Hacker News: skj

New comment by skj in "Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says"

skj — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:05:11 +0000

Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).

New comment by skj in "Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date"

skj — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:40:54 +0000

Are you knocking the knockers? No one is suggesting they be arrested. They're just being ridiculed.

New comment by skj in "Managing People"

skj — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:43:15 +0000

Pretty uncommon at tech companies, but it's entirely based on the company's policy. The company can fire you at any time (as long as it's not one of several specific bad reasons like racial discrimination), but it's the company that employs you, not your manager. So only the company can fire you.

Generally big tech companies don't give your manager the authority to blindly fire you, but only because that's a decision the company made.

New comment by skj in "Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (2012)"

skj — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 01:35:38 +0000

My former boss too! That message was sort of the beginning of the end for the trust I had. Very disappointing.

New comment by skj in "Lessons from my PhD"

skj — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:38:16 +0000

Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.

New comment by skj in "Facebook's reputation is so bad that they must pay more to hire, retain talent"

skj — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:30:44 +0000

What I tried, in a similar situation, was being clear that I did not support the company or its leadership and for them to never contact me again. It worked.

New comment by skj in "Chinese tennis star recants sexual assault allegations against CCP vice-premier"

skj — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:04:39 +0000

She didn't.

New comment by skj in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

skj — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:02:01 +0000

eh?

New comment by skj in "AWS us-east-1 outage"

skj — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:48:16 +0000

Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.

New comment by skj in "Bob Dole has died"

skj — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:29:21 +0000

Little known fact: "Bob Dole has died" were his last words.

New comment by skj in "Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?"

skj — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:46:23 +0000

It's GCS.

New comment by skj in "ChaosDB Explained: Azure's Cosmos DB Vulnerability Walkthrough"

skj — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 13:43:51 +0000

When we designed the security model for Google Cloud Build (I do not work there anymore), we decided that containers were not valid security barriers. So, all partitioning was done on the VM and network (configured outside the VM) level.

It wasn't hard to convince anyone that this was the right way to handle things.

New comment by skj in "Vertiwalk Vertical Walking"

skj — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:07:42 +0000

I don't think "this is a dangerous idea because people might need it to function" is a great take.

New comment by skj in "Incident Affecting Google Cloud Infrastructure Components"

skj — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:53:37 +0000

Last I checked, which was not recent, it was hosted out of an S3 bucket.

New comment by skj in "Amazon Time Sync Service"

skj — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:21:43 +0000

Google uses map reduce extensively... where it's appropriate.

True time helps with things like spanner transactions. It's just a totally different use case.

New comment by skj in "Peter Bourgon: I have been permanently banned from all Golang community spaces"

skj — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:18:29 +0000

Well.... bye!

New comment by skj in "Is π the Same in Every Universe?"

skj — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:15:57 +0000

I measure distances in the time it takes light to traverse them, don't you?

New comment by skj in "YouTube alternatives: P2P video hosting that uses up to 60% less bandwidth [pdf]"

skj — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:37:26 +0000

The host can put their CDN inside the operator's network. And, generally, a centrally operated CDN can be smarter than p2p.

New comment by skj in "Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood"

skj — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:34:51 +0000

Hmm cloud build spoofs it :) if the customer build accessed the underlying VM's metadata it would be very confusing (though not a security issue).

It was not straightforward. I learned a lot about iptables and docker networking.

New comment by skj in "The mathematician who saved hundreds of flight crews"

skj — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:04:42 +0000

Ok, now I understand that survivor bias meme.