the Rubik's cube’s quarter-turn metric Cayley graph using the GAN 12 Maglev UV Coated 3x3 Rubik's cube.
*From a strictly musical perspective, what have you done that you’re most proud of?*

That anything I can feel, I can notate musically. Not many people can do that. I can make a band play like a singer sings. That’s what arranging is, and it’s a great gift. I wouldn’t trade it for shit.

https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation...
I don't see the link. Does working in office means you're allowed to do a crappy job?
Show HN: I made a web browser game with AI integrated NPC's
As of today the game's demo is officially live and playable at https://www.letsmaketv.com

It's a web browser game, no sign in or downloads required!

The game uses fine-tuned OpenAI models to simulate the personalities of six different NPC's, each with their own unique training data and personalities.

You can chat with the AI's about anything, become friends or enemies with them and find out their secrets. The dialogue is surprisingly funny sometimes but it's still just very much a proof of concept.

There are also a few minigames you can play with the AI too.

I'll leave it there an let the game speak for itself. I would love it if you played and shared your feedback! I plan to keep working on this game and evolve it into something much broader but for the time being I wanted to share this big milestone!

Let me know what you think!
Consent needs to be freely given; you can't nudge users into it and you can't hold access ransom over it. There's no way what you're suggesting would fly.
You should remember drivers can rate you right back, and for both drivers and passengers alike, being rated below 4.90 is like being rated into negative stars, the way the current system works.
There's a lot of companies now that expect you to leave the house and go work around other people. Like, what the hell?
you're clearly both highly intelligent and humorous
I used to use vanilla Arch. I really liked it, didn't mind the install process, and was reasonably happy with package stability. But there were a couple times when Arch's bleeding edge rolling package releases caused issues for me. I tried Manjaro partly because they update packages after a bit more testing, and I've never had any issues like that with them. I'm ok with being a month or two behind Arch in exchange for more stability. Now I'm thinking of going back to Arch tho...
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It's the same sword: loss of income and healthcare. Semantic games aside, if the premise is that we shouldn't accept the risk of losing income/healthcare due to poor performance/internal politics, why would you accept losing income/healthcare due to layoffs (which also involve poor performance/internal politics)? It's fine to argue "people should be shielded from the risk of losing their income/healthcare", but you can't arbitrarily decide when it's fine to apply that principle.
Yep. On that note I'd like to remind younger readers that CDs were still very new at the time of this album - many people had still never heard a digital recording so listening to this album in particular on a decent CD system was magical.

I actually had an original Discman and partially credit listening to this album on that as part of what led me to spend (probably too large) a chunk of my adult life DJing clubs and raves.
A third party not directly invested in the outcome?
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Yes indeed, I realized that it was way more complicated than what I initially imagined.

When I first read the article, the sequence of subgroups that were described evoked that image of a combination lock to me:

< UR >

< U, R >

< U, R, D >

< U, R, D, L >

< U, R, D, L, F >

The behavior of the basic operations on the cube reminds me of the product of quaternion base vectors (i,j,k). For instance, the product of i and j would yield either k or -k depending on the order of i and j. I think the point I wanted to make is that on a combination lock, each operation on a wheel only affect that wheel, not the others, so one cannot produce another operation by combining several of them, like what we see with quaternions. However, on the cube, it is often possible to go from one combination to another by different sequences of different operations.

But that may not matter much, if all we care about is going through every possible combination exactly once, just like what one does when using gray code on binary numbers (which is why I alluded to that in my other post), and that for that purpose we can find a set of sequences of operations - let's call them large operations - that are orthogonal (and thus emulating the rotating wheel aspect of the combination lock). I suppose that these subgroups represent the large operations. The problem you bring up now is that these large operations are not commutative, and so finding a correct way to apply them to build the circuit is more involved than simply spinning the wheels on a lock.

Is that correct?

Edit: I just had a first look at cayley graphs on wikipedia, and they use quaternion rotations as an example!
Why did MS comply to the EU request on installations outside of the EU?

MS Windows with crowdstrike BSOD'd for American airlines on the American soil afterall.
Can an employee quit on a whim without any reason, taking vital functions away from the productive team on which they served?
Due process from a union definition is often ridiculous and protects the members beyond what a reasonable customer/employer should expect.
Does SWE striking even mean anything to a company? If factory workers don't show up, no products are made. If a SWE doesn't show up, the website is just fine (see elon buys twitter).

SWE impact is measured in quarters or years, especially at a big company that doesn't have public deadlines for project delivery.
Isn't EndeavourOS quite a bit better? It's ranked higher on DistroWatch.com and its Visitor Rating is 8.48 compared to Manjaro's 8.07.
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> The Times adorned itself as something more...

+/- your buy-in on that image. Pete's Pizza Parlor also adorns itself - as being on a mission to serve up piping hot pizza pies.
Running things in parallel isn't going to make the disk faster... with a HDD I'd think it is actually even more likely to make the disk slower.
>If a union strikes when it has too much leverage, there's a risk there as well at overplaying the hand.

You might need to take some lessons in negotiating.
Seems great. How does this compare to Free42? https://thomasokken.com/free42/
> The NYT kind of brings this kind of heat on itself because it has shifted from being just the paper of record over to an institution to the current definition of progressivism.

This sounds like how American conservatives describe it rather than how most readers or actual progressives would - the latter having significant misgivings about how it covered Iraq, Occupy Wall Street, the 2016 election coverage of things like the email hacks and FBI investigations relative to their actual substance, the tone of their coverage and editorials about transgender issues, etc.

The best way I’ve found to describe the NYT is as representing the east coast establishment. The issues which earned them attacks as liberal were things like favorably covering gay rights, which affects those elites (even rich sons of influential families can be born gay so everyone knows someone who benefits from that), but they tend to be more conservative on things like workers rights or tax issues which don’t affect or may even threaten their affluent readers. Climate change affects everyone but their opinion pieces are going to be things like “buy an induction stove” or “vacation in Nepal before the snow melts and buy some carbon offsets” rather than “stop flying and eat less beef” because their target reader wants to do the former and not the latter.
You could work for a mountain moving company and your boss could still find issues with how the mountain you moved wasn’t the right height, or had rocks that didn’t quite match the destination.
Could you elaborate on the last part? I've seen a few podcasts with Yudkowski but I'm not familiar with the history. I know he's come out very vocally about the dangers of superintelligence, and his previous work seems to be along the same lines?
> Manjaro just repackages the same thing with a harder-to-use and more confusing GUI which people are more willing to give a spin.

Lol, if it was harder to use people would use archinstall instead.
I really like dstack, keep up the great work
> It's a fairly pro-business paper, certainly not very critical of Israel

Sorry, are we both talking about the New York Times in 2024 here? Not a day goes by that there isn’t an article crying about Palestinians and bashing Israel - there’s one right now, just scroll down to the section just above sports.

Calling it the preeminent progressive institution in America media today is axiomatic.
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Installing Arch is unnecessarily difficult for most people. Manjaro is Arch without all the hassle. All the "cool" people seem to have switched to Manjaro's successor, EndeavourOS, though, which does the same thing but with a rebrand.

I've never had trouble with Manjaro because of anything Manjaro caused. The occasional error when updating because the AUR is ahead of the distro repo is never a problem. The worst problem I've ever caught them on was "forgetting to renew their HTTPS certificate that one time".

Manjaro has a tendency to fork and ship stuff that works well enough. They don't wait for the last two or three years in the long tail of development before general availability. That makes their software rather unstable on some platforms (mobile, Apple ARM) but on the other hand, their software is actually available, not just a tarball and a makefile.

The biggest issue Manjaro brings is the flood of users who don't know what they're talking about coming to forums like Arch Linux trying to solve their instability issues. Once Manjaro fully dies, those people will still exist, they'll just ask about "how to fix libxyz on endeavour" instead of "how to fix libxyz on manjaro".
This is truly a stunning logo, it’s timeless and sublime. Hard to beat work like this
... which is something people did on their own, without agreeing with their employers on duration etc.

I love working from home, but its just a non-guaranteed perk that can go away anytime and eventually it will, and companies shouldn't break their backs to accommodate people. There is free job market to match one's expectations, triple especially in places like New York.

I really, really don't get folks who setup their lives in the middle of nowhere to save some bucks and then they complain that world and work doesn't come to their doorstep. You took the risk in maybe unclear situation, you bear the consequences if the risk doesn't pan out your way.
Probation periods are a mess, b/c they incentivizes "hire and fire".
You buy a laptop on eBay because you desperately need one for work to feed yourself and you can only afford the cheap one on eBay. The seller buys rice with that money and hires a hitman by paying him the rice, the hitman goes on a shooting spree, how did you not fund that shooting spree?
Somewhat surprisingly, the answer seems to be "nothing".

In a primitive society, population self-regulates through early deaths, caused by diseases, physical injury, famines, etc... Then there is a transition to modern society (demographic transition) where though improvement in medicine, agriculture, and the general idea of not letting people die, population grows exponentially, but it doesn't last as people simply stop making children.

It has already happened in the first world, most countries would have a negative growth rate if it wasn't for immigration. Asia are just at the end of their transition and Africa is in the middle of it. Assuming the trend still holds, it will be the end for Africa and therefore, the entire world in a few decades. It is actually reason for concern, as it will result in an aging population, and unlike today in first world countries, there will be no immigration to compound the problem.

But changing the question and asking "How was it done?" instead, then I would say "birth control", the voluntary kind, the pill in particular. Safe abortion too. As someone mentioned, women in the workforce also contributed, but I would go further and say that for many women, having a job is not a right, it is an obligation! Many couples simply can't live decently on a single pay, especially with a child. Also, with laws regarding child labor, long studies, and changes in mentality, children are more of a burden than they once were, as most can't support themselves before their 20s. It used that at that age and even way before that, they supported their parents instead, especially boys (that's the idea behind dories).

Besides the inability to live on a single pay, these are generally good things, but the result is less children, which is a good thing for ending a potentially catastrophic exponential growth, but it may turn out to be a problem later. Not an unsolvable one though.
Oh wow, I had that same Sears record player as a kid, not in denim mine had a vinyl covering. Flashback memories!
Here's one that looked at caries in children who brushed compared to those who didn't brush: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20116887/

> but the toothbrush definitely sheds microplastics into your body

You can use miswak, which is a type of twig.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak
You need look no further than your favorite issue tracker. People can be vocally begging for X to be implemented and nothing happens. Why would I think telemetry will change the situation if the PM in charge does not want/care to do it?
I liked pop then and I like pop now, and I liked it the whole time in between, and I don't think you can say pop is less sophisticated now. The conventions of the genre have shifted because of communion with rock, hip hop and electronic dance music.

But violins are just an instrument, no more sophisticated or less than any other arrangement choice. Now the complexity is in the rhythmic interactions, and the timbral palette available to producers. The musicality of pop musicians and especially studio performers and producers is just unreal right now.
it is about time to stop the cognitive decline through feedback loops introduced on swipe devices. but also e.g. automotive is a place where this stuff does not really help unless you get (finger) location based mechanical feedback :D
> The less I know about users of the software I write, the better.

This is one of my favorite completely irrational HN takes that is guaranteed to show up in a thread like this.
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