Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the "former lead of GNU Radio" who had experienced pain in getting closed/proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.
This video of "Inside the RFID Stickers from a Chinese Cashier-less Store" (around 9:20 and again at 12:20) was a real eye-opener to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKrHi-G9WQ
The courts exist to provide relief to the people and regardless of whether a solution like this were applied, the courts could continue to provide relief. It would be interesting to see a solution which is more self-organizing at a grassroots level and which might mitigate the whole "from on high" decision-making. So long as a small group of driven individuals is making decisions like this, we will continue to have risks from material non-public knowledge used to game the system, and risks to the successful foothold by minority (of any sort) populations except those large enough to warrant party support. It's not an issue that the courts have had to step in -- without the courts the people would be left without relief.
Have you also given yourself a mobile equivalent for those times when you are traveling, or when your primary environment is unsuitable and you must work at a place with public WiFi?
Though your job may be one thing, the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community provides endless opportunity to do meaningful work on another thing.
Working remote causes you to trust people based on results not on spec. This can impact your interactions when you expect things like followthrough, consistency, demonstration of commitment, attentiveness to your communications, being on-task, and work quality where these things work a bit differently IRL and you are more prone to be exposed to intermediate work products rather than incremental or final.
Format adaptations have catapulted some great SF into the pop culture stardom:
The War of the Worlds was published in 1898, and though looked upon favorably, it is rarely mentioned today without also mentioning the 1938 radio broadcast.
The Wizard of Oz (Baum 1900) is more famous for its 1939 film.
In more modern times, Johnny Mnemonic (1995 film from "Burning Chrome", Gibson 1986), Snowpiercer (2013 film from "Le Transperceneige", Lob and Rochette 1982), and The Martian (2015 film from "The Martian", Weir 2011) have all increased SF visibility through film adaptations.
Without format shift, would general SF readers have pursued these works independent from the film? Probably. Would these works have entered pop culture and have been sought by the everyman, even the ones who don't routinely buy books or enjoy reading? Less likely.
I have understood some drop in fiction book sales to be caused by the wind-up of the Harry Potter series in 2007. A 2011 article from The Guardian (Datablog section, author uncredited) linked to this spreadsheet of Harry Potter book sales numbers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C6QriM1aMBd5Ab6Tn7hn...
Is Rowling's Potter part of Literary Fiction? The report states "We therefore leave the definition of what literary fiction is, open. [...] What it definitely is
not, for our purposes, is poetry or plays. We are looking at fiction." Which causes me to believe it does fall within their definition.
Having technical knowledge and entering a room of less technical policy-makers, it can be particularly important to leverage existing industry messaging rather than winging-it.
I would focus on the CIA triad + Accountability + Assurance. It's helpful to use standard terminology that is understood by existing privacy practitioners.
Personal information should be Confidential from unwanted disclosure.
Personal information should have Integrity with the creation, modification, and deletion of personal information only as authorized and intended.
Personal information should be accessible readily by authorized parties.
Personal information should have Accountability, with traceable ownership to a party responsible for Confidentiality, Integrity and Access.
Personal information should have Assurance, with appropriate audit of Confidentiality, Integrity, Access and Accountability; including the right to inspect.
Just as the Amendments to the Constitution form a latticework of protection for each other -- e.g. that freedom of press helps ensure other rights are not eroded -- the elements of CIA+A+A do the same.
Recommendations can then be framed for direct implementation:
* Confidentiality: Requirements for timely breach notice
* Access: The right of the consumer to be aware of and to have access to access data about them
* Integrity: The right of the consumer to repudiate data about them and demand removal
* Accountability: Direct ownership and legal teeth (fines, jail, and barring of eligibility from data or business management roles, etc.) to compel the presence and adherence of an appropriate privacy management program
* Assurance: Standardized audit reporting, guaranteed consumer right to inspect, etc.
Folks noting "accountability" often mean the entire CIA Triad + A + A, not the technical term "Accountability". This is likely the gap to bridge -- turning a sentiment that businesses are not operating appropriate privacy management programs in to an actionable path to compel existence, adherence, reporting and audit of such programs.
I've always understood abstract thinking to be of broad nature, generalities, non-specific, a vastness.
The idea that abstract thinking is devoid of specifics has never struck me as a prohibition that you can't get to abstract thinking by starting with examples and metrics. Looking for patterns, mind mapping, and tabletop exercises all seem like ways to take concrete thinking elements and bridge them to the abstract.
In doing so, I think there are some specific areas to watch for, namely the influence of cognitive bias.
I'm a big fan of the Cognitive bias cheat sheet which has been covered on HN in the past, https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a...
I also believe that the concept of multidisciplinary approaches can be one of abstract thinking -- when you begin your exploration of a topic from the viewpoint of a discipline you have not mastered, your mind is more likely to be able to explore concepts and solutions which are not bound by fact -- you simply don't know the facts and principles of these foreign disciplines intimately.
And just as disciplinary viewpoint can provide interesting triggers in abstract thinking, so can applying empathy and imagination. The best books on things like this are often written for children. Try "The Book of Think: Or how to solve a problem twice your size" (Burns, 1976).
Also worth noting Season 30, Episode 10 may be of interest as it covers manual training in England. "The Tiny Tool Kit" is tied to Christopher Schwarz's reprint and update of "The Joiner and Cabinet Maker".
Many database platforms support column-level privileges or permissions which could be used to prevent that sort of backfill, by preventing UPDATE on the column that holds the creation timestamp.
I've also dealt with databases without column-level privileges. Where not handled by a column-level privilege system, it may still be possible to block this sort of UPDATE using a TRIGGER designed to fail.
Privilege grant (or drop of the trigger) could be used when the system is in an offline maintenance mode should you require the ability to correct that protected data, reinstituting the control when the maintenance is complete.
The criticality of the data and the level of automation in use would probably be the factors I would use to decide whether this overhead was warranted. Hopefully you had backups available.
Two big pitfalls seem to hit almost all of these "low-level optimization of how the database handles..." type posts: the importance in optimizing the system, and the use of other technologies.
Write activity impacts database query caches. Many applications do not require realtime-accurate results from the database and generate a substantial number of the same paginated queries. For these cases, it is very important to consider higher-level caches within the system -- CDN, page-level caches, page block-level caches, etc. as caching your 99% traffic pattern will provide DB platform headroom to support your 1% traffic pattern.
Where the results you are paginating are based on any sort of matching (SQL WHERE), most read applications see a sizable benefit in integrating a search platform. Data selection for display is handled in the search layer, and underlying data retrieval for display happens either from the search layer or via the backing database using inexpensive lookups via primary key.
One of the key considerations not covered in the article is the need for result consistency when paginating, e.g. if the underlying data changes. It is the need for this consistency, not the desire for performance, that I see as the primary reason to include primary key identifiers or timestamp values in your pagination strategy.
In my experience, the data points most accurate in Glassdoor are those related to tone from the top and the CEO or owner. I've not seen one that didn't match my experience either as an employee or as a customer.
But it's important to remember that these are static data points in time, so there are certainly factors you should weigh based on other available data. For public companies, it can be important to assess changes in organization structure including and around the CEO. For private companies, sale of company is worth considering, though that top leader may still be in place post-sale.
Depending on the role you intend to enter, a negative tone may be what you're looking for -- lots of managers enter roles to help turn around a company. That the problems have been called out directly provides an important starting point in understanding whether you will actually be in a position to fix the problem. And public disclosure of the problems also provides a clear target for response through subsequent Marketing/PR and corporate improvements.
While the concept of peer review of intellectual property work products may be relatively new, there is long history of craft guilds applying peer quality controls on physical work products in part to protect the reputation of that class of products within the market.
When no other action has driven change, financial factors seem to often spur movement. Autopsies in NH are paid for by the state, so a surge will surely trigger a deeper awareness in the legislature. There have also been a number of stories recently about workforce capacity losses and hiring challenges; this places the problem more squarely in the domain of businesses which may have deeper pockets than the government. It is my prediction that before long we'll see lawmakers announcing new public-private initiatives sponsored by large companies to combat the opioid crisis at a community level. I think we're on the leading side of this trend, as government initiatives on the health industry level are just getting rolling, https://www.nih.gov/opioid-crisis