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Previous discussion (4 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453800

I've also been happy with Groups.io. A local community moved there a few years ago when Yahoo Groups shut down.

The downside is that to get more of a Facebook community experience with a calendar, files, and subgroups, you will probably have to pay for for the Premium level. https://groups.io/static/pricing

Aha. I was surprised to see that ~30% of web pages loaded by Firefox were still not https. A 6-year-old graph would explain why!

They've bumped this support info to a blog post that's linked from their home page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content...

It includes PDFs of some relevant support pages that someone printed with their browser 5 hours ago. That's probably the right thing to do in such a situation to get this kind of info publicly available ASAP, but still, oof. Looks like lots of people in the Reddit thread had trouble accessing the support info behind the login screen.

Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA

What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.

Very neat! I love how you can do an entire paragraph.

For example https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=%7D6G6C+8%40%3F%3...

If you're looking for a visualization, a YouTube team of VFX artists did some neat ones last year in this video: https://youtu.be/J-K2yeQylCk

I'm just surprised they aren't making you send a physical letter via USPS.

Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full#table-...

a.org is an odd one. It's just an HTML form input that doesn't post anywhere, but it became a curious rabbit hole on r/hacking a few months ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/16yrggi/aorg/

+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying.

When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE box of swag arrived, with a dozen shirts and lots of other things. Our team and corner of the office became The Place To Be for a while.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

I don't want to be the "did you even read the article?" guy, but I do recommend you all read the article or get more context about this first before posting what could be considered a economic/political "hot take". It's really a mix of optimism (like some relief from recession fears, for now) and concern (like lower personal savings rates).

Don't extrapolate too much based on a single quarter metric (albeit an important one). That's the HN way.

The government has been reducing spending since all the COVID support in 2020 and 2021. At its peak, government spending was over $7 trillion, which was over 30% of GDP in 2020. It appears to be trending back to the pre-COVID ratio: ~20% of the GDP is government spending. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Time (yes, Time Magazine!) actually had good coverage of this: https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/

Here's one good excerpt:

Dickerson quickly established the rules, which he posted on a wall just outside the control center.

Rule 1: “The war room and the meetings are for solving problems. There are plenty of other venues where people devote their creative energies to shifting blame.”

Rule 2: “The ones who should be doing the talking are the people who know the most about an issue, not the ones with the highest rank. If anyone finds themselves sitting passively while managers and executives talk over them with less accurate information, we have gone off the rails, and I would like to know about it.” (Explained Dickerson later: “If you can get the managers out of the way, the engineers will want to solve things.”)

Rule 3: “We need to stay focused on the most urgent issues, like things that will hurt us in the next 24–48 hours.”

Ironically, this reminds me of a story (folk tale?) about Von Neumann himself.

A colleague told him about the Two Trains Problem (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html), and Von Neumann replied with the correct answer. When his colleague said, "Ah! You figured out he trick!", Von Neumann replied, "What trick? I just summed up the distances in my head!"

Did you research the Citizens Climate Lobby before replying to the comment about it? It is not at all like your characterizations.

As someone in their 40s, the Slate article he links to was fun to read. There's a discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36402076

YP says it’s best for him not to run anything with sudo any more today, handing off the restoring to JN.

Then in the post-mortem about lack of backups:

LVM snapshots are by default only taken once every 24 hours. YP happened to run one manually about 6 hours prior to the outage Regular backups seem to also only be taken once per 24 hours, though YP has not yet been able to figure out where they are stored. According to JN these don’t appear to be working, producing files only a few bytes in size.

I have had (and inevitability will have again) bad days like poor YP. All I can count on is to maintain good habits, like making backups before undergoing production work like YP did.

We do the same and it works well. We prefer a handheld keyboard/mouse to control it. We've tried several and the Lenovo N5902 [1] is our favorite by far.

It's also useful to have the Unified Remote server [2] running on the media computer so you can control it from your phone when you need to.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/p/09N-00A7-00001

[2] https://www.unifiedremote.com/

Yes, the ZIP on Google Drive owned by one of their engineers is weird considering they have a pretty active GitHub presence of open source projects, though it does use an Apache license like their others.

Perhaps Databricks suspected another big announcement coming soon and wanted to get this announcement out?

I've been using Today Weather on Android ever since Dark Sky was killed off there. It looks nice, lots of different data sources, and the $7 lifetime Premium Version is a good price.

The rest of the sentence is relevant though (emphasis mine):

"This lawsuit also marks EFF’s commitment to stopping the current trend that seeks to privatize aspects of the carceral system for profit *as well as strip privacy away from incarcerated individuals*."

Since this is (by my count) at least the third time they've sued to block some kind of new surveillance by a for-profit prison, I think it's fair that they are calling out a pattern.

It's noteworthy that American Airlines has taken the hardest line against blocking AwardWallet, too [1].

https://yourmileagemayvary.net/2021/12/21/is-this-the-reason...

Slushygate?

"a series of incidents in which Wilson and other officers assaulted pedestrians by throwing beverages out of unmarked patrol vehicles, sometimes filming their exploits"

Double FFS. What a scumbag bully.

Thanks. I also love Wikipedia's Timeline of the far future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Plus the whistleblower was at the head of Uber's push into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All the horrible stories I've read are about those markets.

But the comments here seem to be about American taxis!

This 2021 article strikes me as mostly a straw man and a veiled sales pitch.

It's rare that a Gifted Program simply gets eliminated due to inequity with no replacement. The school district almost always proposes an alternate program to replace it. (The author is the CEO and Founder of one, though he does acknowledge this near the end.)

The author also links to two examples of districts with reduced or eliminated Gifted Programs. But one article says the Anchorage program was cut because of a budget shortfall, and the other (Boston) said they suspended their advanced learning program only at the city-wide level mainly because COVID made it hard to administer!

FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too. For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try:

  !searchr Hacker News

  OR

  !ddgr Hacker News

Glory to Arstotzka

If you forget what all those system directories are for (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc), another useful command is "man hier". It's a reference page for the filesystem.