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It’ll be interesting to see what went on here. Was the whistleblower all negative without bringing solutions forward? It doesn’t sound so with them lamenting the downgrading of their safety roadmap.


This seems like it would be great to use with Celery tasks. At some point you want distributed rate-limiting and at least with older versions of Celery that wasn’t baked in.


How I rein in YouTube on all my browsers:

- prevent autoplaying video

- redirect ‘ youtube.com/shorts/’ to ‘ youtube.com/watch?v=’

The second gets rid of the addictive Shorts UI. I don’t block them entirely because channels I subscribe to create interesting shorts.


That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.


"managing people, money and agents" yes, that makes total sense, agents are managed exactly the same ways that you manage people or money, I don't see anyth- WHAT AM I READING?!??


"Agents" is a term that usually refers to people working in a customer support role at a company. Anyone using "agent" without qualification to describe autonomous AI is engaging in a perversion of the English language and should be ashamed of themselves.


You don’t think that words can shift meaning over time?


They can, but whether they have is something to be determined by observation, not simply assertion.

It's unfortunately commonplace for people using words inconsistently with established usage, or coming up with novel usages that create ambiguity with respect to existing terms, to use "language evolves" as a blanket excuse.

But saying "language evolves" merely describes the process by which the current state of the language emerged, and doesn't actually substantiate any specific claim about what that current state actually is.

The point here is that this novel usage of the term "agent" is in conflict with what actually is the current standard meaning of the term, and actually does inhibit communication with people who aren't immersed in tech jargon.

I've encountered this myself when discussing AI tooling with the team managing a customer service call center, where "agent" is a pervasive term that already refers to human staff.


Ironically Workday is the worst product to use as a job seeker to upload your resume.


As an employee who has to interact with workday, I can assure you that it sucks so badly since you are not the person that Workday is sold to. It is sold to c-suite and head of HR. In that context, you as an employee using workday are the product not the user, and usability to you just does not matter.


As an employee, too.



Relevant post from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25290112

“ NN-512 is an open-source Go program that generates fully AVX-512 vectorized, human-readable, stand-alone C implementations of convolutional neural nets”


With an iPhone you’d have AirDrop built in.


How does that work woth your friends? Always on access or just occasionally?


> Always on access or just occasionally?

You have quite a few granular choices.

> You can share your current location once, temporarily share your location while you're on the way to an expected destination, or share your ongoing Live Location... for an hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely.

In Messages, you can use Check In to share your location... Your location is shared only if there's an unexpected delay during your trip or activity and you're unresponsive.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105104


Always on. You can see where your friends are at both in Find My and under their contact photo in your iMessages chat.


Personally I do not find the idea comforting that someone (anyone) may know where I am at all times. I would not even trust Apple either.


This is actually one of the big differences between generations. It’s not just the norm for young people to share locations, but rather almost expected, with real social consequences for not. Yes it’s probably a little weird to have someone’s precise location 100% of the time, but since you’re sharing it with me there’s a good deal of trust implied (though this is not always the case as it has become more normalized). However, if we stop sharing locations, that usually implies a divorce of the relationship. People will shut you out of their life if you stop sharing your location with them, no matter the reason. From that lens, the choice is simple. You’ve gotta share your location, even if it’s a bit icky from a privacy perspective or you risk losing an entire cohort of friends. I will admit, there is a strange level of intimacy for having done it. In a world increasingly dominated by the pixels on this 4x8 screen, it is a nice reminder that the text bubbles on my phone actually come from real people that I can show you on a map.

(Obviously you can find friends who don’t care for it and you can live a normal life and be just fine. I’m privacy conscious but I still share my location with a handful of friends for the above reasons.)


> People will shut you out of their life if you stop sharing your location with them

Is the implication of this that such people just don't interact with Android users? That seems like a significant self-imposed limitation. Or are Android phones just extremely unpopular in your area?


Yeah, I switched to an iPhone solely for the blue text bubbles. Among young women in my bubble, 98% have iPhones. I’d get sneers at bars from girls when my first text on their phone was green. People would complain openly about my phone ruining their group chats. While I preferred android tech, switching to iPhone was a no-brainer because it removed a lot of friction in social settings.


It’s a bit sad that these days I can’t say if you are joking or not.



you can control who you share your location with and for how long. I think the options are, just once, for an hour, for the day and forever.


It's a virtual leash for couples.


Blame the emotionally dysfunctional, not the tool. It’s only a problem if it changes how you would live your life or pressured or coerced (in which case, say no).


Always on, works as a great way to check in on close friends or have them check in on you (like someone going on a first date)


Congrats on the launch! If you make this a 'Show HN' you can add a description alongside your link. You might also get a different audience. Here are some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/show


Thanks so much for the hint! Will do that too :)


pg_repack gets rid of the need to lock tables for the duration of the vacuum: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appen...

It is an extension though so downside there is it not being included in most Postgres installs. I’ve used it at work and it felt like a superpower getting the benefits of a vacuum full without all the usual drama.


pg_repack can generate a lot of WAL, which can generate so much traffic that standby servers can fall behind too much and never recover.

We've been using https://github.com/dataegret/pgcompacttable to clean up bloat without impacting stability/performance as much as pg_repack does.


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