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The 24 hour waiting period is only once per account, not on every activation, or even every device.
Only if they keep refusing to pay bug bounties!
Re:A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video] on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:02AM (#46701342)
If you like this sort of restoration, the BBC show "Repair Shop" is a lovely and wholesome show where master craftspeople fix people's family heirlooms. In the US it's all available on YouTube, elsewhere on various services.

https://youtube.com/@therepairshop

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:28PM (#46112755)
Checkr (https://checkr.com) |

Checkr (YC S14) is hiring across multiple roles, located in our San Francisco, Denver, and Santiago offices. Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

Here's a selection of roles:

Software Engineer (SF/Denver): https://grnh.se/qc3k3i6f1us

Senior Software Engineer (SF/Denver): https://grnh.se/l23t79if1us

Engineering Manager (SF/Denver): https://grnh.se/9m52v0151us

Staff Reliability Engineer (Chile): https://grnh.se/r7wj6h6x1us

Staff Product Manager (SF/Denver): https://grnh.se/besth6lw1us

Sr. Director, Product (SF/Denver): https://grnh.se/xexlcik21us

I'm a Sr. Staff product manager here in our SF office 2x/wk. Happy to answer questions you might have!

All jobs: https://grnh.se/f3c7e1c61us

Or if it was just valuable tracking data for them to have.

You don't need a law where there's profit incentives. Rewards programs track plenty.

Re:iPad Pro with M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:55AM (#45594521)
But won't someone think of the shareholder value?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025) on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:56PM (#45440839)
Checkr | Software Engineer (multiple) | Hybrid | San Francisco, CA & Denver, CO| Full-time

About Checkr Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

Senior Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/gkrfz0sa1us

Senior Data Engineer: https://grnh.se/z3u5jlmv1us

Staff Product Manager: https://grnh.se/pn5azwiq1us

Cloud Security Engineer: https://grnh.se/tdvk6wts1us

I'm a Sr. Staff product manager here in our SF office 2x/wk. Happy to answer questions you might have, I'm easy to find on LinkedIn if you need to know more.

All jobs: https://grnh.se/f3c7e1c61us

Take a look at "A City on Mars" https://www.acityonmars.com/ for a detailed analysis and a pretty entertaining book!
Re:The narrowest escalator in New York City on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @01:20AM (#43629113)
Really? I use active elevators in SF literally every day. Embarcadero and Montgomery Bart stations. Where in the city are you with no active escalators?
It is unlikely that the amount of debris would reach Kessler Syndrome-levels of orbital pollution, which is what you are describing.
Re:How to boil great eggs 80% of the time on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:54PM (#43374088)
6.5 minutes is soft boiled for a large (in US egg sizing) egg. Soft boiled eggs don't have fully set yolks or firm whites. These are the kinds of eggs you use for ramen.

If you want a fully set yolk you need more time (about 10 min or so), but that's a personal preference.

See: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-boil-eggs-perfectly-every-t...

I read this as "what caused this statement to appear in the summary". Was it the source materials or the LLM base model / hallucination?
Re:Scotland's first 'enclosed' salmon farm to open on Loch Long on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:58PM (#42965358)
Interestingly, Washington State (US) banned this back in 2017. I remember when I was younger actually getting these kinds of farms pointed out on a boat trip. The boat captain mocked them because they still legally called themselves "wild caught", since they existed in open water instead of farms.

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/news/board-natural-resources-ends-ope...

LA is one of the most car-centric cities I've ever seen. "we can have less parking" would require a fundamental shift in culture.

Doing it right after a major fire where people are alive precisely because they were able to put themselves and a few belongings into their personal vehicle and go where they could shelter with friends or family is bordering on an impossible ask.

Re:Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:11AM (#42699038)
Not arguing, but what is UE in this context?
Re:GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:40AM (#42387155)
By that logic, also the CO2 footprint of manufacturing and transporting the fuel for an equivalent ICE vehicle, which is always conveniently left out of such calculations.
Sometimes headlines change after publishing. In this particular case it matches for me (without translating).
GP started with the premise "we don't need one printed in the 21st century".

A more generous reading of that argument might be "we don't need one authored in the 21st century", not that textbooks would never need reprinting and last forever through two dozen owners

I suspect "MRI-strength electromagnet" falls into a different budget category than "medical grade and certified imaging system", including but not limited to "MRI removed from hospital and junked because it's no longer maintained / useful / accurate enough". They are pretty resourceful
I don't mean to post a low-effort response, but Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply here.

If the answer to the question posed in the headline was "yes" they would have stated it as such.

Instead it seems that "don't change things despite the world changing, decreased availability of resources, and increased completion for said scarce resources" is the main thrust of the post?

Maybe I misread but I tried

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:05PM (#40852208)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland), CA, USA

Remote: No preference

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Extensive experience with live events (livestreaming + ticketing), medical document processing with LLMs and ML vision models, globally distributed teams, enterprise SaaS and 2-sided market places

Resume/CV: http://hire.brad.co

email: [email protected]

--

Seasoned product manager (17yrs as a PM) looking for next gig! Spent the last 4 years in startups (including hypergrowth). Lifelong learner, strong technical background (former dev). Worked with companies from 5 to 5000.

I'm no expert, but I'd assume "cleared for emergency evacuation in space" means "if the alternative is imminent, certain death - this option is better".
Re:Stellantis CEO confirms $25k Jeep EV on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:27PM (#40517227)
My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the tariffs are based on the source location of the battery components. Assembly doesn't matter unless you start mining lithium in NAFTA? That's why it's gonna hit some ebikes and the like.
I've known more than a few ex-religious of varying types who in young adulthood have to find an explanation for why:

- they are not at all who the faiths they were raised by said they should be - they know there's not actually anything wrong with themselves (or others like them), despite what their faith taught them

Squaring these two deeply personal realizations is challenging. People take many paths. Your interaction is an outlier, but by no means the most extreme I've encountered.

Re:Looking Glass launches new 3D displays on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:53AM (#40455479)
This is typical of displays - but not of holograms, which have historically been able to display only a single static image.
Chop shops to steal what? Tires? Window glass? There's not much to part out on an EV.
I get value from not having to carry keys. That's less bulk for me. I carry no keys at this point I my life, and it's great.

Locks are a societal agreement, not an impenetrable shield. My car is not a fortress or a safe. It's covered in glass. Having a mechanical switch inside a glass box is no more secure if your threat model is "someone technically advanced and highly motivated".

So the business school awarded money to develop a morally ambiguous (but likely profitable) "study aide" app, and the school ethics board said that creating and using it violated their cheating policies.

Sounds like the most realistic lesson that business school could have taught?

If we are doing anecdotes, a single tab Google doc with Grammarly running can easily surpass 4Gb of ram, especially if the doc is over about 30 pages. Use cases like that are not particularly uncommon.
Re:Moxie: I'm no longer involved at Signal on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:11PM (#40101816)
Surely if you're concerned about privacy, an indelible public record of all transactions you made in and out isn't the way to accomplish that?

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