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Ask HN: The Fallacy of DevOps?
> Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams are no longer “siloed.” Sometimes, these two teams are merged into a single team where the engineers work across the entire application lifecycle, from development and test to deployment to operations, and develop a range of skills not limited to a single function.

Before "devops":

- software engineers do development: bugfixing, introducing new features, maintenance of current features

- infrastructure engineers/sys admins: bootstrap environments locally or remotely so that software engineers can run their applications there

Now (with "devops" mentality):

- software engineers do development AND operations

So, "devops" to me seems a way for companies to get more from their employees by paying the same with the excuse of "Hey, software engineers, do you wanna develop a range of skills that will make your a better engineer and have more control on the stuff you do? Welcome to devops!... same paycheck tho!"

Obviously, many software engineers like to learn more for the sake of learning (e.g., me). I really like learning and even though officially I work as a software engineer, I do like to learn about operations and infrastructure stuff... but the idea that I can do the job of two persons (software engineer + infra engineer) but being paid the same as before, well, doesn't seem fair in my opinion.

More and more "software engineer" job offers are requiring experience with Docker, k8s, nginx, etc... and I'm fine and all, but hey, if I do know about software development (e.g., Golang and Postgress, and DDD, etc.) and on top of that I do know about "ops" (e.g., Docker, Ansible, k8s), well then pay me correspondingly.
> safely submerge

Uh-huh.
I don't know how much it matters that children have simplistic moral beliefs but I think it matters a great deal that they tend to retain these beliefs in adulthood and that just about everything in our culture encourages this:

- the news media

- the criminal justice system

- religion

- TV shows

- internet outrage campaigns

- etc.
Because the convention center might be one of the only source of jobs around
Many people do not really care about privacy or are not convinced that Firefox is significantly better.
Why It’s So Hard to Speak Up Against a Toxic Culture
I would add the source (eu official?, Reuters? Binance? And update times.
Presumably finding unbiased people is impossible. Trump latched on to calling it the "China virus" because he knew it would feed into nationalism/separatism and harm Chinese imports. All countries are involved in global trade; at this level of importance most people could be influenced.

As far as finding frozen samples, you'd also need verifiable documentation, presumably, otherwise we wouldn't know if it were a zoonotic sample ... so we wouldn't know if it were a wild origin, or a lab-captured origin?

If it were a lab-release, was it accidental or the actions of some other nation wanting to harm China.

It seems to me that conclusion people want is quite possibly not out there.
I feel the pain of the author.
Have been using rook/ceph for the past year. We had some miserable times because of the different rook issues, especially the garbage collection bug that deleted more than it should.
Since 3 months now, I almost forgot we are using it. no issues at all, touch wood
Yes. Here’s an article that builds on this:

https://css-tricks.com/block-links-the-search-for-a-perfect-...
Exactly, FreeRTOS makes it trivial to spin up 20 threads... who was doing that with MS-DOS?
Even as a big company you can do that. E.g Intellectual Ventures [1] offers such protection services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
Hope I don't like a fossil, because I wasn't born back then, but wasn't this due to skilled typists being primarily female - and thus naturally qualified to be computer scientists? If you go back further in time, they would've been flocks of human calculators:

https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa
And who manages to do that?
In the car repair job example, it’s not clear to me that the ad is being targeted on gender; in fact, it’s pretty clear to me that it’s being targeted based on revealed interest in cars. That the latter has a correlation with gender is true but not especially concerning to me.
Part of what makes you an enabler of programmers -- and not just a guy who screams "faster! harder!" -- is to be able to push back a little.

There's sadly an inherent conflict of interest between the people doing the job on the ground (programmers) and the rulers (managers).

Your job is to find the middle ground -- not to completely side with your higher-ups.

That would be a good starting point for you IMO.
No custom domains support?
Decent Wikipedia article about the militarisation of police, covering Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, the UK and the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
Stupidest argument in the world.

If someone takes a funny video of a random person on the street, and it's blurry, OF COURSE they're not going to post it or show it to you.

But if it was Jesus, Mohammed, or Aliens in front of you, you'd probably still show the clip...even if it was a little shaky due to your adrenaline..
I lived downtown in a major city and my landlords had an exclusive deal with AT&T so while my neighbors were getting 400 Mb cable I was getting 15 Mb DSL.
Used supabase on a few side projects. Overall had a great experience with it. Would recommend.
Having led a team for about a year now let me tell you it's not easy. You are always trying to balance many priorities and even with over a decade of coding experience, it's not always obvious which refactorings or tech debt stories or architectural changes are worth prioritizing now, which can wait till later, and which are engineer pipe dreams that I need to gently but firmly kill as quickly as possible.

I have had similar managers to what was described above, in those types of organizations. It may be a lost cause but it may be an opportunity to work on your influence skills; being able to explain and sell your solution is perhaps even more important than coming up with it in the first place.
I have said it pretty often in this comment section, but the huge majority of internet users has no finely calibrated screens at all.

They also won't have screen where they are likely to feel anything has too much contrast.

IMHO a screen which displays a common black and white website with so much contrast that it strains the eye is a 100% failed product which completely ignores reality.
Sorry that's a utopian dream and we are cursed to instead live in the real world. Sometimes suicide is the most humane decision someone can make for themselves. And true compassion comes by actually supporting someone in that situation, not condemning them or "society".
Is There a New Housing Bubble?
A cane that doubles as a monopod for a camera would be cool. Something that can switch from a single tip to a tri tip tripod.
This cannot be a good faith question, but for international readers who may not follow politics in the US, the proud boys are without a doubt far right.

They emerged from the alt right movement in the states, eventually calling themselves "alt lite". They were participants in the disastrous Unite the Right rally.

Their beliefs include the idea that men and western culture are under siege. They believe there is a white genocide occurring. They are often seen sporting clothing with "six million wasn't enough", a reference to the holocaust. They are an exclusively male organization that values chauvinism.

They are designated a terrorist group but the Canadian government. Several members have been charged with terrorism related to the Capitol attacks on January sixth.

There's a bunch more. Please take the parent posters comments with a giant grain of salt.
Reminds me of "what do staff engineers do?" https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes

So, when one is indeed expected to do such work, they better be compensated like staff engs in that case.
Someone call John Holt.
The idea of using a cloud provider for critical stuff freaks me out but I keep hearing people I respect argue for it (often from an angle of "we can't afford to scale for certain large attacks without this.")
Paleolithic Alternative to Cowsay
Pretty cool. Know of any instances of one patent troll going to battle with another patent troll, to protect one of its clients?

Before I pay for protection, I want to be sure they got my back.
It came in everywhere non stop for a while.
I agree with TFA that 'Waterfall' is substantially a mythical creation in terms of formal definiton.

Nobody defined 'Waterfall' as contrasted with Agile any more than 'they' argued constant climate as the Climate Change folks would have it.

Nevertheless, I have seen, especially in a government context, the very bureaucratic rigidity that the Agile practitioners decry. SAFE wasn't begotten in a vacuum or as a sales driver.
Boston Dynamics Robot Runs Out of Battery During Military Combat Drill
These are long running processes. They have 5gb of temporary disk space. You can attach persistent volumes as well.
There's a book called "Tiny Habits" which goes into this more.

I've also tried to use this when building my own habits and it's been fairly successful. When most people want to start something they get all excited about it and jump in with both feet. And then they burnout and stop. It's the New Years Resolution gym effect. After New Years, gyms are full of people who set a goal to exercise 5 days per week. After 3 weeks the gym is back to normal as all those people burnt out and realized they couldn't keep it up.

The brain needs time to adjust to change. I'll start out with something really simple like exercising one day per week for 15 minutes. Then after a few weeks when it starts to feel routine, I'll add another day and wait a few weeks. Eventually I find that I reach this equilibrium point where the time I'm putting in is enough and it's easy to maintain that habit.
And you believe that wikipedia entry for the Proud Boys is an unbiased presentation? Laughable.

The head of the Proud Boys is not white, so it's hard to imagine them being too serious about "white supremacy."
IMO, rates should be based on projected actuarial losses plus overhead and a (statistical) profit for the insurance company.

From my own driving past (male), I’d expect that I was a worse risk in the 16-25 age bracket than most women I knew in that age range. Why shouldn’t I pay more?
Lighter lift-and-shifts with the new GCP Database Migration Service
This could be very useful when trying to track down annoying logging noise.
Oh, I see. Jurigged doesn't watch for add/delete of files, just modifications (which means it'll miss changes from certain editors like vi that use a move instead of modifying an existing file). I think the write's not atomic so the file's flashing empty. It might depend on the editor?

Either way it's a problem. What's the time gap between the deletes and adds? I think debouncing the event so it only executes after e.g. 0.1s with no changes might fix it. I suppose I could also just flat out ignore empty files but that wouldn't be as robust.
The Next Big Thing in NFTs? Breaking Them Apart
Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they're changing trucking
Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.
Ethical behavior is the antidote to toxic culture
Surely a grep -rin ./*.py would suffice
This could be used to track down noisy prints in an existing codebase though.
Thanks for linking this, I had no idea this occurred.
These will be used along side the military in counter terrorism. I too was wondering why the police would need them but it seems they're making terrorism a police issue.
When the Pan cam was initially released I bought a couple of them and hacked on them for a while. examining the original firmware quickly revealed they were using WebRTC for the video. At least at the time almost all the cameras based on the Ingenic T series chips used the same backend service. It has been a couple of years so my memory fails on the name. The marketing material for the service mentioned the use of WebRTC.
This article and accompanying videos are interesting in that regard: https://www.circleid.com/posts/20191230_starlink_simulation_...

It suggests they could be lower latency than a great-circle path ground fiber without the satellite interlinks.
Is this the same thing as about.me?

I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me

Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data so they can sell it?

Or are people benefiting from this? More than a LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram or wix or Google site or free hosted WordPress or medium?

I had an idea for a site sellmyinfo.com where you enter your info and I'd split the profits of selling it with you. Maybe that idea has wings?

[1] I must have seen an article 4 days before this, but "about.me" is hard to Google for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025764
Long-term adverse outcomes from neonatal circumcision (n=1008)
It feels toxic enough. I always open the back door when we have our natural gas oven on because it makes breathing unpleasant otherwise.
Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
That's irrelevant. The issue is not that the panel might all be like minded. It's that any mindedness outside of what YouTube considers currently acceptable is banned from publication.

It's not a matter of them being allowed to do this either. A private entity can choose to publish or remove whatever content they choose. It's that in the long term this type of control is stifling to overall discussion.

At the start of the pandemic when the CDC was publicly saying to not wear masks (and knowingly lying depending on how you frame it), a number of people made public statements that N95 do offer protection. By YouTube's current standards that would have been verboten. Same thing for anything that discussed less than "6-feet of separation" for social distancing. Yet as of a few weeks ago the CDC quietly updated that to "3-feet of separation".

YouTube's public slogan is, "Broadcast Yourself". It's missing the part where it explains that "Yourself" has to jive with their flavor of the week.
Thanks, I try to curate useful resources.
I'm not familiar with other microcontrollers, but ESP-IDF seems to be very actively developed. I bought a wESP32 a few months ago and initially couldn't figure out how to enable ethernet... came back after some ESP-IDF updates and had it working in 10 minutes.

But you are probably correct about the latest chips.
Bad software (therefore all software) is like the recurrent laryngeal nerve in giraffes [0] (a freak of evolution). It is unlikely to be the result of a singular minds "design". It is more of a result of evolution through countless independent decisions, each of which are individually an improvement, but put together results in weird inefficiencies that are impossible to fix without starting from scratch. And when was the last time you were allowed to "redesign" something from scratch at work?

[0] https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/vo...
Generating 5M rows using SQL
I had the fortune of working for a very small company that made electronic vision enhancers and portable readers for visually impaired people. We were just 2 developers and there were about 15 people in total mostly doing electronics, assembly and marketing.

It was very surprising how dumb our intuitions can be about what's important for our customers and what isn't. And how easy it is in daily grind to make something that can't actually be used by a blind or elderly person. I think they would be better of if they hired at least one blind developer, even if (s)he worked a little slower.
Usage of (La)TeX has exploded in recent years, thanks in no small part to Overleaf. Unfortunately the project itself has still been struggling financially, so if you've got the means and want to support its development then do consider joining TUG, the TeX Users Group, the global org which coordinates it's development and community.

Perks include being posted copies of TUGboat, the excellent magazine that this Knuth piece is a preprint from. They also send you a DVD of the latest TeXlive, if you want it, you get to vote TUGs elections (or stand if you want!), invites to the annual conference, and get discounts on various (La)TeX, typography, and Knuth books.

https://tug.org/forms/current/memberapp.html
And if you actually have been playing "devil's advocate" this whole time and don't believe the interpretation of facts that you've put forth, then that is very much "arguing in bad faith." You were not up front with your beliefs or positions, you just wanted "to ask questions."

That's called "sealioning," a term you may have heard. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sealioning-int...

If you did not believe in good faith the statements you made, or have substance behind the questions you asked as though you believed them to be true (CGG for example), that is very much insincere.

I am not going to be dragged into an endless debate with someone who wants to play devil's advocate. There are people with actual misunderstandings and misconceptions about science that are out there that need our help to understand the world around them.

Why waste time like this if we agree on the basic points? This is not a socratic discussion, you are not Socrates, and I am not Plato. This is not a PhD defense. It is not an academic conference.

I'm here to talk about this with people who have legitimate concerns that they actually believe about the subject matter at hand.

And please, I'm sorry if I mischaracterized your position or your actions thus far, but that's what it looks like. If you had said at some point "just playing devil's advocate here!" or "I don't 100% believe this but what about this thing I saw?" then if I had seen that, I would have engaged in a completely different way, and likely disengaged much earlier.

Thanks for the interesting ideas, but I have to go study for exams, and procrastinate in ways that are better for both of our mental health.

Have a great day, and I hope this hasn't taken up as much of your mental energy as it has mine. Because it took up a lot of mine.
Shooting someone protesting for democracy with a rifle is too much work
Out of my range here, but I bet they have a deeper and wider base to draw on for the AI interface with the brain than most other organizations through their CEO.
I agree. And for many of these use-cases a "Facebook" page for the business would be fine. I know how we all love to hate facebook here, but for many small businesses--like the guy who fixes our neon signs--the Facebook brand page works great.
Also Yarn and Yarn Spinner

https://yarnspinner.dev/
This is my concern about SpaceX applying its superpower to Mars. Rapid prototype iteration on Mars is orbital time: you wait 2 years for the next launch window and then ~7 months for travel, blow something up and learn lessons, repeat next window.

Hopefully they do some rapid iterating on Starship Moon missions and get some of the blowing up out of the way early.
Pretty sure that was a typo and they meant 1830, as that fits with the rest of the timeline they laid out.
While I do agree on the humility and lack of understanding points, my perspective is more, that the current solution is probably not the best, but what the best solution would be is pretty much unknowable for any non trivial system. Instead, it is more likely that you are approaching a local maxima. So the question is, whether it makes more sense to optimize your current approach or seeking another maxima which implies making things worse for a while before they get better and you might get stuck halfway there.

Either way might be a better choice for a given situation and due to lack of information and changing environments carry their own risks.
If you actually want to get high go across the border to Cambodia and find a happy pizza store. They are all over the place and trade openly. It is legal as a foodstuff.
Facebook Censored Israeli Apartheid Week
That's still a far cry from "spreading propaganda".
I wonder if the rotor wash will clean them off or kick up more dust and make them worse.
We have had well working 100 Gbit Ethernet for about 8 years now. It's been trickling down in recent years: https://www.servethehome.com/mellanox-connectx-5-vpi-100gbe-... (meanwhile the high end is at 200G/400G now for nics and switches respectively)
Ask HN: Is Elixir Still Relevant?
Few years ago, I was developing in Erlang and a bit in Elixir. That was very enjoyable, because the features of those languages (and especially the OTP framework) makes many things way easier.

I've been looking back at Elixir for a few weeks for one of my project, and I'm worried.

95% of the libraries I would need have not seen any commit since a few years. What's more frightening is that most libraries listed on awesome-elixir[1] seems to be unmaintained too. Almost like the Elixir community died 5 years ago (which I do not believe).

Is this normal? Would you trust a seemingly unmaintained library? If not, would you implement all of that work from scratch?

[1] - https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
Time to McGyver some faraday cages, I guess.
The rabbit never escapes...
Charge more, if you haven't had anyone balk yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-p...

1) Given that those succumbing to group think and confirmation bias are generally unaware of their biases, how would we know that we are not experiencing something similar now?

2) What are the implications for civil liberties, if the state targets political opponents of the current administration?

3) Could these issues be resolved targeting political violence generally, instead of making partisan pleas and accusations?

4) If political extremism & intolerance are issues driven by the contentious political environment, are these partisan blame games contributing to the climate of toxic political divisiveness or helping to resolve it?
This is changing soon. SpaceX filed with the FCC for approval for mobile ground stations on vehicles like RVs, boats, and planes. It's coming! https://fcc.report/IBFS/SES-LIC-INTR2021-00934/3877177.pdf
> the one you encounter on a daily basis, and the one you read about on HN

This is true of any "real world" subset, vs its online outlets; HN may just be more niche than some.
> benevolence of unfettered globalism hasn't exactly come to pass.

I remember laughing out loud listening to people talking about the "Arab Spring". As someone who splits his time between the US and the mid-east, I knew there wouldn't suddenly be a rush of western-style democracy flooding the Arab world.
"Instead of building your own domain's reputation, enjoy the SEO tailwind of our amazing community."

I wonder what that means. I see that "my" pages have outbound links to Ahoyo general use pages. But is there some way any of that "link juice" comes back to my Ahoyo page?
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