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ABOUT YOU is a company driven by the passion to develop the best tech products. Currently, we are searching for an experienced & passionate Lead DevOps Engineer (m/f/d) for our Payment Team to extend our team and drive interesting topics such as scaling the cloud-based infrastructure either across multiple online retailers or the always-increasing customer base in our online shop.

The Payments team is responsible for the complete payment lifecycle, from customers first placing their orders within the Checkout to handling the refund of a returned item weeks later. The applications of the Payment team maintain span from high traffic & fault tolerance API hubs to security-conscious and reliable backend processing engines.

What you will do

- Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure

- Drive the use of practices like continuous integration, continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

- Ensure the scalability of our flexible API solution by automating and standardizing the processes

- Take over responsibility for the availability and smooth operations of our infrastructure

- Supervise and monitor our infrastructure in integration, staging, and live environments
Manage the resources and services in cost-efficient manner

Who you are

- At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps or DevOps related roles

- Capable of leading a team of DevOps Engineers
Good knowledge in maintaining unix server Infrastructures

- Experience with one of the major cloud providers e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
Experience using different kind of monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Sentry, NewRelic, Kibana, …)

- Understanding and interest in the security aspects of running a cloud infrastructure

- Experience in caching systems like Redis
Eager to automate as much as possible

- Fluent in English both spoken and written

Nice to have:

- Coding knowledge in PHP

- Experience using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc)

Additional Information
*Working model:

Due to the upcoming tasks and responsibilities for this position, it is required to work onsite at our headquarters in Hamburg on a weekly basis. Therefore we’ve implemented a hybrid working model that allows us to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays and to work onsite from Tuesday to Thursday.
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“Turned into?”

I accidentally bumped into a random guy there before the con started, and we ended up chatting and he bought me a beer. I saw him there the next morning. And that evening. And at 2AM. Almost every time I walked past, the same guy was in the same seat, enthusiastically laughing and drinking with his buddies.

Dios mio, amigo.
The first thing I did was ask why we don't use sqlite or at least postgres. The answer was that they are free and therefore we don't trust them. So Oracle it is. Which is bananas because our customers have to buy an oracle license, which is money that we don't get. Pretty wild
They put books on a "Do Not Promote" list, but it doesn't look like they removed any from sale. I wonder what "Do Not Promote" entails.
> Hear [me] out

Ok.

> a black hole, but we have time backwards compared to the usual way we think of black holes

Observations of our universe are straightforwardly understood -- and predicted -- by laying matter fields on an expanding Robertson-Walker metric. The same observations are not at all easy to understand by laying matter fields on a time-reversed Oppenheimer-Snyder-like black hole metric.

The first thing you run into is that at the largest scales (i.e., where the solid angles subtended by galaxy clusters are small for observers like us) visible matter is arranged roughly isotropically and roughly homogeneously: we detect typical spiral galaxies (and more importantly various atomic line transitions associated with them, like the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman-alpha_forest>) at all sorts of redshifts.

Your homework would be to generate lightlike geodesics that can reproduce these observations at any time in a black-hole-like metric. If you can do that at for a single spacelike slice of your black hole, you then would want to work on evolving that slice using e.g. the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_value_formulation_(gen...>.

Just scratching the surface of how you would go about doing that would be an interesting research project for a layperson. Among other things, you would end up learning a lot more about what's in your second paragraph, and likely develop an idea about how much work is involved in writing down even a simple "pet theory" of physical cosomology that accords with observational data. Or at least you'd have a better idea of what observational data there is that needs to be accounted for. You'd also confront all sorts of open questions about the interiors of black holes where there is significant matter; that would be timely given the recent preprint by Roy Kerr at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841>.
From the client? All those typos come from bank clerks.
95 eurocents per hour, which can be used for the prison shop, to rent a TV or radio. You can buy a can of coke, phone cards, condoms, cigarettes or a packet of crisps.
Thanks HN: More than 700 Visitors, 3273 avatars generated in <2 days
Hey guys,

Just wanted to reach out and express my gratitude on the immense support the community showed to https://reezavatar.shop/

I did not see a single comment on my post, and TBH, that wasn't the best feeling. But, when I look at the analytics data, HackerNews sent more than 700 visitors to the website and more than 3000 avatars have been generated.

Over the next 2 days, I intend to reach out to every single person who created an account on the site to create these avatars. In the meantime, you have the deepest gratitude from this indiehacker.

Cheers!
> The goal is basically to do things that sound impressive to justify absurd prices

I wouldn't be quite so cynical about it, ultimately it's about having full control over the quality of the finished product. The material used in a Loro Piana cashmere sweater is on a different level to a fast fashion cashmere sweater, despite them both being "cashmere".
I wanted to automate the process of creating self-guided tours and online treasure hunts around towns and cities.

Ultimately I wanted a whole marketplace where anybody can create a tour and then sell it.

But the process of creating the tours was quite laborious.

So to speed this up I fed GPT-4 information about local points of information and had it write the questions and the multi choice answers. It also wrote some narrative bits as various personas. For example, there was a Christmas hunt where GPT4 played the part of an elf and came up with a theme about Santa needing to recruit you to be a new elf, once you’d answered all the various clues etc.

Front end is React Typescript, backend is Net Core Web API on Linux with MySQL under EF Core and also integrations with GPT4 and Stripe.

It’s hosted at treasuretours.org

Only superusers can access the AI tools right now because cost, but you can try out some of the pre-made hunts which were partially AI generated.
That’s some cartel level action.
> [...] GDPR doesn’t apply to someone living in the US and running a web server there.

Only if they ensure that they have no EU-based users [0]. So yeah, unless you actively block "data subjects who are in the Union", it does apply to someone living in and running a server in the US. It's part of what makes GDPR so great for us citizens, the beauty that is the Brussels effect.

[0] Article 3(2) of the GDPR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882
I'm glad this happened as late as it did and that Threads absorbed the FB/IG people first. Let Twitter/Threads remain the home for the influencers, spammers, the eternal September. Hopefully Bluesky continues to attract a steady stream of early adopters but the followers never take over.
They're not imprisoned in order to force them to do work.
>Keeping someone trapped in order to force them to do work is called “slavery” and it’s generally frowned upon in the modern era.

It may be frowned upon; but, it's legal. Even in 1865, prison labor was scene as "acceptable" slavery. It's the exemption in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Are the arguments submitted to a court (and made publicly accessible) subject to copyright?

I kind of assumed they were in the same space as government documents.
> Are there any promising avenues towards microtransactions that gets around small card transactions getting a hefty fee

One option is to have regulations about card fees, which is the case in the EU (0.2% for debit, 0.3% for credit).

Another is to use an alternative payment method, like India's UPI or Eurozone's SEPA which are free and instantaneous.
haveibeenpwned.com has been offering the same service for free for years.
If you twist yourself into a pretzel enough you can make Bash do all these things. Doesn't make it a good idea.

The biggest problem with depending on Postgres is it's a large complex monolith. Any problem you have only has two possible solutions: 1) spend a ton of time trying to twist yourself into a more pretzely shape to get it to do what you want, or 2) replace that thing you wanted with some external thing.

Both of these waste valuable time on something that isn't providing any business value. They also are entirely preventable/avoidable, by simply not putting all your eggs into one basket.

Basically the whole "just use Postgres" philosophy boils down to: I don't want to learn new things, and I just like making things from scratch with custom code. That's great if you're an engineer and you want job security. But it's bad strategy, engineering, and use of time and resources. Anyone who approves of using Postgres in this way should not be in charge of engineering decisions.
> Double click the app and start it?

Do you really think Adobe would let you do that?
Yep — tutorial and some examples: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutor...
Are you still in India? It's very much a cultural thing, I've seen it first hand from people I've worked with.
But no, not all companies are like that. I can't speak specifically to companies that are based on India or hire in India, those may just seek to perpetuate that culture for their own financial gain.

European people I've worked with were very particular about when they worked and how much time they took off work. They normally get like 5 or 6 or more weeks of paid time off per year.

In North America it's not as employee friendly as Europe, but not every company overworks people. Some do, but not all.

Definitely look around, talk to people you know or have worked with before to better understand your options. Do your interview prep, stay sharp and look for better opportunities. Don't burn yourself out, you'll get nothing out of it, you'll only hurt yourself or your family prioritizing work outside work hours.

I read a comment or a quote, I'll paraphrase it here because I can't remember it exactly: burnout happens when the effort you put in doesn't pay off as you expected in the end.
Is it completely infeasible for BlueSky to federate with ActivityPub while maintaining the pros of its architecture?

If Threads, BlueSky, and ActivityPub all interconnected it really would be a great opportunity to compete on the software / UX front
OK, all the upbeat Vision Pro articles have one theme in common: "Like the original iPod or iPhone, you will first ridicule it, then realize you can't compete with it, then put one [in your pocket]."

Which... is reasonable, I guess? But it does ignore two quite significant elephants in the room:

1. No, I will not put that on my face, nor accept anyone in my proximity to do so without [social] repercussions (see: Google Glass)

2. No, it does not do anything I actually want. My 4K, soon 5K, soon 8K monitor displays my movies, code, or whatever, just fine, and the fact that I can get custom overlays or whatever, while making me nauseous, just isn't that appealing? (see: anything Oculus/Meta, Microsoft, HTC, etc. have achieved so far: some subset of fans will lap their product up, but broad marketplace acceptance is... nowhere to be found?)

It's quite possible that VR/AR will take over the world at some point, but right now, it more seems like 3D TV/cinema: a supply-side fad that lacks consumer acceptance.
I think the "everyone's there" networks were nice due to the cross-pollination aspect. I would see random trending stuff that I didn't know I would find interesting pop up.
It’s worth elaborating:

N+1 Queries Are Not A Problem With SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html#:~:text=N%2B1%20Que....
Americans just use SSN for that purpose.
They submit an opt-out request on your behalf. Frequently, the data will not be removed entirely, or re-surfaces later on. You're entirely dependent on the good will of the data broker sites, who are likely trying very hard to stop automation like this.
> we're now able to commit to open federation on the production network this month as well

Aha, this is good to now. Looking forward to standing up my own PDS.
Part of what’s driven the secondary market for Mainboards to date has been their use as single board computers with either the Cooler Master Case or in DIY projects like cyberdecks and gaming handhelds. That is, the existence of those projects doesn’t only help Framework Laptop owners who may want to reuse their old Mainboard, but also creates demand in the market for people who don’t want their old Mainboard to sell it to people who do.
I actually was looking for a used framework motherboard because it seems like a fun project to use it as a mini server that could eventually become a laptop, but I couldn't find anybody selling them. I know they have a "marketplace" on their website, but that just looks like framework selling their own old/refurbished stock.

It doesn't seem like there's actually a second hand market for these parts. Either people love them so much they don't want to resell them, or there just aren't that many people buying them in the first place?

EDIT: ...OR I'm just looking in the wrong places!
I think graphical user interfaces are no high standard. They do not compose. How would you express a loop or a recursion in a graphical user interface?
A lot of the US prison labor is also largely voluntary they're just paid pennies and make loads of money for the state or private prison contractor running their prison.
> "Well established"

Not really.

I hope you or your family are never hurt by a criminal. However, if that does happen, I assume you will be okay with the criminal going to a summer camp where they sing songs, play games, and eat bonbons. ;)
That's unusual. The rule is that you replicate the database consumers lots and lots of times.

Still then, a database will improve your data access, validate your data, and provide interop in case you need to use the file with different software.

It's also a very high quality serialization library, that replaces one of the most vulnerability-enabling layers of your software. (But then, I've just read you use Oracle, so maybe forget that one.)
There is no eye strain. As far as your eyes are concerned, the light is the same as if it's coming from meters away, not inches. Watching a two hour movie feels the same as doing it in a theater.

And taking 20 minute breaks is really more to do with motion -- using VR makes some people feel nauseous at first because of a mismatch between what your eyes are telling you and what your body is. But that's more apparent with games. It's a non-issue if you're sitting still watching a movie. No breaks needed.
I hope that being at Igalia forces the team to have laser focus in being a real embeddable solution for developers. The last I checked maybe a year ago or more, it isn’t.

I commented over the years how Servo isn’t a real alternative because they don’t actually provide any API surface comparable to using CEF or full Chromium or WebKit, and as a result it’s a nonstarter.

I think someone working on it had mentioned they were looking into creating a CEF-like API for embedding, but if the project says it’s an embed-able engine before anything else and it can’t even be used for that purpose, I have no idea what that team is focusing on other than rendering itself. I’d be more interested in even just a partially compliant engine whose primary focus was actually embedding.

It might be OK if you want to build a Firefox? It’s not if you want to use it as an actual embedded renderer.
Over years, I've seen a lot of poorly made binary formats used by various programs. Databases like PostgreSQL are where such binary formats had evolved through benchmarking, testing for various edge cases, and are generally better than whatever you will find in the bespoke formats developed for a particular program.

You have to be really good at understanding how storage works, have a lot of time and resources to develop your own program to beat something like PostgreSQL. They have zillions of man-hours on you when you start, experience and knowledge. It's not impossible that you could find a case where a bespoke format would beat an established storage product, but over a range of cases, you most likely won't.

And, of course, there's a convenience aspect. Outside of niche technologies, SQL offers the richest language for data description and operations on data.

As for the inconsistencies between SQL implementations: in practice, it matters very little: most programs will never migrate between different SQL implementations anyways.

As for upgrades: it's a doubly-edged sword. You get a very expressive data format and it's not surprising that it's hard to upgrade. But, try to match the abilities of SQL in your own format, and you'll probably find out that it's hard to have generic tools for upgrading it too.

None of this means that you cannot do better than SQL databases. It'd be ridiculous to think there could be a way to prove that SQL is somehow the best we can get. It's just that it's very hard to do better. Especially if you want a universal tool
It has quite a different focus than phpipam, which is mostly focused on IP addresses and related information, whereas netbox covers a wider range of items.

The main area where they don't overlap is documenting physical equipment in racks, with which you can use to do some quite useful things.

e.g. document every cable connection, so it can draw the full path from one interface to a switchport through multiple layers of structure cabling/patch panels, and associate an IP address with a specific physical interface on a specific device.

Or track power draw on PSUs, and track that back to the relevant PDU/power feed to ensure it's within permitted power levels.

Needless to say, using all features can be quite time consuming!
I run a startup that does legal contract generation (contracts written by lawyers turned into templates) and have done some work GPT analysis of the contract for laypersons to interact and ask questions about the contract they are getting.

In terms of contract review, what I've found is that GPT is better at analysis of the document than generating the document, which is what this paper supports. However, I have used several startups options of AI document review and they all fall apart with any sort of prodding for specific answers. This paper looks like it just had to locate the section not necessarily have the back and forth conversation about the contract that a lawyer and client would have.

There is also no legal liability for GPT for giving the wrong answer. So It works well for someone smart who is doing their own research. Just like if you are smart you could use google before to do your own research.

My feelings on contract generation is that for the majority of cases, people are better served if there were simply better boilerplate contracts available. Laywers hoard their contracts and it was very difficult in our journey to find lawyers who would be willing to write contracts we would turn into templates because they are essentially putting themselves and their professional community out of income streams in the future. But people don't need a unique contract generated on the fly from GPT every time when a template of a well written and well reviewed contract does just fine. It cost hundreds of millions to train GPT4. If $10m was just spent building a repository of well reviewed contracts, it would be a more useful than spending the equivalent money training a GPT to generate them.

People ask pretty wide range of questions about what they want to do with their documents and GPT didn't do a great job with it, so for the near future, it looks like lawyers still have a job.
At this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this:

https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus

to this:

https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en
> "That crime directly lead to two deaths."

There's nothing direct about it. He was already in handcuffs when his friend decided to flee and the police decided to pursue. These other people made the decisions that killed the cyclists. The definition of murder is stretched beyond recognition here.

You probably think that these unexpected felony murder charges have a deterring effect that gets would-be criminals thinking twice about "rolling the wheel". But that's not the case either because statistics show nobody even knows about this legal doctrine (as mentioned in the New Yorker article).
I had never heard of Deming, thanks.

I think, unfortunately, the pendulum in American corporate politics is swinging away from Deming, at the moment. Growth through making good and reliable products is getting difficult to sustain, which leads to the capitalist/financial lens to be applied to problems. The results are predictable: outsourcing, and "slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force", and generally a lack of leadership or vision for the product. Better for short-term growth to be worse but cheaper.
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Because it sets up incentives for whoever benefits from the labor to lobby for stricter crime laws regardless of whether those stricter laws lead to less crime in the long term.
The phone masking looks great, too. Like Privacy.com, it's awesome with virtual alternatives for PII, except they don't tend to be available here in Europe, but I'm definitely jealous.
You're confounding a lot of issues here that I made no reference to at all. But suffice it to say, you seem to have a fundamental problem with people, as determined by a court of law to have broken the social contract (courts which could be corrupt - but again, separate issue), losing any modicum of their rights as free citizens. That is a fringe opinion.
Even those are solvable problems, the real issue is social. There's a reason Flattr failed and Patreon has been a huge success. People would rather personally support a handful of creators at $5/month than put the equivalent money in a tip jar at a bunch of faceless websites.
I think it's just a function of the Apple marketing overselling the passthrough quality and productivity use cases.
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You'd require them to carry liability insurance (this is usually true for meat lawyers as well), which basically punts the problem up to "how good do they have to be to convince an insurer to offer them an appropriate amount of insurance at a price that leaves the service economically viable?"