keypusher

> for all of microsoft's user hostile practices, google's products are fifty times worse.

I’ve never experienced any of these issues with Google Authenticator, or heard of anyone experiencing anything similar.

I think this is a good idea, but even if they were to require a peer-reviewed citation in such cases, it's possible to find examples that somewhat support his view. Especially if you cherry pick quotes. For instance:

> Novel coronavirus is believed to be tiny enough (0.08–0.14 μm) to penetrate through face mask, thus protection offered by cloth mask may be too low.

> The efficacy of cloth face masks filtration varies and depends on the type of material used, number of layers, and degree of moisture in mask and fitting of mask on face.

> Cloth face masks have limited efficacy in combating viral infection transmission.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497125/

They are primarily in supply chain management. Given the current issues worldwide with supply chain disruption, this seems like a prescient acquisition.

You may want to look at your options on the ACA marketplace again. The recent stimulus bill included significantly more subsidies for ACA plans and enrollment is reopened for the next few months.

You're right, that would have been better. I certainly didn't mean to imply this process always goes smoothly, or that the quality of the work they provide is without question.

The short answer is that they deliver solutions and support. What they sell, primarily, is the ability for someone at your company to call them and say "we have problem X" and they will respond "no problem, we can solve problem X for you", and they will take care of the rest. This usually costs millions of dollars.

Let's say you are a large Fortune 500 company. A bank perhaps, a large retailer or an oil company. Your net worth rivals Amazon. You do not use AWS or GCP, you host your own data centers, and you have for decades. Now let's say you need another few petabytes of storage with global replication, durability, availability, you need hardware delivered, fibre cables routed, software to tie it all together and someone to call when you run into problems or someone on your backend application team can't figure it out. Or maybe you need Oracle and SAP integrated with Active Directory for your 100,000 employees.

Well, these companies will make that happen. Or many other problems you might have, such as building custom applications, implementing tooling, designing systems, whatever. It's kind of like asking "who employs all these personal chefs?! I've been eating for years and I've never needed a personal chef. I just go to the store, buy some groceries, and make food from the recipes I find online!" The thing is that some people just don't want to deal with all that, and they have enough money to make it someone else's problem who has done it before.

Hitachi Data Systems has been in IT since 1989, and their history in the market goes back in to 60's or 70's. Now rebranded Hitachi Vantara, most of their revenue was competition was in the same space as EMC (now owned by Dell) for enterprise data storage. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, which you can think of like GE or something, they are in everything. The market for enterprise software and hardware is massive and often completely under the radar for an audience like HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Data_Systems

They have actually been in this area for quite a while. My first real dev job was at HDS after they acquired Archivas back in 2007. We built off the Archivas foundation to deliver petabyte-scale object storage for big enterprise/govt, kind of like selling S3 in a box for companies to put in their datacenter. HDS made the hardware and software.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/archivas

Diversity training? The former president banned it and people have been fired for not attending. Seems quite "politically-charged".

I believe the above comment was suggesting that if the union vote passes, Amazon will swiftly begin to get rid of as many human workers as possible and invest heavily in robotics to replace them.

It's not about $50/copy, it's about lost revenue from GTA:Online which makes money off micro-transactions and continued spending from existing customers. And yes, I think it should be obvious that very long load times has made a significant number of people spend less time and money than they would have with fast load times.

It’s absolutely worth that much and more. GTA5 Online pulled in well over $500 million in 2019, and even more in 2020. It’s now the 3rd best selling game of all time, behind only Tetris and Minecraft. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/69666/gta-made-half-billion-d...

How much does it cost to run the US treasury though?

Just as a security researcher’s job is to find vulnerabilities and promote best practices, it’s not to hack and then publicly shame their employer. Ethics researchers should be the same, no? Find ethical issues and promote best practices, embarrassing your employer seems counterproductive except perhaps as a last resort.

BitMex offers 100x leverage, which is quite dangerous in any market, but in one as volatile as cryptocurrency is almost certain to wipe out your account very quickly.

Inflation is already here, it's just that the wealth hasn't "trickled down" into the middle/lower class so consumer goods haven't spiked yet. It will seep out eventually, but right now it's mostly still sitting in financial markets and corporate accounts. The trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars that have been pumped into the economy via QE and other fed programs don't just go away.

> Table 1 provides details of the B.1.1.7 lineage-specific non-synonymous mutations and deletions. We note that many occur in the virus spike protein.

https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...

So, it was my understanding that Fedora was the beta/testing upstream distro for RHEL. Features and development would go from Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS, previously. With CentOS moving upstream of RHEL, it seems a bit strange doesn't the role overlap with where Fedora already is?

So if Google had chosen to use a different language for Android then Sun would still be around? I don't think so.

The 90's band Self has a similar issue.

Apple does research, design and software but all the manufacturing and assembly is done in China by Chinese companies. Mostly Samsung and Foxconn. Nvidia is the same but the chips are fabbed by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor).

Google should have bought Sun. They would have been better custodians probably, and in the end Oracle will basically get it for free after this battle is over.

I linked a clear instance of exactly that, an article written this week by a doctor whose patient contracted the virus twice in a short period, with references to other examples. Further, the claim that most viruses create immunity for a meaningful length of time is questionable.

> repeat infections in a short period are a feature of many viruses, including other coronaviruses

> Models like Britton’s and Gomes’s also assume that, after infection, people obtain immunity.

There is growing evidence that people can catch covid more than once, even within a short time after clearing the first infection. While not 100% proven yet, if true it would basically throw herd immunity out the window until there is an effective vaccine. https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic....

Debugging and hotfixing in production is not generally a good idea. Updating a site with significant traffic will usually involve pushing some type of artifact through a build system and deploying it to multiple servers, and that’s true whether it’s a python script or rust binary. As far as an actual debugger, I believe rust generally encourages gdb. If your concern is about Rust compile times, that’s a different but valid question.

I don't think you understand what is actually going on under the hood here, at all. Methods are member functions of a class, and must be invoked on an object.

  someInstance.foo()

When invoking a method from within the class, you still need a reference to the object the method will be invoked on. In python, the reference is passed implicitly as the first argument, and usually called self. That has nothing to do with the method name or signature itself, and calling the method self.foo() would result in calling it like

  someInstance.self.foo()

for cases when you aren't referencing the function from within the class, which would be even more confusing.

> If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Richard Feynman

I know a lot more people that have lost crypto because they lost their keys than people who lost it on Coinbase.

I don’t see anything in this article about Amazon offering the author a job, so I’m a bit confused by the headline. Were they offered a position at Amazon the same week as this non-compete dispute became public and forgot to mention it?