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Careful, sharing that link is illegal in some jurisdictions

> (and as far as I can tell, they aren't really that cheaper than the competitors)

Can you say more? Their Cloud instances, for example, are less than half the cost of OVH's, and less than a fifth of the cost of a comparable AWS EC2 instance.

I think they meant to say the maintainers for redis-py, lettuce, and jedis have already relinquished control to Redis Inc. The libraries are still online, but their repositories have been moved to the official Redis organization and are "controlled" and "owned by Redis" according to an email quoted in the linked Github Issue.

> he received Saturday detention and a grade of 65 out of 100 on the assignment

The student still received a passing grade for the assignment despite some of the assignment being AI hallucinated text. From my experience, plagiarism is an automatic zero for the entire assignment or course, but there are tons of counterexamples when the teacher/professor doesn't want to deal with the academic integrity process.

> Also, she had to learn what it meant to ride “goofy footed.” It’s when you ride a board with your right foot forward instead of your left. “Oh,” Shaunda says. “Well, I am left-handed.”

I am right handed but would ride a skateboard the same way. I never even tried with my left foot forward. Even visualizing it feels wrong. I wonder why this is the apparently uncommon stance? Some people I think prefer to use their dominant foot to push, but it’s easier to keep my balance when my dominant foot is on the board.

If you’re using TLS what is the concern? I’d be more worried about Internet data transfer costs than that. Latency might be a concern but it’s going to be very dependent on use case.

I have never used a cable provider that required a visit to connect or disconnect service - it has always been done remotely.

The patent for semaglutide doesn't expire until 2030 (in the US), so a generic is not currently available. I say this as someone who is looking into purchasing the drug: I don't think many people buying the compounded formula know it is not a "generic" and is not FDA approved. The companies selling it often do not even say where it comes from.

It shouldn't be surprising that Novo Nordisk is fighting these compounding pharmacies that are purely interested in undercutting them. Not to say they need our sympathy, since I'm sure a significant cost of Ozempic is due to the injection pen with a million patents.

The app is on F-Droid, which is mentioned in the article: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid...

I’m not sure why it can’t continue to be. Does anyone know why?

GM Denis Kadric (currently rated 309th worldwide) was just banned by Chess.com for allegedly cheating, and has no ability to appeal or see evidence used in the decision.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1fz4snq/gm_denis_kad...

Not only is the website the de facto platform for online play, some tournaments also use it for in-person games. The site has essentially become a chess authority organization of its own right. Its staff operate as judge, jury, and executioner behind closed doors. While I’m sure the majority of banned accounts were blatantly cheating, their team has apparently taken input from ChatGPT to run “simulations” to determine cheating probabilities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1873ocq/chesscom_c...

How would ChatGPT know?

I think the audience for this is someone who is already using AWS Secrets Manager, but wants to reduce their API usage (perhaps due to cost).

Chamber uses SSM Parameter Store, which for many cases is similar, but some people might have a preference for Secrets Manager. For example, a team might like the automatic RDS password rotation for Secrets Manager and decide to put everything there for consistency.

For Doppler, well maybe someone doesn't want to pay for it, or they'd rather control access to their secrets via IAM instead of through a separate tool.

I worked at a new online betting/gambling company that launched in the US during the pandemic. I have worked at two other jobs since. I never had a problem getting my resume screened, so I don't think it prevents you from getting hired at the major tech companies out there. There are a lot of interesting problems that these gambling companies face. For example, they have requirements about which particular states their infrastructure can operate in. Since I am a Platform engineer / Cloud Admin / whatever you want to call it, this could be a good use for things like AWS Outposts that most companies aren't going to have a use for.

It might prevent you from getting hired at certain companies. I currently work at a company focused on the challenges faced by poor families, and gambling obviously is notorious for disproportionately affecting these families. I was honest with the CEO about why I left (which was in some part due to naivety about the wider impacts the company would have). I got the job without a problem. I'd like to think he was happy for my honesty, but I won't ask him as he's currently on holiday.

Propel | Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer | Remote (US) | Full-time | $150k-$230k

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You will own our fundamental cloud services that our engineering team builds upon, our application platform (based on Kubernetes) that we run our applications on, and own our developer experience and tools.

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Datadog

This position is fully remote, but offices are available in Brooklyn, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City if desired. Location does not affect compensation, but unfortunately we are only accepting applications from residents in specific US states at this time. Please see the job post for the complete details.

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> While PII data was potentially accessible, based on our current findings, we see no evidence that such data has been exploited.

How is this possible, when the journalist accessed the data to confirm it contained PII?

Each day I am more and more interpreting "we see no evidence" as "we didn't really look." That way their statement can be technically correct, without divulging any evidence that might be used against them when users sue for damages.

Propel | Full-time | Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer | Remote (US) | $150k-$230k

Propel is on a mission to empower low-income Americans by simplifying access to government benefits with modern technology. All of our users deserve first-class experiences in their daily interactions with the social safety net and financial services. We're a passionate team of 100 Propellers - all working to help our users get through the month, every month. We’re looking for a self-motivated Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team within the engineering org at Propel.

You will own our fundamental cloud services that our engineering team builds upon, our application platform (based on Kubernetes) that we run our applications on, and own our developer experience and tools.

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Datadog

This position is fully remote, but offices are available in Brooklyn, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City if desired. Location does not affect compensation, but unfortunately we are only accepting applications from residents in specific US states at this time. Please see the job post for the complete details.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propel/jobs/7445950002

Triplebyte didn't have a relationship with every company out there looking to hire. When the job market is great and you can filter yourself to specific companies, that's great. When those large companies are laying people off and you need to broaden your search, it's impossible on Triplebyte.

Funding that goes to editors (for example, stipends to travel to Wikipedia conferences) has been decreasing steadily each year. It's not due to a lack of money - Wikimedia consistently brings in millions of surplus revenue each year, see WP:CANCER[1] - so it's not clear that an additional revenue source will change anything.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Source?

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Propel is on a mission to empower low-income Americans by simplifying access to government benefits with modern technology. All of our users deserve first-class experiences in their daily interactions with the social safety net and financial services. We're a passionate team of 100 Propellers - all working to help our users get through the month, every month. We’re looking for a self-motivated Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team within the engineering org at Propel.

You will own our fundamental cloud services that our engineering team builds upon, our application platform (based on Kubernetes) that we run our applications on, and own our developer experience and tools.

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Datadog

This position is fully remote, but offices are available in Brooklyn, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City if desired. Location does not affect compensation, but unfortunately we are only accepting applications from US residents at this time.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propel/jobs/7445950002

Wasn't he the CEO in the past? I see him referred to as "CEO" in some places, like [1], but I can't find any announcement or news article about when this changed.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/yc-ceo-michael-seibel-open...

Rapid7's article on the topic[1] mostly focuses on the need for providing enough information to IT admins so they can understand the severity of the problem. There are other unsaid reasons for this (credit/payment I'd imagine is part of it), but on face value doesn't this make sense? When Metabase[2] says "Upgrade your instance NOW" and they have a vuln that "allows unprivileged access to any Metabase instance" I upgraded immediately. When JetBrains[3] says "4 security problems have been fixed. We highly recommend installing this update as it includes a fix for a critical security vulnerability" then many people are not going to upgrade as quickly. Jetbrains eventually gave more information[4] but would they have done this if Rapid7 wasn't threatening to disclose it themselves?

^1: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/06/06/the-hidden-harm-...

^2: https://discourse.metabase.com/t/upgrade-your-metabase-insta...

^3: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/teamcity/teamcity-2023-11-4-r...

^4: https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2024/03/additional-criti...

I've been surprised by how many random devices experience terrible wifi interference. I just bought a new Mac Mini that experiences a ton of interference, sometimes going offline completely. I can browse the web fine but I can't screen share on Zoom or even speak in Discord without noticeable lag multiple times a minute. It's not in some Faraday cage or anything, it's just sitting on my desk not 3 feet from my Ubiquiti access point. But I do have a USB dongle plugged into it which I have heard can cause a lot of interference. My phone, even when sitting on top of the Mac, gets a solid 800 mbits down. It's silly to need an ethernet cable for 3 feet of distance from my switch but here we are.

> Today correcting a typo might trigger a full-time editor to defend his turf. Even asking questions about an uncited assertion on a talk page can be labeled as disruptive.

This doesn't align with my experience. From what I've seen, the consensus is that the majority of edits from an IP user are constructive, and they're not reverted simply because they're from an IP user. I've seen data about this[1], but for fun I looked at a page I've edited recently. Out of the last 50 edits, 13 were from IP users (26%), and only 4 of them were vandalism (30% of IP edits).

You are right that some people entrench into a "turf" and revert things for no reason. This is an old problem on Wikipedia. But this is pretty rare across the site from my experience. And I have seen people get warnings for this behavior. If someone was reverting simple typo fixes or discussions on a Talk page I would expect something to happen to that user, regardless if it was against an IP user or not.

That's not to say there are no advantages to having an account. Creating new pages, uploading files, and editing semi-protected pages require an account. Some articles require pretty strict criteria to edit, your account has to be at least 30 days old with 500 edits (which is more than I have). This list is around 7000 articles[2] which is more than I expected.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_editors_are_human...

^2: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Protected...

Getting an article created for you or your business is not some mysterious black box. Every article on Wikipedia has to follow WP:NOTE (notability guidelines)[1]. In short, it just means you have to have multiple sources directly about the subject, and these sources are independent from the subject of the article, and the sources are WP:RELIABLE (e.g., from a reputable source like a well known news publisher).

The only reason these guidelines exist is because all articles need to have references. No references, no article. The vast majority of deleted articles don't have any references. If you have just a couple references, that article is likely to float around in some gray area for a long time. There are articles on the site only a couple sentences long, but they have notable references, so they can't easily be deleted.

People mistakenly think that paying off an administrator is a golden ticket to getting on the site. They misunderstand that the majority of governance on the site is done in public, and often doesn't involve administrators at all. For example, I've been involved in a couple requests for article deletion (sometimes as the person requesting the deletion, sometimes not). In all my experiences, no administrator was involved in the debate. If there are good reasons to delete an article, a bribed administrator will simply be outvoted by the public.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

^2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

The FDA is preventing Philips from selling any sleep apnea devices in the US for a few years until some unspecified manufacturing quality control problem is fixed. This is interesting because the new devices don’t use the same foam and don’t have this defect. I’m unsure if this ban affects ventilators which were also affected by the foam defect. Still, according to the ProPublica reporting Philips already made bank the last few years. They’re also trying to limit damages by putting all blame on the US subsidiary.

I was reading the original source yesterday and it said 385. It must have been increased today. Experts have said that it could take years to know the full impact. Will the FDA keep us updated?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240131023937/https://www.fda.g...

Thanks Dan. When I wrote my comment I thought most people would already know that it was most likely an automated system that downranked the post. The next time I talk about this topic I'll make it extra clear I'm not insinuating any manual censorship.

With that said, it is a shame that in cases like this, you may not even know about a post with hundreds of comments unless someone sends you a link. Have you thought about implementing a view that ignores the flamewar detection? This could even be a historical view, like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-01-31 . The post in question was one of the highest upvoted submissions of the day and yet it's not on the first page of this link.

I fully agree with you that in the majority of cases these comments are not encouraging intellectual curiosity, I still do like reading the comments because I do find some interesting stuff there sometimes.

I read HN probably more than I should, and I was pretty surprised to see this has over 500 comments and I didn't see it at all. Turns out it was only on the frontpage for 1 hr. https://hnrankings.info/39205676/

Netflix does. I don't know any other company that is more honest than:

> A dream team is one in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and highly effective working together. [...] Dream teams are about performance, [...] Sustained “B” performance, despite an “A” for effort, gets a severance package with respect.

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture