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So far I haven't seen any companies replicating what Google SRE does, blindly or intentionally. Much as this article describes, organizations I've seen are just inventing a role they perceive to exist in their organization and slapping the label "SRE" upon it. Often these roles are directly contradictory to the way Google SRE works: they are just carrying pagers for products they aren't allowed to improve, they own build/test/release for some reason even though that clearly falls in the domain of the developer, SREs are setting service levels which is obviously the responsibility of product.

I think people should realize that when you go into the hiring market looking for SREs, you are about to pay more, not less, for a highly qualified software engineer who is also a systems expert. You want these people to not just operate product, but to be closely involved in architecture and development so the product turns out to be operable. Your SREs should be working in the product code on the bits that ordinary developers might overlook or not be qualified to write, because they lack expertise in system or distributed systems behavior.

What this article is calling "real world" is just an attempt to redefine the term.
Nintendo lawyers incoming. People never learn
> I am released from interruption duty

Ha, that's an apt way to put it. It seems to me as well that we aren't living in the information age insomuch as we are living in the interruption age.
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Huh I never notice that one but then I always use middle click to open results in a new tab if there is a chance that I want to look at more than one.
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Propaganda is just old-school name for PR. All large organizations do PR (or propaganda).
> You can't go to the police for someone making racist or sensitive insults.

You can in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23128956
The best books I own & re-read are over 30 years old.

At the same time, most every decent library should own a few copies of them. They're all well known, at least in their industries niche.
Having worked with some banks on software deployments I feel this pain. Waiting weeks for a CR to be processed just so they can apply a single patch. Diminishing returns in this regard are a real thing.
Wait, how does that even work?
Renting contracts are almost always time constrained
Yes, these are "real" markets and this is exactly how real markets behave when they are not well regulated.

Vancouver and other cities in the West Coast have chosen regulations that ensure that the housing market channels maximum amounts of wealth from the less wealthy to the already wealthy. They started doing this when the middle class could be homeowners. After several decades of this sort of housing market, all those "middle class" homeowners from the last century are now asset capitalists worth millions. And they pretend that they didn't cause all the homelessness when they insisted on regulations to keep new people out, let only super wealthy people in, and maximize the growth of their housing assets.

This is exactly how markets behave. Incumbents collude to maximize their profit, unless regulations hold them back from doing that. It's a tale as old as time, and it doesn't get any more "real" than that.
Cool, I did some projects with large banks, saw something similar. The problem is that the bureaucracy solves some of the reliability at the cost of speed. That is the biggest problem with most large banks IMO
RIAA is a typical troll, someone who got too much power to censor things.
That is not necessarily an unhealthy cycle...

Organizations succeed by delivering customer value. Re-orgs of teams to remove pain points and blockers is a sign of an organization flexible enough to handle their growth. Even if you go back and forth a few times between similar states, the larger point is that you are willing to do what is needed to continue to effectively deliver value to your customers.
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There's a fine line.

In the US, we've usually had reasonable parties in power, so it really didn't matter what your politics were.

Now... Not so much; and it goes both ways, too. There are loonies on both sides of the aisle.

I've always seen CoCs as needed for situations where a conference has a transgender person and a "poorly socialized conservative." Or a Christian proudly wearing a cross and a "poorly socialized liberal." Situations are even simpler; it could be a conference with a female speaker and a man who still believes in strict gender roles.

Unfortunately, the above situations come down to "political belief."
The software that runs the PCIE controller isn't on the CPU, though. And at least at launch only the 500 series chipsets support the Ryzen 5000 CPUs. Maybe this will come to the 400 series chipsets later that get Ryzen 5000 support, or maybe this is something that was cut to squeeze in Ryzen 5000 support for the 400 series chipsets.
Is it, uhh, common knowledge that the important thing isn't how the team is organized or how they exactly do their job but that there are engineers paid and incentivized and empowered to keep the status quo running flawlessly (or as close there to as possible) rather than being paid and incentivized and empowered to launch cool new features or make the money graphs go up?

The problem at most companies is that if you have two engineers, Alice and Betsy, and Alice launches a change that generated marketing buzz that gets spun into sales, and Betsy launches a change that prevented the site from going down over the seasonal rush, Alice gets promoted and Betsy gets told to work on more impactful projects.

Which isn't to say that Alice's work isn't important or promotion worthy, but you need an incentive structure that rewards both.
Their consumer obsession is to convince more people to use their platform to buy more products. Letting people free themselves from the platform runs counter to that goal.

It's not even just that, they have licensing to worry about. Do any content providers even allow a cross platform license, if the Amazon/Google/ect even wanted to do this? The content creators have always wanted to charge by the view, they never wanted it to make it easy to "own" the content.
> The Canadian Forces stresses that it follows ethical guidelines in its propaganda operations.

Can there be such a thing as ethical propaganda?
My understanding is that propaganda, by definition, includes at the very least a distortion of the truth.
They are probably doing it for diversification. They will launder some of it in real estate.
and the fact that not all the companies run the same workloads or scale as google
>Do they really "want to get" there? Don't they just buy the assets and leave them unoccupied?

I'm sure it's both, and it's really hard to determine in advance.
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Does fixing a bug introduced by a different author and pointing out the mistake as part of commit message considered a CoC violation?

I find this absurd and just a way to get at someone. Anything you say can be bent and twisted by a group of lawyers and the CoC committee here seems to be filled with such folks.
I can't imagine there being all too much profit lost from people using youtube-dl to grab and avoid paying for copyrighted material... First, it's a command line tool. Second, even being well versed in those, I have only found the occasional such clips I wanted to ensure I had preserved. A documentary or two to view later etc.

This simply cannot match e.g. the P2P scale...
Reagan secretly sold illegal weapons to Iran to fund bloody coups and death squads in South America. I’d say secretly committing treason is a pretty big lie.
Why would a company pay 10x more to operate in the Bay Area? That’s where the people you need and money is!
Ask HN: How to stand out in an Assessment Center?
Hi Hackernews,

I'm currently applying for software engineering roles in several companies. I seem to do well on the CV screening part of the interview process, but have a very hard time when being interviewed "in person" (currently mostly over video anyways).

Could you share some tips, tricks or anecdotes on how to:

1) Be less nervous while being interviewed

2) Make a bigger impression on an interviewer
A few years ago, I sold my 1996 V8 ZJ with a rebuilt engine for $300 as a favor to a friend of mine for his dad. That was maybe 33-50% of the fair market value, but yeah, they're super-cheap.

If you want reliable, the L6 4.0 engine is way more reliable than the B8 5.2/5.9 engine from that era.
This is one of the main reasons I love using Go for backend work, and the lack of this functionality is just one of the reasons I dislike JavaScript.

Anything to make JS feel less haphazard and more elegant (i.e. using TypeScript) is awesome in my books. Looking forward to hopefully using this pattern in my personal work going forward, and maybe trying to introduce it to my team ta work.
Patreon is going to face the same issue then.
Fortunately such things eb and flow. We're in an era of copyright maximalism, but there are forces pushing strongly against that - from the balkanisation of the internet as authoritarianism spreads, to the ubiquitous prevalence of piracy online and off.
Any number is remarkable if you're smart enough to find why it's remarkable.
My perspective on this question is that its convenience. If the app is something relatively simple, I just want to use it on the browser and not have to go through the steps of installing software that I probably will only use once. Also using a webapp is less dangerous than installing a program in the sense that it can't read your files, install malware, etc. I can relatively safely use an unknown webapp with confidence, but I would only install a program on my actual computer if I trust the author of it.
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This is almost certainly not the sort of thing that a different CoC would have made any different absent an absurd IMO rule such as "Do not criticize individuals, projects, companies, etc."

Rather, this is a case of where do you draw the line when something/anything makes someone uncomfortable enough to complain. Do you apply a reasonable person standard and perhaps tell that person "We hear you but we can't agree and we're not going to do anything about it. Sorry."? Or do you say "We understand that we can't tell you how to feel so we accept your complaint and will take action."(And then do so.)?

In practice, for many situations, especially community events tend towards the latter.
>It bothers me how much people are happy to assume criminality in these cases

Are you sure taxes are being paid in China before they take out the money?

There are documentaries on youtube which show Canadian real estate agents willing to look the other even when they are told that money coming from China is dirty. Ofcourse not all the money is dirty.
One definitely can write with SEO in mind to make considerable differences in repeatable, organic traffic (in conjunction with numerous other accretive layers).
Google likely ‘thoroughly infiltrated’ by Chinese govt., expert warns
Turkey develops new armed unmanned surface drone
I feel like there is an analogy with self-help books. Every personality and company is different and they have to do the work to find out what works best for them. Internalizing the meaning of things and leading your own thinking is probably as important as the practices themselves.

Adopting another company's practices is often lazy thinking. There are no silver bullets.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Nintendo last year (or the year before) sent a C&D to a really cool fan made Mario Battle Royale game. Then this year they released a game in a similar vein this year. While it’s their right, Nintendo has a history of being EXTREMELY litigious and hostile to their fan-base, almost Disney-like. And yet, in spite of that they’re probably still the video game company with the greatest customer goodwill, mainly based on the Mario, Zelda and Pokemon series, if I had to guess (although technically Pokemon is a joint venture between Nintendo and a few other companies).
So this means this only works for NodeJS-powered web apps?
Ad spam is not a mistake if you like making tons of money off people. words with friends is the worst offender and has been printing money for a long time.
> You said they couldn't have possibly been the behemoth's they are. That's just patently false...

We may never know what might have actually happened but the Stratechery article I linked to in my original comment has this tit-bit (albeit related to Instagram):

...Instagram was a product, and its business model was venture capital funding. To be sure, this wouldn’t be the case forever, but on April 9, 2012, the road from popular product to viable company was a long and arduous one. Instagram would not only need to continue growing its user base, it would also have to scale its infrastructure, figure out a business model (ok fine, advertising), build up tools to support that business model (first a sales team, then a self-serve model, plus tracking and targeting capabilities), all while fighting off larger and more established companies — particularly Facebook — that were waking up to the threat Instagram posed to their hold on user attention.

Or Systrom and Instagram could offload all of those responsibilities to Facebook and continue being "extraordinary product leaders", and pocket $1 billion to boot...

The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark. Facebook launched in February, 2004, and sold its first ad two months later. True, “Facebook Flyers” bear little resemblance to the News Feed ads that power the company today, but Zuckerberg’s immediate instinct to build not just a product but a company is notable.
That's what I really think this is about as well.
You say NIMBY like it's a bad thing....

Why shouldn't communities be able to organize when something threatens their interests and vote against it or find another solution?
These streaming services are approaching the right price (digital media’s marginal cost is $0), but at the expense of user freedom to backup, time shift, collect, and use offline. Is $9/mo streaming better than $20 CDs? Maybe, maybe not. The higher quality product (DRM-free files you can store) is still free and unencumbered by usage rules.
There's a "theorem" about this:

> The interesting number paradox is a semi-humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states that every natural number is interesting. The "proof" is by contradiction: if there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number, thus producing a contradiction.
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RE: debug.com

As a teenager who didn't know any better, it was empowering to gain that level of access to a computer, to realize a certain level of control over it that was previously abstracted away. It felt like some insider knowledge that I was becoming aware of.
A standard technique to find explicit expressions for the `n`th number of a recursion is through generation functions; see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function. You can plugin x = 10^-1 there. Not sure if the result is always a rational number.
> Censorship, not that I know of. But Twitter can't really censor anything, only their platform (same with Facebook).

"Can't really censor anything", except what they can (and do, with a rather heavy lean to one political side) censor: arguably one of the top two "popular information" dissemination platforms on the planet. The same goes for Facebook, and YouTube, if to differing degrees. The same may also be happening within mainstream newspapers and TV news, but due to the nature of those businesses, any censorship that may be occurring is less discoverable (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).

> Content they block can be accessed through other means.

Can be, in theory - whether it actually is (as compared to the alternate scenario of if it had not been censored on the major platforms), is unknown (due to the discoverability issue, difficulty in finding it (search engine "optimizations", deplatforming), additional effort, etc). It may seem like it isn't unknown (the sense of omniscience that comes with human consciousness), but it actually is unknown.

What I really enjoy about these types of conversations is the somewhat disingenuous ~"can't see the elephant in the room" nature. It is not complicated to realize that if censorship occurs on a platform, then therefore dissemination and consumption of the information will decrease (that's the whole point of it)...yet if one observes conversations on HN, I'd say at least a good third of the comments are written as if the reader genuinely doesn't realize this. That's perfectly fine of course, free speech and all that, but it's really fascinating to consider from a human psychology/neurology perspective. Even more fun is "breaking the 4th wall" of forums by pointing out this meta-pespective, and then observing replies that seem as if they literally hadn't seen that portion of the comment.
Here’s the definition of the term I’m using - note that the term does not require government backing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

The source of your misunderstanding is here:

> Bitcoin also has underlying properties, but instead they are guaranteed by mathematics and game theory instead of physics.

The Bitcoin algorithm has some interesting properties but they don’t have much practical value to balance the enormous inefficiency and, far more important to this topic, that doesn’t make any particular blockchain valuable - anyone who wants those properties can set up their own for free without enriching the current Bitcoin holders. The only reason why you would consider those hashes to be worth paying money for is the community belief that they have a certain value - nobody has any need to use it otherwise. That’s why Bitcoin is an especially pure fiat currency: the community consensus is quite literally the only thing backing it’s valuation. In contrast a currency like the US dollar has curbs on fluctuation not just from much greater usage but also because millions of people receive it from government salaries and purchases or need that currency to pay taxes — unlike Bitcoin, which has value only to the extent that you can find someone else who thinks it’ll be worth more in the future.
You said it yourself - now you can pay $1 for 1 song and own it forever. Still a better deal than what we had back in the CD era.
Streaming over draw calls is a super unique take on this – I think this is what Mighty.app is trying to do as well. Browsing the web is the perfect use case for offloading client-side compute, and I'm excited to see this industry develop.
I really don't think their point was that it's not necessary for books and other physical media to be transferable to kids. I saw it more as an anecdote that I think probably a lot of people would, unfortunately, nod in agreement with.

To your point, however, I do agree. I think one of the major benefits of physical media (or even digital media as long as it's entirely self-hosted) is that you can enjoy it entirely without surveillance, and that it's much more resistant to censorship. Being able to read about and understand how people lived, thought, and created in the past is incredibly important, and it's something we should preserve for the benefit of future generations, even if they might sometimes contain things that one might not necessarily agree with today.
It works for all tech stacks, as our integration process is client-side only! You don't need to change anything on the server to use Cohere.
I noticed in the past couple of weeks that the verbiage on my fire stick changed from "you own this video" to "you purchased this video". I knew that meant something like this... and sure enough.
> wishing to preserve a locked down community

How do you differentiate it from xenophobia?
When you learn new skills your old skills slowly degrade. For young people it doesn't matter because they dont have old skills, but for me I have found often I just end up as half-good at the old and new skills, so now choose carefully.
Looks like the title got capitalized by mistake.

How to use it with youtube-dlc instead of youtube-dl: https://github.com/axcore/tartube#625-using-youtube-dl-forks
Sure they tend to get in sync, they are interacting, aren't they?

Due to conservation of momentum, tides can't just change the Moon's orbit without affecting something else. That something else is Earth's rotation. And the only way to take energy out of the system while still conserving momentum is for the Moon to move into a higher orbit while the Earth rotation slows (because the Earth rotation is faster).

That can lead to either the Moon being ejected from orbit or to its rotation being locked with the Earth day (that gets very long). Our current configuration leads to the later.

But none of those will actually happen. The Earth tides from the Moon rotation are just not relevant enough for them locking on a Sun-like star lifetime.
> If I'm vulnerable, why should I gamble that your views are similar to mine?

Don't you do that with a CoC as well? Short of writing a long list of things that may and may not be said, you can only give a vague "please be kind to each other", but the concrete judgement what is and isn't kind depends on whether your views align with those in power.

My experience is that vague rules are both a recipe for corruption (where the enforcer's friends are exempt from the rules and the argument is "that wasn't rude, the person deserved to be called a shithead") and the troll's playground, because toxic people that want to cause trouble are great at figuring out the pain points that get to their targets but don't cross any lines.

I believe that enforcement is important, not rules. You can always have a more specific policy for the moderators to guide them and to develop the team's response, but that shouldn't be part of the rules.

It's true that it's not 100% fair that you might get kicked out for breaking a rule you didn't know existed, but to me that's collateral damage I'm more than happy to accept (and I've been on the receiving end of a "you crossed a line" talk).
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That is such an American PoV. Plenty of places in the world have or have had political persecution. It is a very real issue in large parts of the world.

In general CoCs enforce a very American world view, one where I as a non-American do not feel welcome.
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You're really grasping now. Assuming you're referring to Jesus, allow me to point out the obvious fact that he wasn't European, and antisemitism as we understand it today did not exist in his time.

By "the right to participate fully in public life," I'm referring to citizenship and equality under the law. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_emancipation

As to the dangerous SJWs, well, I suppose you'll be able to say I told you so when we're bunking together in the reeducation camp.
From an archived talk (2011) on wikipedia [0]:

"The linked page misleadingly suggests that a certain Cody Birsner discovered the relationship between the series and the fraction, whereas it had been known for a considerable time before".

Günter Köhler, 1983 (published in the The Fibonacci Quarterly, 1985; who cites earlier papers from 1977 and 1981): https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/23-1/kohler.pdf

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFibonacci_number%2FArch...