skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Verification happens when a user registers a new number or changes the number on their existing account.

Doesn't verification also occur when you re-install the app? Between that and how hard Signal makes device <-> device upgrade transfers I wouldn't be surprised if most messages were for existing users.
How do they coordinate transit? Does the metro authority run different schedules when Apple is on an in office day? Also doesn’t this cause huge traffic problems?
I'd love to see how something like that compares to ZFS on sdb with md0 as a cache (L2ARC). Seems like it would work well as they're mainly concerned about reads.
Also! Way to completely flip the responsibility to on me. Very un-juvenile of you! I wasn't addressing "what tool should I buy", I was addressing "plastic gears are there to protect my drill/impact".

The shopping aspect was uninteresting to me to begin with and was not what I was joining the discussion for. :)
Of course many of the original countries have both. However you are ignoring many exception in both directions, there are a number of countries with nuclear weapons but not nuclear power, and the other way around also.

So 9 countries have nuclear weapons. Of those, 2 don't use civilian nuclear power, that's 22%.

You have 32 countries with civilian nuclear power, that means 25 with no nuclear weapons. These 25 are literally distributed over all 5 continents. That is 80%.

And notably non of the 9 with nuclear weapons have primarily used civilian nuclear power to bootstrap the bomb.

So the data you provided is literally proving my point.

> Though note that they, too, seem to phase out the usage, though. Switzerland is planning it's phase out too, AFAIK.

That really has nothing to do with what we are talking about. But it was one of the worst votes in Swiss history. The campaign was totally based on absolutely absurd argument and driven by pure demagoguery. And we are not actively shutting down, we have just decided not to build anything new.
There's a bunch of pretty simple, old products for using SSD's to provided caching for higher latency drives that are all about ~a decade old. Some of them even use Linux's device manager or the block device subsystem explicitly...

https://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/lvmcache.7.html

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt

https://github.com/facebookarchive/flashcache

https://github.com/stec-inc/EnhanceIO

Doing RAID-1 (or RAID-10) style solution certainly is reasonable, but I don't understand what's novel here.

...and IIRC this is the kind of thing that btrfs and zfs were managing explicitly...
grep [0-9]+ should cover enough of the problem space.
That is what GCP is doing according to TFA.
> and the companies I’ve worked for have only seen record profits

This cannot be sufficiently overstated.
Google execs warn employees about layoffs
People who bought 2 years ago would now end up selling for less than what they bought.

Some places will bottom out at 50% of current price. That means if you bought since 2016 or so your house is worth less than when you bought it.
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There’s an argument that remote work minimizes a recession because it lowers the barrier to a new job.
according to the stats it is true that in France glasses and lenses are expensive, but not that expensive as you claim.

It's between 50 and 250 euros, depending on the brand.

For a pair of Prada or Louis Vuitton sunglasses you can easily spend 350-500 euros, but luxury brands are expensive by definition.

Anyway you pay for glasses and lenses once and then you're good for years.
That sounds absolutely miserable. Is your base comp like 350k or something?
My unsubstantiated guess is that the Kernel team has a lot of intelligent people but not on the emotional and empathy field. And some of them are really full of themselves, so you need to get them off their high horses
I use a lot of plugins. Should they all be mandatory?
In the case of the Cinema, the official policy for replacement was tied to dead pixels. Not to my professionally deformed eye in search for the perfect and evenly lit display. AppleCare+ helped in this situation a lot.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like it, but it helps. And I had also a good experience without it, once. Exchanged my iPad Pro 12" for backlight bleeding without any problem.

But as you sad, when you are buying 20 or 30 MacBook Pros for your company, it is considerably better to be sure that you will get extended damage coverage.
This was what my thoughts were.

Nuclear energy for example obviously has plenty of concerns from the everyman, and addressing each one of them in turn, patiently, wins a lot of people over to this being a positive alternative to fossil fuels.
How can "Vary: Accept-Encoding" not be the default?

When would you ever want to serve gzipped content to a client who cannot accept it?

From what OP linked [0], it clearly is a problem Google is aware of and are trying to communicate a workaround for.

I suppose the answer is that it is hard to change a default behavior once it has been released, even if it is wrong.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/legacy/standard/java...
My two MacBook Air, both from 2013, are still working. They both have battery issues but I plan to replace the battery.

My MacBook Air M1 had that very screen defect thing happen for no reason after... 10 months.

So, basically: ten years vs ten months.

Many people are reporting this issue: Apple fucked up big times and it's time to stop apologizing.

I don't care how genius the Apple geniuses are and I don't care that my 10 years old MacBook are still working: what I do care about is that my 10 months old M1 Air died on me out of nowhere.
that makes no sense, most of the issues were with the engine. Toyota/Lexus: zero issues
I think it can. Enough big companies have gone all in on it that backing out will be hard. If some try to squeeze employees into offices, employees will migrate to places more friendly to it. Eg: if a hypothetical company "bookface" is more friendly to WFH than a hypothetical company "pear", they pay similarly, and both have similar jobs for someone, said someone might just sign Bookface's offer and leave Pear if Pear attempts to force WFH.
I started my remote first business during COVID-19. We will eventually get an office, but a small one with flex space to rent for get-togethers every one or two quarters. Eventually we'll finalized a geographic home.

In the meantime, I pay my employees better, pay for their internet, give better benefits, etc.

(note: open to suggestions on what makes your life better as a remote worker)
To me, this sounds like a GCP failure. The provider is supposed to provide you with options that you need. If you're going to build it yourself why bother with GCP?

It would be a fun exercise to reimplement Discord in AWS...or with FoundationDB.

In any case before revving the hardware I'd want to know how ScyllaDB actually is supposed to perform. I mean, their marketing drivel says this right on the main page: "Provides near-millisecond average latency and predictably low-single-digit P99 response times."

So why are they fucking with disks if ScyllaDB is so good? I mean, back in the day optimizing drive performance was like step 1. Inside tracks are faster, and make sure you don't saturate your SAS drives/Fiber Channel links by mistake. It's fun to do, but you could always get better performance by getting the software to not do dumb stuff. Seriously.
They could have owned the transactional mailing space with Mandrill but Mailchimp'ed it.
Exactly. That's without even considering a botched rollout of UBI causing inflation and inequality like we've never known before.
That’s not true in my example.
Wikipedia refers to it as having on-chip MMU "capabilities", albeit only supporting segmentation and not paging:

"The 286 was the first of the x86 CPU family to support protected virtual-address mode, commonly called "protected mode". In addition, it was the first commercially available microprocessor with on-chip MMU capabilities (systems using the contemporaneous Motorola 68010 and NS320xx could be equipped with an optional MMU controller). This would allow IBM compatibles to have advanced multitasking OSes for the first time and compete in the Unix-dominated[citation needed] server/workstation market."
I’d rather suffer through it and live, than die because I couldn’t afford it.
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>Free speech is overrated, and very misunderstood.

Maybe your free speech is overrated. But as for the rest of us, it is not.
Everyone I knew ran Linux in the late 90's, I chose to run FreeBSD.
I guarantee you Linux was very influential. Solaris was its only real competitor after a while, and Sun went all Java and screwed up its OS.
The context here is Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, a range of hotspots in the middle east aside from the war with Ukraine, not to mention Afghanistan, and all the places in Africa where the Wagner group are at play. Arming Ukraine was the least thing they could do but also the most. I totally do not mean to invalidate your war.
Depends on the recession, right?

Five percent unemployment? You've still got some leverage. Nine-and-a-half percent (the peak during the Great Recession), and a lot of folks behind you in line will happily come into the office.
God willing indeed. Congrats.
Teardown and feasibility study of IronKey, most secure USB Flash drive (2021)
There are plenty of examples of things being the other way around. For example, heavily modding Kerbal Space Program basically necessitated running Linux because that's the only platform that had a native 64-bit build that was even remotely stable (this has since been fixed, but for the longest time the 64-bit Windows version was horrendously broken) and therefore the only platform wherein a long mod list wouldn't rapidly blow through the 32-bit application RAM ceiling.
Hypothesis:

As you traverse the management tree towards the top, both age and ability to influence office policy go up. And as age goes up, remote management experience/comfort goes down.

Conscious or not, the people with the power are making things most comfortable for them. They’re not necessarily acting in the best interest of the company.
i guess he never explained a false dichotomy to you :).

knowing who said this allows readers to be able to look up more of the (unfortunately scant) content publicly available from him.
Mozilla Connect
Nov 2021 video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8iAqA0pklw
I refer you to the reply given in Arkell v. Pressdram.

https://prunescape.fandom.com/wiki/The_Reply_Given_in_Arkell...
Ha! I tried this at one point. Spent way more than 20 minutes and just got a partial collection of poems done https://github.com/felipeochoa/rsspoetry/
IHS is £624/yr, and what do you mean by NHS-specific tax?

Overall, I probably pay more towards the NHS than I would for healthcare in the US, because I'm a comparatively high earner, and that's the nature of progressive taxation. The NHS seems fairly good value for money, however, although I think that may be due to how much we underpay nurses and doctors.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Many people do, and the service's deficiencies are widely publicised domestically. Even at its best, the service has always been a bit rough around the edges - not like the beautiful hospitals with friendly service that you often get by going private.

However, what people like so much about the NHS here is the universality and lack of barriers to access. If you're sick, you just walk in and get treatment - doesn't matter who you are, no charges, no paperwork, no insurance or anything else. Unfortunately, even accessing care is becoming more difficult in recent years. Increasingly people I know are relying on private insurance or self funding to get treatment in a reasonable timeframe.
No, it doesn't.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06147-9

> The overall mean for charity care as percent of total expenses was 2.62% for for-profit hospitals compared with 2.95% for nonprofit hospitals...
Yes I think that the article should have mentioned your that too. I wasn't trying to make any comparison, my point is that by not being objective you don't do any favour to nuclear energy, and probably give more arguments to people who are against it.
I think a lot of people abandoned it after Zoom acquired it.
I had to commute almost 4 hrs every day. Waking up at 5am to be there at 8am. I can play with my son, have quality time with my wife and get up at 7am and finish at 5 and I'm home already. I won't go back, God willing.
This is why I think most of the 'absolutes' that programmers, software architects, managers etc. talk about are not so.

For example you must never declare 'magic numbers' in code. Or you must always obey S.O.L.I.D. or get 100% TDD. There will be be people who believe in these dogmatically to the point they won't employ anyone who says different (it becomes an interview question).

I am not arguing that these are wrong!

I am arguing that they are not evidence driven (they cannot be, software is to complex, it is not a narrow experiment on a lab mouse). So they must be culture/preference/worldview driven.

When there is no evidence driven approach to 99% of your decisions on software it becomes: an art. And that is fine.

That said it might be possible to show evidence that an approach is good for your code base, for your team, as that is a more limited scope, rather than "in general".

What isn't fine is the number of overly confident global assertions we hear from software people about how to build software.
The top employees that aren't moving back have already left or been granted remote as "key talent" through a politically charged process that requires a director going to bat for you in front of a VP. Apple has made it abundantly clear to everyone seeking it that you will not be allowed to go remote, you will not be allowed to work at another office, you will not be granted any sort of flexibility unless legally required. My team seemed to force out a lot of expensive senior talent to easily replace them with new college hires, so, you know, quite convenient for the company.

At this point if you are still at Apple hoping for full remote and haven't been granted it, well, good luck.
As I'm reading it, GCP is ignoring accept-encoding as a caching variable. Certain services (stackexchange API calls for one, but I'm pretty sure it's come up elsewhere) just ignore it entirely from the application.
pick a slightly more expensive car from that era that has an enthusiast fan-base; aftermarket parts will be available indefinitely.

no problem finding parts for my (very old) Honda or the (very much older) VW beetle that's in the family.
The ability to transfer phone numbers when changing mobile provides has been around for a very long time in US, but it wasn't the case in some other countries until recently.
I don't know why you're downvoted - You're correct, even some basic common sense should show that we aren't buying 86% less stuff today than in the 70s.

And that conclusion is born through when you actually read the article, they completely misrepresent reality with that title. It's kind of astounding how many people are just taking it as face value.
Corporate overlords will only sacrifice the bottom line for one thing: the illusion of control. It's why open-plan offices and Scrum are still things, despite the money left on the table by adopting them.
> I think it's more plausible that people are surprise that their really expensive super thin and sleek computer breaks when it's physically damaged.

Oh common: I've got four laptops here. They all work fine, including two ten years old MacBook Air (non M1): mine and the wife's.

I know how to take care of a laptop. Our M1 MacBook Air screen died overnight. Oh: and it had a protective cover.
> tax financed

Of course people still pay. It's not provided by magic fairies.

However, it's not automatically inefficient just because it's publicly funded.
>The free market sell off mania needs to end, real soon. We need big government far more than we are prepared to appreciate.

Translation: I'm not prepared for what is coming.
Are there any big companies that you can still WFH? AWS team maybe?
I guess that depends on how smooth your blutooth interfacing is. For bluetooth speaker's I've had , pairing means holding a button on the physical speaker and waiting for the phone to show up because for reasons the old connection listed on my iphone no longer works. This happens with my mac and a blutooth mouse too. sometimes I can't connect to it right away, I need to go through the discovery and pairing process again. the system in the car is junk too. It connects and starts playback automatically, but you have to manually press play on the car's stereo head unit to start getting sound from the device versus just the title and time info on the car's headunit screen.

I'm glad this system works for you but for most things I've had the pleasure of using blutooth with, it's been awkward and clunky and slow compared to just grabbing a plug and shoving it into a hole and getting sound immediately, so I prefer the tried and true cable methods whenever possible. Nice that they are so much cheaper too. You'd probably get better sound for your money buying a vintage stereo than a modern one with bt shoehorned in.
love the office or hate the office, pretty much every hates the commute.
Well we are still building with 1960s technology because the industry has been so beaten down.

Are we just gone accept that nuclear is just inherently to expensive and that can never change. Are we just inherently unable to look at those project and ask, why did it happen that way. Why are we building inherently old technology and are doing it far worse then 20 years before.

When in the 1970s Jimmy Carter tried to push solar and wind, but the tech clearly wasn't ready. Did we just go 'well that's it then'. No people just pushed it, demanded it, forced politicians to have national labs finance it. When it became almost viable it was subsidized in million large and tiny ways all around the world. When there was negative news about solar and wind the Germans would just double down with their strategy.

And yet, a few nuclear reactors are to expensive to build, shut down the whole industry forever. Lets never try to improve or use reactor technology developed after 1960.
Just ignore any orders to come into the office. No one is checking.
I made my team fully 100% remote in September 2019. Hah! Then covid hit. The entire team was safely at home since then.

BUT.

I have to say while its a nice perk for the job (typing this from South East Asia), productivity is less than what I would like. People take work for granted a bit more and are a little more "entitled" to everything now.

And I get it. It's really nice to be able to work around your job instead of the reverse.

I think some people (like me) are better in-person managers than remote managers. And that's why the quality of remote work is spotty or so many managers want people back in house.

Let's not also forget that all the things that were cherish and use were mostly built by teams of people working together on some site. Whether it's the buildings, the internet infrastructure, the food you eat, the services your subscribe to, the software you're using right now, the computer or phone you're typing from -- all of it is built and delivered by groups of people that see each other every day in offices.

Please, don't get it twisted that just because you can code, provide customer support or write remotely -- that the other 95% of people can.

Remote work is an untested thing and really, only works for a tiny set of knowledge businesses.

So, while I love that our team works remote -- I would say most people will have to get off their a*ses and get back to the office.
Perhaps one should just migrate to AWS IoT Core.
It was mentioned at the end of the blog-post as the solution the author used.

> Fixed the Gooble App Engine behaviour by adding an explicit configuration to the appengine-web.xml
I agree on all the benefits of WFH that have already been mentioned, but I do miss the daily casual interactions with colleagues, e.g. in front of coffee. I think, long term, teams will be less cohesive and companies will see less idea exchange (the unstructured or serendipitous kind)
It's not using the future random numbers to decrypt the value. It's making use of the underlying protocol that the League of Entropy is using primarily but not exclusively for calculating fair random numbers.

I believe (admittedly from skimming and educated guesses) the setup is that the League of Entropy network is a set of computers operated by different people which each have published public keys, and the participants regularly do multi-party computation to create random numbers that provably can not be manipulated by any non-majority subset of the group. Besides calculating verifiably random numbers, the computers will also decrypt content for anyone if you send it content encrypted to their public keys and the encrypted content contains a time range that includes the present. (Maybe their main protocol for random numbers requires this protocol to be implemented?) Then you can do time-lock encryption by encrypting some content, splitting the key using a threshold scheme, then separately encrypt each part of the key to a different participant of the League of Entropy network bundled with a requested time-range for decryption to be allowed. It works as long as enough League of Entropy network participants stay online and enough of them don't defect or get hacked.
> WINE doesn't result in a noticeable slowdown compared to running on Windows natively (without "emulationware" as you call it)

That says very little about whether there'd be a noticeable slowdown compared to running a Linux-native version on Linux natively, though.
Twitter, some teams at FB, lots of smaller ones
What? You're right, It's not an argument. It's a statement of fact.

Firefox gained marketshare against Internet Explorer by being significantly better than Internet Explorer. I remember enthusiastically switching to Firefox, especially because it had a mouse gestures addon and was just so much faster than Internet Explorer. I also switched to Chrome because it felt like a big jump from a Firefox that had become bloated and slow. I also got my family members to switch. It was just plainly obvious how much better they were at the time.

Since then I've used Safari, Firefox, Brave, Chromium, Chrome, and a variety of other browsers for long stretches of time. All of them have large sets of upsides and drawbacks associated with them, but Firefox doesn't really have much of anything that I can enthusiastically point to as reasons to switch for my non-tech obsessed family members. That's a problem that Firefox desperately needs to overcome if it wants to continue existing.
> people with the power are making things most comfortable for them. They’re not necessarily acting in the best interest of the company.

This concept applies to much more than work-from-home.
They just want people to come back to justify their corporate lease / rent on whatever offices they have. That's really what it's all about. All their productivity claims are bullshit.