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In civilized countries they solved this decades ago by allowing the postal service to offer simple bank accounts.

It's totally a fake problem that untrustworthy people can't be trusted in modern times with bank accounts. The risk is check bouncing. People don't "need" checks anymore though to function in the cashless world.

We already have prepaid card accounts that don't allow you to spend money you don't have. The only catch is that they're run as profiteering machines which extract fees at every turn.

I guess what I'm saying is, let USPS run an operation (like Green Dot, Vanilla, etc.) but with a fee structure based on the true cost of the service only. And the government should give Visa and Mastercard the choice of:

1. antitrust suit to break them up.

2. the USPS cards will be a V/MC, and V/MC will give them very deeply discounted interchange rates

3. a new independent USPS card network with low fees will be built AND commercialized for any issuer to use, and a regulation that anyone who accepts V/MC must also accept that network.
Keep an eye on the smaller tech companies that are snapping up all the laid off talent right now. They will be the next Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon, while all of those will eventually shift to the IBM/Cisco/Oracle tier over the next decade. That's exactly what happens when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors while engineering is just a replaceable resource.
Off topic, but is there a patron style support service where I can pay a flat fee once per month, and that money is split among my chosen targets? So I could have something like 20$ per month, split to 3 developers.
I don't think you get a tax deduction by processing someone else's donations. Even if you did, wouldn't you have to first treat it as income, so it cancels out?
There’s an API and a ton of open source clients that will do that for you.
I quit programming because of Scrum. Programming used to be awesome, but Scrum turned it into the equivalent of digging ditches for my dad when I was a teenager.
I consider obligatory 20% tipping as that weird American thing along with guns and (absence of) healthcare. People have elaborate arguments and discussions about them, and the side in favor can look very rational and plausible, and their hypotheses can even have a lot of explanatory power, but they are easily refuted by looking at basically every other developed country.

I travel a lot and eat out a lot and I haven't noticed any discernible difference in service between the countries with obligatory, optional and prohibited tipping.
We're the only species to systematically (and of course casually) care for other species. Similarly, the only ones who travel great distances (across the world!) to care for others we've never met our even know.

Only species to care for our environment. Living in equilibrium with your environment isn't the same as caring about it. You can bet that if burning down the forest got you chicks as a leapord, we'd have run out of forests a long time ago. Meanwhile, we reflect on what we've done, and make our future decisions based on that reflection.

These things are "as a species", and not about individuals or political allegances in America.

I'm really tired of this hip-to-be-cynical attitude that dumps all over our species, and overlooks how amazing we are. Ironically though that's one of our redeeming character traits too.
Only until the precedent is set that you need to tip $$$$ or else you're a cheapskate.
Ooof. Didn't realize it. Still, I believe the same applies, we can't dynamically analyze pointers at the time scoping must be settled.
France is a smokers country for instance.
Sorry to hear that. In my country we also have daily power cuts but they are geographically distributed in order to prevent a total collapse of the grid. Is the latter what happened in your country?

Our power cuts in South Africa are here to stay:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/477261-eskom-announces...
No - we expect adequate service and no obsequiousness.

It makes us uncomfortable to be pampered or if the serving staff are overly friendly or chirpy - it feels insincere to a Brit and puts us into a defensive mode.

If serving staff are polite (or at least not surly) and we get served in a reasonable amount of time then that's all we ask for and we'll tip 10% if there was nothing wrong with the meal, or put some change in a tip jar if we only ordered drinks.

Traveling to the US as a Brit is an affront when you first experience "service culture". You become desensitised to it after a while (and can even have some fun with it) but initially it's a genuinely uncomfortable experience and it blows my mind how different "normal" can be across English-speaking cultures who share a hell of a lot of history and culture.
Its been illegal in California since 2008
> If you have to lay off some people, then obviously you want to get rid of the lowest performers.

It depends. In medium and large (and even some small) organisations, the intention behind layoffs is not only to save on the salary bill, it's to cut those divisions, projects, groups initiatives and work units that are a net loss or that are not contributing to the bottom line.

IOW, the intention should be to get rid of certain positions; it's a side-effect that people are usually in those positions.

For example, at Amazon I would imagine that even the high performers in the Alexa team would be considered for layoffs over the low performers in the cash-cows.

It's positions that get laid off, not people.
I'm not deeply familiar with Keybase's design, but speaking in broad strokes, our approach is similar.

That said, one area that Keybase compromised on that we haven't is offering a web interface. It's well known among security and encryption people that you can't do serious end-to-end encryption in a web app--an attacker with access to the server can just modify the html/js payload, rendering the encryption pointless.

Of course, web interfaces are convenient and users want them, so many products give in on this for the sake of UX even though it fully undermines the zero-trust model. EnvKey hasn't though. It has a desktop app and a CLI--there's no web interface.
Are you just referring to the default options? Am I the only one who always just goes for custom, 0%?

Anyway that's not the cost, that's post everything so including tax.
$400 isn't low-end. The Samsung phone I got from T-Mobile for a one-time payment of $40 after taxes (for trading in a flip phone) is a low end phone. I've been using it for over a year, and I expect to continue using it for at least another year, probably two. At that point, I might just switch to a flip phone, since I spend my money on nice large tablets instead of oversized phones. Hopefully there'll be a decently priced flip phone that'll last more than 2 years.
I will agree with you end user devices are generally safer. No points for ISPs being useful for anything, because they tend not to be, but firewalls for sure, and of course, the best accidental security protection ever developed: NAT. The other big difference is that end users have a single user's credentials, which is way less exciting than popping a large provider which can compromise millions of users at once.

That being said regarding Vaultwarden, as someone who contributes to a self-hosting platform, I interact with a lot of self-hosters. And self-hosters do a lot of really dumb things that aren't secure, and, of course, tend to add a public DNS endpoint to their password manager. :P

People put a lot of investment into the concept of making passwords super secure. For most passwords, that is silly and probably does more to increase risk. I would argue a password you can remember + 2FA is much safer than a password generated by a password manager, and any platform smart enough to support 2FA is also not going to give you unlimited password attempts.

But the biggest issue I have with people's views on password complexity and password managers is the idea that all passwords should be equally secure. (Or even, that you "must use a unique password on every site".) I sign up for a lot of crud. Usually it's because something made me sign in to read or comment or something, or a one-off purchase where I'm not even storing my payment credentials. If we're talking about risk profile, these aren't passwords that need to be heavily secured. But if you treat them like they must be, you'll end up using a password manager, likely for all of your accounts, including making your more important accounts, like your email and bank, less secure.

Understand the risk of an account getting compromised, and set it's password accordingly. Absolutely use bad worthless passwords on one-off sites that can't impact you much. Heck forget those passwords, and reset them if you ever need to come back to the site. Password resets are cheap for things you rarely go to.

Turn 2FA on everywhere, and ensure your important passwords are high quality and unique. If you have a bad memory, create some sort of portable reminder, or if you have to write your passwords down on a card or something... lie on it in a consistent, easy to remember way.
> there's no such thing as second-hand-sugar

Which makes this a truly personal choice.

“Smoking is a choice, don’t ban it” always irks me because it’s a choice smokers make for themselves and everyone else in a 30m radius around them from forcing others to breathe in their polluted air.
Basically every regulatory body in the world is looking into the sale.
Yep, by replacing it with another :-/

I've been hunting disinformation, spreading information and hope and support, donated, tried to raise awareness with politicians and newspapers, that kind of stuff.

Got a severe back pain last fall that set in whenever I touched Twitter last fall, and scaled back, then scaled up again.

Now I need to take a break. Will still pray and donate if possible, but while 11 months on the information war frontlines is a lot of fun it is unpaid and mentally taxing comes on top of normal responsibilities and in addition you get to see and understand in your heart a lot of pain.

Luckily things are moving in the right direction now. Now even the leopards will be sent to roam the steppes of the east.

(Do I care about the Russians? Yes, unlike many others, yes. Thats the second reason why Ukraine needs to win before more of them are sent into the meat grinder.)
I have heard of people using nicotine gum, patch, or lozenge for situations like this.
Software companies should really be held more accountable for outright lies like this. It's a very widespread practice.
Just got word that one of my team members runner the python script to extract the seeds out of LastPass. Excited to leave LP and move to bitwarden. Like you said, a lot of small stuff at LP is the issue, unresponsive plugin sometimes, got a update and new UI last week, now the search in the chrome plugin isn't working on my end, really don't understand how you can write such shitty software for something so simpel (the UI part)
Why are we at the stage where one needs a throwaway account for such a normal opinion. Society, huh
> Google achieved market dominance in large part due to its decision to hire and compensate very talented people very well.

They built an advertising empire. They have gmail. And android had no real competition.

But over hiring and throwing mud at a wall to see what sticks hasn’t worked out to very much in the last 10 years…
I checked a two year old account and it's at 100k, might have been changed though.
The human body is not a closed system.
That X-ray view of the ball mouse seemed so high tech and mysterious but now, for me all grown up it's very obvious and even old fashioned.
Steve mann!
http://wearcam.org/veilluminescence.htm
About 5.5% of Americans don't have bank accounts and pay primarily with cash. Most of these people are impoverished minorities, specifically blacks and Latinos. Not accepting cash is a pretty discriminatory practice.
Do investors come to Alphabet for money or passion?
There are some truly prolific posters here -- some that are reknown in their industry/academic fields and some that are simply great engineers / great writers -- I definitely notice a few certain usernames when they post and have often thought I would love to see any time they posted. It's truly a treat when they show up in a comment thread and offer insider knowledge that you can't learn anywhere elsewhere. In my opinion, it's probably the one thing that makes HN a cut above any other social media experience on the internet.

As much as I'd love a feature to follow a person like that, I suspect many of these people are the types that probably would be less likely to participate if they knew people were following them and I want to respect that and their privacy. Instead I've tried to remember to always favorite comments that stand out to me which I periodically revisit because they are like little nuggets of wisdom that I can continuously relearn from.
Late to the party, but thought it was worth adding an observation.

I don't know much about Sam Altman, I've read his blog, listened to some of his talks. From what I can see his last few positions have been prominent and related to earlier work... of these roles he has taken he has succeeded in growing the businesses. So it would appear he is probably a good professional manager- a business caretaker. It is a different job than building something from nothing, or producing a difficult technical achievement, but it is an important job. Looking at some numbers (google search), many people rely on him for leadership and decision making, and he has produced good work in those areas. I don't think any of this indicates any level of "failure". And to be honest, if a guy like Sam Altman is considered a failure... I wonder what people would think of me, or other people I admire who do good work but aren't the subject of an incredibly well crafted narrative?
I think there is a distinction between a charitable donation pop-up that forces the user to round up, donate, or actively select 'no donation' is a dark pattern.

Whereas having the option to select a charitable donation, or passively ignore it, as a part of the normal checking out is fine.
In some of the more old school churches I went to in Missouri yeah. More on the Kansas side of my family it was more everyone would smoke in the foyer / approaching steps or such, and it'd just suck through the whole building the whole day.
GenAI in Games? The Final Frontier?
Fortunately it is still possible to choose the tip amount. I just move it to 15%.
> Why them, and not Heinlein, or Pohl, or Anderson?

I've always thought that Pohl's "The Tunnel Under the World" would make a great movie (sort of like a twist on Groundhog Day, but more relevant for the intrusive ad-filled times we live in).
I agree with the first part, not the second. It is fine for humanity to work on aging, but I don't think it's a societal imperative.

Death and aging sucks; and that is fine. It is part of being alive. The utter fear of death many of us harbour inside is a strong force that manifests itself in many beautiful forms.

I am terribly afraid of death, yet I would not choose to upload my consciousness to a machine. I would not put myself in suspended animation. I would not like to live 300 years either. There is deep comfort in knowing that my days on this planet are limited and life is short. Better get a move on.
There are wider examples were people get hired in certain geos to provide political leverage. e.g. in Ireland google employs between 5000 & 9000 people.

Mostly well paid too but the purpose is twofold. "high tech" employment with well paying jobs is well protected by politicians in a country that until the late 90s/2000s had limited opportunities.

This in turn "buys" political protection via Ireland's government's EU veto rights. [if you don't know in the EU single market you currently only have to recognise revenue in whichever member state you claim to be based]. It in turn ensured highly profitable exceptional tax deals, as should be Ireland's sovereign right to negotiate.
Yubikey or not, they should focus first on making TOTP instead of text messages
I'm thinking a combination of reasons;

A) filmability - Gateway would be fantastic, but expensive to film. Counter-point would be "the Space Merchants", which would be "cheap" to film (but perhaps not please the sponsors.)

B) risk. PKD stories have a proven track record. A E van Vogt not so much (as far as I know). (although Weapon Shops would be great, albeit political bait.)

On the other hand its now becoming possible to film some of these stories in a non-cheesy way (think Dune) so I expect we'll see more of them.
I am starting to think he just manages the fund for money and not for passion
As a consumer of both Square and Clover, I wonder if I am alone in finding the latter ridiculously clunky. I want to pay quickly, get a receipt texted or emailed or printed and move on. After I enter my details (eg phone number) once, I should not need to do it again at another merchant.

Square gets this. Clover seems not to, and is forever trying to get me to install its dumpy little app to harvest my data in exchange for coupons. Its like the evil stepchild of Foursquare and Facebook. Go away Clover! I actively avoid some takeout joints that use it now, I just dontnhave the mental energy to deal with the excessive contact Clover wants.
No manager has direct insight into performance of 300 people (at least in tech). They have to rely on subordinate managers/teamleads, each of which can be unreliable for different reasons. Some may be playing politics, some may just be bad managers. Some will overhype their employees, some will be honest to a fault. Get them all in a ranking board, and all sorts of games get played.

If your team leads could be trusted to measure appropriately, you wouldn't need stack rankings because they'd correctly identify those under-performing. Stack ranking is conceding that your managers can't properly measure performance. Shouldn't that reflect more on management?
> Do you want credit bureaus to collect even more information about your financial life so they can have a more accurate picture?

I mean, if instead it was the government, and they could also draw information about my salary, yeah, that sounds kinda nice. Not having to own a credit card to prove that I exist to a landlord does seems pretty good to me.

But my overall point here is that a credit score is not as simple as the above poster made it sound. Someone who's been financially responsible can still run into issues because of this weird system leaking into so many places.
Been going through something similar. I am commenting to come back to post.

Thanks for posting.
I second the recommendation for Pinboard. I rarely ever revisit bookmarked pages (and don’t expect to), but every once in a while this pays off big time.

I can also highly recommend a clipboard manager (I use Paste with a high history limit), which is kinda like a second short term memory. The most profound effect this has for me is lowered stress. Once I‘ve committed something to the clipboard, I know that I‘ll be able to recover it. I think that it also makes me more productive.
Nah Alex doesn't use that many slashes as an alternative to grammar.
I've actually started avoiding places solely because tipping has been getting out of control. I stopped going out to eat. I now cut my own hair. I don't go out for coffee. Etc. All because I get so much anxiety when the flip those screens around and stare at me while it asks me how much tip am I going to give.
Sorry, I don't see how the last part of your statement, even if true, relates to the quote.

They built an advertising empire, yes? By compensating people very well.
I think of it differently. Ads pervade your experience. You cannot pump gas without since video blasting in your face. You cannot buy groceries without hearing about the poor, pathetic children who this billion dollar company decided to collect money for. Hell, I was sitting on the ski lift the other day and the bar across your lap someone has added little advertising signs saying which is the best pro shop.

My point is, we are surrounded by useless requests for more of our time and money. I go to the coffee shop almost exclusively as a place to relax. There should be less intrusion into my headspace there, not more.
Made even worse by traveling in a country with a language you can't read. sometimes it shows the native language, zoom in it might show an English transliteration. if you're showing it to a taxi driver it'll definitely not show the native language.
Google Optimize will sunset this year
Well, unless those areas have worse laws than the US somehow, make sure the server knows that at the very least they should sue the day they quit or get fired.
Covers/enclosures seem useful to capture the emissions. Some studies saw reduction of around 90%.
My stats memory is rusty, but...

Doesn't a normal distribution typically arise during random sampling? I.e., if there's some statistic you calculate based on a sample, then when you take a bunch of independent population samples, that statistic will tend to be normally distributed over those samples.

If that's the only reason we'd typically expect to see a normal distribution, then I don't understand why we'd expect employee ratings to be normally distributed.
The only one you usually really need is your email password. You can typically reset everything else from that if you really had to.
> there's no such thing as second-hand-sugar

But there absolutely is such a thing as a "food desert"

an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.

particularly within the USofA, places where lack of finnacial resources across communities, lack of affordable public transport, and lack of shopping options essentially doom large groups of people to low grade high sugar foods.

Good governments that are orientated toward the well being of their citizens population tend to enact limits on sugar in food, improve transport, subsidize good food etc.

Often with the evil socialist goal of better health, improved job options via transport, reduced universal health costs, and more taxpayers ..
Almost every round of layoffs I've seen has resulted in people doing pointless bullshit to "look busy" while not actually doing anything.
Remember when we vainly attempted to train people how to distinguish between legitimate and spoofed domain names, such as in phishing emails?

Remember when big tech companies started sending confirmation/survey emails with links to domain names indistinguishable from spoofed ones? 1drv.ms, I'm looking at you.

Now good luck convincing anyone that "xn--meagefactory-m9a.ca" is totally legit.
Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment
Any companies come to mind? I could certainly use a change of pace
Same story at Amazon. have kindle, fire stick, prime subscription, and alexa echo puck.

prime shopping worse today than 5 years ago. many item take longer than 2 day promise. too many scam items, like shopping at some flea market. reviews unreliable.

me kindle same thing as what I purchase in 2017 or 2016. in past two year they update some screen so feel more like android style but its otherwise exact same product.

alexa is timer and alarm clock. sometime use for weather but it always say “by the way” and try to sell something stupid.

ok now we discuss aws. “hey we give like nothing to open source community but let us take you open source project, create our own fork, and sell your hard work as managed service.”

ok but what aws really even do that big in past 5 year? s3..lambda.. ecs decent. redshift basically eat hole in your wallet. but all this stuff available 5 years ago. no significant disruption or amazing feature.

ok AWS at least make money. rest of they business is low or no margin. massive grift from amazon friends brag about rest and vest.