skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The defense in depth philosophy means we have robust backup plans for handling failure of such tools, but use of these backup plans (including engineers travelling to secure facilities designed to withstand the most catastrophic failures, and a reduction in priority of less critical network traffic classes to reduce congestion) added to the time spent debugging.

Does that mean engineers travelling to a (off-site) bunker?
This is the exception though, you caught the end of the tail. People joining Google now are not going to experience this. Moreover to be in the situation you described even in the given time frame one had to be fortunate to be on the "right" projects.
I posted this the other day and nobody was interested but it seems relevant here: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_b2c0c79dc4344b279bcf23...
Every engineer has probably thought at some point in their career what's the point of the manager? Managers are basically extensions and the eyes and ears of upper management which doesn't scale very well... they are there to communicate the vision and pass the word, ensure work is delivered consistently, employees are happy or have just about enough incentive to stay...some may go above and beyond into coaching their reports if they care but sinply it's all about making sure the team doesn't fuck up and looks good to the boss...
I’m relatively a Solaris newbie, but I’ve always found smartos easier to manage than equivalent infrastructure on Linux: it’s a pain figuring out equivalent commands for free and top, etc. but the general system architecture is a lot easier to learn than the hodgepodge that is a typical Linux distribution (and I’ve been using Linux since Mandrake 7)
> I left because the SRE org in general at the time was too reactionary

It shows in their products (though it's improving)
Very gradually, evidently.
I think this has very little to do with some "decline of the family" whatever that means and more to do with the dilution of social norms.

In the past it was expected that people would attend the local church/sports club/dance/get together and everybody did it even if they didn't really want to, because it was expected and the default behaviour.

These days, there is more acceptance that the members of your community may not share your interests, so the expectation of conformance has diminished and with it the obligation to attend community events.

This is great for those of us who have a social group that they identify with, as these fill the gap. Unfortunately for those of use who's social group is online, distant or non existent then there is no option for physical world socialisation. I would expect that as each interest group becomes more focused, the tolerance for divergent attitudes within those groups is reduced.

This leaves those of us who's socialisation would have been through these default activities with the choice of doing nothing and potentially being lonely, or having to make an effort to find a group we can fit in with and who will accept us.
That's not really a fair comparison. The Atari didn't have any video memory, you drew by changing the color of the electron beam while it scanned the screen. It also had only 16 colors and a much lower resolution than what's being used here (maximum was 160x192 if you really tried).

In comparison, this game uses 320x200 with 256 colors (using 64k of video RAM). To draw a pixel on the screen, you just write a byte to the appropriate memory address.

Still, it's pretty impressive to write space invaders in only 512 bytes.
Fair.

Though I’d make a distinction between ‘vegan’ and ‘veganism’.
Russian technology: can the Kremlin control the internet?
This won't work, because it means all the people who don't have money to buy a new car are now subject to your psychotic fuel tax. Your solution winds up being much more regressive than Tesla making rich people cars.
It's kind of like buying a safe. You can always improve the quality of the safe, but you can't always trust the safe is 100% foolproof. The more you have in the safe, the more you worry there's that one thing you didn't think about that prevents someone from walking away with all the money.
> No balloon can float in a sea of hydrogen.

You could use a hot hydrogen balloon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Meeting_with_Medusa
Not at all? You can (indeed, have to) download your purchases from Steam. Many of which are DRM free. Valve has also said they'll remove Valve DRM from the games that use it in the unlikely event they shut down.

There are, in other words, obvious contingency plans.

With this, the game you "own" lives and runs solely on Google's servers. If they decide to shut those servers down, you're fucked.

But good thing Google isn't known for suddenly EOLing popular products, right?
Well, Pali is a sort of standardised form of Middle Indo-Aryan, so, yes.

But you suggested there would be very little left. Yet the core of both Hindi & Urdu is (unsurprisingly) inherited from Vulgar Sanskrit>(some sort of) Prakrit>Apabhramśa>... , so it's rather a lot of vocabulary that's there.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Venus’s high temperatures might be determined by solar radiation and the inverse square law and that its atmosphere is on the consequence side of the expression.

That said I entirely agree we should be exploring it!
The temperature is increasing, though...
I've watched 3 episodes so far and they are all closer to our reality than most previous episodes. Still recommend it, the show hasn't lost its attractiveness. Especially episode two shines with some supreme performances.
S*, I have been in a "meaningful" relationships and felt lonely.
Big Corp and media has created this impression that you, an individual, is responsible for this and need to do all the hard work. It basically takes the focus away from those big corps like oil, gas and other industries, which are responsible for the bulk of the emission and pollution.

The solution is nothing short of a political revolution. Need to elect and support politicians who will go after these big corps because they only fear tough legislations and nothing else.
No, we really don't need any more pessimists. That just results in nothing ever getting done.

It's easy to sit around and come up with hypothetical problems about anything. They may or may not become realities. We'll never know until we try something.

The right course is not to try and fix every possible conceivable problem before starting. This is impossible because there are infinitely many. The right thing is to start, do something, see what actually breaks, and then fix that.
I'm using it extensively for open source development. Mostly Linux kernel and Uboot.

I have a "the lounge" server running on digital ocean droplet so I can connect easily.

Giving free users accounts to my server if anyone is interested.

Drop me a line.
> Tirelessly badgering everyone you know until 10 of them go vegetarian

Aka "How to get the cold shoulder" and make all your acquaintances avoid you.
The cloud cover on Venus is so thick it could contain life right now. The belief that it’s necessarily barren due to extreme conditions predates the widespread knowledge of extremophile earthbound life. If you gave me better than even odds that there is life on Venus I’d take them.
Having done it at both big companies and startups... honestly, the startup version is more interesting. Higher stakes, more resourcefulness required, more swearing, and more camaraderie. The incidents I've been a part of in big company contexts have been pretty undramatic - tons of focus on keeping emotions muted, carefully unpeeling the onion, and then carefully sequencing mitigations and repairs.
SmartOS beats GNU/Linux feature for feature and it has features like fault management architecture that are science fiction for Linux. For example, it will migrate affected memory pages from portions of the chip with too many parity errors and it will off-line the chip if necessary, but the server will continue to function. All of that will be uniformly reported on top of that and is visible with fmadm faulty. I can off-line faulty processors and replace them on hardware which supports that while the system continues to serve.

Then there is COMSTAR, a reference fiberchannel and iSCSI implementation. illumos inherited the reference NFS V3 and V4 implementations from Solaris. The runtime linker is so advanced in respect to versioned interfaces that it looks like it's magical. The list could go on and on and on... Linux is nowhere near any of that. Linux barely works somehow but when it comes to running serious infrastructure and data integrity, that's not enough. Just because most people think bash completion and GNU commands are what makes GNU/Linux superior doesn't mean that it actually is: it's very crude and unreliable underneath, especially since you have armies of people constantly hacking on it and breaking kernel interfaces, especially in networking. Try running a firewall / VPN company with it to see what a nightmare it is. And that's just one instance.

And then there is cloud: nothing that GNU/Linux has comes even remotely close to how simple, secure and fast Solaris zones in SmartOS are. Literally nothing: I can pull an image with imgadm and instantiate a bare metal performance UNIX®️ or GNU/Linux virtual server in under 25 seconds with vmadm. No Kubernetes or Docker or OpenVZ or Terraform can do that, and those are all afterthought bolt-ons, while imgadm and vmadm are core of SmartOS and its reason of existence.
owning things means that people then inherit things when you die
They can. It's a cost minimization thing, a LOT of people don't want to bother with requesting despite being eligible.

This prevents people from pointing the finger at them for not providing SLA credits.
Towards federated learning at scale: system design
You can put your things in many smaller safes, and spread them around a bit!
Get NGRX data services without effects
also people tend to ignore that quality of life correlates with energy consumed.
We not only need our energy clean, we need much more of it
Baldur's Gate 3 Announced
Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter
Sure, that may well be true for you, because you're lucky enough to have at least one of those options.

It remains the case that both options are largely/completely out of reach for many/most people in the world.

Naval's advice is applicable for many more people in the world than the few who are lucky enough to be able to get a job at Google or start a successful large software business.

That's the whole point of his list of recommendations.
Medium has reached a new high today. My phone screen is completely filled by these modals, nothing of the post is visible

> To make Medium work, we log user data and share it with processors.
> I agree

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> Extend your stay.

> Sign up with Google

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> To make Medium work, we log user data and share it with service providers. Click “Sign Up” above to accept Medium’s Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.

Luckily Firefox reader mode displays the post they hide without having to use uBlock Origin and hide those elements individually.

We had a post about why Medium is bad yesterday. Medium is actively contributing to the discussion (sarcasm.)
Indian cars/manufacturing/importing has different economics and pollution impacts. You are free do your own research and make up your mind.

I am not against electric cars, I want them. I am against the idea to replace cars which have already contributed to significant pollution being removed from road.

The lowest hanging fruit for me is to get US and other top polluters to reduce pollution. India and China are doing good already as they are increasing more green cover. The reality is the India car drivers cannot afford the cheaper electric cars, forget about Tesla.
“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)
I don't think the glass is too big: I think it's only half full
There was a case recently where 2 nine year old girls fought in a classroom and the substitute didn’t stop it in time. One girl sustained a head injury that later killed her. There is no way to sanction physical violence in a school setting. Restorative justice is a better solution and teaches kids real problem solving but that requires resources and training.
SLACreditRequestsAAS? Who's with me, all I need is a co-founder and an eight million dollar series A round to last long enough that a cloud provider buys us up before they actually have to pay out a request!
Maybe you missed the part where he defines takers. Here's the part :

>Then there are people who come along with a sword, or a gun, or taxes, or crony capitalism, or Communism, or what have you. There’s all these different methods to steal.
>The team hasn’t even coined a name for the physical process by which identical solids can melt into distinct liquids. “If someone else wants to name it, then they can,” Threlfall says.

I think this is a challenge. Is HN up to the task?
He does define takers in the very next paragraph.
That's your interpretation and that's the problem because you might be wrong in some subtle way that a lawyer could exploit. Also, you are looking at a single paragraph, there's a lot more to this and it includes notions of linking, derivative works, distribution, etc. Lawyers really don't like having a lot of open questions around this stuff and some of the more extreme interpretations would be very disruptive for any business that wants to keep parts of their software proprietary.

The other point is that the intention of this license is explicitly to prevent people commercializing software licensed this way through proprietary extensions, additions, etc. The whole point of the license is to make that difficult/impossible. If you use AGPL software, you have to respect this intention.

Gplv3 is also not that popular with legal departments for the same reason. Even Gplv2 is generally frowned upon but better understood since there is a fair bit of case law around it and known ways of dealing with it when e.g. shipping binary kernel modules with an OS, which is one of those legally grey areas where you have to depend on legal interpretations of the license. Gplv3 was explicitly written to close some of those loopholes in Gplv2: they were unintentional.

So, this is not FUD but basically lawyers doing their jobs and they are fairly consistent in their reservations with respect to this license across the industry. You talk to lawyers in any fortune 500 company and they'll probably will be very reluctant to sign off on any AGPL dependencies.
And the car size, range and pricing competitive? A VC handing out money to a startup will not usher electric taxis. People will need to start buying them because they are better, cheaper and more powerful.
It's also not too difficult to throw Fava and Beancount into a Docker container and host it on a web server, if that's your thing.
Thank you for the clarification. I read the sentence differently and I apologize.
I've only been tangentially pulled into high severity incidents, but the thing that most impressed me was the quiet.

As mentioned in this thread, it's a lot like listening to air traffic comm chatter.

People say what they know, and only what they know, and clearly identify anything they're unsure about. Informative and clear communication matters more than brilliance.

Most of the traffic is async task identification, dispatch, and then reporting in.

And if anyone is screaming or gets emotional, they should not be in that room.
I'm not saying it is constant. Where do you see that?

Also, who says the pressure isn't dropping? Can that even be measured to detect such a small difference?

And the volume and/or temperature of the troposphere could change instead.

Finally, what about water vapor compensating?
187MB for an installer! What extra do we get instead of Putty/Other SSH Clients to justify this humongous size!? Can't size be slimmed down!
> When he gets into diving people into “makers or takers” that’s an arrogant and ugly way to look at the world.

Indeed. It's almost like a status game.
I guess we’ve finally fully optimized the modal dialog. Now the only way to make further gains is to explore other form factors to deliver our message in, such as a convenient suppository.
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes
Have you heard of Murphy's law?

Floating above Venus provides the benefits of a gravity well, but there's the danger of sudden buoyancy loss.
You're probably seeing the effect of the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). But that should only have happened once, so I'm not sure what accounts for the "every day for the past week" part.
We are working on session logs at the moment; we know that it's a pain to use Control-A.
Is there anything we can do to make you comfortable to use the sync? For example, we already encrypt all the data using AES-256. We are going to get SEC2. Anything else?
What in the world are you talking about ?! Please consult a CPA and buy a financial accounting textbook. Like in physics every has an equal and opposite transaction.
A car without a 100 mile range is toy, you are welcome to have your own opinion. Range anxiety is real for a car buyer.
This is would I would call a hack.
Finally a real hack in the wild after many years!
That looks like it would be a bit clunky, and specifically says that its really only for 1 user: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-files...

Concurrency and finance are difficult to mix, at least for some types of tasks.
I've used the mobile app, it's simply amazing!!
Google has a huge quality problem and their service is extremely unreliable. Another 3-day-outage in kubernetes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428497

login issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19687029

storage system outage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392452

...

So, basically Google created the most unreliable cloud system in the world.
Is not about the cat, is about the person that lost the cat, about some children that she tried to help. It is an interesting real life story,with real life problems, for me it showed me some new things, showed me how other people think and react.

It is a lot of reading but IMO is worth it.
Steam was launched in 2003...
His father, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine by solving another very complex puzzle: the double-helix structure of DNA molecules.

Crick left home in Northampton, England, in the early 1960s to follow in his father's footsteps. He entered Harvard Medical School's neurophysiology program for his doctorate.

Then his life took a twist.

Crick fell in with a group of computer programmers at MIT, dropped out of the neurophysiology program and got a job with a computer company.

"It is probably what my father would have done if he went through graduate school at the same time I did,'' Crick said.

How many revolutions in biology, math, and physics lost to computer departments?
Electron apps are pretty fat in general, but the Internet speed in most places got pretty fast anyway.
Cars that don't stop go the farthest. Diseases that can't be cured kill the most. Addictive drugs hook the most users. The youngest children are the most compliant when soliciting sexual favors. Starving dogs eat the most joggers. Concentration camps that disguise their gas chambers as showers exterminate the most inmates.

Friends, with the right kind of eyes, there's money on the table.
On the other hand, we're now facing situations that we've never faced before, both as a species and as individuals. Increasingly, we're moving towards a future where you will never need to leave your home or interact with anyone. Netflix, and Amazon deliveries. Self-driving cars. Kids will eventually get their education online. Virtual reality is under active development.

Then there's AI, and sex robots. Why bother with a real boyfriend/girlfriend when you can talk to your phone and have an artificial companion? Real humans have their own wants and needs and may not do what you want. Worse, they might leave you. Your robot girlfriend on the other hand, you could have endless conversations with her in which she tells you exactly what you want to hear and never challenges you.

That's far-fetched, you say. In the near term, I tried Tinder and it's pretty addictive. An endless stream of new people I can meet. Most of them want nothing serious though. They don't even want to sleep with you more than once or twice for the most part. It's all about novelty-seeking. It seems to me like increasingly few people want a sustained relationship. Breakups hurt, so let's never risk having one, a constant stream of lovers is emotionally safer in a way, I suppose, but I can tell you it definitely leaves me feeling lonely.
I believe parent was probably referencing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_i8AefT8I

But in defense, why be admin if you don't look admin?
I am about to embark in this journey, maybe. Have been working with Kubernetes for quite sometime to the point where I'm fairly comfortable managing it, tweaking it and fine tuning it. Business demands something like Kafka but I'm not sure if I'm inflicting into on-call nightmare if I go with Kafka on Kubernetes. Thoughts?
If you're targeting your service to developers, you shouldn't set irritating password requirements like "alphanumerics and symbols". Whatever that means, because my password is still being rejected even though it satisfies both requirements (it has both letters and symbols).

Yet, you allow 4 character passwords ("4-100 characters"). What's the logic in that?

Edit: it looks like the password requirement is actually "any characters except whitespace". You should fix the error message.
"I started as a poor kid in India, so if I can make it, anybody can, in that sense."

I agree with most of the advice and Naval's musing. But let's not pretend opportunity is mostly equal. He attended Stuyvesant [0], one of the highest acclaimed high school educations [1][2]. I'm sure that had a bit to do with how the rest panned out compared to just anyone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelList
[1] https://www.niche.com/k12/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-ny...
[1] https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Stuyvesant_High_School/
I feel like this is basically asking for Melty McMeltface
> It's a bit annoying that you have to configure it with Python code but once you set it up it's pleasant to use.

Not necessarily a good idea in every case, but if it's "just data" in the Python config file, you could make the Python config instead slurp in an actual data file of your desired format (YAML, TOML, whatever), and then transform it into Python data structures as needed.
Just finished watching Chernobyl, all I can say is that if what some environmentalists say about nuclear being the only option is true, we are completely screwed.
I was really hoping someone would do something like this, bravo!
Many IRC clients, in fact, do. So, yes, kind of.
The Semrush shows that they were getting 15 mil visitors from google per day before the update and 11 mil after. The absolute numbers might be wrong but they definitely were hit hard and they were getting a lot of traffic from Gogle.
Yes, that is user's home directory, e.g., SSH keys in ~/.ssh are also plain text.
Total speculation and just my interpretation, of course.

What it means to me is that initially some unusually poor decisions were made that triggered an unfortunate and unavoidable events. Very rare is a damage control statement. There is a subtle tone of concern and feeling of blame trough that entire postmortem. This will be buried but if it was investigated thoroughly I wouldn’t be surprised of some serious consequences.

Total speculation. I do not work for google.
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