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Lots of comments seem to get something confused. Devops doesn't mean you won't have specialist ops teams, but it also doesn't mean that every deployment has to go via the ops team.

Devops is:

Moving value quickly from left to right

Getting feedback quickly

Dynamically changing your process to avoid past problems in the future

The key point is that to achieve this to any degree, the developers must be empowered to get their code into production quickly, without needing anyone else to create a gate.

You might well need some specialists to setup and maintain e.g. kubernetes, VMs whatever but the end-game is that what is left is automated and repeatable deployments that mean devs get stuff deployed. It also means that a lot more of this can (and should) be maintained by developers. A developer should be able to modify a Jenkins pipeline as much as/more easily/reliably than an ops person so they should be. Why? Get stuff quickly from left to right and don't wait for others to do it.
If it's a big tech company, you've probably been given some guidance about the types of questions that will come up and you can also search for example questions online. If it isn't a big company, speak to the recruiter about the interview format/contents and focus on that.
Austria is using ICU bed occupancy as a key metric now. This was used to justify the most recent lockdown. The publicised critical point is 33% of ICU bed capacity occupied by COVID patients. This page has the data [1].

What I now believe is missing, and would like to see, is the number of ICU COVID patients who are vaccinated and unvaccinated, as well as an age group breakdown. This is the type of data required to make informed decisions. If I had a teenage child, I’d be wanting to understand the true likelihood of them contracting COVID and ending up in an ICU bed, in order to make a decision about vaccinating them against it.

[1] https://covid19-dashboard.ages.at/dashboard_Hosp.html
> lol the arrogance. Hilarious.

Yes, the hilarious arrogance of… taking in account useful things that work?

> there are tools to do this, they’re not widely used because it doesn’t fit Go well. You’re trying too hard to write Go in the style of another language.

Literally the exact same statement could be made about generics.

> If you want an exhaustive type switch that badly, it’s usually a sign that your interface definition is wrong.

Wonderfully missing the point again.

> You’re gonna write some tests, make new types to satisfy interfaces for testing, and then wind up with branches for your test paths in your live code, but go for it, I guess.

Oh boy, ain’t that one for Principal.

> You know everything!

You’re the person declaring sum types useless in the face of decades of evidence and completely incapable of handling the idea of disagreement.

> I am but a simple blubbite, too dim, too dim to get it.

I see you don’t understand the blub paradox either.
I think the biggest issue issue is FPTP. You need mixed representation to allow expression of a broader range of ideas imo
India's Enforcement arrests NBFC CEO in probe against Chinese-backed loan apps
A reduced rate of severe cases still is simply a mere constant factor that won't save us. Unless the rate goes down to approx. zero we're back to square one where there is almost no immunity and the number of simultaneous severe cases will easily and quickly rise far beyond the hospital capacity due to the very high rate of infections.

On average, there are hospital beds (of any kind) available for about 0,3% of the population. If 5% of the cases are severe enough to require hospitalization, this means that hospitals get completely overwhelmed when 6% of the population are down with COVID simultaneously. And that's assuming that every hospital bed can be used, which is unrealistic.
And thus infrequently do not prevent it infection and spreading.

Taken as a whole that would be the same as saying 'reduce'.

you read it as "Vaccines always prevent infection and spreading".

Would you agree seatbelts frequently prevent deaths and major injuries?
Also probably not so much about speed than not pausing to think about what you have just read/viewed/watched ?
Seeing the right sign but being three lanes over in nose to tail traffic is a semi-common occurrence when driving for me - missed many exits that way...
Devops wasn't about getting ops people to start doing development. It was about getting developers to be start doing ops because infrastructure definition became a tye of coding.

Reminds me of an idea that any user may expand a system by making plugins/changes, if you provide them a sufficiently humane programming language. Then they still can’t, and a completely new developers category is born.

Seems like another one here, cause it always turns backwards like that.
It's 110 in Germany. The 1's are quick to dial and the 0 a good confirmation.
Remove an Omnivore's Statue? Debate Ensues over the Legacy of Factory Farming
Your post reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
This is fantastic satire :-)
Lets imagine cases double every day, and 1 in 1000 go into hospital

Day 1 - 1 cases

Day 11 - 1000 cases, 1 hospitalisation

Day 21 - 1 million cases, 1,000 hospitalisations

Day 31 - 1 billion cases, 1 million hospitalisations

Day 41 - 1 trillion cases, 1 billion hospitalisations

That would be awful. It would be impossible too.
Opto-electronic voice transceiver for covert infra-red light communication
Rare at scale is not rare.
Precisely.

OP has his finger in some of the right places, but is overly broad about both learning methods and objects. If you're listening to conference keynotes @ 3X... that might be fine. A tutorial probably requires multiple listens, rewinds, a transcript and some DIY work.
Policy shouldn't be quick, rash judgements. It's got a bigger scope than that. We need longer-term strategies. Quick judgements should be made within an existing policy.

And laws, which take time, for good reason, to propose, debate and pass.

We can't run a country with by changing direction every time case numbers of one particular virus go up or down
Wow, the article is describing me... although instead of podcasts I read books (not many, like at most 15-20 per year). But over the years, even if "True learning requires contemplation" (which I agree with), I have found out that I indeed have gained quite a lot of knowledge and nowadays the time I spent reading is paying off (i.e., I'm good enough at a job that pays well that I don't have to spent the official 40h/week, but instead I spent like half of it).

> Mike is so busy preparing for the future that he never steps into it.

This is what scares me because, again, it rings true. But some part of me thinks "You need to prepare yourself for the future! Whatever that future is!", so for me that preparation usually means "get more knowledge and get a better paycheck to have enough money to not depend on a company or government to live decently... or build something for yourself and found your own company". That's my paradox: either I relax a bit in the present and risk my (unknown) future, or I risk my present to allow me to be a bit more relaxed in the (unknown) future. I try to balance it, but it's hard.
For anyone who (like me) had no clue about the Four Disciplines: https://www.franklincovey.com/the-4-disciplines/
I think some of the replies and likes to your reply are kinda hilarious.

You went through the entire article, misunderstood the point (aka he's talking about people who are cramming information, not people who are using it to skip filler content and contemplate over the actual information like you do), and this misinterpretation is fair, it happens to all of us. Few people corrected you in the reply.

But a lot of people instead of reading the article, took the title of the article and your comment as what the article meant, thus fulfilling the entire thing his article mentioned. Speeding through information. Kinda hilarious.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20015037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28601257
> I mean really, a priori, if there were loads and loads of intelligent species in our galaxy, wouldn't you expect to see them?

Not according to the Dark Forest theory. There are either quiet civilizations or dead civilizations due to realpolitik. This video summarizes the details[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUJYP8tnRE
Why it's so hard for some workers to ask for time off
16+ is not the whole ACT population and was my point. Undoubtedly 99% are great numbers for 16+… but an entire cohort is excluded from vaccination statistics of which are vulnerable to infection.
I would argue that hyper partisan outlets like Fox which don't even care to try to be truthful has exacerbated tribal nature of US politics and reduced its ability to actually have any meaningful competition of ideas. Sure, having a perspective or ideology is fine but I think out and out lying should have consequences. I think you need a regulator preventing misinformation. Beyond that, having a point of view - which you can back up with reasonable argument - is to be desired.
The question is, where does ObjC end and where does Swift start? When Apple announced an Objective-C without the C, I assumed they'd keep the Smalltalk object system and message passing. It still boggles my mind that they took a hard turn into the world of value semantics and extremely static types, with all the ABI problems that we know from C++, plus all the interop hacks to bridge both worlds. The syntax almost seems like a superficial detail compared to the new object model.

On the other hand, the Smalltalk model would not have worked for SwiftUI. It really feels like Apple has bet the farm on the next generation of libraries/frameworks.
> Today it’s common for first-time managers to get the advice that they should immediately stop writing code at work.

Really?

It seems like a very complicated blog and I think the trust more easily comes from openness. If I am speaking to a dev about why their task count is much lower than the team average, I can be open and say, "If your task count is lower, it might be my process, it might be that you are being distracted by the company or by others or it might be that you are struggling in some way and I can help...", that openness (which is true, I am not out to get people), means that the developer knows that it isn't personal or because I am an arse. We can then talk about what is going on.

Same with the "I have a problem", if it is small, sure, trust them to fix it. If it is something bigger (we want to change from Git to SVN), then I don't think anyone would be offended by a Zoom call to discuss the challenges that exist and whether they could be resolved in another way.
>> Why the decline after 1970?

Because the presence of fish sausage is a leading indicator of societal collapse.
There is a concept in negotiations known as “anchoring”. It can actually be beneficial to put forth the first number, although at a extreme advantage to yourself (high or low).

By doing that, you set an anchor at that offer and the other party will see you as being compromising/them getting a break with anything you concede from that point.

It’s a hard ball negotiating tactic and deliberately doing it is ethically questionable. However, people offering advice to the contrary is a bit misguided in my opinion and made up of a bunch of people convinced they got a great deal when the other party conceded their position :-).
I think the more general answer is: yes you can push some of your work (e.g. authorisation can be done in a standard tool you configure) into systems, but then you have to maintain the connection to those systems and extra vendors and complexity involved if any of them breaks for a while.

To make a specific example, one Flask microservice that's 3 files in size can be reduced to 2 files, but in exchange you need to add more infra components. You could instead move that complexity into a shared library and have 2 files, and zero extra infra components.

Just a thought :)
I love stuff like this, in the past I spent a good amount of time wondering about what were the key milestones in the development of intelligent life. Multicellularity is a good example. From my (admittedly outsider) perspective, a lot of that seems lost on the popular approaches to AI, which seem to focus too heavily on the late-stage result (the brain) and not everything that led up to it. Evolutionary algorithms have been out of vogue for some time, Artifical Life is an under-explored backwater.

One thing that I am surprised has been left out of this analysis is extinction events. In the intro it seems to dismiss “models that appeal to rare chance events” (paraphrasing). But the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction in particular was a chance event that had an absolutely massive...impact...on the evolution of intelligence. Dinosaurs dominated for a couple hundred million years with no signs of moving toward primate-style intelligence, and then suddenly a whole new set of conditions created an environment where scavenger mammals developed rapidly.
It is just sad when I you search for "how to do X in Linux" you get a video in search results first and only second some article where you can actually copy-paste the commands
I don’t think this is gone in 60 seconds, man. People aren’t out here trying to steal $1 mil collector cars on the regular.

They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because they’re easy to steal. Thieves steal easy to steal things. This is why the AirTag thing doesn’t make sense for tracking a car you’re planning to steal. They’d just steal it on first sight. Otherwise, they’re out like $25+ if that car drives hella far away. Not a wise investment.
Ask HN: How do you manage or avoid meltdowns?
Being a SW Eng I spent hours on a chair. In home-office. COVID lockdowns made this worse. Added extra stress due to bad future outlook and a lack of direction in my career plus dozens of other blockers that navigating gets more difficult as I grow older.

Anyway. The point of the matter is that I crack and meltdown quite often. And that makes my problems multiply because I then have to deal with apologies etc.

How do you deal with meltdowns? How do you calm yourself down? I'm not talking about being a Buddha (I'm as far away from that as I could be unfortunately). I'm talking about doing the bare minimum so that I don't cause myself and the people around me extra problems.

For the most part I have managed to keep this away from my (shitty) job so it has not affected my (dead in the water) career. But it is taking a toll on my family relations and I hate me for that.

No phychotherapy please. I won't go near their arrogance.

Any practical tips that work on you are highly appreciated.

For context I'm 45 yrs old, male, relatively new dad in a backwater EU country.

TIA
It actually does. When your regulations is interfering with the normal functioning and price discovery of the market, you're not in a free market.

You might be able to argue that regulations that simply provide market participants with additional information dont interfere with that, but carbon credits are most certainly not that.

You may agree with the regulations, but that doesnt maoe them any less nefarious.
They funded their kid through school, they didn’t do that badly.
I do 2x speed wherever I can.

The benefit I find is I actually have to concentrate to pay attention, rather than at 1x speed some people talk so slowly my mind starts wandering as they slowly come around to actually making their point and before I know it I am replying to emails and ignoring the video.

I generally find it harder to be distracted like that at 2x... Although after years I think I am a bit accustomed so might seek out that 3x extension (although I guess it won't work on our internal recorded sessions at work :( )
I disagree. If the amount is low enough that it only incentivises people that are desperate, you are at arms length hiring people at poverty wages. I agree that we seem to have such low expectations of our society, that wanting something better than that seems fanciful and foolish.
> There is no evidence Omicron is milder than Delta.

> Cited Study: The non peer-reviewed research was based on UK Health Security Agency and National Health Service data on people who tested positive for COVID-19 in a PCR test in England between November 29 and December 11

Well, of course there won't be evidence in that dataset! This was before even a single omicron death in the UK.

However there is evidence in other datasets - including what is happening on the ground in South Africa.
I find myself really enjoying HN around this time of year when there's less traffic to the site and articles like this get a a much bigger chance to make it to the front page.
Some people ie. Yaron Minsky are joy to listen, speeding up would feel like speeding up your favourite movie.
Breaking down complex projects into smaller, shippable increments
From my experience of Denmark -> Finland, yes.

There’s a beer I like that’s cheaper and easier to order direct from the Danish brewery than buy from the alcohol monopoly in Finland. The cans look identical. Of course I tried putting them in the return machine, but it would not credit them (although they’ll still take them in for recycling)

People also buy huge quantities of beer personally from Estonia (2 hr boat ride, nice day trip) and the system would probably collapse in a day if they paid for cans from anywhere.

I crush any that I know won’t give money before putting them with the household metal recycling collection as I don’t want some poor soul wasting their time fishing them out and returning them.
This is normal. You are becoming a senior developer. Congratulations on making it this far.
Sharing a post written by my colleague about how to break down larger projects into incrementally shippable pieces.

Having worked with her on many larger scale projects: she's pretty great at this, and the advice does especially well to motivate splitting over trying to do things all at once.

I've found this strategy to be invaluable, which is no surprise given some of the larger year+ projects I've worked on. It's better for everyone–business and individuals alike!–to find a cadence of regular progress.

Hope people find it useful!
It's pretty easy to track your drinks and be safely under the limit for driving.

In my country the rule of thumb, for men, is Two standard drinks in the first hour, and then one standard drink for every hour after that.
Scaling up healthcare is not a matter of spinning up a new EC2 instance. We run health care at a level that can cope with normal situations, but would fail instantly in the case of say civil war or alien invasion. That's a choice, as a society we'd rather spend the resources on youtube videos of rich people yelling at the camera than on more doctors, and that's fine, freedom.

It gets worse though, you can 'overclock' your healthcare system in a time of crisis, but that leads to burning out your machines, and thus ending up with less capacity afterwards. Generally the west has run our healthcare systems beyond 100% for nearly 2 years, and that means capacity has actually decreased. All the money in the world won't fix that in a short time - indeed it can make it worse in some cases (If you gave a nurse $1m to work 16 hour shifts for the 30 days, he would, and then he'd likely quit)

If you want to improve your healthcare situation, you need to go back in time 10 years and get more people training to work in healthcare. That means fewer people working in advertising or other key parts of the economy.
I doubt the volume of the soda bottle affects the cost to the manufacturer much. Soda prices are rarely linear to their size. At my local supermarket a 2-liter bottle from the aisle is typically cheaper than a 20oz from the fridge by the register.
Native bee species are indeed in decline, and domesticated bees certainly are not helping. At best they're competition. Ran into that while deciding whether or not to keep eating honey after I went vegan.

Biased source: https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/is-honey-vegan-the...

Trace their sources, and you end up on EU publications:
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species...

And the IUCN red list
https://www.iucnredlist.org/

About 1/10 of the EU's bee species are red listed.
I have found that devs really only work well in a team using servant leadership style. Especially if the leader can't code and doesn't understand how software development is actually done.

There is an interesting anti-pattern that happens where the "alpha geek"[0] is actually leading the team and the designated manager isn't in charge at all. This can go well, or it can lead to disaster, depending on the personalities involved. I suspect that a lot of success stories from "self-organising teams" are actually succeeding by removing the designated manager and allowing the "alpha geek" to lead without having to fight about it.

[0] not a derogatory term, just a metaphorical take on the relatively common occurrence of developer teams creating ad-hoc hierarchies based on experience and personality.
‘It is incredible what people can pay in tax if they just get used to it.’

— Erik Brofoss, former Norwegian minister of finance and director of the IMF.
Yes sir, I have learned my lesson.

Not really haha. I have no problem replying to a generalization—and “the liberal and authorian mindset” are definitely generalizations!

People flagged my comment because they are attached to the “liberal mindset”. That much is obvious.
Saw that at your neighboor's in Copenhagen, and after the first outrage of paying +50cts per drink, I understood that I was seeing a glimpse the future… If littering is equivalent to throwing money, you simply won't do it.

Weird side-effect: homeless people might ask for your empty bottle and do the collection. Not sure how I feel about that though…
The correct word is coerce. AirTags can be coerced into chanting an audible sound.
Nope. It was sarcasm.
A tech geek’s guide to moving to the Netherlands for work
I would add for practical skills (including some research!) videos and podcasts seem to offer more feedback. Nobody in a book ever tells me what a flange or spline or baulk ring actually is, nobody in a video does either, but in the latter I get to see it and make my own, usually fit-for-current-purpose, inferences.

Closer personal example: I spent weeks trying to bully a supervised machine learning approach into a reinforcement learning one, because the 800-page reference book I used (that claims to cover all machine learning, and is well regarded!) in no way acknowledges the existence of this sub field. For whatever reason, and across multiple fields, I've never found static text to be good at "here's what you should be looking for", and I don't think it's reasonable to discount that knowledge as being valuable.
:) Thanks for the laugh.
Seriously.
We Put a Gigantic Rocket Motor in a Christmas Tree
Tides of History, In Our Time, Revolutions, Stronger by Science.

I like finding and listening to lectures on Apple podcasts too, like Zizek.
We've had to massively scale up the number of doctors and nurses before - in WWII. Learning was substantially accelerated and abridged, and the population was being drafted so being a doctor might sound better than being a combat soldier.

I don't think this would work here though, since enlisting to work in a covid ward is a hard sell when you're not being drafted, and standard of care would suffer with all the inexperience.

Substantially raising nursing pay and increasing the powers of nurse practitioners would be a good idea though.
Im interested in your categorisation of learning. Can you elaborate on "contextual framework"? Are these your own concepts, if not where do you get them from?
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Twitch takes a cut, but doesn't "cost" anything.

When you signup and decide to start streaming, do you have to buy a subscription or pay for something?