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> Thinking back on those, it’s hard for me to believe that most cloud hosted companies are prepared by checking a box without actually testing.

We are talking about MultiAZ, Availability Zones. Not different regions. Setting up redundancy across regions is not easy. But for majority of the people using AWS a single region with MultiAZ is good enough.
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both are used, as this [1] points out, the "estar" vs "ser" depends on what aspect you want to highlight. "estoy casado" highlights the fact that you weren't before, and "soy casado" highlights the fact that you are now.

[1] https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/229597/soy-casado-o-esto...
Allowing people to live the lives they want to live seems like a positive thing. What steps backward would you like to see?
There's a lot of paid editing in OSM; see here for a diary post of a researcher working on it: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary...
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Level 0.01: high enough to threaten ecological catastrophe, not high enough to react rationally to the threat.
If you hear bullshit, then that's easy: you filter out such people.

Not really silver-tongued candidates? Well, what's the problem? Unless you are looking explicitly for silver-tongued candidates, you should ignore this "trait".
While excitations in super conductors are interesting, and technically can be considered particles, a headline that claims the discovery of a new particle is more than a little misleading.
Also should be included is license costs. It's easy to forget that special feature you are using in SQL Server or Oracle can increase you to a much higher license. Main areas for concern for license costs are DB and windows server.

Also DevOps people are not cheap. You need to factor in implementation and maintenance. I could be using that money on a bigger server with less complex infra.
> If you are already paying for EC2, running those short-lived cron jobs in any one of those instances already adds zero cost.

Now you have a scheduling/orchestration concern. Kubernetes was built to address that kind of concern. The thread is filled with people bemoaning the cost of running Kubernetes.

> The main beneficiary of AWS Lambdas is AWS itself. It charges a huge premium for what essentially amounts to spare cycles in its infrastructure, and in the process ties up clients to a proprietary solution.

And as a result, we (the customers) don't have to pay for infrastructure that would otherwise be idle. Why can't it be a win-win?
and actually doesn't have a work for generic "grandparent"
This isn't new? There was already a patch a couple of days ago...
What makes me slightly angry is the supplier saying they don't know what is causing it when all they had to do was go there and look!

That is my biggest gripe with corporates and bureaucracies, they talk a lot when a simple bit of action would nip something in the bud! We have become feaful people who would rather write an email than call somebody or go and see them in-person.
I, on the other hand, will take whichever widgets have the better accessibility implementation. Currently Electron beats Qt on this.
So true. It's embarrassing how netflix still refuses to play high quality streams on linux. So I'll just head over to my favorite torrent site and grab it there, instead.
> see any change as an attack on how we used to do things, breaking the UNIX philosophy, etc.

Yeah let's throw portability and any semblance of order away b/c of ... what exactly?

> replaces the old Unix filesystem model by something that is exciting

:shudder: Count me in on the closed-minded I guess ;)
Scary to think about the ecosystem implications of that
If you like these kind of "Mind blown", "Goose bumps" stories, read some Ted Chiang. Really stories that stick with you. I love this whole book: [0]

If you like a bit longer stories, try some Greg Egan. Or, his book with short stories is also really nice: [1]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_L...

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic
Someone who builds a truly novel technology solution involving hundreds of hours of effort gets filtered out of an interview involving contrived scenarios. You may have built the next generation X, but given an array of strings and a fixed width, can you format the text such that each line has exactly maxWidth characters and is fully justified -- in the next 30 minutes? Maybe you should have cultivated that skillset instead, because around here we value parlor tricks more than real world accomplishments.
> Not sure if you can find most +2y old movies on torrent platforms, last time I checked I couldn't find what I was looking for

You absolutely can. Just maybe not on the public trackers.
Looks nice. Though my mindshare goes to Lemmy at this point. It's slightly different, but a fediverse project and pretty feature compete at this point:

https://join-lemmy.org/
Before Electron (f.k.a. Atom-Shell), there was Node-Webkit (l.k.a. NW.js), which also was a foundation for plenty of apps: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companie...
“Absolutely hilarious” that you’re forgetting there is usually a system design round that tests things like “setting up infrastructure on an enterprise-level”.

The coding round is supposed to test that.. you can code.

For the record I’m also not a fan of the Leet Code style rounds, even though I actually find completing them (outside of an interview) quite fun.
The irony for me is that the NHL is an excellent example of why piracy happens. Last hockey season, I could pay the NHL directly to get access to all hockey games from Australia. They have a Google TV app that was flawed, but worked well enough, and I was happy.

This year, because the NHL have done a deal with ESPN, I have to do a convoluted deal with a third party to get access to ESPN, and my experience is terrible. ESPN's Android app is terrible, the Google TV app flat out doesn't work, and casting from my phone to my TV craps out during period breaks and long ad breaks.

Piracy would be easier, better and cheaper than paying for things. It's the same reason Netflix reduced piracy, and now it's tanking. They created something that was easier, cheaper and better than piracy. Now with their increasing prices, declining quality, and fragmentation of their library, piracy is going to increase again.
At least sqeenix just sold off a number of their studios and franchises so at least someone else can still make good games with them.
Does it though? Often times all it tells you is that this person probably saw this question before.
Anyone remember On TV? Their audio was modulated on a subcarrier that was easily demodulated with a single chip PLL. And the video was just mixed with a sine wave at, I think, the vertical scanning rate - super easy to mix in a 180 degree out of phase sine wave with a crude manual potentiometer adjustment for amplitude. I built one of those decoders and although it was a bit unstable and would lose sync now and then it worked well enough.
Yes, users need to input their own OpenAI API keys.
I've had a couple of sysadmin-interviews which were pretty interactive.

You're presented with a laptop connected to a remote VM, and told "Fix MySQL", or "Rewrite the git history in this repository".

Usually these are simple problems, which have obvious solutions. Every now and again you might get a surprise like an immutable-bit set on a file, or SELinux blocking access to specific files/paths, but the good thing about these kind of "challenges" is that you'll usually also have full google access.

I guess l33tcoding isn't really a thing for sysadmins, but I do appreciate a (fair) simple test like that, especially being given the opportunity to talk through the process.
I'd argue that there's a bug. while TLV would appear to imply that the airport is in Tel Aviv, it is not. :)
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The source - https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/08/webb-engineered-to-en...

As a result of this impact, a specialized team of engineers
has been formed to look at ways to mitigate the effects of
further micrometeoroid hits of this scale.

It sounds like they weren't expecting this happening so soon after the launch.
The stuff I have on Github is a mix of university projects (about 30 years ago), forked stuff I keep in sync with main repo (just in case they go away), a couple of half baked projects that I occasionally touch on rainy days and lack the rigeur of what gets deployed into production at work.

But hey, maybe HR will be happy I have a GitHub account.
Here is a few:
Dogma, Baraka, Space odyssey 2001 (and other Cubric's movies)
I once worked in a company that distributed an APK via mail to the customers. It was a customized app, and still in development. "How to install" was a regular question.
Your first point is correct, but just to clarify your second point, these two definitions are not quite equivalent, as there is a world of functions growing more quickly than log^k(n) no matter how large constant k, but still within n^o(1).

For an example, consider 2^sqrt(log(n)).

This is a bit similar to something being faster than polynomial, but slower than exponential.
We Didn't Start the Kernel (A SUSE Music Parody)
does the slope disappear if we control for the usual cost increases? (Baumol's cost disease for example pushes up everything that involves human time, and running trials is 99% that)
Dogma, Baraka, Space odyssey 2001 (and other Cubric's movies)
> Can you actually call this encryption?

It uses encryption to achieve a goal.

The word 'encryption' gets used loosely, as both a purpose and a technique.

More strictly, the early and main use of communication encryption is
confidentiality, to communicate between two endpoints so an
eavesdropper can't listen.

Pay-per-view, DRM schemes and other content 'protection' systems are
about controlling the behaviour of the recipient. That's a
fundamentally different trust and psychology model.

One of the aims is to give something without giving it, to create a
rental system out of a distribution system, and so be able to resell
the same content over and over to the same customer.

However I noticed that the content creators have devised a foolproof
and cunning new method of doing this.

A friend gave me a USB stick with a bunch of box-sets to watch. I was
very excited, and when Saturday night came around I inserted the
memory stick and sat down to enjoy my pirated entertainment...

About halfway through the second episode the new DRM kicked in.

I realised that I'd already watched this entire box set, and then
remembered how shit it was. By making it such low quality dystopian
Hollywood grist they'd created something so utterly bloody forgettable
that my overloaded, aging brain was tricked into watching it again,
thus bypassing the need for any DRM.
> If you count only the kernel then yes, we "won". The trouble is a kernel is not an OS. You need also userspace. (linux will panic if no "init" is found). And when we count the userspace, we lost. Android is a closed system.

This.

It's very funny to still see the same fans comparing a kernel to an entire OS. Android and ChromeOS are still closed operating systems that use the Linux kernel. The kernel itself is useless on its own and needs a user-space to function. So unless there is a LinuxOS? I didn't think so. Since the user-space in Android and ChromeOS is closed and owned by Google. A widespread failure.

The desktop is also a failure as well as the user-space is too as the second problem is Google owning both of them and there is a likely chance that Fuchsia is going to replace them too. So we're back to square one again.

> Just because the rendering engine is OSS i would not call it a win. The rest (Chrome, Edge, Safari) have nothing to do with OSS. And Firefox is an old impaired browser who still remembers its glory days.

Well they still don't know that they actually lost; so badly that the winner (Google) is keeping the sore loser (Mozilla) on life support and is unable to be independent or even achieving their mission statement without being dependent on their anti-privacy foe's money. It is not early days and it is been decades since the Mozilla CEO promised that they would be not dependent on Google's money. A decade later it hasn't happened.

Firefox was supposed to be the dominant browser but today it's (you guessed it) Google Chrome. I consider this a catastrophic and chronic failure.
Yes, I do exactly the same with a contrived example in a take-home coding assessment (with some failing test cases to not waste their time). Always seems to be a good indicator, especially of their ability to communicate technical concepts.
In my experience most companies using leetcode thinks their shit don't stink. So i'll leave this where it is.
SwiftUI tutorial for ScalingHeader – a scroll view with a sticky header
There is also the cost of supporting a global monopolist that exploits populations of workers undercuts prices and destroys local production and trade in order to spread its empire.
Plum-dispatch: Julia-inspired multiple dispatch in Python
The best interview we've used was sharing a simple but very not idiomatic Python file with working (but slow) code and tests at the bottom. The task was to refactor and speed it up. This allows seeing the actual thought process and some basic skills, while at the same time being something any good dev could do in 20min without much pressure.
Is it officially sunsetted? I can still see commits on Github: https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets

Thank you for developing Brackets! I used it daily as a web dev, it had an awesome live preview feature.
I have a netflix subscription, as well as a showmax subscription (local streaming service which has a lot of local stuff, as well as a bunch of international stuff including almost all of HBO's stuff) if there's something that's not on one of those, then I just torrent it. I don't give a crap. If people don't want to make their stuff accessible then I will immediately torrent it and they can lose out on the revenue. (I'm not gonna subscribe to every streaming service there is)

I can find torrents for anything I like, it's really easy. I guess if you don't do it often, you don't know where to look. But piratebay is still up and a good start.
We keep seeing posts like these on HN/Reddit, yet companies keep using them. And companies like Faang (or is it Manga now??), whose engineers I would think would hang out on HN

So it either means:

1. HN's influence is even less than we thought-- even MANGA engineers /10x silicon valley types dont hang out here

2. Everyone agrees its a good idea, but no one cares. Like everyone agrees we should care about the environment etc
If all the stuff you want to ignore is inside another folder, you can create another .gitignore inside that folder containing just * (i.e. ignore everything). Everything including the .gitignore file itself will be ignored.
As a non-American who worked in USA for a while, I noticed, because its easy to fire people in USA, employers will take risks like hire someone with 100% liberal arts background for highly tech job. If it doesn't work out they can fire them. It seems to me, because of this, Americans have a lot more 2cnd chances than Europeans. Seems weird you're meeting such risk aversion in such a hot job market, with the skills you've got, which sound in demand. If people are having a weird reaction maybe its best to be 100% honest with them and say, due to various factors such as looking after your mother etc, your career has never quite got off the ground, but you're motivated and hard-working, and ask them to try you out. Tell 'em "give me a coupe months you'll see results, fire me if you don't". I'd think someone will bite, for that.... You just need 1 job where you achieve lift-off, and the future is golden. (This comment assumes you're actually in USA not a risk-averse country, but even then... persuade someone to try you on temporary basis first, probation period etc, and try to be a rock star quickly...)
Now count how much of that is GPL.
(apologies, this might be a bit snarky)

i hate this philosophy of yours with all my might. (ok, not really, but i do dislike it)

when i put something out there, i do it to share what i build for myself and for my own needs. i may be asking for help in general, but i won't ask for help for every specific issue unless that issue is a priority for my self and i can't fix it. time is to short to worry about every single low priority problem.

and how dare you judge someone elses effectiveness as a maintainer!

that, my friend, is quite an insult. you have no idea how effective they are. you don't live their life. you don't know what other responsibilities they have. what's next? asking that they commit a minimum number of hours each week for the project? demanding that they respond to any request within a day?

users should be free to be critical of it

absolutely not. you can say: "unfortunately, i have this problem, so i can't use this, i am going to go use something else". but that's about it.

criticism is the bane of our society. criticism hurts peoples feelings. criticism causes burnout. FOSS maintainers are volunteers and absolutely do not deserve that kind of criticism for just developing software. (that doesn't make them above any criticism. if they are rude or mean to their users, then that may well be criticized. but not if they ignore a problem or are unresponsive. they may well have other things in their life that are more important than to care about your software issue) (and if the developer is paid, direct any criticism at the company, but don't beat up the employee who may not have the freedom to choose what issues to work on)

Being open source doesn't mean nobody should dare criticise you

if you didn't pay for it, it means exactly that.
> Musk last month compared U.S. workers to those in China, saying American workers tended to try to avoid going to work whereas Chinese workers would not leave the factories. "They will be burning the 3 a.m. oil," he said at a conference of Chinese workers.

Is Tesla paying the Chinese workers double the wage since they are working double the hours? Or is it paying them a wage for 8 hours per day and getting an extra 8 (or more) hours of work for free?

Sounds like there's a lot of free 996 work going on:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/12/elon-musk...

https://en.pingwest.com/a/8154
> AWS pricing is great because you aren't price-gouged if you don't use it?

Precisely. If you spin up instances with a per-time cost and they aren't being used, then you are wasting those instances. The engineering to automatically scale down instances when they are not being used, and to scale up (vertically and/or horizontally) when needed, is non-trivial to do correctly and, quite frankly, is now undifferentiated heavy-lifting. Paying a higher price when the infrastructure is being used and then not paying when it is not being used can and does result in lower overall costs when correctly architected.

Personally speaking, my AWS bill last month for my serverless side-project was $2.74. Sure, this includes stuff in the free-forever tier. Does that really matter? Nobody rents servers out that cheaply.

> you still need to pay for stuff like AWS KMS and API Gateway even if no client hits you with a request.

For KMS, true, for API Gateway, wrong. API Gateway pricing is per-requests, not per-time. If there are no requests, there are no charges. In most cases, you don't really need to manage your own KMS keys; there is no added-value compared to using AWS-managed keys. Even if you do want to manage your own key, the pricing is a few bucks a month per key, including usage, unless your project is highly scaled up, in which case, you're in a completely different class of cost-optimization.
I can relate so hard with the part which says it does not favour slow thinkers. I've faced this countless times - person at work asks me something, I reply "I'll think about it and get back to you", which inevitably leads to their disappointment.

I am okay with disappointing people, but it can be unnerving when that disappointment means I miss out on a good opportunity.
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You are right in general, but when the quote is from someone on whose research the result builds in an important way (as it is the case here), I would say it is fair.
Sure, and American prisons don't sell slaves to American farms. They lease slaves to American farms.
> With Kodi I also have all of that on my TV available just as easy as Netflix.

As an additional warning, some kodi addons are torrent based and thus potentially risky in germany without using an anonymisation service like a vpn
How much CO2 causes how much warming? That was the core question of the studies I mentioned.
It's crazy how the M1 is still unmatched 1 year and 8 months after it's release. Apple is working with some alien technology.
Having taken some interviews myself I can see some value in having the interviewee do some small coding exercise when they do not have any personal projects to show. I think it can filter out some false positives of candidates that can talk well but can’t actually write code (you’d be surprised how many candidates can’t)

What surprises me most is the lack of flexibility in the process. If a candidate shows up with a broad portfolio I’d rather talk about that then doing some random coding problem. Yet our HR manager insists on the fixed program. This is worse when the candidate is interviewing for a senior role where I don’t really care. Then I am mostly interested in their past experiences and knowledge on how to build things that don’t fall apart after six months.

Again it is definitely process over people here… not sure if it is better in other places.

I would also say that these exercises are most effective when they are quite simple. They let you test ‘can this person write a function’. The complicated ones often filter more for people who have studied those type of problems. Harder problems != better coder. At least not for the projects I work on which are more integrating existing services than investing new novel highly efficient code.
After that, I have a command "python 3.11" but when I try to run it, I get this:

python3.11: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.11.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Inflation reveals the sickness ailing Britain’s economy: rentier capitalism
There's also share/misc/birthtoken with a list of birth stones and flowers. That's actually much more weird than a list of airport codes.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/birthtoken
But...couldn't one of these isolated ecosystems contain what could end up being a highly invasive life form, bacteria, and/or virus?