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>People in Russia and China have almost 30 percentage points more tertiary education levels than Americans do. Nonetheless social media is even more pervasive and popular in China than anywhere else in the world. Like with the panic about video game fixation, harmful time wasters are almost certainly an effect, not a cause, of something else.

I don't know about Russia but China social media is no where close to American Social Media. There is generally time limits, content restrictions and other things that make the two not similar.

When people go "Social media is a problem", they are generally referring to western social media where it's profitability over any external harm they are doing.

My guess is a ton. According to https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-just-st..., they are asking for exception to anti trust as this type of collaboration would normally be massive anti trust violation.

As Ops person, massive doubt. I've been at companies that have gotten hacked twice now, neither my department though. Both times, security vulnerabilities that hackers got into were well known, the tickets were in the backlog and deprioritized over feature requests.

I've also seen cases where it's like, maybe we shouldn't share S3 Root Creds or put it on the VPC so we can monitor outgoing traffic but too many applications would need to be redeployed for that so skip it. Those 2 year old tickets were still sitting in the backlog when I left.

If we ever get report, it's extremely likely going to be massive failure and only way to change this is fines for company that are bankrupting.

EDIT: Oh yea, SOC2 needs to go away. It's security theater that's just giving cover to companies.

Ops here, I think if you NEED that convenience, sure, rock with MUSL BUT I also see a ton of devs crowing about using MUSL on my 128GB x86 Kubernetes hosts. I have plenty of Disk Space, you can ship glibc based container.

Great Lakes area is probably well positioned.

Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.

>In particular I'm thinking of some studies of local economy in Miami when there have been bursts of immigration.

That was study about Cuban immigrants into Miami, a city with large Cuban population and thus existing infrastructure to absorb. I wouldn't draw that study into anything broader.

As someone in Local Politics, the issue generally is, immigration, esp of unskilled kind decimates local budgets since they are generally directly tied to number of people. Here is CBO report on it. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61464

Now, type of immigration that mostly impacts this study is not type of immigration that is impacted by visa application processing halting but acting like "Yea, this current system is working GREAT!" is false. This is what so annoying about this issue, it's in clear need of change but Congress refuses to do it and Trump doesn't have leadership to get it done.

What? Nuclear Power workers are exposed much less than flight attendants and everyone else gets more radiation from their occasional flight.

Yes, disasters are worse but most other power options are killing people in non visible ways.

This is incorrect, all benchmarks including those from Microsoft have proven 10%-30% performance increase under Linux.

https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks

Here is Microsoft official ones, Linux beats out Windows in almost every metric.

There is still plenty of Window Server using enterprises churning out .Net Framework code that must run on IIS. It's shrinking market for sure but it's still a market.

If they are willing to spend money on Windows Server, 3k a year to make it not less painful is probably worth it. Remember, any company using Windows Server is not hiring skilled DevOps/SRE/Ops, it's probably average at best, low paid workers. It's the type of people who have probably never heard of HackerNews either so it makes advertising here an interesting choice.

Do they still maintain it as in, it gets bug fixes and security patches? Technically yes, bug fixes and security patches are still produced for Windows Server. I wouldn't call it a good level of effort but it exists. They are happy to take your money for such a mediocre level of effort though.

Is it Microsoft happy path? No. Microsoft STRONGLY recommends that if you are running .Net (Core), you run under Kestrel on Linux in a container. Performance under Linux is much better than Windows.

Most American tech workers, myself included, have been asking for program to be reformed so it’s actually given to highly skilled workers and not used as method of outsourcing in the US.

It’s not a new problem but Democrats and non Trump Republicans have done nothing and here comes Trump trying to something. It won’t survive court challenges most likely.

I mean, all they have to say "We were hoping the RIGHT candidate applied that met all our criteria and they never did."

US Government is starting to push hard so code first needs to support it.

SRE here, Strong disagree with do not fail readiness and liveness checks on upstream dependencies failing. There are several reason to do so and unless you have extreme start up time, what's the problem with restarting?

Maybe DNS has changed on you but you are stuck with bad local cache because you poorly respect TTLs (Looking at you Java), reseting the process will clear that cache away.

Maybe TCP connections are in stuck weird state, resetting the process generally helps with that.

Maybe someone gave you bad ENV VARs and you cannot connect to database, by refusing to progress the rollout, no outage generated.

So yea, if you are not ready to do work including critical upstream dependencies, don't lie to system and say you are.

I mean, with this custom thing, you have that question as well with downside is you cannot pick up the knowledge from off the street.

I became the Kafka guy at my current company, it took me about a week of reading and every time I had further question, I didn't have to bother anyone, I could Google and get data I needed.

When it's some NIH thing, you have to bother coworkers and knowledge is whatever is in YOUR company knowledge base with no ability to get knowledge from outside the company.

EDIT: You could also leverage contractors or outside support if not homegrown software.

As SRE dealing with this at current company, a benefit of using well known software like Kafka is a lot of problems you will run into have solutions/guidance already available vs you having to explore solutions which a lot of time end with “Kafka could easily do this. “

Partner and I are childfree but in talking with other parents about it, I've had 3 admit, if they knew now, they wouldn't have had kids or had less. My father was one of them.

Companies do this because it's massive song and dance by everyone. Hospitals issue big bills to insurance companies knowing they will want a discount so there is plenty of wiggle room. Also, it's free marketing for insurance companies because people see 100k, see all discounts for their insurance and are happy it's only 10% of true cost. It's like car buying except with your healthcare.

Medicare is much cheaper because they have fixed rates and hospitals know what to bill.

In that link, government/compulsory for the United States seems to indicate times when an insurance company covered it. Voluntary/Out of Pocket is when insurance company wasn't required to cover and did or person paid out of pocket.

Even if it's US Government only per capita with people the government insures, it makes sense it would be so high because only people on government insurance are the poor/disabled AND old. Two groups that have extremely high utilization.

SRE here, that's a ton of pods and sounds like it's language or architecture if you are serving up so few requests per pod.

We have Kubernetes here too for Java monoliths and we have 8 Pods serving more than that. Since Java has connection pooling, the overhead has never been enough to justify overhead of Pgbouncer for this Java app.

Yes, it’s compliance that forces the behavior. Another reason SOC2 is mostly worthless.

Pretty sure that's what a group in my company is working on now.

Except, I won't be spinning in my chair, I'll be out of a job. At least until cost skyrockets and outages get much worse.

Google generally doesn't need you logged in unless you are doing heavy privacy cleaning.

Even in that case, they see data they are getting to be worthwhile enough for their other lines of business.

It's all we got at this point. Even as SRE, I just got 2000-line Golang change to something I think should be 150. However, the boss is already bouncing around happy we are going to deliver something that's been in Jira backlog for 9 months.

I know someone working on a smaller open source who has same thing. They have considered just blocking all PRs outside known contributors because AI spam even on their tiny open source project is too much.

At work, I've gotten into fights about PR approvals. If they are beyond us humans to review, screw it, remove the approver requirement and if CI passes, merge it.

"Nibbling at the edges" is all they can do since that was original proposed method. So they are appealing this particular nibbling at the edges but whole scale, break up Google was not in original remedy so authorities are kind of stuck.

Strong disagree. These payments are clearly massive tent pole of maintaining the monopoly and I think it was right for competition authorities to appeal them. In fact, IMO, Metha ruling was way to favorable for Google. Basically like, well, they did the crime but it's too much to disrupt so I guess we will nibble at the edges accomplishing little.

Strong disagree. A lot of AI development still requires good engineers to keep tight leash on it so I'm seeing more bad developers create a feature until we need to iterate on said feature and we find AI did such a bad job that it becomes extremely difficult to do so.

> Subcontracting is a thing. It's not a bad thing on its own.

I wouldn't say subcontracting is a bad thing always. It depends on reason for subcontracting and in this case, I'd call it bad since subcontracting is clearly to avoid liability for what is critical business function.

>Is "Joe's delivery company" not already required to have liability insurance?

Yes they are. It is enough? Not always. States are always trying to balance allowing protecting general public but not strangling small businesses. It doesn't always work out.

>Do we think that a delivery company delivering the same package for Amazon vs. FedEx vs. Mary's Flowers Inc. vs. NYC Movers Inc. should have a different amount of liability? (e.g., if that delivery driver injures a pedestrian, should we require that NYC Movers Inc. covers fewer costs than Amazon)?

This law would impact all those companies if they move their drivers into subcontractor. Amazon is getting called out because they are BIGGEST users of this system but no, they are not only ones.