skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more and there is an age dimension to those personality types. Generally 24 yr olds have a very "I know nothing, tell me what to do, I'm excited" attitude while people with a mountain of experience have opinions of their own and, human nature, frequently are resentful or stubborn about being told to do things that feel like reinventing the wheel or a step backward by people more jr than them who did decide to go into management. But following fads in an ever-improving upward spiral (I'm not one of these people who thinks the industry is going in circles) of productivity and expressiveness is just part of the industry reality. Maybe 28 year olds really are more suited, on average, to that reality? They key thing is, even if that is sometimes true, to judge people individually since of course there are older devs who are totally amazing, creative, and flexible and there are 28 year olds that are completely stubborn, unhappy pains in the ass.
Anyone interested in how the Game Boy works should watch "The Ultimate Game Boy Talk" by Michael Steil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI
As someone who's worked heavily with both Debian and Ubuntu - they do.

There are differences between them but I am 100% confident that I can do everything that an Ubuntu system can, especially if we're talking about infrastructure.
Paul Graham isn't 50% of the way between American Democrat and American Republican either; he's using "moderate" in an idiosyncratically modern American way. The fact that we'd have to hash this out on the thread is just another good illustration of why this post doesn't belong here.
really sh*tty site full of trackers
Not all users are happy, qnd those users should be heard aswell. Democracy works, for better or worse. Social activism is part of a healthy society.

Shutting down people because “but the majority” is a tad fascist.
> And this is why Debian exists.

What this means in this context is that Debian is still relevant and useful rather than a relic. It's the biggest community-based rather than company-supported distro and rejects such features.
Roadmaps are a PR tool, and something you give to you customers to plan with, not something you keep secret. You can find all sorts of articles like this if you look in the right places.

Of course, they're also what you want your competitors to think you're doing, messages to Wall Street or investors, all the other usual things you'd expect from a PR vehicle.
often the limiting factor is finding a marina or other moorage that accepts liveaboards. For example it's almost completely impossible anywhere within a 45 minute commuting distance of downtown Seattle. Any money that you might save by living on a boat and paying just under $1000 a month for moorage (vs $3000 apartment) will be gone to maintenance and other hassles.
"wanting to keep their CVs up to date"

This is part of my point. The eng could have spent 6 more months on making that UI even better, only to have another eng rewrite it in 5 years because... why not.
Wow, read this and thought, "this is like airplane ownership."
I do not disagree. But my less-analytical side sees that, after purchase, I've got something to touch, so it must be an asset, right? (As opposed to a rental, when after the rental is over, it's gone.)
How that part of the installer works is kinda stupid, too.

The popularity-contest package is installed, you're asked whether you want to participate, and then the package is uninstalled when you say no -- as opposed to asking and then installing the package if you say yes.
Nice find, thanks. So, a fair while.
Thanks, I'll have to try that.
Those hour meetings act as a crutch that drain or energize us and falsely trick us into thinking we've done something productive.

Those 12 hours could have been spent differently to acheive the same or better results if optimized time management matters but I don't believe they do matter in this case. This person is fueled by the meeting (he leaves the meeting stronger) and by shortening his day he would never fully be in a zone.
"It's almost like ___" is common internet vernacular for "I can't believe this isn't obvious to everyone, but apparently it's not, so here it is: __"
And at the same time you still can't use LoC to measure productivity and reward for it because of the Goodhart's law.
The habitable epoch of the early Universe, Abraham Loeb, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550414000196

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613 , https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...

>"In the redshift range 100≲(1+z)≲137, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273–373 K (0–100°C), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star. In the standard ΛCDM cosmology, the first star-forming halos within our Hubble volume started collapsing at these redshifts, allowing the chemistry of life to possibly begin when the Universe was merely 10–17 million years old. The possibility of life starting when the average matter density was a million times bigger than it is today is not in agreement with the anthropic explanation for the low value of the cosmological constant."
I completely agree, I had a tooth pulled two weeks ago because it cracked after a root canal.

Prior to the root canal, I had a gum graft... I vaguely remember asking the surgeon if I should just have the tooth removed.

It would have been a lot cheaper, and simpler, to just pull the tooth in the beginning. It was in the back of my mouth, with no tooth below it.
This is a terrific question, and a topic I've thought about quite a bit while we've built our product (context: as the OP, I've toiled on "how to prove metrics are signal-bearing" for a couple years now).

The problem we always end up at is "what measurable output can we rely upon to tell the story that a project's fortunes are improving"? To date, its been challenging to find a compelling answer. This may be why I'm unaware of any study that addresses the question.

One possible workaround would be to take experts in the field, and try to translate their qualitative interpretation into input that drives a metric. e.g., if Andrew Clark from React could list three directories that harbor disproportionate tech debt in their project, we could calibrate our Open Repo Directory Browser to identify the factors that were unique to that directory. This could then help managers pick out when and where its appropriate to make payments to reduce their tech debt.

Unfortunately, the prominent open source developers aren't answering my emails at this point. And even if they did, it's still a long road to translate qualitative expert opinion into provable long-term benefits. But I think the environment for making that leap is as ripe as ever. We just need to keep working toward figuring out the most desirable+measurable outputs.
There are more openings for managers at higher levels with the same or higher compensation than for high ICs simply because there are fewer problems that have the scope for such a senior engineer. A FAANG I worked at might have a need in an org for a few director level ICs. These ICs in my experience are few and far between. ICs at this level make same money as management track. In my experience not many teams within an org have scope for an IC at that level Making it more difficult to transfer within the organization. Yet at the same time there are many director level managers because there are many teams and lower level managers to manage within those orgs. Additionally, a director level manager is considered somewhat generic and has an easier time moving around in the company with things that are tangential to their domain. My current company is not a FAANG but I can tell you that I see the same thing there.
That's true if people are going out and buying food to donate. But I think many times, people are donating food items that they overbought. Or bought on sale/clearance. Even bulk buys aren't always cheaper than a clearance sale trying to make shelf room for a product that will sell better.

There is obviously a need for money to buy in bulk the items that are needed. But if you can donate food that otherwise would go to waste and can be used locally as well, it's a win win.
Well now everyone is googeling what the hell is panzer and story beyond this inside joke.
Of course any open source system can be changed into any other. But the question is how the default experience works for people who don't want to tinker much.
RV’s tend to have enormous depreciation, or at best they may break even if you are lucky. Unless you are urban camping or squatting where you can, it can be very expensive to park them at a popular destination ($1k+/month).

Source: I’ve watched my parents also spend a small fortune on RV’s in their retirement. They’ve traded up twice and eaten 50%+ depreciation each time. YMMV.
Why not use accelerometer for that
I'm saying that we could use an open alternative for existing services, not that an open solution should have been first. Uber spent a lot on lawyers and broke a lot of laws to clear the hurdles, making it much easier for someone to come in and provide a similar service at a fraction of the cost.

There's no reason why someone building an open solution couldn't work with the cities and get their endorsement.
Of course, that developer almost certainly introduced the most bugs, as well. So, maybe? :)

Though, agreed you are almost certainly better pulling back up and asking more product faced questions. The most prolific author, as an example, produced more sentences read by someone. Not just more sentences.
Everyone has blind spots.

Gates is famous for completely missing the success of the Internet. He thought that it had no consumer appeal and as a result MS was focused on Office and PC software when the dotcom boom started. His first version of "A Road Ahead" published in 1995 didn't have a chapter about Internet. It was added later.

To his credit he made complete 180 in his opinion in the same year and started to exploit MS monopoly power mercilessly to get ahead.
The automatic previews are terrible, yeah. I haven't found an option for those, I'm afraid.
First time I only got two paragraphs into a PG post.
Users have control to turn off Amazon search in Ubuntu. Control isn't the problem. Annoying defaults is.
Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda are fighting cybercrime
One implication of this that some people don't realize is that a brand new Ubuntu instance -- whether a physical host, a virtual machine, an EC2 instance, whatever -- immediately calls home to Canonical as soon as it spins up for the first time.

The functionality is included in the "base-files" package, which has a priority of "required" and is marked as an "essential" package. Thus, if you have an Ubuntu instance, it's nearly 100% guaranteed this is installed and enabled by default.

(If memory serves, this was added in 17.04 or thereabouts.)
Dual pane file manager with GUI, in other words: a proper alternative to Total Commander on Linux. Fast, simple UI, has all required functionality built in and can be extended using plugins. Krusader is probably closest one, but still has few minor paper cut issues.
Many things. Mostly PPAs. I can install Ubuntu Stable and use the most recent version of PHP, which has been built and is stored in Canonical's servers. With Debian, that's a gamble: either wait until the Debian developers stop bikeshedding and upload a new version of PHP to experimental, breaking all my system if I install it, or I have to add a repo from some guy I don't know or trust.
CapOne also maintains Cloud Custodian, which a lot of people use to great effect to help prevent stuff like this.

Ultimately I think it just shows that securing cloud infrastructure is difficult to do consistently when you move quickly and broadly at scale. It also shows that the specific mechanism for authenticating EC2 instances had some design issues. These have been known about for a long time of course and it is kind of disappointing how long it took AWS to do something about it.
I would recommend the Economist for well-written world news. It's not free, but well worth paying for. https://www.economist.com/
MRI predict intelligence levels in children?
An adaptation of a famous scene from blade runner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7Ga7qTLDU
There aren’t a lot of PL positions open right now, and I didn’t network as much as I should before. Along with the standard problems in applying for jobs (high stakes leetcode, ghosting after multiple successful rounds of interviewing, etc...), that I can’t just apply to a lot of positions means that it takes a bit longer than I would like.

I also have the luxury of waiting for a better opportunity rather than just taking the first one that matches.
Interesting angle to think about. A lot of high schoolers are applying to majors basically blind of what the job at the other end is like. Everyone wants to be a doctor or a lawyer until the slow realization of the realities of these career paths hit, and in a panic they change to business or econ, wrangle excel macros in a cubicle until 65, and wonder where it all went wrong.
Yes, of course. Shopify.

But weirdly enough - the same might be said of Spotify.

In the sense that Stocholm is not the Valley and doesn't have A+ stars in many tech categories. But - because Sweden has a historical special relationship with the music industry, and Spotify requires 'smart people and a few geniuses but not tons of specialised geniuses' - Stockholm might make a better choice than the Valley.

One thing about Sweden though - they hit way above their weight in other, more classical industries. They're a small country that makes massive international brands, car companies - for gosh sakes they make the most complicated product category: Jet fighters. Mind you, not all of it, especially the engines, but making a 'Jet Figther' requires A+ players across a broad set of industrial categories, including a diplomatic corps that's deeply and efficiently embedded with industry, as many European countries have. Canada does not have this at all, and is probably last place in the OECD for this kind of economic cooperation.
For sure, but in the case of Debian/Ubuntu the configuration to make Debian a bit more friendly is not difficult at all...

ie: Enabling non-free and installing sudo gets you most of the way there for the majority of users.
I never had that problem..but can recommend Polya's unique How To Solve It, which deserves its high reputation, and might be helpful.

But which particular domain(s) are you talking about?
Related: 2600 recently started publishing DRM-free PDFs.

They're kind of floundering for funding, so if you like that sort of thing, you should probably grab a copy or subscription.

https://www.2600.com/content/message-our-readers
It wasn't explicitely stated that dinner was a work dinner> I personally read it and assumed he went home ate dinner and continued working
> My dad would probably say increasing business activity is the central goal of the govt

That's a deeply sad, but I suspect increasingly common view of the role of government
my father had 3 sets of teeth
Suspect this applies to machine tools, as well.
My experience is that energy companies, especially the international oil majors, are very good at doing this. Employees rotate in and out of management and IC positions throughout their careers as either part of climbing the ladder or just leveraging their skills in a new way.
Yup, we've got people worldwide.
This might come as a shock, but AOC is a member of Congress now.

(It's silly to judge the value of a college education by the jobs that people get the first few years after college.)
Uber and Lyft take 35-40% of each ride, that's the number that multiple drivers have told me and this article confirms it https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-take-rates-hig...

I also know a few people at food delivery companies and they all take around 35% of each order.
And if something in the script goes wrong midway through, you've automated a big mess! I love it!

Really should, I've always thought AWS was just a bunch of hacked together services and it kinda shows. This is why you don't let the engineers talk to the customers... er design for the customers.
> people can produce & maintain software at about 10 LOC/h.

That is shocking and horrifying if that's the norm for software development.
Capitalism is not only successful on economic matters. Poverty, for example, got reduced significantly during the last decades.
Doctors have to show continued professional development every year for Revalidation of their license. It’s hard to keep on top of all the research, there is so much of it. Much of it of arguable quality, and contradictory making it hard to interpret. Generally people follow guidelines and advice from experts unless they are the expert in that are due to this. And doctors are culturally quite cautious, preferring proven treatments/ideas than new ones, partly from being burnt by previous “great” ideas (e.g. thalidomide), and due to the risk involved.
> Code smells if a change works with one lockfile but not another generated around the same time.

This isn't true at all. You can't predict when a new, potentially breaking, version of a dependency might get published. It could happen a second after you generate your lockfile, or create your PR.

At time of PR creation we could have versions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of our transitive dependencies.

At time of merge we could have versions 1.1, 2.2, 3.3 and 4.x available.

Dependencies are outside of your control, so always "smell", that's why it's crazy to do anything other than pin the heck out of them.
I think jumping to the conclusion that there will be banner ads is a bit of an over reaction. Right now the adds are fairly innocuous, but it is still frustrating that adds are the default instead of just charging me a few dollars. I have no idea, but I would think $5 or $10 would be far more than they could get showing me a couple adds. Though if they decided to charge even $5 to download Ubuntu people would lose their minds more than they do with small adds like these, and so here we are.
I'm keeping your quote "Get a 100 foot boat, that is a boat that looks great from 100 feet away." So true!
Simplicity.

That's the answer to the click-bait title. It's simplicity.
I feel that this may take its toll on me. Some days I'm sprinting hard and getting a lot of work done, and I'm exhausted by 4-4:30pm. But I can't leave early because its against norms. This builds resentment in me because the work is getting done, but I have to sit around and burn time for superficial appearances.
>> I am upset, and I do use ubuntu, and I am reconsidering that.

Good for you, but don't you sort of expect this with Ubuntu? It's obviously pushing in a different direction from the likes of Debian. I'm not sure most reasonable people have much sympathy for you here.

>> It isn't about politics nor economics. It's about privacy and control. That is linked with Linux for a lot of users. And Linux users have a pretty good situation in regard to this.

Privacy and control are intermingled with politics and economics. A quick analysis of Ubuntu and Canonical would have suggested that this risk exists for you.

>> But it is starting to erode and if allowed can only get worse.

You are naive if you think that it won't erode further in your view. Economics and the desires of Ubuntu audience will result in further "features" like this. It's inherent in their mission and they don't particularly care about you.

>> It is unacceptable and the fact that canonical don't realize this is why I'm thinking of alternatives.

They do realize this. They just don't care. You are the type of customer they want to fire because you aren't their audience, yet fight their choices.

>> Especially considering the use case. Either they haven't got a clue, or they are testing the waters. Does not look good any way you look at it.

It doesn't look good to you, but it's a trade-off with their users because it's intrinsically tied to their audience, economics, politics, etc. Don't forget that audiences can change. The customers that brought them to this point may not be those who take them to their next goal. It's just business. You can say Linux is more than business, but it doesn't really make an impactful argument.
It's strange that if you're going to write this type of essay, it might behoove you to define right and left in your own words so the audience has a baseline for what you're really talking about.

Otherwise you're just saying "I'm right and everyone else is totally clueless. If you don't pick any side you actually have the most ~ ~ enlightened ~ ~ opinion."

I expect nothing less from PG but it's hilarious to see him just blandly admit how intellectually out of depth he is. He's basically ignored the most rudimentary topics in political science and just flat out spread his academic ignorance for the world to see.
> The people in most governments are quite cheap...

Have you seen our budget? <wink>
> Right and left are arbitrary constructs necessitated by a first past the post voting system.

Most European countries have proportional voting systems, yet can anyway fairly well be characterized by the left-right political axis.
What high security environment browses the hostile public web?

You're afraid of the public internet seeing your IP address? The address that is required to serve responses to your requests?
Not OP but pretty sure they just mean this

`aws s3api create-bucket --bucket somecoolname --region us-west-2 --grant-write iamuser`
There are alternatives. We in the U.S. simply choose not to exercise them.
You almost certainly do want swap (in the 99.9% case).

I had a better / more elaborate explanation bookmarked somewhere but can't find it now, the tldr is a "modern" OS (past ~2-3 decades) wants the freedom to manage anonymous (malloc) and named (mmio) memory between physical RAM and disk devices. Disabling swap means the OS must always keep the anonymous pages in physical RAM, which negatively impacts any IO-bound workload (can't cache) and, ironically, puts more pressure on the disk.

So unless you have an extremely specific and finely tuned use-case with lots of benchmark data, the OS will almost always make a better call.
Midnight commander maybe?;-)

Semi joke. It is quite a nice file manager. Terminal based though. No plugins, but batteries included.
If fewer people decide to be electricians, then pay must go up to attract them, changing the calculus. If we force every high school student into trade school, on the other hand, there will be a glut of electricians and pay will go down.

Then what do we have? A lot of very angry people who feel betrayed by our insistence on trade school. And they'd be right to feel betrayed! We should be encouraging people to pursue fields that suit their interests, talents, and ambitions. If there are financial barriers then we need to tear them down.

The economy exists for the people, not people for the economy.
There is a huge difference between being the country someone else manufactures their cars in, and doing your own. Even if they are requiring IP-transferring joint ventures like the Chinese do, it will still take a long time for them to develop their own brands to export quality. The Japanese has a distinct advantage in that they didn’t go the joint venture route and developed their own brands directly.