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Protect Democracy | DevOps Engineer | Remote (US-Based Only) | Full-time | https://protectdemocracy.org

Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting efforts, at home and abroad, to undermine our right to free, fair, and fully informed self-government.

We are looking for someone who will be responsible for the delivery, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and security of our VoteShield project as part of a small, collaborative development team.

For more on our VoteShield project, see: https://voteshield.us

For the full job description, including how to apply: https://protectdemocracy.org/devops-engineer/
> ... one student’s company had chosen to architect their system around Kafka. This was surprising because, as far as I could tell, their business processed just a few dozen very high value transactions per day.

I found this immensely funny as a business case that could (and should) be done with a basic SQL-style database like SQLite.
A recent study on Germany based upon 35 years of weather data [0] shows that we would need about 24 days worth of storage to cope with this weather conditions.

[0] https://twitter.com/QvistStaffan/status/1427625795355349004?...
Deep Learning plows through yet another wall.
contrast ratio is cruel
A p=none record is barely different from not having a record at all...and yes at this point a tech company without an enforced record is a major red flag. It's been a decade since the standard went public, it's required at the federal level already and in many EU countries it's being mandated for businesses in general.

Most 3rd party senders today already insist that you setup DKIM as part of your setup process and if that happens, you're going to pass a DMARC check. It's hard to setup for older companies with thousands of servers in their own data centers that are each individually sending email. Cloud native companies sending their email through a few 3rd parties like Sendgrid/Postmark or a newsletter tool are EASY to setup.

I'm mentioning this on a post about their infrastructure being down for 6 hours because yes, it's related. Email delivery for the primary domain is absolutely an IT, Engineering, Operations and Security problem, not a marketing problem. It goes directly to the application especially when one of the main facets of the application is to send emails about your repos and login credentials.

Blame shifting it to the marketing department does not hold up.

When multiple people are commenting on this post about just how frequently their outages are happening it shows a problem in the overall infrastructure mindset for it to continue. Maybe they know exactly what the problem is and somebody higher up is keeping them from fixing it in order to prioritize other things.

Either way, for company that's supposed to be providing a core devops function to have outages that frequently as well as making it dead simple to spoof email that looks like it's coming straight from them...it's not a good look.
Who downvoted this!? We had a fun light-hearted exchange!

Thank you for indulging my bike-shedding sir :)
Diia
It also happens when trying to verify your account through the various streaming apps. I'd say it's also 50/50 if you can successfully authenticate your account to get access to the streaming app.
From perspective of some people, like here, countries from ex-Soviet block do not exist and do not make sovereign decisions about their aliences. It's really weird to read (mostly US-based, left-wing) authors who simply forget about whole nations just to push USA-bad narrative. Which is even more disturbing once you see what kind of parties in Europe are pro-Russia.
Anyway it is not Russia's business where sovereign countries are going to do outside of Russia's borders.
> the young people in question have, on a generational level, inherited worse circumstances than their parents.

If only we could go back to when life was perfect, like.. uh.. the 1950s.. wait no, things were better in the 1970s! I mean, not really since we had massive inflation and gas shortages.. uh, what about the 90s when crime spiked?

What mythical year was this where life was better than today?
Wow their pricing gone through the roof. Few years ago they charged about 250-300ish. They provide lots of content but I wish there was a more tiered approach as I mainly use it for the books. At 500$ I think it will be cheaper for me just buying the books instead.
Back when I was doing this, it only made sense to use Latex because the conferences all had Latex templates, so whenever I had to publish part of my dissertation I could easily copy+paste+adapt the Latex source without having to reformat everything.
E-scooters are bursting into flames in India and buyers are spooked
When the people up the dominance hierarchy are impressed with fancy tech, plebs use fancy tech.

Maybe call it what it is - a bunch of clueless idiots with money. Fix that, the rest will fix itself.
I wasn't aware that different bits of text in different shades of grey would 'ruin eyesight'. Can you provide a citation, or are you simply expressing "I don't like how this website looks" using hyperbole? Or are you using a hyperbolic way of expressing "I find it difficult to read this website"?
Probably a misidentified or misreported uncommon resolution.
Because some programmers really have no idea what they are doing and just throw SO cut-and-paste against the wall until something sticks.
Everyone absolutely needs to take the next step. Without it, you're inviting direct phishing against your user base.

For an core devops tool, that's not okay.
> The promise was made

Not in the form in which binding, durable, heritable international commitments are made it was not.

Not even the people most committed to spinning the evidence in favor of Russia bother to claim that (which is good, because it would be obviously false), they just try to get people to ignore that,and pretend what would even by the most favorable interpretation of the evidence be private assurances were binding commitments in future governments of the state whose representatives made them, in radically changed circumstances, inheritable by a state that didn't exist as an independent subject of international law at the time they were given, applicable after the state they were given to ceased to exist by, primarily, the action of the entity claiming to exercise them.

And they go further, and make arguments that rely not only on them being still binding, but on violation of them being an act equivalent in international law to an actual or imminent attack justifying war against third parties who aren't even under any theory involved in the supposed agreement except possibly as a co-inheritor with Russia of the interests of the USSR.
This is what I do for day-to-day objectives. But for things that involve copy/pasting or long term objectives I don't want to forget I also have a Workflowy document.

Workflowy is pretty nice, it's a simple org mode tree structure that works on phones and has intuitive keyboard shortcuts.
Two downsides of GHA that I could find:

- you are limited to 2 core / 7 GB instance, whereas CircleCI offers up to 16 cores / 64 GB (for example, building software usually scales proportionately to machine size, and this can in theory be up to 8x faster on CircleCI)

- no support for ARM instances
> Support drops real fast for older boards, leaving one stuck on old kernels (Jetson Nano and its upstream family was "EOL'd" in terms of kernel upgrades a while ago, even though Nvidia will still gladly take your money for a new Jetson Nano). - Has a lot of Nvidia stuff attached, so you do get a GPU and a PCIe slot.

Note that the Jetson Nano is supported pretty well by Fedora with a fully upstream kernel. This includes GPU acceleration through Nouveau, without reclocking catches.

And just before deprecating support for it entirely (won't get BSP releases beyond JetPack 4.x), they gave it u-boot on SPI with the UEFI module, which wasn't used at all before.

https://nullr0ute.com/2020/11/installing-fedora-on-the-nvidi...

The new BSP release that is released tomorrow in public preview is Xavier onwards only, and sets the baseline to Linux 5.10, with UEFI across the board.

The older BSP release that supports Tegra X1 onwards, including the Jetson Nano, will continue getting security updates for years to come. Just don't expect new features anymore on the NVIDIA binary UM driver stack.

> slowly updated Kernel with blobs all over

It's a heavily diverged kernel tree, but it's all GPLv2, including the full GPU kernel-mode driver (https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/r/gitweb?p=linux-nvgpu.git;a=sum...) for those. (there's no binary kernel modules present at all on the platform)

Firmware, like everyone else, and userspace is where you have the proprietary bits.
Calyx has been stealing code (and removing author) and raiding GrapheneOS chatrooms. GrapheneOS is a better option if your device supports it (like mine).
To be fair not everyone knows who @IanCutress is. The profile description of "Consultant, Chief Analyst, Influencer." doesn't really indicate he's a subject matter expert.
don't participate actively in social media, try to avoid reading social media, avoid the news, and do something (hopefully productive) to occupy your idle thoughts.
> I didn't even realize you could use it outside of systemd. I never looked at it in detail, but if something is named systemd- then I think "part of the systemd suite and intended to be used with systemd" is a fairly reasonable assumption.

The tight coupling of systemD is a popular criticism of it.
> To question growth is taboo

It's not taboo, it's just basic antropo-ecological mechanics: if you don't focus on growth the other who will and will do more of it will outcompete you out of every niche. So selective pressure will increase the number of growth focused civilizations comparative to others.

We actually need more growth and we need to think outside of nature's and Earth's box... We have the technology to practice closed-circle-agriculture and that only needs power (more nuclear + more renewables) + raw materials (more extraction, more oil but less of it burnt as a fuel), let's just forget about maintaining the "natural balance" and put serious research work into techniques for manipulating and tweaking so called chaotic systems... There absolutely no reason why Earth can't support even a 10 trillion humans population if we just quit on "nature" (keep it just in small reservations), and go full nuclear (imagine 1+ billion reactors!) and fully embrace semi-synthetic food (sure, first iterations on sythetic proteins were carcinogenic as hell, but we know how to solve such problems now, or how to avoid them with bugs and closed-circuit-shrimps and lab-grown-meats etc.).

Yeah, a couple tens of millions might die of extra cancers and other pollution induced illnesses, but we can compensate by accelerating population growth (baby factories/camps can work if campaigns to motivate people to reproduce more don't work - though I'd guess we're good enough at the technology of brainwashing and economic incentivization by now to make masses of people do anything if we put our best efforts into....).

We just need a solid serious global responsibility frameworks instead of our anemic "globalism", so that if anyone just dumps X tons of eg. mercury in the ocean, they don't receive just sanctions but also swift targeted assassinations of all guilty parties +/- a sprinkle of tactical nukes for good measure and punishment against "pissing in the pool"...
The 'private platforms can ban whoever they want to' crowd's reaction to the news of the latest addition to their board has been fun to watch

Talk about a double-edged sword
Perhaps this was the entire point of Intel's work here??? Worst case scenario for Intel they block AMD from patenting (and allowing Intel to use it).
Do you intend to offer a hosted version of this?
There is lots wrong with this and with this mind set. This is not about "productivity" at all but about being auditable and working in a team.
> 2.9972mm

Le sigh.
Sounds a bit like the tower of babel of jorge borges. I imagine most of the videos would be complete random nonsense.

I think an AI infused future is going to become increasingly more absurd and surreal, it will lead to a kind of creative and cultural nihilism, if that's the right term.

Like the value of originality will become meaningless.
Or, it’s a demonstration that AI output can be controlled in meaningful ways, period. Surely this supports openai’s stated goal of making safe AI?
Russia has.. a history of denying the obvious. I come from an ex-communist satellite state so I would know. The majority of the people know what's happening. There's a rather new joke from COVID: the Russians do not take Moderna because Putin says not to trust it, and they do not take Sputnik because Putin says to trust it.

Do not be deluded that our own governments are not manufacturing the narrative too. The US has committed just as many war crimes as Russia. Of course, people feel differently about blowing up hospitals in Afghanistan rather than Ukraine. What the Afghan people think about that is not considered too much.
In Diplomacy, like in legal contracts, the written agreement is the binding agreement. Experienced negotiators like Gorbachev and Baker know this.

Baker's un-written assurances may have bound him (Baker) to personally help ensure his assurances held, if only to preserve his credibility in other negotiations, but all parties involved understood they were not being written into the agreement and therefore were not a formal agreement. These words had meaning, even when not written into the agreement, because Baker was telling Gorbachev the truth, which was that the US understood that moving the borders of NATO east would be a bad idea. Gorbachev heard that the US understood this. It wasn't a binding legal agreement, it was a statement about the political landscape at that time.

Baker is long gone from the diplomatic landscape and so is that assurance. This isn't actually a surprise.
Hungary's Leader Will Pay for Russian Gas in Rubles in Break with EU
Did coachman immediately retire when cars were invented or did they begin personal drivers or taxi drivers?
Yeah, I mean you're right that ultimately the proof is in the pudding.

But I do think we could have guessed that this sort of approach would be better (at least at a high level - I'm not claiming I could have predicted all the technical details!). The previous approaches were sort of the best that people could do without access to the training data and resources - you had a pretrained CLIP encoder that could tell you how well a text caption and an image matched, and you had a pretrained image generator (GAN, diffusion model, whatever), and it was just a matter of trying to force the generator to output something that CLIP thought looked like the caption. You'd basically do gradient ascent to make the image look more and more and more like the text prompt (all the while trying to balance the need to still look like a realistic image). Just from an algorithm aesthetics perspective, it was very much a duct tape and chicken wire approach.

The analogy I would give is if you gave a three-year-old some paints, and they made an image and showed it to you, and you had to say, "this looks like a little like a sunset" or "this looks a lot like a sunset". They would keep going back and adjusting their painting, and you'd keep giving feedback, and eventually you'd get something that looks like a sunset. But it'd be better, if you could manage it, to just teach the three-year-old how to paint, rather than have this brute force process.

Obviously the real challenge here is "well how do you teach a three-year-old how to paint?" - and I think you're right that that question still has a lot of alchemy to it.
They may have never coded a pricing system.

I haven’t, but I’ve coded trading systems. Typo a dividend or convert and your dumb little bot starts incrementing its offer every millisecond. (The fun is when another bot gets thrown into a complementary loop and the exchange yells at you.)

Have a system that e.g. codes a local tax or maintenance allowance run on lookup, or have these data in two systems that try to sync but do it wrong, and you get something like this. (This is not a legitimate pricing strategy. Nobody gets FOMO buying an AT&T plan.)
The road to totalitarianism is paved with digital currency
Mirror neurons and nostalgia for a particular modal.

When a mind latches onto a modal for problem solving, every problem is a nail.

Technocrats have to try and illustrate the value of their technocratic solutions.
I only use Genie slightly to add a simple UI to my projects - I'm no web dev. Time to first request is as terrible as you would expect, but one can then dynamically iterate on a running interpreter by changing and adding pieces, and then it's not that bad as only the new bits need recompilation.

I never tried the fancy to speed up compilation.
Cargo cults everywhere.
Taking advantage of poor design decisions for financial gain is still a crime.
This guy didn't lose 200K. He claims he lost 200K by "not doing something else". Putting opportunity cost as a hard loss is stretching it, and sure seems like it's just there to make the title more clickbaity.

I guess I just lost something like $20 reading the article then.
The promise was made with the USSR, and not the Russian Federation. The former was a much bigger country than the latter, and Ukraine was a part of it just like Russia.

I find Russian fears over Nato expansion to be very suspicious. Why are they so afraid of it? I can't think of an innocent reason for Russia to be afraid of Nato, which is merely an alliance between (almost entirely) liberal democratic nations. The alliance is needed in order to protect smaller countries from being invaded by bigger countries (which are almost certainly illiberal). Russia could never have joined the alliance while it was under Putin because it's not a %@$&ing liberal democracy.
ah right—scientists. I forgot that one cannot question the motives of the contemporary clerical class, as they are always pure of heart and mind and uniquely the sole exception to the "everything is political" nature of modern times. apologies for the heresy!
In a township that small and moronic council members, have you ever been tempted to run for council position yourself? I'd have concerns that I'd become a moron in that sense as usually there are such deep rooted moronic decisions that non-morons can't do anything. So now the non-moron comes across as moronic as well.
But that's just my own personal fear.
Following in the footsteps of America, I guess. We have made it extremely easy to block infrastructure improvements, even by individuals. There seems to be some idea that if we allow everyone to have a say, we can make everyone happy. Of course that doesn't work, and I'm surprised the idea gets so much traction. So we spend hundreds of millions of dollars drawing up grand plans that try to appease every possible interest group, and then give up when it is apparent that unanimous consensus will not be achieved.
Ask HN: Do you think human intelligence is segmented?
I've seen and read incredible things from very smart people, but I've also seen and read incredible things by people who are not considered smart. In this I must ask, is human Intel segmented? And how can we use this?
Thank you. Valid point. I currently stay away from dairy and wheat. I immediately notice a difference with those foods (dairy = sinuses, wheat = stomach bloat).

The issue is I cant write fast enough. I type near 80 word per minute. I am so familiar with the keyboard, when I go to write it needs to be for special occasion (letter for my mom or something).
Sam Altman demonstrates Dall-E 2 using twitter suggestions
What's getting in your way?
> Then there are the aggressive actions of individual NATO members that are ignored by the rest of the alliance, like Turkey bombing Armenians using drones until Russia stepped in.

Those countries are doing it under their own auspices. You seem to be confusing a defensive alliance with a federalized government.

> As someone living in a country that had a democratic leader toppled down by NATO Aircraft carrier threatening to bomb our most populous city at the time... I disagree with you.

You need to be explicit if you want to argue in good faith here.
> Most people don't want any responsibility though so they do everything they can to push work off to a SaaS or cloud provider. That way when the SHTF they can browse reddit and point their boss to the status page.

Phew, those are a lot of assumptions. Many businesses choose cloud services cause they take the tradeoff between that cost or having someone at hand to maintain the infrastructure, depending on its complexity. I've worked with employers using many cloud providers for years now, the amount of times I would _legitimately_ be prevented from working at all by outages is extremely low.

The agency part, I do get. But come on.
I did a job interview today and showed one of my projects and its code, explaining some of the reasons why it's written the way it is.

Much of it is fairly straightforward and simple. That's fine, because it wouldn't really get a lot of advantage from more complexity. Even so, I felt almost ... embarrassed by the simplicity. It's not that I actually am, I think the code and overall project I showed is pretty good and something I'm proud of, it's just that explaining "yeah I just did it like this, pretty simple really" doesn't really sound all that impressive over "we integrated such-and-such fancy tools with the so-and-so pattern using the blockchain cloud nano-architecture running on o31h!"
The Underwhelming Impact of Software Engineering Research
And first to file doesn't mean first to file with the USPTO.

If you have a great idea for air-conditioned socks, you file your initial notes/work with your patent attorney, and that is sufficient (general hand-waving about officer of the court and so on.)
> But, it was also true that both parents had WFH jobs (this was over a decade ago), extremely flexible schedules, and were very well off

Well, exactly. Its easier to be creative if you don't have financial or time constraints.
> I hope it is going to be similar to editable comments on Github, with a dropdown to see older versions.

It took a while for them to add this. And amusingly, comments (including those opening issues and PRs) are a bit more like a wiki than personal comments—if you have the appropriate permissions, you can edit comments by others. For a long time you could do so with no visible record that it was done. Which is objectively terrible but was hilarious if you worked on a team with a good sense of humor and reasonable restraint.
What if a company sends me an order form on physical paper:

[ ] Plan X $30
[ ] Plan Y $50
[ ] Plan Z $70

And I pencil in "Plan W $10" at the top with a checkmark and mail it back. Is that illegal?
> There is no widespread concern about those payments being fraudulent

Tax refund fraud is a big problem, and the IRS, DOJ, etc have put a lot of effort into limiting it. Numbers are hard to find, but in 2013 it seems there was $30 billion in fraud, or around 10% of all refunds, with about $6 billion unrecovered.
> If anything it's now more confusing than ever to keep track of which launcher has which game and which friends had been added where.

I've been using Playnite to consolidate my games list across launchers. It works pretty well once it's set up, except for titles where the launcher you bought it on launches another launcher
Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...

TLDR: Chomsky reflexively took the anti-US position as usual and then refused to back down once he was proven completely wrong. He insisted with no evidence whatsoever that accounts from refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge must have been fabricated by the US somehow. After being completely proven wrong, he gave a not-pology that comes with its own dose of victim blaming.
Pretty sure this has been posted before....