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In some companies, DevOps mean: developers do everything poorly, including ops. No dedicated Ops or security teams in company or applicable training for developers.

In others companies it means separate siloed DevOps teams and people, You need to raise request to do anything on your servers. Sometimes deployment mean getting DevOps team approval in process.

I also dislike DevOps terms because it is not specific enough on how you should organize Dev and Ops concerns.
The person appears to be from Europe. If HN is the bulk of their exposure to mundane topics regarding the US I can see why they'd be unaware that California building codes are not representative of the rest of the nation.
I will have to try it next time over there, but please don't be offended when I say that based upon all the cheeses I have eaten over there I won't be holding my breath.
I think outlawing this tool would be counter-productive.

One of the reasons nudes being released is damaging is because it's a rare enough and noteworthy event. If because of this tool everyone has nudes of them floating around then it would become a normal thing and would actually remove most of the damage around real nudes leaking by providing plausible deniability (assuming anyone ever cares at this point - if the world is drowning in nudes of everyone, the real thing will probably go unnoticed anyway).

Outlawing the tool wouldn't actually stop malicious usage of it but because only criminals would use it it would make its (rarer) usage more damaging than if anyone could legally use such a tool and nudes stop being a noteworthy event.
do you know how face id works? or this is just a.. gut feeling
Probably, and I haven't experienced lockdown in the UK, but in the US and Norway, even people being quite careful see more than just their immediate household.
It was a "secure" document management system.
I just ordered two all-wood staircases to replace the steel spiral monstrosity that was built into the house where I live from the beginning. It was unsafe, unstable and way too steep so they really had to go. But the stairwell is a weird shape, there is partial overlap with the front door and the direction of turn had to be reversed. Enter the master carpenter who spent a 1/2 hour to measure up the stairwell and who then proceeded to create two new complete stairs that fit to the millimeter and solved all of the weird problems in one fell swoop. It wasn't cheap, but given the challenges and the materials used, the fact that they will probably last another 60 years or so and that they look amazing I figure that it was well worth it.

No way you could automate that kind of ingenuity. So, props to your dad, and there are more people like him still doing this work today.
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I'm not sure what the relevance of "human observers" is, versus any physical measurement device that can "report" their measurements just as well.
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You can get “high five figures” with a GED and a factory job. Why would anyone go through the stress and expense of law school for that?
Probably because they won't understand what "West Country" means?
Of course the skins are useful: they provide entertainment. Unless you’re trying to exploit your customers; most countries don’t care, but eg China does have laws to prevent kids from being exploited by game companies.

Very good point about the provably fair casino games. I didn’t even know they exist. However note that casinos are regulated too - you can’t eg serve minors.
> we use the email address as a fraud signal for some payment providers.

I'm sorry, I understand that that is not your point, but an email address is a terrible fraud signal.

Also, if anything having the email go through an Apple relay, means that the user have an iCloud account, which seem no more risky that a random Gmail account.
Interesting, I was not aware of this.
It is, but it's difficult to introduce. Just hiring 'devops' people for your ops team, or giving developers access to AWS is missing the whole damn point. It requires reorganizing work in a way that makes a lot of people angry, as they now have to do things that so far they've just tossed over the wall to another team and then complained loudly when that didn't work.

You have to convince developers that they're responsible for making software easy to deploy and debug, and get them to carry pagers during work hours. You have to convince them to make the product internals clear for everyone, including to operations people, and get them to do knowledge exchange with them. You have to enable them by providing insight into production deployments and providing a platform that unifies production/development as much as possible without tons of boilerplate required per project (common database interfaces, common logging interfaces, common CI, common release procedures, common development environment).

You have to convince operations teams to write programs in something other than bash, and to generally follow good software engineering practices, to write operations-level code that is as testable as the application itself. You have to enable them by giving them the means to build a company-wide production platform where complexity is decimated by moving every product team onto the simplest possible setup. You have to let them build bespoke tooling and accept that these lines of code are as important as the application code itself.

With all of this implemented well, the differences between ops and dev roles will begin to blur, people with different backgrounds will mingle within and across teams, and you will end up with a more platform/product split between teams rather than a development/operations split.
Then it loses marketing value and data hungry companies no longer care
In my job, I get exposed to the owners of plumbing, construction, and other blue collar industries. From what I've seen, their houses are huge, their spouses are gorgeous, and they live in regions where they get to have an incredible quality of life.

The owner of a construction company told me once that he makes a 15% profit per year, and he charges far less than the competition because he would feel slimy taking more.
I'll address this here: it's something that I took as a given so didn't cover when I wrote the post. RSS is not dead, as a protocol it still works, some sites still publish RSS feeds and some of them are even more than useless excerpts designed to get a click.

What is dead, or at least like Arthur, waiting for the right moment to come back is the idea of RSS as a system for connecting content streams together and building higher order services on top.

When too much thought & conversation is captured inside Facebook, Twitter, Slack and all these other services who depend upon owning you & your content, the RSS system cannot thrive.

I saw amazing possibilities arising out of individuals publishing their content, increasing use of micro-formats to add semantic information, and layering of services. That future didn't happen.

That's what I am sad about.
Just wait till the AI visual paternity tests get here.
>the companies knew the damage they were causing and didn't care.

As implied in the next sentence- it seems to be a general trend of ignoring personal responsibility and choosing scapegoats after the damage has already been done which doesn't feel productive. I would rather energy be spent looking forward and addressing the root causes.

These are oil companies we're talking about. Their entire raison d'etre is the production of oil to meet global energy and materials demands. What would you have had them do instead? Any attempt to pivot outside the oil business would have been pointless as a competitor would have simply risen up to meet demand in their place. They couldn't exactly reduce oil consumption even if they wanted to- they aren't in the business of making fuel efficient cars, plant based plastics, etc. They simply collect and process a raw material which the rest of the world then pollutes with. I'm all for punitive action for oil spills and funding corruption, but retroactive emissions is just picking an easy target to lay blame on.
You hit on the most important thing about DevOps: DevOps is not a job title - as any DevOps person will tell you. Obviously it _is_ a job title, but what they mean is that it isn't supposed to be one. Its supposed to be a way of looking at the SDLC to reduce friction, decrase siloing, and approach shipping and building software into production with the same SWE discipline that feature work is given.
The failure of the industry to actually grok this has resulted in the re-framing of DevOps as SRE - which is also misunderstood by 99.9% of engineers and managers - and more helpfully, in the rise of the Platform Engineering meme.
In my time as a platform engineer - or what devs call a 'DevOps Engineer' - which has never been my job title thankfully - I've found that people either think "DevOps" are wizards or drooling idiots. At the same time, however, many devs are unwilling or unable to consider the complexities of productionizing an application before those complexities cause delays. The point of DevOps was to catalyse cultural change, not to build a new silo for people to misunderstand and ignore.
All much milder than post covid complications or death. None put as much pressure on public health systems.
I agree, it's Red Leicester at best.
Completely lacking in any depth or complexity of flavour.
> The immune system will continue to deal with the viruses as it normally does.

Even if you know nothing about medicine, just from the fact that the COVID vaccines need booster shots you should be able to induce that the immune system in fact has a time component to it, and therefor any timeframe has an impact on it's ability. With a little more knowledge on the topic you can see that a single year of basically blocking everyhing off from your immune system makes it less powerful. The flu season will be devastating, and the long term effects of blocking kids from training their immune systems will be even worse.
>If you think bricklaying is a simple task, you've probably never laid bricks, or likely ever worked a construction job.

If you think the bulk of the actual laying of bricks, siding of a wall or shingling of a roof isn't a simple task you've never worked a construction job.

Thinking is required around corners, windows and other interruptions. The bulk of the material laid, hung or otherwise expended is done so in a simple and repetitive manner. Once you've figured out your non-standard bits of the job you basically just run on autopilot.

That said, I agree that 99% of the the engineers who try and design this stuff never actually have the requisite experience to understand the nuance of what's going on.
DevOps = sysadmin

SecOps = sysadmin has to apply the CIS/SCAP/whatever security template to the machine

DevSecOps = developer also has to apply the CIS/SCAP/whatever security template to their machine

It all ends up becoming marketing jargon for suits looking to follow the next big trend.
I think every talk on complexity is meaningless, without taking into account the difference between accidental and essential complexity.

There are problem domains where there is simply a minimal complexity required implicitly. You can’t write an insanely simple program that will render vector fonts, simply because the problem inherently has to have a fixed amount of complexity. Anything more (accidental complexity) is of course bad, and “clean” code or whatever should try to minimize its amount, but it is harmful in my view if we keep believing that it could be made simpler. One really bad example is this list: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/
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That same observation is made of the other side as well - a willingness to blow up a system, even if it hurts the common man, in order to get to a supposed utopia.
> provided you also offer Sign In With Apple.

They are using their app store monopoly to gain a foothold in the single sign-on business. You could try to claim that there's no business there but look at how Microsoft got spanked for giving away a free browser. Now the Apple has over half the phones in the United States, I'm looking forward to them getting spanked very soon hopefully.
I think this is an important point: startups hawking product are a strong source of entropy, undoing the work of practitioners who are trying to say coherent things to their intended audience of peers. It'd be nice to have a safe space away from those people, even if it was closed to the world at large.
I kind of assumed the paint in the vessel or whatever (they probably didn't know about toxicity) would seep into the wine over such a long period of time.
>They implemented end to end encryption in iMessage to collect more data?

iMessage backed up on iCloud where Apple has key to decrypt.
Hey this is really cool. I want to start doing the same thing.

Visual group theory is a really nice book for intuition. Also, the YouTube series "Essence of Group Theory" can help in this same line.

What I also want to do while self learning is formalizing some theorems and definitions in Lean. Even just looking at how they're already defined in mathlib [1] can be of great help when internalizing the concepts.

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/blob/292e3fa...
Suppose that I am an activist in China and I use ProtonMail to communicate with others and write about things that Chinese government is doing that I think are bad.

I understand that metadata is not private in e2e email encryption. I am fine with that risk, I just want the content of my emails with another user of ProtonMail be secure, which ProtonMail has guaranteed AFAIK.

A Swiss court issues an order to PM: the Chinese government has informed us of a criminal that is using PM to do activities that are considered illegal in China. You are required by Swiss law to do two things: 1. In order to bypass end-to-end encryption for this user, push a malicious update to the mobile app or desktop browser of this user at this IP address, and 2. You are not allowed to disclose this request to public.

Another version of this request is that, a Swiss court would order provision of a back-door (possibly through pushing of a malicious JavaScript code) to a selective set of users provided regularly by the Swiss government, citing a law on national security of the Switzerland or the like.

What would be the response of ProtonMail to such hypothetical request?
It's the opposite where I work. We are "DevOps Engineers" but we spend most of our time writing Java and we get by using Kubernetes, Docker and Ansible but I always feel like we are scratching the surface a bit.
Indeed. Ships contain redundancy. Should this complication be removed to reduce downtime?

Over-engineering does not mean "making the thing worse". It does if your engineers don't know what they're doing. If they do then the added complexity increases reliability.
Argh, one particularly clueless mgr once went on about DevSecOps vs. SecDevOps and the cringe factor was so high I almost resigned on the spot.
This seems to indicate that the authentication system is using a binary comparison "is this face the same as that face" for each stored face. But why would it not do instead "which is the nearest face to this"? Surely you can't find one face which is the nearest to 40% of the DB? (unless this is yet another counterintuitive feature of high-dimensional geometry)
From a system and integration tests perspective, do you care if a function argument is an integer or a string? Is the question relevant to the customer requirements?

If a number is an int, float, large or what have you, the question I would ask is how many decimal points should be printed or if you divide 2 with 2, do you get 1 or 0.99999. A good language/compile should have sane defaults that works almost every time, while giving me options to override it if in testing it get an unexpected result where a human would disagree with the computer.

The source of tests should be the customer requirements, and types is just an set of automatic tests being applied on the code which has no direct connection to the customer requirements.
ALSA has compat modules for OSS.
Depending on the sensitivity of your project or for compliance purposes, background checks might be necessary. The efficacy of doing this with global employees is questionable at best. That said it is possible to design siloed systems that grant access based on trust.
One of the premises of the article is that cross-training does not bear fruit, but I recall claims that, for example, piano players picking up guitar had a much easier experience, than a non-musician picking up guitar.

Perhaps reality is more nuanced than that? Like, there may be tasks that appear very similar, but they are actually not cross-trainable?
The article is in English. Why did you post it with a title in Czech?
If you have a single server pulling of a plug (or even any HW failure which cannot be fixed quickly) is a very rare even (unless you use cheap desktop hardware instead of a decent server with ECC RAM, hot-swap HDD, redundant PSU e. t. c.).

If instead of using this single server (with manual fail-over in case it would fail) you'll start to create complex HA cluster from multiple servers not having enough people to properly design, test and maintain it you can end up having a less reliable system.
Wow, next up Photoshop filters/brushes too?
GitOps is a deployment methodology. Sure its a buzzword, but product devs have plenty of those as well.
I _do_ agree that DevSecOps is a pointless concept - as is FinOps and other xOps crap - its become a way to throw work over the wall, which is what DevOps was trying to fix.
This endless taxonomy of terms for the people who do shit that we don't want to do is a definite drag on _actual_ acceleration of SDLC in the cloud.
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> Hopefully we very quickly get to the point that nobody will ever be able to know if a photo is real or fake and it’s just not considered an issue therefore.

The ongoing "fake news" crisis proves that we are, in general, bad at spotting fakes - that is the purpose of a fake - and will also vehemently disagree about what is fake. Especially when it can be used for political purposes. Expect the first world leader brought down by a deepfake in the next decade.

I'm reminded of https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961354/pakistan-calibri...
To be fair, highway/road construction is notorious for being an industry where the .gov and the unions bloat things in order to make more easy money for each other.

Tropes about one guy working and four supervising or tearing up recent work just to fix something you didn't fix while you were at it don't persist because the industry is a shining beacon of economic efficiency, they persist because they're universal enough to be relatable.
I'm guessing that glass would cost you circa $10m, if not $100m ? Weird things happen at the very extreme ends of supply and demand. Something this rare only becomes exponentially more valuable as there are more people, which means in theory it makes a great investment. Potentially the greatest investment opportunity that could ever exist, no?

Actually perhaps it would be more valuable than a painting like the Mona Lisa? Why.. well, there are more great artists. But it will never be possible for someone in their own lifetime to attain another 2000 year old bottle of wine. It's simply impossible. Anyone who wanted to plan for such a thing could never live long enough to enjoy it.
I tried it about a year back and it was missing to much back then to be usable day to day for me. Took a look again now and it does look like there’s a lot of improvements, will have to give it another go.
This is an important difference, and, for me at least, the difference between disagreeing (“ban the tool”) and agreeing (“make non-consensual nude distribution illegal”) with the proposal.

It’s a shame the headline communicates the former when it seems the proposal is the latter.
In America, the federal child pornography law applies only to depictions of an actual child (and you have to know it, for possession offenses, though that’s another matter). But the Justice Department has long taken the position that an image of a clothed child that’s altered to then make the child look nude—-they used to call these “morphed” images—-counts. I don’t think it’s ever been definitively resolved by the Supreme Court, and I don’t know what the courts of appeals have said, but tools like DeepSukebe have made that argument way more appealing. I’d bet that this is where regulation will begin: images of children. That has always been a domain where American courts have been extremely reluctant to intervene; for example, any visual depiction of a seventeen year old engaged in sex is proscribable without resort to the ordinary inquiry into whether the work as a whole is “obscene,” etc.

But under reigning American First Amendment law, it gets a lot harder to explain why a law like the one being proposed here would be acceptable. The Supreme Court has, for example, held that the distribution of animal-cruelty videos cannot be forbidden. And it’s not clear to me how one could proscribe the distribution of an imaginary visual depiction of an adult who was nude. You could call it defamatory, I suppose, but if it’s concededly fictional… I don’t know.
Case in point: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/lifeline-records-high...
I like Git and probably GitOps does mean something. But I really don't like that has the name of a specific technology. What if someone is using Mercurial shoult it call themselves MercurialOps.

I also find the definition odd: "GitOps is a way of implementing Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications" [0]

At least DevOps is more generic and not JavaOps or DotNetOps or PythonOps. Also I would have nothing against naming things like this except that along with naming things like this a bunch of hiring people starts asking for this very specific skills as it is like basic literacy that everyone should know or (a little bit worse) suddently appearing 1000 courses and materials from 0 to XOps in 29 minutes and suddently Github and Twitter is flooded with small projects copying at infinitum the same exercise without being able to actually teach people the hard skills of solving problems and then translating solutions into a specific technology(ies).

[0] https://www.gitops.tech/
Looks factually correct, although I didn't fact check the minutiae.

After Musk provided the initial funding, Tesla and SpaceX got more because they executed well. Investors were right and as a result got handsome profits. Isn't that how it should be?
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Would be nice if the headline included the year this was written. (2005? 2006?)
Even just using shortcut keys to tile windows is better than using a mouse.
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There is a continuum there between harmless to deeply offensive. The exact location in the continuum will at the very least depend on the person being subjected to this treatment and the cultural context.

The "AI" aspect will amplify the offense because of how life-like the end result can be.
How effective could it be short of an international convention?

Reality is, unless most countries ban it, it's gonna be on the internet.
As with all good internet journalism, the answer is at the end:

> The immune system is 'not a muscle.' All this begs the question: Will kids have more severe infections after the COVID-19 pandemic if their immune systems missed out "training" during winter lockdowns? Carsten Watzl, the secretary general of the German Society for Immunology, says we may see more infections, but not necessarily more severe ones.

TL;DR: Eating dirt won't work out your immune system because it doesn't work like that