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> -- For the small company CEO who relies on force of personality and everyone in the same room urgently working to get something done, WFH might be terrible.

Forgive me but the way you formulated it doesn't correspond to reality. What is really happening is that the 'small company CEO' suddenly has an idea and wants everyone to work on something but at the same time expect everyone to get their normal work done. This basically means people have to work overtime, and more often than not this overtime is unpaid. Moreover, instead of clear rules there are "expectations". Having to spell it out, especially in writing, makes it clear that this kind of behavior is abusive.

Don't depend on 'personality', just explain to your workers clearly what you expect from them, define priorites, and listen to their feedback.
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I really love this new feature however my only concern is that renaming some parameters will trigger a lot of changes in other places as a side effect, thus polluting diffs.
It's plenty of a problem if just one doesn't get through.
Love you.
Yeah, this is a severe competitiveness inhibitor.
> According to letter carriers in Portland, it’s medications, paychecks and other first-class mail that’s getting left in the office overnight. They say Amazon packages are taking priority at the order of the postmaster and other supervisors in the building.

Medications and paychecks needed by other people are being held up intentionally to make way for Amazon packages. This isn't right, it isn't okay with me, and it shouldn't be okay with you either. Compassion for other humans and their need for paychecks and medicine should absolutely factor into a person's opinion on mail priority. IMO.
No they don't. I don't believe you. Point us to the statute that says they have this obligation.
The Republicans under Eisenhower, and pretty much until Nixon's Southern Strategy, supported social programs, civil rights, fighting income inequality, investments in infrastructure, education, etc. Even under Nixon, they still supported a Basic Income.

Since Reagan, the Republican Party has moved very far to the right, focused primarily on lowering taxes for the rich, undermining the social programs they used to support, creative gerrymandering, and suppressing votes they don't like (often black votes).

Under Reagan there was still some sanity and reason behind it and especially under George HW Bush, but since Newt Gingrich, the party seems to have abandoned all common sense, embraced lies to justify war under Bush jr, and with Trump, it's just all lies for the sake of lies, with every remaining principle they used to have thrown out of the window, with the lone exception of power for its own sake, and hurting people they disagree with.

McCain and Romney seem(ed) to be the last of the old guard that still care (somewhat?) about basic honesty.

Though I guess the move towards the current insanity has nothing to do with anything resembling conservatism or "right" anymore. But the party has definitely changed beyond recognition. And I do think it started with Nixon's Southern Strategy, which was already about sacrificing principles for power. The first step on a very long slide down.
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No. Always the same.
I’m pretty technical but the one thing I’ve sworn off is DIY email servers.

It’s not worth the pain.
I would argue that has a strong correlation with the fact that universities are now teaching Python instead of Java. Once that alumni hits the job market, hobbyist-hackers are no longer the majority of users.
I do believe your main point is correct, however your easy check doesn't prove it.

Even back when DDG did only use Bing/Yahoo data, you'd likely have seen different results for your name depending on what personalised results Bing/Yahoo might show you, or other aspects (such as weighting applied to your location).
While I don't really disagree with your first part (the website really seems to be a bit in poor taste), categorizing death as a disease seems a rather strange thought. I really do hope we never have to discuss the ethical and moral (let alone societal) implications of people being able to live forever; life's finiteness might not be something we should celebrate, but it does have its benefits.
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People care more about amazon packages than paychecks and medication?
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$10,000 to $5.5M in Apple. Yup, that's absolutely insane.
The google filter means modified on the last 2 weeeks, and dynamic pages have related posts and other part of the pages that change, so those filters are not going to work well on something like Reddit.
Of course we all agree that technical interviews are often broken and interviewers use ridiculous metrics.

The distance from their pen to their paper is an example of a ridiculous metric. And expecting humans to be robots is a straw man to what I'm asking.

The candidate's ability (or effort) to understand and use the tools they use 100 times a day to do their work is not an irrelevant metric.

Doctors need to have a basic understanding of how stethoscopes work. If they start by listening to your elbow, and only then proceed to listen to your chest and back, something is amiss.

It's not a matter of suboptimal behavior or poor efficiency.
What isn't right is people falling for sensationalist bullshit headlines just because the headlines happen to match their current outrage manufactured by populist politicians/media
Well I tried to write a balanced comment and try not to hurt but it seems I failed. As I said, the content was good; and I did not say it but I would kill for that level of docs in every open source project. So sorry if I hit your emotions and thanks for your work!!
Not sure if the standard library has evolved since my PHP days, but this would at least solve the "key / haystack" issue. In which lots of the standard library had different orders in which parameters are passed. One can finally pass them named and no longer have to care about the order. This may also have been solved by better tooling since then, though.
That is some horrible approximation then!
The closest range sum to 68% is for {3,4,5,6} summing to 70%, but even if available as an answer, the only correct answer remains "none of the above".
0) the internet has made citing (and the expectations on knowing everything) so much easier.
1) China entered the game en force
2) everyone else has to step up
3) companies entered the market
4) in some areas, an arxiv (which is good) full of errors/hand-waving gets some 100 citations. Peer-reviewed work not.
For most, credentialism works fine in academia.

The problem is that you're incentivized to cheat, because it's either that or your career.

Academia suffers from incredible power asymmetry, and an obsession with prestige. It's shit culture that rots from the head and down.

Of course, the vast majority of research groups are not like that - but it seems to be a problem which has always been there, but just been swept under the rug.

Again, it's difficult to find informants. Groups are small, and most advisors have very few people under their wing. It is probably very easy to identify and black-ball whistleblowers. It gets more difficult, the more you're invested in your work/degree.
I could totally wait an extra day for those things...

It's stuff I have ordered that is the real priority. Terms and conditions changes from my bank I know the law requires them to send me, but I don't really care how long it takes to arrive.
Bullshit rule that only serves to help market makers.
> In hindsight, the desktop OS business reached saturation and it started to look like the automobile industry which is sensitive to the replacement rate of a long lived good.

If wish you could get a good car for free. My first, second and third choice OS are all free. Helpfully, we are also at a time where old computer hardware has some very attractive elements too (replaceable bits, helpful ports etc).
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That's right. And will she be detained for using Facebook or VPN?

No.
I'd say anything over an hour is unreasonable unless paid at consultant rates. If feasible say not interested.
Congress has a million-plus documents from Big Tech antitrust investigation
A team at the University of Texas combed through millions of medical records in a national database. The goal was to find factors that reduce a person's risk of getting certain diseases, including Alzheimer's.

"And one of the things that came back was flu shots," says Albert Amran, one of the authors.

"So if we have some general means of improving immunity, it might help reduce Alzheimer's disease," reflects Svetlana Ukraintseva, an associate research professor at Duke's.
That doesn't say the USPS has to treat all sources of mail equally. It says they have to deliver to everyone, which they do.
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In my country collecting fingerprints is now part of your ID because the EU wanted to for normalization. Will get false ones for this, just for the fun of it.
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Please re-read my post. That's what I'm saying: that masks may work, but we have low quality evidence. We need more evidence, we need better evidence.

dougmwne appears to be saying that masks work and that we know they work, but the link they provided doesn't support that claim.
Amazon's contract probably pays extra for every parcel delivered on time.

Whereas other USPS users just pay to have it delivered 'probably' tomorrow.

The way to fix this is to align the incentives... Let any company pay only if delivered by a deadline, and let USPS decide what to deliver first.
That's a pretty sad view into the state of hiring.
Do we need "net neutrality" for mail?
So, finally a paid search engine that does not have to rely on ads for revenue.

So far it's based on Bing, which does. This makes it a bit a hard sell, compared to an intelligent ad blocker.

The most important problem of search engines is SEO spam. Google themselves sort of have a moral hazard to not be too stringent on SEO spam, because it shows ads by Google, increasing Google's revenue.

OTOH I wonder if the subscription revenue is going to be sufficient to have access to a reasonably good search index and enough processing power to efficiently combat SEO spam while returning relevant results. This takes your own data centers run frugally, because fees of something like AWS or Azure will just be exorbitant for a global search engine and a global search index.

I wonder if companies aiming to provide alternative search engines will cooperate on maintaining a common index, to distribute the massive costs of doing that. They could even publicly sell access to it, at a point where running a competing search engine won't be practical; e.g. researchers would buy it.
> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

Sounds like a UI over Bing to me.
"Living in the suburbs comes at a price: long commutes. Many people spend hours a day behind the wheel, getting to and from work."

I wish there is a word to distinguish commute in a car and commute in public transport. The first one is clearly a waste of time. Depending on the person you ask, commuting by public transport can mean : reading a book, learning a new language, watching a series, reading the news, writing a book, ...
It's easy to say "you could have just emailed them" when you are not the one doing this for years without things getting better. Often admins flat out ignore you. Even if not they usually do nothing. And if they do something it takes ages.
>People who are going to the beach probably are not worried about COVID. There's also a fair amount of debate among the technocrats about how transmissible it is on a beach.

There were huge huge crowds on the beach with know one wearing masks and now we're experiencing Covid spikes. I wonder why?

The doctors and the CDC are telling everyone to stay in and wear masks. Ignore the technocrats, they're not experts.
Both are being researched. The answer to that isn’t clear-cut.
> I searched my name on both DDG and Bing, the results are completely different.

Search for "what is my ip" and you will see Bing bot IP in the DDG snippets.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

> To do that, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

In other words, their own crawler and the other 400 sources are used for their Instant Answers and widgets while all "traditional links" (i.e. the search results) come from Bing.
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> Is it?

Yes, because if you buy into that narrative, you're going to be a loser, guaranteed. If you don't, you might still be unsuccessful, but you will earn (self) respect. You gave it your best shot.

Nobody respects the person who never tries, who always makes excuses, who blames everyone and everything but themselves. It's bad for you.
Is it go implementation of sqlite3 data format?
It's sad that someone with self-taught skills can earn their living?
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It's almost as if different folks have different family situations. :)
Or it shows the power of inflation ...

A coke is probably 2-3x more expensive today ...
This was my favourite thing about learning Swift. I hadn’t used a named argument language before. It feels very relaxing knowing that the compiler can check all these things for you. I haven’t used php for years but it’s cool to see it adopting this. Maybe I’ll give it another go!
There's room for slight improvements to the hn layout I guess ;) While we're at it, we could maybe place the logout link a bit further away from the profile link to avoid frequent inadvertent logoffs on mobile. Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN.
What language is this that you haven’t used since 2013? Without this piece of information the whole thing feels abstract. Is it Ruby?
I would never spend 4 hours on a take home assignment for a job!
I suspect the parent used yahoo finance or the like to get historical stock prices. Historical stock prices are usually re-adjusted when a split happens so you get a clean history.
Among other things, it says that the USPS must prioritize expeditious delivery of "important letter mail". This has usually been interpreted to mean that traditional postal service – first-class letter envelopes – must have top priority, above things like package delivery, contracted last-mile Amazon delivery, etc.
Cool! I didn't know it was an expression coined (or made popular?) by him.

And I actually read many of Mark Twain's works in Romanian, so, oh well... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The linked text clearly states that the Post Office cannot do what it is currently doing.

> It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities.

Prompt, reliable and efficient services does not including refusing to deliver priority, directly-paid-for mail on its routes and instead prioritizing other mail based on a political decision from the top ranks.

That is not efficient. Prompt. Or reliable.
I guess perspective matters, in my opinion an average engineer working at Facebook should be able to afford his own house in a nice neighborhood and be able to provide for his/her family so that they live well. If that's not the case then maybe engineers ought to start forming unions or demand profit sharing from companies.
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This was answered here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23949917

"There currently isn't, but it is intended for small amounts of data. Today or tomorrow I'll probably put a cap at 500Kb or so, which is still a heckload of data."
one more reason to not use buggy broken Firefox, it works fine in outdated Kiwi browser on Android
As an alternative to Terraform, we've had great experience using Pulumi for exactly this stack. Writing Pulumi config in Python like the rest of our code has been great.
apt (dpkg) binaries need to be anyway PGP signed, so HTTPS is just a another layer of security, which is mostly redundnant. Not too long ago, apt in fact predominantly used HTTP. However, then this MITM vulnerability was found that would've been avoided by using HTTPS, and I think they pretty much switched to using HTTPS from then on: https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html
PHP 8 has plenty of breaking changes (https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/08e6c209550a268500bbdef4...), mostly in the department of throwing errors more aggressively, and fixing some long-standing "features" (like 0 == "foobar" being true). But there's a budget to this, and you have to strike a balance between how much code you break and what benefit you get out it.
Maybe if enough people do the same, reddit will start attracting the same kind of SEO spam. It's almost like Google is the victim of its own success. If everyone try to game your system some will success.
I mean, that's certainly one way to make sure you can't vote by mail!

But is this not a case of an underfunded agency, that is trying to do its best in a bad time, with no money, and trying to placate those who shout loudest?

I'd wager that packages (not just Amazon) make up a lot more post than actual letters nowadays - I know I rarely have any post (although UK) as everything is online - but if people aren't getting their next/same day delivery on time, then they kick off and shout about it - which isn't going to please Amazon, and the USPS don't/can't lose that contract
Well, maybe we need a "delivery neutrality law" as well. In Germany it's the same story, DHL treats Amazon packages with utmost care and always delivers them on time, while anything else gets deprioritized. Guess the delivery companies don't have much choice here as Amazon packages make up 20-30 % of their parcel business now (at least in Germany), especially since Amazon is building up their own logistics in larger cities to compete with them.
This is sad and wrong at the same time.
What if instead of postal services, Amazon required water or electricity to function. They would have payed just enough to get some level of priority (without making the water/electricity companies turn any profit, just keeping them barely alive), so when the grids get overloaded (e.g. during summer), you could run out of water/electricity because your neighbors ordered some useless stuff from Amazon.
"We're sorry, you can't turn on your A/C today because your neighbor ordered the new UselessThing, which requires a lot of resources to be delivered. Maybe we'll let you use it tomorrow, unless they order the UselessThing 2.0."
Google should rely on a last modified date supplied by an author, and penalise sites that change it without actual changes to the content.

Or alternatively, improve their algorithm for detecting page changes.

Somehow it should be improved, as it’s a useful feature.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo has the source code for most everything they've made. You don't become a 150 year old company without fastidious bookkeeping.

Now if they'd just pay the emulator people a bucket of cash to make officially supported emulators that run on the Switch and all future hardware (without having to rebuy the titles), they'd make so much money they'll be around for the next 300 years.
This seems most relevant:

> In determining all policies for postal services, the Postal Service shall give the highest consideration to the requirement for the most expeditious collection, transportation, and delivery of important letter mail. [1]

...but it also doesn’t seem binding. There’s enough wiggle-room in that language for important letter mail to not always be prioritised, and of course one could argue about what constitutes important letter mail, versus less important letter mail.

(Is it reasonable to assume that where there is such an amount of wiggle room in such a high level policy, it was intentional, and also intended that the wiggle room should be explored? Or is this just the impact of vested interests?)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/101
The law says that the USPS needs to provide services to all communities. It does not say all packages need to be treated equally. Show me where it says that.

> Prompt, reliable and efficient services does not including refusing to deliver priority, directly-paid-for mail on its routes and instead prioritizing other mail based on a political decision from the top ranks.

That isn't what the statute says. That's your own opinion. Show me where the statute says that.
I've found the best way to learn from Tim Ferriss is to ignore what he says an watch what he does.

I've never found much value in his books, but he is an amazing marketer and promoter.
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I don't agree with the GP about "routers route" (at least in the context of a cloud VPC), but a more serious problem that IS seen all the time in the wild is SSRF, and as I understand it elastisearch presents an HTTP REST interface, which makes it a fine target for such attacks (where as, say, Postgres, will not accept HTTP connections).

Relying solely on routability for authorization means that you're authorizing everything that can route to it in any context. Maybe that's fine.
Additionally, the USPS is incentivized to do this because they’re underfunded. Amazon has money, so they’re forced to do business with who can help pay the bills.
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I might not know what I'm talking about (our deployments don't do automatic migrations, for eg), but if I understand correctly, your problem is to synchronize migrations with deployments, is that accurate? Couldn't you use something like GitHub Actions to run migrations and then deploy to EB?
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I'm sure robots can also be made to keep up the life of society and culture on the weekend too.
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What about Bing?
Honestly, while this change was controversial, it was very well publicised and displayed to users at the time. I think it is quite a hard case to prove that users were misinformed - if it it does hold up, it'll create quite an interesting precedent where even executing a change like that with complete explicit opt-in isn't enough to keep you in the clear. It might have the perverse effect of making companies pre-load every evil thing they can ever think of doing into their initial terms of use because it is interpreted as impossible to post-opt-in a normal person in a reasonable manner.
Why do you disagree? What are the "challenges" you suggest?
Funnily enough, my experience is that the best image search engine is Yandex's. E.g. searching for a page from a comic with Google just gives me random comics, but Yandex's will more often find that exact comic.
And Amazon experimented (or is still experimenting) with building a logistics company to no longer depend on DHL. In the past i got sometimes packages delivered by „Amazon Logistics“ employees.
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