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DevOps and SRE friends – can you give me 10 seconds of your time please?
When you were being interviewed for your current position (DevOps Engineer or SRE), how were you asked to prove you could do the job? Specifically, did you have to prove you could troubleshoot/debug environments? Did you have to whiteboard code, or diagnose a live system etc?

Cheers!
Redux brands itself as a tool for managing state. How does GraphQL manage state?
That's one way of looking at growth.

Another is to learn from the mistakes; this sometimes requires others to point them out. A lot of the issues around it comes down to ego and how one takes criticisms. One needs to learn not to take it too personal. A lot of times, the weak points of one's work is often the bit we're lazy. Of course, many times we already know very well where we're weak, and getting it pointed out repeatedly can sting.

And to make it back to the obligation to be bad, it comes down to recognizing you can always get better. In fact, the more I learn about a subject, the more I see how little I know.
The woke revolution in American journalism has begun
Reminds me of a story that made it onto HN some months (years maybe? how time flies) back about an entrance exam prompt to some British university program requiring the candidate to craft a message defending some unsavory deed on the part of the UK government. That kind of "gaming" is super-common and very valuable in (for example) political science circles, so wasn't, per se, a bit weird or bad or even unusual, but was made to seem so for a headline.

[EDIT] specifically I think the prompt was something like "It's 10 years in the future, such-and-such party has control of government and can be assumed to hold policy positions basically the same as they do now. General world situation is X. The government has just violently put down mass protests over [something]. Craft a statement for the prime minister defending these actions as necessary for the preservation of the government and protection of general welfare." Which is a completely normal—if simple—sort of poli-sci exercise.
My thoughts exactly. People do this sort of thing to spice up training that must done. This is done in other fields as well like software development, eg. “in this tutorial we will be building a game with space zombies where...”

On the other hand, games are never just games there’s always a point.
I would also suggest looking into learning American Sign Language (of course alongside this project). While communicating via keyboard is workable and good for communicating with the wider world, ASL would be much more convenient for communicating between you two -- and a very interesting language to boot. It is a foreign language thats not related to English besides a few loan words, but there's tons of online resources and most universities have classes as well. Plus, you also can experience beautiful Deaf culture, with a rich storytelling and poetic tradition that blends language, gesture, acting, and pantomime in a way thats just impossible to translate to a spoken language.

The downvoted commenter was being a jerk, but I do think learning ASL is an option worth looking into.
repeating the trolls is a form of feeding them.
So many useful reasons to fork a project, and these guys somehow managed to find an absolutely ridiculous one.
Shlax still has to prove it can do what it aims with the simple design it strives to keep.
Is this just a feature of the Chromium browser itself, or is this a proposed standard that will (eventually) extend to other browsers?
There are many times I'm glad that individual people don't decide the guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(events)#...
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It’s easy to see the world in this black-and-white separation; however there’s a lot of creators who are there to rip you off for some money and they deserve every critique you can get.

Moralising stories like that mask the actual complexity of telling the people who try to be better and are shit (and thus deserve your understanding) from people are fake trying to be better while taking advantage of you (“oh my god I didn’t realise the engine I was selling you is completely covered in rust!”).

The complexity here is not selecting one of the two; but rather consistently selecting one of the two for any given moment in life. And that’s hard.
Unless you try.. using it?
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Intermediate packages permit you to choose different deployment situations later, with minimal additional cost now. Tying everything to Docker images ties you to Docker and removes your ability to transition to other systems. It may not be worth the cost now, but as soon as you want to deploy on more than one platform it can become critical to maintaining momentum (vice having to hand tailor deployment for each new environment).
Seconding this, also, reproducing her voice with an AI may not be something she is on board with, it could make her feel like you don't accept her with or without a voice. It may also be unhealthy for you, similar to how spending too long on social media can become a dangerous source of dopamine.

It might make sense to consider making a recording that is more meaningful, and focus on giving her emotional support rather than building an AI that could be perceived as a replacement.
I'll admit, I don't use Android, but that Notification Center looks pretty similar to the one that I saw previously. Yeah, it's been changed slightly, but the whole thing hasn't been switched around. It looks like they've added features though.

Honestly, I'd rather they keep refining it, at whatever step size they have to, until they get it perfect, instead of stopping with something that's "good enough."
Wish the WASD was lined up with the skewed layout, feels "crooked" to me
Came here to see that Aaron Swartz was mentioned, for people to remember and to learn about him and his incident.

I don't see it as MIT "doing the right" thing, as much as virtue signaling. As an institution and bureaucracy it tries to self-preserve. Either by saying "he are against technology being used for piracy" or "we are for the open spread of information". Of course I am cynical, but I don't think MIT decided this out of the "goodness" of their heart.
Yes, especially performance is top notch, and switching is from Photoshop is a breeze.
I don't know if you have kids/grandkids/nieces or nephews (or plan to have those) but it might be nice to record your wife reading some books out loud.

Not only will you have your own personal "audio books" of Harry Potter/The Hobbit/Chronicles of Narnia/Oi Frog/Alice in Wonderland/Roald Dahls etc etc for any kids/grandkids/relatives etc that will hopefully be something treasured in its own right, but you'll also have a large corpus of training data from well-known texts that you can retrain over and over as the tech improves in the future. Might be worth chucking in some other well-known texts to avoid over-fitting on a "kids' story voice" - maybe something plain like inauguration speeches/declaration of independence/magna carta/etc.

Obviously I'd focus on gathering raw material now, and focus on the reconstruction later when you've all recovered mentally and physically to whatever happens. The more data the better when it comes to this sort of thing. There might not be something "simple" right now (e.g. you could probably implement the WaveNet or similar paper yourself today, and training it up on some GPUs in your spare room etc, but in a few years there might be a nice WYSIWYG/SaaS thing for it), but with the recordings safely stored you'll obviously be able to use it in the future.

Best of luck to you both.
However, the right to not be stalked is. Which is what is effectively happening when simple "observation" is scaled up into a network of surveillance cameras and surveillance databases following your location and activities around the clock. Running into someone you know and saying hello is socially acceptable [0]. Following someone around everywhere they go, waiting outside of their house, and writing down everything you see them doing is not.

[0] It's socially encouraged, even. In case anyone has forgotten over the past several months.
You have to back flush them and (at least for the two I have had in my life) tend to break a lot needing plumbing and electrical repair. Also the salt is corrosive so you need to be diligent as to where it is installed. The installers installed one of mine in the garage, near the air handler and I ended up replacing the air handler due to the location of the softener. I moved it outside while the handler was being replaced. They are of benefit in certain instances, such as yours and I would certainly buy another one if I where on a well again, but they come with their own set of headaches.
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As far as I understood it 2. isn't about open access per see. It's just completely absurd that e.g. if I publish an paper and than want to re read it in a year I have to buy my own paper. Same when I want to give it to an intern to read and similar.

So it's about the author being able to reuse it for himself, not about open access.
> what are some examples of an oppressed minority race becoming racial oppressors while still being subordinate in the power structure?

If minority is a requirement, then some examples are:

1) Jewish Nazi collaborators killing Jews, 2) Black gangsters killing black people 3) black/latin-american SJW agents manipulating authorities for more discrimination and cancelling of their white enemies.

> How are they able to oppress with little political and economic power to do the oppression?

In cases 1),3) by having elevated power granted and supported by even more powerful groups. In case 2) they are organized violent people with guns - they have substantial power.
> Do you go learning a prospective employer or client’s problem domain before making contact with them, and base conversations around that?

Yes, I try to do exactly that. The goal is to be able to speak their language in the interview as well as determine if I'm interested. I try and find out everything I can about the company, their product and the product of any competitors. If I'm enthusiastic about it, I figure out where to send my resume.

As far as tech stacks, I've learned Java, Progress, C#, various scripting and shell languages all on the job without ever knowing them prior to getting the job (I started my career as a C++ programmer which I already knew, so there's that).

I think the key has been the fact that when I interview I already know about the company and their product and domain and I can ask pointed, intelligent questions and generally have a great discussion about it with them. The companies that have hired me knowing I don't know, say, Java, haven't cared. The companies that don't hire me because I don't know Java, only care about hiring Java developers and I'm glad they spared me the trouble.

I don't know if it is luck, but I generally don't get many rejections. I also don't generally send my resume to more than a few companies before getting hired.
I have a very similar system! What fridge do you have? I have an ARB.
It's a corpus designed to capture the full breadth of combinatorial nuances of human speech in a general sense.
This is because people have egos. Most people have fragile ones. All this pussyfooting is to protect their egos.

Watching Revoler (2005) is very eye opening in this regard.
> That modelling was only somewhat successful; based on the constraints applied by each part, I discovered that it would be impossible to make the entire system reliable.

"I discovered I can't satisfy all my requirements at once and need to plan my tradeoffs in advance" sounds like a pretty successful modeling result to me!
This sounds pretty cool (your brother making the voice model, not your dad losing the voice)...do you have a link to this example? I would love to play with this.
> If I intended to write a check for $200 and later when it was cashed found I had accidentally wrote it for $220, I would call that a $20 typo.

So my example was a "$199,999,800 typo"? Can't we just round up?
> I'll also add that this conflation is particularly damaging to people and communities where intelligence is highly valued, and people base much of their self-worth in being knowledgeable

Another issue with intelligence-idolizing environments like the ones you describe is that if you don't find a way to gain the self-esteem needed to admit not knowing something, you might end up coping by pretending that you know that thing, and in doing so, suppressing your propensity to curiosity and growth, and increasing your propensity to use BS and manipulation - both of which admittedly also require a lot of intelligence.

> Building real self-esteem made it possible for me to start seeing that when I don't know something that doesn't decrease my value as a person. This has allowed me to admit I don't know things more often, and actually fill in some of those gaps with real knowledge.

I had the same transformative experience early in my life of developing the self-esteem to admit that I don't know things. It goes hand in hand with the skill of asking more questions of others than telling them what you know.
I was at the Rose Bowl this year and something I noticed was how much of the game was spent staring at the jumbotron rather than watching the game live.

Sitting in the stands no longer feels like you're watching an incredible game. Instead it feels like you're watching the game live on ESPN(given the level of advertisements) but sitting in the stands.

I'm certainly not the first to point out how commercialized sports have become, but it's disconcerting seeing stadiums try to hook you into staring at an ad for four hours instead of enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Another example was the flyover: A B2 flew over just before kickoff[0] and I, along with almost everyone else, had never seen one before. An announcement over the loudspeakers asked that everyone hold up a small sign so that the stadium looked like the American flag from above. This was great for viewers at home and horrible for anyone in the stands because all you could see was the back of the sign you and everyone else were holding up.

We seem to have gotten so far away from what sports are about(two teams competing to see who's best) that we've landed on milking as much money out of the fans as they possibly can.

Facial recognition, in this context, seems to be doing the same. Rather than giving fans a fantastic experience, the folks running these games are trying to monetize them instead.

[0] - https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2020/01/check-out-this-aeri...
The difference is a matter of scope.

If I’m photographing a street in NYC and you’re in it, you have no right to complain. You’re in public, that’s how this goes.

Now if follow you around NYC for a week and only photograph streets you’re on, you do have a right to complain. Now that’s stalking, something you can get a restraining order over.

Facial recognition feels much more like the latter than the former.
This is a much better article on the Wixen lawsuit (be careful when you come across iTunes it it; it might refer to downloads, not streaming): https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/14/17117160/spotify-mechanic...

IIRC, the problem was that Spotify didn't know who to pay because there isn't a list of song to song writer, unlike song to label. Apple Music had the same problem.
Did you ask her about that? Make sure she is not freaking out of that.
To pick an analogy that is biased in favor of the IA, isn't it a better comparison to say,

Q: "Why did you violate that segregation law?"

A: "Because it's immoral and bad for society."
It'd be nice if vector based approaches (think MBTI tests being originally created using PCA) would use state of the art dimensionality reduction techniques instead of stuff from the 70s so that way each vector actually matters and explains far more variance in the data.

If you need interpretability just use an autoencoder or simese network instead of PCA. This way the new "personality" vectors are highly meaningful and visualizations are better...
> Rights are granted through legislative processes. What is not a right today may be a right tomorrow.

There's a difference between "natural rights" (rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government) and what you describe. The type of right you describe is capricious and whimsical.

GP was complaining that airport travelers don't have privacy. So it seems like people are asking for it.

Can you name some places you believe right to privacy should not apply?
Turbolinks doesn't work with third party(js) anything.
That is an absolutely horrible business practice from Logitech.

I was considering buying a new high-end mouse but now I will be avoiding Logitech products at all costs.
props to the team! but having learned on photoshop i could just never get used to gimp. and me most used functions being smart select and smart fill -- does gimp do that yet? in any case i dropped both for photopea. i still can't get my head around how nicely it works in a browser tab
Im a big fan of using a single ~36" 4k display. The pixel pitch ends up being about the same as for a typical 1080p monitor, but it comfortably fills the whole field of view without bezels. Any larger and its uncomfortable to read the edges without moving.
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Hi Matthias, fellow woodworker here who shares a love of toolmaking and problem solving.

Have you ever felt constrained by your selection of tools? It appears to me you rely mostly on woodworking tools for your projects. In my own experience I've frequently felt that if I had the capability to mill or turn materials to exact dimensions I could more easily produce better quality tools.

It seems to me that your style of work would naturally lead, at least in part, to using machining tools and metal as material. I'm curious why your path hasn't lead you to transition here.

Thanks!
Life is complex bro.
> Well, among other things, if you simply poll people and ask about drug use, white people admit to using drugs at higher rates than black people but are punished much much less frequently for it.

If I recall correctly, there's a few confounding factors there - one is that survey results for "have you used drugs in the past week" show much higher relative use by African Americans than "have you used drugs in the past year". Another is that in other surveys African Americans were significantly more likely to answer "no" to "are you a convinced felon" given that they were actually convinced felons, so the survey results aren't necessarily accurate anyways.
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Hah yes pine is pretty infamous for denting easily. I actually received a pine desk surface today that I'm staining/oiling. It's nicer quality pine than what I used for the skirting boards by far and seems pretty tough so far. I could probably give it a properly tough surface by using a two-part plastic finish (like the sort of stuff they use for bar-tops), but I've never used it so I'm sticking with Danish oil for this, as I can always sand it back and refinish it if it gets truly dire.

I like working with pine, particularly because it's cheap enough that you can make mistakes when learning and not feel too bad. But it is much more variable than other woods, I find, and the species vary by country.
The pentagon produces a lot of documents. It’s unsurprising that there are some silly ones in there.
I think the argument is quantity vs quality here. In past, we had no expectation of privacy in public places, so you might be seen or even photographed, but realistically that happened rarely. But if facial recognition could capture your whereabouts at all times in public, that's a significant change in the level of observation and tracking, especially if that data then belongs exclusively to someone else.
I hear the opposite, it's so awful they have to use Nix to keep it sane.
As with many things, I believe privacy is less of a binary issue and more of a scale between two extremes.

I agree that with modern technology it would be difficult to guarantee or enforce absolute privacy in public spaces--everyone has a camera on them at all times these days! That said, I think the EU got it right with ideas like the right to be forgotten.

Knowing you were at a protest or frequented some store can be problematic depending on how that data is used and correlated. Knowing these things is also dangerous if this data sticks around for a long time--who's to say the political climate a few years from now will be anything like today?

Being able to look up every indiscretion somebody ever made can be a tactic for discrediting people or strong-arming them to do what you want. Cherry picking historical data about a person can make them look any way you want them to when presented to an audience of the public or your peers in court.

The thing I can't figure out is how we can find some middle ground in an ecosystem where not everybody will be acting in good faith. It's a real source of concern that deserves consideration.
It was about Eton, a private high school, and the "unsavory deed" shooting by the Army of protestors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628900
I don't know what the ambition is. But it sure looks like it's a perfectly fine machine for developers and PMs.
I had a similar experience after visiting a modern art museum with a creative friend of mine. I jokingly said "Even I could have done that" about one of the pieces and my friend replied, "But you didn't" -- hit me in one of those profound realization kind of ways. I started thinking about all of the effort it takes to envision something, find the resources, build it, work to get it displayed somewhere. Just creating something from nothing is beautiful (even if it's an upside toilet sculpture).
"I have a 10" Forrest chopmaster but unfortunately I made the mistake of starting a cut on a steel plate without checking which blade was in the saw"

:-D

Did something similar with a hollow chisel mortiser. The head was hitting the fence, so I didn't set the depth stop. Which was fine, until I moved the table to cut another mortise in a location where the head didn't hit the fence. Turns out you can't cut square holes in cast iron with a hollow chisel and auger bit :-/
> I was at a liberating structures event recently, and one of the people I was working with related an anecdote in which he tried a party game as an ice breaker. Many of those are cringe, but this one sounded fun and inoffensive (it was a sentence continuation game where each person said a word following on from a previous one, in an attempt to construct something that sounded like an aphorism). Most people were reluctant initially but got into the swing of things, but a few people just dug their heels in and would not engage properly with it because of concern over looking weird.

Perhaps some of them were indeed concerned about looking weird. I guarantee you that at least a few of them didn't want to engage because they're introverts who just generally hate awkward group getting-to-know-you games.
$10m per training run gets me a lot of engineering time to build our own version of this system and lease it to other customers. Just skip one training run and I've got a pretty good team.
One very helpful thing to understand wrt this idea of "tacit knowledge" especially in terms of understanding and managing personal relationships...

You or someone you know may very well become aware of (i.e., _come to know_) what are your personal defects (insecurities, unproductive behavioral predispositions, etc) -- but this is in no way _at all_ means that you will be able to _change_.
Can a human + computer beat just a computer?

I can't imagine a human doing anything besides making things worse or even.