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sciuruson Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

What makes you say it's a small part of that?

sciuruson Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS

Argo Rollouts is an extra orchestration layer on top of a traffic management provider. Which one are you using? If you use the ALB controller you still have to deal with pod shutdown / target deregistration timing issues.

https://argoproj.github.io/argo-rollouts/features/traffic-ma...

sciuruson I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

For anyone needing an introduction to Hindenburg Research: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/nathan-anderson-hind...

sciuruson Cheating Is All You Need

This would benefit from a "[2023]" appended to the title to make clear it isn't new.

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273406

sciuruson Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

My reading is that the author posits there is a fixed amount of change that can be safely made in a single deployment. The solution is to make it possible to deploy more frequently. This is hard, so organizations will often instead introduce overhead that slows down changes. Engineers might be tempted to blame the overhead and try to eliminate it, but that won't be successful and may even backfire. They need to tackle the underlying issue of deployment capacity instead.

sciuruson Arrested and charged because my 11yo was walking 1 mile from home

For another perspective, here is the local news story where I first heard about this- https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-mother-arrested-after-ch...

sciuruson Parks on the Air

Another popular one is https://youtube.com/@ThomasK4SWL of https://qrper.com/ fame.

sciuruson US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

If these measurements are correct, iOS has about 11% more of the US market share than Android.

This is very different from the global market share, where Android has 45% more.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ios-vs-android-market-s...

sciuruson Reclaim the Stack

> Replicas are used for high availability only, not load balancing

(From https://reclaim-the-stack.com/docs/platform-components/ingre...)

An I reading this right that they built a k8s-based platform where by default they can't horizontally scale applications?

This seems like a lot of complexity to develop and maintain if they're running applications that don't even need that.

sciuruson Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

You can use the data collected from hobbyist ground stations and displayed at https://sondehub.org/ to track them while in the air.

sciuruson National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

As the owner of both a Subaru and a Bronco Sport Badlands I feel compelled to defend the latter! They both have very capable AWD systems.

If anyone wants a deep-dive on how the different types of 4WD and AWD systems actually work and their different pros and cons, this video from Alex on Autos is worth your 20 minutes- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4dNv-jBOY

Should you take either vehicle on roads where the NPS says not to? Of course not! But there's a wide range of conditions between "gravel road" and "rock crawling in Moab", and a properly-equipped AWD vehicle will handle most of them. Know your vehicle, know your skill level, know the conditions you're going into, bring appropriate supplies in case you run into trouble, travel with a group and/or have a reliable way to call for help, etc.

sciuruson National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

> I'm certainly not going to do elephant hill in canyonlands with it

Someone has, albeit with a slight lift.

https://www.broncosportforum.com/forum/threads/off-roading-o...

From their report of "the little three-, two- and (very occasionally) one-wheel-yeet maneuver", it sounds like the lack of suspension travel was the main issue. The details of your AWD or 4WD system don't matter as much if you can keep your wheels on the ground.

Still, just because they were fine doesn't mean someone else would have been. The main risk seems like doing a somewhat technical, off-the-beaten-path trail alone regardless of your vehicle's capabilities.

sciuruson The Silicon Valley realignment leading tech titans to Trump

https://archive.is/WDvHh

sciuruson Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?

Firefox has extensive sandboxing. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox for some info, to although I'm not sure that page is up to date

sciuruson Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

Your overall point still stands, but FWIW Wikimedia pays less than its peers. To compare two active listings

Senior Security Engineer at Mozilla (https://boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/5803609): $124,000 to $199,000 plus bonus

Senior Security Engineer at Wikimedia (https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5890112): $105,000 to $164,000

sciuruson Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless

I've found https://lethain.com/partnering-with-your-manager/ to be a good way to think about it.

1:1s aren't to only tool for this, of course.

sciuruson Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs

D-Layer absorption is way up.

https://www.solarham.com/globald.htm

sciuruson Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills

I'm the case of events, I'm not so sure. Ticketing platforms want to drive sales via easy discovery and wide distribution. Take Eventbrite as an example (disclaimer: I used to work there). They

1. Have an API (https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/api)

2. Include JSON-LD Events data on their events pages (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...)

sciuruson Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?

Seconding https://groups.io/

I'm in a number of amateur radio and computing groups there, and it works well.

From the creator: "I’ve started three companies. I started ONElist, an email groups service, in 1997, and it was acquired by Yahoo in 2000 (where it was renamed Yahoo Groups). I started Bloglines, an online RSS aggregator before Google Reader was a thing, in 2003, and it was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2005. I started Groups.io, an email groups service, in 2014, and I still run it." - https://www.wingedpig.com/about/

sciuruson Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research

The licensing has been through a number of changes in the last few years, depending on which distribution and modules you use.

https://redis.com/legal/licenses/

sciuruson Real time weather balloon tracking

There's also a version dedicated to tracking amateur radio high-altitude balloons at https://amateur.sondehub.org

sciuruson Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)

> I don’t even understand what the author wants here. There is no such thing “truly serverless”

The author says what they want. It's literally their next sentence:

"As in, I don't want to think about future resource needs, I just want things to magically handle it."

and they have four bullet points with examples of what this means to them earlier.

I think it's fair to argue about the desirability, achievability, etc of this. I don't think it's fair to act as if the author is just spewing buzzwords without explanation.

sciuruson The most 2024 things to do: laying off staff and AI – Mozilla's doing both

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362481

sciuruson Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362481

sciuruson Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale

I almost hate to say it, but Jenkins.

sciuruson Georgia needs to produce more electric power for data centers

https://archive.is/vNBNA

sciuruson Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes

Seen https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish ?

sciuruson Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding

Related recent opinion piece- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/04/navy-hout...