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> security daemons

AKA compliance checkbox crap?

If infrastructure is immutable (which makes it work even better for autoscaling), nothing new will get installed unless you build a new image. Export whatever data you require to ensure things you want to be running are running. Monitor entry and exit points.

What is left for the "security deamons" to do?
True: not my area of expertise as I have only written ~100,000 lines of C++ -- and that that is insufficient for C++ to be an area of expertise is itself very revealing...
The problem is when you join a high performing team and organization. Is a WTF something they should fix your you need to recalibrate what you think is normal?
Now it's likely too late, he's too visible. And if there are more developers in his circumstances, well, maybe we all deserve what's coming to us.
> I don’t believe the probability to be vanishingly small

I consider it vanishingly small because of the screaming lack of even moderately firm evidence that it's ever actually happened.

> I believe it to be sufficiently high that the scenario where the apparently-empty galaxy is full of life is far from vanishingly small - and far from certain

I believe it is likely to the point of virtual certainty that there are other intelligent forms of life in the universe. We don't disagree there.

But the universe is unimaginably enormous, and the chances of any two such life forms being within reach of each other is miniscule. In order for it not to be, the universe would have to be absolutely packed with such life, and if it were, we'd very likely have some sort of evidence of it.

But my point still stands. Of all of the very unlikely things that might be true, why fixate so hard on this one? My suspicion is because people want it to be true, and starting with that stance makes error and misunderstanding very likely.
Now that is a throwback! That old logo was created with GIMP at a table outside NetApp. STH started at a time when the SMB market (and VERY high-end homes) were using Dell, HP, and IBM rackmount gear off-lease. The original STH idea came from me learning Linux as an alternative to Windows for that segment. STH was what I used to learn the rest of the market outside of work. The first product we were sent for a review was a rackmount case and that started us on the path of reviewing new gear ~2010-2011 when it was a part time blog instead of having a team of folks working on the site. I still try to keep 15-20% of our content in the SMB/ high-end home arena.
Employer gives them a credit card they can use for their software tooling
This is exactly what is happening. Any worker that continually bring up problems is removed one way or another and you effectively get the normalization of deviance via the dead sea effect. Things that should be called out are suddenly "That's what we always have to do because we don't have enough time", and 99.999% of the time it works out fine. Then the ten thousandth time you explode a gaping hole of poison in the earth.
First of all, this sounds like an amazing project. My workplace runs isort+flake8 in pre-commit hooks, so making these even 10x faster would be a huge quality of life improvement for us.

Personally I'm interested to hear from you what are the specific reasons you can't achieve this kind of performance with CPython.

Usually the major factors are: A) python's generalised data structures (int, list, etc); B) extra overhead of common operations like reading a variable value, calling a function or iterating over a collection; C) no real multithreading (i.e. the GIL); D) lack of control over memory management.

I'd love to know if there's anything else that makes Python that much slower.
"It's like Uber, but for waiting in line"
>How to deal with Russia? I actually opt for appeasement and containment.

Ie repeating the steps that led to the current war (and a couple of previous ones). You expect a different outcome next time?
>>> pclmulqdq: The constant Rust spam on the front page makes me think that there may be some sort of pro-rust bot that upvotes them. There probably isn't, just a lot of enthusiasm, but it's tiring.

>> xpe: ... Personally, the above kind of comment is tiring. Complaints about what makes the HN front page seem like a waste of energy. ...

> 0xdeadbeefbabe: The complaint is about the input not the output.

Explain, please. What is the input? The output?
I think people make the assumption that aliens will be super advanced and super advanced means invincible. This comes from assuming that they will be advanced everywhere and that interstellar travel means magical tech. It ignores that there are physical limits to realistic travel or may be limits to magic ones. Finally, they can have blindspots like using cheap drones and assuming they can escape their attackers.

I was thinking of scenario where sailboat drone washes up on North Sentinel Island. Our civilization is much more advanced, they can't touch our airplanes or spacecraft. The drone is advanced, with solar panels, computers, and plastic, but is cheap and disposable. The islanders could row out in canoes and defeat it with stones and sticks.
Whoops! We may be unable to serve your election now, please hold: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/02/turkey-fears-gr...

It's unclear whether Erdogan has the legal power to delay the elections (scheduled for May), but his political allies have publicly advanced the idea.
You appear to have understood the movie.

> One of the easiest ways to tell if I'm not going to get along with someone is if they unironically quote Fight Club.

Yep, lots of people... don't understand the movie.

You'd think when it came to creating a strict cult and cutting people's balls off and shit, people'd start to go "wait a minute... wasn't this about escaping the media- and corporation-driven rat-race for freedom, and, uh, masculinity or something? WTF?" and start to get a clue that they maybe shouldn't trust everything this Tyler guy says because a lot of it might just be nice-sounding bullshit, let alone where it goes from there—but, shockingly, no.

On the one hand, if so many people get it wrong, maybe that's the movie's fault; but on the other, it's not like the movie's subtle.
>254 nm

... which just happens to be exactly the second spectral line of a low-pressure mercury-vapor lamp. Actually 253.7. The other line is 184.5. Are you sure that the study you read isn't just reporting this wavelength as ideal because we have a convenient source of it? Efficient far-UV sources tend to be few and far between. It would be an awfully big coincidence if the two major spectral lines of an Hg plasma just happen to be the two ideal wavelengths for disinfection.

FWIW, zinc vapor has a persistent line at 214 nm, but I've never heard of this being applied in a commercial bulb. Other relevant possibilities are all toxic.
You can’t solve it making up wrong answers. It’s a core part of the design.

It’s like saying you’ll solve a monkey with a typewriter by adding 200,000 if statements and hoping you’ve covered all the exceptions.
All. At least for the Y since summer of 2021. There's a spectrum of car recalls from "we'll push it in the next update" to "bring it in or die".

FWIW, battery replacements really aren't that far to the right. The worst possible case is a battery fire, and those really aren't very dangerous in context (e.g. would you rather your car burn, or your powertrain or brakes fail suddenly?).

But they are extremely expensive for the manufacturer if they involve replacements. Not good business news for Ford if so, but we don't know yet.
It sounds like you have never worked in at a place like ${BIG_CORP}, which is totally fair. Let me break it down for you:

> -Simple license management (what's simpler than reimbursing personal expenses?)

Try doing that x100,000, every month. It gets annoying fast

> -Organization-wide policy management (huh?)

Only group X is allowed to use these features, and only group Y is allowed to use code licensed in that way, etc.

> -Industry-leading privacy (no idea what this means, how is this better than personal Copilot per person)

This sounds like mostly marketing BS, but likely still better than personal copilot. Have you read to copliot EULA? I haven't. I would guess they are using code you write to re-train their AI. You know who has read the EULA? Corporate lawyers. They don't want Github reading their internal code, so I'm sure the license for Enterprise does not involve sending data back to Github.

-Corporate proxy support (what even is this)

If you work at any large company (not even a super big FAANG or something) you will have this. You don't want random employees being able to access any random site. E.g. in general devs should not be able to access their personal drop box account because its an easy way to steal data without the company knowing. So all their network will be behind a proxy and everything has to be whitelisted. This proxy support is basically integrating with that system.
if Substack is like Patreon you can listen to the paid feed on any podcast app via RSS feed, except Spotify which doesn't allow users to manually add RSS feeds.
The world is changed by unreasonable people with dreams.

So yes, I will. Thank you.
Perl killed itself with the Perl5 transition to Perl6. I lived the 3->4 and the 4->5 transitions. When I wanted to try my hand at OOP, I ran screaming from Perl5 to Scheme and eventually Python.

20 years later I'm still programming in Python.
Ken Griffin's Miami Move Inspires Investors Who Want to Work from the Beach
Seems unlikely to work given (if I understood correctly) the main direct consumer is Babel, another OSS project that is known to have had trouble with funding in the past. If he starts asking for license fees, Babel eill just be forced to make do with the latest OSS version, fork it or whatever, and the rest of the world will never know.
Microsoft have the advantage that people saw GPT2, GPT3, and ChatGPT and how those models progressed and improved. Bard is Google's first public AI product so it looks like GPT2 while Microsoft are teasing at GPT4. People will assume that Google are a long way off fixing the accuracy problem because there isn't any trajectory or iteration, while they believe Microsoft will crack it quite soon because they've already seen how things can change.

There's a lesson for founders in this. If you develop in secret and try to launch a perfect product then anything less that perfect is unforgivable. If you launch early with something that has obvious problems people will forgive them because they see the potential and trust you to fix them.
This tbh. I got Elder Scrolls Oblivion running the other day on Pop!_OS and I have been absolutely eating up the nostalgia. In 2016 I tried getting it running with plain old WINE and for some reason people were missing their heads and speech options were missing. On Proton it works perfectly, and I haven't noticed any glitches(that are out of the ordinary for a Bethesda title anyway)
Can you elaborate on the specific pieces and strands of red tape that are asking to be cut that don't impact safety?

I'm certainly not an expert on the depths, lengths, and colors of said tape - but typically that tape is put in place after public outcry from past negligence or perhaps by entrenched players looking to protect their dominant market position by increasing costs to new entrants.

If it's the latter I'd imagine there's easily-cited examples of obvious marketing protection that has nothing to do with safety.
Todays Rust is also X times more complicated than modern C++.

And not that long ago most people would agree that C++ is the language that is hardest to master.
Laid-Off Tech Workers Seek Leverage on the Way Out
sorry, but i really can't believe this. to start with how can foss manage a per seat license? i get needing support, but if you have the code (which you must else it is not foss) why can't you strip out the per seat code (which is a no-no in my experience on closed code) and just pay a one-off/per problem support contract?
The search results show you websites. They don’t claim to be true, they just show you things that are related to what you searched for.

How can you not see the difference?
Congrats on making the hard choice.
Would love to hear about the process for problem discovery, figuring out a V1 persona/customer profile, and especially how you de-risked the substitute solutions and alternatives in the new space (given the learning and experience with supergrain)!
It's pathetic: This has absolutely nothing to do with America, but they fall all over themselves to inform us AMERICA DO BAD THING.
...including environment variables, I would think (though this investigation apparently did not extend to them.)
> I don't think so. Russia annexed the territory it really wants. If Ukraine demilitarizes they would make a deal.

How can you possibly make a lasting deal with a country that wipes their arse with international agreements when it’s no longer convenient for them?.

If you think a “deal” with Russia would do anything other then let it rearm itself and reinvade the rest of the country I have a bridge to sell you.

After all, Russia already promised to never invade Ukraine and to never never threaten the sovereignty of Ukraine in exchange for them giving up their nukes.

How well did that “deal” go for Ukraine?.

> I don't think so. Russia annexed the territory it really wants. If Ukraine demilitarizes they would make a deal.

Then you haven’t been listening to what the Russians have been openly saying on tv themselves.

The Russians are very open about how Ukraine is a fake state, how it is a mistake and how its cultural identity should be destroyed.
Nixon had many incidents where he got very drunk and would get on the phone to important people and tell them to nuke, like, whoever he felt like at the time.
Slow down the oblique shots have gotten so vague I've lost track.
They're not but OK. Also what you posted agreed with what I posted.
Ask HN: Open-source projects with good onboarding?
What are some open source projects with really good onboarding of new contributors and short PR review times?
CorelDRAW 8 came out in 1998. That it even runs on a 486 is a miracle.
I'm waiting to find out what all the red tape really is for. Some of it, like earthquake resilience, I understand. But licensing of barbers in some states while not in others, I'll have to wait for the inevitable disaster that will befall unlicensed barbers to teach me my lesson.
For you it probably is easy because you very quickly find out what those licenses are for.
Ayn Rand lives rent free in your mind.
No one has access to literally everything. I work for a cloud provider with hundreds of products, tens of regions, and multiple isolated "clouds"; the "full access to production" you allude to only exists at companies too new to have developed formal access policies and too small to have gotten the attention of regulators.

Each team that owns a service has access to the prod environment(s) for said service (including the cloud console, a shell on a prod machine with admin privileges, etc) provided they get peer approval for the access they need.
Just read the article. It's "compared with 254 nm light". Both sentences are in the abstract.
i would say it is changed by reasonable people with a plan
Oh hey, the Amlogic chips. I worked for a company that wanted to turn an Amlogic S805 STB kit into a Linux computer. I think the reason that it works fairly well out of the box is because of some of the drivers we contributed to the effort :)

Their display controller driver was fun to figure out. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...
Similar result, but different route for me:
Planning, I hate: "I'm using this time and energy to figure out how I'm going to use my time and energy."
Waiting in line, I hate even more: "I want to do something and am delayed due to these other people that want to do the same thing."
Using an app to avoid lines sounds like a good solution.
> Workers at the Buffalo plant told Bloomberg that Tesla tracks their computer keystrokes to monitor how they work, prompting some employees to refrain from taking bathroom breaks.

It’s honestly kind of mind boggling that this is even legal.
> The fact that people think we could easily shoot down alien craft is slightly concerning.

It's not obvious that aliens who reach Earth must be much more technologically advanced than we are. They could have come here in a generation ship, which probably only requires builders who are a little ahead of us, and that only in fields like bioengineering.

For most of what they'd need for a generation ship our current level of technology is fine. In particular there is no reason they would have to be better than us at aircraft or weapons technology, so whatever vehicles they bring along to use when they want to enter a planet's atmosphere might be no better than what our current air forces have.
Are you saying this from a position of being a parent? Rhetorical question.

If I’m not mistaken, your implication is that material should be taught to kids regardless of parental input.

It’s in everyone’s best interest to keep the state out of matters such as these. This is precisely what history has taught us. It’s not this exact matter, it’s what such a move would do for future iterations. Lines should not be blurred in matters such as these.

A simple example is a school teaching creationism vs evolution. You can take your argument and swap the material. What if the local government enforced creationism, and barred evolutionary material?
I can't say I share your confidence in OPEC...

It's a resource that both producers and consumers know has a limited lifespan, and upon which a lot of consumers are totally dependent. There's every reason for OPEC nations to raise prices as high as they can to extract the most revenue possible before the source disappears. They know that as every year passes, the world's dependence on them diminishes.
Our body would have evolved to keep whatever these 'good' microbes are in and near our lungs, much like it does for our intestines and digestive system. The lack of this system, and the evolution of things like hair and mucous in our nose to filter and trap foreign objects is a pretty good hint that our body doesn't want anything except our clean atmosphere in our lungs.
I've been jumping back and forth since 1995.

Recently .NET has been very good, but whenever I program in it now and then there are things I miss badly from the Java side.
The internet has been terrible since Yahoo dominated search.

In fact, it was the glut of SEO nonsense like keyword stuffing is that PageRank countered.

If Google search sucks, someone will make one that doesn’t suck, and people will switch.
I wonder if large companies recognise they are shitting in the pond they are floating in.

As somebody with over quarter of century of experience managing and hiring people I notice how candidates change over time (trying to adjust for how I change myself). I notice people care less about the company they work for and, honestly, it is more and more difficult to find arguments against.

This whole trend of optimising everything to the max without caring for people is going to create an employee base that is completely disillusioned about their role or prospects or what's their best strategy for life.

When more and more people started changing jobs every year just to get an incremental raise without even bothering to get the raise at the company I worked for I thought this is shortsighted and it will backfire on them and it will teach them. Well, did not happen. It just became a new normal.

I wonder what new things are going to pass as acceptable.

Any company needs some people who care about what they do. But these are in shorter and shorter supply every year, it seems.

When you run a query on LinkedIn it will show you a list of candidates with their three last jobs. I noticed page after page after page everybody has their third last job starting 2020/2021. Meaning almost all seem to be spending less than a year on each of their jobs in past couple years. And these are all supposed to be senior candidates.

It is no way to have a productive employee base.

You can pay people more to keep them at your company for a while longer, but there is very little you can do to overcome their inherent cynicism.
Good stuff!

Are you planning to open source it?
Article is wrong when it is saying "emerged videos fueled outrage". It didn't. It won't.

Here is what is going to happen. The upcoming elections in May is going to be postponed, at least a year or however long it is necessary to make people forget what happened. If I know his voters, they'll forget it in couple of months.
I very much don't want to work in any professional setting where people are "open about their sexuality", hetero, gay or otherwise.
We could, of course. But it would be a license violation and legal wouldn't stand for it. We can each use it without charge for our own, personal purposes, of course -- just not for the company's purposes.

I can't help you with your disbelief, but it is true that nothing in the FOSS philosophy prevents companies from charging for their work.
> Same as in China.

What reforms are happening in China> They're still pouring people into camps.

> The highest estimates, by Zenz, only go up to a million. And it’s not factual at all.

The zenz estimate for 2020 is 1.8 million, but estimates are as high as 3 million over several years plus half a million in special boarding schools. A total of 3 million Uighurs is fully 1/3 of their population in Xianjang.

> We have the same in USA.

No, there it literally no forced sterilization in US prisons. You're making that up.

Everyone but China agrees that they are committing genocide, this isn't propaganda.

> I suppose that’s why you have official Chinese banknotes with Uighur text on them, and that’s why Uighur kids are being taught their native language in schools.

There seems to be a lot of evidence to the contrary[1][2]

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

[2] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

[3] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
No one is going to want to invest in an economy that never pays out. Gen-Z and gen-whatever is already fed up. We are all one moment away from, "Screw it, I'm not doing this anymore." We may all choose of life rigid frugality and minimal participation in the market economy. We will buy only what we need and nothing more.
> A reset button

And 'random' button too.
For Google, given the amount of knowledge it has on people, it's possible to know if someone is reviewing a product just for the sake of it, or is it a job for him.

But in that ideal world, ads are clicked less.
Honestly, nonsense like this happens with Windows gaming too. I can't count the number of times one of my friends has had a networking issue with steam or the windows store, problems with anticheat or other "extra" services like uplay/origin, issues with graphics drivers, and probably most commonly, Audio devices. I'm a game developer, as are the group of people I play with and we still stumble on these issues regularly, it's honestly why consoles are so great.
Who the hell gets a greeting card and doesn't add their own handwritten note? Especially for something that actually matters?
I'm think it's a meta joke - Therac-25 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) was a radiotherapy machine from the early 1980s and is (in)famous for having software failed and killed I think dozens of people. It's become a well known case study, but it's highly unlikely anyone on HN worked on it - I think that's the joke.
And mirrors reflect light. What happens when the reflection is toward sky and clouds?