skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reliability Engineering is much wider than the scope of a sysadmin. SREs are software engineers whose focus on the reliability of systems and platforms. Could be sysadmins; could be traditional SWEs; knowledge of both is required.
SWE pay might be high, but in the same market it is 4 to 10x median earnings compared with 200 to 600x for a CEO. Even the gap between a CEO and a SWE is 6 times bigger than the gap between a SWE and a factory worker.

Comparing between labor markets is not needed when there is a clear and present problem in a single market. Fixing a local problem should be more tractable than addressing global inequality.
If it was a mainline Diablo game I might, but that's not the kind of product they're selling. If I chose to treat it as such I would be dropping significantly more than the usual 60-70 dollars. That's a bad deal, even more so for those with gambling tendencies.
Trusting photos wasn't destroyed by the advent of photoshop, same with videos.

There are ways to prove authenticity, e.g. with cryptographic signing.
That post is from 2018, but Safari 7 dropped SharedWorkers in 2012.

My longstanding belief & understanding was that Safari was deliberately crippling cross-tab interactions. This felt like a marked place where Safari had did the right thing, and simply decided what was good for the web was bad for Apple. But I don't know where I'd go to find evidence or citations.
>>>Instead, American Airlines “departed from its established procedures,” according to the lawsuit, and sent police a single passenger’s information — Lowe’s.

If an innocent man goes to jail, the penalties should be so profound that it hurts. They should be levied a billion dollar penalty and I would say even that would be generous.
I don't think the result is the same but it is comparable. I would say using any language with a reasonable type system, say Kotlin w/property based testing gets you a result that while not as good as Haskell w/quickcheck is "good enough" for practical use in production software.

There is maybe some niches where that wouldn't be the case like very high assurance software where instead of Haskell you might choose say ADA instead but I'm not really familiar with those domains.
My car is much more powerful than my expertise. I have a lot of fun with it, but I'm careful to stay within my skill level. The machinist who built my engine said he wouldn't have done it if I was under 40.

I enjoy practicing double-clutching heel-toeing downshifting. Paddle shifters, phooey.
I got probably a thousand hours out of Diablo 2 for $100 total. Somehow I feel like the value proposition of $110,000 to have a maxed out character isn’t so great.
Windows did get a package manager with dependency support, it’s just that many developers are still shipping custom installer programs that ignore it and almost all the users are still willing to run those installers.
I disagree that there are better ways to transmit data p2p in most devices. Even the smoothest of setups for things like iot devices usually require a Bluetooth connection with a passcode or a connection to a lone wifi signal after which you need to switch back. Using sound would be a perfect way to setup iot speakers or really anything close by. Instead of having to activate Bluetooth pairing and find the sometimes strangely named device among the dozen or so devices that inevitably show up, ultrasound would be a great way to transmit the initial credentials.
Most effective employers I've worked for have found that staying close to upstream's rolling releases saved more time and effort in the long run compared to leaving a bigger gap between upgrades (which, sure, saves time if nothing breaks, but the worst case becomes a lot worse).
Awh, Can you give a idea of how much nuisance such devices can cause you daily? Also is there a way to prevent cochlear implants from detecting these frequencies? (like do only some cochlear implants do this or most of them do)

I really wanna use tech like this sometimes in future, but I also wanna care about accessiblity.
The story is insane and i hope he squeezes every dollar he can out of AA
That's completely ridiculous, of course it's a company.

You needed resources to design the money art, put NFC chips on them, code + test the system, and make the promo website.

Next they have to build more of the site, setup a system to track sales and deliver the money to customers, and host a server to make the money work.

Not only that but this is definitely not "cash in your pocket". Cash has value backed by the government that you can pay taxes with.

Even if Bitcoin notes take off, they're no better than a visa gift card you can redeem (if the company doesn't go out of business, at least)

I sound like I'm bashing, but it's very disingenuous to say this and bitcoin is the same as fiat currency.
organizationally that's a bad idea at a lot of places because the CTO will usually have more oversight and a bigger budget to match, and SREs are closer to SWEs than traditional ops
I bet behind a lot of successful men is "I'll show that mofo!!"
It seems like replacing "the android users who used this app" with "every iPhone user" would increase their data acquisition rather than reduce it
This is bad idea.

A while ago Alipay had this ultrasonic payment method, I queued for a vending machine, opened Alipay in advance because I never used this "ultrasonic payment" feature before, then just when the guy before me pressed the button, my alipay accidentally payed for him. Luckily he and I wanted the drink of the same price, so he payed for mine instead.

Using QR-code or NFC for payment won't mess up like this. And later Alipay completely canceled ultrasonic payment feature. I guess many people encountered the same problem. You can't control omnidirectional ultrasound broadcast. It's very insecure.
People aren’t really addicted to progress, that’s window dressing for the mechanic that gives you the gambler’s high.

I think a lot of folks who are effectively immune to gambling’s allure dismiss the danger to others when they don’t see anything slowing or blocking progression because that’s what would motivate them to even entertain the thought of engaging the gambling mechanic. I think what you’re really evaluating is whether or not it’s pay to win which while terrible, isn’t insidiously predatory.
I've got a 2fa backup code in a DNS entry on a free hosting provider. I've got another hidden in some public source code, masquerading as an example encryption key. There's all sorts of digital hiding places these days. Self signed certificates (serial number, subject, issuer, etc), http headers, etc. Other possibilities are accounts with determinate passwords (eg. a hash of your name) that are used only to store your secrets.
There’s also weirdness like the electoral college and presidents getting elected despite getting fewer votes than their competitors (see Bush Jr. and Trump).
Opting in to location access so a bank can help me find a nearby ATM does not mean I want that bank to continue to track me after I put the phone in my bucket and go about my day.

Videos on iOS are forced to play full-screen. Background, autoplay videos, do not trigger wake lock.

These are features which, while I'm sure some applications would find useful, would more often be abused than useful.
Where guns are outlawed they use knives and swords. The weapon is the instrument but not the cause.
> as long as you mind your voltage

It's not the plugs, it's the devices (or more commonly now, the power adapters) that work with 120, 240, or however many volts.

Nowadays many (most?) things take both voltages or, AFAICT -- I'm no electrician! -- anything reasonably close.

So in Thailand, for the most part, you can just plug in your MacBook or whatever and you don't need an adapter for the plug itself. Of course, if you're wrong about the voltage, things might go bad.

And as the other reply noted, this convenience doesn't make it safer, quite the opposite. But I just generally have realized there's a lot of innovation that could be done in plugs and sockets, but isn't being done.

As someone else commented above, the UK plugs are really interesting... but in my opinion maddeningly, unnecessarily big.
I'm very curious, why base everything on Slack? There's no denying it's super popular (and my preferred choice for collab) but the majority of businesses don't use it, and it indirectly adds cost to your product; if I want to use (and pay for) Rootly I also have to pay for Slack (which is expensive).

And to echo everyone else here; not having up front pricing is a big red flag. You've done well to attract the large customers you have at the moment, but you're going to struggle to draw in the long tail. Engineering teams don't want to talk to your sales people and they shouldn't need to - if AWS can tell me what I'll be paying right down to the second for something, I'm sure you can tell me how much your tool will cost me to use each month without needing to call me.

EDIT:

I should also clarify, I actually quite like this tool from what I've seen of it. Looking at how we handle incidents I could see something like this addressing a lot of our pain points.
I'm not here to disagree with you; I'm literally just answering your question -- of why people would pass on your offering.

> What do you have to lose (besides a few minutes of your time)?

Well, exactly this.

Sadly this is almost the definition of experience, or intuition -- not spending time on things which are unlikely to be successful.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and by now I would have liked some concise specifics. Why is your system faster? What exactly are the operations in the "broad range" of queries? Which operations are slower, and why?

It takes more than a few minutes to evaluate something like this.

I think you aren't doing any JOINs.
I don't understand how AA is the one getting sued here. The police is the one who ends up making determinations right? Along with the whole "17 days without knowing what the crime was"...

What was going on with the justice system here? Of course AA is a component in the events that lead up to his arrest, but surely our justice system should not just arrest people on AA's word and not provide any recourse. Why are we putting shoplifters into a jail cell for 17 days _even if you knew they were shoplifters_. How does a judge look at this situation and determine that this person is a flight risk?

There are so many points where humans could have intervened and stemmed the damage, but didn't.
If fusion creates clean power for significantly cheaper than fossil fuels, causing power usage to accelerate, so what?
Elden ring
More unprofitable companies living off of free money are now finally deflating. Really not a surprise at all quite frankly and as expected.
What a nightmare. If you (God forbid) find yourself falsely charged/arrested: Shut up. Get a lawyer. Don't talk to the police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

You might think you can convince the authorities to see reason, but you're wrong. If they were reasonable people they would be in a different line of work. This is a problem to be fixed by a lawyer. You can afford it. You can repay debt when you're alive and free.
It's a conspiracy theory until it turns out to be an actual conspiracy. Just because they're right wing doesn't mean they're wrong. Most "normal" people in the US are pretty far to the right (and for good reasons as we can see here.)
Are you thinking of pizzatool?

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
A few things that I don't understand:

1. The private key is itself encrypted and stored on the note. Where is the key encryption key stored? On this company's servers?

2. Where is the proof that the note is cut? Are there physical traces embedded in the note? Can someone bend the note over and over again to break the traces?

3. What prevents exfiltration of the user key from the note?
The Walmart near me here in Canada has rooftop solar.
See. They usually do randItem(suspectList) but they didn’t know suspectList was untrusted user input that only contained a single element
Don't feel it's really valid to calculate this by nation state. The system here is the entire planet, not individual nations.
My place in Bangkok is a nice modern luxury building... at least it was luxury when they built it 17 years ago, now it's falling apart a bit but the amenities are awesome. The electric is probably grounded straight into the Chao Phraya river. :-)
For static content and cgi-bin, busybox is much faster.
Would it even matter if AA misidentified him if the American justice system wasn't so terrible?

The idea that a simple accusation immediately results in rather extreme punishment is the real problem, isn't it?
You're not wrong, and that's the part I'm working on now. I've honestly mostly just used this page to suss out what I want to do, but apparently I could do better about communicating what it means to me. I'm guessing a video demo would be helpful, plus actually being able to take it for a test run. I'm pretty stoked about what I have, but it's just not quite ready to do much other than a video demo.

I'd hoped the intro page was enough to get the idea across in general, but it sounds like I need to improve there.
Both are at fault, but good luck getting a judgement against the state.
> containers create new ecosystems. This is true particularly in deep waters, where most lost stuff is reclaimed by the ocean, eventually becoming home for fish, and habitats where there was none.

How often does this happen? What are the upsides and downsides? Do they destroy other habitats?
pngloss – Lossy compression of PNG images
Diablo 3 was really bad if you liked Diablo 2. Always felt like PoE was the real successor but didn’t really try it…
Most ships aren't worth the cost to decontaminate and sink due to various environmental regulations. Some are reasonable and some are not.

I assume most of the superyacht will eventually go back to their owners where in relations with Russia are normalized if they have not deteriorated into worthlessness
Wasn’t this because is spectre, I remember all the major browsers did this. There was a risk of using workers+communication to read data across process.
python-vipaccess might interest you. I used it for both PayPal and eBay at one point. https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
and the most expensive pizza...

https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-bitcoin-pizza-day/
I worked on a C project where we counted 14 different hash table implementations done for different key/value data types strewn through the code.
17 days in a cell without being told what you're being locked up for? For shoplifting? Absolutely a waste of society's resources, unless you think the justice system is for vindication.
How much of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates was real?
American Airlines is a scapegoat for the broken justice system.
I don't think their scientific claims are all that inaccurate, maybe some stuff is simplified but that's inevitable. To my understanding, the issue is more converting that advanced scientific knowledge into something tangible.

Can I build a Google photos competitor using spiking neural nets for content recognition? Can i train GPT-4 with 50% of the power bill of GPT-3? Can i dare hope for better accuracy or robustness for some production task? Or better compressed nets for edge computing? I'm not seeing anything like that. We've known a long time that ANNs as implemented today are very crude compared to biological neurons; they really just share a name. What's supposed to differentiate a company from a lab is taking that insight and doing something concrete with it.
This is infuriating. How does it get to seventeen days in jail without talking to a lawyer? It was probably some COVID thing, but that's just not right.

AA needs to pay. First thought is some overly enthusiastic AA security person going way too far in doing the identification that they should be leaving to law enforcement.
> Rooftop solar isn't cost-efficient, or Walmart would be putting solar on its roofs instead of just virtue signaling with it in the parking lot. (Apologies to whoever I took this from.)

Walmart has more parking lot space than roof space, and parking lot solar doubles as covered parking, which itself has value.

Even if both were cost effective, it makes sense to do parking lot first (with accompanying PR) and then rooftop later (with another round of PR).
Is this structured like rust editions? If so I think that could be very useful for the ecosystem.
> That's not true. Java or C++ force you to type out the types every time to

That's not true for C++, with the auto keyword, which was a God send and made the code a lot more readable.

Strongly static languages like the ML ones are like having auto on drugs. If you like auto in C++, you'll like these languages. If not, you won't.
I tend to think that fate and free will work like electricity and magnetism. I call the combined result 'destiny'.
Likewise if one looks at total energy consumption in the US:

2000: 98.7 quadrillion BTU / 281.4 million people = 350 million BTU/person/year
2019: 100.5 quadrillion BTU / 328.3 million people = 306 million BTU/person/year.

On the other hand, increased use of global manufacturing and reliance on ocean transport is concealed by this metric. Still, it doesn't look like overall things are getting worse.

For the CO2 metric:

2000: 20.9 tonnes per capita
2019: 15.7 tonnes per capita

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_19.pdf
The distro also gets to choose a graph of known-good non-conflicting dependencies each time they cut a stable release. If the original author is catering to users who don’t use package databases, he won’t know what they may have available.
> The FAA is an agency within the DOT, under the executive branch, answerable to the legislative and judicial branches.

Also answerable to the elected leader of the executive branch!
Title should be "San Francisco" not "Susan Francisco".
I’m talking about infrastructure. Capturing the city without blowing it to pieces is clearly preferable than destroying it to take it.
Google Pay in India no longer has any of those features. Infact it has been completely reworked to support UPI payments [1].

And it has completely transformed how payments happen. paymets happen directly from bank account to bank account regardlessof what app you're using (Samsung Pay, PhonePe, GPay, your bank's app). You can use QR codes or simple username@bank to make payments.

I am not aware of any payment systems that support the use of NFC, (NFC is not that commonplace for anything except cards, and I have had trouble setting up cards in google pay).
One of the biggest benefits of QR based payments have been is it does not require any special hardware. Just a mobile and Internet (Which is very common and accessible here). And it has little to no transaction fees. So it has been quickly adopted by literally everyone.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
It depends on what the goal of the exercise is.

There are substantially fewer CEOs relative to SWEs. If your goal is to help the most impoverished, you are better off reallocating salary from SWEs than CEOs.
>Outside of simple binary patches, I don't think anyone has come close to writing a new one.

What about ReactOS, do they use a HAL implementation or not?
Are you on mobile?

Scroll down to the “Bitcoin bearer instruments that you want to hold” section. Read the subsections under “resilient” and “key rotation” which it appears you may have missed before posting your first comment.

Anytime one is communicating a new concept there is a trade off between under and over communication. In this instance I believe it’s important to note the notes are synthetic and function without centralization - and a point of pride the face value adds a fairly unique ability for fungible cold storage not requiring a phone - not a concept one usually thinks of as possible with hardware wallets.

On the other hand properties relating to their resilience to “strong electrical fields” or “efficient burning” characteristics did not come up as concerns by other customers during development, nor as other metrics on which various other physical currencies benchmark, but I will note that as an area we could clarify in the future.
That is the point of money, to measure and guage efficiency. To answer the question of 'Is the risk of losing a ship and all hands worth it?' one merely need check the actuarial tables.
> but surely our justice system should not just arrest people on AA's word and not provide any recourse

If you are still ignorant enough to believe that, I have 1024 bridges to sell you in the tri-state area.
You think 17 days in jail wouldn't upend your entire life? Bills? Jobs? Medications? (god knows what I'd do without my CPAP machine, die I guess)
its not that this is hard to grasp. it's not. in fact, many of the people i've consulted on RE have read all or parts of these books. IMO, it's mostly comes down to selective interpretation.

it's like telling a homeowner that they need to spend $1000/year on an annual maintenance item to prevent a _possible_ $15k repair bill every five years.

For some, $1000/yr is too expensive for them. So they take their bets or skimp. (People who think you can do SRE without being SWEs because they "can't code")

For others, $1000/yr is affordable, but because the $15k bill is "unlikely", they skimp. (People who think you can do SRE without being SWEs because even though they can code, they'd rather separate those jobs.)
The truth will set me free.

Thanks for the encouraging words.
> Unfortunately lead in fuel is used as an excuse to shut down airports. Lead, noise, "safety..." all the red herrings used by local politicans and the developers who own them, along with small-time (or big-time) land speculators to call for airport closures.

What should we presume these are red herrings? Lead and noise aren't problems? Another commenter posted research indicating that the lead is a real problem.

Also, what airports have been shut down?
> Every place I've ever worked, we have explicitly hired inferior candidates due to their racial/gender/etc characteristics.

In another comment downthread, I explicitly say " Don't hire bad candidates. " I'm well aware that there are lots of folks who do DEI wrong or justify bad decisions with it. Moreover, I get why this happens. Lots of people want or need the needle to move, and culturally speaking a company might not be ready yet to actually move that needle. It's growth hacking as applied to DEI, and it sucks. Rest assured that there are people working on fixing this, some in their roles at individual workplaces and others as an industry-wide effort.

> I will agree that DEI initiatives are not all bad all the time.

That's really what I'm going for here. I'm hoping we can all agree that we could do more to make hiring and promotion and such fair, and just in general that things could be improved in a way that benefits us all. Once we're all in agreement and understand the value prop, we can start holding each other accountable and making sure that we're being fair to everyone.
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