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It has been a very competitive market, so companies have to give something to employees. If it weren't, they would enjoy the spoilers and pay the minimum they could - given the amounts of layoffs, we may be going into that direction.

I think this is a next step we must demand after everyone gets on board with E2E messaging.

Metadata is still data!

I contest both opinions:

1. More and more people care about this, eg journalists, politicians, etc. Apple has been talking about this a lot, although some being propaganda for messages, but their customers are already somewhat aware of private messenging.

2. It may not degrade ad targeting that much. I imagine doomscrolling does it way more: you engaged with this post, you ignored that one, and so on.

Regarding hierarchy, I have an anecdote about India. A manager told me that western teams are more likely to challenge a ticket than Indian teams, who hesitate to do that and are more likely to power through. His theory is that the culture makes it disrespectful to question the upper hierarchy, given its caste system, and causes a clash with western culture.

His solution was to communicate much more actively with the Indian team, to try to squeeze more feedback that they would hesitate to give at first.

Ifnyoure a big company dealing with Microsoft , you're not just going to "pay as you go". You'll have a sales rep, dedicated support, custom contracts and special prices. In the contract, Microsoft just needs to promise they won't share your data ever: if they do, the company can sue.

Microsoft is a behemoth at dealing with enterprises and has been doing it for decades. Even old school enterprises are OK with uploading data to Azure.

I think hiring a security specialist is the way to go.

I remember reading a case study from their engineering blog about this a few years ago - I couldn't quickly find it but maybe it's still out there. It was some think about optimizing for read speed, because one write from a celebrity would cause thousands or millions of reads.

I've heart the term "skimoflation". There have been posts on HN about it.

nitpick: git is enough to keep the history of old code, but it's not great at letting you find it.

It would be nice, but unfortunately it doesn't align with their goals - they want you to use github features, not git.

Download Edge, then download Firefox, then download Chrome.

Edge: the best browser downloader downloader!

Companies are suing Mexico: if the justice system is as fast as my country, I'd make them go through the normal process, and have a verdict in 5 or 10 years.

I wonder about the numbers: are cash payments a major enabler in imoral activity?

I guess they can make it slightly more difficult for a drug dealer to buy a car or house, but my intuition is that corruption and money laundering deal with much higher numbers and can go around it.

Not that fighting 1 bad thing is wrong, but considering disadvantagedssuch as loss of privacy and (even) more reliance on banks, we must balance the pros and cons.

I think OP meant the epic games store, not the epic engine.

Psyops? They can tweak the algorithm to try to push for certain topics. Not shove them down user throats, but rank them a bit higher a few times and see if it catches on.

Grug find bug, Grug beaten with club. Grug no find bug, Grug no beaten with club.

Grug work hard for own KPI: amount of times not beaten with club.

Streaking versus downloading is a technical detail. For a user, the only difference is that downloading cna be done in advance, when you expect crappy or expensive internet connection.

But, additionally: Spotify has a client cache, so it's not always streaming - though it may be intended for a couple of albums or play lists regularly accessed, not hours of podcast content.

Yeah, python is great but I wish package management was more standardized and simpler.

A list of hashes instead of hosts would be even worse, as it the blocking would be the same, just with reduced transparency. Every time they would add new hashes, people would need to investigate which websites they correspond to.

Quite evil.

CSVEdit? Hopefully not sued by reddit!

Now I'm even more disappointed in the outcome!

Senior: let's pair on this.

Junior: sure.

Slightly easier than traveling half a country!

The truth exists, but often we cannot know it, ie incomplete information, biases, etc. Or sometimes you may be predicting the future where it absolutely doesn't exist yet - you plan a new policy to improve something, but you can never find "the truth" in advance, eg whether it will work or not.

But if we challenge our opinions, we can make better decisions. If we challenge and they hold, we are more confident in them. If we challenge and they don't hold, maybe there's a better idea to explore.

In short, what I believe is: you can aim for the truth, and you will be better for it, but you will never reach it.

This month, there were Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan and Asteroid City by Wes Anderson.

It does show that HN is a website for techies and not for cinema enthusiasts; there's good stuff out there, but you won't get to it if you only scratch the surface.

It's not unfortunate that most people don't read contracts - it's unfortunate that services create such dense contracts int their defense, knowing full well no one reads them.

I propose the following: a ToS is accompanied by an audio transcription playing at average speaking speed. A person can only use the service after the whole thing plays. We'd quickly see a race for short ToS.

Or maybe require layers to accept ToS. If lawyers wrote them, maybe it would be helpful for a lawyer to read them to consumers! They could even amend it and negotiate changes with the service provider - maybe the terms are not compatible with their client's Terms of Consuming.

These are just joke scenarios, but they show the power imbalance between service and consumer.

In what scenario? One that you don't have enough money for a nice phone so you buy a shit one, but you have enough money to replace it all the time?

Technically correct sometimes is not the best kind of correct.

Yeah that's quite toxic. If the project is successful, the top level gets the praise for the vision. If it doesn't, the team gets the blame for lousy execution.

The responsible for executing should have a day in a lot more things, else it's gonna be a blame game.

It's just PR speak for "yeah we fired everyone to cut costs but pinky swear the quality won't be affected please keep buying".

Which other business fired their employees and outsourced their work to become better? Approximately, or even absolutely, none.

It sounds good in theory, but this usually results in picking the cheapest freelancers.

A magazine which fires all its writers is not looking for quality, it's looking to cut costs.

I don't know a lot about monitoring, why do you say pulling is an anti pattern?

My understanding is that with the push pattern you submit a metric when it's available, with the pull pattern you make them available via an interface.

I've read the first is not as performant, as it leads to submitting lots of metrics. Although I can think of an alternative, which is storing them and pushing batches periodically?