Hacker News: plicense

New comment by plicense in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

plicense — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:05:41 +0000

Just wanted to say, one of the exciting things I realized when I joined Google was that the maintainer of GDB was my org's director at that time. Not sure how much it matters, but it gave me confidence in the leadership to know that someone who knows the details is running the show at the top. It made me trust the leadership chain much more than I normally would otherwise.

New comment by plicense in "Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy"

plicense — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:34:21 +0000

Do you support Java? If so, how do you do this for Java?

New comment by plicense in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

plicense — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:19:46 +0000

Not sure why you are getting downvoted - this is literally what two of the people I know do. They actually make more than what I make at a FAANG. The real kicker? One of their jobs is a contractual position and so they opened up a business for it and hiring family members as employees to save on taxes. So the take home pay is actually higher than me.

Doing so however carries a lot of risk and one needs to have a certain mentality to be able to actually do it (I certainly don't have that).

New comment by plicense in "Inflation-adjusted iPhone 15 most affordable base model since 2007 original"

plicense — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:43:10 +0000

Which car allows you to watch videos from your phone on the Console?

New comment by plicense in "Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage"

plicense — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:50:07 +0000

It uses FUSE and there's three types of Kernel cache you could use with FUSE (although, it seems like gcsfuse is exposing only one):

1. Cache of file attributes in the Kernel (this is controlled by "stat-cache-ttl" value - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/blob/7dc5c7ff...) 2. Cache of directory listings 3. Cache of file contents

It should be possible to use (2) and (3) for a better performance but might need changes to the underlying fuse library they use to expose those options.

New comment by plicense in "Remote Code Execution as a Service"

plicense — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:50:31 +0000

I would suggest also looking at https://github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis. Its essentially a standard API for remote (any binary) execution as a service and there are several reference implementations of it (Buildgrid, BuildBarn, Google's own service etc).

And you can consider using gVisor to minimize container breakouts to a great extent.

New comment by plicense in "‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66"

plicense — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:25:59 +0000

> While he noticed the telephone wires running alongside the highway, Peters said, he did not realize until later that there were also wires crisscrossing the highway every few hundred feet, and that somehow his small plane must have slipped between them without him even noticing.

> “Honestly, I didn’t see them. I think that was divine intervention, moving those wires away from me,” he said.

If you read the article, he explains the reasoning.

New comment by plicense in "Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake"

plicense — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:10:28 +0000

20% of world's surface fresh water.

New comment by plicense in "Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story"

plicense — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 03:53:35 +0000

Or they just went with Alphabetical order when signing the letter? Order doesn’t mean much to be honest in this context - you don’t put your name on the letter unless you really agree with what’s on the letter. Now it maybe possible that Marc never co-signed this in which case he will speak out hopefully and explain his stance better.

New comment by plicense in "Audiblegate"

plicense — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:43:49 +0000

I guess on the flip side, I was receiving 100$ per month in AWS credits for about 2 years for an Alexa skill I had disabled. This was also incompetence in this case.

New comment by plicense in "USA buys up world stock of remdesivir"

plicense — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:33:26 +0000

Can you point me to the results from the clinical trial?

I wasn't trying to spread FUD. I did state that the arrests weren't because of the drug.

New comment by plicense in "USA buys up world stock of remdesivir"

plicense — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:32:12 +0000

One of my friends is an anaesthetist dealing with Covid patients day in day out in India. She works for a Government hospital and they started trying Remdesivir 3 days ago. She said all three patients that they have given the drug to have died of arrest - she does insist though that its not because of the drug but she was saying that it isn't improving things if the patient is in late stages of Covid.

New comment by plicense in "Senate Stock Watcher"

plicense — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 23:13:09 +0000

The senators are probably thinking "What can you do?".

New comment by plicense in "Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities"

plicense — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:21:05 +0000

Umm I guess you could ignore the comment then. Part of what I like about HN is the tangential discussion and the personal experience that commenters share.

New comment by plicense in "Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle"

plicense — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:44:33 +0000

A lot of Kindle content is reflowable meaning every character is addressible, so they should know which word boundry you clicked on.

Of course this is impossible to do in fixed formats like PDF, but 4 years back I specifically worked in Kindle content to make PDF books reflowable :)

New comment by plicense in "Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages"

plicense — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:18:34 +0000

Yeah this - as far as I see it, there's nothing that prevents FB / WhatsApp from "accidentally" shipping the private keys on my phone / machine to their server.

New comment by plicense in "Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages"

plicense — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:41:10 +0000

How I wish this article's title was "Facebook Tells Barr it Can't Open up Encrypted Messages".

New comment by plicense in "Bazel 1.0"

plicense — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:33:16 +0000

Can you quantify what you mean by worse? What makes you feel that way?

New comment by plicense in "Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)"

plicense — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:52:09 +0000

Even more depressing when I see co-workers, friends and family actually do that and I'm trying to climb the ladder by working hard and paying the last penny of tax I owe.

New comment by plicense in "Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines"

plicense — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:55:04 +0000

To summarize:

1. Your build pipeline has a lot of hermetic actions.

2. To speed it up, you execute these actions remotely on isolated environments, cache the results and reuse when possible.

Pretty neat.

You might want to look into https://goo.gl/TB49ED and https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/google/... if you need a managed service to do just that.