skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I released my own app a month ago after working on it on the side for a year... and I am finding that marketing is important indeed. Just having something in the app store doesn't guarantee eyeballs.

You have to find ways of getting your message out. No matter how good your product is, if your users can't find it, you won't sell anything.

This is probably why it's important to make sure you're not doing it for the "easy money" and also why it can take months or years to make a nice little passive income; the word takes a while to get out.
I used to hold it as a point of pride being able to make it in this industry without a degree. But increasingly I find it embarrassing, and am worried about the future. Particularly with the shift to remote first becoming commonplace now. What exactly is there to keep salaries from a race to the bottom at this point? With the number of young CS grads exploding, I can see it becoming a hard requirement in the next 10 years. And beyond that, the career trajectory for a mediocre IC with no degree is looking... bleak. Will I really be able to keep this up into my 50s? Probably not. I love software development but it simply doesn't seem sustainable. And the management path seems almost unimaginable for someone without even a high school degree. At the senior level, there's really nowhere to go from here. It seems like you either hit the startup equity lotto, or burn out by 40.
What's the advantage of monitoring from the kernel layer? It's not jumping out at me...
I'm curious what "dynamic" means in this context to you.
No it's not. In France companies pay ~1.5-2x gross salary in total, gross going to the employee ( some of it getting deducted by the state), rest going for health insurance, taxes, etc.
Also there is voluntary long term support by external parties (The LTS team) IIRC.
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Assuming Centos stream is still having point releases, how different is tracking the previous point release of repos from using centos currently?

e.g. if this is what the tick-tock looks like:

day 1: Centos stream 8.3 is being updated and maintained

day 2: RHEL 8.3 is released based on stream 8.3.

day 3: Centos Stream is now 8.4

After day 3 can you still just track 8.3? Is the issue that centos package repos won’t get updates (particularly security updates) at that point, while RHEL does?
I'm still using classic vim. Should I move over?
>She was accused of having sexual or romantic interactions with at least two Midwestern mayors. FBI electronic surveillance caught her having sex with an Ohio mayor in a car. When the mayor asked her why she was interested in him, she told him she wanted to improve her English.
Interesting. I never thought there was a "hard firewall" between the pharma and the end-users in the clinical trial. Now that I think about it - yeah that's probably a really good thing.
Aside from your response being rather unkind, I don't think we can dismiss the meat of his point so easily.

I avoid most of these things to the extent I am reasonably able. I use a minority email provider, mapping provider, cloud storage provider, backup provider, webdav, caldav, browser (on desktop and mobile), search engine, ebook reader, lock down my android phone in various ways to diminish google's control of it (my work uses Google so to be employed by my current employer I must use google), don't have a facebook account or a twitter account, try to use windows with most of the reporting back turned off and accounts signed out, don't use voice assistants at all, etc.

I think it's the right thing to do, and generally I think it's a good idea to use non dominant service providers as a way to encourage competition.

All this, and I'm sure all the big companies have huge amounts of data about me from when I mess up or from how my life impinges on other people who are more thoroughly tracked.

This definitely makes my life significantly more complex, and various things that are trivial for others are a bit of a palaver for me and for many people I know it'd be completely unreasonable. It's a trade off I've decided to make, but the comment you are referring to highlights the convenience, and I don't think it's wrong.
I'm from Slovenia and this is bullshit. Maybe it holds true in a couple of Slavic languages, but I'm familiar with a handful of them and this isn't a thing in any of those.

Regarding the "insulting" part, you're probably mistranating it. What would be insulting in many Slavic languages is using the "middle grammatical gender" (rough literal translation) which is equivalent to using "it" to refer to a person in English. If you insist on translating literally, using third person gender neutral (in Slovene and many Slavic languages) is actually a sign of respect and is how talks to their superiors (antiquated in 3rd person, but still the norm in 2nd).

Not that it matters anyways, as we're all talking in English and thus English grammar is the only one that matters. Even if you know for a fact all parties in the conversation speak the other language, if you're using English, the rules of the other language don't matter.

P.S. Re: Latinx: yeah, that's stupid and I'd see it as mildly offensive if directed at me, but that is neither a pronoun nor common practice, so is entirely irrelevant here
Who was lying isn't material. That Palmer clearly stated Facebook authorized him to make that commitment is all that matters. So it's very hard for Facebook to now go around and claim they didn't promise that. Palmer, at the time, acting on behalf of Facebook, made that promise.

And that probably puts this case in a much more solid legal territory than, for example, Nest.
Great feedback

1. Yeah I'm gonna re-think the whole sample player thing. That's not a representation of what the pages look like, that's an embed. And I think I'm gonna kill embeds

2. 100%!! I toiled for days over "semi pro" VS "amateur"
That can be interpreted either way. For people in the trendy cloud startup world that we often focus on here on HN, Ubuntu is probably more popular in the server world than Debian, but overall I suspect it's exactly opposite.
The Android apk is 56.9 MB for my device, while the iOS app is 331.3 MB. What accounts for the 6x difference?
I'm more in agreement with you here. imo This is more a stupidity and not malice situation, but the other side has plenty of valid points, most of which is from Facebook's own history. They're not a good actor historically and the best way to predict the future is to look at history.
The example tweets for this app are attributed to @Naval.

He follows zero people on Twitter. That is a huge red flag if, like me, you are trying to avoid narcissists who aren't interested in listening to others. It's clear that the developers of Typefully are oblivious to this Twitter syndrome.

At best, it's for people who are in transmit mode (like Rob Rhinehart on his blog) and this is a dangerous way to operate because you're not engaging with your hypothetical audience before pontificating.

See, e.g.
https://klwightman.com/2016/07/11/zero-twitter-following-cou...

"What a zero following count on Twitter really says is that you are more concerned with your image than your connections. Your ego is more important that the conversations you could have to genuinely build your character.

A zero following Twitter count shows that you don’t care what others on Twitter are saying.
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Because actions speak volumes, a zero following count says that you don’t.

No need to worry. This strategy often fails, and for good reason.

Many Twitter users see through this strategy. How much fun is it to follow someone who doesn’t care what anyone has to say, even you?

So many will unfollow these ego accounts and their Twitter follower account once again dwindles."
Probably all of the engineers working at Oculus thought about it.

That doesn't mean the company's "collective mind" thought about it, however.
I wonder what makes people launch new products using non-metric units in 2020.

Oil trading has a tradition of using barrels, but crop areas are measured in hectares and water volumes in cubic metres in most parts of the world.
All they had to do was open the spec for SWF and Flex. Those greedy you know whats at Adobe. There was no threat whatsoever of the official tools being overtaken by alternatives. There is still no replacement today for motion tweens and the kinds of projects people built back then.
New cancer immunotherapy shows great promise in early research
A biased evaluation of employees’ performance can be useful for employers
Then use Debian on laptops as well? Both Ubuntu and Debian run on a wide range of hardware, so I don't see that as an argument in any direction.
Does it blow your mind that Google Maps is ~190MB?
I can see them streaming food preparation in a highly curated setting. But they would never show the actual line cooks at work, with all the yelling, swearing and less-than-perfect hygiene and sanitation. That would just be asking to be reported to the health and sanitation authorities.
> And yes beliefs do mostly exist in "magic bubbles" without any special impact on the world at large.

> I hope you realize a lot of people have also died because of unscientific beliefs that seemed scientific at the time.

“Beliefs mostly don’t effect the world…people are dead because of false beliefs” Which is it? What people believe mostly doesn’t matter, or people’s incorrect beliefs have been life or death matters often?

> I believe procrastinating on HN makes me less productive and here I am still procrastinating. I'm not acting on my own belief

You are acting on it by talking about it to other people. But good job picking a belief so low stakes that you can try to pretend that your beliefs that are literally your map of the world, don’t determine how you act in the world.

> The idea of censoring of wrongthink is nothing new.

Neither I nor the parent comment talked about that. Just that what people believe is important and has real world ramifications. It isn’t being “insecure” in my science to worry about people that think physics isn’t real, or vaccines aren’t real, or that killing someone that doesn’t believe in their god is required, or people with certain skin colors are biologically predisposed to violence, or that there is a vast global conspiracy going back hundreds of years to trick people about the shape of the earth.
The Quest OS is Android based and multiple accounts in Android is still kind of buggy and niche.

Game purchases are per user account not per device, which means you'd need to redownload any games anyway? It not really set up with the same kind of simplicity an Xbox or Playstation has as far as account tracking goes.

Its not really an excuse but I could see why there are problems to solve with it and they might have just deprioritized it. You can still wipe and re-login and re-download but that's a pain.

Maybe they'll add a guest mode or something.
You forgot about Iceland!
Free speech is about government laws, not private action. Racist speech is protected, but so is the right to not propagate racist speech on private infrastructure.
Hah, I wish! If it has a source, then it will probably already be on mainline and the issue will be moot. These are at least a bit free-er than some other instruments which rely on Windows (and maybe not even 10 or 64-bit at that).
The ‘rural-urban divide’ furthers myths
>...open your mind and follow your heart...

I can't emphasize this enough. Your career shouldn't define you. It should be a byproduct of who you are. Not the defining trait. It's hard to realize this at the beginning when you are trying to climb the ladder but after 20 years you begin to realize:

In the end you die, if you didn't live a life you want, it's your fault. Open your heart, get in touch with that inner kid, do hobbies and things that excite you. It's ok to change.
Not a mobile developer -

Was the move to Swift inevitable and they started too early or should they have stayed with - and still be using - Objective-C?
Indeed the first securities were sold via auction under a buttonwood tree, and I don't think any government agents were on hand to facilitate it, but I could be wrong.
I don't understand what you mean. Surely the big space programmes such as CNSA and NASA are ahead of SpaceX in most measurements?
Steam is included in the Debian non-free repos, so it ought to work in Debian as well. In general, Debian (Stable or Testing) makes a fine desktop distro, aside from the well-known issues wrt. proprietary drivers.
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse
Why would you say something (whether it's negative or not) to your skip that you haven't said to your direct manager? Skip-level meetings should be about distilling important topics from your 1:1's with your direct manager and sharing with your skip what they need to know. There shouldn't really be any information that your skip has that your manager hasn't gotten weeks earlier (if it's negative, so they can try to fix it).
Man, I really hope things turn up for you. Just on the basis of your attitude, it sounds like you deserve it. Depression's a bitch and I know burnout all too well, but it sounds like you have a good idea about the work it needs to overcome it
> "I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about and I just couldn’t and this seems to be pretty common lately. The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability"

"I keep dreaming up these high status projects and imagining all the people who will respect me and all the money I'll make, nothing to do with code or fun or problem solving. They need skills I don't have and work I don't want to do. Then I beat myself up about my inability to reach these goals, then quit, what do?"

Realise that what you're dreaming of isn't /programming/ it's /being a superhero/. "I keep imagining distressed women screaming for my attention and then I fly in and lift the falling skyscraper off their cat, and they marry me, but then I go to the gym and can't even lift 1Kg because the distance between my expectations and reality is making it very clear that my expectations are a fantasy, and I just don't want to face that".

Happened to Physicist Richard Feynman, incidentally, all the high expectations of him to produce great things. He ended up saying screw everyone and their expectations, he was only going to work on fun things, and started thinking about wobbling plates of custard in the cafeteria instead.

Answer: Same answer every spiritual mystic has said for generations - kill your ego, lose your self esteem, die into being nobody, let the world go hang itself on its high status, and please yourself with some work and problems you enjoy working on[1], not work and problems you think you should enjoy working on. Let the boilerplate come from your fingers at work, because it earns you food, and don't stress over it.

[1] that is specifically and worth calling out, things that when you do it, you feel good. And NOT things that you habitually do to try and feel good, but which don't feel good, and NOT things in the category called feel-good things. Specifically, things that when you are doing them, raise good feelings within you. e.g. don't watch a sci-fi film because you always used to enjoy watching sci-fi and feel that you ought to enjoy it again, if you aren't enjoying it. Don't watch a feel-good romantic comedy that you hate because society calls it "feel good". Do ... thing that catches your attention a little but feels stupid or embarassing or a waste of time so you'd normally dismiss it, but actually feels mildly nice.
Thanks, I'm pretty proud of it.
Commercial ISVs that target the desktops/laptops of gamers, consumers, and trendy cloud-focused startup devs are more likely to pick Ubuntu than Debian as a supported OS if they don't bother to support both. And Ubuntu makes it easier to trade off software freedom in favor of just having things work out if the box, though both provide ways to do so.
Having lived through the transition from “using expensive commercial tools that run on expensive commercial UNIX” to “using expensive commercial tools that run on RHEL” I think I can tell you exactly why Debian was not chosen as the successor to expensive commercial UNIX.

First of all, the general transition to Linux was started by engineers, customers of UNIX, who were tinkering with Linux. We weren’t software engineers and not super interested in how Linux worked, just what we could do with it. Debian was a chore to install, in the way of getting things done. Red Hat, on the other hand, was easy to install. Red Hat was the distro of choice for experimenting with Linux.

The other side of it, the business side, is that RHEL met the need of, “see boss, this is fully supported, just like UNIX.” That had to be a thing before these types of businesses would transition from UNIX to Linux. Only after that transition would front-line engineers be brave enough to sneak a RHEL clone like Centos into the mix. Sadly, Debian just didn’t stand a chance in this situation.

Fast forward to today and now you see front-line engineers hacking Ubuntu LTS distros to look enough like RHEL for the commercial tools to run on it. You still have to keep a RHEL box around to reproduce issues before going to support with issues in the commercial tools, but that’s much cheaper than a whole fleet of RHEL boxes.
what's an IC?

Where are you working? At a large company? Maybe a change in your environment can bring new perspectives and chances.
Sure, but practically speaking there is a lack of potable freshwater in certain places. You can’t just stick a straw into the Indian Ocean and glug away.
This is a good idea. Avenues for honest political discussion are sorely missing. I'm personally more libertarian than conservative but I can defend some of the latter's viewpoints.

To anyone interested, send something to politicaldiscussion at protonmail.com and I'll get a message board set up.
Engineering Challenges Due to the Nature of Native Mobile Applications
Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.

eBPF is indeed a part of the puzzle. It allows us to access telemetry data without any manual instrumentation when running on Linux machines.

Pixie itself is extendable and currently ingests data from many other sources as well. Joining forces with New Relic will allow us to focus on expanding the open-source project, but also expand our capabilities by plugging into other open APIs and frameworks such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.
Google will change how Chrome extensions access data in 2021
UPMC Won't Require Staff to Take Covid-19 Vaccine Due to 'General Uncertainty'
Pharma companies: "we're taking the fun out of the medicine, as usual"
Jeremy Vine: My Boris [Johnson] Story
For hardware management maybe but so much of "observability" in general is at the application layer I can't see BPF displacing anything more than a tiny corner of it.

On the other hand - it already is overhauling service meshes, VPNs and firewalls and network security policies, etc. The stuff fly.io is debuting now is probably going to be standard in few years.
I feel the same thing as you, I think. I was never proud of it per se, but proud of how far I've gotten without one (20 years as a dev, 9 years at Google). But always felt a sense of impostor syndrome and now I feel it even more pronounced as I've started to look for work elsewhere and wondering if I'm at a profound disadvantage: middle-aged, spent a bunch of time out of the mainstream industry inside Google using non-"standard" tech stacks, no CS degree, and the industry has shifted to interviewing standards that prioritize new grads ("skill" testing algorithm/data structure questions that are far easier for people with recent CS class exposure, etc.)

And yeah, management track involves a lot more politics and organizational stuff than I really want to take on, at least within Google. I could see going mgmt track at a smaller company, but without recent experience they wouldn't hire me on that path.
It was...LOL
Looks like there were other politicans not from the East Bay that were compromised, too.
You keep misrepresenting what I'm saying. Please stop. The claim was that evidence is not being suppressed and I've presented that the research of the subject is being deplatformed. In your attempt to undermine this simple fact you had to go as far as to make up conspiracy theories about "dog-whistling". It doesn't make any sense.
I suppose I'll jump on this bandwagon as well.

It is a distro that feels like a full OS instead of a random conglomeration. My only negative with it is it uses Systemd in general, and Systemd boot in particular. If you are fine with that, it is just about the perfect distro.

(I prefer open-rc as an init system/service manager, I recognize that Systemd makes sense for Pop.)
I used Debian on my home PC/laptop/PC from potato (2000ish), then testing, upto about 2008, but moved to Ubuntu LTS in 2008 for hardware purposes. On my desktop ran 08, then rebuilt to 12, then rebuilt to 16. Last night I tried doing an upgrade from 16 to 20 (via 18). Took about an hour to go through both.

A couple of niggles so far
1) nvidea drivers broke, had to install the latest version with apt
2) Sound wasn't working from user accounts, pulseaudio complaining about unable to access the files. lsof showed timidity had snd files open too, and removing that seemed to do the job
3) clusterssh reported a perl issue - for some reason I had a ~/perl5 folder in my home directory

vlc looks weird now too, but overall not too bad, and will last another 4 years. Not sure if this desktop will last beyond 2024 - it's a 2015 HP Z440 with a Quadro K2200 graphics card.

Over time I've seen bad things with ubuntu -- changing networking, breaking logging by forcing systemd, etc. Ultimately though you can only delay change, but like Cnut, there's no much you can do about the incoming tide. Having breaking changes every 4 or 5 years is the price to be paid.

Server wise we never upgrade, reboot, pxe boot, build the latest, then run the installation commands. Had various issues over the years with updating internal packages (apache 2.2 to 2.4 changes come to mind)
Well, that seems to be more the result of a personal grudge by gorhill than anything else. He didn't like that ublock.org was soliciting donations. uBlock isn't literally malware or much different from many other ad blockers out there.

To be clear though, gorhill didn't "sell out". He got tired of answering support requests, so he turned the repository over to someone else. To be sure, his trust in that other person was misplaced. But in response, gorhill didn't sit idly by, he forked uBlock into uBlock Origin. All of this was done for free, with no compensation for work.
Yeah, but it just shows my database cost which is higher than is listed as far as I can tell.
Wow, I haven't seen that anywhere. The closest I've seen is the places that cram all the tables together under a giant test. Here in LA the inspectors found that about 80% of restaurants weren't following guidelines for things like table distance
In the context of the article I was commenting on, which is titled "Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier" what do you think I mean?
While this is a very long article I just want to say great webpage, I'm saving this for an seo reference file.
the more link is so easy to miss that dang thinks every front page post with multiple pages of comments needs a pinned comment with links to next pages.
seems ambitious. why would a public company like new relic do this?