leaflets2 (u/leaflets2)

leaflets2 commented on Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) dougseven.com/2014/04/17/... · Posted by u/sathishmanohar

civilized · 2 years ago

I see a lot of criticism of the deployment, but why did the developers "repurpose an old flag" that activates 8 years dead code that you haven't deleted and that has completely unknown current functionality? That seems like the strangest decision made in this debacle.

leaflets2 · 2 years ago

To save time, I guess. They deleted the inactive code, so, why not, they thought. But then they forgot to deploy that change (to one server).

Bugs and configuration errors will happen from time to time, and might look silly in retrospect. But the real problem was, I think, that there was no kill switch (managers and tech leads should have decided to add long ago)

leaflets2 commented on Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) dougseven.com/2014/04/17/... · Posted by u/sathishmanohar

distortionfield · 2 years ago

Sure, but there is always the possibility that then you shut down trading when things _arent_ broken.

There are always two error rates.

Defining behavior is great for retrospective analysis but would you really feel comfortable putting hard cuts into production based on the answers to those questions? I’m genuinely asking, because IME I wouldn’t be.

leaflets2 · 2 years ago

A way to add limits when being clueless:

Estimate what a real human can do in a day, and use that as the limits. Verify that the system behaves ok for some time, then scale up the desired trading volume and limits, observe, scale, repeat.

But you don't do it by making a (bad) guess up front and then just leaving it at that.

leaflets2 commented on Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) dougseven.com/2014/04/17/... · Posted by u/sathishmanohar

amluto · 2 years ago

I would argue the real issue was the lack of an automated system (or multiple automated systems) that would hit the kill switch if the trading activity didn’t look right.

leaflets2 · 2 years ago

Yes definitely, one has to assume that from time to time, bugs will reach the prod servers, no amount of tests and code review can completely prevent that.

Hopefully the kill switch system is reasonably easy to code review and test :-)

leaflets2 commented on Meta Quest Pro meta.com/quest/quest-pro/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

__alexs · 3 years ago

GP is kind of downplaying the real horror of Facebook which is that they (allegedly) enabled genocide.

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

And not many seem to care or remember. Was so far away, to another group of people, won't happen here, what does it matter

Except that to some extent, similar things are happening here -- Putin was, from what I've read, using FB to do psyops, to prepare his 2014 takeover of parts of Ukraine: making up and spreading stories about Russians getting abducted etc, ... Which helped him with the 2014 annexations, and leading up to his invasion and war today. More people dead than in Myanmar.

A bit surprising that the current US gov doesn't seem to look at FB as a psyops threat against itself?

leaflets2 commented on I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls sofuckingagile.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/asyncscrum

stingraycharles · 3 years ago

So that’s a problem with how the incentives are set up I’d say. Not the BDR’s or their manager’s fault, rather a high level incentive problem which should be fixed.

What’s HN’s opinion on sales commissions anyway? I always thought that research showed that any job that requires creative thinking doesn’t make people work harder if they are compensated based on bonuses / commissions.

Have any large organizations ever experimented with getting rid of the whole commission based compensation for sales? If so, how did it work out?

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

I'd like to know, too:-)

leaflets2 commented on Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-... · Posted by u/mooreds

Tagbert · 3 years ago

Due to higher CO2, more heat is captured in the atmosphere. Early on the naive messaging of that was “global warming”.

That added energy is changing the climate but it does not just mean that everything gets evenly warmer. The added energy means that some places get warmer than other. The differences mean that some areas get dryer and some get wetter.

Those increased differences in temperature and moisture result in storms and other weather events that have more energy and cause more problems. The large scale weather events like the Jet Stream or El Niño become more erratic . You get bigger storms, bigger floods. Sometimes you get bigger dumps of snow with the greater moisture. Some places get less moisture and are warmer for years at a time and fall into drought.

Those erratic weather and climate changes cause problems for humans, animals, and plants. More food sources underproduce or are destroyed. Hunger drives people to migrate. That causes disruptions in neighboring nations. Politics becomes more strident and antagonistic. Small wars eventually break out.

Yes, the messaging has changed a little over the years. That is partially as scientists have studied this more and learned more about both the primary and secondary effects of climate change. The media simplifying it so the public can understand has adjusted the terms they use as our understand realizes that this is not just a matter of simple warming but of a complicated system getting more unstable.

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

Good description of what awaits.

> Small wars eventually break out

I wonder if that isn't happening already here and there.

Bigger ones? What'll happen when areas large as a country, becomes mostly uninhabitable.

One more thing: There might be more authoritarian regimes in countries not affected that badly by the climate changes -- because the migrants will want to go there. And then the voters in those places, choose more brutal and authoritarian governments who build borders and use violence to keep the migrants away.

So, more war and dictatorships in the future, is one scenario?

leaflets2 commented on Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-... · Posted by u/mooreds

enchiridion · 3 years ago

You’re claiming an entire extremely diverse set of people is not motivated by money?

What do you think scientists are doing when writing grant proposals?

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

No there was no such claim.

They aren't primarily motivated by money. But the oil companies are.

leaflets2 commented on Reality is just a game now thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/1sembiyan

danielschonfeld · 3 years ago

The Israeli conflict is only about land by default. Because if one or the other gives up, they have nowhere to live. Everything else is money and the stories we tell ourselves and they tell themselves around procuring more of it. Money and power.

If you put the existential threat part aside (which we should have after +70 years with all of our neighbors having fractured countries) the Israeli/Palestinian story is as pathetic as it gets being solely a money and power grab. And to think we still sends our sons and daughters to die for said grabbers of money and power under the guise of symbolism and idealism speaking it as we’re still a fresh new country.

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

It's also about politicians and people in power, staying in power by keeping conflicts alive. For example, Netanyahu regularly bombing some important Hamas person in Gaza and Hamas then firing rockets, was good for Netanyahu's and the Hamas leaders' popularity (as far as I've understood).

> only about land by default

Hmm, I think to a somewhat large part, the conflicts are ways for the people in power to stay in power.

What do you mean with "by default"?

Have a look at The Dictators Handbok btw and try to see the world from the perspective of someone like Netanyahu or the Hamas leaders. How can they increase/keep their power and wealth, using the conflicts as tools.

It's also tribalism ... Many things at the same time going on?

leaflets2 commented on Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown adguard.com/en/blog/apple... · Posted by u/bluish29

tracker1 · 3 years ago

They setup an email proxy on people's phones to capture all the mail going in and out.

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

Wow that made me slightly laugh. Ok now I've read a bit, at least people had to do sth to get it installed, but still...

You meant the Intro app I suppose,

https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-...

leaflets2 commented on Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown adguard.com/en/blog/apple... · Posted by u/bluish29

bredren · 3 years ago

I feel the same way. I thought the price premiums we pay on hardware and services is supposed to support profit margins that allow Apple to not show advertisements to me.

If the prior profits were not enough, how much higher do the prices need to be to not do this?

In general I trust the company to make choices about computing experiences, much more so than any other products company. So, I am going to try and hold judgement and see how this pans out.

That said, I'd like the company to get out ahead of these decisions and explain reasoning for these changes.

leaflets2 · 3 years ago

Regardless of how much the hardware and services already cost, the company can always make more by showing ads too? Meaning, no profits or prices are high enough.

(Unless they show far too many so people start leaving ... That threshold might be high though; Linux is too cumbersome for almost everyone?)