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__float··on ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
It seems possible that a much smaller company could have a sizable number of employees who claim to be anti-racist, but fail to behave that way in practice. Particularly one with a concentration of libertarian "crypto bros" who are often at odds with employees who might be described as "rabidly anti-racist".
__float··on Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
I think many folks' experience with Zoom would show the opposite. Perhaps it's not very efficient software, but battery life often tanks, computers get very warm, and fans start spinning.

Any improvement to that is a very welcome change, if you ask me.

__float··on Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
You could get customers, but you'll quickly learn they ask for very complex features, and you'll struggle to pay your dev team with 5 cents per transaction.
__float··on Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
You don't have to use "hosted fields", but it does mean you have significantly increased requirements regarding PCI compliance (SAQ D vs the much simpler SAQ A, for example).
__float··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Did you vote? For whom?
__float··on GitHub Source Code Leak
It was “leaked” in the DMCA repo, presumably to send a certain message. Context is important.
__float··on Dark’s new backend will be in F#
It's true the JVM has a large ecosystem, but the .NET one is still pretty substantial. I would also argue there's a fair bit of innovation in the .NET Core world :)
__float··on Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
the iap is an http proxy, so you need a way to send non-http traffic. this might require client modifications (not everything is proxy-aware), and you can't always modify the source.

some protocols are udp and latency sensitive, which doesn't work well enough tunneled

__float··on Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story
At what point do we look to capitalism as a driving factor for misinformation spreading?

Media outlets are incentivized to bring in clicks/shares/likes. They're not incentivized to research stories sufficiently, so...a shaky lead from a sketchy source but a super compelling headline? Of course that gets published.

Taking this as some anti-conservative war from the tech industry is super misleading.

__float··on What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
It's also much less reliable than the credit card networks. Fundamentally it's not ready to be a large instant payment provider, as it's still based on the same slow batch processes that run your normal bank transfers.
__float··on Wikipedia is getting a new look
I agree it totally could be improved. Perhaps they're being careful? Elsewhere in the comments, someone showed that logged in users have more items in that bar (https://imgur.com/llv2rtc). That might not work so well in portrait.
__float··on What we learned after a year on Kubernetes
Dhall does have many features that can still "compile down" to YAML or JSON (or some others, too). Depending on this target language, some Dhall features are unavailable.

I don't think OP meant Kubernetes is changing to Dhall, but that we'll see something like Dhall on top of Kubernetes YAML/JSON that catches on.

__float··on 9th Circuit Rules Apple Owes Retail Workers for Time Spent Security Screening
I worked in a call center where we were explicitly not paid to do those things. You were expected to have already done all of that by the time your shift started, otherwise you were considered late.

Apple isn't alone here, but they're obviously a fun big target for it.

__float··on Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall
This doesn't make much sense either -- many companies will happily employ people from India or Brazil if they live in SF or Chicago. Why are the "cultural/communication problems" not present then?
__float··on Design Docs at Google
Have you tried Dropbox Paper? Unlike what the name implies, it's the most non-print-focused editing experience I've used. Anecdotally, it's much more popular for design docs than Google Docs at my current employer.
__float··on Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques
This probably runs into the same issue mentioned in the article, where the checksums are wrong and you end up in an infinite loop.
__float··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
Care to elaborate?
__float··on Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
I don't think systems like this have ever been really limited to the amount of data they can _present_. A bigger limiting factor is the volume of data they can ingest, at what cardinality (ideally arbitrary), and how quickly they can get it back to you, transformed in some way (e.g. "i want to see p95").

That said, things like SignalFx or Datadog are certainly slow at the presentation layer, too ;)

__float··on Configs suck? Try a real programming language
Yep yep, makes sense. I helped migrate a Python monorepo to Bazel, which involved an unfortunate amount of Starlark :-)

The mental lines between Starlark and Python are fully blurred at this point, but I've seen the "Starlark isn't Python" a few times this past week already.

Thanks for the elaboration :)

__float··on Configs suck? Try a real programming language
When you say "not a strict subset of Python", is that primarily the stdlib changes? Are there any syntactic differences that mean valid Starlark is not valid Python?
__float··on Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
Is this still as painful as it used to be? AMI building took ages, so iteration ("deployment") speed is really awful.
__float··on Google Open Source Code Search
What did you use for a UI?
__float··on The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
How often do you use this device?

I feel like I hardly understand the idea, because a / and \ is just as distinct as a b and a p. We don't make mnemonics for those?

__float··on The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
They may have decided, for example, that the majority of cases were not security related. If they were just cosmetic or something...
__float··on Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
what practical situation do you encounter that DNS isn't an option?

why are you shutting down servers to rotate certificates? a reload should be totally possible!

__float··on We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
What CI software do you use? I played around with spot instances and Jenkins, and it was quite a poor experience.
__float··on DisplayPort and 4K
It doesn't seem to be dynamically loaded the same way, but it certainly has software updates: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205858.
__float··on GitHub CLI is now in beta
Issues, CI/CD, and code review are a huge part of the development process that git does not do.

Committing directly might work for a small team, but I can't imagine that scales.

I suppose we want fundamentally different things here, and sadly for you, I don't think you're a large enough portion of the audience that GitHub will ever create the tool you need.

Their APIs are open, though -- you can probably make one yourself.

__float··on GitHub CLI is now in beta
It sounds like you're looking more for an administrative CLI for Github, rather than the usual "Github user" experience in the command-line.

What do you use instead of PRs? (Honestly, not using PRs and paying for GHE sounds like a... less-than-ideal way to spend your money?)

The PR workflow + Checks are a good "equivalent" (IMO, nicer) experience to pre-commit hooks.

__float··on Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me
Transferring large amounts of money quickly. The fees can be very high, and you may very well consider an alternative as a result.
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