One factor around this is private equity buyouts. PE has been snapping up a lot of well established smaller companies and squeezing more profits out of them. Part of this is value engineering the products and offerings. These companies have built up names over a long time based on good products so you can ride the name and existing customers for a bit and maximize profits. By the time people get fed up the investment has paid off.
I needed a windows laptop. My work laptop is a Mac. Unless you are doing extremely intensive things that will benefit from technology gains, buying a new laptop makes little sense. The performance of an off lease enterprise laptop for $500 is great.
I purchased one from Dell, but it shut down at high cpu which indicates a cooling or other issue. In return they sent me an even better laptop for no additional charge. Perhaps more detailed reporting would avoid things like overheating laptops to enter the market. These laptops originally retailed for over $1500
Did I infer that I did not see a problem with that as well? This is the token whataboutism that plagues us. People with this mindset do not have any ideals like free speech or democracy, they just use transgressions that "the other side" did to justify the gradually worse things they do ad-infinitum. If you are for freedom of speech, you would see a problem with both, not just what was done in the past, and portray what is being done now as "payback" That is just pure tribalism.
I am sure their pages are not entirely static either. The APIs are used by researchers and AI companies too. Also with search you end up having people trying to use it for RAG with AI. I have dealt with this all and there is no one dead simple solution to deal with things. AI crawlers are one part of things, but they also have increasing submissions, have to deal with AI generated spam papers, and all sorts of stuff. There's always this feeling here on HN that oh it is dead simple you just do "X" as if the people that are dealing with it don't know that.
You can to some degree with Cloudflare and other solutions. But, do you want to block them all? AI is a very useful tool for people to discover information and summarize results. Especially in scholarly publishing where one would have to previously search on dumb keywords, and have to read loads of abstracts to find the research that pertains to their interests. So by blocking AI crawlers and bots completely, you are shutting off what will probably end up being the primary way people use your resource not too long from now. arXiv is a hub of research, and their mission is to make that research freely available to the world.
You see this in other areas too like academia being afraid they will get the ire of the administration and lose money. For a lot of firms they don't want to suddenly get their government contracts dropped by speaking out. This is how things slowly become more authoritarian, and freedom of speech dies. This is also why the gradual expansion of executive power was not good.
If the threat of financial loss stops people from criticizing actions, imagine what it would be like if you would be investigated and jailed on sham charges like in some other countries.
CDN is one part of strategy to deal with load. But it is not the only solution unless your site is exclusively static content. Their search, APIs, submission pipelines, duplicate detectors and a lot of other things are not going to be powered by CDNs.
I don't think it is that. I work for an org with close ties to arXiv, and just like us they are getting a lot more demand due to AI crawling. As a primary source of information there is a lot of traffic. They do have technical issues from time to time due to this demand, and I think their stability is just due to the exceptional amount of effort they take to keep it going. They are also getting more submissions and interest.
Kubernetes does add complexity but it does add a lot of good things too. Auto scaling, cycling of unhealthy pods, and failover of failed nodes are some of them. I know there is this feeling here sometimes that cloud services and orchestrated containers are too much for many applications, but if you are running a very busy site like arXiv I can't see how running on bare metal is going to be better for your staff and experience. I don't think they are naive and got conned into GCP as the OP alludes to. They are smart people that are dealing with scaling and tech debt issues just like we all end up with at some point in our careers.
I think you are conflating "working multiple jobs" with working multiple jobs during the same time period and lying to the other jobs about what you are doing when you cannot be reached. There is a big difference. If I work 9-5 on one job, and 5-1am on the other job that is not taking time from one to spend on the other. If I work 2+ jobs during that 9-5 period and not tell anyone and make excuses for not getting things done long enough until one of them fires me that is being dishonest.
It is a LOT different to be working multiple jobs at different times of the day. This is not what this is. This is trying to get away with working 2 or more jobs at the same time and making up excuses about why you can't make an on camera meeting. Also in the case of CEOs it is known they are doing that. If someone said yeah I have another job I will be working the same hours as your job that is totally fair. But they don't say that. They say their pipes froze, doctor's appointment, etc. It is also fair that the worker can do what they would like in their time including working another job. I have also had people who honestly said they were wrapping up their consulting gig and would need some time periodically to take off and that was fine too.
Because it is the technical definition of the words and that is exactly what it is. Something not being illegal does not mean that it isn't fraud or stealing. Misrepresenting your availability and willfully trying to cover that is is fraud. Taking someone's money while fraudulently not working for it is stealing. I know overemployment people will rationalize it some other way but it doesn't change that.
Another remote employment fraud that is much more prevalent is "Overemployment". You will get an applicant that is very skilled and hits the interview out of the park. But then when hired they are working many jobs and just trying to steal as many paychecks as they can until you fire them. They keep their first jobs resume clean and they all check out.
There is a Reddit community with over 400k members to show how prevalent this is [1]. There's lots of tactics like not allowing mentions on LinkedIn so they can't be publicly mentioned and seen by other unsuspecting employers, and just maintaining plausible deniability about why they can't make an on camera meeting. It is technically not illegal so it is very lucrative and hard to detect.
There are plenty of enterprises that will pay them to run their services and provide better integrations while allowing open source users to continue. Now people will get upset because some of these things will be for those customers only but it is very hard to keep developing these things and give them out for free. Partially open source still allows those to extend the work they give to the community and they will probably still continue to have a free tier to get more enterprise customers in the end.
Perhaps your average college student is now illiterate in the style of what your academic or Pulitzer Prize board would consider essential to comprehend. Acclaimed fiction novels usually gain acclaim not by how direct and to the point they are, but how they twist at words and portray things in a particularly long winded fashion.
Could it be that people of today that have grown up reading prose that is mostly to get to the point, and convey what is needed now do not have the ability to meander like that? If so, does this make them "illiterate"?
One thing missing in the inflation discussion is asset inflation. Yes government measured inflation went down while stocks and every other asset kept going up. This is a massive transfer of wealth and spending power to those who have assets. When COVID hit and stimulus started hitting the working class, it drove up all prices because they for a brief period of time had spending power and therefore labor negotiating power. Now things have returned more to status quo where the wealthy asset owners keep getting most of the gains from technology driven increases in efficiency while the people working in meat packing plants have been put back in their role.
It is exceedingly rare to make over 200k in govt. Most heads of agencies and other high level roles are GS-15 which tops out around 195k
What you USED to get in exchange for less salary was stability as government jobs were viewed as less vulnerable to economic cycles and uncertainty. Now that value prop is gone
Yes and none of these people asked anyone with clinical laboratory knowledge whether this device could work. Many analytes need a venous draw to attain accurate results. So even if they only used a drop of blood that blood would have to be obtained the same way as a tube is now.
It would be like a young man dropping out of school and claiming they have GPU technology that is 2x nvidia performance. Everyone would laugh and demand proof. But they all didn't do the most basic of due diligence here
Everyone at Amazon (The only company I have seen using it) hated using Chime, and it wasn't at all on the level of competitors. So I think it was just an unsuccessful product.
This is a growing pattern in hosting like Netlify and headless CMSs like Sanity. Their free model is "generous" and then if you go production and start to have overages you get billed exorbitantly for bandwidth and API requests. It is essentially a trap. Once you hit those limits you have very little negotiating power when you hit the "call us for pricing" level and you get outrageous quotes. It costs them very little to run these services so if they can net some minnows that become whales, that is almost pure profit.
The start of the funnel is also the most racist and class discriminatory. Almost every school in the USA takes pupils from districts where the property owners pay the taxes for the schools. Rich areas get much more resources and support. Poor students get put into less funded schools and suffer from not having mentorship or peers to look up to.
I live on Long Island and we have a majority white population. Despite that we have 2 school districts that are almost 100% black. That is where the problem is. You are not giving these students a chance. When I am going through resumes I am not getting a diverse pool of qualified candidates because these poor people have been historically oppressed into a caste of poor schooling and neighborhoods.
That is fine because then someone decides to buy something based on what it costs. The status quo is that some company decides to backload the cost with hidden fees and then all competitors need to follow by doing the same or they will be "undercut". This is just bad for consumers because it makes it very hard to determine what they are paying for something and how to compare it with other prices.
The difference in the kitchen analogy is the Chef comes from a background in cooking food and was once a kitchen cook. Many in product are completely non technical. In this case the kitchen cooks and minor chefs will be told to cook dishes out of season, and do impractical things. I view product and engineering as a complementary resource not one directing the other what to do. Often times "what" is dictated by "how" in software development
The value of the cars almost always goes down, and rental car companies churn through cars while making money on rentals. The problem with Teslas is not so much the depreciation, but more so that people don't want to rent them. They were marketed as some sort of upgrade but given the maturity of public chargers, I do not want an EV if I travel somewhere and rent a car, let alone pay a premium.
With a gas car I know I can get gas wherever cars go and that will take a few minutes. With an EV I would have to work out whether my hotel has EV charging/plan travels around chargers in an area not known to me.
They subject us to meet with them as customers on Chime. This is despite everyone hating the product. CodeCommit was annoying because nobody uses it, and you had to touch adjacent projects like CodeStar to do something like trigger on a GitHub commit.
I have tapped my own trees and doubt this is due to climate change. In fact more warm days would probably increase production. The days when you get the best and most sap is when there is a cold night (sub freezing) followed by a warm day. Warming would push this earlier in the season but it would still happen. The only way production would be halted or impacted significantly would be if we stopped having sub freezing nights the entire winter. Sap after the trees bud for the spring is less desirable as it has a stronger flavor.
I disagree that "Gentrification" started in the 80's in NYC. It was the 80's that made it not a wasteland of abandoned or intentionally burned buildings due to improving finances for the city government itself. However the influx of transplants did not happen until the late 90's. Crime was still astronomical compared today until the mid 90's. It was still considered unsafe. Once the city was comparatively safer, the trend started which still continues today. Areas like Bushwick are now home to transplants from the midwest while 20-30 years ago they would never set foot in there.
Places like CBGB's held on until the 2000s. Working class people could still affordably live in most places in the city until then as well.
She probably clicked a link from a search engine or other source that could have shared her interest. Even if the service themselves isn't tracking, very few people type an exact URL in. Even if they do it is often being transmitted to Google or others stroke by stroke
It doesn't look like an IDOR attack. The poster says they had read/write access to the Firebase DB with their Firebase user they registered. It appears they had the database entirely open to all Firebase users. I agree the usage of "splice" in a JavaScript context does imply that they had an IDOR exploit
The glass prior to iPhone 14 is UNREPAIRABLE as well. You are better off breaking the screen. The Apple repair process for iPhone 12 and 13 is to replace the entire chassis. Ebay sellers will sell you a replacement back glass but you have to painstakingly break off all the back glass including a sensitive microphone near the cameras and also the chances you don't break the wireless charging is zero. Polycarbonate plastic would have been ideal