Thanks for sharing.

For those that are pressed for time, there is a good Executive Summary on page 8 of the linked PDF report:

https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ro...

This looks really good. The per-row checksums is particularly neat. Good luck to these folks.

Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

If you weren't already aware of it, check out the #f1 community on libera.

I loved the ending! Glad you kept it in. I’m sure the emacs folks will appreciate the humour in it. And they’re welcome to write their own article on the history of emacs and end it similarly. They’ve probably got a binding for it.

For a second I thought this was related to that old school FogCreek internship programme with the same name.

Fun documentary at the time. Something about 12 weeks with geeks, and jumping out of windows comes to mind.

Thank you!

Love HN.

Thanks for the insightful comment.

I have a question (disclaimer: reinforcement learning noob here):

Is there a risk of broken telephone with this?

Kinda like repeatedly compressing an already compressed image eventually leads to a fuzzy blur.

If that is the case then I’m curious how this is monitored and / or mitigated.

In South Africa the "big" (historically incumbent) banks were indeed disrupted by a "startup" bank relatively recently (in the last 20 years) - and this startup bank went on to in turn become one of the big banks.

There is an excellent book called "Stalking Giants" [1] that covers this story nicely. It's a fun read (especially for South Africans) and was published recently.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.za/Capitec-Stalking-Giants-T-J-Strydom...

What did they do to "disrupt" the others?

“Hireland” needs to be a thing.

Please tell me someone’s done this already.

"Hireland"?!

Came here to say this.

It’s not the first article / publication on Google SRE I’ve read, and they’re all similarly (and imho unnecessarily) verbose.

Whilst I’m deeply grateful to the good folks at Google for sharing their hard-earned knowledge with us, I do wish their publications on this important topic were far more succinct.