ha470
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Cofounder/CTO - The Browser Company
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Comment · 2 years ago
Ya this is fair! Honestly this was our first bounty ever awarded and we could have been more thoughtful. We’re currently setting up a proper program and based on that rubric will adjust accordingly.
Comment · 2 years ago
We did but we closed the roles by hiring folks. They just haven’t joined yet.
Comment · 2 years ago
We’re working on a proper security bulletin site that will have these front and center! This was a bit of a stopgap for now.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m Hursh, cofounder and CTO of The Browser Company (the company that makes Arc). Even though no users were affected and we patched it right away, the hypothetical depth of this vulnerability is unacceptable. We’ve written up some technical details and how we’ll improve in the future (including moving off Firebase and setting up a proper bug bounty program) here: https://arc.net/blog/CVE-2024-45489-incident-response.
I'm really sorry about this, both the vuln itself and the delayed comms around it, and really appreciate all the feedback here – everything from disappointment to outrage to encouragement. It holds us accountable to do better, and makes sure we prioritize this moving forward. Thank you so much.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's disappointing that he seems to confuse the field in which intelligence and perception take place (the subjective experience of being alive) and the sensory perception and thought inside it. It'd be a much more interesting article if he focused on how and why the former shows up out of physical neurons.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can either get information from other people you trust and you think would give you accurate feedback or by trying to develop a clearer sense of how your own mind works via ego dissolution.
For the former, its probably ideal to pick someone you trust and respect, and try to be clear with them you want critical or constructive feedback.
For the latter, meditation, therapy, and Vedanta-style self-inquiry can all trigger more self-awareness and self-dissolution. As the amygdala shrinks and prefrontal cortex gets more activated, the fear-based, survival-oriented self erodes and you start to be able to see more clearly and objectively.
Comment · 6 years ago
While I love SQLite as much as the next person (and the performance and reliability is really quite remarkable), I can’t understand all the effusive praise when you can’t do basic things like dropping columns. How do people get around this? Do you just leave columns in forever? Or go through the dance of recreating tables every time you need to drop a column?
Comment · 6 years ago
Anyone have any idea how they're doing this? Switching user agents doesn't seem to help.
Comment · 6 years ago
We tried a ton of tools but Notion does pretty much everything we need perfectly. It's probably what you're looking for.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes! The first few were super tough (and not fun) but I got a lot out of them and gradually they've gotten easier, although just as productive.
So many people in the comments mentioned retreats but I'm surprised not a single person mentioned enlightenment. The whole point of retreats is to get you to a point where you willfully and intentionally seek freedom from suffering, but it seems like a ton of people get stuck in the retreat treadmill. Living a happier, more peaceful life is one thing but it's very possible to completely eradicate the subjective experience of suffering (or at least eliminate enough of it that it's largely unnoticeable). Enlightenment is very accessible and super achievable, especially now with the internet.
I highly recommend reading Living Realization (https://www.amazon.com/Living-Realization-Simple-Plain-Engli...) or Falling Into Grace (https://www.amazon.com/Falling-into-Grace-Insights-Suffering...) to see if any of it resonates. Once you get what all this is about then retreats become a practice ground towards a goal rather than a stabilizing mechanism or a way to feel better for a bit.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do releases fit into the deployment story with containers so prevalent these days? (As in why is this a benefit when you can just package code into a single container to ship it?) Is it that it works with hot code updates? Or it’s a more Erlang-sanctioned way of deploying code?
Comment · 7 years ago
Bear.app is incredible! It's been my daily driver for todos, notes, thoughts, planning, etc for a while.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ideally you (and everyone else) should be rewarded for business impact- which can come from communication, code quality, velocity, and any number of other things.
Comment · 7 years ago
Having lived in both India and China for some time, I can assure you that the scale and magnitude is completely different.