skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's certainly not the case everywhere, the truth is that a lot of software development needs out there aren't terribly challenging to get to a "good enough" state from a business value perspective. This is exacerbated by the hyper-specialization of shallow roles where companies are basically looking for technologists. Once upon a time people used to hire software developers expecting them to figure out how to solve problems across almost all software layers and to take their time doing it. Now many positions are for churning out work with a specific library or framework in a specific language. It doesn't take a long time for there to be diminishing returns in terms of the worth of each extra year of experience when someone's role is to work as a "React developer" or something like that especially if someone else is responsible for making the designs and another person for setting up the backend or if the bulk of the software can effectively be outsourced by leaning on open source tech.

Factors like flexibility in work hour expectations and compensation favor younger developers who tend to have fewer responsibilities outside of work but have enough specialized skills to get the grunt work done and are able to put in the hours to make up for their lack of experience. Generally younger developers are not as well suited for making lots of bigger architectural decisions since they don't have the experience to really grasp longterm consequences of different approaches, but in terms of numbers, you need fewer people making those decisions than those doing the grunt work and young people with just a few years of experience often seem to do the grunt work about as well as anyone.

This wouldn't be such a big problem for older software developers if there wasn't a pay expectation gap or if they were as likely to be flexible about hours. Rightly or wrongly, however, people expect higher compensation for their experience, even if much of that experience isn't actually producing that much more business value given the sort of work that they are actually stuck doing. The world definitely has a place for the John Carmacks, but it's really not that large a percentage of jobs where they can make the most of the value they have to offer.
from Gwern, @ https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05:
"This year, GPT-3 is scary because it’s a magnificently obsolete architecture from early 2018, which is small & shallow compared to what’s possible3, with a simple uniform architecture4 trained in the dumbest way possible (unidirectional prediction of next text token) on a single impoverished modality (random Internet HTML text dumps5) on tiny data (fits on a laptop), sampled in a dumb way6, and yet, the first version already manifests crazy runtime meta-learning—and the scaling curves still are not bending!"

It's probably not a state-of-the-art breakthrough at this point. Who knows what OpenAI has done in the intervening two years?
Pumped storage, like all hydro can be the cause of major emissions depending on how much and what they flood. Anything with forest and suddenly they're actually worse than coal (in terms of Climate Change emissions, not the other nasty shit)
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I have to say I really appreciate this! I was going down very similar lines just last week (I had installed Hammerspoon and was experimenting with some applescript hacks, but to no avail).

Just intercepting the actual scroll and inverting it is a really elegant solution (that doesn't require a relog) which is great.

This solves one of the two biggest gripes I had about MacOs - with the other being my inablility to "pin" my dock to one of my monitors, overriding the swap functionality. Thanks!
Companies like Codility has been doing these for years...

Please help me understand what is new there.
Sure, I know Go is a low blow to static typing. But in this particular regard, Java or C# don't fare much better either.

This is not a question of just supporting parametric polymorphism, but of abstracting over the number of arguments of a function, which is not supported in almost any type system I know of; and then of matching the number of arguments received with the type of function you specified initially.
> it hasn’t improved markedly since libreSSL began either

That's not really true. Pre-heartbleed there were very few contributors to OpenSSL. After heartbleed the management of the project was overhauled. There was also a large inflow of funding (Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative) and new contributors.[0]

In 2018 the OpenSSL team was one of the winners of the Levchin prize "for dramatic improvements to the code quality of OpenSSL".

[0]: https://www.securityweek.com/evolution-openssl-security-afte...
One of my COVID resolutions has been to aggressively attack every source of junkmail I can find.

I figure, reducing the load in my mailbox (my actual goal; I haaaaate dead-tree mail) will have the collateral benefit of reducing the load on the carrier's shoulder.

I've enjoyed partial success so far, but just fired another volley of unsubscribes yesterday. We'll see.
I agree. It seems to me that the best course of action at this point is to continue aggressive safety measures. I'm not a virology expert by any means, but it kinda makes intuitive sense that natural herd immunity will build over time. I mean I've been being as careful as I reasonably can, but it's doubtful at this point that I haven't been exposed to the virus many times by now, at least in some capacity. I think some people underestimate the multifaceted nature of your odds of survival if you catch this thing. It's not just a roll of the dice; things like your viral load and your overall health matter immensely. So doing our best to make sure people aren't doing things like spending long periods of time in close proximity to one another with recycled air flow seems like what we should continue doing.
If you can explain why your email address was rejected, then you didn't buy a car because you didn't want to.
Hollywood has been making "deep fakes" for years. When Soviet astronauts got blown up, they would airbrush them out.

If you get 20 hours of clean audio from somebody like Joe Biden or Lester Holt you can cut out phonemes, groups of phonemes, words and phrases and patch them together with a tool like Adobe Audition.

It's a lot of work and takes some talent, like good writing and art you may have to make several attempts before getting it right.

With deepfakes you can make a much less convincing fake without the talent. Meh. But somehow people can write "news" stories over and over about the same technological development and people think it's fresh. I don't get it.
(Non car person here) How much does the Zoe run vs the model 3? I know they are very different cars but the model 3 without bells and whistles seems pretty affordable for most people.
Maybe we shouldn't base our respect for people on how much grit they seem to show, if it doesn't seem to matter anyways.
> Adding to this, most metrics can't be embedded well in euclidean space. Even something as simple as 4 nodes in a loop using the shortest path as your metric -- there's a minimum amount of error for any embedding into any euclidean space, and it's well above 0.

Are you talking about a 2d Euclidean space, or about any number of dimensions?
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Yes, but notice that the shock goes sled -> spine -> head -> helmet in sledding and other player -> helmet -> head in football. So, strapping an accelerometer onto the helmet looks quite a bit better for sledding. (And especially for a first measurement.)
Maybe not much cross-shopping, but since we're talking simply about total units delivered, it's not relevant whether any single consumer is cross-shopping the two options. What's relevant is whether the consumers for each are able to have their demand satisfied.
"At the edge" is going to mean different things on different clouds. Cloudflare has hundreds of points of presence. What's more edgy about fly.io that you don't get from Cloudflare, App Engine, or AWS Lambda?
This reminds me the old Therion debian package... a gem hidden deep in apt
TL;DR; - I'm lazy. But maybe not as lazy as I should be?

The fun of the build. I knew the handful of packages I wanted by default in all of my future projects, so I thought, why not just build around those, package it up so I can just run `npm install simplemvcjs` and start building.

After decades of working on web applications all day everyday for my job, there was something that always kept me from building more side projects.

After some soul searching, I realized I am incredibly lazy, and what was keeping me from starting was all the upfront work needed to create a new project from creating the directory and committing the first line of code to having something that was actually rendering in the browser.

So the goal was to make this as easy as starting a new php project `touch index.php` but with the structure needed to keep the code from being too spaghetti-y.

Are there other frameworks I could have used, I'm sure, but I would still have to rewrite a membership service, and still have to set up their versions of controllers, and set their rendering engine, etc., etc.
Tom is not pleased with himself for the scaffolding in the background, but I find it to be a delightful bit of flavor that accents the history.
Well, often the data is conclusions from my decades of experience. It's not like I can show that in Wikipedia.

What I actually mostly do is saying "Doing X never works, because Y, instead I like to do Z because...", and it has reasonable success.
Can you elaborate on how having 30 words for snow affects a language's information density?
Instead of demonizing them, think a little, inform yourself and try to understand why they are doing.

Afghanistan was at the center of multiple proxy wars between America and Russia, all because of America feeling threatened by communism. The US then helped fundamentalists get into leader positions which further threw the country into disarray. Then to top it all off they started another beautiful war to look for Bin Laden.

I haven't looked into it in a while, but maybe the US still isn't out of there because of a lacking exit strategy.

Imagine living in a country that has continuously been in the crosshairs of foreign fundamentalist, political and capitalist interests for the better part of half a century. Do you really think they know or even care about the effects of their actions? Do you vote caring about Afghanistan? Are you outraged when another cultural site is destroyed by foreign or local terrorism?

We have the luxury of lying back in a comfy bed with a roof above our heads, some form of stable income and not worrying that tomorrow a market square close by will be rubble. Our women can go to schools (and so can we) and we aren't at the mercy of crazy people who want to violently, actively overthrow our government.
I'm older.

I'm no slouch.

I can prove it, with a huge portfolio of stuff I was working on fifteen minutes ago.

I stopped looking for work some time ago.

Let's just say that I have the skillset and chops that many startups would kill for, but I don't have a...how do they say it, these days...gosh darn it...I just can't keep up with the stuff they say...oh yeah.."cultural fit." Yeah, that's it.
> That works out at a £3750 'saving' over 50 5-day weeks in a year.

Since the congestion charge is only for central London, this assumes people are driving into the very centre of London every day, which I don't think many people do. Certainly not most people who live in London suburbs.
> [Article] They could be the work of a vigilante trying to give administrators a hard lesson in security by raining destruction on unsecured data.

It could be a person attempting to prevent the data from falling into the wrong hands. Problem is: once it's deleted, you have no idea whether your data was stolen and shared. A better option would be to first send a copy to Have I Been Pwned.
Tangentially speaking, what does say about Bay Area housing? Anecdotally, I used to look at Google's performance as an indicator on South Bay housing prices.
I'm puzzled by how America ended up with this "lone-wolf" nuclear family mentality where families move away from parents and insist on going it alone. Maybe it goes hand-in-hand with the American individualistic culture. Maybe it just happens in urban centers and I'm blind to places where it does not hold. But it is such a sad state; my best childhood memories are from being in a small town where everybody knew everybody, kids played together, and grandma took you on walks from house to house almost daily to sync up with neighbors. Oh and did I mention this is where our two working parents would drop us off for weeks at a time?
There is already a large problem with political ads cherry picking and slicing audio and video to cheat viewers. I really worry that deep fakes will take it to another level completely. I fully expect the current administration to eagerly adopt it if available.
Given that, you school must be pushing hard to have regular school in the fall with student's at the school in classroom seats and in dorms. What will happen when the extremely likey covid19 spread leads to a sudden closing of your in-person schooling?
This article might help, it explains Arrow's performance benefits: https://www.dremio.com/apache-arrow-explained/
Great job! What would you say are the most challenging gaps between online sessions compared to traditional in-person sessions? What are your plans to bridge the gaps?
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti would be a great modern addition to this list.
"they accomplish the same goals as full VMs in a different way."

They are explicitly not that. Docker containers do not provide you any real isolation guarantees from a security POV and make no attempts at such. This is extensively documented. [1]

"If you're running Docker in a VM on a bare metal server you're doing it wrong. "

Ummm... Running Docker inside a VM is by far the most common deployment type of Docker there is. What do you think is an EC2/ECS/GKE deployment? Hint, there's a VM running your containers in all of them. This is also what Docker the company recommends - https://www.docker.com/blog/containers-and-vms-together/

[1]:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/containers-vs-vm...
If it happened and you don't report it, that's fraud. It doesn't matter how easy it is to not report it. This would apply to any other regulation as well, not just taxes.
I'm 42, and until recently worked for a well known tech company in San Francisco. Most of the time I didn't feel like I was the only person over 30 in the room, but after moving to another city and starting to work on a truly age-diverse did I realize how unbalanced my previous team was.

My current team has a good mix of industry experience and excitement for new technologies, which makes planning both effective and exciting.
One major use-case is exchanging data between processes (in different languages) using IPC, avoiding the overhead of serialisation.

Best example is probably pyspark.
What I'm looking for is a full stack trace of a request, and how it progressed through their platform, through pops, Argo, Caches, etc. Akamai and others have tools like this, and it makes it much easier to debug gremlins on the inside.

From the docs:

"If your Workers application is returning an 1101 error code, your code is throwing an exception. You can catch the exception in your code using a try/catch block:"

That's great, but you end up just returning those details in a header or sending them somewhere else. We have to catch errors and send them to our backend for logging so we can debug them at a later point.

This doesn't help you debug things like sub-requests from the Worker or how they interact with other Cloudflare features like Cache.
We are talking about people who don't have access to the electric grid. Honestly I am not in the position to judge their choice and how they decided to provide for themselves.

If we (as relatively wealthy people in the world) really want to judge them, we should start by providing education and resources to sustainably earn a living.

Sending there our army and creating chaos was not a great idea.
It was happening at least until June 6 2020, I removed that particular domain after that.

If you want I can re-add it and ping you if it happens again. (where can I ping you?)

I also had a support ticket around that time about this but never got an answer, guess it got lost.
This is not just the case in the US, in the EU the same problem exists for city dwellers. Around my place there is even some wealth discrimination going on as the city will build charging pole only if there is sufficient non-subsidized living space available in the neighborhood (because poor people cant accumulate wealth apparently) and you need to buy the vehicle first after which they will place a charging pole within 12 months. So you need a drive lane or garage or charge it somewhere else.
Wouldn't you simply put a warm object on the neck instead of a cool object?
Sourcing data is expensive. I think it's best not to underestimate just how much development has to be done based upon gut feel, trust or experience simply because proving it would take too long.

If it's two people arguing their own opinions at each other and neither one has relevant data where exactly do you go from there? The one with 2 years experience or the one with 15?
Sadly from experience, HR will blindly screen them out and speil the usual "overqualified" excuse to not progress. That they regularly do and get away with.

Had situation exactly like that once and I bypassed HR straight to manager who lambasted HR, got interview and the job, still got shafted by HR who messed up salary, lied about rise and generally made my life hell with pettiness and bullying for want of another way of putting it. That is along with one person in HR taking my side and telling me what her manager was upto and next thing, that person was gone. So yeah - HR causes many of these ageist issues when it comes to the situation you outline.
rustls recently received a third party security audit and seemed to do quite well, if you're looking for an alternative:

http://jbp.io/2020/06/14/rustls-audit.html
The Internet was always supposed to be federated/decentralized. The idea of megacorps centralizing all of your data isn't the Internet. And the fact that we live in the real world and the Internets servers exist in countries subject to various laws, there was no way a global Internet was going to ever be without any sort of borders.

The idea that the Internet is universally global and where your data is doesn't matter is idealistic fiction, not reality.
You might like what I did with https://github.com/hofstadter-io/jumpfiles

It's my latest incantation for bash helpers. You can add your own to it pretty easy, as a separate git backed repo that Jumpfiles pulls in (similar to how you did it in the article)
Turns out the age old adaptations of having proximity to relatives really do matter. US is doubly vulnerable here - people move around a lot and the infra for childcare is simply not there.

This is being discussed from the well-off perspective of remote-capable jobs. The real pain is being felt by medical and other front-line workers. Gov. really need to look for options to support those in critical in-person jobs, starting with medical/fire/etc and then opening up to all essential jobs categories.
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Are you the only house on that road? I know a rural mail carrier and a large portion of their customers live on dirt roads and they deliver to them. However, they won't deliver packages to your door if you're the only house on the road and it's over a certain distance.
Nah we’re in for the next AI winter. GPT-3 shows how much energy is needed to perform a nice trick with current technology. We mostly have reached the limits of the technology. Investing more compute power for a few percentage points more Precision is not going to bring the technology forward.
Every single night, violent rioters literally stage attacks on the same federal courthouse. That's not protesting. Several police officers have been maimed and blinded. You'll only be able to keep pretending "wall of moms, wall of dads" are not just enabling AntiFa terrorists to continue their violent criminal behavior.

All Americans have equal rights. These people are lost souls, and I pity them.
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I don't get it. By the time someone is running for president, they've been around a while. Someone who doesn't have an understanding of the character or political positions of Joe Biden or Donald Trump (or whoever) by now hasn't been paying attention to anything for a good long while, so why would they start with a random deepfake?

I mean, sophisticated propaganda techniques have been utilized forever, no? How do you defeat it without getting into checksums, etc? Would you agree that critical thinking skill gained from part of a rounded education would help you see through the BS? Of course, one side of the politcal duopoly in the US is trying very hard to keep Americans from getting educated...
Normally I'd ask if this was generated by GPT-3, but I honestly hope it isn't because it's utter nonsense.
Many countries also have specific taxes based on engine size and emissions. For example, for 2020 Ford Explorer, a relatively popular SUV in the US (often a police car), you’d pay something like 12k EUR of extra pollution tax in France at purchase.
You can do pretty well as a developer if all you know is eg Cobol or low level C.

Do keep in mind that the industry has exploded in size over the years.
I initially read it as "McFunctions". I wasn't as surprised as I should have been that a fast food chain was running a cloud service
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That's why I use Windows 10 -- an operating system that's built from the ground up to support virtualization, and includes a Linux Kernel environment with first-class support.

It's only going to get worse on ARM, where virtualization support is nowhere near as mature as x86_64
Fellow photographer here. I still participate on Instagram, but rarely and only posting prints of my photographs now. I've found that the act of making a print, hanging it, or putting it into a "photo book" type form is way more satisfying of a medium to share with others.

I find myself posting less and less on social media and enjoying my own work in that context more and more. It has also led to an improvement in my own work just from the amount of time I spend looking at photo books and thinking about how they're built, sequencing, ties between disparate photographs, etc.

If you aren't printing your work now I highly recommend getting a good printer and making some large displays of your favorites for your home. Next time you have people over they'll be asking for prints.
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As a speaker of both languages, when I say the numbers aloud or in my mind the difference is obvious.
Regardless of what their pension obligations are, shouldn't the financial stance be determined by actual financial planners instead of the US congress? That's what everyone else in the world does if they need to plan for a future payout. They pay someone to do the math. In this case Congress made the decision, and I suspect for politically motivated reasons.
My first thought was “this would be useful for mountain biking in the desert”. But if much of the effect is perception, it seems like it could be very dangerous in an athletic situation.
‘over 95% of global communications traffic is handled by just 1 million km of undersea fiber-optic cable.’

'Just'? 1 million km is a lot of wire, you could wrap that length around the earth over 25 times. I can't imagine what the author of that sentence thought would be a more reasonable length of undersea cable...