Hired 10,000 people in Q2 this year alone? What percentage of those people actually do anything of value besides cash the company’s checks? That’s actually staggering to me. Cloud division I can see growing. What else?
Readit Newssjtindell commented on Google to pause all hiring for two weeks techcrunch.com/2022/07/20... · Posted by u/jeremylevy
sjtindell commented on New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers resolvy.com/... · Posted by u/nickMMM
Have you ever been through a divorce? Splitting assets equally is an after thought for most folks. They (or the one that filled) just want to get the thing over with, quickly, and a lawyer makes that happen.
This doesn’t sound right at all. The classic story is “he/she took me to the cleaners”, fighting over every possible asset, being forced to sell a house or property you don’t want to because the spouse demands half. I don’t know the frequency but it happens. My own parents fought hard over the house in particular and my mother ended up having to buy my father out at a huge loss to avoid selling it.
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sjtindell commented on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time axios.com/2022/07/14/manh... · Posted by u/rascul
The article is about Manhattan. Do you have any idea if it has similar problems? In my mind, Manhattan is pretty dense.
In my mind it is the same problem everywhere. Supply is too low and is kept low for many reasons. There is insane demand from around the world to live in Manhattan.
I miss dyn.com. They were my registrar for over a decade before Oracle bought then and made them suck. They were the one registrer where you felt like you were dealing with a professional company, not "Crazy Eddie's discount Domains". When Oracle closed them down, I moved to namecheap, which is pretty good overall.
I would love a Crazy Eddie’s Discount Domains website built using 90’s html where the domains are sold like timeshares. Do I even own this domain? Not clear, but at $0.90 cents a year who can complain. A counter for page visits and Eddie’s cocaine budget.
sjtindell commented on Books to read to understand financial crime economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I have read a lot of financial crime books and can’t recommend Billion Dollar Whale enough. What’s so astounding is the immediacy with which he went on one of the biggest spending sprees ever. A case study in how to disprove people who say, “you could never spend that much money in a lifetime”. The fact he used stolen money to finance The Wolf of Wall Street is the cherry detail on top.
I wish that commenters on the Internet generally, and HN in particular, would lay off "murder and jaywalking" arguments.
If Gandi advertised with lewds, well. People would complain and they would probably stop.
The "scummy actions and questionable security practices" are both necessary and sufficient to persuade the informed reader not to patronize their services. Bringing in additional minor peccadillos weakens the argument by bringing out everyone who likes tits in ads.
No one likes the kind of bad behavior GoDaddy is known for.
This comment might seem a bit out-of-place if you don't happen to use showdead.
To me, using women to sell a product reeks of a bygone era and a certain mentality we’re working to get away from. I think that alone is a perfectly acceptable reason to think a company sucks and not use their product. Voting for behaviors with your dollars is important.
sjtindell commented on 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled surgehq.ai//blog/30-perce... · Posted by u/echen
> Hi dying, I'm dad! – mislabeled as NEUTRAL, likely because labelers don’t understand dad jokes
In their defense, what could be more True Neutral alignment than dad jokes? Nothing to gain but the quiet enjoyment of making the room groan and roll their eyes.
Really though, the issue here is context, but also the complexity of human communication. The sensitivity and tone highly depends on the situation. Clearly the preceding moment is someone stating "I'm dying". But that itself is contextual. Are they literally facing mortality, merely inconvenienced and being hyperbolic, or laughing? If the former, is "Hi Dying, I'm Dad" being glib, to soften the blow of a dire confession, or being highly insensitive and poking fun in a serious moment? Is it in the context of a longer joke, which subverts the meanings yet again?
A lot of these comments are worse than useless without context. Reddit really likes improv-banter style humor in comment chains. One comment builds on another builds on another, all referencing in-jokes, and usually slathered in sarcasm.
Honestly Reddit comments are probably one of the worst sources to try to build a sentiment model from, from an engineering perspective.
True, we’re trying to produce bots that reliably do things (make people laugh) that humans can’t even do reliably. People who can feel out a room and use the right joke, or the right reassurance or whatever, are not even very common.
I am a fan of this talk. Working on the sysadmin/devops/sre side of enterprises, I originally found the transition from manual installs to things like puppet and then to docker containers and surrounding tooling refreshing. Building your own services, monitoring error budgets, and all the other principles like infrastructure as code seemed to be “the way”. I have recently become severely disillusioned. On the development side, one need only spend time in the JavaScript ecosystem to get a taste of some of the worst of the baggage we are building for ourselves there. You could spend more time learning toolchains than writing code. On the infrastructure side, it seems we never bother to deploy even a dead simple web service without a full build out of a multi-region Kubernetes setup with ci/cd services, secrets services, auth services, logging, monitoring, pipelines for the data stores and image builds, networking, etc.
At a certain scale these things seem necessary. But I’ve had the most success actually getting things done with small, competent teams where I replaced many different tools with as few as possible. For example I recently turned a complex spinnaker setup into a set of bash scripts that perform helm installs. It makes debugging, knowledge share, and development of the “system” so much easier. Why was the choice made originally, what features does it lack, there are tradeoffs certainly. But I feel we as an industry are losing the thread somewhere.
I often see people holding up StackOverflow and their few servers model as a bastion of sanity. I see them say, “I could run your whole company’s SaaS stack on a single box with systemd”. While I find it hyperbolic, more and more I am considering this not just a casual topic but a vital one.
Sometimes I find people asking - what about disaster recovery, high availability, scalability? When what we need is to slow down and ask, does it work? Is it usable? Or we’re so focused on isolation, deploying security tooling, the systems get complex, and no one understands them to the point they seem much less secure.
Simplicity seems key. Sticking to as few tools as possible, at lower levels, and only growing or adding as really well thought out requirements arise. This isn’t exactly what Johnathan Blow was talking about (abstraction and losing knowledge) but feels strongly related to me.