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"Keep applying and talking to companies even after you have started negotiations"

YES. Do not stop until your first day (half kidding). One time I stopped interviewing after accepting an offer...only to find out there were rounds of reference checks (and one of them didn't go well). It was 2-3 weeks of anxious bullshit, but only because I already turned down everything else that was in motion.

Who knows maybe a second company will come through with a better offer.
Ethereum has gone 5 years without a single minute of downtime, so if it's extreme reliability you're going for I don't think it can be beaten.
Yeah you are right, there is no perfect alignment. I also agree that the usage based pricing from AWS is different from my hourly pricing (hourly being a subset of usage based).

I've never seen hourly based pricing being used for tools before. But hourly based pricing is common for human services and also for things such as AWS Lambda or VPS's. You could make an argument for AWS having an incentive for slow running lambda's.

In these cases you can test if the speed of AWS lambda is good enough for you. Similarly you can try out my app (for free) to see if it's slow or fast, and you can see this directly instead of having to rely on AWS's logs.

Anyway thank you for your feedback. It's really valuable for me to read these responses!
depends I guess, I am running on-prem workstation for our DWH. So far in 2 years it went down minutes at the time, when I decided to do so, because of hardware updates.
I have no idea where this narrative came from, but usually hardware you have is very reliable and doesn't turn off every 15 minutes.

Heck, I use old T430 for my home server and still it doesn't go down on completely random occasions (but thats very simplified example, I know)
Yeah sorry that wasn't super constructive of me, I apologize for the brevity, busy day. I was really just making the comment that it seems much of the world is going remote right now, so i'm assuming this will be a lot of the available jobs. Do you have any idea how many jobs you're including v's omitting based on the criteria you use?
>, but it's clear that businesses that maintain their own infrastructure would've avoided today's AWS' outage.

When Netflix was running its own datacenters in 2008, they had a 3 day outage from a database corruption and couldn't ship DVDs to customers. That was the disaster that pushed CEO Reed Hastings to get out of managing his own datacenters and migrate to AWS.

The flaw in the reasoning that running your own hardware would avoid today's outage is that it doesn't also consider the extra unplanned outages on other days because your homegrown IT team (especially at non-tech companies) isn't as skilled as the engineers working at AWS/GCP/Azure.
M1 itself is the biggest thing that changed. Being an energy hog isn't as big a deal when the CPU is so efficient that the battery lasts more than a workday almost no matter what. Age old case of increasingly inefficient software relying on better hardware to cover for it.
The purpose of NASA is not only to explore but inspire. In light of that, I'd be fully supportive of using a Starship launch to bring Hubble home.
Isn't that kind of odd? I've worked with software engineers who are good talkers but their code and problem solving skills leave something to be desired. Meanwhile, I've worked with guys who took a while to get comfortable with in terms of having conversations and yet they were some of the most productive members of the team both in code output and skill.

Ultimately, most of the time I 'talk' with my team members, we're actually writing which is very different from talking due to the async nature of the former.
Let me blow your mind: you can use CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste text without formatting.
I'm sorry, but Italy is not a Christian state. The majority of the population is Christian, but it's not like Israel or Iran where the religion is enshrined in the basic law of the country, and the government and state's legitimacy are based in that religion. Specifically, in countries like this, non-believers don't have the same rights as believers, either explicitly or implicitly (like marriage rights for mixed couples in Israel, or that Arabs get expelled for their lands to be resettled). If I'm not mistaken, the only country considered developed which has such a close and explicit relationship between the state and a religion is Israel. All the rest are developing Muslim countries.

> wrt apartheid claims, Israel is at war with both Gaza and West Bank.

Not really, for Israel to be at war with them they'd have to recognise their independence, which they don't :) And there can't be a permanent peace agreement while Israel claims things Palestinians can't give them ( like the entirety of Jerusalem). A blockade is a valuable war tactic, dubious morally ( civilians suffer indiscriminately), but as mentioned before Israel is not at war with Gaza, and an open air prison with atrocious conditions, more resembling a concentration camp than a counter under blockade as previously known.
> That might be true, but the effects of any given outage would be felt much less widely.

If my system has an hour of downtime every year and the dozen other systems it interacts with and depends on each have an hour of downtime every year, it can be better that those tend to be correlated rather than independent.
This was my thought as well.

Also, generally being likeable makes a positive impact on people. Teams would much rather someone they feel they can work well with than someone who is going to be a total stick in the mud and drag everyone down.
Webb is at L2, so if it wants to look at Hubble in low Earth orbit, it's going to be pointing at the sun.
I'm an American and do this too. Also, I don't take work home. I leave my laptop at work. It's a signal I do on purpose and I regularly talk about my life balance priorities. I don't mind working long hours during projects or busy times but I like to keep it in the office. So long as it's infrequent, couple times a year, something may totally blow up and I'll just go into the office on the weekend. If I'm out of town or not physically able to make it, well that means I can't physically pull out my laptop and dive into my work regardless of my location. I consider that a "not my problem" situation. I've found, if you give in to the instant responsiveness and availability, it becomes expectation. I'm mid-career and have done that, but at this point I go into jobs setting my terms and don't mind telling a C level or BOD member they can wait until I get back in the office. I don't even do that usually because I just don't respond outside of regular hours. It's not for everyone, and I may someday alter this, but I find it suites me at the moment. I have a young child and I'm not jumping on calls/emails/texting during our already limited time together. It works just fine but if I were to do this at a junior level it would have been career suicide. My experience is what has given me the leverage to demand my work style.
IIRC it was in jest, and then taken as "serious" by mainstream audience, like "god paricle" or "al gore invented the internet".
> I would imagine that the US IC (CIA/NSA) already does some free consulting for these giant companies to this end,

Haha, it would be funny if the IC reaches out to BigTech when failures occur to let them know they need not be worried about data loses. They can just borrow a copy of the data IC is siphoning off them. /s?
This article should have a ", says VP" at the end of it.
On this topic: I hired my friend of 10 years (someone with whom I am very close) into our tiny company, and I let him go a few months after. This enabled us to protect the team's dynamic and to save our friendship.

His behavior was unacceptable, and his output was unsatisfactory. He consumed too many of my brain cycles and that was not worth it.

I fired him in the office as his manager, then told him let's go outside and we headed to our bards where we had beers as friends and I told him I would support him financially.

I see him very often (every few days) and he always says "I learned X" working with you. As a matter of fact, I'll see him tomorrow.

I reserved a section in my dissertation to a supervisor who fired me. I was conscious I fucked around, and I was grateful for the lesson of "do not fuck around". My problem was wanting to ship something perfect and not reporting progress until it was perfect, and you just don't do that: you need to produce something for it to be improved and perfected. You can't edit a "nothing", you can only edit a draft.

Everything in its right place.
Try Isoveka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
It allows you to see more. Everything suddenly starts making sense and every other fonts will feel ..... different .....
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The more you configure stuff, the less it interoperates. That's my experience. Defaults for life.
My example shows that recursion is a design choice. It doesn't "just happen to you".

But you are right. You can implement recursion properly by just implementing function calls properly, and making sure that you are not limited by an arbitrary and usually small stack size. It's just that if you don't have recursion, you usually don't have a need for deep stack sizes either.

By the way, citing tropes like "leaky abstraction" and "Dunning and Kruger" is exactly the kind of lazy thinking I am talking about.
I thought Sweden was the poster child for ignorance as an effective means of COVID mitigation?
Since you guessed it instead of somehow measured it (i think you'd need a very high framerate camera to measure the time between click and app appearing to do that) perhaps it isn't that it is fast but you're just not sensitive to such small delays?
Anyway, so I'm watching the hugely entertaining video to which you linked, only to find that a comment I made about Rockstar on HN a long while ago is on the video: https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3226 -- totally unexpected. Brought a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing!
But this really is one of the least interesting war stories on his page. Be sure to read his Microsoft story.
The fixed fairing has been successfully launched twice.
There is a specific reason for the system performing like that... a development process that lets somebody in a far off office choose software components for financial/political/office politics reasons, wires together separate programs doing each task that are developed separately with barely any integration testing until it's too damn late to fix anything, and a whole host of other "our team is going to do this part using X" bullshit that winds up with the overall system looking like somebody tried to use Legos in one part, Lincoln logs in another, pottery cast clay elsewhere, and has three different interconnection schemes because each level of bureaucracy involved mandated a different buzzword when it got to review things two to five years after the last level saw it.

At least, that's what it looked like when I saw it in '98. It doesn't sound like it's gotten any better.
The Physiology of Treading Water Efficiently
Beware of paid, proprietary solutions to security problems claiming to be "the only passwordless solution offering seamless, mathematically unbreakable authentication that doesn’t require humans to come-up with, manage, memorize or input passwords". Free tools like SQRL exist, which uses elliptic curve public key crypto instead of passwords, and no doubt other solutions also exist.
To be clear, the above is a direct quote from the article.
Can confirm I can once again login to the Console and everything seems to be back to normal in us-east-2.
Yes, it is a lot of work to test if response code is OK or not, or if a timeout limit has been reached. So much so, I pretty much wrote the test in the first sentence. Phew. 10x coder right here!
You can already do that in Win10 today.
It works really well imo. All the people who want to use new stuff at the expense of stability choose us-east-1; those who want stability at the expense of new stuff run multi-region (usually not in us-east-1 )
Many consider MDN the gold standard when it comes to language documentation and they cover all the JS browser API. I find it much preferable to Python’s docs.

If you’re talking about TS or Node docs, I’ll agree they’re not on the same level as MDN.
Imagine being a fisherman whose boat is blocked in the ice around the Svalbard. Imagine going on foot on the island to find a shelter and coming back the next day to find the ice has gone away with your boat. Imagine having left a gun, 12 bullets and a lighter. Imagine surviving this place during 6 years in the 18th century.

That's what happened to 4 russians in 1743 and since I know this story keeps me in total awe for this place.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/649587.Four_Against_the_...
Title should be in quotes, or something. It is baity, because it implies something (the VP is using BT headphones, and shouldn't) that isn't true.
That thing about seat belts - really?
https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/seatbeltbrief/index...
IAM is a "global" service for AWS, where "global" means "it lives in us-east-1".

STS at least has recently started supporting regional endpoints, but most things involving users, groups, roles, and authentication are completely dependent on us-east-1.
Agreed, imagine paying thousands of dollars for a software product that is never delivered and continues to be pushed forward to the next year for five years running - it's unbelievable a solid case hasn't been brought against the company. Only a performer like Musk with such an influence on his fans could pull something like that off.
A very similar technique is popular for rootfinding (since the 80s, convergence analysis in this 1998 paper), where scaling by the norm of the gradient (eq. 1.5) enables q-quadratic convergence.

https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036142996304796 (free version https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.4/296/...)
There is an alternative: A true network cloud. This is what Cloudflare will eventually become.
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031
How is this different to HLS
Alex has written an excellent blog about Django best practices for startups. It contains wonderful insights about how you should structure code and why you should structure it that way. It has helped us a ton!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27605052
Even longer for it to actually power up and start "working." Really excited for it, but feel like something akin to this hubble issue happening with the JW would be disastrous.
I use this hiking sometimes. Not as good as GPS obviously, but better than AllTrails.
I suppose you're technically right. It's just the worst way to do it.
To service and relaunch for the next 50 years?
> it's clear that businesses that maintain their own infrastructure would've avoided today's AWS' outage.

Sure, that's trivially obvious. But how many other outages would they have had instead because they aren't as experienced at running this sort of infrastructure as AWS is?

You seem to be arguing from the a priori assumption that rolling your own is inherently more stable than renting infra from AWS, without actually providing any justification for that assumption.

You also seem to be under the assumption that any amount of downtime is always unnacceptable, and worth spending large amounts of time and effort to avoid. For a lot of businesses systems going down for a few hours every once in a while just isn't a big deal, and is much more preferable than spending thousands more on cloud bills, or hiring more full time staff to ensure X 9s of uptime.
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I recommend reading Alberto Savoia's book, "The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed"

One of the examples that Savoia provides in his book is especially helpful to recall here:

Back in the 1960s, IBM was trying to figure out if they should make a massive investment in building a speech recognition product. Rather than betting the company on an expensive idea without being certain of the market for it, they simulated the speech recognizer by putting a secretary in another room with a mic, leaving the test subject with the impression that their commands were going directly into the computer in the room.

By doing this, IBM figured out that even if they made a perfect speech recognizer, their customers wouldn't use it! They were concerned about privacy, found typing to be faster and more precise, etc. Rather than investing huge sums of cash on a dud, they were able to put it towards the System 360 line, which turned out rather well :)
I'm not a fan of political stuff on HN, and flag stuff like this, but I feel the need to point out just how bad/sensationalized this article is.

> Lawmakers don't set the narratives inside the GOP as much as they react to their voters acting on those narratives. The people responsible for setting the narratives are the media propagandists that much of the conservative base trusts and turns to for its news and information.

Republicans listen to voters, and voters listen to pundits? Is this supposed to be novel news reporting? And if Republicans have such strong propaganda doesn't that imply it's the other way around? Or do they not know what propaganda is?

> In other words, Nunes isn't even exiting Congress for a sure bet on a right-wing platform like Fox News.

If Trump really secured a billion dollars that's an instant unicorn, and is probably not a bad bet. Why is the author so sure Fox will be around forever?

> Over at Axios, Sara Fischer and Dan Primack published a must-read story Monday morning about how the right is building its own eco [sic] chamber

This article is literally just a bullet point list of new "right wing" social networks and publishers with no evidence they've gained any traction compared to traditional social media, or of an echo chamber. There's 0 evidence presented that "a book publishing house called Winning Team Publishing" are selling to users that only read Winning Team books and or that it has significant sales at all.

> "While I have a thick skin, I also have a family, for whom the past week has been extraordinarily difficult," Cuomo said. "So, right now, I have to take a step back and focus on what comes next. That means I will no longer be doing my SiriusXM radio show..."

Yes CNN, that's the most significant quote from Cuomo about this story. Not him saying CNN was fully aware of what he was doing.

I'll leave this link here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/cnn-hypoc...

> SCOOP: White House quietly tries to reshape economic coverage

SCOOP! Biden would prefer coverage of him be more positive. Very breaking, very novel, never seen before. You might as well be reporting the sky is blue.

> Smollett offered testimony for about five hours that suggested the brothers -- whom he knew from the 'Empire' set -- may have had other motivations at play.

Who, in more news of CNN's moral bankruptcy, was notified in advance of the police's investigation into his story by CNN's own Don Lemon. But sure, leave that out.
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I live in a very flat part of the US. I always assumed that the opposing retaining walls were tied to each other. I'm surprised there's no real anchor to this stuff.
I doubt this is the paradigm that Microsoft would like to promote. Interestingly, my limited interactions will Windows 10 I haven't had the chance or need to use a text editor.
Yeah, this goes pretty much everywhere.

I guess our industry is still ripe for disruption. Should someone figure out how make quality software cheap :)
I also have 2 servers there, one virtual with FreeBSD and one root server as Linux hypervisor. I run the guests from a tmux session because I was too lazy to create any systemd job for this. The guest works like this already more reliably than an instance from more well-known providers.

Of course for larger deployments you'd have to take care of fail-over and all this, so it's not really an option unless you are up for setting this up all by yourself.
We have or had alternatives - rackspace, linode, digital ocean, in the past there were many others, self hosting is still an option. But the big three just do it better. The alternatives are doomed to fail. If you use anything other than the big three you risk not just more outages, but your whole provider going out of business overnight.

If the companies at the scale you are talking about do not have multi-region and multi service (aws to azure for example) failover that's their fault, and nobody else's.
Hey HN, I have always wanted a simple task manager that would allow me to create nested lists and then automatically create gantt charts based on the estimated time of each task. That dream has now come to fruition and would love feedback of any kind!

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Yep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29478878
While I personally favour Postgres the biggest thing I think that MySQL has better is the "undo" log vs MVCC vacuum paradigm of Postgres. In a normal running system bad transactions should be significantly rarer than successful transactions - so making sure the normal path generates less garbage is nice. It means less garbage in the database. Tables with high levels of updates don't need high levels of locking or index updates. It also would make things in Postgres more useful like BRIN index - where an update doesn't necessarily need to change physical table order causing index fragmentation. Would make using BRIN index with things like Sequential UUID's on extremely large tables actually viable vs duplicated indexes that cause insert speed issues.
Openbox on XFCE. I have a custom set of keyboard mappings that I really like for moving and resizing windows. I haven't found another stacking WM that provides a set of actions like Openbox.
If you want to find a bunch of criminals, make an anonymous currency exchange and wait patiently. It's not necessarily the case, but it's plausible.
>Apple created their own silicon.

Apple designs the M1. But TSMC (and possibly Samsung) actually manufacture the chips.
Agreed, excepting grapes, as long as you are eating fruit itself, not fruit juice, pulp, puree or something else made from fruit.