"The only possible purpose of making laws like this"...
Is for pay transparency. And in the vast, overwhelming percentage of the time, an employer knows precisely what they're planning to pay for a role, with extremely little variance. These cherry picked examples don't really mean a lot.
As to your imaginary firm not hiring in "CA, CO or WA", absolutely nothing was lost by the residents of those states.
It's not about penalizing people residing in certain states. It's about not taking on additional regulatory burden. In a free country this is a choice we're allowed to make and we're willing to accept the trade off.
It takes a lot of effort to type one sentence on a job posting.
If you're hiring you already know what you're willing to pay for the position. It really isn't that hard to write that down where people besides just HR can see.
One of the trends on Hacker News right now is the assumption that SQLite fixes everything. It's the Flex Tape of the software world.
There is zero reason a process would have more than tiny slowdowns with even millions of files in a folder. Finder has problems if you're trying to look at that folder, for obvious reasons, but it's a bit of a self-own for a backup co to claim that 200,000 files causes their solution to break. That speaks to serious algorithmic issues.
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I assume you are using Flex Tape as a derogatory comparison here. That said, I do view SQLite as a kind of "fix all" in the software world.
It's cheap (free), fast, everywhere and applicable to virtually every type of problem domain. AAA game assets to B2B line of business app storage. It's the most tested and used software on earth.
It doesn't fix everything, but it certainly gives you a fighting chance to make it to the next step.
Once people realized that 90% of things aren't actually #BIGDATA, and SSDs became commonplace, it turned out SQLite is just good enough to solve those 90% things.
Things like contact lists or game assets or even web history on individual computers will never grow to multi-TB sizes, hence no reason to over engineer them.
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> There is zero reason a process would have more than tiny slowdowns with even millions of files in a folder.
What kind of BS is this? Have you ever worked with one such folder? If you did, you would know that almost every app not doing some magic slows down to the point of being unsable (or even not working as described in original post). This is true for both Linux and Windows file systems.
Exactly. Applications that are searching for files that have a certain extension (e.g. *.jpg) must read every directory entry and compare the file extension for that pattern. There is no magic call to the FS that says "Give me all the photos" or "Give me all the .jpg files). The application (including any command processors) have to do all that work manually.
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If you've got 1M files, your alternatives include:
a) 1M files in a single directory
b) 1k directories with 1k files in each
c) 1k aggregate files with 1k files in each
d) 1 aggregate file with 1M files in it
I think there's some filesystems that will work with option a, but any filesystem should work ok with the other options. Options c and d will make rsync much faster as you eliminate millions of syscalls.
It's usually a problem for any software that enumerates a directory for any reason, because that ends up being O(n) and often at least N system calls to e.g. get file information.
Using the "eugenics" angle to argue against people who want a sustainable world (while parroting the agenda of Elon "let's all move to Mars" Musk who believes he is such a superior being he needs to grace the world with 10+ kids) is uproarious when it comes from a camp is viciously against immigration.
The US has a population density 1/15th India's. It's high time for a billion Indians to move to the US.
REPORTER: The climate crisis. We’ve seen protests all over the globe this month. Mostly led by young people like Gretta Turnburg. Does the public outcry...does that increase the urgency for what you guys are doing here?
ELON: Well, I mean I really view what we’re doing here as making life multiplanetary as opposed to escaping, and I think like 99 percent of our resources should be spent making sure the future on Earth is good. But I think at least 1% of our resources should be used to make like multiplanetary and extending consciousness out to other planets. Both for the defensives reason of preserving the light of consciousness into the future as well as the adventure, the excitement - I find it personally more motivating than the defensive argument.
REPORTER: So you prefer to be an optimist rather than a pessimist?
ELON: I mean I think excitement and adventure and a sense of possibility about the future are incredibly important. Otherwise, why live?
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I’m getting to the point where I assume that comments like yours are dramatically mischaracterizing Musk. He’s so easy to criticize without ascribing hyperbolic-ly stupid arguments to him.
The leading story about the HMS Birkenhead is fascinating, though looking up further info finds that of the 193 saved "the survivors comprised 113 soldiers (all ranks), 6 Royal Marines, 54 seamen (all ranks), 7 women, 13 children and at least one male civilian".
"Why are women and children on a troop transport?" is a natural next question, and apparently they were family of senior officers.
If Twitter fell like every other social media, it would have barely been worth $20B when Musk closed the deal. Add the mass destruction Musk has wrought, coupled with the fact that the debt holders have been trying to offload the debt at a discount, and there is a very real probability Twitter, if independently valuated, is worth less than the debt.
The Apple Watch oximeter functionality -- basically a pretty silly gimmick -- is explicitly marketed as “not intended for medical use” and “only designed for general fitness and wellness purposes.” The problems that optical oximeters have with darker skin is well known, painfully obvious, and a basic reality of physics.
No, he's claiming the journalists "coordinated" a campaign to share external links to the jet tracker. Some of them admit that they did (not "coordinated" -- alternate sites of this public data has been very widely shared), but others are at a loss and claim they did no such thing. One had reported on an LAPD statement -- that despite the imminent harm Elon claimed, they hadn't gotten a crime report and actually had to reach out to Elon's people -- and shortly after got suspended.
Elon is constantly leveraging the "for the children" cover for his petulance.
Because we are not there in terms of Physics! They generated 1.5x the energy input through laser, but 0.0067x the energy consumed from the wall plug. That means we need more Physics, not just engineering!
The theoretical physics is working just fine here, if anything this experiment has demonstrated that Q > 1 is possible. The hard part is scaling this up and keeping Q > 1 for more than a fraction of a millisecond.
Game community subs, especially for FPS games, often ban posts about cheaters, bugs or things like the submission. Not because they're conspiring with the maker, nefariously hiding negative info, but because if they don't the sub turns into a grievance filled "help forum".
People who had never visited the forum before, and likely never will again, drop in because they're mad and want a complaint venue where they can gripe. When a game has hundreds of thousands or millions of players, that sort of thing starts to swamp the sub and soon there is no community or sustained conversation and instead it's all 360 no scope drive by complaint drops.
I absolutely commiserate with the OP, and it 100% legitimately sounds like they got caught up in a flawed anti-cheat (maybe exacerbated by a storage system issue on their end, making it think they were trying to modify the system files). But on the other hand, and they recognize this, all the actual cheaters also do the I didn't do nothing routine. When a game is rife with cheaters (PubG, MW, Squad, etc), pretty soon you have a really skeptical approach to those appeals.
Is for pay transparency. And in the vast, overwhelming percentage of the time, an employer knows precisely what they're planning to pay for a role, with extremely little variance. These cherry picked examples don't really mean a lot.
As to your imaginary firm not hiring in "CA, CO or WA", absolutely nothing was lost by the residents of those states.