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Hetzner Cloud – Data loss incident (redux)
Dear Customer

We regret to inform you that there has been a loss of snapshots from your following Storage Box that were created in the period from 15 May 2023 11:00 CEST and 12 July 2023 13:00 CEST. Snapshots created before or after this period and the contents of your Storage Box are not affected!

On 25 July 2023, we discovered that due to a software error, snapshots created for Storage Boxes were partially deleted. This affected both the snapshots created manually (via web interface or Robot Web Service) and those created automatically as part of snapshot plans. Unfortunately, we were unable to restore the snapshots deleted during the above-mentioned period.

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* Previous incident, 15 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015840
The H-1B lottery this year was riddled with fraud - so much so that USCIS will be conducting a second lottery soon - but it appears that there was no reduction in the numbers despite layoffs in certain industries.
What technical skills are needed to browse with Tor that are not needed in any other browser?
As in, the promises they claim are different from the actual results, and they know this as they are saying them. It is a con, like everything crypto.
Well hopefully the system could be semi-anonymous. So reddit doesn't get your identity, they are just able to prevent you from making another account (or perhaps limit it to a few accounts per real person). If they are nice, they don't even need to track which accounts belong to the same person.

Of course there is a lot of space for abuse. And it would unfairly lock many/most people out, because services can only accept certificates from the governments they trusts.
> The initial distribution of wld will be much more fair than the initial distribution of any other token or currency I know of. That is the value of the biometric.

And how is this not a lie when it's so easy to game? It's only shifting the distribution from people who were running a computer early to people who buy biometrics early, steal biometrics or find ways to fake biometrics. And even worse, if you were once robbed of your biometrics in that system, you have lost it forever as I understand it? Is there even any way to get back what was robbed from you?

And just out of curiosity, does this system handle collisions of biometrics? Or is it just assuming and hopes for none to happen?
> Cash is still king in Germany, and it always weirds tourists out.

I love it. I drove to Germany to have the maintenance done, change the tires and renew the extended manufacturer warranty for two years on my german car (extended warranty which I need to pay for) and it was a hefty bill. I pulled a bit more than 3 000 EUR in cash and they were just used to it. As in: a totally normal occurrence.

I did it basically to test if it was true that cash was king in Germany: I had credit and debit cards in backup just in case. But cash just worked.
If the institution is public, data should be public as long as individual PII is removed. No exceptions. And FOIA requests should be able to make this data available to anyone filing for an access within a reasonable amount of time. Period.
It's not hard to scrape the internet
The art documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) (available on YouTube...) is basically about how the distant separation of employees from the consequences of their decisions naturally leads nice, regular people to behave effectively like psychopaths and not realize it. Highly recommended.
There's a distinction between a fact witness and an "expert witness". A private agreement can't prevent a court from subpoenaing a fact witness to testify. "Expert witnesses" are overwhelmingly hired guns paid to come in and voluntarily spin a narrative, and I'm not sure why they shouldn't be able to make that a provision of a contract just like any other commercial arrangement.
What would martin eberhard who left years before model S know about musk and his contributions to engineering decisions at tesla?
The *arr ecosystem of open source apps, which provide me with a full stack of media management. Requests, downloads, storage and streaming of my content to friends and family. The ones I use are:

* Sonarr - Automatically downloads TV shows/new episodes

* Radarr - Automatically downloads movies

* Bazarr - Automatically downloads subtitles for TV shows and movies

* Unpackerr - Automatically unpacks archives for importing by Sonarr/Radarr

* Jellyfin - Media server, streams video to apps or browser

* Jellyfin for Kodi - Addon to stream from Jellyfin in Kodi, a media player optimized for TVs/big screens

* Jellyseer - Lets your Jellyfin users request content

Users request content in Jellyseer, or you can add content manually through Sonarr/Radarr. Once you approve a request or add a show, Sonarr/Radarr interfaces with your chosen content source (torrent/usenet), and sends a matched release to your download client. Once the download is done, it is unpacked by Unpackerr if it's archived, imported into Jellyfin's media folders based on type, Bazarr picks it up and looks for any missing subtitles. The user can now stream the content via Jellyfin.

As for hardware, it is running on a homegrown NAS, running Ubuntu Server, with 18 TB of storage configured in RAID 6, and modest specs (8 GB RAM, medium-end Intel processor and an ancient AMD GPU). Works a treat.

Miss me with that "paying for 20 streaming services" bullshit.
Yes, both are and one does not justify the other.
In the past, I would have also found it strange to see tech blowing up in a tight job market. After a decade on the team-building side, though, I feel different.

Interviewing and onboarding are a huge distraction. Interviewing and onboarding done well require hours of attention from the more senior folks on your team.

When a company is hiring, the senior folks involved might be spending 6 hours a week interviewing. For example, I might have 4 45-minute interviews, another 15 minutes prepping for each interview, 15 minutes writing up feedback for every interview, 30 minutes in hire/no-hire discussions for candidates who are close, and another 30 minutes in hiring or interview meta-discussions.

Onboarding takes even more time. If I'm a new hire's onboarding mentor, I'm likely spending their first couple of days close by to answer any and all questions. After that, my work is frequently interrupted for a few weeks as I help them through issues (totally legitimate issues, BTW). We'll be spending extra time pairing with the new hire during the feature development process. Code review for new hires' code takes a lot longer, too.

When you factor all that in, a hiring freeze can realistically free up 10 or more hours of experienced employees' time every week. These are some of the most productive employees on the team.

In that context, it's not especially surprising to me that giving the most productive engineers 33% more productive time would lead to rapid improvements for tech companies, in the short term anyway.

Of course, in the medium-to-long term, a company that's not hiring is building up a huge "personnel debt" that is going to come due eventually. The product improvements will lead to new business, more clients will require more support, the new business will lead to more feature requests, and some employees will move on. The company will find itself without enough personnel to make headway on their product. Then they will have a hiring blitz where they wreck everyone's productive time and the team culture. The new, bigger team will make some headway, but they will still look less productive than the team was during the hiring freeze. The business will stagnate. The company will enact a hiring freeze, or perhaps even lay off team members. And then we're back at step 1.
I’ve been out of work for about a year. I was never a top player in the field, most of my experience has been enterprise work and non tech companies, with some tech companies (including the one that laid me off. I have a bit more YoE than you.

For the first several months, I screwed myself by operating in a 2010s mindset “I’ll have a job in <= 3mo and I can be at least a little picky”. I was not targeting specific companies and looked at both tech and non tech companies.

I was exclusively interested in remote jobs, mostly because I still had a lease and breaking it would be very expensive, as would keeping it and having to pay two rents. Remote roles were also scarce, adding that single filter could significantly cut the amount of jobs I saw.

I did interview for a handful of on-site roles, mostly for practice, and those tended to progress better, but again, they all wanted me to move to even more expensive areas when moving at all was going to be expensive.

After a while though it got worse and worse, my professional confidence flatlined. There were hardly any recruiters reaching out anymore, cold apps went to the void, and the few interviews I did get never made it past the first round. Never got any feedback. The few recruiters I could get were equally useless, usually showing off some roles that I looked like a good fit for before completely ghosting me.

I wondered if my resume was the issue, and had several people, as well as ChatGPT look at it, and got nothing but good feedback with minor nitpicks.

A lot of the jobs I saw within my area of experience either wanted high senior people, or people with very niche skill sets, and apparently they can afford to be picky right now.

Most recently, I’ve had interviews that seem promising and people (family friends) now claiming they can get me a job, but unfortunately this year has battered me, with large expenses left and right My lease is up now, so I’m looking at on site roles, but the rental market is so bad here I’m afraid it’s too late.

One one hand, I was never happy with my career, and now the golden handcuffs are off, on the other hand, I have nowhere else to go, and the shit that matters just keeps getting more and more expensive
Tell me about your uses of capn proto.
There might be some information that could be combined with other data in ways that would violate the privacy of students and their families. Obviously discipline records with student names shouldn't be public, but what about records without names where the students name could be found by linking it with other data.

AOL released a bunch of search queries in 2006 with they idea that they were anonymous, but it turned out you could get quite a bit of personal information from them by linking searches together.
Literal eyeball bounties.
LK-99: No Meissner effect was demonstrated and data was too poor
Is a J-1 more likely to be approved than an H-1B? What criteria need to be met to get a J-1 visa approved? I know people working ordinary jobs with these fyi.
> And that guy proved all the haters right by going to work for Microsoft: it's the ultimate fuck you to people who believed in Linux since the beginning.

I'm sure Lennart was thinking about maximizing tribal offense while evaluating his stable employment options in the midst of RedHat's obvious decline.

The list of employers for a full-time upstream systemd maintainer at a competitive salary is rather short. And none of them are particularly attractive in terms of how dirty you'll feel having their logo on your paychecks.
Just being able to treat period tasks the same as I treat long-lived services, and never having to think about crontab vs cron.d vs cron.hourly vs /etc/crontab, has improved my quality of life dramatically.

I also use systemd-timesyncd / networkd / resolved on most of my systems, but in places where I've wanted to not, swapping them out is as easy as swapping any other services (looking at you, rsyslog and syslog-ng).
Wouldn't the process be that some PM wants a feature to be added and sends it of to the representative in the appropriate committe who then push for it to be added?

I mean it's not the SQL language itself which sits in the committe specifying new features, it would be representatives from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and similar.. Right?
In the 1930s, "Progress" was the replacement of a relatively free society with Nazi authoritarianism. In the 1940s, "Progress" (for half of the country) was the replacement of Nazi authoritarianism, where the secret police mostly targeted ethnic/political/sexual minorities, with Soviet authoritarianism, where the secret police targeted literally everyone and everything. So perhaps that is an object lesson in the value of not "moving on" from a relatively good situation
It turned out that was Taibbi's own invention, changing an acronym so that it pointed to a government agency when it really didn't:

> Taibbi claimed “the EIP was partnered with the government Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency—CISA—to censor Twitter,” but the reporter mixed up the government agency with the nonprofit firm Center for Internet Security.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-mehdi-hasan-makes-m...
16 years now. Not sure if it would be as effective today. I doubt it was truly effective even back then.
Well the pixel is generally about the newest android that's the flagship software experience, with a decent camera, running on 1-2 year older hardware. But in my experience the lack of crapware and gaming benchmarks means it feels pretty snappy compared to Samsung.

I tried Samsung a few times, even with more ram it was vicious about killing tasks in the background so switching apps always did a splash screen and relaunch. Some apps do that well, others not so much. I tracked it down and apparently that behavior helps it win benchmarks. Even on a generation older hardware the pixel felt much snappier, I could multitask with 3-4 apps going, and the home button was MUCH snappier. I verified it wasn't hardware by installing Cyanogen on the samsung, and suddenly everything felt fast again.

I switched to GrapheneOS, it's only for Pixels. The seem to have moved the needle on making it your phone, not just Google's phone that they let you use. You can remove every app, even the play store. Play has to ask permission to install things.

I think of GrapheneOS as a leaner Pixel that's more secure.
I mean, there are other ways around this. We could create an App Clip that essentially does the same thing. It's just harder for the user to get through.

Surely there's a compromise solution here? I don't see why Apple couldn't grant trusted certificates to good actors and revoke certificates from bad actors in regards to pasteboard access?
Is the evidence that Musk is living rent free in peoples head the fact that articles are being written about his company's problems? Are we stating that there is nothing of value in this issue being made public?
Some techies got busted for fraudulent loans. I don't know why smart individuals mess with feds by faking tax filings and other stuff.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tech-executive-pleads-guilty-...
Not when there is an existing law limiting it. FERPA specifically protects student records.
That's the least of the unverified, unsupported claims in this article. Flagged (and no, I don't own a Tesla or any other products from any Musk companies, or have an interest in any related securities.)
That’s an NVIDIA driver bug recently introduced, it’s super annoying. Videos increase the chance of that flicker appearing if you’re on YouTube in their “ambient light” mode thing, since it just blacks out the whole back canvas when it happens.
Personally I think most coins are scams and the remaining are 50% scam
Don't know. Starting to think that all trade activity must result in ecological trouble, and that technology always leads to ecological trouble.
This also applies to recycling because there's still no way to get the job done without causing further damage.

Is it OK to be baffled? Is there any way we could follow our dreams of plenty without destroying our own lives?
> The issue here seems to be that the school system is saying that the researchers aren't allowed to be a witness in any lawsuit against the school system

Exactly. With this bit being particularly outrageous:

> “Also, be aware,” wrote Cindy Kazanis, the director of CDE’s Analysis, Measurement, and Accountability Reporting Division, “that your actions have adversely impacted your working relationship with CDE, and your response to this letter is critically important to existing and future collaborations between us.”
Most town centers did not have chains open in them, but the stores in them still died because people preferred shopping at big box stores 2 miles away.

A small college town with a reputation of rich kids going to it is probably going to have an outlier amount of single people with extra money to throw around little shops. If they have families and start budgeting, they will be off to Costco and Walmart and Target to save money like the bulk of the US.
Lowell George – Feats First
Florida has the Sunshine laws which would likely preclude this from being a problem in the first place.

Florida bad though upvotes to the left.
Indeed. Though Rogozin was a net benefit to Roscosmos over the past decade, as can be seen by their current launch record, with 100 successful launches in a row over the past few years. However, he is definitely not a Musk type visionary. From what I know of him, he's a "fixer", that was sent in to clean up the ridiculous amounts of waste and corruption in the system.

Under Borisov's management there are rumors that they are building a new satellite factory that should be starting production soon.

And realistically, let's not forget that the US has always significantly lagged Russia in this field. If it wasn't for Operation Paperclip they would not have been competitive at all.

>Ukraine

Let's be honest here: Ukraine has existed as a state for less than 40 years in it's entire history. The geographic location of current Ukraine has nothing to do with the accomplishments of the former USSR. This is evidenced by the complete and utter lack of any accomplishment in the field by Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR.

Side note: Gotta love this tweet threatening Musk for praising the Russian space program: https://twitter.com/KristiTalmadge/status/110375176440949555...
I think you've described the salient issues here very well.
By which I wonder if he meant himself...
All upvotes are deserved because I am so brilliant. All downvotes are mistaken because they are wrong. So it is OK to upvote with no reason.
IBM still “invent computer hardware” (e.g. POWER/PPC CPUs are still being developed) and have been doing it more or less ever since “computer hardware” as a concept was commercialized.

You’re probably aware that the PC itself is an IBM development, but once it because a generic platform they couldn’t turn a profit while having to compete with all the cheap clones (I.e. what we today simply call PCs).
If you are on the road and only have limited mobile bandwidth available you can instead read entire Seinfeld episodes:

https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/seinfeld-scripts.html
> Why even own a lawnmower at this point-- just pay someone to mow your grass for you.

I don’t disagree with you about waste, but I’m assuming you haven’t priced lawn services lately. Even with a small yard and fairly cheap service you’ll be spending enough to buy a (cheap) mower every 4-6 weeks.
It is pretty funny. During Covid I heard all sorts of doom about inflation and the economy, while I was chugging along great.

Now, no one will shut up about how there are so many jobs and how the economy is doing great, but I’m fucked.
It's just reality sinking in.
For me: the only one I use daily is GPT-4. I use it in the official GPT Playground, rather than ChatGPT, as I prefer the interface, increased privacy, and no message limits.
A rock 'n' roll Camelot
I think the point is that reality is a complex and messy place, and shallow platitudes don't really add much to the conversation.
I'm fairly sure the author agrees with you. "Walmart is evil" is a core thesis of American intellectuals and can be taken a base assumption for any reader of a magazine such as the Discourse. So repeating that thesis doesn't add to the conversation.

But given that base assumption, this is a discussion of a novel explanation one of the reasons why Walmart got successful, and a suggestion for how downtowns could replicate that factor. Many have mentioned that one of the reasons that Walmart is successful is because they're easier to get to for the average car-driving American. But once there, they're convenient because you don't have to dodge traffic while navigating between departments.

Wouldn't downtowns be a lot nicer if, like Walmart, they were easy to drive to, but impossible to drive through? What if getting from the boutique to the restaurant to the theatre was easy as crossing the aisle to a different department in Walmart?
Can you not "just" pay a subscription for a VoIP/SIP phone number and then use a compatible app on your phone? There are several providers you can just pay a per-number monthly fee and will handle calls and texts.
> I'm not sure why they shouldn't be able to make that a provision of a contract just like any other commercial arrangement.

Because we're talking about part of the government.
The thing is that in some cultures people are strongly against ID cards. In the UK for example, for a long time there was a fight against a national identity card. Even though you have to get one (a passport) to travel abroad. Instead they would use electricity bills to prove things like you actually live somewhere. Or the driver license was a pice of paper, with no photo. With fraud as a result.

I think it is based on that in some countries there is less trust in the government than in other countries.

Where I live, Sweden, it is very hard to live without an ID card/passport and starting to get hard without a digital ID.

However, the privacy laws and prevention against abuse is fairly good. Not perfect I am sure but pretty good, compared with the US or even the UK (both places I have lived).
Where is there opportunity for fraud in the H-1B system? Fake / Shell companies sponsoring workers?
This was my path, so it's possible. I dropped out after year two of my degree to join a startup and worked for 10 years in industry.

I converted 8 years of that experience to 2 years of a bachelor's degree to make the full 4 required, and had a University professor provide a letter of endorsement.

I was applying from Europe, and even then it was apparently a fairly expensive process for my sponsor.
It seems as though they’d like to move on to another stage of life, but due to 996 and other societal issues, they don’t have the resources. That’s notable. Pretty easily comprehended article.
Impact of Facebook and Instagram on political attitudes
There's no YC stance. I'll do my best to provide helpful, honest, and independent answers and advice.
Scientists engineer ‘virgin birth’ in fruit flies after finding genetic cause
How common are H1Bs for people without a degree but with 12+ years of experience? Is that a legit thing?
Because people feel like they have nothing to add so instead of not adding anything they decide they have an issue with some minute detail that doesn't really matter and then start raising hell.
If you're curious, read up on FERPA.
As I told it was already paid before and I don’t plan to deal with in-app purchases or ads again. May be just some sort of sponsorship, but certainly shouldn’t effect existing users.
Presumably all data about student educational outcomes, which are protected by FERPA. The school system doesn't have the option to just ignore the law and make this information public.
That's it and the reason a second lottery is being run.