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I was hoping we'd get a usable Capability Based OS soon. Genode is still in the works. I hear that there are some features slowly showing up in iOS and Android.

WebAssembly is still a hopeful, they haven't gutted the security in WASI yet.
Does that really happen for 3x 20sec max effort on a stationary bike?
>They know how important developers are,

Developers developers developers!
The Iceberg, Method
> it seems far worse to have status pages fail to reflect actual outages than to have them accidentally report an outage when there isn't one because no one really cares about what the status page says if they're not having issues.

I disagree. What if you're having issues and the status page is incorrectly reporting an incident? It would be easy to waste a load of time waiting for the status page to sort itself out, only to find out you've still got an issue.
Incubator teams like this rarely lack knowledge redundancy. I highly doubt a single one of the people laid off had silo’d knowledge or worked solo on any mainline components.

Let’s say they were testing a new Camera subsystem. The results weren’t promising. So they choose to stick with porting the legacy subsystem; well, losing that team isn’t a loss and doesn’t have much effect on velocity or knowledge coverage.

I’m just making assumptions here, but the higher ups almost definitely had many meetings with the management and product teams to decide what was and wasn’t needed and who was “expendable” (I hate HR terms/dehumanization, but this is almost definitely how it was presented) before making their list. Is there a likelihood this would affect the velocity or direction of the project? Sure. But I don’t read losing 15% of an experimental team as deprioritizing it, but more mainlining it (based on my personal experience and knowledge of the subject).
But this doesn't negate what I've said. Google no longer cares what results appear in front of you below the ads, unless those results are verboten topics, in which case they're hidden.

I use Marginalia reasonably often and quite like it BTW. It's a good tool. But there's a reason most of the popular alternatives to google are metasearch engines, it's because outperforming google is hard. So google threw in the towel, gave up competing on quality and now simply buys their way into every web connected product as the default interface to information to ensure hegemony. Marginalia succeeds at sifting through the SEO for the reasons you said, but then comes the problem of actual search, and even with Google being the big gas giant attracting all the garbage, nobody competes with peak google in quality, for a variety of reasons.
IIRC it was not available on Windows 10 Home, which I'd guess to be the largest install base. I don't know about Windows 11.
Nah I just set up a 2nd browser profile, and they both stay signed in. It’s a breeze.
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While you are somewhat dismissive about the results, they really only confirm many other studies which found that HIT (High intensity training, what is discussed in the article) training achieves the same effects as much longer endurance training at much shorter times. This has been found for both non-athletes and athletes and in fact training for professional endurance athletes has drastically changed in the last 5-10 years (read interviews with e.g. professional cyclists, they train significantly less, but at much higher intensities than 7 years ago, lots of them have observed this transition).

However, your point about body mass is correct, without making your calorie intake less than your expenditure you will not loose weight. I also recall that there have been some studies that found it might be harder with HIT, because you are hungrier after HIT than low intensity exercise.
I take advantage of this post to ask if there is any good youtube channel/website/books for chemistry experiments at home (so reasonably safe and without the need of a full lab)
I’m a big fan of quotes. Asked my wife (Swift dev) to create iOS app with my favorite quotes, so I can see them as notifications and widgets.

The app makes ~$1000/mo.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1586101858
A business that can't think of what they should have a massive percentage of their staff do, is a business that has fucking useless bosses.
Agreed but untrained people are the vast majority of society so findings like this probably hold outsized value.
Latency is still relatively high in LOTS of areas around the world. Not high enough to make online FPS games unplayable, but high enough to make sending packets in lockstep unplayable. Discriminating against those people wouldn't be fair (especially since they're not a particularly small minority).
This makes me happy I am not into playing computer games.
People get hungry after exercise and automatically eat more to compensate for the spent calories.

If you start exercising, but don't watch your nutrition, you will most likely not lose weight.
Ok maybe not 100% but 300 people aren't needed to do the occasional security patch for some kind of smart speaker. Sounds like the future of this project is towards the trashcan then.
that's a good point !
As info for others, since Oberon System 3, there is the option of AOT or JIT compile the modules, depending on the use cases.

It is done as part of the compiler settings when compiling a module, if it ends up in pure binary or abstract syntax trees format. Some flags depend on the compilation mode.
I got into it pretty hardcore after hearing an NPR doc on the Montreal Screwjob.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. What a system we have wrought.
Update on my own comment here as a reply: I read the actual legal document, and it specifically calls out the aquisition of my former employer (AdMeld) by Google as one of the key anti-competitive moves Google made in the display ads space.

So that's interesting.
> Exactly one minute and forty-three seconds later, a dramatic and mysterious sequence of events would begin to unfold, the opening chapter in a story that transfixed the world.

https://bocpages.org/wiki/Magic_Window

> "Magic Window" is track number 23 on the Geogaddi album. The song is one minute and forty-six seconds of pure silence.
Yeah, just make cool looking flower pots and vases. Those can be cool and useful aaaand safe.
For a development team, here's an example of something good about Azure: Microsoft gives us dev accounts with monthly Azure credits (e.g. $100) and you cannot spend more when those credits run out because there is no credit card etc. behind that account to charge the excess.

Azure just like other cloud services (I've used AWS but as I understand it GCP is the same) doesn't believe in timely billing. You can and will receive charges against an account for services that were turned off yesterday, the day before, even last week, as gradually billing catches up to reality. This means that there is no way to actually cap a budget. If you decide "Once this costs $100 I'm turning it off" you are not capping your expense at $100, after you turn it off charges keep arriving, I've seen a week later and I wouldn't be surprised if it can be longer. Should they do that? Well, even if they shouldn't, good luck making them stop.

But with the "free" Azure credits that have no money behind them, when it drops dead Microsoft eats all the residual charges that will be discovered days or weeks later, because there is no other party for them to bill.

I work for a University, I suspect that if you paid full price for these services it makes no economic sense, a $100 Azure credit that cost $100 is a bad deal, but the University gets an enormous discount, for obvious reasons, and if the other cloud vendors don't want to offer actual billing it does feel like they deserve the consequences.
You can't approve a fact.
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personally, I'd be cautious of using this article to build up an exercise routine.

Yes, intervals / HIIT are really effective and they consume relatively little time. Being an egineer it's tempting to use this as a base for some sort of 80-20 heuristics and simply say "this is good enough" and cut the aerobics.

But is it? It's definitely better than doing nothing. But if the goal is some sort of performance improvement (specially in endurance sports - cycling, running, etc.), 9 times out of 10 I'd go with what's today called "polarized training".

The basic idea of polarized training is "yes, intervals are definitely useful to push the body further, but only after a buttload of cardio". The routine then looks something like for every one very low intensity, very long duration session a week, there's one or two shorter all-out interval sessions.

The intervals alone would lead to a plateau pretty quickly...

Happy to provide references in follow-ups, if anyone is interested.
Holy lord, how do I join your curriculum? The topics look like straight out of Derek Lowe's "Things I won't work with"
Asking for help here.

There was a similar court case in the 80s. I believe it was a shareholder lawsuit and that it went all the way to the Supreme Court. The court was asked whether a company can take into account a variety of stakeholder & community interests in its decisionmaking, or must it seek to maximize shareholder return.

In the case, the court ruled that shareholder return is the only legitimate goal.

I suspect this case was very influential, and I would be grateful to anyone who can track it down.
>Who is competing with gmail? Please include market share and revenue in your analysis

Outlook, Yahoo, (insert a long list of Chinese providers here), Yandex, Fastmail, Zoho Mail, Hey, Protonmail and so forth.

All of the above have actually managed to capture a decent share of the market, and there are many more.

>This is more defensibile than the YouTube argument, there is Rumble and Vimeo for instance. But again, What is the market share and revenue for YouTube vs these other “competitors”?

Instagram and Facebook are also huge in the same space. I'd guess that Akamai is even bigger.
This might be true of a lot of companies, but then you look at others like Waymo where the revenue is pure projection, the relationship between staff numbers and having a workable product unknown and the pile of cash available to fund it not requiring any borrowing, and it looks suspiciously like trend following (with maybe a bit of actually self driving cars are further off than we thought but, hey, not our mistake because everyone else is doing layoffs too thrown in)...
She wasn't a recruiter, she was a Partner Services Program Manager[0]. And there's dozens of videos just like these of employees flexing their perks daily while appearing to do very little work. It's been going on for awhile. If you're asserting that it's all propaganda, you're going to need to give some sources and not half-baked conspiracy theories.

0. https://news.yahoo.com/former-google-employee-documents-day-...
This is just part of life. The private sector particularly tech has always had far worse job security compensated by far better pay.

Being cut off in the night is unfortunately a necessity in the era of people airing their grievances on social media.

Seems to me all these tweets about how company X stabbed you in the back is just making it harder for the individual to find a new job.

Yes you might need to access your savings and push back the early retirement plan, yes you'll need to look at expenses and rationalise. Yes you might not be as employable as you thought.

I don't mean to be callous but if you've just lost your job or will find it harder to find your next one you need to wake up to this reality asap. This too shall pass and we will be back to boom but until then get your life in order.
> The benefits of exercise are maximum when you start from a sedentary life. You will hit plateau at some point and then one has to re-think the plan.

I've noticed something similar. In the countryside, I usually exercise when it's warm outside and track my weight and how much I do each day.

After the winter is over, I start at small amounts of exercise (a few km of running, a small amout of sit ups, push ups, pull ups) and it always feels like initially I drop 3-4 kg of weight rather easily but then it almost plateaus, even if I increase the exercise amount.

Regardless, it's probably worth it in the long term for overall wellbeing. Just an anecdote, but personally it feels like exercise increases how much energy I have (including how tolerable it is, the first weeks when starting again are always miserable).
No but if msft’s own status page shows downtime more than 0.01% of the time msft will struggle to argue they haven’t breached their SLA, so financial consequences to the company.
No, sorry. If you are adventorous enough, look at Latvia with Google translate and search for "critical infrastructure" at https://likumi.lv
> I’m just making assumptions here, but the higher ups almost definitely had many meetings with the management and product teams to decide what was and wasn’t needed and who was “expendable” (I hate HR terms/dehumanization, but this is almost definitely how it was presented) before making their list.

From what I heard most managers were not consulted ahead of time.
Have you tried resolving your problem by creating another cluster?
It already allows to turn off only a part of it.
No, he's right. Air travel was a luxury thing and super expensive until the 60s.

Only a very small percentage of the population in rich countries would do it.

Now people from Cambodia can fly for a large amount of money for them, but still, they are able to. In the past they just wouldn't be able to afford any kind of flight. Or even worse, they just wouldn't have flights or a publicly accessible airport.
It’s decorative. Maybe we’ll make it interactive in the future, that could be cool
Have you tried nix's or guix's shells? They can be used as v env for anything.
Is there something fundamentally bad that Linux does that requires a new OS to fix? I only know the surface level arguments of monolithic vs micro kernels, but is there something else that reasonably can't be fixed in Linux that would require a new custom OS? Or is Fuchsia simply about control?
I'm confused, what are the takeaways, and why are there 83 upvotes with no discussion?
You say this on a forum where the majority probably has an iphone or macbook, of course people are going to be tone-deaf to it.

Not even the HN-audience cares enough to turn down something shiny.
Ask HN: How to do grooming sessions efficiently?
My experience of our grooming sessions are that my co-workers talk about aprox 3 tickets for 1h and it feels like we get nothing done.

How do you guys do grooming sessions? How can we improve?
GH has been a Microsoft company since 2018...
Probably, if you have loved ones that smoke. It explains the mindset of smokers.
All we need is a name and email for your guest. All data is being handled in a way that’s secure and private (we’re open source, you can check the code that touches your calendar), plus for internal security we are SOC 2 compliant and 99% of the way HIPAA compliant.
You pay for the resources you use above the free tier limits. My bill for this month so far is 30 cents because I deployed frequently and my docker artifact storage size (with several years worth of deployments) dipped above the limit. Then I added a periodic job to clear out unused docker images older than one year and I'm running for free again.
While the explanation is super cool it makes me feel nervous. None of this did supported. APIs change without notice, as you don't have a contract. You're relying on the fact that there is an x64 version available.
For this use-case I've almost always relied on Rails + custom scaffold generators. There are a few projects like Bullet Train that offer some admin panel features out of the box as well.

Is this a way of bringing that functionality to all these other frameworks as well? It seems compelling because the ability to build out crud resources with a single command is a huge accelerator in Rails projects.

Are there any videos of someone building projects with this? It's useful to see what takes time an what doesn't before committing to a framework like this.
Which makes sense in 1990's computing world, and I was a big Oberon fan.

However there is a reason why it didn't stop at Oberon-2, and Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Zonnon and others followed up.

Not everyone at ETHZ agreed on the minimalism, and for some low level coding it was proven that having stuff like untraced references (introduced in Active Oberon, based on Modula-2+/Modula-3 work) actually made sense.

Latest revisions of Active Oberon also have some kind of generics support.
Hindenburg don't seem to waste much time on merely "poorly run". They seem to go for frauds: stuff that whether you think it will go down right now or not, you can't deny that it should.
Well, it seems to be less of a PR problem doing the "no hard feelings, business is business and we have to" than firing a handful of people every few months to maintain optimal operation. Probably costs less overall. Laying off a ton of people is less likely to get severe bad will as laying off a few dozen every few weeks for years.
Worse than that, they couldn't use Helium due to a US ban. I mean, I know why the US did it, but it wasn't the Hindenburg's designer's fault.
400 to 336 could happen with a bit of housekeeping. It's more or less politics as to who gets budget in bg orgs.

I think this is a project that can meander rather than sprint, it's not that important to race to a finish line here.
> Fuchsia is in production; in people's homes today. You can't kill the whole project without a plan for those devices.

Those devices never used to run Fuchsia, they ran the Chromecast linux distrib. When I left that team half the devices (the small ones) were being re-flashed with Fuchsia, but the big ones were still running Chromecast. The UI layer was the same (Flutter-based) on both and a consumer can't tell the difference. There were no feature advantages to the Fuchsia transition. (In fact the opposite since a bunch of stuff [e.g. accessibility features] had to be rewritten from scratch)

I'm sure some stuff has bitrotted, but last I looked Chromecast was still a thing, so the OS distrib is still there and shipping on devices. And it will still run on those devices in the field.

Not actually suggesting this as a course of action, but I think you're wrong that they have no alternative to keeping Fuchsia. It would actually be very easy to kill it. It was super late rolling out on the Home Hub, added nothing consumers didn't have already, and would not be noticed when it was gone.

Besides there was always a political turf war about those display devices in which certain product teams (with the ear of people higher up) really thought they should be running Android. Unfortunately Android was a pig and couldn't reasonably perform on the bargain-basement SoC that was used. If Fuchsia was gone, Android would take over.
Uh… the highest limit osha has on sound levels is 115db. 140 is a jet engine. A chainsaw is 110
There are also a lot of really nice books for children, with great plots and illustrations. And you can actually read them before buying, if you go to a bookstore.
One will want to see what Matt Stoller[1] will have to say about this.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com
> I remember reading one Oberon and one Modula 2 paper. I didn't know anybody using them to build anything real.

FWIW there was a huge following for the Wirth languages on the Amiga. I don't quite know how that came about but at times it felt like the programs written with Modula-2 or Oberon were as numerous as the ones written in C or Assembler.

That was mostly for Public Domain, Freeware, and Shareware software though.
> Is there something fundamentally bad that Linux does that requires a new OS to fix?

From Google's perspective, yes. License, and maybe driver ABI, but I doubt Google wants to change its support model.

> Is Fuchsia simply about control?

From my understanding, yes. It's all about locking systems more, making them more closed, and immutable. A "better" way to control hardware and what OS runs on that hardware. A more iOS like control, without shoehorning everything into Google Play Services.
I've read about 80% of this page, and eventually stopped at the part where he says that the next generation will be more cautious. This, in my opinion, is false. Most software has simplified for user experience, and has not helped kids in the slightest bit. Its more addictive than ever, and all caution gets thrown out of the window when we let kids browse youtube unsupervised. Heck, a wrong search query or random text can give you NSFW content. And with the rise of shorts/stories/tiktoks you'll be molded by the algorithms. You don't or have barely any control over the content you see. If it notices you watch, what, 5 seconds? of a clip, it'll start recommending that.

The issues we have nowadays are different than those in 2005. People that havent seen the bad parts of the internet, will not teach their kids about it either...
It's probably some kind of prisoner's dilemma. If you managed a department of a company which is expanding too fast, and you predict there's going to be layoffs in 1-2 years, the optimal game theoretic move (for yourself) might be to hire even more aggressively, so that when you're asked to do a x% layoff, your department is buffed up ready to shed the low performers.
Fuchsia was supposed to be a step up on OS security with ocap technologies and what not?
Since when is inline assembly and a couple of language extensions they have part of ISO C?
Azure Active Directory is not Active Directory but on Azure.
Management needs to be made up of the sort of people who make economically optimum decisions. Without diminishing the horrible experience of being fired; if we have people who purposefully keep tens of thousands of people working on jobs that don't make sense to them, on aggregate society will be much worse for everyone.

We have a system that allows people to do unpopular things, like this, because it works better than the alternatives.

Dons flak jacket