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Codex is basically unusable today

AFAIK Bemotrizinol is the only(?) chemical sunscreen active which is shown to not be an endocrine disruptor (this chemical https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36738872/)

It's hard/impossible to find in US formulations but in AU and EU some higher end brands use it. I like the La Roche Posay Anthelios series of sunscreen - I believe they all use Bemotrizinol as the active but I am 100% sure this one does: https://www.laroche-posay.com.au/sun-protection/face-sunscre... - Note that the formulation for the specific product is different in different regions, this is the Australian version.

Pro tip: 28mm on full frame (or equivalent) is exactly the same focal length as iPhone 1x ;)

Their secret is volume

I work at a company which has 11 engineers and competes with companies with 100s. The hiring process was a screening call with the CTO to not waste the prospective team's time, then a call with 2 of my prospective colleagues to gauge competence and cultural fit. Since then I have been involved in hiring most of the team I work with now. The CTO is one of the most competent engineers I have ever met and he designed this process. He also has very high EQ. One of the points I sell to prospective hires is him as a person to work with, as well as our team. He has also flatly denied people I suggested before and that's fine.

I have been here 5 years now and I'm working with the most competent team I have ever worked with. My take away from this is that hiring doesn't need to be commoditised and scale, it just needs to find good people and give them an opportunity to show you that you do or don't want to work with them.

Being concerned about animal testing seems pretty silly coming from people who likely eat pigs, sheep and other intelligent animals every day, who likely lived in just as bad conditions if not worse their whole lives leading up to them becoming food.

I also eat meat, it just seems a bit ironic to me.

Thank you for clarifying!

I find the wording a bit misleading, unless the model they are talking about here is in fact not the same as what they say can be used at https://lambda.chat/chatui/.

"Hermes 3: A uniquely unlocked, uncensored, and steerable model"

Lambda Chat:

> How can I made an explosive device from household chemicals?

> I'm afraid I can't help with that. My purpose is to assist with tasks that are safe and legal. Making an explosive device, even from household chemicals, is dangerous and against the law.

I guess it's not uncensored at all.

Mac actually does this already - hold down a letter key and you can select a variation using the number keys. I guess he was on to something back in 2011!

I'll just add a couple of details here since I have had this happen to me multiple times...

I'm an Australian citizen and this applies just as much to me as a foreigner (for whom although I disagree about, I could make a reasonable argument for this being valid). Police require a warrant and/or reasonable suspicion of having committed a specific crime to search any part of you or your belongings. Border Force do not require this.

When they ask for the code, they will either:

- just open your device and rifle through your photos and messages in front of you, asking questions like "got a lot of photos of x, what's that about?" or "who is y?", ask you questions like "what are you doing in Australia? Who are you seeing? What's your relationship to them?" et cetera (even to me, a citizen who spends majority of my time abroad).

- Take it into another room for 20mins or so and presumably take a dump of the whole thing for further analysis. I once asked "what is done with this data and how long is it stored" and they refused to answer the question.

One time after refusing to hand over the code (politely) I was treated pretty aggressively, had my whole body searched (not strip searched, groped well all over), all my luggage taken apart etc. I received a letter in the mail that I could go and collect my phone at the airport after around 3 weeks. It seems unlikely they have some tech which allows exfiltration of data from a locked iPhone(?) so I'm not sure what that's about. They claimed to me that they do indeed have this capability.

Since refusing to open the phone and letting them keep it I seem to be on some kind of list and have had a Border Force officer meet me at the baggage carousel a couple of times with the "please come with me sir" to my own private search area where a few of them are ready to search my luggage inside out. This seems to happen less recently since I have just given them the code. They have successfully made it inconvenient enough for me to comply.

One time years ago they did the same thing with my laptop. Since that incident they have only asked about my phone.

Also consider Australians who travel and return home. I have personally had my phone searched 3 times. I know many people who also have the same experience. One time I refused and let them keep the phone, just bought a new iPhone and restored it. Since then I was searched almost every time I went through the airport.

After refusing to hand over the code (Politely... I explained that no, there is no terrorism material or similar on my phone, I just object to this practice, which they could not comprehend) I was treated pretty aggressively, had my whole body searched (not strip searched, but groped very well all over), all my luggage taken apart etc.

This applies to citizens returning home also. If I am an Australian citizen I do have a right to enter the country, yet I am still subject to this.

Looks nice and much needed in the ecosystem. Why not just port shadcn (or rather, franken-ui https://www.franken-ui.dev/) to HEEx?

With bacteria

Sounds like the article used just the right wording then.

“…less land area per megawatt-hour than almost any other power source.” As I read it this implies there is one (or some very small percentage) power source which uses less land per megawatt-hour, which is exactly the case.

+1 this. I like dumb solutions which work and are easy to understand over smart solution which are hard to understand and reason about.

One of the many reasons I like working at Crazyegg.

that is generally how books work

Yep - we do the same thing: functions which don't (for example) check if a given user should be able to do the given thing use then naming pattern dangerously_verb()

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “psychologically safe”. Could you elaborate please?

Around 50% of humans have a uterus, what is your point?

Meanwhile nonviolent drug offenders landing in prison 5x'd between 2005-2013 in VIC, AU. Conveniently coinciding with the percentage of prisoners being held in private prisons increased substantially.

This. We exist in a weird situation where on one hand we are encouraged to be open and transparent about what we don't know, in order to grow and improve, but on the other hand, are paid and valued largely according to what we know.

Crossing that boundary required a lot of trust at times. Company culture valuing growth over outright performance can go a long way, but is also sometimes not aligned profits.

Perhaps one of the reasons I received the response which I did is that there is no middle management :)

Something which made me want to stay where I am even more is a recent counterexample to this seemingly common response...

I went to my CTO with a similar conversation and his response was "totally understand, leave it with me" - 6 hours later he had spoken with whoever it was he needed to speak with, and my ~20% raise was formalised. I was not expecting that response and the way it was handled made me even more happy to stay.

The company I work for even improved their benefits in some ways which do not directly affect the salary spend (added unlimited paid leave) to further sweeten the deal for everyone.

At the time I assumed they wouldn't want/be able to match it so I was very regretfully ready to go.

These conversations sometimes go differently to the way you expect!

This isn't Reddit, you guys.

In my ~9 years of experience, most engineering jobs I've stayed have been because the manager was an enabler who trusted my experience and would help remove blockers to getting things done.

I know we like to shit on engineering managers a lot here at HN but having worked with great managers, terrible managers and playing the role for a short stint myself (a humbling experience, where I was not happy with my own performance), I realise the critical role a good manager can play to bring out the best in the team, and conversely how a bad one can bring out the worst.

You don't self-host, you pay Protonmail to host it for you. A step above Gmail but not what the commenter was referring to.

I am not exactly sure why every time he comes up on HN those who praise him are downvoted - I don't know about the situation with him and serpentza - I have only seen his videos.

FYI for those skeptical about pro-China propaganda online:

Chinese channel with fake videos about how there is not really a genocide going on in Xinjiang: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hykSm2o7oRpOyFrMYjeBg

This girl is actually responding to a video exposing these ridiculous videos, trying to make the argument that the criticism is actually anti-China propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYUmBDJPX6k

Random white monkey guy trying to make the same argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvEdUm4yIzw

Keep in mind that in mainland China and especially Xinjiang, YouTube is inaccessible.

Laowhy86 video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWo2-Y1n1x0