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I don't think you want to start a format discussion on Hacker News. Seriously.

What about the dead wood managers?

I'd like to see 5% of engineering managers get cut every year, since they're either selecting for, or I suspect creating, disengaged employees.

I suspect, they're huffing it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5j8mG24H4

@croes I was thinking the same thing (knowing no german, but having a hunch).

And the CCC project was a whole building.

For his example, I was expecting a whole cage with some tricked out lights, maybe some smoke effects (I can see new colo signs being updated "no cardboard,no smoke machines allowed"), a sub-woofer playing some chiptunes, etc.

Like they used to say in Art school during critiques "go big! I'd like to see what this looks like bigger"

It is obviously well intentioned and well timed.

Nit-picking it now wouldn't add any value.

pandoc for the win. I use to convert my md resume into doc/pdf whatever.

This is a very clever idea. Cudos.

I'm not 100% a fan of the google doc format, but whatever.

The idea that a PhD is an expert in the field is, I think, a generous assumption.

And you are missing my point about the wide range of fields to which these novice experts are coming from.

Rachael Gunn is an expert in the field of (break)dance, if I extend your position, and her essay is an expert testimony broadening the field of knowledge?

I think it's entirely possible for PhD (or Masters or anyone) to extend debunked theories, to extend or invent nonsensical positions yet to be debunked, to do research of no value, or merely for value to the student and their advisor as a way to increase citations, career advancement, and so on.

I would argue that this is a more reasonable default assumption. In fact, I think the university system favors this likelihood. Students aren't, to my knowledge, asked to examine the worlds problems and take a stab at them.

They are lead into very specific tracks, possibly by their advisor, possibly by the department, possibly by funding or current trends in the field, to do work around a particular area which may go nowhere close to helping all of humanity.

And a "thesis" is just a a really long essay. It has no special quality or instrinsic value, in my humble opinion.

Accessible? Meaning it's available for purchase if you have the money? Or actually affordable?

(first quack) "For example, in 2022–23, the average total cost of attendance for first-time, full-time undergraduate students living on campus at 4-year degree-granting institutions was higher at private nonprofit institutions ($58,600) than at private for-profit institutions ($33,600) and public institutions ($27,100).4"

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

Or, if the requirement of a college degree for high school level work suggests, an expensive barrier for employment?

(random quack on the topic I could find) https://www.vox.com/policy/23628627/degree-inflation-college...

You can say luxury sports cars are "accessible" if you want to finance a $150,000 car. And effectively that's what many (most? all?) college degrees are: luxury sports cars.

Incorrect facts in the news? Hasn't this been happening for years?

Cool beans.

I guess it's time for the US to kick it's Chinese import addiction, in which it shifts it's addiction to cheap foreign (Chinese) labor fueled by 'clean' coal, and then works to whittle it's own emissions problems down to zero by whatever means necessary.

Ok, next time I'll do it like this

<HUMOR> <!----- THIS IS THE FUNNY PART ----->

So I'd like to introduce the non-sponsor for this comment, "Pincel" the open firmware soldering iron

https://pine64.org/devices/pinecil/

It's running a risc-v chip on open firmware so you'll have cool points with when you whip it out at Richard Stallman's next BBQ.

<!-------- THE FUNNY PART IS ENDING HERE ------> </HUMOR>

So it's 10000000% clear I am making the joke.

It's a great idea, I hope it works.

It would test the hypothesis that payments, and more specifically insurance payments, are driving this epidemic of attacks.

The small difference between Ancient Rome and the governments of SF and NYC is that ancient Rome had good government.

@wat1000 perfectly said. And the small businesses are the most easily frightened by well financed campaigns that make them afraid their business will shutter if car based traffic is even slightly reduced.

The public transit quality reflects the government quality.

The wiki is free and open-source? Or the contents of the wiki are free and open-source?

If it's a wiki, it would be less than courteous to restrictively copyright public contributions (but I'm sure it's been done).

And presumably, paywalling it would reduce contributions.

My impression as to the number one barrier to hardware modifications is soldering. For some reason people can't or won't do it.

So I'd like to introduce the non-sponsor for this comment, "Pincel" the open firmware soldering iron

https://pine64.org/devices/pinecil/

It's running a risc-v chip on open firmware so you'll have cool points with when you whip it out at Richard Stallman's next BBQ.

Yes, you bring up a real problem - the dominance of "sale by mail". But I think if there is a return policy or a 'try before you buy' one then the usual quality inspection might work.

Postal based sales (mediated by a web interface or whatever) would be a problem of evaluating the quality of domestic (presumably higher quality) goods.

The now antiquated in-person retail outlet allowed you to inspect the goods before you purchased.

Now we just hope some AI summary of reviews and a "star system" will provide us quality goods....?

That's quite unfortunate. I'm sure the voters can contemplate their victory when they're sitting in a traffic jam.

Am I? Cloud providers usually quote price estimates for their least redundant single region services to give the impression of cost competitiveness.

But their virtual offerings are much less reliable than a standalone system by a lot (they guarantee to refund you the 25cents for your instance if it goes down, not the value of the service interruption or its cost. lol! Read that TOS)

What's the solution to their inherent unreliability? Redundancy at more cost.

Well, hey, you can rent two colocation facilities if you really need redundancy across geographic regions. And maybe you can just use your colo as a source for a CDN that is geographically diverse (for latency, not hurricanes).

Geographic diversity and HA is beyond most people? If you're the kind of business that needs that, you can hire the exact same people that Amazon Pip'd and fired because they didn't hit some arbitrary ticket metrics, to scale your business.

e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lucianapaulise/2022/10/27/amazo...

Github is owned by Microsoft so I'm assuming, maybe incorrectly, that they're well funded.

Internal audits are always subject to gaps, but if the stated issue is correct "a load balancer config change gone pear shaped" an audit wouldn't have caught that necessarily.

Unless the audit wants to test their change control, deployment methods, and redundancy.

Are they changing all of their load balancers all at once? Seems non optimal. Maybe change only one at a time, or a small batch.

Are they propagating load balancer changes from a canary to production without vetting it's good?

Or did they vet it and they were wrong - some difference in their canary or analysis had a short coming?

And even if all of that was A-OK why did a mistake (and we all make mistakes) not get reverted quickly?

Were there insufficient internal controls to revert small mistakes and keep them from becoming site wide outages? And so on.

I suspect these kinds of discussions are happening. Or, maybe not. Who knows?

It's a 3rd party, and even if your whole organization's life depends on it you only know what they tell you.

Welcome to "the cloud".

The tiktok ban was Trump's idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co...

If it's happens, Trump will take credit for it, while Biden did all the work.

Trump: 1, Biden: 0.

Trump seems to have very little to lose in a maximum policy towards China. Time for Trump to go full retard.

It reduces the risk only if your self-hosted solution also doesn't fall over.

It's like saying "I can reduce the risk of my rental car failure by owning my own car", assuming your own car you keep undriven in your garage, doesn't have a dead battery, no gas, flat tires, and proves to be unusable for hauling.

The "cloud" was touted as the fix for all that nuisance in self-hosting. Magically Jeff's bit barn would work to five 9s of uptime, and you could sit back and write your code, unshackled to infra. Until Jeff's bit barn went tits up.

I say the "cloud" is just another guys data center behind an API.

You wanna cloud experience? Put an API in front of your own servers and burn a $100 bill.

With these fancy AI systems, they could read the license plate and see the registered value and go from there.

My beef is with gas taxes, for which the $100k electric car owner pays none of and which are highly regressive to poorer ICE car owners. I suggest they should be abolished.

Objectively better than a one-party dictatorship? On what measures?

If all you care about is insurance, I think you can sometimes merely attest "yeah, it will work" and check a box. No demo necessary (sadly).

If you actually care about uptime, then a real demo with usage is likely the better approach: switch over to your "backup" on a regular basis and make sure it works 100% as expected.

you mean implies not infers.

You infer, they imply.

San Francisco "thought about it" as far back as 2019 and couldn't get their act together to pull it off:

https://www.sfcta.org/downtown

I'm guessing that Uber and other car based services all threatened to stop funding their re-election campaigns if they did it.

You could have progressive congestion pricing based on the value of the car. I didn't look at it, but what I think you're saying is that this is a regressive pricing control.

I think that's an important point: regressive taxes/fines shouldn't be used to control behavior as it disproportionately impacts the less affluent*

But a progessive scheme is more involved - it might require using the value of the car for example as a basis for the pricing. But I suspect it could be done.