Hacker News: all_blue_chucks

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:44:13 +0000

Almost none of those questions were about AWS cybersecurity.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:24:52 +0000

That's unrelated to backdoors (deliberate covert access mechanisms). All parties with access to data, regardless of whether it is via a backdoor, can put that data at risk due to their own security.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

all_blue_chucks — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:41:29 +0000

Neither of these hacks involved "back doors" as they are normally defined. One was an authentication bypass; the other was a supply chain attack. Neither involved any sort of deliberate covert access mechanism.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature"

all_blue_chucks — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:20:55 +0000

Yes. 2000 IU and 5000 IU daily are common recommendations from medical groups in the USA.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:00:06 +0000

Glad they skipped the 4000-series branding. Now we can look forward to next year's release of the 5700XT CPU to pair with the current 5700XT GPU.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "IBM is splitting itself into two public companies"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:53:49 +0000

IBM is just a conglomerate of neglected acquisitions that share branding ("watson" etc.). It hasn't been a single coherent company in decades.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective against Covid-19"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:34:30 +0000

This is promising technology, but the words "just barely statistically significant" should probably be in the first paragraph of articles covering this - not halfway down the article.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Killed by Google"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 03:51:07 +0000

That's an impressively long list but some of those entries are a bit of a stretch. Google Nexus, for example, was rebranded as Google Pixel. Most people wouldn't describe rebranding as "killing" a product.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "EU considers phasing out 1 and 2 cent coins"

all_blue_chucks — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 23:46:07 +0000

Currencies that are worth $1 more or less should round cash transactions to the nearest 10¢. Then we could simplify coinage considerably and we would all save time waiting in line for people to count out pennies and nickels over amounts that are immaterial.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel"

all_blue_chucks — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:10:47 +0000

True, but they don't need to relate 16384 types of data. It sounds like they were using one column per record, rather than one row per record. So if they had a sensible data model 2000 columns should be more than sufficient.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Amazon hid its safety crisis"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:31:32 +0000

Those tax negotiations regarded high pay white collar jobs. We are talking about warehouse work here.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:45:09 +0000

That quote is not in the article and is not even true (Amazon does not own the Post, and FISA warrants are legal).

Where did you get that nonsense?

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:46:12 +0000

Employees are not neighbors. Employees are responsible for negotiating their compensation (both monetary and non-monetary). It is absolutely appropriate to use information about others' compensation when negotiating for your own compensation.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Securing Lasting Freedoms for All"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:11:49 +0000

"Reducing our payment processing costs" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:27:30 +0000

How do you measure your customer support staff performance? Many companies fire employees for having "low numbers" but since they can't measure tone, they end up driving their reps to optimize for other factors.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:57:36 +0000

Correct. Uber drivers should play by the same health insurance rules as other workers. And under today's laws that requires they become employees.

Ideally health insurance should be decoupled from employment status, but until then, we should all play by the same rules.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay"

all_blue_chucks — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:41:43 +0000

We should all care. Uber doesn't provide health insurance. Instead Uber drivers get their healthcare costs covered by the rest of us (either via ACA subsidies or written-off care provided to the uninsured).

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Factorio 1.0"

all_blue_chucks — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:43:15 +0000

Blocked by Windows Smart Screen Filter. Curious way to manage a release.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees"

all_blue_chucks — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 04:37:49 +0000

It should be illegal to pay any form of wages, whether gig work or 9to5, without paying into social security, medicare, medicaid, and unemployment insurance.

This pandemic has proven that EVERYONE needs unemployment insurance, and it is already well-known that everyone needs income and healthcare in retirement.

Sp sure, let people do gig work on their own time, but don't let them opt out of the basic social safety nets we all need to survive.

New comment by all_blue_chucks in "A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness"

all_blue_chucks — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 01:46:31 +0000

Both.