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in AWS, authentication and authorization happens within the application.

For the purposes of authorization, services integrate with a library that handles retrieving and caching policies based on caller identity. services create a context that includes all of the relevant metadata (service, operation, resources, etc.) and the library evaluates the policy and says allow or deny.

Doing it all in application means that if the control/distribution systems for auth go down most things that are in motion will remain in motion, and that deployments of the authentication/authorization code deploy out at a per-service granularity which also scopes blast radius.

There's some pretty obvious pain points (doing anything as a library means update the world for new features) but it has nice degradation properties and is relatively straightforward to grok as a service owner.
Why wait? Anthonies are already the present of customer service.
This is unrelated to the news, but does anyone here ever get unknown charge from "Google Play Bending Spoons"? It doesn't appear in the Google Transaction History, but my ewallet provider confirmed it was from Google Play.

Someone has asked about it in Google Play Help and got no meaningful answer https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/159064766/help-...
That’s true but these major scalping operations often ship internationally. The ps5 would get bundled and go to Asia and the Middle East. I think the market for these scalped goods state side is shallower than you would expect.
Good thing web browsers aren't fully controlled by Google and Apple
I clicked on this thinking "immature rant incoming", but darned if I didn't end up increasing my anger at the exact pace he did with every step! Nothing more frustrating than talking to a human refusing to behave like a human, and a process that isn't a process.
Thought this was about the http alternative for a second.
i had to re-read what you were saying about 5 times before i understood your point, i honestly thought you were some kind of schizophrenic with the way you phrased it and kept repeating the same awkward term

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edit: I'm rate-limited so I can't respond to your other reply. I'm saying that your comment looks like something a crazy person would write and I had a hard time parsing it. this is like a garden-path sentence:

> SBF has used at least one cpu attached to a network on the critical path of his actions. Will this be enough to cause people to be stupid enough to let his powerful and connected family and friends get him off light? People in positions of power seem to get awfully stupid when there's a cpu attached to the network on the critical path.

i thought you were making some kind of paranoid implication about the intel management engine or mind control or something.

and I replied because I thought you should know that what you wrote wasn't clear on the first, second, third, and fourth readings.
As a scientist, I often have to deal with similar BS of a reviewer misunderstanding a submitted journal article, literally insisting we do something we already did, and explained in the paper.

I try to just own the fact that I didn't make my explanation clear and visible enough, so I just submit an updated version along with a comment like "We thank the reviewer for pointing out that we didn't clearly articulate our work on X, so we revised the manuscript accordingly."

In this case change around the UI for this tool to make it slightly more idiot proof, resubmit, and it will be approved. Getting angry and adversarial will only make them have a bad attitude and intentionally be unhelpful. Take them seriously, stroke their egos, and take fully responsibility for having presented your feature in a way they didn't understand. Thank them for pointing out this huge flaw in your program and giving you the opportunity to fix it!
In other words, they took VC funding.
Ys especially if one read their update on the macro one knows maintainability is in their mind.
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds
A new study confirms that the planet harbors a 'stabilizing feedback' mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to keep global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.
Google glasses will ensure that you're paying attention to the ads.
I sometimes hire marketing writers where I work (I have many years of experience as a marketing writer). One of the most important moments in the first interview is when I explain that what they will do is not creative writing.

We can find ways to do our writing jobs creatively, but fundamentally we type to get things done. We write to influence people. It’s not art, not even a little bit.

It’s obvious who gets it and who doesn’t.
...and yet the future continuity of your consciousness itself depends on at least a minimum-viable level of safety!

What a diabolical tradeoff :D

something-something anthropic principle
Before I left Amazon I tried transferring to multiple teams after speaking with hiring managers. They all (IIRC 4 separate ones) wanted either a full on-site loop or at minimum two coding interviews).

I was an L5 with about 5-6 years of experience, 1.5 at that point at Amazon.
Why do severance packages exist? I like the concept, and I appreciate it’s a standard practice and in some cases the law.

But what’s the logic behind them?
>Are you a human? If not, please put me in contact with one.

Little did he know that the entire google play store was set up as a gigantic Turing test. It was never about the apps...

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Magnitude 5.4 earthquake in western Texas
I'm not familiar with the area, but the USGS shows 36 magnitude 2.5 or higher 'quakes along a ~50km long line in the past 30 days. Mostly at depths ~7km.
Reading this and similar stories makes me glad that I've not gotten into mobile app development.
> The fact that we still write software by hand using lines of source code in a text editor is pretty ridiculous to me. It's not that far removed from punch cards.

Well, it wasn't hard to beat punch cards in terms of convenience (BTW did you use them once?), but apparently it's very difficult to beat text editors because they've survived for 50+ years despite the fact the mouse was available in the 80s and that people have been saying that sort of thing once in a while for at least 3 decades.
I think the analogy is more if you could only drive your car on government approved roads.
Not only all this but the system doesn't work. The play store is flooded with low quality baiting garbage. Somehow their onerous policies block out legitimate users and have a VIP line for spammers
There was a previous topic about this issue where the developer just iterated on things (changing font size, labels, add text, remove text) to past whatever bots they have.

I think that approach would be valid here. Change the link to "report content", etc.
You get a bunch of cash up front; majority of RSU's come from your 3rd year vest date on.
I think it's because as the rider is leaning forward to indicate a desire for forward motion, the board drives the motor to move you forward, but also counters the natural tendency of the front lip to just touch the floor.
If the motor cuts off while you are leaning forward, the lip will immediately hid the floor and stop you. And your muscle memory isn't expecting that kind of balancing, having been used to the board "fighting you back" on leaning forward too much.
I've been pretty happy with Ruby. I don't ever recall changing my ruby scripts for a new release (whereas with Python it's been many times). Rails is a different story although rails is not ruby. Ruby is similar enough to python that most pythonistas can already read it, so learning effort is mainly just the API differences.
Seconded, I'm also in MP and kids 6 years old and up play out in the street to their heart's content.
While I agree that the term should be on the list (as it is a catch-all term unlikely to describe a given phenomenon), it is not that "chemical imbalance" does not exist.

For example, dopamine-related drugs relatively consistently lower ADHD symptoms.

A given example that serotonin-reducing drugs can alleviate depression hardly makes the point.

One common (and false) belief is that "depression is caused by low serotonin". It is certainly way more complicated than that; otherwise, SSRIs would be as effective for depression as dopamine-increasing drugs work for ADHD.
This may be true for most "Leetcode Easy" questions, but in my experience, Medium and Hard ones require familiarity with graph traversal, sorting algorithms, dynamic programming, etc. In other words: dedicated study.
He is going to rewrite twitter from scratch in 12 weeks :)
I interviewed with TI in the early 80s. They asked me about the 9900 and - thinking about those slow off-chip registers - I used the words "weird architecture". For some reason they seemed very unhappy about this.

I'm very entertained that TI's own 9900 manager had the same opinion of it.
Amazon has as much Seattle office space as next 40 biggest employers (2017)
Besides Alexa, I believe the Luna and gaming divisions were cut back some based on LinkedIn postings.

Which reminds me, what ever became of O3DE (Lumberyard)? Seems like they should refocus some hiring there to get any market penetration.
My car happily drives on private roads, and even dirt and gravel, without government approval.
I dumped Evernote when they spontaneously deleted half my notes from my desktop and their backup server and couldn't recover them.

Thank God I happened to have my most important note open on my laptop, which was closed at the time. I opened it, shut down the wifi as quick as I could so it couldn't update, and copied that note into OneNote, which frankly works better anyway. I will never trust Evernote again.
What constitutes a 'good trader' is different for every market. Often (always?) it entails an understanding of that particular market that cannot be translated to other markets.
This is why I'm still betting on the web. Every day, that vision gets closer.

I know, I know, it isn't the same... Yet. But on desktop, most of my apps have become web apps: email, docs, videoconf, design, slides, chat, even a little development. Many people use laptops where the OS is a browser. I hope this trend continues to miniaturize.
Slightly more invasive attempts were made over 100 years ago.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scien...
I dont think anywhere i have worked was anything like my high school.

Except in the most generic sense that there are lots of people and occasionally there are petty disputes.
You can grow more food with more money as long as we have land to grow food on. As food becomes more expensive more food will be grown. If it gets expensive enough vertical farms and other capital intensive growing capacity would be viable (as long as capital is cheap). Your analogy is false because you’re measuring latency and calling it bandwidth. If I want more babies in a shorter amount of time then absolutely 9 pregnant women wins over trying to make one woman pregnant 9 times. With food we want more food and plants grow in parallel. It’s not about the first grain of rice, it’s about the trillionth.

Leaving alone in what I said means “don’t mess with the cost of capital and let people borrow to expand supply as fast as we can.” Eventually as we grow capacity to produce and people compete for higher prices we will overshoot supply, a consolidation will occur, and prices will drop. Trying to decrease supply expansion by making it more expensive to borrow to fund expansion will not improve supply. It will indirectly reduce demand by inducing savings and inducing a decrease in economic activity and a recession and unemployment, and therefore suffering.
Ghostreader: AI “Copilot of Reading”
That sounds a lot like Google's problem, not ours.
Sorry, what is your point? What are you trying to contribute?
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The relation is virtually always bidirectional, and often forms complex, dynamic feedback loops. Simple causal analysis can fail in such situations.
The orange pi line from Shenzhen is very nice indeed. Fully documented with sdcard images ready to go. Theres a clone of the pie zero 2 with a neat metal case and another softrouter design, that also has a metal case looks like a little mac mini. You can buy direct on the alibaba express store. 20-60USD depending on the memory config.
> Nothing about what we know today lends any credence to that theory.

I'm personally much more interested in the billions or the tens of billions that disappeared (in the bank account of tether/Deltec?) than in the petty amount that went to the democrats but... It's a fact that media were posting articles explaining how crypto was helping Ukraine (and there was a government ran website in Ukraine accepting crypto donation).

SBF's very mom was running a political fundraising thinggy.

It's also a fact that at least one US congressman is saying Gary Gensler was allegedly working hand in hand with FTX to allow SBF/FTX regulatory capture of crypto exchanges.

I'm not saying they did: I'm saying a US congressman says he has records indicating that.

These are facts. Now did these donations to Ukraine found their way back to FTX? (and if that's the case there's at least some truth to the conspiracy for it's a fact that SBF was donating stolen money to her mommy's fundraise)

I think it's a bit early to dismiss with the back of the hand the information people are digging out.

The one thing that seems certain is that if we were to depend on the journalists from the New York Times to investigate on that we wouldn't go very far.

The usual angle is also going to be used for sure: "The wildest conspiracy theories are false, hence nobody besides SBF did anything wrong".

People are trying to connect the dots. And with 130 companies, blinded journalists, a political party receiving $40m in donation, etc. there are certainly dots that do need connecting.

Congress hearings in december for a start. Should be interesting (even if I don't have high hopes).
Just turn off the notifications.
I want to guess the following and maybe knowledgeable people can chime in:

I would guess that the people reviewing these are contractors, paid by the app they review, and with a certain set of criteria that they're supposed to apply, but they make mistakes. And the supervisors of these contractors (who themselves are contractors) don't have great ways of comparing the work of one person to another / enforcing consistency, except by the customer escalating it.

I would guess that this is approached by Google as a piecework customer service task for contractors (a pure cost center to review and QA app submissions) and not employees, so it means that even something so important as developer experience is being outsourced, and not being daily internalized or felt by Google's own engineering team or product managers (who have moved on to more year-end-review-favorable projects after setting the top-level guidelines).

They probably only review (and whose job is it full time?) error reports / QA / complaints about this process every week and all you are is a line on a sheet that says to them well, "not that many people are upset, so it's going ok, we don't need to worry / put someone on it full time".

Until you get to be a huge revenue developer and worthy of some employee's attention -- and even then only on the "interesting" aspect of your needs, not the day-to-day is it working well experience. You're in the hands of minimum wage contractors reviewing whether you've adhered to sometimes subjective rules, with only so much interest in resolving something they have to study to understand -- and who has the patience for that? They're not SWEs themselves, they have no idea what your description of the problem is really trying to convey (unless they're talented people, and if so they're probably out of there soon).

Until that changes, there will be really frustrating cases like this. Even if your livelihood has come to depend on the app you built.

Am I guessing wrong?
Based on the chat transcript Demz seems like either another bot or someone who just doesn't give a shit. Can't be bothered helping someone? Just spam the "I'm sorry you're frustrated" macro then cut them off. Easy job.
"tell users to buy a better phone"

Funny, given the author says that he usually expects problems like this from Apple.

I guess all respectable app developers require jail broken phones?
As ridiculous as it sounds, have you considered adding report functionality to the other (non-UGC) content in the app? It seems like the review team isn't budging with your current argument so it may be worthwhile to add report functionality (even if the actual reporting is basically a no-op) just to appease them.

Heck, even feature flag it and disable it once the app gets in. Probably won't be flagged again in subsequent reviews.
Next up, swarms of robot bees to do the pollination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
I did a double take too, but I think they meant the rules of engagement can be “more relaxed” as in, to relax the envelope in order to make engagement less likely, rather than relaxing the rules of engagement in order to make engagement more likely.
> How could you guarantee that a file was stored and available for many years and do so such that no central party could arbitrarily take the content down?

As far as I can tell there’s no guarantee that blockchain data will be available without people actively sharing it…which makes it absolutely no different than something like BitTorrent which, ironically enough, is exactly what people who want their data to survive being taken down use to ensure it doesn’t go away.

Those big leaks of government data? BitTorrent.

Those digital libraries of questionable legally? BitTorrent.
Got a source for the 25hr/week thing?
You’re probably conflating expensive private school vs. public school here.
Storing hydrogen underground for long periods is actually shockingly cheap. It's the same technology used for storing natural gas underground. The cost is as little as $1/kWh of storage capacity. This is already proven technology, so no whining about embrittlement please.

Yes, it fits edge cases -- but it has an outsized effect on the cost of a 100% renewable grid. Trying to cover black swan events with batteries or overprovisioning would be much more expensive. Optimizing baseload output in Germany using historical weather data and 2030 estimated cost figures for PV, wind, batteries and hydrogen, including hydrogen cuts the cost of the system in half.
Oh those Californians, always bringing their problems with them XD
Not only decent, Evernote was great before they ditched their native apps.
At least on Android you can install alternate app stores like F-Droid. All you have to do is allow apps to be installed from unknown sources.

If you use Apple, you're just out of luck unless you want to mess with whatever hacky workaround is popular this week.
> Why not just use mercurial if you want to use mercurial? Why invent this... monstrosity?

But this is mercurial. Or rather, it's mercurial rebased on top of the git data store, and it's a fork with breaking changes so it has a different name.

I do agree that the requirement to be online gives me pause. But I guess I don't know how much of a problem that would be in practice, since there's a mystery subset of functionality that works disconnected.

> Neat project but I don't get what this is solving for.

For us external people, it seems like it's mostly for using the hg interface with a github-hosted repo. The internal reason appears to be scalability to massive monorepos. Since I much prefer the hg interface to the git interface, I'm good with both of those motivations.
Not to mention, "what would you do different?"

> more careful accounting

Maybe it's just me being cynical. Maybe benefit of hindsight. Maybe a little of both. And talking with my partner, who is working towards a CPA and absolutely loves forensic accounting.

"Careful accounting" doesn't in any way mean "doing the right thing financially", though it is certainly meant to imply that.

"Careful accounting" is "hiding where the bodies/cash is buried".
Is this for real? How is this not the biggest story in the world right now?

This is absolutely incredible. I wish I had something intelligent to say. Just wow. It’s literally mind reading.

Imagine plugging this tech into Neuralink. The brain-machine bandwidth problem seems way more tractable in light of this result.
On call isn't about fixing the problem yourself, it's knowing who the right person is to contact when an issue arises.
You could argue there’s no such thing as a “terrible person”, we are all at the mercy of our sensory inputs and the innate properties of our neurons. In order to keep society functional we need to enforce boundaries on human behavior, and in some cases label people as untrustworthy and possibly lock them up to stop them from doing more damage. If “terrible person” is the wrong label, we could pick a different one.
According to https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme..., you can file suit in Santa Clara for a contract dispute.

I think it will be pretty hard to fight a class-action legal battle with Google over a contract since every Android phone will happily install arbitrary APK files for users without the play store, but serving an APK from the play store in the first place requires agreeing to the above contract in full.
At what point will developers just detect if it's being tested by the play store and just disable any feature which would prompt further review?
The ideal way this works is that you can sue them for a lot of money for doing this unfairly, so that they are forced to build a better system in order to avoid losing a lot of money.
But way more fun imho
I've been chewing on this idea for a while now. I would love to join a software buyer's cooperative and pool my money with other like-minded individuals.
Networking and High-Frequency Trading
This is why its the ethical responsibility of every dev to use Firefox when they can.
For HIS life, meaning he’s likely to go to prison if he fails to make his depositors whole. He doesn’t care about his customers which is why he embezzled the money, didn’t do any accounting, created a backdoor in the finance software, and tried to keep the charade going for as long as he could.
This just seems to be simple 2D chess where he wants to fire more people but can't because of labor laws or something and wants to drive people out this way.
Actually it sounds like our problem, given the content of TFA.
I think the worry is that with 1,000 drones, if you have 10 breaking daily, that's probably a full-time job for someone to be repairing them, especially if they have to go out retrieving them.

One big tractor isn't a full-time job's worth of maintenance.
They only legislated this in the 80's directly after the US serial killer craze started. Golden State Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Stranglers, Ted Bundy, etc.

Richard Ramirez became popular a few years after the law was enforced, and at that point it solidified for everyone "this was the right decision".

Many parents in the 90's let their kids walk home alone, and explore their neighbourhoods on their own.. And even today it's popular in rural areas. But the nature of where people live now is more related to cost of living and jobs, which everyone changes every few years - so nobody knows their neighbours or their community.

Now it's normal to shame parents who do this. And schools automatically notify the authorities if they're told about it.

Would kids get taken away from parents for this? Unlikely, legislation only pushes a $2,000 fine.

Yes, kids have been abducted in New Zealand. Yes, kids have been assaulted in New Zealand. It is a possibility.