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I am happy to be open here if it helps others. I am not with a FAANG, I am employed by Red Hat. My title is Senior Principal Software Engineer. At Red Hat it goes Software Engineer -> Senior Software Engineer -> Principal Software Engineer -> Senior Principal Software Engineer -> Distinguished Engineer.

My main duties are that I lead a team of 7 engineers and we all work on open source security projects.

My day is a mix of half coding / half meetings. I am UK based, so my mornings are nice and free (while the US sleeps) and then around 2pm I have a large chunk of meetings. The meetings are mostly with my team, senior management, and open source community meetings.

For me being a Principal is a much more than just coding prowess. You also need good 'soft skills'. You need to mentor engineers and think about their growth. Make sure they are challenged enough to grow, but not so much that they end up stressed and out of kilt. You need to be able to communicate with not just other software engineers, but also product managers, directly with customers and many other verticals within a business.
Web3 is going just great
I'm going to call it now: The zeitgeist of the 2030s and 2040s will be a focus on biology to contrast with technology. So instead of trying to eliminate humans from the equation, we'll see a group of people who take parts of tech they like (such as systems thinking) and focus it on human improvement instead of external tech.

Think genetically engineered humans vs. cyborgs; there will be a focus on holistic 'working with' human impulses and neurology instead of 'what can the tech accomplish'?

That'd be my guess.
You mean like this?

https://hex-rays.com/ida-free/
Well, except Docker. And all of your apps that are still x86 (and ARM support is WONTFIX), and then there's the 32-bit applications and the 32-bit libraries, and the plate-spinning clusterfsck that we call Homebrew, and your coreutils have to be manually upgraded or replaced altogether, and then you're probably going to want to find a replacement for Terminal.app, and while you're at it you may as well install a better window manager like Amethyst or Yabai. What's that? I can't disable the normal desktop interface and need to make do with 4gb of memory bloat at all times? That's alright I guess, I'll just disable system integrity protection and try to remo- hold on, you're telling me that there's a new update coming through? And none of my software is ready yet? That's unfortunate, it's already rebooting... and now we're in a boot loop. Siri, when was my last Time Machine backup? Siri? You there?

It may be hard to believe, but sometimes, for some people, just installing Linux is what they need.
I am on the side that this isn’t semantics and is a real phenomenon. For me, I can hear in my mind very well. I can hear so well that I can occasionally confuse things I’ve hear in my mind’s ear for a real sound (did you just say something?). It very slightly crosses the line into an auditory hallucination. I can hear music so well that I don’t need a radio to listen, just think of the first few seconds of a song and off it goes on the jukebox.

My mental images are nowhere near this clear, but they are a kind of “darksight” a seeing and a not seeing, ephemeral but also real and useful for visualization and problem solving.
Fine.

UK eradicated Rabies. I'm pretty sure we all agree Rabies has substantial animal reservoirs, right?
Agree but they’re complaining like I bought food at a restaurant and I can’t cook it. Seems like an invalid complaint.
There is tremendous value in knowing the orbits and when they pass over as India demonstrated in 1998 by using awareness of US spy satellite overpasses to keep their preparations secret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II
in the fullness of time JAX might prove to be more important than either. don't give people fish, teach them how to catch fish and all that...
I'm not sure how universal this is, though. A friend of mine lives in Holliston, MA (a small town that's about a 45 minute drive from Boston), but still drives most places locally, even just to go to downtown, park, and walk from there. The problem isn't the distance, it's that the roads were not designed with pedestrians in mind. The route from their house to downtown has mostly no sidewalks, and roads with enough traffic on them that walking along the shoulder doesn't feel safe. In the winter it's impossible to walk, with plowed snow piled up along the only places you could potentially walk.
Sharing libraries with other apps is a feature.
You can't really configure your car after you bought it either. Or your blender or your hair dryer.

Not everything in the world needs to be configurable to be good. Yes, when moving from Windows to Mac, people miss stuff that could be configured. When moving from Mac to Windows, from Mac to Linux etc, it is always the same story.

But people often miss the point that being configurable does not always means making it better necessarily. Part of configuration is to allow people to work differently, and that is good. But configuration to make it work like the competition (make Mac work like windows, or Mac work like linux) is beyond what configuration should be able to do anyway. Otherwise you end up with no consistency and a bad compromise.

Even with Macs trying to offer a consistent experience, Mac apps can often behave differently. Back in the day when I used Linux I felt like many apps I needed to learn how they dealt with the most basic things like the menu locations, like window management, preferences/settings/configuration etc. Too much configuration is not healthy all the time. And Linux culture of "configure all the things" might be hurting Linux adoption itself.
So... who cares? Seriously, if it's no worse than a cold, can we please stop talking about vaccination for it?
Ground level parking places for bicycles has been mandatory for new construction for a couple of years now. Obviously, that doesn't help the vast majority of people who live in places constructed before such ordinances were made. And while they usually need a place to attach a lock, they're hardly required to be theft-resistant. But it's a step in the right direction.
//How come you are "emphasizing" something not in the actual policy?

//Nowhere in the below do I find the word "cause":

//edit: the above is unfair and I believe I came in too hot

//Nevertheless the below quotation is what is being referenced by the article in question.

"False or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people."

Sourced from: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...
Easily follow websites that don’t have RSS feeds
> Edit: suburbs are unpleasant for kids because anyone who can’t drive is completely dependent on someone else

You're operating on some limited/different definition of suburb.

We stay in the suburb precisely because my kid has multiple friends within walking distance.
Just because James O'Keefe is lawsuit happy doesn't mean he is right.
If you can’t, you can’t call it need to. I’d compare it to GNOME.
Yeah, that’s definitely more vivid than what I see, and I’m fairly sure that it is unusually vivid. I can visualize a bit, but unless the thing is a simple shape I usually have trouble “seeing the entire thing at once”.

That’s not to say that I don’t ever have visual images come to mind unbidden.
I haven't had any issues with palm detection on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme. It's just worked since day 1. I have both Gen 1 and 2.
If Starship delivers on its deltaV and economic promises, it's at least feasible, although that's a big if. Besides, if you can boost something the mass of the telescope with twice the volume and much less money, why would you bother fixing the one you have?
I agree, its strange the different bubbles we live in, but none of my news sources didn't have the "Omicron likely weaker" headline?!
Nothing this guy did seems explicitly illegal aside from the tax evasion.
Thanks. I'd be curious to know about the context of the cases of foreign companies winning IP lawsuits in China.
Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
I had used IDA+HexRays for a few years between 2009 - 2017 but abandoned it entirely in favor of Binary Ninja and Ghidra (and to a lesser extent Hopper and Radare).

While IDA certainly has the first mover advantage, I've found that Binja and Ghidra in combination are able to achieve full coverage of my targets. If you're just targeting x86, you can probably get away fine with Ghidra. Although I've found for non x86 ISA's, Ghidra and Binja each have better or worse support for certain arch's but the ven diagrams overlap to full coverage.
This is an unfair take. The author is being clear that low resource usage is not one of the priorities of the project. (Maybe because he knew the HN crowd was going to go on yet another Electron rant-fest.) They even helpfully link to efficient alternatives.

Sure, not everyone has tons of RAM, but some people do and it is okay to write applications catered to either. E.g. I could use something efficient to write code in like EMACs, but I choose to use the "RAM hog" that is Intellij.
I got mine at Backupworks.com[1] - they seem to have a perpetual sale on for pricier items like this. They gave me a discount on a batch of tapes bought at the same time and threw in some barcodes and a cleaner tape as well.

[1] https://www.backupworks.com/quantum-superloader-3-LTO.aspx
> Hell, JavaScript has true, false, null, and undefined. 4-value logic!

You have vastly underestimated the number of values in JS’s logic.
> According to that link, total domestic air travel carbon footprint in the UK would be negligible, compared to diesel engines.

Should we not look at every source of emissions? Domestic air travel is something like 1% of global emissions and international is ~1.2% and both are growing significantly.

> I would need to take several trains, buses, and board a ship, to see my family. Mine is not an exceptional case.

Okay? I can take a 54 hour bus ride, I could drive, or I could fly. I just don't go. I'm not saying everyone should do this, but I also don't think we should continue looking at air travel the way we did prior to COVID. As I mentioned in another comment, how many consultants were flying twice a week to and from clients? How many flights were for handshakes and quick flights home?

Those things being minimized gives us more margin for flights that "matter" - seeing family, etc.
My company has built something for that.

Basically you have a nextcloud instance that you fill up with your data, then you ask for an LTO tape to be written with it. Repeat ad infinitum.

The tapes are yours; when you buy a tape it comes with 3 free operations (read, write, checksum control). If you want your tapes back, we'll mail them to you, else we keep them in storage for you.

As the tapes are written using LTFS, you can easily read them back anywhere with the proper drive.

You only pay a fee for the cloud storage; it also gives you access to your archive's database (what file is on which tape, etc).
Cowpox produced strong enough immunity to smallpox that a vaccine likely derived from it completely wiped smallpox off the planet, but it's very much not the same disease - cowpox doesn't spread effectively in humans and is much less deadly. There's just really good cross-immunity between the two that made vaccination possible using 18th-century technology and understanding of science, even though their last common ancestor seems to be way back in prehistory.
> "Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron," Johnson told reporters at a vaccination centre in London.

This wasn't a press release fyi.
Interesting. I wonder how fast you could theoretically read/write data stored in DNA. I could imagine it being used in place of tape storage, maybe, but it seems like it would be extremely fragile if you try to read through it at hard drive-speed.

EDIT: according to some random website, the human genome contains 3.2GB, and it takes a cell 24 hours to divide. That works out to 37KB/s, which is not very promising.
The numbers behind a cyber pandemic – detailed dive
I think it's sort of a labs (whether national labs or more broadly) thing. I have a good friend who works for one of the national labs subcontractors and they use the technical staff terminology.
> Our ancestors would argue that a 1MB application was bloated.

They still do, thank you very much.
Even in the Hubble days, launch costs were a relatively small piece of the pie compared to the costs of actually building the thing. I think for Hubble it was less than 10% (depending on how you count the servicing missions). For Webb it's significantly lower.
Shenanigans like that the product owe to its author, Ilfak Guilfanov, who's a bit of a meme in the ex-USSR SRE community. Back in the '00s, when IDA pretty much had no alternative, one couldn't just buy it. No, to pay them money, you had to be either an estabilished name (ESET or Kaspersky worked just fine), or to subtly caress the author's ego until it gives. And I've seen paying customers being kicked off the support forum for asking uncomfortable questions, complete with rude private messages. I believe that at least twice, unrelated hackers took offense and leaked the full version anyway. Fun times.
> severity of omicron infections to that of the previous strains then that’s just apples and oranges

Comparing the severity of the viral strains on some objective scale, if that’s even possible, is at best an academic curiosity. Severity comparisons only really matter in giving us an accurate idea of how likely severe illness and death will be so that individuals, families, and public health officials can make any changes necessary.
The show section on HN is full of these. I love seeing tiny projects there. Often they are more interesting than the bigger launches.

Another place is product hunt.

https://www.producthunt.com/
> But not catching known failure modes due to lack of process control is a different animal.

I agree, but for any complicated product like a rocket launch there are probably many many tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of things like this where one small uncaught error can cause mission failure. At some point it's just statistics, you'd expect to see some catastrophic failures across some percentage of products early in their lifecycle, regardless of how good your process control is.
"the only dichotomy that matters in political economies is that between the wealthy and powerful and everyone else"

I always think of this as putting on different pairs of glasses to see the world through different lenses. That is one lens. left-right is another lens.

There is no "the only lens that matters". There are many lenses which have different degrees of predictive power depending on what you are observing. You don't use a microscope to look at the stars.
Ohh, you optimist :-)

>"There are 344 single-point-of-failure items on average," Menzel said about the Webb mission, adding that "approximately 80% of those are associated with the deployment

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-deployment-...
On a normal distro it's just part of the default install, not something you have to even know exists. Arch just doesn't have a "default install", it's "build your own" distro focused on power users that like to control things at that level.
I disagree about, "...bad?". And I think it is GOOD.

I think it is good to present concerns about morals being violated by technology and a tech-company's policies & practices.

What more / different would you want to see from a discovery video, covering a situation of moral failing of an influential technology + business?
I absolutely am not suggesting we should not have luxuries in small quantities.

We should avoid frivolous and wasteful use of those resources though. How many consultants were flying 2x a week to and from a client prior to COVID?
Since we aren't all as smart as you, there's genuine value in languages & principles that guide us dummies to naturally avoid these kinds of issues as part of the happy path
As a point of fact, the sanctimony of referring to something as a "hacky workaround" began here, where _you_ were the one to (unironically) introduce the phrase: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29528285> Pointing out the logical inconsistency of a strong claim is not provocation, no matter how much you feel like you are the one who is being attacked.

I don't recognize your claim that the distinction is arbitrary. Is the NPM world's distinction between package.json's "dependencies" vs "devDependencies" arbitrary? (Answer: no.)
Thank you , this is totally off topic, but I would love more organization on the schedules page. Things quickly get too hard to manage when you have more than 10 or 20 schedule set up for your CI/CD pipeline.
8-wide is the absolute state of the art. Last I checked, AMD’s fastest core was 4-wide, and Intel’s was 6-wide. I only know of Apple doing 8-wide, and not anyone else. So branding this as the minimum necessary for mobile devices when even most desktops do not achieve it is silly.
The steep drop off starts of in July which in Brazil is winter.
Using GitHub’s security features to help identify Log4j exposure in your codeba
You're misusing that quote. The speaker (a sentient taxicab) was asked if it would abandon its life and make a giant sacrifice even though it was absolutely certain that doing so would not change the outcome.

That's pretty much the opposite of the point of view you seem to be extolling. You are right now living a uniquely special easier life. You are choosing not to sacrifice it for the hope of a better outcome, even though it may not be possible.
> Thing of the 'whole browser' as basically a GUI framework these days.

An a very bloated one at that.
> there's just no better OS for me

Try Qubes OS.
This is probably generated from his POSSE plugin.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

He mentioned this in the article.
I didn't say they aren't trying to establish a relationship, I said their profile would suggest that they lack the ability to.

Maybe they would benefit from seeing a therapist... but I don't think what is holding them back is how they are talking about their feelings or how they feel about intimacy.
Xcode 13.2 Update Downloaded from Mac App Store Causing Errors for Developers
> People have been saying this for the last 20 years and I've yet to build a linux workstation that isn't at least 20-30% more time consuming to configure, maintain and tweak than a Mac and sometimes a lot more time than that.

That's a high bar to clear. One thing that Apple does that makes a lot of sense is that they own the hardware and the software. Hackintoshes are a good indication of how things would look like if they had to support more hardware than they do.

This is one of the reasons why I have recommended Macs for the less tech savvy members of my family. Just works, great manufacturer support (noone really comes close), has things like Time Machine to keep backups running. My "support calls" dropped drastically.

My mother had a Linux netbook(remember those?) for banking purposes but a Mac for general usage. She would be able to browse on Linux, but things would get messy the moment she would want to, say, use her cricut machine.

Let's compare with Windows? That truly takes a whole lot of time, specially because the OS seems to "rot" over time. It's become less of an issue (possibly also because our hardware is so powerful). My Windows desktop has taken way more work to maintain than my Linux machines(plural) + Macs. I have to keep that for VR, Fusion360 (going to ditch that as soon as I can) and the odd game that doesn't work properly (Sea of Thieves in-game chat?). Can't wait to get rid of it and use only Linux - which takes hardly any "maintenance" at all (other than installing updates and even that is just a click).
Interesting theory. Then again, anyone who's been around the block long enough with BTC or Eth knows the hilarious state of "regulation" regarding crypto exchanges and their liquidity requirements. Which candidly further supports your idea here.

"Crypto Idiots" are a damn fine scapegoat for the insane monetary policy currently rolling out of the white-house.
Why would it be a legal nightmare in Brazil?
edgecore is just a marketing name, the actual company is accton

they're generally a competitor of companies like compal, clevo, quanta. All well known in Taiwan if you're in the business of having 3rd parties manufacture your stuff.
I took his advice and went to the Cost Anomaly Detection console and started to set up an alert for my $0.56/mo S3 charges. I want individual alerts, so I have to use SNS. I want a text message for an alert, so I am pushed into creating a 10DLC origin (even while in the SMS sandbox). A 10DLC registration is $50 for a brand or company, and $50 for each "campaign", plus $15/mo for each campaign. Am I missing something?
Video of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_D8r-2hwk
Now that you mention it Coral products are the only thing still of some interest to me. Though with so many alternatives around I'm not completely sure they are justified. Say the SBC - even though it is relatively smaller, it's still more expensive than the Jetson which is in a different category in terms of specs. In all fairness I'm interested to get some opinions on the jetson since I have a project where it might come in handy(automotive related). I'm still on the fence as to what I want to use and if I should consider a USFF desktop computer and have an x86 at my disposal and avoid risking having to dig deep into some library when something goes wrong. The one thing that I'm keeping my eyes on are the M.2 Coral devices, though I personally have no use for them.
My 9 year old Hyundai i10 with 30k km and no accidents on it cost €3200. I'd call that "fairly decent". That's less than an electric cargo bike costs.
This was a really surprising thing to read. For me the Apple's haptic touchpads were a slight downgrade from their excellent non-haptic touchpads in <=2012 MacBook Pros. I liked the stiff clicky feel of the "real" touchpads over the haptic simulated click. Though the haptic touchpads do seem to be more reliable and are better at registering clicks near the top of the pad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive
I'm actually making a new toy in the US partially in response to the shipping backlog. The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world behind China (I find lots of people don't know that). As long as you design things that don't require much hand labor prices can be competitive while being made in the US.

China is no longer the cheap place to manufacturer hand labor intensive items. Vietnam is where that happens. If you ever want to know where it's cheapest to have things made by hand look at where clothing is made.
All of that looks decent except for the barrel power adapter.
https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/why-lapce.md strikes me as really nice -- the author tried really hard, with lots of code to show for it, to get what they wanted from vim, then neovim, then xi, and only after thoroughly understanding the tradeoffs each made embarked on creating their own editor.
A changing climate doesn't mean an unlivable earth.

We're focused on trying to shove the genie back in the bottle, rather than dealing with the rather wrenching changes ahead. We should be investing on dealing with the wrenching changes ahead, because some measure of them are coming, like it or not.

How is a global 10x reduction in consumption of fossil fuels even possible, in the 5 year timespan people seem to think we need to do it in? Like it might be possible in the developed world, but the rest of the world? I don't think so.

I'm a big believer in sustainable living, and have been for decades, but I think we missed the boat on substantially stopping climate change.
Very confusing statements, any sources?

To start with one, https://twitter.com/maxplanckpress/status/146668793563865497...