skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Might be anecdotal or even have changed, but it is worth telling this story)

I once remember seeing a video where people described the steps needed to buy a property in Canada, obtain a mortgage, etc

Some banks allowed college students to get a mortgage (wink), and depending on the country, there were different KYC/AML regulations that had to be followed. Notably, China was not in the list of countries with additional KYC requirements (double wink)

Interpret this as you want.
> less support for adaptive sync

What does "less support" mean? At least on my system, Sway is running with adaptive sync enabled.
My commentary has two parts.

First, about the topic. The title, "Real-world SRE: What not FAANG companies are doing," implies that the series is going to look at how the majority of companies (as in, not startups) are implementing SRE. This is not the approach; rather, this specific article divides the world into either FAANG or SV-style startups, and ignores everything else. That's not a microcosm I'm interested in.

Second, about the writing style. The stuttering caused by using sentence fragments everywhere is really jarring. It's so bad that I couldn't focus on the actual content. Normally I'm not much of a stickler for grammar, but in this case, it's distracting.
I don't mind if they call it "buy", as long as customers are entitled to a refund in case a work becomes unavailable.
That’s close to what the last paragraph of TFA suggests.
In the user init file? I'm not an expert on spacemacs.
The "normal" app yes, but there is another one called Youtube Go, which you can download and save the video on your phone, IDK if it´s avaliable worldwide.
I believe, if you think you can win lottery and did it, you are smarter than average. Why not? Anyway, we are talking about a small percentage of people. I am used to generalization, couldn't help it :) Maybe I should not.
this was inevitable giving the climate switch to streaming services. right now the riaa wants to protect the streaming services at all costs since physical media consumption is decreasing, especially with all the store fronts closing cause of the pandemic.
I do believe it would be a great thing for these buttons to read "Rent Indefinitely" rather than "Buy", and also force these companies to outline in clear and short language within a popup near the button the general conditions under which the rental will be revoked. Like, "Company X may revoke your access to this content in situations where your account breaches the terms of service outlined [here], or if the original rights holders of the content force us to." Not even full ToS, just something to inform people that its possible.

And to be clear, there's a massive swath of digital content that needs regulation like this. Amazon movies, Kindle books, Steam/Xbox/PSN digital games, iTunes music purchases (though in situations like this, I think the word "Buy" is valid given that you're allowed a DRM-free download, but I think the popup should still be required with the language changed to read "...may revoke your access to re-download this content...").
> There’s a lot of interesting critique written by heterodox leftists today, in the spirit of Chris Lasch, on how the current progressive movement is just intra-elite competition.

There's a joke in leftist spheres that boils down to "Progressives simply want more female slave owners". I think it encapsulates the sentiment of the paragraph I partially quoted quite nicely.
Obviously management and lawmakers have responsibility! As an IT person, get a paper trail to prove you warned them! Also consider refusing their orders if it literally puts lives at risk!

Nobody can claim not to know about the problem.
> doesn't work correctly on GitHub

There is already extension[0] for Pale Moon which solves issue with GitHub.[1]

[0] https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/releases

[1] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=25435
Only in the eyes of the law. The RIAA can no more stop people from downloading YouTube videos than the DVD CCA could stop people from cracking CSS. Pirates haven't lost yet, only ever been delayed, and rarely by all that much.

This battle has been going on since audio tape recorders and VCRs became a thing, and at some point various industries will have to accept copying as part of reality, and that it is incumbent on them to have a business model that aligns with reality. A farmer doesn't serve a legal notice to the sun because its setting every day hurts productivity.
I can't help but cite this sentence from the article that seems to have been generated by a very poor Markov chain:

>The three sellers were led by Jake Greenbaum, a “blockchain entrepreneur” who uses the Twitter handle JBTheCryptoKing and was billed as Logan Paul’s “personal Pokémon consultant”.

We still don't have proper hoverboards but I guess we got what we deserved.
My bet is that the device can be operated by an old WiMax driver, with maybe the same pinout, to make transitioning old designs to continue working in an LTE-only world with just a part substitution and some new config details.
I'm glad I waited before investing in 3k series
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I'm sorry, but does that article offer ANY evidence at all for the impact of money laundering, except for the "just so" story in the middle? ("money launderers beat up prices, and the rest of the market just runs with it" - as if people were able or willing to pay arbitrary prices).
Can't help but evoke images in my mind of some mad scientist trying to recreate Tesla's Telegeodynamics. The concept of transferring power via seismic waves always fascinated me as a kid.
Good post. There is one important topic not touched upon yet: clear structure. Without a strong organising structure and logic, it’s hard to navigate, especially for non-prose. I can highly recommend the book “The pyramid principle” as a way to really improve structured writing.
For smaller projects and teams, something like feature flagging can probably be avoided unless A/B testing is required.

For a company that has hundreds of engineers, with daily continuous deployment, it helps to have certain in-development features gated behind flags. When it comes time to deploy these new features, they can gradually be rolled out to users. If the feature starts triggering exceptions, it's very easy to scale back.

Once the beta feature becomes stable, often the feature is removed (along with all logic in the source code guarding this feature).

Similarly, for A/B testing, the feature flagging and logic is removed once a test is deemed to have either passed or failed the A/B experiment.

Like anything else in software, feature flagging can incur technical debt if not properly maintained.
Idiots. Wear it like a badge of honor.
Maybe it's time we admit that without a thorough reform, the idea of a "housing market" is completely fictional. Furthermore, at least with the way our current laws are written, we prefer having a large homeless population because it maintains the wealth of some group of people.
I have a very similar view. But I see more and more companies trying to build a Google-like SRE structure, where the team actually operates more mature services highly critical to the business. Tricky not to become traditional ops teams, but seems doable.

SRE becoming bottleneck with scale is something I see a lot. Usually regular product engineers that are more familiar with infra start doing it full-time for all the company.
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My naive view (I know next to nothing about legal matters) would be that "buy" meant a verbal contract that I exchange money to receive the movie as an asset. Obviously that's not how Amazon interprets it, but I wonder if the courts should interpret it that way: if you say buy, and pay a greater cost to buy it, they you should have it as an asset. Of course, what does having it as an asset mean now? I personally think movies from Amazon should be downloadable, but then how do they prevent piracy.
And you think the local military is your friend who has your best interests at heart?
Animals (especially ones like apes and dolphins) may be conscious, yet couldn't answer the question.
I worked at a major software company that was implementing an “SRE” org and it was frankly pathetic. It basically had its genesis in some higher up hearing that Google does this thing, so we probably should too. That then later turned into a bunch of random DevOps/Sys Admins drafted into the new org reading the Google SRE book. It was a shamelessly cargo cult approach.

After a year all we really had was hundreds of Confluence pages specifying policy for this and that, a bunch of ceremony added around releases, and arbitrary SLA/SLOs defined. Almost zero actual technical work was accomplished. They then started filling the team with new grads who had neither devops or sysadmin experience, kind of cementing the perception that it was a non-technical role.

Either way I’m not a fan of the entire concept after being subjected to that suffering!
I actually just sold my house to a buyer that can't travel due to covid lockdowns but they are desperate to move to the countryside.

Sight unseen house sales are becoming popular at the moment. Big city budgets can buy very nice houses where I live, the buyer just paid for a licensed house inspector to compile a report for them to make sure the place isn't about to collapse.
Let them subpoena, ultimately RIAA is a US entity pursuing civil suits under US laws, no one outside the US should really be worried. Within the US these sites and tools like YouTube-dl are arguably fair use and RIAA knows this, so they will be cautious when pursuing any litigation. It is like the trick the police use - carrying a knife for utility (cutting food, cutting wire, etc) is often not illegal, carrying a knife as a weapon often is, so police will often try to trick people into saying they have a knife for defense so they can treat it as a weapon instead of a tool.
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Why did this all of a sudden drop off the front page?
I find dishing out punitive measures on the basis of the nature of one's conduct always a nebulous, case-based business and as such see it not reasonable to make for a crude guideline - a flowchart, if you will - for the line of action to take for what one deems a transgression against the project's behavioral norms. Codes of Conduct always seem to me a way for one, a profit-driven corporation, for example, to posture its morally virtuous conduct, evident from the eagerness to expressly list out all the kinds of infringements against people of oppressed-against backgrounds coming to the mind of the CoC's writer (the use of neological hip labels makes a telltale dog whistle), instead of simply listing out goals of the nature of, say, inclusion, diversity, and general amiability. The presence of these prohibitive, morally prescriptivist qualities of CoCs is what I find to be the source of discord here.
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The article contains many bold statements without any backing. For example Google didn't introduce Kotlin because they want to have a nice toy language like Apple had with Swift, but they just followed the developers that were already using Kotlin.
non-amp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-28/u-s-hospi...
As the author of a book titled "Real-World SRE" https://amzn.to/35HFPic, this title made we do a double take.

That being said, the article was nice, although I wish there was more detail.
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if you keep trying and keep failing, and you do not adapt in
the process, it does not make you smart. By failing, we learn and adapt. In theory it would make the next move wiser than previous moves.

I agree calling it stupid may not be accurate.
Tres commas!
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Apart from how terrible this is, I was wondering how this works. I'd say it is quite hard to cut off a head with a "knife" in a short period of time without other people interfering.
And PyCon quickly added a policy telling attendees not to publicize incidents until staff can investigate.
They seem to imply that the seller was actually honest and thought it was genuine, so I guess somebody did get shafted in the process (although probably by a much smaller amount).

It's quite a clever hustle in a way: since the wrapped box is worth so much more than an opened one it's an interesting paradox: if you don't open the box, you don't know for sure that it's genuine but if you do open it then it loses most of its value. Therefore if you manage to make a convincing fake using a clean box and some shrink wrap-fu it will probably be hard to ascertain the authenticity of the product without damaging it.

It's like Schrodinger's Pikachu.
This matches my experience at my work. I am an early employee and we did one of everything back then, was told we had dedicated Ops/SRE and lost permissions to do stuff about half way through my tenure, and now this year it’s back to everyone is doing their own Ops/SRE.

That’s been over the course of about a decade.
Even ignoring the fact that your plan as described falls within the specified range ($60/month/11 GB = $5.45/month/GB), I have never heard of plans or overage charges this cheap from any of the three major Canadian wireless providers. Last year, the three major providers simultaneously increased the price of the well-publicized $60/10 GB offer by at least $5/month. I'm not aware of any standard plans offering more for less, although you may be able to bargain for less. You may also be able to find slightly cheaper rates with a smaller provider, but despite offering nominally nation-wide coverage, the practical coverage usually ends up being substantially poorer.

Regarding overage charges, I would be genuinely shocked if anybody, including a minor provider, has overage under $10/GB, seeing as by your own admission, even your standard rate exceeds $5/GB. Rogers overages are $70/GB, Bell is $110-120/GB, Telus is a whopping $130/GB. If overage charges are under the normal rate, then that's not an overage, that's pay-as-you-go.
What about the whole war on drugs that Regan started?
My point is that its neither simple, nor one sided, nor well defined.

In addition to all of the things you're pointing out, there's also people genuinely trying to change things for the better with good reasoning.

> Now, we have two options... either we become sensitive to everytihing, and destroy normal human relations and comedy (although, we've gone most of the way there, because of so many protected groups and actions, not allowed to be joked about, the only group you can target your jokes at are white men (with movies like 40 days and 40 nights, where a rape of a man is a comedic high point, and many other examples)), or we can just grow up, not get offended by something someone somewhere said or did (especially if it was a joke), and not "cancel" people because of that.

No, it's really fine for us to say that certain things are not acceptable. It's ok to make fun of something. It's generally not ok to joke that, say, a race is intrinsically inferior to another, or that women are sexual objects, or that white dudes are just there to earn money or whatever antagonism floats your boat. It's shouldn't be illegal to make such jokes, but it should be shamed out of the mainstream.

You being triggered by other people being triggered is the height of irony.
I was referring to the Performance implications section.
Has anyone really been confused by this?

Unless it's free of DRM and easily copied, backed up, moved, etc, you don't own it, regardless of whatever language the vendor wraps it in.

That doesn't stop me from occasionally "buying" movies or TV from Apple (for example) -- for reasons of convenience, say -- but I don't go into it blindly, and neither should anyone else.
Wearing masks for covid prevention it seems like
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NCoc is a bit too edgy for my liking.

The actual CoC is fine, but the FAQ breaks things down.
Your argument as stated also applies to e.g. unions, police, workers' councils or any other place where individuals are elected to "protect" the group. And it is undeniable that these have overall improved the situations of these groups. The argument is flawed in that it does not consider the upsides of instituting them.

This does not mean that CoCs are unequivocally the best solution. But fully ignoring their benefits due to the potential for abuse is not inherently sound.
Really interesting, great feedback, thanks!

This is the first issue, so this is very welcome to make sure the following are better. My goal is to actually make it for the a diverse set of companies, this is only the first one.

Noted on the style! I'm probably biased by all the SEO/marketing stuff I read. Should improve readability for humans instead of machines (Google), thanks, will work on that.
Yeah, the article just assumes that a) money laundering via real estate is happening, b) it is increasing prices and then c) is trying to explain the logic behind it. But the title is misleading because the never actually establishes a) and b) ... it just meanders around in c)
If you are interested in this space and don't want to purchase a commercial product, check out Flagr [0] which you can deploy and run yourself. It has clients for Go, Python, Ruby and JavaScript. I have only used the basic flagging, but it also supports A/B testing as well.

No affiliation, just a happy customer.

0 - https://checkr.github.io/flagr
Society is complicated and messy. Social change is uncomfortable. And yet for all the complaining of any given generation, they'd probably disagree with the ethics of three generations prior.
Vancouver is an extra special case because of all the Chinese/HK money parked there. A planeful of middle-aged Asian gentlemen in suits would land in the morning, take a private bus tour around open properties, pay the asking, board the plane and leave. Developers were literally building high-rises to give foreign "investors" something valuable to buy. This all but priced every normal family the fuck out of the market. It was completely insanely bananas. Not "a little money laundering" by any measure.

Lovely city though, beautiful nature, excellent restaurants.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation doesn't speak for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100
The US kind of/sort of has a similar thing with extended zip codes. From what I understand, the postal service usually assigns an extended zip code for each building they deliver to. If you’re at a single family residence, then it’s equivalent to the Singaporean example above (though it’s possible the postal service will still reject a letter addressed to just an extended zip code!).
"Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails"

So they tested the propaganda on crazy Canadians? That's terrible rephrasing
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Sometimes it's worth picking up limited edition or collectible items. For example, I bought the Tesla S3XY short-shorts immediately when I saw Elon Musk tweeting about them because I expect them to quickly grow in value over the next 20 years, especially if he continues being successful.
Nobody's yet mentioned that there's another of these 26 second pulses with a source near Australia and New Zealand [1]. Pretty mysterious!
http://ciei.colorado.edu/pubs/2006/3.pdf
GDPR compliance is no different from any other kind of compliance. If you're a big publication then you've got more than enough legal people walking around the office to make sure you aren't accidentally printing something that can be construed as libel, to ensure that you're paying your taxes correctly, to check new employee contracts, etc.

Besides, most websites need to update their privacy policy to be accessed in California anyway. The Californian privacy protection rules aren't as strict as the GDPR, but they are very similar. I don't really buy the "it's expensive to comply" argument a lot of American companies seem to use because of this.

The companies want to collect and trade your personal information to the highest bidder, the GDPR got in their way and now these companies are acting out.
Once again propaganda that makes covid seem mythological and maximum scary for maximum rights violation. We did all this to flatten the curve and covid is so bad now we gotta end society as we know it or covid will end society as we know it. Wake up while you still have time.
Allowing customers to download the content in a common format seems like a solution to lots of problems. Maybe that should be legislated as a requirement of selling digital goods?
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You don't want to go down that path, because will result in endless finger-pointing.

Why Japan joined WW2? Because they were playing catch up with European powers and doing what they did to Japan a some time earlier, and were trying to avoid the fate of China (see Opium wars)

Why Germany and Italy were heavily involved in both WW? Because they were the only European country with no colonies, in part due to their recent unification (specially Italy in this case), and the other European countries were screwing with them.

But... why? And so on, you will end with a huge chain of whys and finger pointing until you blame God for creating Adam.
My anecdotal experience is "SRE" means a sysadmin who has learned Python for some automation (of course using some automated management tools, such as Ansible or Terraform). Is this the case for most "non-FAANG" and "non-startup" companies?
I don't know the laws in other countries, but in Poland owning unlicensed media is not a crime, only distribution is. That's why there are vulture litigators who sue you when you connect to a torrent network and start seeding, but they can't do anything about you downloading.
I lived in Vancouver from 2009-2018 and saw the insane price appreciation from money laundering.

The main question people asked about the appreciation was: "is appreciation really being driven up by foreign buyers".

Many came to the answer "no", because foreign home ownership was "only" in the 5-10% range depending on the neighbourhood.

This article lays out the case why foreign ownership % isn't the right thing to be looking at:

1. The goal of a money launderer is to launder as much as possible

2. The goal of a home seller is to sell for as much as possible

3. If the asset being purchased is a home, incentives between buyer and seller are aligned and prices are higher than the non-laundering market would support (esp if there's another launderer who's interested).

4. Since the market for home prices is based on comps, a few launderers can raise market prices substantially

5. Lather, rinse, repeat

The foreigner question was the wrong one to ask, though certainly a large part of the market was driven by foreign investment. The right question to ask -- and the problem to guard against -- was: "what's the impact of laundered money on the market".

BC added the foreign buyer's tax of 15% in 2016[1]. But beneficial ownership laws come into effect on November 30 of this year[2]. The former created a slight disincentive for foreigners laundering $$ to buy. But turns out what was really needed to slow the tide of illegal money flowing into housing was more transparency and disclosure rules.

[1] - https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/mortgages-real-es...

[2] - https://www.mondaq.com/canada/real-estate/988830/bc-real-est...
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Can you expand on the part about various counties and what you mean? Just in case I ever decide to commit a crime round these parts.