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Former Senior SRE here. Was doing everything: working with engineering teams to build a microservice authoring framework. Putting out fires and responding to outages. Adding monitoring/metrics/logging to all the things. Building productivity tools for engineers. Spinning up new software in sandboxed environments for evaluation. Onboarding and offboarding new engineers. Coordinating downtime for software upgrades. Refactoring our infra and making it more IaC. Security audits.

Our team was basically a dumping ground for anything that required experience in many different types systems and/or privileged access. On top of that, we had projects were shoe-horned into roadmaps. So while 90% of our duties were reactive to what the org needed, we also had the pressure of trying to meet deadlines for normal software engineering work. It was unhealthy and I wanted very much to not be defined as an "SRE"
How is it special?
This is one of the hacker new posts that makes me open 50 tabs
Surely this is the beginning of providing a side loading option. Perhaps if they enforce the purchase of a paid developer account they can get their pound of flesh from the users on their way out of the store. It would be ironic if iPhone users paid Apple 100 USD a year to side load to play Fortnite etc...
Thanks, you're correct, I apologize for being imprecise in my language.

It's an improvised weapon... a zip gun like they taught us about in middle school English class would be more like if I used a mousetrap to trigger a .22 magnum shell down a short shaped piece of pipe into someone's skull from a range of under five yards, since the unrifled barrel causes whatever comes out to tumble and thus not fly straight very long.
I found that Prolog is excellent for one-shot solving perfectly well-defined Platonic problems. The moment there is some uncertainty, rough edges, user input, etc it becomes nasty. Is this your experience? Am I doing something wrong?
Right. Europeans in the Americas and Mongols in Eurasia did what was rational: both had significant, incomparable advantage in military technology and both used it for their advantage according to the standards of their time.
That doesn’t sound correct. It’s not the finger print which identifies you to the website, it’s the public private keypair.

The private key is stored in the device’s Secure Enclave. It’s the face and fingerprint recognition which authenticates to the Secure Enclave in order to retrieve the private key.

When purchasing an android phone, you do need to sync the private key to the new device. Hence Passkey, which uses iCloud as its secure and authenticated syncing scheme.
Why are you assuming there would not also be women with 2 or more husbands?
You should have a third in a safety deposit box at a bank or other offsite location.

The issue is if you have a fire and both your keys are melted, you're f'ed.
It depends. Sometimes, yes, users do have many different conversations going & tabs for different conversations.

Or they might be flipping between different sheets in the spreadsheet. And perhaps those sheets have cross relationships. Or perhaps the user changes which sheet they're looking at & has old data.

Whether or not it's common doesn't change that it's a concern that good developers strive to develop for, and it's something that ought be expected. Tabs are part of the web, are something that support user-agency, and it ought to be common that they are well supported. Now, we can start doing the job we ought to do.
SQL Server doesn't work under Rosetta.
Apple picked always-on TSO.
I remember a common, puerile early adulthood "game" in which one would add the words "in bed" to the text of a fortune cookie. I feel like proclamations about the industry by people who were and are at Google need a similar party trick: add "at Google" to the end of each sentence. SRE is Google's answer to Google's problem; it says so right in the first revelatory header of the introductory chapter of the book: "Google’s Approach to Service Management: Site Reliability Engineering".

Inherent in the text of technical books that reveal what people did is an attempt to persuade the reader why they should do it, too. In some ways this reveals the central, myopic conceit at the heart of Google: if you don't have Google's problems, you should. And I'm not sure why anyone who isn't Google should just accept this premise.

That's not to say that the premise is unacceptable. I'm sure that there are people who want to participate in a thing that looks like Google, except that they'd rather start it from scratch than join the one that already exists. Perhaps those people want to have Google's problems.

Now we have a piece, expanded from a talk, by one of the editors of the books that persuaded organizations that, if only they would squint their eyes a bit and turn their head, they could make the problems of their organization orders of magnitude smaller by so many metrics look like the problems of Google. And now, perhaps, Google's answer to Google's problem wasn't quite right, because it didn't involve...something? It could be philosophy or human-centered design, and I wouldn't be surprised to find Google bereft of either, but it certainly isn't going to be found in a paper by Google (ostensibly, a Google answer to a Google question) that predates the first book by nearly a decade. It isn't going to be found in people for whom these things are afterthoughts rather than guiding principles. Instead, shouldn't we be asking whether we let SRE as a Google answer to a Google problem be a solution outside of Google in the first place?
I'd love to do the 4GB to 8GB upgrade too, though I've no idea how feasible it even is to find RAM that old in 2022!
Are you suggesting that some people hold the normative position, “One ought prefer situations with more possibilities to those with fewer, ceteris paribus.”

But isn’t that just some hidden metaphysical structure? That is, it’s unavailable as formal appearance?
Tax the oil companaies for this.
Drought in Iraq Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City
My least favorite thing by far is the f#*$#%ing "Launcher bar" thingy. Apple, I know how to get home...I don't need a garish bar on screen all the time to remind me whichs ide to swipe from.
He's saying he doesn't know, because Twitter won't provide the information needed to make the determination.
Hm, how is the Ishikawa diagram more useful than an outline? They seem to capture and structure information very similarly
Or you could just get a $999 M1 MacBook Air that had great development tools, 20 hours of battery life, it’s fanless, and can run most popular commercial applications.
You are doing it wrong. Why would you even do that when Apple sells a new shiny laptops every year. Besides what if your grandma uses that laptop? Wouldn’t it burst into flames and bring the house down? Apple does it responsibly and also helps the environment by changing the connector and not shipping the charging adapter sometimes. Can your ancient laptop do such tricks? Yes, Apple hardware fails as well but that’s always the user’s fault unlike your laptop’s.
ah I missed those while I was watching the livestream, probably distracted with something at work, but what I saw was some 5 different graphs with 10core laptop pc, so was like what happened to comparison with M!.
>You're forced to have 2 devices

Do you consider a U2F key a device?

And it's not exactly 2. It's n+1, where n is the number of 2FA physical factors you expect to lose/break. If you expect to lose/break 0, then you need 1. If you expect to lose/break 5, then you need 6.
It's almost as if using a term meaning "a classless, stateless, and moneyless society" to describe societies which are precisely none of those things (in theory, let alone in practice) ain't a sign of intelligence or rationality - be it among those calling themselves "communist" or the ones taking their claim at face value.

A society wherein "the top elite certainly own things, just not the general public" is the capitalist endgame; the goal is to maximize profit/wealth, and being one of the lucky few who owns everything and rents it all back out to the masses is a damn good way of going about that.
Pico is still available, even in Canada.
Minto pyramid is really interesting to me because, although I had never heard of it before, I tend to read articles from the end for this exact effect.

I also studied math this way, trying to do the exercises, looking at the answers and throughout the materiel to complete them, then read the materiel for start to finish. Any time I tried to read first I wasn't able to grab the concepts.
>Poor construction of pipes

I thought it was more about lack of heat + insulation what about a pipe (absent other causes) makes it inherently more prone to freezing?
The number of links that involve a paywall on the front page of HN is a handful at the most. Not $40 over a few pages.
If you’re ever looking to scratch a travel itch while relaxing at home, the subgenre of “video walks” on YouTube is well worth a look. There’s a channel called Walk Together that regularly posts walks through all sorts of districts of Seoul, which can be absolutely fascinating to explore virtually.

This wander through Yeonam-Dong at night is a great introduction: https://youtu.be/hrZRqN6s9Kw
I hope we can redesign our cities quickly.
The CPU, GPU and motherboard updates were very recent, about two years ago, and marked the proper end of that cycle.

Although, they still work and have been assembled into an empty case I scavenged, for use by another family member.
Just... why?

Laptops and IDEs are fine. How does anyone possibly want to do anything without multiple screens anyway?
> What Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena showed is that checking whether a given (binary) number is prime is in P.

Wow this confused the hell out of me because I thought, isn't the sieve of eratosthenes already below polynomial time? But from what I read, while the sieve of eratosthenes is sub-polynomial relative to the magnitude of the input, the AKS method is polynomial time relative to the length of the input in binary representation (aka the number of binary digits).
I don't think this has anything to do with cross-platform apps or frameworks, since it's impacting a lot of other libraries as well as frameworks. Rather, it seems like their automated submission system has broken and is erroneously flagging WKWebView API usage as using private APIs.

Regardless, this looks to be a massive problem impacting tons of communities and any apps using web views. I hope Apple fixes it soon.
haha same! "# new tabs opened" is a poetic metric
>The power needed to run a small fan is a far cry from what is needed to power a stove

Orders of magnitude, I used to have an all electric apartment, using a fan versus AC was a 25 dollar difference or more. I used to do the math, and nursing an iced tea down the road during the hottest four hours of the day, some days, could pay for itself, but that was before the rents skyrocketed as scores of cost indifferent international students moved in just as I was moving out.

(Last I was in the town I'm referencing, it had gone from 500ish walkable to campus to more like 1K and littered with those damn scooters.)
Good catch. Definitely meant DisplayLink.
> In sports there is the concept of the specificity of skills: if you want to improve your racquetball game, don’t practice squash! I believe the same holds true for intellectual skills.

Do not concur.

The former is concrete; the latter abstract. The ability to connect dots of information in unexpected ways is indirectly connected with physical prowess, at best.
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Ask HN: Why does Coinbase receive donations?
would be nice to only have to purchase one device that does everything.
On a 64-bit machine where everything is aligned to two words (like SBCL), you get 4 bits for tags.
They brought pigs with them to eat.
It pretty much rules out a lot of peoples of the Levant.
Or they just found that there's no enough market for lightweight Macbook, similar story as iPhone mini series. It's sad.
You'd be surprised how often I can tell someone is thrown off by the fact they didn't know about a private communication or a private browsing session.

(In the sense that I took measures to MAKE it private)

But it's a lot of work, and I tend to get grumpy if I have to take my opsec to 11 for more than a day or so.
I’m still using my 2013 MPro Retina as a nice backup computer (when I need to do MacOS things), I refuse to sell it. It had the last good keyboard before the butterfly came along.
That "notable criticism" is terrible.
His whole argument is that because this algorithm does not outperform sklearn's HistGradientBoostingClassifier the paper is useless and a waste of his "very precious time"
That's a laptop, not a tablet.
Well, there's encryption algorithms, and then there's authentication methods... Don't confuse the two. There's actually been a lot of interesting developments in authentication methods... not the least of which have been the FIDO 2.0/WebAuthn standards. While you might perceive them as plays by Big Tech, smaller companies like Yubikey are kind of at the core of it, and without WebAuthn in particular, it was rather hard to have confidence in browser based authentication. Yes, there were certificates, but the general public has struggled to understand and adopt device certificates in a way that doesn't lead to them being stolen.
I'm offended by the idea that guilt should be based on "norms," not on actual endangerment, or reckless behavior.

In one community, maybe all the 10 year olds smoke hash with their dealer parents. In another, all kids are 100% kept out of sunlight until they're three or four. (Both are real world examples.). Allowing people to be prosecuted (or not) to arbitrary, unwritten standards like these is inviting abuse.
I have a Dell 2-1 with a touch screen. I never use it as a tablet. I tried. The 16x9 screen doesn’t work well with the onscreen keyboard. Even in tablet mode you are still forced to use a non touch interface for most things.
I really want laptop manufacturers to copy Apple's "click-everywhere" feature (called Force Touch). Maybe patented?
If you google for some of these methods this seems to be a periodically recurring thing. I can find references to similar reports on "removeValuesForKeys:completion" in 2020 and 2021 for eg., and those have some other overlapping method names.
I can see arguments for transparency obviously, I'd just also add that if there is a "black box" model that better estimates risk, it could benefit borrowers just as much as lenders, and so everybody can miss out because of artificial limitations.

I'd also argue that fair or trustworthy models do not necessitate feature based explanations (which for complicated models are illusory anyway) and there are other ways, including simply stress testing, flagging out of distribution inputs, instance based methods, or simply human review, to be confident that the model works and that it isn't doing something you don't want.

Having laypeople or special interests mandate how your computer program works or how you have to pretend it works is not the solution imo
Until the "try another way" option is a weaker form of 2fa, like sms.
Requiring explainable ML seems fine to me. Black-box models are just asking for trouble.
I have had luck running Teams in the safari web app instead of the native (ahem Electron) app. Cuts the CPU usage down to 25% instead of 75%.
Is Borte “largely forgotten”? After Subutai, she’s probably the most recognizable figure in Genghis Khan’s administration, save Genghis Khan himself.
> If you're doing it in your head, sure that's a skill, but is it really math?

Is it not? Adding numbers in my head is certainly math. Algebra in my head is certainly math. Why would it stop being math just because I'm doing it more abstractly?
On the other hand, such AI will usher in a new era of art and comedy. Watching computers fail in absurd ways.
I have been working with the same laptop (Lifebook) for years. I bought it second hand (40 euros).
No upgrade done so far. I'm lazy to even replace the battery which completely run out.
Still it satisfies all my activities (web development, image processing with OpenCV & pentesting)

Of course, there are situations where you may need a better hardware. But in most cases, people buy under psychological pathologies such as narcissism and insecurity impulsions
Isn't the model a trade secret? Correct me if I'm wrong but the model is what allows the lender to optimize profit by maximizing good loans and minimizing bad ones. If the model is public then the lender would lose its competitive advantage because any competitor could just use the same model.
i've been using the same core i5 2500k that i bought in 2011 as my main work computer since then. i don't have any great financial hardship or anything, my work could easily have bought me a new computer. but it's been great, and there's been no reason to fix what ain't broken.

i've been through a number of laptops in that timeframe though.
Whatever happened to the idea of NFC auth rings you wear?
Sim cards can have pin codes
Just let me place my app icons anywhere I want and let spatial memory do its thing
they specifically say the user must do it himself, for some reason? but let’s see how it works actually
You’re going to code with an onscreen keyboard?
It worked. I owned both. But they said it didn’t. At least for a while.

But it was sort of odd. The 32X didn’t seem too stable since it stuck up so far. I think they later had a piece of plastic they offered (in box or via mail?) to fix that.
As semiconductor technology advances, increasing miniaturization and integration become normal and expected. I imagine that in the 70s and early 80s, some people thought that the only "real" computers were minicomputers such as those made by DEC, or even mainframes. Highly integrated computers such as the Apple Silicon Macs are the logical continuation of the trend that began with the first microcomputers.

Having said that, the desktop form factor has its place. My next PC will be a desktop. But it will also be a Windows PC. I wish there was a Windows PC that had the same level of integration, and performance per watt, as the M1 Mac mini.
> It’s not designed for fast (enough) switching or maintaining “hot” data from multiple users simultaneously on the same iPad.

I can’t see that being the reason. The HW difference between the iPad and Mac are minimal.
Yes, you’re correct, neoliberal is the proper term.

Political science has the same deal going on as topology with open and closed sets not being antonyms.
I saw the concept "heavenbanning" the other day, basically your idea instead of shadowbans.

https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561
https://learnmech.com/strain-gauge-accelerometer-diagram-and... digital scale

https://www.siliconsensing.com/technology/mems-accelerometer... capacitor

https://www.americanpiezo.com/piezo-theory/piezo-acceleromet... as in the name, piezo
Scientists figure out how to get platinum to play at room temperature
Because using poor/slow tools means we end up with better end results? In my experience using poor tools ends up with higher costs. I don't see how higher costs are going to result in better software in the end.
> Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. There's also a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: if any automaker wanted to trim inventories, the customer could go to a competing automaker's lot and buy today. Since customers will not wait to buy a car, a dealership must have some quantity of vehicles that are acceptable to buy today.

I think this is mostly true, for a decent chunk of buyers. And I think this is part of the reason why we've seen used car prices skyrocket. People who have the cash to buy a new car but can't find what they want on the new lot are buying whatever they can.
Gmail supports IMAP (and even POP), so you can use just about any e-mail client with it:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en
I’ve started treating my phone like a firewall using do not disturb. Whitelist (aka favorite) the phone numbers I care about.

I will temporarily take off do not disturb when using Uber/Lyft. I don’t really have a need to be notified by any other app.
Except in reality his targets weren't entirely dead, there were still millions left so he still went about killing the rest[0..2].

The intent in this case existed alongside unintended causes, but it was still there.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca_E...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars
Note that the main Python implementation CPython actually does no translation. It's an interpreter with no JIT.
Reuters: Binance facilitated $2.35B in illicit transfers from 2017-2021
This is a strange logic -- the life is not about money. Here is a counter-question: What if you could buy more hours for your life?

Instead of visiting grandparents once per month (because 2 separate trains + a bus is pretty hard trip for someone with little kids), you could visit them every weekend.

Instead of only seeing wild animals in the zoo, you can see them in the forest.. and still have time for chores afterwards.

Instead of shopping at your local store, where every single yogurt has an added thickener, you can have a better food at a cheaper price -- and spend less time on shopping per week, too.

I lived in the big city with a great transportation system (not in the US). I would not want to to live in such place again.
I can understand how the belief that improved risk pricing provided by a black box model could be arrived at to be the "better" methodology for pricing credit, but importantly, the observability and introspection of the model is a non functional requirement without a pricing/revenue component. Some profit will be given up to meet regulatory requirements; if you can't follow the rules, you don't get to operate, at which point your model value rapidly approaches zero except as a parlor trick (jurisdiction dependent of course).

> Having laypeople or special interests mandate how your computer program works or how you have to pretend it works is not the solution imo

Agree to disagree. Regulators exist to thwart predatory behavior, including black boxes making decisions no one understands, and companies will not regulate themselves (proven time and time again [1] [2] [3]).

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/actions/

[2] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/enforcement-by-t...

[3] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/payments-harmed-...
My EV has a button for this purpose. It runs the AC when it's off and burns about 1% battery in 30 minutes. I've had one person look suspiciously at the car, then hear the compressor running, and wander off.

(The kids know how to escape from their seats anyway...)

Edit: I only use it on borderline days. It's reliably cool when it's under 90, so I only use it under 80. At 95-100, the hot side of the compressor overheats. I would not use this with an infant.
“Buddy Controller: Team up with a friend or care provider while gaming.”

I’m so confused. Is this a politically correct way of saying parent or a feature designed for the sick / handicapped?
There many reports that the lack of insects made birds a greater threat for crops, compared to the past. [*]

What is your experience, would you concur that these birds were not as much as a threat some decades ago?

[*] Many reports also indicate that their number has grown, but that in turn could be a consequence of their shifting diet, not being anymore dependent on a naturally limited resource (insects) and now using a resource way more abundant (crops for human food). So the reduction of insect populations would have had this surprising two-steps consequence of raising the number of their former predators.
The school provided lunches that I heard about from someone who graduated recently sounded pretty marginal. I think people in this thread might be overestimating what's being lost.