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This is a weird non-article to me. It sounds more just like a CISO policy with SDLC components to provide reasonable guidelines to use the systems they already use and support. If you had a company hosting all of your source code on a private GitLab and you then found out a bunch of people were using the public GitLab, you would be annoyed.

You have to set some guidelines about what people use in very large organizations.
Are they available anywhere else than on Audible? I don't want to support the company that seemingly spams up half of Youtube.
This is probably less of a threat to the consumer market than the endless stream of cheap ex-corporate x86 desktops which are adequate for basic use has been when combined with the long useful lifespan of hardware in the post-Moore's Law era.
School seems to be a mandatory field and I couldn't find some schools on the list.
Do you have a link to where I should complain?
on sixt this month i had a transaction with google pay that is connected on my revolut card. that it took 2 days to show up. even support could not see it. they kept saying the top up will ve reversed, even when it was a completely different issue.
Things like this are not unique to CF and actually originate from outside their network. It does happen every once in a while, but I have far more confidence in CF's ability to resolve it than my own. They have the clout in the industry, the connections and the expertise to deal with this kind of thing. I've been with CF since late 2011 and am quite satisfied with their services.
I agree, totally forgot about this.
I remember a headline on HN from a month or two ago. Something like "You're not Google".

Turns out that a run of the mill RDBMS will fit 99% of the problems you're trying to solve.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092
> Just the pieces that are currently bottlenecking the org's mission.

The problem is that all pieces are interdependent. So you cannot just replace only a single part (of course that’s not always true, but often enough that it might as well be the rule).
What might be easiest is "federated" or "decentralised" - since coordination is prohibitively difficult here, build a set of pieces independently. The truth is that they behave as separate companies in a Coase theory-of-the-firm sense. So treat them that way from an IT perspective.
It is possible. Some other banks do it exactly this way. If the transaction amount is large enough, they ask you to authenticate on their app and confirm the transaction.

I suspect that by wanting to move fast they put less emphasis on the features that are more time-consuming to implement.
The issue with "Phone in a BT gamepad" is that it requires you to constantly take the phone in and out of said grip/gamepad. It never caught on because it's a terrible user experience.
Btw, there is a procedure in all banks called dispute request (chargeback request). None of the banks will give you the money back to your debit card without the knowledge of the seller. Imagine how many free items or service you can get if that's possible. So it's not about Revolut.

To open a dispute the transaction needs to be settled. After that Revolut or any other bank can give you the option to fill the form and start the dispute procedure where the seller can place their arguments against it.

After you submit a dispute the card issuer will review both arguments and make a decision (it depends on the bank). Most of the times when the seller doesn't submit evidence against the dispute you'll receive your money back.
Do I have to pick one?
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Another PA Fios user, same here. 8.8.8.8 is mostly ok, 1.1.1.1, intermittent high latency in general, cloudflarestatus.com not loading.
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Hi Shachar from Peer5 here, we're operating a MultiCDN.
Cloudflare is actually one of the best performing CDNs.
All CDNs encounter issues small to big - that's why using multiple providers and intelligently routing between them is critical for high resilience.
We've been building this way ever since we moved to Elixir which makes distributing state across your application easy. Memory on application servers is severely underutilized
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Have you checked the bank's IRIS online payments?
Could you elaborate on what the "sand mafia" is and how it has affected the potability of this water source?
My flaw regarding SBCs, is that I want to master the whole stack (what variant of linux.. , how is <multimedia server> is written,...), yet I don't have the context to, so I get fed up with almost good use cases and lose interest.

That's also why I'm tring microcontrollers, it's back to low level, less shiny projects, but mentally saner.
Timing here refers to a design consideratiob, e.g. how fast can the clock go before a logic bit at the output of one unit gets misinterpreted as the opposite level on the input of another unit. That depends on the layout of the design, how many inputs are connected to that output, etc.

They don't want to care about timing. Not that they don't care about how fast it runs.
Both sides really need to know what they are doing, and that depends on the jurisdiction.

For example, if you were a UK resident 'employed' by a foreign company you would likely still be deemed a "worker", not "self-employed", subject to minimum wage and statutory annual leave unless the contract is very specific on paper and in facts, and it is unlikely that the employer really wants a "self-employed" contractor.
Well if every country had the power they would do it, its not a question if they should do it or not.
Ah, my sister endured all this sort of thing during 20 years as a VP in corporate America. She successfully deployed new data systems to 120 plants in 50 regions in one year. Didn't cost $25M.

Her method? Ruthlessly purge the region of the old data system and install the new (web-based API to a central, new data system). Investigate every regional difference and consolidate into one model.

Before deployment day, get all the regional Directors in one room and tell them it was going to happen. Tell them there was no going back, no push-back would be permitted, and have the CEO in the room to confirm this.

It all went well, with her team of a dozen professionals that did a surgical strike to each region. IT equipment installers, trainers. Even one lady who's job was to ferret out the hidden PC somebody was squirrelling away in a closet (there was always that person) and rip it out, take it to her car and lock it in the trunk.

All went well, except for one region. That regional Director had missed the big day, and tried (vainly) to push-back for all the familiar reasons: special circumstance, retraining was going to keep them down for too long, and on and on.
100 years of data systems gone in a year (including paper systems) and replaced with a web API.
Would love to hear an update when/if you hear back from GDPR compliance officials.
How does an AppImage handle shared library dependencies? Do multiple independent AppImages share the same mmap'ed library or do they each occupy their own in RAM? If there's no way to dedup the same dependency code between apps then memory usage can grow out of control pretty easily. Package-based distributions concern themselves with this a lot...
So Austria had a sea coast along the Adriatic Sea (back of the "Boot of Italy") where now we have Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia Herzegovina [,and part of Montenegro?].
Can the submission title be fixed to make more sense within the allowed character count?

The article title is "Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack, Has AWS and Google Docs on a 'Discouraged' List"

Suggestion: "Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack, Discourages AWS & Google Docs"
I feel like gerontology is only tangentially related to the concept of immortality. No matter how biological life extension advances, you are still a highly vulnerable organism in a dangerous world. Something resembling actual immortality, in my mind, is a necessarily transhumanist field.
Not at all. The reason I upgraded my home LAN many years ago was exactly because 100Mbps is not enough to stream 1080p videos.

It does suffice on average, but the bitrate changes a lot within the same file.
Had a similar thing happen to me a few years back. I don't remember ecact numbers details. It was around 1am or so, I was binging some show when I got a notification.

I check it, and it's a notification from Revolut. A cash withdrawal was just declined. Okay, interesting. I open it, turns out, someone has tried to withdraw some £600+ from account. From Las Vegas. I thought "but I'm in bed, at home, in London. And I certainly don't have an ATM in my house. I'm too poor for that shit".

I think nothing of it, since I've had cash withdrawals disabled anyway.

Few minutes later, another attempt. This time, a little less, £400 or so. I quickly deactivate the card and contact customer support.

They barely cared. They didn't care about the transaction. They didn't care about all the questions I had. I asked a bunch of questions to see where the people have received the data. Who has reported my card as stolen. Where exactly it was used in Las Vegas, etc etc. Nothing. They couldn't provide me with anything.
I think I am not the only one who is missing some sound samples. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA
A bit clickbait. MS bans and/or discourages, where appropriate based on what's employees are working on, using tools that do not meet security policies, like crazy browser plugins that literally snoop everything you type.

Slow news day, I guess?
That's pretty clever. You should marry her.
My question exactly.

Unfortunately getting the actual requirements after the 10 layers of indirection in the enterprise means you just hear the Product Owner say that the requirement is the page load should take 10 seconds.

By that point any justification has been long lost.
You are right about Intel but not x86. Get an AMD APU 2400g.
Are there any single Widely known, Non-Profits Organisation that fits your description?
I experienced the other end of the spectrum with Revolut.
My wife saw an advert on Facebook for a and indoor children slide, it looked quite nice for a 100 bucks and since I was busy with work, I didn't due any due diligence and ordered the item. Received the confirmation email, then life went on. In about 2 weeks time, I remembered this order and wanted to check the progress. I opened the order summary link from the email, but it was a 404 and oddly the site looked very different than before, this was the first time I had a feeling, I may have been scammed. I replied to the order email, and asked them for a status update. There was no reply within 2 days, so I went to the site again, and looked for the contact details. I found and email address(Gmail), but no company details whatsoever. This was the time when I realised, I got scammed. Anyways, I sent an email to that address, but of course there was no reply. A day later and decided to figure out where is the site hosted and going back to the contact form, I found a new contact email address(an Outlook one). Since then, I checked the site a few times and the contact address was a different one multiple times.
Anyways, I realised it is a scam, found out the site is on Shopify, reached out to them and they directed me to my bank. I contacted Revolut, briefed them about what happened, and they started the chargeback process. Oddly a few days after they did that, I got another email from the merchant with a tracking code. In about 2 weeks I received a fidget spinner like plastic crap from China, which I never ordered. I notified Revolut about this too and they also told me, the merchant sent them proof me doing the transaction and want not to allow the chargeback, but since I said at the beginning it was me doing the transaction, just never received the items, I just need to fill out another form, stating this and they will carry on, trying to get my money back.
As of today, I still didn't get my money back and I am not sure I ever will, but Revolut was really helpful during the process so far. I am more dissapointed with Shopify, I thought they vet their merchants or at least care about reports of misconducting ones, but they didn't give a crap about me telling them about a scam site running at them. I also found crazy that they don't force the merchant to disclose company details, that's required by the law in many countries.
Also, I think it makes sense for Microsoft (or another company) to use their own products (such as their Teams service as a replacement to Slack). Best way for the company to know what their customers experience.
Non-pdf link: https://t1lang.github.io/

"T1 is a programming language which aims at providing better support for constrained environments, especially embedded systems with very little RAM. It should provide the following features:

Embeddable within C-based application with no OS dependency (“bare metal” systems).

Lightweight coroutines with strong guarantees on maximum stack usage.

Type-safe and memory-safe by default.

Predictable memory layout for easier integration with hardware.

Portable output (T1 code may be compiled to plain C).

Very small code footprint through generation of token-threaded code.

Generic metaprogramming support.

Flexible object-oriented support.

"
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Interestingly, all the banks in your sources involved in money laundering of "Russian money" are big non-Russian (Dutch, German, Estonian, UK, Swedish, French and so on) banks.
It was quite surprising for me to read (in Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape - Nobel laureate) that most of the advances on living longer that we have achieved are basically focused on not dying young (baby, infant, adolescent); but that the overall limit has been fixed in its place since hundreds of years ago.

Look at the shapes of this and to what do they converge:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Survival-Curves-U...

(That comes from this article by the way:
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy)

Im trying to find a chart of the evolution of age-specific mortality rate that very clearly shows that we have a mortality plateau up until about 30-35 years, and then the rate increases linearly. It is quite humbling.

EDIT: This is the best I found: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerardo_Chowell/publica...

It is from Canada. The aforementioned book shows time series of several countries and periods, and helps driving the point home that (non-intentional) adult mortality has been more or less fixed since a long time ago.
It's fine if that's their requirements, but that wasn't clear originally.

It seems that people who care about technology open standards, open source, and open hardware need a clear understanding of Raspberry Pi requirements, and that they're actually getting hardware that is more closed than a typical PC.

(Related: Starting over a decade ago, some IBM ThinkPad models infamously whitelisted mini-PCIe cards, so that only a small set of particular cards could be used, which was very unusual for PC hardware based on open standards. One of the biggest practical reasons to put Coreboot on those ThinkPads is to get rid of the awful whitelisting, so that people could use whatever cards they wanted, including using WiFi cards supporting later standards and working without having to download closed firmware blobs.)
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Fast key-value stores are really great for caching layers, as the main source of truth on data not as much. Whether these are local in-memory or external like Redis/memcached/mongo etc.

Any good large scale system will have a caching layer for in memory or external cache store, even small/medium apps may use them for performance and ultimately cost when it comes to cloud, putting more on cpu/local than external databases. It is really what works for the system the best as with anything in engineering, sometimes needed, sometimes not, it depends.

Memcached really started out as a caching layer, it is right there in the name. Once NoSQL started the caching initial focus was lost for a bit, but I think fast key-value stores are returning to mostly being cache layers, which work great with any system, including RDBMS backed of any size.

Cloud key-value stores or local in-memory are almost required to compete on speed/performance even for marketing (search results) and even cloud costs of going to the database as well as taking weight off the database which is usually the hardest hit.

Caching layers are useful in all systems/platforms, usually local in-memory first, then shared/external if costs/budget/performance needed. You can even do local caching on the instance, and a remote key-value store, both in front of the database for backup on performance/speed, though cache busting should be implemented from the start when data changes to prevent stale data.
it depends on the stage of the project i think.

I think early stage and MVP projects are almost always written by hand.
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Thank you. I finally have a good reference to point folks to when I get the question about why I'm not using redis. Although not as fun as the "web scale" response to mongo questions.
I don't understand. I skimmed the paper but it sounds like NoSQL but using the application servers themselves as the data store. ?
Unless you use a password manager and make every one unique and random.
I used Silex for a long time and when it got deprecated moved over to Symfony's MicroKernel (https://symfony.com/doc/current/configuration/micro_kernel_t...). Tiny enough to get started in a matter of minutes and when your project grows bigger then you can easily refactor either the whole project or just parts of it to "standard" Symfony architecture.
So the transaction fees get passed on to the people who buy into the funds (except, buying into a fund is also a "financial transaction" so may also end up being taxed).

Moreover this logic seems to assume HFT is useless. It's a source of liquidity. Everyone who directly or indirectly invests in the stock market ends up paying for higher liquidity - it's just a case of how easily you can see it.
It's not clear to me whether this problem is present in the EU, where consumer law generally works a lot better. A poster below mentions fake CE logos?
This sounds extremely clickbaity. Of course MS will discourage its own employees to use a cloud other than its own (which makes up a huge portion of its total business). The 'prohibited' section just sounds like sane steps for any business to take; copy pasting business secrets into a blackbox translation service hoping they don't save what was pasted seems like a pretty big security risk.
As example of commercial games developed with AGS, there's Unavowed, released last year by Wadjet Eye, which has also developed and published a dozen of AGS game.
The KMS in this new chip is still the old VC4 HVS (high-speed video scaler). That chip can not output any 10 bit formats.

(But it also wasn't capable of 4k60, so maybe there are some modifications there.)
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I have one of the larger ones (3 usb + Ethernet). I received it as a gift and was originally skeptical of the usefulness of the usb ports vs the size tradeoff, but it turns out to be super useful. It stays on my desk with my mouse, keyboard, and printer plugged in, and acts as a pseudo-dock for my laptop. Very nice!
>Because Revolut dones't want to have to manage FACTA and other US extraterritorial laws.

So this is a competitive advantage of N26 over Revolut?
>if it flops, use the leftover cash to make a more generally useful tool/service.

I think you understate the difficulty of this; it's not any easier than the "dream project".
One of those interesting things is the ridiculous cult of personality that’s formed around him. Nelson is brilliant, but some of the crap his followers put out is just unreal.
I called the phone number on the back of the Monzo card today a few times. There's a recorded message saying that they're too busy and then they hang up. That phone number is bogus.
I work for a big company (also technology, but not same area as MS), and we also ban slack for the same reasons.
It sometimes feels like they encourage it by not taking measures against obvious fakes. Take a look at this: https://smile.amazon.com/TNSO-Certified-Lightning-Charging-C...

The "top reviews" are all positive, but all for different products (this is supposed to be a pack of Lightning cables) - phone cases, LG G6 accessories, a rifle stand - and it's the 4th product when searching for "lightning cable".

It looks like they can just completely change the content of an existing listing, including customer reviews, without any oversight.
The authors are the owners of Google Slicer, a sharding system that enables stateless frontends to connect to sharded data stores (user stickiness).
Discord for one
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Yeah, that's what it's meant for. RasPi is a computer, Arduino is a microcontroller. Different tools for different jobs.
Thought the the idea of the metal enclosure was heat dissipation? (i.e the whole thing is a giant heatsink)
Uh... This should suprise no one since microsoft competes with all 3 of those things. Teams, Azure, and Office.
That's a good point, and I must admit I didn't know what a route leak was or that it could inflict this kind of damage. I appreciate now it's not CloudFlare's fault, and my hat is off to the CTO for posting more detail here.

On the plus side, I did get to test the "Pause CloudFlare" button in a real-world scenario!
I suppose I’ll get downvoted, but I remember visiting the Outer Banks for the first time in the mid 70’s (also taking the ferry to Okrakoke). Interestingly (scientifically) there was a noticeable number of congenital defects in the population (southern Outer Banks). I suppose one of the downsides of having an isolated population.
The most surefire way to know if a site is behind Cloudflare (orange cloud is on) is by hitting /cdn-cgi/trace (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace) which is the debug output from Cloudflare’s HTTP server. There’s no way to my knowledge that route can be disabled or overriden.

Anyway, no, HN is not on Cloudflare, at least at the moment.
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Seems to be a larger problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20262214
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The authors advocate for run of the mill rdbms plus their sharing system.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the insightful comments you have in this thread. Lots of interesting musings on the state of the art.
Yes, but exclusion suggests that there might be use of software later that doesn't allow it, or that there's some difference -- like they do some DB thing and it doesn't work if you're using ext/zfs/whatever. Remember it's for non-experts, people may not even know(?) that pgsql and such are freely available to them.

At least having the add-apt-repository line in the course manual saves you looking for it on the DBeaver page.

Aside: I've been doing a the Standford machine learning course and it includes installing in the required work, so I did the install on Windows as instructed (what a pallaver) and only then realised it was entirely optional just not presented as such and so then did `sudo apt install octave`, messed around with a few test queries, and was done with the entire second lesson.
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This seems like it could start replacing cheap firewall hardware. I believe pfsense no longer requires aes-ni (?), so it seems like a good choice for that.