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What's the security back-story here?

The security concerns here are really significant. In the section[1] on security, they write "we recommender you monitor Claude while using this feature." This borders on irresponsible IMO. Monitor what exactly? How should we monitor? What logs and metrics are exposed for security monitoring? How would a user recognize suspicious patterns...?

lol. Trump has immunity, and can also pardon

Spoiler alert; Elon buys all your web browsers.

A massive effort is currently underway by undersea mining companies to dredge the life out of huge swaths of largely unexplored seabed, including Antarctic and Polar regions.

It's the same insanity that allows industrial fishing fleets to drag kilometers-long nets through the sea scooping up megatons of bycatch -- although, this time we are likely to obliterate seabed ecosystems before anyone even has a chance to see them.

Some brilliant reads on these and surrounding topics:

https://susancasey.com/

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-deepest-map-laura...

Yep, a DisplayLink hub is the way. I've also been using one for 6 months and while it is perfectly stable, there are annoyances. For example certain protected video streams won't decode, and F.lux doesn't quite work on all monitors the way it should. Overall though I've put up with it. It's really an outrage that Apple restricted this basic functionality just because it could.

I don't know but I'm 25 years into my career and awk, sed, and grep are still valuable skills across many of the roles I work with.

I've often found fundamentals to be just as important, or more important, than chasing the trends.

The combination in Vivaldi browser of Workspaces (tab groups), pinned tabs, and vertical tabs has completely revolutionized my workday.

https://vivaldi.com/features/workspaces/

Vivaldi also has quite a head start on Arc, AFAIK. It's been almost entirely stable for my daily usage involving hundreds of ever-changing tabs...

Not to state the obvious, but this would be a wonderful time to share Ellsberg's story with someone in the younger generations.

Just under a million of that was on storing 8 petabytes of files in S3, fully replicated across several regions

Hol' up. They're replicating data across regions -- across /several/ regions -- on top of a service (S3) which already has 99.999999999% data durability in a single region? ...Why?

On the one hand, this is a bargain for Enterprise SaaS software.

On the other, I can run you an IRC server for roughly the cost of electricity.

HN readers love to opine on how "safe" nuclear is so I have my popcorn ready for this thread

the lab was the location of one of the nation's largest — and least known — nuclear accidents that occurred 1959 when one of the facility's ten sodium nuclear reactors experienced a partial meltdown, releasing enormous amounts of radiation into the surrounding environment.

Most of you should expect to gather in person every quarter for about a week at a time.

Yikes. That's a lot of travel.

Found this on a bike forum, posted two days ago:

"On March 24th, 2022, I was riding my bike near the beach in San Francisco down a slight slope. My hands were on my brakes to make sure the bike was in control. About 150 feet ahead of me, a vehicle suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. To avoid oncoming traffic, I veered towards the vehicle's right, which suddenly moved directly in front of me.

At that point, I could not avoid impact and crashed through the vehicle's back window with my bike. As I lay on the road, I saw that the car that hit me did not have a driver."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/autonomous-car-hit-my-brother

I really like the idea of a book graph. Heck, if the platform suggested that I read the references for books I'm currently reading, that would be interesting.

Managers are supposed to weed out people that slack off enough to slow delivery and cause headaches for their peers.

I do know some engineers who seem to coast or just be unhappy 70% of the time, but the 30% where they show up is insanely valuable. Those people can stay in my org.

What I really hate is the guy doing what the OP is doing while his colleagues are working long days and weekends picking up the slack. That's just being an antisocial leech, and that person is toxic to a team and to morale.

Every damn Well-Architected Framework includes multi-AZ if not multi-region redundancy, and yet the single access point for their millions of customers is single-region. Facepalm in the form of $100Ms in service credits.

25 Regions, 85 Availability Zones in this global cloud service and I can't login because of a failure in a single region (their oldest).

Can't login to AWS console at signin.aws.amazon.com:

   Unable to execute HTTP request: sts.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Please try again.

And if your singular production server catches on fire?

They are, or were, extremely trendy among the tech workers of the Silicon Valley / San Francisco.

They're premium priced and definitely casual in style and function, with a sustainability-focused marketing sheen.

I've had a few pairs and the quality is above-average but definitely not a "buy it for life."

Can someone explain like I'm five what the massive bandwidth is necessary for?

mRNA vaccines being "only" 90-95% effective

Against alpha...

As someone with a dog, I can say it is not easy to avoid ticks. Even with canine medication they pick one or two up every time we go for a hike, ON the trail.

Eh, Apple maybe read my mind with upcoming Focus mode:

"you set an activity that you're doing, such as working, exercising, reading, or spending time with family, and block out the notifications that are unrelated to those tasks"

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-focus-mode/

This right here is a huge challenge. My smartphone is a gigantic source of my daily stress -- it transmits the awful news, the demands of my friends and family, a ton of garbage advertising, all my bills, AND all my work communications!

Someone please make a standalone device for all the mental health apps, so I can take it to the park with me and detox :)

Just an anecdote:

I did a course of CBT therapy as part of a university research study comparing the outcomes of CBT with mindfulness meditation for symptoms of social anxiety. It was 6- or 8-weeks long, and each week I went in to have a session with a therapist and do the workbooks etc.

It was a profoundly memorable experience and I did, in fact, face a number of my fears and essentially solve them through in-person 'confrontations' designed to mimic the social anxiety triggers I had. It was fun, too; for example one of the confrontations involved me messily eating a huge fast-food hamburger inside a phone booth with one of the psych lab's grad students. Those poor grad students.

Anyway, looking back on this experience 15 years later what really stands out are two things: those in-person experiential confrontations, and finally the tears I saw in my therapist's eyes during our final session as she congratulated me on my progress.

I really think apps like this can help tremendously for self-motivated "normals" -- and I wonder how voice/video/VR will expand their effectiveness in years to come.

I switched to Firefox for Tree Style Tabs.

I'll give some nontechnical advice: make real human connections. Let people know you (as you have in this post) and be genuinely interested in their work and problems.

Throughout my career, from the first paid job I was offered to the best and most lucrative unsolicited offers I've received in senior management, it's all come down to personal connections. People that knew me personally and knew a little about my life, or secondary connections -- friends of friends.

Your location shouldn't make much difference these days -- everything is happening online. Ask around about meetups, panels, pair programming, clubhouse rooms, or anything else interactive where you can share a bit of your story.

I'm connected to some highly successful people, and their main secret sauce is connections. It's nothing mysterious, but really just basic human kindness, generosity, and a collaborative spirit goes a long way. I find most people genuinely want to be helpful and especially so for people who have achieved some level of success already. So the other part of the advice is to scan your world for accomplished people, and just tell them your story. (Better yet, ask what their problems are and offer to solve something for them.)

This was a great Ask HN, thanks for taking the chance.

The worst arsenic levels in rice come from the US midwest and south. This isn't an outsourcing problem.

Bicycle. With tires that are knobby enough for light trail use. Can't imagine covid life without it.