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Was it necessary to redact this much of the trial though? This seems way too much.
> I had no idea we'd be forced back into the office

Sad story but I'm not sure this should have been much of a surprise given Amazons announcements, eg. this in February:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-upd...
I have Grml on a USB stick, in case I need it. I chose to have it many years ago because Grml, unlike most live images, included a compiler. But the latest release was from November 2022, which is worrying.
I know about this in Swiftkey, but since I'm using more than one language, this action is used to change languages instead. It's unfortunate because moving the cursor is very useful.
What do you call a low experience worker, who only has access to jobs that pay insufficient to the cost of living? Underclass works fine for me. It seems like you do agree, you just either don't see that you do, or aren't honest enough to admit what the agreement means for the people who work these jobs. Their status as students or "other low skill" is irrelevant to their need to pay for food, housing, transport, healthcare etc.
I’d contrast to Tildes where I think reply notifications help keep people engaged in discussions and Mastodon where I think people use favorites to close off a discussion.

Tildes is interesting to compare to HN because it is superficially similar but the balance between links and discussions is quite different. That is, I think “Ask HN” is pretty sad and mostly failed (look at how few get a single comment) but linkless discussions on Tildes are pretty lively.
Depends on what you mean by works out. They are planning on doing huge training runs the coming years so they sure can make use of compute from both Google Cloud and AWS
> OneBigHeaderFile may work for small projects; but it does not scale well to medium- or large-sized projects

"May"??
People do try to throw them away. A good chunk of my kids' lego collection is a mixed selection of blocks we found in a skip.
Yeah the article uses terrible numbers, like the rate of the share of homeless is what they are talking about right?

I looked up the homelessness numbers from the 30s, in absolute numbers it was about 4x what it is today - 2 million homeless vs todays half million.

Given that the population has roughly tripled since the 30s that means the rate of homelessness is about 12x lower today than during the Great Depression?
For me it was more a matter of convenience than security. I didn’t mind using “sameish” passwords for 90% of my accounts. Good enough not to be auto-broken on one leak, really bad if someone actually targeted me. But what eventually drove me to Bitwarden was that I needed more and more different 2FA method which were all somehow linked to my phone. Many of which weren’t actually backed up. My first idea was to just use Authy, but apparently my phone number is linked to an account that isn’t mine, and their support has been unable to do anything about it, so that’s not exactly possible. So I went with Bitwarden.

I’m not too worried about the eggs in one basket. My digital national ID and my email credentials aren’t saved on my Bitwarden, so while I obviously don’t want to lose it, it also wouldn’t be the end of the world for me.
What cracks is the glass on top... though indeed it's hilarious to have "space grade titanium" and then add some fragile layer for the gloss
I LOVED it. I could move the text cursor with precision AND do text selection with the same precision and FAST. In some situations faster and with more precision than I would have been able to do with a mouse even.

Such a great loss that they dumped it.
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The same work should bring the same payment, period. Everything else just ends up rewarding those with the best "negotiation" skill which is completely unrelated to one's actually work-relevant skills.
Since the beginning of 2020, yes. Even the delayed statistics appear to support my anecdotal evidence. However, thanks to Publix sending receipts to my email account I can provide a more concrete example.

Kellogg’s Fruit Loops “Family Size”

01/16/2020 21oz $4.79 ~$0.23/oz

Today 18.4oz $8.59 ~$0.47/oz

So yea, over a 100% increase…
As someone who had been rabidly following developments in the space until earlier this year: I’ve fallen a bit behind.

I’be been walking around with the (seemingly misguided) view that the bigger LLaMA 2 models were sort of neck and neck with like 3.5-turbo, Claude, and the rest of the first string modulo GPT-4 that had a pretty steady if eroding lead.

What’s the lay of the land in 9/23? Or better yet, what do I need to bookmark to get the inside baseball?
Sure, glad you did that. Like I said, we were outside in the yard and very active.

I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them.

You mention yourself missed sports practice. At a massive scale many children in the margins do get more overweight and that correlates with increased type 2 diabetes.
this guy tore one down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRKQ0OjQeE
Does this not remove the ability for individuals to negotiate up past a certain point?
I think quitting is likely the most reasonable thing to do if you don't want to move back to the office, but the company does. I prefer to work in the office in close proximity to my colleagues. So, personally, I gravitate towards companies that want people in the office. People who don't like that should also try to pick places that work like that.
Is this normalized for the base rate? Aren't baby boomers a massive proportion of the population that is just ... aging? Should any different result be expected?

(There is a concern if you have a lot of old, homeless people, but that's different from the concern implied that something systemic is causing old people to go homeless at a rate higher than the base.)
$200 to replace glass is pretty absurd, I bet they'd do that for £20 at the second hand phone shop round the corner from me
> You do need entirely distinct stacks, but that's necessary by definition. You can't have package A depend on packages B and C each of which depend on a different version of package D but expect to share API objects from D back through to A and therefore with each other.

Shared objects do in fact allow doing the safe subset of this, which is to load 2 versions of D that are used by packages B and C without exchanging API objects.

The C language has no good mechanism for enforcing this separation, as only one version of D's headers will be in use when compiling A, B and C. That said, there is a non-negligible number of situations (especially with libssl) where this is irrelevant because D is internal to one or both of B and C.
X Clearly Profits from Widespread Music Piracy, Labels Argue
Recycling glass is a similar deception. It aimply isn't often done due to the energy needed. It is used as filler un building materials sometimes. Aluminum is almost always recycled, but for food it usually requires plastic linings which aren't ideal. Deposits for glass containers seem like a good idea to me if anyone would bother with it. Make nonw food contacting stuff out of aluminium. Legos even, those would be amazing.
We just post the actual compensation, not a range, and we stick to it.

It’s worked pretty well, you discuss it in the first steps of the process to make sure they get that’s actually how it’s going to work and then you spend your time interviewing people who are OK with the comp.

If the candidate pool isn’t any good then change the comp. And sure if you want to recruit a hotshot candidate or something nothing is stopping you from taking an individualized approach with that person.

I think people tend to overestimate their ability to game the process. Why not just say what you want.
Oh man, I long for the days of phones with T9 input and hardware keys you could physically feel. It was so easy to walk down the street and tap out a text message with results much more predictable than "predictive" text, only occasionally having to glance down at the phone to check what you wrote. You could do it all with one hand, it was very unlikely you would drop the phone in the process and even if you did, it would just bounce instead of smashing the whole precious touch screen.

Yeah, these days I only type on the touch screen if it's absolutely unavoidable - if I can't get to my laptop, but can still sit down, I much prefer a little flip out Bluetooth keyboard with the phone on a stand.
Lego bricks are very cheap to manufacture. The main cost is R&D and licensing. Lego themselves are probably better off financially having a recycling program where the bricks are melted down to make park benches, and then making brand new bricks.

That will cost less than cleaning, sorting and QA-ing recycled bricks.
Not mentioned in the article, but you can bet this was a large pickup or SUV. They have terrible visibility.
Finding a compromise between usability/accessibility and security is difficult. We want to make it easy for humans to minimize errors whilst also making it harder for bots, so we're happy that you think the challenges look easy. One of the differentiators in ProtonCAPTCHA is that we've built this system with the expectation that someone will break it, either through automated mechanisms, or via third party solvers - however, there are defenses against these attacks in place which we will not divulge for obvious reasons.
> Also, don't forget Trumpet Winsock: before Windows 95, it was pretty much the way to connect Windows 3.x systems to IP networks.

I was wondering around somewhere, it may have been Sydney or it may have been somewhere in Tasmania, in 2007 and was stunned to discover the Trumpet Winsock office. I took a photo.
I've jokingly used sandponics to describe industrial agriculture, but apparently that's a real other thing.
First time I’m seeing this and the branding/design shouts “stay away from me, I’m a student project!”

Not exactly the impression I’d like to see when using a password manager. And I’m a UI/UX designer in case you wonder…
It's definitely possible with RSUs and refreshers. But it's more comparable to your Neighbor with a much lower mortgage payment because they bought several years ago and the asset appreciated.
I've always heard that if you want to sanitize water for bacteria you can put the water in the sun for half an hour and that will kill all the bacteria. I've also wondered what the growth rate of bacteria would be in water without any food in it. I guess to answer your question on if they're worth it or not is when do you primarily use your water bottle? If you're out hiking in the sun or something probably no If you're indoors mostly where the sun isn't accessible then maybe yeah. I don't think they're worth it I would just wash out the bottle on occasion.
There has been a trend recently in computation proof of work only CAPTCHAs, e.g. mCAPTCHA, or Friendly CAPTCHA (https://proton.me/blog/captchas), but our own data shows that these are not sufficient to stop attackers due to compromises made to make PoW work for real users with slow devices. Adding the visual challenge has been essential in stopping these attackers. The combination of computational proof of work and human proof of work does in our experience provide defense in depth.

However it's not perfect.

One of the differentiators of ProtonCAPTCHA is that we've built this system with the expectation that someone will break it.
So, as you've alluded to, in the event that someone or some thing is able to navigate these challenges either through automated mechanisms, or via third party solvers, we have defenses against such attacks/automations. That is a third hidden level of defense -> however, you will understand that for obvious reasons we do not divulge how this is done.
I would say The Scene have solved it by exercising the first sail doctrine. First to the topsite gets the the 0sec.
Were they expecting lots of cracked backs perhaps?

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/23/iphone-15-pro-max-back-glass-...
I've built three distributed job systems at this point. A handy rule of thumb which I have promoted for years is "build for 10x your current scale."

If you need to handle 70 requests/second, design for 700. If you need to handle 20 servers running batch jobs, design for 200 servers. If you're in a startup that grows 100% per year, you'll be at 8x scale in 3 years. So you'll have time to rewrite as you grow!

Out of three job systems I built, the first one tried to avoid SQL for "scalability." Then we hit a bunch of edge cases that needed transactional integrity, and we were in a world of pain.

My two more recent distributed job systems use PostgreSQL as a coordinator. They're literally built around SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED. One of them routinely controls 350 workers and the other does elaborate prioritization for thousands of jobs. Both of them will continue to run just fine until they're earning millions of dollars a year—for example, the one controlling 350 workers should scale to about 2,000 CPUs with a little work.

Hyperscale technologies are fairly cheap right up until you discover you need transactions. At that point, faking transactional semantics on top of an eventually consistent data store becomes an engineering nightmare.

So sit down, and do the math. If your company was earning $100 million/year, how big would your distributed system need to be? Can you easily get a PostgreSQL instance big enough to handle that load? (Or could you just shard per client?) If so, strongly consider using PostgreSQL. It makes a hundred things trivial.
It's been on the iPhone since before it was even called "iOS" and it's there today. It never went away, so I wonder what you are talking about.
If you actually bothered to read the article he makes it clear that he moved before any of those announcements, and that specific announcement you're linking to matches his timeline perfectly for when he started discussions with his leadership and when he started to actually apply.
The typical trajectory of VC-backed companies is one of the things that led us to develop Backbone[1]. We've opted to forego VC funding and the short-term benefits in entails to build the long-term foundational infrastructure for end-to-end encryption.

Another concerning realization is how sparingly encryption is used in (many) modern password managers. Sure, it makes search easier but it also leaks secrets stored in metadata fields without any disclosure to the user. And this is in the single-user setting! There are vastly more security considerations as soon as a common "workspace" is involved.

[1] https://backbone.dev/
I could say the same about not making the move back to the office. Some of their best employees will prefer the office and will look for places where the culture is for everyone to be in the office.

I think I'm not alone in dreading working from home and being by myself in the office is not much better. What I really want is to work with other people at the same place.
The Left is losing the climate class war
The “police overreach” you are protesting is that a paramilitary group was not allowed to kidnap and execute a governor.

The overreach in question is that the police were allowed to arrest and prosecute those people in full accordance with the law.
Study reveals correlation between repeated falsehoods and public misperceptions
Old hat. This was done in 2009.

;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Milo

Milo had an AI structure that responded to human interactions, such as spoken word, gestures, or predefined actions in dynamic situations. The game relied on a procedural generation system which was constantly updating a built-in "dictionary" that was capable of matching key words in conversations with inherent voice-acting clips to simulate lifelike conversations. Molyneux claimed that the technology for the game was developed while working on Fable and Black & White.
Claude is pretty amazing actually. With it's 100k context widow it can do some interesting things
Not doing it often enough that we can hone the process.
RTO is a day two mindset
> What happens if you get 100x traffic?

Throttle the inputs. Rate-limiting doesn’t belong to the data layer.

While throttling due to organic popularity isn’t great, I’d argue the tradeoffs might be worthwhile. If it looks like the spike will last, stand up Redis during the throttling, double-write, and throttle down the Postgres queue until it’s empty. If you really need to, take a 15 minute outage to just copy data over.
> Good thing for the world, guys with the mindset like you doesn't prevent guys like Barroso great work.

You're reading non-existent intent between the lines.

Look at what I quoted in my original comment:

> At some point it becomes so easy that people start to wonder why they pay a middleman for no benefit.

Criticising this point doesn't require me to deny the possibility that smart people can't come up with new things; to use your own example here, I'm saying normal people won't run their own cloud computing infrastructure.

Not even because it immediately stops being "the cloud" if they did — most people don't have the time nor inclination to understand RAID numbers, let alone cron jobs or keeping TLS libraries up to date.

Can you name the equivalent of those in finance? I can't, but I have tried reading the T&Cs of bank accounts so I do recognise the patterns that tell me they exist.

That's what we pay the middleman for, and why we still would even if there was a cryptocurrency that actually did what it's biggest fans all say it does.
This is hiring salary only, so it removes some negotiation there, but other benefits and future raises can still be negotiated for.

Also, I'm not sure what happens if they offer more than that to someone after posting the offer. I suspect offering lower would be would be lawsuit time... But I don't think a higher offer is that much of a problem.
Are they trying to make a new type of drone?
Embrace the Tarpit
One of the issues is that some of us picked places that said they worked like that and they have been walking it back piece by piece. I accepted a job about a year ago that said all the right things about remote/hybrid and yet they’ve gone back on many of those statements. (E.g. people that live within 40 miles from an office need to go in even if they’re classified remote and nobody else in their team works in that office) I don’t live near any of their offices and fully expect I’ll be asked to move near one or lose my job eventually.
The reality is it's easy to accommodate both. There are a ton of hybrid companies out there. If someone wants a desk in an office by all means give them one. Supporting both groups of people gives you the best talent pool to work with.

People who demand their coworkers come into the office though- well, it's not something I've personally seen, but it would make me think the person is a bit of a control freak.
By the time you're done paying for insurance, the nickel and diming on the rental, the tolls, and the physical toll of driving long stretches in a country you are not familiar with, it starts to sound like a better option to take a stress-free train ride and then a Lyft to your destination.
This is the belief that roughly 50% of voters in the United States share.
We likely also would have had approximately the same reasonably priced symmetric speeds if Abbott had not aborted the FttP rollout at 5%.

Turnbull also helped to butcher the original FttP NBN horrendously and they spent 400% more than FttP would have cost, to get the much slower network we got lumped with...

i.e the munted results of Murdoch protectionism and "stick it up the opposition" bully Abbott politics.
> a touchscreen is never going to be a keyboard, but that doesn't mean things couldn't be better

... they growled, struggling to pierce the sow's earlobe.
Check out CodeBook, it’s not open source but it’s a 1-time fee for device type (windows, Mac, iPhone, android), up to five installs. I’ve purchased for phone, MacBook, and windows pc and been using for the past 5+ years and am satisfied with it. The product itself isn’t open source but the company which makes it does develop an open source module/extension of SQLite for encrypted database. All syncing is manually done, across Wi-Fi or it can use Dropbox or google drive.

https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/
> stress-intolerance disorder

I am sorry what?
> the Scandinavian way

They… do no such thing?
Even in Indoor environment you can always boil the water as an option. I seriously doubt if UV is required to be fitted in a bottle untill and unless we are talking about seriously dirty water.
I wouldn't be shocked. JerryRigEverything shattered the back glass on the larger model with almost no effort https://youtu.be/IS0SItAzEXg?t=432
I /vastly/ prefer Dashlane password manager. The $60 per year fee keeps the VC money at bay. I’m the customer, not my data.

Dashlane, it’s well worth the price for my piece of mind and the security of my passwords.
I was about to try this out a while ago, but I installed Syncthing on my machines at around the same time. Keepass db + syncthing works astonishingly well, and the Android keepass client works great for me. I prefer the simplicity of this setup to yet another web service, especially if I'm going to self-host.
That's a worthless video. He's replacing a perfectly fine undamaged glass, not a broken one.

Check out JerryrigEverything's video where he tries to replace a cracked back glass and it goes horribly wrong[1] with the thing shattering and needed to be yanked out in tiny sticky pieces.

IMHO, having the back of your phone made of glass shards is insanely stupid repair cash-grab design, when we have so many durable plastic polymers to choose from. They even make the Glock handgun out of bloody plastic.

https://youtu.be/S_W73ouKtjU?si=V06NCNiGzMKmr1_l&t=375
> What happens if you get 100x traffic?

This line of reasoning is desirable for FAANGS, but can bankrupt startups that need to move fast and get shit done.
One of those situations where a good balance seems to matter. But hey, people quit Amazon all the time, voluntary or not. And as long they are not low level logistics folks in a FC somewhere, there shouldn't be any difficulty in finding a job. Not sure why that even deserves an article.
> allowing documents to become public solely because it is “clickbait.”

The irony is, the company makes a lot of money from 'clickbait'.