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Hah, happened to see this mentioned in another comment today. It was FreshPaint, whose website includes this gem:

"You need to install ad trackers on your website to get the most out of ad platforms like Facebook and Google Ads. Ad trackers can create issues for healthcare marketers by sending visitor identifiers and health information to platforms that aren't HIPAA-compliant."

I'm sure they are good folks, but what an absurd premise. Something about the best minds of our generation selling ads....

Source: https://www.freshpaint.io/hipaa-compliant-advertising

Gone now -- I don't remember the name (unless this was the fastest pivot ever recorded, it was not Glass Health, which currently has a now hiring ad up[1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149581

There's literally an ad on the front page right now for a YC startup hiring engineers to protect patient privacy. Follow the link? The company exists to better sell ads based on patient data (but in a "compliant" manner).

What happens in 80 years when milk is $34 a gallon?

Milk was $0.14/gallon 80 years ago[1] ($.13/gallon 81 years ago), and $3.77/gallon last year[2].

$34/gallon in 80 years would seem to represent a slowdown of inflation.

[1] https://www.lmtonline.com/lifestyles/article/Milk-went-for-1... [2] https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/2021Retai...

Check out Devspace: https://devspace.sh/

Gives you a fairly slick "hot reload" experience in k8s (minikube-created or not).

What is your opinion?

My opinion? Read less financial "news". Focus on what you can control and don't try to time the market. Build an emergency fund if you don't have one, then invest in broad market funds and focus on earning money.

If you knew for certain there was a crash coming, you would still have to time the market a second time to get back in before the recovery, which will also come.

Adding to the chorus. I used LastPass until 2018. I received a similar email from LastPass (and had forgotten that I never got around to actually deleting the account after I migrated).

My master password was a long multi word phrase with numbers and special characters, and was not used for anything except LastPass. I find their claims of credential stuffing suspect.

Edit -- Also had MFA enabled and received the email in November.

As long as we're giving personal anecdotes, I lived in the mission (the "good side" near dolores park) for 8 years and experienced most of that list. I was physically assaulted last fall while walking back from Noe Valley at 2pm in the afternoon. Nobody answered the police non emergency number while I followed the assailant (who threw a right hook that I only partially dodged as he walked past me on the street).

Sure, you get better at dodging feces and ignoring the drug use, littering, and theft, but let's not pretend it's confined to "downtown, the tenderloin, soma, etc".

I've lived and worked in Manhattan and DC, and spent time in many international cities. I've walked all over all of them, and never felt less safe than I regularly did walking to work in soma.

SF has a unique political situation, a climate that makes homelessness "bearable" and a huge number of absentee landlords (thanks, Prop 13).

We were sad to move out in January. SF is a gorgeous city filled with kind, interesting people. "Horrible dystopia" is certainly an exaggeration, but the situation is bad and has gotten much worse in the past few years.

A portfolio of that size will easily throw off 500k in dividends a year.

Where are you "easily" getting 5% dividends? Are those mythical W2 boomers suddenly into sketchy crypto "funds"?

Vanguards "Dividend Growth" fund is yielding 1.71%. Total stock 1.33%

Thank you, dang!

Agreed and clearly we start infringing on pretty basic american rights if we wait until summer to stop convening jury's.

That said, reasonable people are avoiding being in closer quarters with sub-1000 people, and it seems like some assurance besides "call if you're so symptomatic you should see a doctor" might be prudent until a little more is known about the virus.

Maybe I'm just salty that I have jury duty this week (:

But hey if you were selected for jury duty come on down to the courthouse!

https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/divisions/jury-services/jury...

(To be fair, this morning they added a note saying call first if you are "experiencing any acute respiratory illness")

Fidelity also offers this in a "Cash Management Account" which you can tie to a brokerage account. It's possible to maintain a $0 balance in the cash account and use margin or some funds (generally money market) to cover each debit. Works great. I wouldn't be interested in a system that automatically sold equities from a taxable account; too volatile and too likely to cause a tax nightmare.

Thank you! I should’ve also warned that the whole business feels a little spammy (sign up for the secret 1 page cheat sheet!), but as someone who doesn’t come to negotiations naturally I did enjoy some of the practical tips and theoretical background.

Any recommendations for other sources?

I’m certainly just learning myself, but quite enjoyed Never Split the Difference...

https://info.blackswanltd.com/never-split-the-difference

Another counter-point. I and everyone I've talked to love the idea. I mostly commute by my own bike, and generally prefer walking for most errands or short trips. The scooters are an easy (and fun!) way to make short trips more practical especially when I don't want to deal with trying to secure a bike in SF.

Of course there are serious issues to be worked out and there will be growing pains. I'm particularly concerned about the number of riders (scooters and e-bikes alike) without helmets, as well as the influx of people who are finally realizing that they don't have to take a car everywhere they want to go learning to navigate a crowded urban area (and a bike lane/sidewalk!) for the first time.

Yes, their Re:Invent 'conference' is going on this week. https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

I had a similar experience as a kid. We had a second phone line as my parents were both occasionally on call. Because they were just on call and the phone company charged extra, we didn't have the 'tone dialing' feature on the line. When they weren't on call, I was able to use that line for BBS's and Compuserve.

It turns out that at least for US-Robotics pulse dialing is not an exact science. The BBS I used most frequently was often busy so I would turn the modem volume down and just wait for it to eventually connect.

One day my parents got a call from the police who had gotten complaints of persistent prank phone calls late at night. I realized the problem and that I had to admit to staying up way past my bedtime online, I don't recall what the police threatened but I was definitely scared. I gave them a list of the top few BBS #s I called, and one of them was one digit off.

I got off pretty easy, I think I just paid for 'tone dialing' on that line going forward.

I can't believe this book wasn't mentioned earlier in the thread! I finished it last month and won't spoil anything, but the author ends up with a pretty good theory. The book goes into great detail about the investigation and examines and discards plenty of possible explanations (including every "Well of course it must have been..." suggested here so far!)

It's also an interesting look at young people in the Soviet Union at that time.

Fond memories... I tell people I started programming by typing BASIC apps out of magazines, but really it was probably much later writing a "casino app" (I remember having roulette and blackjack) and my own version of drugwars instead of paying attention in math class.

This is certainly well disclosed in the article!

He was alarmed at my combination of high creatinine levels, damaged kidneys and heart-attack-level blood pressure (185/130). At Mount Sinai Hospital, my doctor’s fears were confirmed in a matter of days: My kidneys were irreparably damaged, an ‘‘uncommon but not rare’’ side effect of long-term lithium use.

It looks like they've at least pulled the link to request transcripts online.

Alert: The online Get Transcript service is currently unavailable. Transcripts may still be ordered using the Get Transcript by Mail service. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Obviously only you can decide. My vote is no, not if you make an effort to stay involved and to network at least somewhat. I live in San Francisco, having moved here a bit over 3 years ago from the east coast (working in Manhattan, living across the river in NJ). Before that I was in central Virginia.

I love the bay area and enjoy how easy it is to stay connected and up to date, but it's definitely a tech bubble disconnected from how the rest of the world works sometimes. Housing is crazy expensive due in large part to demand, terrible policy, and a weird west coast "I got mine" attitude that's so pervasive among voters.

The bay area is right for my wife and I right now -- we are near extended family, we enjoy being able to walk everywhere, we are easy day trips away from amazing outdoor activities (world class scuba diving and hiking, skiing until the drought finishes it off, etc). We put up with the crazy real estate market because we have to (and I'm fortunate enough to work for a tech company).

I would not move here solely for the tech ecosystem unless I was trying to start and sell a company, though I would probably consider northern California (or the pacfic NW) in general for other reasons regardless.

He ruined TWA airlines before that. Argue as you want about his success as a businessman, he is bad bad news for employees, board members, and usually (other) stockholders.

What a great PR move for Uber!

This book is fascinating. It covers of course the history of water rights in California and the southwest, but also mismanagement of so many other areas. It's long but amazingly readable.

I first heard this joke on the Drew Carey Show.

"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, they meet at the bar"

I also agree with the sentiment of this post and have always been surprised how poorly prepared most engineers are to fairly conduct interviews. I'm reasonably convinced it's contributing seriously to inequality issues and the "tech labor shortage", and I'm absolutely convinced it's the reason I don't job hop more then I do (hrm, maybe that's part of why the system still sucks?)

That said, my wife happens to be a teacher. The process from what I can tell in private schools is pretty similar. Usually a recruiter ("placement agency") sends a bunch of resumes (CVs) to a hiring manager (department lead or school head). They pick some based on how they feel that day and conduct phone screens. Successful applicants then come in to do the equivalent of a whiteboard interview -- they are evaluated on their ability to teach a classroom of students they've never met a lesson plan they've probably not seen more then a day or two in advance (although at least they get that much warning!)

edit On reflection I hope that teachers are at least a little more capable of objectively evaluating candidates then your average sysadmin/software engineer (how often are you asked to assess someones ability outside a handful of interviews?), but believe me the sample lesson causes as much stress on the candidate as a whiteboard interview. It also stresses the teacher whose class is being "donated" to candidates and depending on the length of the process can derail what's usually a carefully planned out quarter/semester/etc.

Reading:

Cadilllac Desert: The American West and it's Disappearing Water - Mark Reisner

Year Zero: A Novel - Rob Reid

Open circuit scuba gear is noisy because you are regularly exhaling gas. The regulator makes a little bit of noise, but the exhalation is generally what spooks animals.

Lacking the need to exhale/vent gas (very often), Closed circuit rebreathers are extremely quiet. Some serious underwater photographers moved from the much cheaper (and arguably much safer) open circuit setups to rebreathers entirely to avoid spooking subjects. A rebreather probably can't quite compete with a freediver for silence and agility, though would certainly have a lot more time underwater to make up for it.

At least some organized whale shark dives are freedive-only, probably partly to protect the animals and partly due to the time and noise required to put scuba divers into the water.