skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it to know when something important is to arrive. they also will list packages to. I don't care for much of what shows. Magazines never have a picture but get a blank stating no picture for the piece is available.

it just comes down to convenience. they already scan everything so why not take advantage of it. would I pay for the service, probably not unless the cost per month as trivial
I don't think the two industries are at all comparable.
Fauna’s writeup heavily emphasizes the fact that it doesn’t rely on atomic clocks. My understanding is that both AWS and GCP use atomic clock based timekeepers since 2017, so it’s not like this is some exotic technology.

The primary advantage described in the Calvin papers is that it’s the only distributed transaction protocol that can handle high contention workloads. But Fauna never seems to bring this up. Does that mean that Fauna’s current implementation isn’t fast under contention?
I would never propose it not be opt in.
"They got some Facebook insider to do the search for them"

She should report it, with the timeline of events. People I know at Facebook say there is zero tolerance for this kind of thing.
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/ has a lot of strategies. For example, you could use the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, which if set, uses that value instead of the current actual time. This means that your normal builds do the normal thing, but you can configure the variable and get a reproducible build.
The main thing this thread (going with steventhedev's link) demonstrates to me is that the CA program is completely broken. Here we have a potential CA that is

- Demonstrably involved in internet surveillance [0]

- Doesn't understand the word "entropy" [1] or intentionally interprets the guidelines in an obtuse manner in which the sequence 0, 1, 2, ... can be considered randomly generated with 64 bits of entropy [2].

- Likely in the business of lying [3] (either they are lying or reuters is thoroughly mistaken or lying)

How could whatever public benefit is gained by including these people as a CA possibly outweigh the risk? I'd think that any one of the above should disqualify them.

It also seems completely backwards that the root CAs publish certificates that give subCAs equivalent power while not having the subCAs go through the same level of scrutiny as root CAs.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi... - also whatever you think "defensive cyber security" means.

[1] This is after repeated prompting and consulting with engineers (hint for those not familiar with entropy, it's not possible to have more than x bits of entropy in a x bit random number, and they are using a 63 bit number) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.security.p...

[2] Kindly pointed out by Matt Palmer: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...

[3] Compare mentions of dark matters in the first link, to there statement in the second link (one assumes that any reasonable definition of defensive does not involve spying on people in other nations)

- https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi...

- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
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That's true. But I can guarantee you that people who run events for a living negotiate with venues and other suppliers all the time.
Personally, I fall into a similar boat. There's few things I need 5 9's on in life, beyond access to oxygen to maintain life.

As I mentioned in another comment, I know a couple that substituted cupcakes in place of cake. Not only are cupcakes way easier to make than a multi-tiered cake, but they're quicker to serve, so guests aren't standing around waiting for dessert.

Even though you'd still have stipulation of "the cupcakes must be at this time and place", surely it's much easier to deliver on that. I bet they saved a bit on dessert costs.
Because you pay with your data just to see what the thing does. If you really wanna do that, allow at least email.
Unless they changed it very recently you can still sign up completely online or have them mail you a PIN. They do still mail you a PIN no matter what so you can at least deactivate it if you didn't set it up.
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For one thing, there is often a subcaste structure within each local caste itself. The subcastes of a caste who received British patronage, i.e. jobs in the colonial administration, would preferably marry only among themselves.

Of course, this was about preservation of wealth and power, and not so different from similar marriage practices among wealthy classes in England (as depicted in Downton Abbey)

The British didn't invent the sub-castes, but they effectively exploited them.
It's natural. Time to join the rotary club or golf club :)

Seriously - network and look for that social interaction outside the company. It's the thing that's going to keep you growing, motivated, prepared(for constant change no matter how sustainable you think your processes are), and sane. Attend/conduct conferences, get involved with local universities, standards processes, write for professional blog/mags etc etc. Anything that increases connection with people who you admire and respect is the key.
If you sell your house, USPS has no way to know and they keep sending you the emails for your old residence.

So now there's no way when you move into a new residence of knowing whether someone else is snooping on your email.
Whenever I see Deep Work apps I always see a reference to the Pomodoro technique but nothing about the techniques specific to deep work as it is described by Cal Newport. What about omitting distractions, prioritizing a single daily task or using your down time to do some brief yet satisfying activity to relax between tasks? Many of these deep work apps are just to-do lists with a timer.

Edit: For what it's worth OP's previous post about this project suggests that he/she has these features in mind and they are just not in this version.
Amazon Web Services and other cloud vendors. The amount of traffic and processing power a single dedicated server can provide is astonishingly cheaper than the cloud.

I understand that the cloud provides additional software products, services and flexibility to scale quick, but you pay for it.
Sure, but neither had a direct link to his death. Please stop insinuating things which aren’t true.
Similar question, I'm a developer in his early 30s, also in nyc. I'm finding I don't particularly like management, though I seem to be decently good at it. However, posts like the above seem to be what I'm seeing in the market, and I'm starting to wonder if I need to transition as well in order to stay viable long term? I think I would rather go back to a team lead or even senior developer position, but I don't want to end up writing a post like OP's above in 5+ years?
I'd never consider working there for reasons that are totally unrelated to the company itself and the article about its culture.

I have my own business and don't think I'm ready to go back to being an employee yet.
Something like Earth Class Mail might be what you want?
Fine the bank enough that stock holders give a damn.

And as you say actually punish executives with jail time.
I mean, you probably meant ”comprised”, but ”compromised” is quite apt in this case as well.
But plenty of us boomers give evidence in having thoroughly forgotten our experience of having been 30, 20, 16, whatever.
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This is how Jeff Bezos would plan a wedding. Just like how all those cities made pretty proposals for HQ2. Oof, too soon.
Also late 30s, moved from DevOps to security. I went from ~$15k below DevOps national market rate to very roughly double that in a few weeks changing roles. I highly recommend the transition for all ops/infra/devops folks. The market for security engineers and architects is on fire right now.

Businesses want DevOps, no one wants to pay for it (as you point out, "Take a lower-paying job with folks 15 years younger just so I can pick up Docker, Kubernetes, etc. That's a 30-40K pay decrease in New York."). The market has spoken, go where the dollars are (and the on-call rotation and fire drills aren't). Get paid for what you know, not selling each hour of writing code or infrastructure via DSL and the PagerDuty rotation.

OP: I'm happy to connect you with some NY specific recruiters for the job type I mention.
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As a millennial and a designer for 18 years, I absolutely despise this free-positioning overlap stuff.

Let's learn all about accessibility and then spit in its face.
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I hope there is some scientific information that can be discerned from the coloring because, from an aesthetic perspectice, the images are garish like over-processed HDR images. I'll stick with black & white or grayscale pics.
I wanted to use this to finally PROVE that I mailed xyz content and not simply that receipt was signed for a box.

But NO, they don’t get it and only scan the outside.

Is there a service that will actually print the stuff I email and mail it?
Except for the first one, the last three are great examples of why I don't care about 100% binary reproducible builds as an end user.

Knowing when something was built is more valuable to me than a reproducible build. Seems like a fad triumphing over common sense.
How widely known is it that Indian cities are so polluted? I feel like I only hear about pollution in Chinese cities. I feel like the fact that this is dominated by Indian cities would come as a surprise to many.
You very obviously didn't use pre 2.2 python. There were objects. They were shit! They were shit afterwords!

I'm guessing based on your incredulity about 15 or 20 years older than you.
It's definitely recommended, depending on what you're trying to get out of the result. Happy to help out with query patterns on our community slack https://publicslack.com/slacks/fauna-community/invites/new
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A conservative estimate of the expected value of the options in a startup that is not successful yet, is $0.

So assuming the options are worthless is not all that unreasonable. Options are bonus, not part of the real compensation. Unless the company is already successful or your share in the company is large enough that it really is worth the risk.

But if in the most optimistic scenario your options end up being worth $1 million, but it's going to be years before they're worth that much, the chance they're going to end up worth that much is small, and in the mean time you're severely underpaid, then it's probably not such a good idea.
You are making two arguments one social welfare spending is increasing, and two that represents a shift towards social democracy. I agree that total spending is increasing, but I disagree that nessisarily supports your second point. Which I why each program needs to be considered individually not just stacked together.

Deogramics is clearly not the only change, but as it relates to both SS and Medicare as age related programs it is a factor that needs to be considered. SSDI is another story and I agree it’s a huge issue. Again, Medicare dates back to 1965 past your 50 year benchmark. Private insurance faces similar issues with healthcare costs are rising faster than GDP which does not support your second argument. Arguably this is even why it was created in the first pace as costs had been growing even back in the 60’s.

Now looking past the pension portion of SS and Medicare the rest of ‘social welfarek spending gets complicated. We pay farmers above market rates for food and then give that food to the poor. How much of that is a social program and how much of that is a farm subsidy? You can bet it was designed to allow for both interpretations. Further, similar issues show up in a huge range of ‘social’ programs.

Now back to your point, you can support an argument that we have shifted to social democracy. At the same time, when looking at spending that actually aids just the poor you see cuts over the recent past. Picking a timeframe also shapes this issue as picking 25 vs 50 vs 100 years makes a real difference.

Going all the way back to my original point, looking at any single number in the recent past is not enough. You need to define closely how it’s created and what it actually means. Though if you had said 100 years not 50 I would have simply agreed because few government programs existed prior to 1919.
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Hapi.js does this natively.
It’s literally called ”the worst argument in the world”!

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Couldn't agree more. I find it ruins the fun inhabiting a world of out of control 13 year olds. A parent, referee, or moderator would make all the difference.

I think a lot of the early systems accidentally encouraged more friendly ways. When pvp was between and within guilds you played with every game, being an asshole often came with consequences. Or you got famous for being the touchy one who will throw toys etc. As its become ever more individualised, and you don't need to pick an individual server with just a fraction of the total users, those natural checks don't apply.
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How is she self-made when her father is famous, her sisters' father was rich, and her sister was made her a celebrity before she ever started working on her business?

What does self-made even mean if Kylie Jenner counts?
This isn't an issue if you're using promises. You can use try/catch from within async functions and it works exactly as you'd expect.

A few years before async functions were available you could also achieve the same thing with generators. In fact, the original release of koa used co [0] under the hood.

I'll note my response is written with koa middleware in mind. I haven't kept up much with express, although I think it should be possible to achieve the same thing since they also support async functions.

With koa you can add a middleware that wraps all downstream middleware in a try/catch:

app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
try {
await next()
} catch (error) {
// handle errors
}
})

[0] https://github.com/tj/co
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Are you currently in a situation where you immediately need to find another job? Can you spend a few months learning AWS, Python, etc?

What tools are you using in your current devops position?

What type of jobs are asking math and sorting questions to a devops person? Also maybe find an algorithms book and brush up on those skills.

And maybe spend a few hours a week working on creating some sort of environment on AWS that demonstrates your ability to use the tools that are in-demand. You could probably even have that as a portfolio item to show off during your next interview.

I don't think you need to take a lower-paying job for a few years just to pick up those tools. Going through a couple of books should be all that it takes especially if you're already in a devops position.
I don't claim to have any of the answers, and it is a really hard problem. I'm just pointing out that it doesn't mathematically make sense to claim that everyone can be underpaid relative to each other^, and that the claim that software engineers are underpaid in general relative to the value they create is a separate issue.

^ That's like saying that two people can each be shorter than each other. It's not possible according to the way the "less than" function is defined.
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Because Taiwan was much more prosperous in the last few decades of last century, before Taiwan fully embraced western democracy and started having two ruling parties. Now, however, with Taiwan's economy/average wage being almost stagnant for almost twenty years, and the huge mess in the Taiwan politics, it is hard to see anything good came out of "democracy".

> But why should they have a realistic impression if information is controlled?

They may not know Taiwan well enough, but on average they know it much better than westerners.
No, a lot of big names are missing. I will still use it as discovery is still miles ahead of any service.

For example they are missing names like Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Fleetwood Mac etc.
I'm not confusing anything. Our current way of living is supported to the availability of labour that works for wages and in conditions that would be illegal in our countries.
And there's no way this will never change
Mid 20s to late 30s (aka millennials) are the largest demographic group. Assuming poor gaming behavior equally impacts all ages, by their sheer size, of course this age group would be most visible.
My wife's mid-2012 MBP's SATA cable failed last week, and it made me wonder if Apple deliberately started soldering hard drives down to avoid these sorts of issues.
"Hey AI, is this a hot dog?"

"You've asked me that a billion times - I'm sick of looking at all your pictures. Figure it out yourself."

Maybe that's how we will know.
By talking to people and reading online. I'm Chinese btw.
Where are you based? If you're in the UK I know someone who might be good to chat with.
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To me it seems like you've hit a point in your career where you need to learn some new skills. That doesn't mean your old skills are now worthless, it means you need to learn some new ones to go with them.

I'm younger than you (25), but I already flip-flop between higher paid jobs that use the skills I already have, and slightly less well paid ones that give me the opportunity to learn new skills. I figure that's just the price of staying competitive in the job market.

I come from more of a dev background, and I've looked into learning devops stuff. I think you'll find that your more traditional ops background transfers quite well to the new cloud environments. There's definitely a whole load of stuff around networking and stuff like that that I have no clue about.

I suspect if you put a bit of effort (a month or two even) into learning the new shiny AWS/kubernetes/whatever stuff, then you'll suddenly go from someone who sounds like they don't know anything (because you don't know the acronyms, etc), to a someone who can impress everyone because their knowledge of the new shiny stuff is backed by years of experience in a similar domain that most people don't have.
wow you sound just like me a year ago. late 30s, had to job transition, and found the tech stack had wildly changed from what I was used to. I'm full stack, but with a focus on backend, so I do a lot of sysop stuff. kubernetes and docker was everywhere, and all these new deploy tools I've never heard of. since when did "automation" (CICD) become its own thing??

anyway, my advice: don't settle. you are a senior. find a job that is willing to accept you as a senior and acknowledge your ability to learn quickly and adapt. demand a high salary (higher than what you're making now) with confidence.

it may take you a couple months to get up to speed, but you have seen it all before. you know what to look out for. you can smell the bullshit out there and you are responsible enough to have autonomy. you don't get this with newbies. this is what a company is really paying you for.

in the meantime, start building environments using these tools you are unfamiliar with. show you have initiative and can talk about these tools for when you get interviews. it may take a month or two until you find the right job. it's hard, but be patient.

as for management, well that's up to you. I tried it once and sucked at it, so I'm fine just being an engineer :) p.s. also check out terraform
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> How you move on from a bad situation is your decision. Wallowing in self-pity because the world has done you wrong is a good way to never succeed.

I agree with this but it doesn't have to do with luck. You could pick yourself up and keep going after a stint of bad luck but if you continue to have bad luck then you will still have a hard time succeeding.
Delivering to a time and place is easy if there's no expectation that every one of them is perfect. If expectations are relaxed, the prices are too.

Like you say, very little needs 5 9s. Many people want that and get their hopes up to be able to expect that and then complain about the price without thinking about the level of stress that puts on everyone.

My Mum baked and decorated my cake. She's not a baker, she's not a cake decoration specialist. She's just my Mum. I wanted the cake that reminded me of my childhood and that's exactly what I got. I knew she could do it, she's done it a thousand times in my life. It was never going to be perfect. It never needed to be perfect, yet it was perfect to me. I didn't care what anyone else thought. It served exactly the purpose I needed it to - I needed it to be a piece of who I am. It was comfort food - my Mum's cake. That was everything to me... and it was free.

My best friend's Mum from when I was a kid was like a 2nd Mum to me. She's been a florist my whole life. I asked her for flowers and gave her free reign on making the place look pretty. No stipulations, no expectations. She did a wonderful job with flowers she already had to hand and she loved doing it. She only charged me for her costs.