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>Practically speaking, "farther ahead" may mean different things to different people.

I completely agree, yet in this case what is meant is pretty clear: Pinephone support.

And Genode is far ahead in Pinephone support.
So what should the users do, switch to another provider that still has their canary up?
> the workers are underpaid

What's your definition of "underpaid"? What does anyone deserve to get paid?

It's really really difficult to create some sort of moral framework around the jobs people do and the rewards they get for doing them (does a plumber deserve to get paid more than a dental hygienist?). Capitalism is efficient because it doesn't try to. It just rewards people for supplying the things others want.

"Underpaid"/"overpaid" would have to be relative to what markets pay. But if all servers receive tips, that's just what the market is doing.

More simply, you wouldn't argue that janitors are correctly paid, just because they don't receive tips. They just don't have the surface to collect them.
>According to police, the company’s cybersecurity staff found a document on Castro’s laptop titled ‘OfficeSpace project’, which outlined Castro’s scheme to ‘cleanup evidence’ by manipulating audit logs and disabling alarm logging.

Wow sounds like a real genius. I wonder if he also wore a shirt saying I AM STEALING FROM YOU to work?
My answer to this is the following: do your software have by any chance, SQL writes and HTTP request to any third party APIs within the same endpoint? Or maybe it uses some background job processing that's not SQL based and you have at least one endpoint where a job is enqueued AND something is written with SQL?

If the answer is yes, you already have a distributed systems with all the downsides and none of the mitigations.

If that's the case, you can also use Elixir without still knowing anything and have the same level of penalties.

It's really hard nowdays to avoid distributed systems, it just happen that people don't realize they have one.

The classic Rails + Postgres + Sidekiq is a distributed system
No, but they were 100% given a price for the 6000 units. Nobody is shipping 6000 units to anyone unless they know and like the amount they are being paid.
Do you think any one in practice will be watching for this domain? My suspicion is that it will still work for most people, but I am ignorant, and am basing this on how competent I see people behave in general.

Moving that item up to be more prominent does sound like a good idea though
Tamagui seems to hype performance but it seems like it’s adds a lot of complexity to optimize web styles which are already very fast. The difference when talking about native (not react-native on web) is tiny IIRC
> Deliberate understaffing

I previously lived in Japan and this was such a big difference compared to the US. In US stores it can take minutes to find someone if you have a question and when you do find someone they'll usually be dealing with something else. In Japan stores had so much staff that a store employee was always within a stone's throw away. The same thing at restaurants.
>You take direct control of forming establishment to the greatest percentage of the populace who will ultimately choose the rules

This is a fantasy. https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

>Those that drive corruption and cheating the max are the winners in this world

This is the status quo. All the rules are written to keep some very undesirable people in positions of power over you.
IIRC Log4j roughly allowed loading arbitrary code from a URL. The mere process of trying to access that URL would cause a DNS request to the canary token domain.

I discovered that one of the major 2FA code SMS delivery gateways was actually susceptible to Log4j, where I could have potentially gotten a shell on their were, were I to have made an effort to. That could have allowed me to intercept all 2FA codes from major financial institutions that utilized the service to deliver 2FA codes to their customers.

On the underground fraudsters would have paid handsomely to be able to get past 2FA on accounts they had stolen creds for, without even having to SIM swap.

It goes to show how these services can be used for many purposes, offensive and defensive.
It sounds like you're incredibly picky. I moved away from Ruby to Python years ago for 99.9% of my professional work. Ruby to me is write once read nowhere. "Professional" developers invent all sorts of creative DSLs to make code impossible to use. Rails is insufficient for a project of modest complexity owing once again to it's 9 levels of hell worth of DSLs. If you follow the prescribed formulas exactly, to the letter, and never stray from the DSLs given in Rails, and Ruby code in general, is fantastic. Once you start to stray you end up in hell.

Python has it's faults. Most are handled by a good editor. I only switch from Python when I need something lower level. With Python a company gains:

1. Simple language with relatively low ramp-up time

2. Reasonably fast with proper tuning. I've been on projects processing impressive numbers of RPS built entirely in Python.

3. Comprehensions. You claim they are not sufficient. With them I rarely need to lambda anything. When I do I have `functools` to do any other work.

4. A massive ecosystem of libraries, resources, etc.

A company loses:

1. Projects become difficult to understand at a certain size. This is not properly addressed by even the proper use of MyPy.

2. Somewhat more involved testing process compared to it's contemporary - Ruby.

To compare apples-to-apples you can even look at the interpreters themselves. Python's mainline interpreter has been able to run CIRCLES around Ruby's for years now. I can understand using something like Go for systems level work, but there are few languages that give you so much for very little investment. Even dropbox was run entirely on Python for LONG time before it became too unruly. That's INCREDIBLE given the simplicity of the language.

What you use on your personal time is irrelevant. Your complaints apparently are not experienced by the swathes of companies switching from almost every language under the sun to Python. It's here to stay. At least until Go's ecosystem catches up to Python's. My belief is Go will be the only language to unseat Python at this point. Python will still be around as a "perl-replacement" for basically ever as far as I am concerned.
Given I stopped drinking over 20 years ago it is true for me.

Also if you are drinking alcohol (and only Alcohol) with EVERY meal, well you may have a problem
> like multi-line lambdas - pretty basic functionality even for a non-functional-oriented language!

Lambdas with one or more statements instead of a single expression (the actual limitation: “multi-line” is a misnomer) are only an issue because python is a strongly statement-oriented imperative language, and not expression-oriented like most functional and some other languages.
>In our modern societies we have more means of communication than ever, yet we’re also more lonely than ever before.

I really wonder if most people are just worthlessly incompetent at forms of communication other than face-to-face interactions.

The narrative is that the covid lockdowns made people more socially isolated, and to some extent I don't disagree, but the narrative goes on to paint an image of "noone to see or talk to, lonely, might die, help" which in this day and age is simply not (or at least shouldn't be) possible.

A video call is literally only a Skype or a Discord away. Talking to someone is literally just a phone call away. Fucking social media swamps you in the presence of others.

I admit that it probably helped that I hate dealing with humans in the flesh anyway, but I felt no lessening in my ability to socialize because my communications and interactions by and large weren't disrupted.

The "we are more disconnected the more connected we become" narrative can go die on a rusty spork.
Definitely not full memory protection. A Win32 program could take down the whole computer.
Having 1000 boxes of stuff physically shipped to your house is nothing like the penny rounding scheme described in Office Space.

You'd have to be an idiot to think you wouldn't get caught doing this.

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This reminds me more of the recent Microsoft related case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/former-microsoft-softwa...

Step 1) Somehow use your internal employee ID/credentials to generate gift cards (genius here didn't know this was logged...?)

Step 2) Resell gift cards online

Step 3) Buy $160,000 car and $1.6m house on a salary that likely could not afford either in the current Seattle cost of living/real estate market.

Step 4) Prosecution, prison.

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And then you've also got this guy who thought he figured out a way to generate license codes for Microsoft software and sell it online as legit, and pocket the money:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/operation-software-slashers-s...
That's the same tired stuff people said about Millennials and Gen Xers before them. The younger generations are vastly more open, honest, kind and generous than older generations. They just have significantly less tolerance for hateful people and "punching down". That rubs older generations the wrong way because they tend to hate (or fear) a lot of things and think it's funny/acceptable to punch down.
No, give up on any cloud storage solution if you give a crap about this stuff..
The US has a cultural allergy to personal servants, and for good reason.
At your age, do you think that previous generations were any better?
How about the mental health metrics?
>As a European, US colleges/universities seem more like boarding schools. Here, no university would think that they have any business interfering with students' personal lives or anything they do outside a lecture hall, because they are considered adults.

Seconding this. It was quite a stark difference in university culture and expectations to me between US and NL.
You and me both, fellow.

Exploring a bit into how it might fail: AFAIK Japanese people shun tips because it is seen as an unwelcome incentive to do better, and they take pride in doing their best wherever. Tipping, thus, is akin to saying "This should motivate you to do better next time" - basically an insult. This is said in the site you linked to as well, it quotes a testimonial from an employee that didn't quit an oppressive job she had because a customer complimented her work. Not because of a silent tip and a nod.

An app that intends to 'remove friction in tipping' and 'motivate employees with tips', goes against Japanese cultural values very hard. The workers are (allegedly) not motivated by tips and tipping doesn't have a friction problem unless you're the owner/manager trying to get in on it. Additionally, this is something the workers have no input on, it is a terminal on a table whose sole purpose is to add tips to the service. No employer would ever allow its workers to do this just because, let alone pay a company for this service. There has to be a split of some sorts embedded into the game, which leads me to think this will motivate only prospective employers looking to get a cut on the tip income.

According to the site, the terminal only asks if you want to tip and the customer says yes or no, with a tick note appearing in the terminal if the customer says yes. This could help cover tip stealing. How would you ever know your tips were stolen if you didn't even know you were tipped in the first place?

So not only are they importing the tip system from the United States, but also the adversarial relationship between hosts and owner/managers that encourages tip stealing, and a form of tip stealing that the workers can't stop because it's in an app controlled by the owner/manager, not a jar tallied at the end of the day by the same workers that filled it.

Maybe I'm reading too deep into it, I tend to do that sometimes.
it's hard to give capitalism a lower death tole. India and Ireland under the British had entirely preventable famines also, and all the cia backed coups had quite high numbers of deaths themselves
Would depend on the method. For the ones that are automated like opening a PDF - I doubt many attackers will bother blacklisting the domain in their DNS.

But for the manual ones, like opening a link - it'd probably be better to host them at a much less suspicious sounding domain.
> Are there people that now realize no one cares who works for Walmart so why not just steal stuff freely?

People are just smart enough to know that if they do not have a badge, then they should not get involved unless they want to take on a lot of legal liability. It has nothing to do with how much Walmart staff cares about theft.
> If there is uncertainty about whether the food is coming or not, there is no reason to use the service.

And what I'm saying is that there's already uncertainty. The current interface of DSPs showing that it'll arrive within 30 minutes or whatever, is a leaky abstraction of how the underlying system (ie. restaurants and delivery drivers) work. Just as how DSPs likely have some sort of system to estimate delivery times based on current supply and demand, they can build a system that also factors in price, and give consumers various price options and their associated estimates.
The zombie obeys:note on host manipulation by parasites+ecological consequences
>>so you feel obliged

I have no problems looking them in the eye and pressing 0% -- No Tip.
How is it a train wreck? Are you alluding to some mis-informed view of its politics, or some aspect of its tech industry? Not clear from your comment, I’m not looking to start an argument.
Australia doesn't have a tipping culture (though it's slowly creeping in). Customer service is usually pretty good. Sometimes great (in which case I usually do leave a tip). If the service is really bad, then you can always tell the management; they're usually pretty obliging.

If I'm at a restaurant, I really don't want to have much interaction with most of the staff; I'm there to talk to my dining party and to eat and drink. _Really_ good wait staff know this and are attentive (e.g. to your drinks, or can notice when you need them), personable when they're there, but otherwise you don't notice them. I think tipping culture discourages this, as being invisible isn't an obvious way to get a tip.
The article is a bit too general. Not wrong, but not Southwest related.

What apparently happened to Southwest is that their flight crew scheduling created schedules in which a delay at one point resulted in no crew being available at a second point, which allowed cascading failures. As a cost-saving measure, they don't have enough reserve crews to cope with disruptions.
At the very least encrypt your data with your own tool of choice before uploading, so you’re not just using the provider supplied encryption
Aren't these similar to the concrete all-in-one -unit bathrooms in the ADX Florence? Those bathrooms are designed to minimize water waste and cleanup. I can see why it did not catch on.
> Functions are first-class objects. If you want a multi-line lambda thats just a function.

Yes, lambdas are just anonymous functions that are restricted to a single expression, no statements. This is a problem for programming in functional style, because python idiomatically uses statements a lot, and doing a named definition for a single use function is more verbose and less readable in mant cases.
Respectfully, people getting a "50% off retail value" deal on a product are not what most would simply call "rescuers". They are people who got a stellar deal and maybe got a good feel or two that they wouldn't normally have
Outside the people on HN etc, aren’t people objectively worse off payment wise than in the 80s? Cannot buy houses and having to live with their parents? Sure we live longer and healthier (well, this is also mostly the well off people) and we have tremendous tech advancements, but isn’t everything owned by a few people? I have to pay monthly for my car seat warmer. Movies and music that I bought are removed without me having anything to say about it. Everything is becoming rented and can be remotely terminated.

Even our mental space is occupied by a handful of billion$ companies (and their billion$ owners).

Then AI is changing the outlook for 100s of millions ‘knowledge workers’ and artists as they see what they were educated for or educated themselves with, rapidly become obsolete. Of course many here say that it will make more jobs as it always did; are those better? Will they pay more and have a better work/life balance, or, more likely when looking at the past, will they pay, generally far less and will the companies rich enough to run the AI be the only ones that benefit from that particular revolution, as they do now?

You can deny climate change and pollution as many do, but that is a problem as well which the coming generations can look forward to reap the pain from through disasters and famine. Not you or your kids or friends, but the masses ‘elsewhere’ who are already suffering now from these things.

So when you are young you look forward to having no possessions (everything shall be rented), a burning planet and no or crappy jobs. Throw in a war here and there and the bleak future arrived already for many. Except for a few, like now and many of those are in the HN echo chamber.

And all of this and more is causing a clearly visible mental health crisis all around the globe.

Which parts are distorted?
It is not the case in the EU, the legal term is "cooling off period". You get 14 days to change your mind for physical products ordered online
Someone should make app whose purpose is to route complaints directly to the highest echelons of a company through crowdsourced phone numbers etc. Why not share information to empower ourselves to speak directly with those who have authority to change the situation? If even 1% of these furious people were able to get through to a C-suite executive's phone, they might begin to see it as their problem. Perhaps those executives could benefit from the experience of being unable to escape all consequences of their decisions.
Not to my knowledge. Signal's stated position is that it wouldn't hold legal water[1], although the EFF disagrees.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141027143819/https://github.co...
Flynn offers a solution to the time and resource exhaustive status quo of traditional customer interviews and beings a fresh dynamic approach static surveys such as the NPS score by using large-language models to automate the interview process and gather rich, action. The interviewing strategies that Flynn is trained for are inspired by domain experts such as Rob Fitzpatrick, author of “The Mom Test,” and YC.
Idaho college killings suspect is criminology PhD student
I had that surgery, more than once, and I have trouble breathing when I sleep. I'm finding it hard to get a CPAP (I'm abroad in a non-English speaking nation so that's probably a factor). Have you tried taping your mouth closed? If you're definitely safe using the CPAP then you might try it, that's my plan.

Aside from that, I've found yoga and meditation that uses the breath as an object helps with my breath quality when awake, and recently I'm trying hot/cold contrasts (a hot bath and cold shower) as outlined in this Huberman Lab podcast[1]. I've noticed that my sinuses are clearer afterwards. That could be the steam or another reason, it is hard work though!

> I regret no-one telling me to get it looked at seriously when younger.

Me too, I had terrible advice, from medical professionals too. They didn't seem to care so I'm heartened by the recent findings which, even though they scare the hell out of me because it underlines all the problems I face and most likely will face, those walking behind us may have an easier road.

[1] https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-and-health-benefits-of-d...
> More broadly speaking, there seems to be a tendency in current US culture of infantilising young adults.

There are obvious incentives for infantilising your population, from capitalism to governance. I find it unsurprising that the US would be exceptionally awful in this regard, when it's so good for business to convince your adults they're helpless children dependent on almighty corporate products/services.

But if we look at the global history of religious indoctrination, arguably the epitome and oldest form of infantilising at-scale, there's certainly not a US monopoly on the practice.
December 2017

What could possibly go wrong?
Really?

They use 501s as kobashi schemes for tax dodges through donor advised funds. It's a shell game. That's why they take the $1 salary as well.

As far as the other one, if you think, say, Peter Thiel or Jamie Dimon has the exact same access to the political process to influence policy as the guy fishing for bottles in the recycling dumpster out in my alley, I don't know what to say.

Money doesn't "buy" power and influence, power and influence is an ancillary structural artefact of the money. It comes with rights and privileges. We'd call them oligarchs if they lived in any other country.
What would "tested in the US courts" look like? Would the federal government take an entity to court, demanding that they put their warrant canary back up, as a form of compelled speech?

No, I don't think there's been an example of that happening, but perhaps we would expect that if the government wanted to bring such a case, they would use a secret court, or an NSL, which would likely result in the warrant canary being added back to the site before anyone noticed. (An injunction against removing the canary could even be included in the initial secret warrant).
> We’d get $10/hr plus tips, which could work out to $30/hr on average.

in which city? I would never describe making $62k a year in NYC as being paid well.
> the majority of men aren't interested in raping people.

I'm confused. You're saying they are interested in sex, but not in rape, with their object of attraction. Okay. So does the same apply to pedophiles? Is the majority of pedophiles also not interested in raping anyone?
> Most kids in the US don't go to college

It's about 63% of high-school grads, including both 2-year and 4-year colleges: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpa
Just so you know, Kagi does offer direct links to a result in archive.org; it’s under the menu (screenshot: https://send.strangecode.com/f/screenshot-2022-12-30-at-18-2... ). It would be fantastic if they let us add custom “Open in…” options; I’ll add that as a feature request!

Edit: feature request added at https://kagifeedback.org/d/1178-allow-custom-open-in-options...
See https://www.druganddevicelawblog.com/2020/11/no-manufacturer... “No Manufacturer Liability for After Market Modifications” which reports on the case Lowe v. Cerner Health Services, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218240 (E.D. Va. Nov. 20, 2020) - https://casetext.com/case/lowe-v-cerner-health-servs - a hospital customised an EHR system, and flaws in the hospital’s modifications was a contributory factor to plaintiff’s injury. The Court held that the EHR vendor was not liable for flaws in the hospital’s implementation (as opposed to the base product itself).

> Note that the manufacturer of an industrial or medical device is held to a higher standard of "not letting the customer do the wrong thing with it."

> The issue is that at the end of the day, the manufacturer of industrial and medical equipment is liable for damages unless they take every possible foreseeable precaution to prevent the user of the device from inadvertently causing harm to themselves or others.

You are essentially repeating the plaintiff’s contentions in that case, and the Court rejected them.
"Most discrete math is object oriented"

...what?
That's exactly whom you're competing with. The MCAT got me interviews in which the first question was, "what's up with your GPA?" Invariably I'd end up on the waiting list. This was in the late 1990s.
Caddie is likely to serve rpcs right? In an rpc context I doubt it ever really makes sense as latency is typically more important than throughput