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AppViewX and Venafi are the two main competitors in this space of certificate lifecycle automation - many Fortune 1000s are customers of one or the other to prevent exactly this type of problem - Venafi is the larger incumbent but AppViewX has the newer platform and is replacing Venafi in some key accounts

Challenge is discovering all the certs that exist across the org (10k+ often) and then having a fully automated renewal process requires a pretty advanced / complex platform - don’t know anyone who has built this tech successfully in house - curious if anyone has though in the HN community?

Disclosure I’m an investor in AppViewX
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@autach FYI: 1. posting opaque blobs of code is a faux pas or even rude on most fora; 2. * characters are eaten by HN comments (converted to italics) - use code formatting; 3. That is some hideous old code (NN4 compatible!, uses setInterval, setting innerHTML is a security bad smell), etc.
There needs to be stiff civil penalties for companies acting in bad faith and/or not doing due diligence.
The proper rules[1] of a 4 way stop are probably pretty straightforward to encode, and probably easier for a computer to apply than a human, but the real issue is that you can't trust the other drivers (or AIs) to understand/follow them consistently. So the interesting part is how these kinds of systems can almost instantly react when another driver starts to go, and let them go.

In NYC, where I live now, the de facto rule seems to be if you hesitate at all then the other person just goes, rules be damned. In the rural south, where I'm from, there's a lot of "no no, you go first" waving/gesturing/light flashing, which I'm curious if/how a self driving car would handle. (Do we need to give the self driving cars hands to gesture with?!)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-way_stop#Operation
One of the key reason these negotiations are so messed up is that often people negotiate who are not directly part of the post negotiation relationship aka. purchasing and sales vs. business and service delivery.
>> I can't help but wonder what sort of maintenance might these machines require before starting up again?

I used to have a small collection until I moved recently and sold most of them. The ones in my basement never degraded much, but suffered some common issues which are reasonably fixable. One sat with a monitor problem in my garage for 17 years. I'm in the US midwest, so that meant cold winters to thermal shock things when I'd open the garage door and such, but no direct exposure to the elements. When it came time to move, I fired up that game and it worked exactly as good or bad as the day I set it aside in the garage. My vector games were sold to a friend at lowish prices because I wanted them to go to a good home and they needed a little work - but they are physically in almost the same condition as when I got them 25 years ago. A box of boards I gave to the guy you fixed my monitor just because I had no use for them and again wanted them to go to a good home. My guess is most of those will work just fine. The one from the garage is the one I kept and it's beautiful in my new basement.

It's an interesting hobby. One I mostly gave up, but I had to hang on to one cabinet and a few boards that were most important to me.
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Speaking specifically about the Bay Area, I feel like salaries here are driven significantly by the insane cost of living.

There's the feedback loop between the salary competition and the stupidly constrained housing market.
AI thinks like a corporation (2018)
I have plenty of space in my basement. Call me. Low rates!
> Here’s where we reach our very strange conclusion. If we take the above as true, then every family member you convince to buy an iPhone or use Gmail or subscribe to Amazon Prime is contributing some small percentage to your salary increases at Random Startup, Inc. Which is a fascinating, if deeply disturbing and perverse, incentive.

If we're extrapolating, this is just saying growing market means growing jobs? I don't know why this is disturbing or perverse.

The opposite is true, if people stopped buying iPhones all those people who support iPhones would be out of a job.

If one whole industry stops hiring then of course the premiums go down. The supply is huge and the demand is low.

Sorry, I feel like this article is taking something simple and making it sound complicated and insightful without necessarily bringing a new insight?
EU isn't really subisidizing anyone - the actual flow of money is from poor towards the wealthy:

https://www.politico.eu/article/what-rich-countries-get-wron...
* Tests

* Types (Classes, Structures, ...)

* State management

* Documentation

* Formal models
It's nonchalance. They put in the minimum amount of effort because they aren't the ones who'll be hurt by the side effects.

You could certainly describe that behavior as greedy, but it isn't an active attempt to steal revenue.
Neither Boring- nor OpenSSL make API guarantees, let alone ABI guarantees. That is a show stopper for a platform library. They also predate BoringSSL.
I doubt most of these laws are ever intended to catch the big fish -- like in business, the big guys always require special handling to process. For criminals, the big guys should already be so far disassociated with the actual activity that you're not going to catch them with normal crimes. For example, Al Capone was famously trialed on tax evasion, rather than any of the innumerable crimes he committed but couldn't be processed for.

The actual law simply isn't that notable in these cases, because the big guys have enough money to figure out how to navigate it liability-free.

Which is also why the law only really applies to the poor -- with enough time and resources, there's always a workaround.
From the linked article:

> “Consumers listen to the radio because the voice on the other side sounds like a friend,”

While that may be true for some, for myself, I quit listening to broadcast radio because of the DJ infestation. Listening to the DJ talk for 26 minutes of every hour, with 30 minutes of commercials interspersed, to then play one song in the remaining 4 minutes, was just not what I was interested in.

Now, my phone provides a DJ free, commercial uninterrupted, continuous playlist, and broadcast radio simply will never again regain my attention.
IBM should not rebrand bad products as Red Hat (redwashing? hatwashing?). Maybe Red Hat could come up with a better public cloud than IBM but that would be a long-term project.
> than your home computer can handle, much less the components in Tesla cars.

Ehm a recent Tesla has very powerful specialized hardware, developed in-house, which is much more powerful than a commodity home PC with expensive GPUs. You might want to do some basic research before you make such claims...

> The system isn't AI based... It's currently based on static programming

A large neural network is used to make many of the decisions, as well as to run the perception of the sensors/cameras. Unclear what you mean by "AI", but neural networks are usually covered in the "AI" term by researchers and engineers in this field.

> may never be flawlessness enough to make error free updates

It seems that you are new in this argument, because this point has been rebutted so many times in the past, but here goes: it does not have to be flawless, it just has to statistically cause fewer accidents per kilometer/year than what human drivers cause in a similar situation (which is already non-zero, and in some countries actually quite high).
It's just a wide open gate for anyone that knows what they're doing at this point.
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Marc Andreessen was recently quoted for pretty much saying that the answer to the environment is economic growth. How can we get current environmentalists to notice this reality?
Two issues, first: I thought fully autonomous driving was meant to be done by now? Second, don't Tesla & SpaceX have a reputation for being a terrible place to work, with Musk expecting everyone to be working as hard (or harder) than him, and firing people in weird and capricious ways.
> All of the VP's, CEO's, etc

According to one theory, if you overpay the guy at the top, it makes all the underlings work harder to try and climb up that greasy pole. The more grossly and obviously overpaid that top guy is, the more desirable it is to try and somehow work your way to his position.
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As a casual observer of self-driving, I feel like this is a really interesting part of the overall problem space. Until such time as a vehicle fleet is 100% autonomous, human piloted & autonomous vehicles need to co-exist. Humans bend & break driving rules by social interactions which autonomous vehicles don't currently participate in.
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Most content creators have little incentive to go there because there's no money to be made, youtube is monetized by google. Maybe that's for the better and content creators who don't care for the money (or don't need it or can afford to share videos for the sake of sharing with the world) will share their videos outside youtube, and maybe maybe that'll naturally separate the wheat from the chaff..
Because they think they need the top talent, and the top talent is willing to work elsewhere where more money is on offer.
Not to say your central point is wrong, but this characterization can apply to many industries outside of tech.

You're right that supply responds to demand, but putting that aside there can and will be macro trends in the long term. Will the venture capital frenzy remain forever? Will top firms stock values grow exponentially forever? These questions will have a material effect on engineer salary in the long run
The current regulations are setup so that it costs a mountain of money to make an antibiotic and you can only make a molehill of money. That seems like regulating the R&D away.

Of course what you want is antibiotics to cost a dollar and be as safe as apply pie and as plentiful as salt water. But that's not really an options. Our options are the status quo, heavily subsidize antibiotic research and pricing, reduce regulations so they can be developed incredibly cheaply, or change regulations to drive up sales.
I can't speak for every company out there, but for us, we've discovered that resumes and whiteboard challenges are bad predictors of great engineers. So, we simply come up with a small project that's related to what we would have you work on if you were hired and give you around a week to finish it. You can use other people's code snippets online as well as any libraries you see fit. As long as the end result is good enough, we'd move you to the next step, which is to just test if you're a good culture fit. I know quite a few other startups are doing this as well, so maybe the method is becoming popular. I would recommend you research the companies a bit and see if it's even something they'd care about first. We wouldn't even ask you to explain a gap in the first place.
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This is not normal. And I don't recommend accepting this behavior. To expedite service, I suggest two steps:

Run the built-in hardware test, extended version. If it finds any fault, take it straight in for service.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257

If AHT shows no errors, clean install macOS. As in, wipe it totally, and reinstall. This is tedious but I expect Apple support will recommend it anyway. And if you've already done it, it might save time.
A lot of them went to members of a UK video arcade collecting forum http://ukvac.com

They were in a variety of conditions, some ended up being rescued for parts whereas others were up and running not long after.

Have a look on the forum: it'll be in the Operator Raids section and I don't recall whether you need to have registered to get access to that part.
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The system is absolutely AI based today. There is no hardcoding like this. Hardware 3 in Tesla cars is an ASIC meant to run neural nets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Hardware_3). Why are you so confidently stating things you don't know about?
If that were the case I am wondering why anyone would buy GPUs? I invite you to retrain a state of the art model of your choice on a CPU and see how far you get.
Though only(?) Tesla pretends that their adaptive cruise control is full blown self-driving.
The "vision fps" runs around 12 to 20, so yeah, that's gonna seem kinda jumpy. The display fps is slightly higher, which contributes to a juddering feeling.
Many of the cabinets are now in use, either in classic arcades here in the UK or in the hands of collectors. Most have been restored and are now fully functional.
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Ironically, CBS literally posted the entire first episode for free on YouTube: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/30/21115348/star-trek-picard...
Speaking of k8s markup, AWS only charges for the masters and they recently cut those prices by 50%. This problem doesn't exist.
I can think of a bunch off the top of my head that mostly stem from a serious reduction in complexity:

- having one data store instead of two

- no data store synchronization and related consistency headaches

- the ability to easily join/restrict based on business logic (especially access control)

- easier deployments

- easier qa/local setups

- fewer failure scenarios

- although non-standard, you're dealing with sql and can explain/analyze your queries with tools one already knows if one understands postgres

- the ability to extend my existing (Spring Boot) integration tests to test new searching logic without having to worry about a separate test db.

I've been building a travel blogging platform as a side project that has about ~250 users. Through a couple of choice materialized views to create search documents from a number of different tables, Postgres FTS, and some GIN indices, I was able to make a lighting fast search with intelligent suggestions(ie using user specific restrictions such as follower/following, places a user has posted, etc).

Is my search perfect? No. I could do a better job normalizing diacritics, stemming could be improved, etc. But it was dead simple to implement well enough in a very short amount of time. I'm very happy with my current solution. There's a time and place for a dedicated search solution but it's certainly not in fledgling systems without massive load.
> If you use a function like this, [each query] it will need to be run for every entry
The ultimate proof is actual data that's steadily being collected as time moves forward. That surely culls off bad models as they're proven wrong. But I think it would only be helpful at reducing bias if we just look at the surviving old models rather than making new or updated ones that incorporate the new data or else the new models might still have a systemic bias in one direction or other.
I believe that I've read an analysis of something just like what you ask from Fred/AVC some years ago, so perhaps it's worth looking at the archive. I don't recall the exact details, but it was roughly that each of the successive stages got (obviously) a much lower rate of return, but since the successive stages were much larger and much less risky, most of the actual money returned came after the initial stage.

However, perhaps it's worth thinking more about what does it mean to 'worth to do early stage investing' - if you would just do early stage financing, then you'd have much lower returns but also much smaller fund size. Is getting a higher rate of return the top priority, or is it better to get more total return by leveraging more money despite a lower relative rate?
Any place with an overheated real estate market.

Toronto is one, you could rent a condo worth 600-700k for 2k a month when the mortgage alone before local taxes etc would be over 3k.
Why would you do this? 8 alpahnumeric+symbol characters is plenty for anything that can't be bruteforced offline, like your Amazon login.
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One of the real challenges of these systems is that even a very good system only needs to lose confidence in some object for a very short period of time for the system to lose confidence in its navigation and return control to the user. The easy way to get around that issue is to categorize objects and then just ignore them out of the context you expect them to appear in -- which is how Tesla managed to kill a pedestrian walking their bicycle across the road.
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Near where I live we've got two lanes + turn lanes on all 4 sides. It is a nightmare both as a driver and as a pedestrian. I'm not sure how that gets put in place or gets addressed as it inevitably gets busier. Traffic circles perhaps?
A week of work for each job applied to rapidly becomes unsustainable. I personally have never done more than 6-8 hours of coding as part of an application, and only did that once.