skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unless your company has a very strong relationship between ops and devs, the ops side gets stuck supporting whatever the developer side creates and the developer side is incentivized to jam as many features into code as quickly as possible.

>like testable code, I'm also convinced there's "runnable" or "operable" code

1000% this. For me, this has been a huge focus in my past startup lives. Software and infrastructure are very related. Infra design impacts software design and vice versa. By working closely together, it's possible to try to get the best of both worlds.

As a VP Eng, I expended a lot of political capital with my "why aren't you building more features" CEO boss so that my dev team could focus on significantly enhancing the stability and observability of our platform, including ensuring our log messages were informative and at the appropriate level. i.e. CRITICAL = Fix Now, ERROR = someone should check into this at earliest convenience, INFO = here's how things are generally running. Stability saved everyone time and effort, and observability allowed (and empowered) the ops team to efficiently triage, and let Engineers quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it when things went wrong. The net result was multiple nightly on-call alerts for Engineers dwindling to "I can't remember the last one" and ops folks were able to focus far more on infra than triaging software alerts.

It was a battle and I had to fight to make it happen, and even have my teams "ninja" a bunch of the work via an 18 month inside-out refactor of the codebase, but the result was 200% worth it. The cherry on top was the two full-day grilling by tech leaders during due-diligence during our acquisition. They dug deep into the operational aspects of the business and came away very impressed, and that operational maturity (this was a company that highly valued such things) was highlighted as one of two key factors that swayed the decision to acquire.
no way does this lead to anyone being anyplace long enough to actually vest.
To avoid this you typically use a character keymap with APL characters accessible with AltGr and Shift+AltGr, for instance AltGr+i for iota and AltGr+r for rho etc. After a while you learn the keystrokes and if you need a less frequently used character you can click on it in the language bar.
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All of these “technical” measures are the work of people trying to explain and come up with clever ways to argue for their jobs and continuous involvement in monetary experiments.

I want deflation to occur. There are enormous sectors where deflation is seen and everyone sees the obvious benefits[0]. But when it runs up against the work of the state printing money to finance the destruction of society, then deflation is seen as dangerous.

The main argument the inflation lovers propose is, “well if the prices keep going down then people won’t buy anything as they’ll just wait longer for the product to get cheaper.”

This is clearly false as the wants/needs are a “now” problem, and the PhDs at the FED have never seen the lines for Black Friday to purchase TVs and other consumer electronics. Why buy an iPhone 12 when in 2 years that same iPhone will be 50% off?

Not only that, there is also an increase in sales by volume which could lead to more profits by lowering the price of a widget. There are huge segments of consumers that would consume at a lower price point!

[0] Electronics/computing is an extremely obvious sign of deflation. Prices lowered, or goods improved and everyone benefits.
I count five logical fallacies here:

> Another peak self-absorbed Hacker News comment

Unnecessarily inflamatory - perhaps an ad-hominem attack, or appeal to emotion.

> in which we learn that curiosity only means tinkering with devices

Strawman argument - this is a blatant misrepresentation of GP's point.

> This comment is ignoring that a device that does all that without you having to worry about how it works is a tool way more powerful than one in which you need to at least know how to build everything from scratch with an enormous learning curve

False dichotomy (there's no reason you can't have an opinionated device that works flawlessly OOTB while also being extremely hackable) and another strawman (OP never advocated for you having to do everything yourself, only have the ability to tinker).

> So please, enough with this narrative, it’s really outdated and based on such a limited world view.

Another appeal to emotion.

I encourage you to take a class on logical argument, because this ain't it.
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I find the whole spin of this article a little odd. Isn't it enough to talk about how interesting representational drift is without spinning fairy tales about science?
All this talk about tax lately is funny.

Our "leaders" sense that we have had enough and we have.

I DO NOT CONSENT to my hard earned money being spent on unnecessary experimental drugs that hurt people or wars on foreign people that have done NO harm to me.
> And they are not famous for quality.

China's been making 50% of all our stuff for a few decades now. From the cheap knock-offs to the actual, high quality things.

China's "not famous for quality" because a lot of people don't want to pay for quality, but they can for sure make quality things.

Several of Huawei's phones had just been declared "the best phone hardware money can buy" by several big reviewers, just as they got hit by US sanctions last year, for example.
Not to be curt, but this is one of the most naive things I've read on this website.

90% of the time, people start companies to make money, not to "efficiently distribute wealth through the community."
In the 90s I installed an optical CMM at an IBM plant and they had PCs with APL keyboards sitting in the clean room. I was impressed that they would use something like that in a production area, not really sure what they did with it but the keyboard looked very impressive.

I think without the special keyboard APL is a no-go these days.
"I want to thank everyone for their impassioned feedback on this thread. I hope everyone feels heard. I, and everyone else who works on Swift, recognize the immense value of Swift concurrency working on earlier OS releases. I'll reiterate again that backward deployment is something we're exploring. That's not a token statement to throw to a group of disappointed people, but a genuine statement of intent. That's not a promise that we can even deliver backward deployment, but we will look into it.

We understand that requiring the latest OS limits the adoption of language features. In general, we try very hard for language features to have maximum availability. But sometimes this is not easy to do. In the case of Swift concurrency, some of the runtime support being alluded to relates to changes to Dispatch to support Swift concurrency. Dispatch is plumbed through both userspace and the kernel, and those changes were important to meet performance (and in some areas, correctness) goals to support Swift concurrency in code that makes heavy use of it.

You have all been heard, and your candid feedback is appreciated. I'm not really sure if there is more that I can say at this point to acknowledge the concerns and points raised. I recognize that many of you feel Swift concurrency remains a far off thing that you cannot consider using for some time because of the requirement on iOS 15. The possibility of backward deployment will be explored — but as I said I cannot promise an outcome at this moment. While many of you may be sour about this, I do ask that you all continue to look at Swift concurrency in some way, as it is still taking full shape and will continue to evolve with community discussion on the road to Swift 6 42."
This is a complete sidenote, but I don't understand why Firefox's Canvas controls don't affect WebGL.

Firefox has per-site settings for whether the canvas should be accessible which are very useful, but they don't have per-site settings for WebGL, it's either on or off for the entire profile. Which kind of defeats the point of Canvas blocking since (at least last time I checked) WebGL fingerprinting is possible regardless of whether Canvas can be read from.

I'm sure there's some technical reason, but it really seems like turning Canvas reads off for a site should also turn off WebGL.
someday soon we’ll be able to use voice input to say these characters.

Of course, I’ve been wrong for about a decade. but we have to be getting close
If you're doing ZFS where that I/O bandwidth is a limiting factor, I'm thinking the 4GB of the APU2 makes it not interesting for ZFS in the first place (depending on the workloads of course, but you're probably going to want a bigger ARC).

I can see it work well as a sink for automated replicated snapshots, where I/O performance is not that critical.
Do you seriously have this little self awareness? You aren’t a car enthusiast, that’s why you don’t understand the appeal of BMW
Though there are several nations that may not have enough wind and sun for their needs, these are a tiny tiny percentage of total energy needs of the globe. These nations will find ways to import energy, just as they currently do, either through electrical grids of through chemical storage of electricity as electrically-derived ammonia or methane or methanol or kerosene. Or maybe they pay somebody to do direct air capture, or through carbon capture and sequestration.

There are several ways to provide energy during the worst sun and wind lulls, and though we will likely use all of the below to some extent, we won't know the full mix until the next 10-15 years of tech development show which is the cheapest mix of techniques.

1) overprovisioning solar and wind generation to provide more during the lulls, at the cost of providing extra most of the time

2) flow batteries, such as vanadium redox, are having ever increasing pilots. There are also long-duration startups with extremely experienced teams that are taking bets on completely novel chemistries that will give us more shots on goal.

3) As we decarbonize industry, we will end up with massive amounts of energy stored in chemicals. Industrial policy is creating massive electrolyzer capacity for hydrogen, which doesn't store super well, but which will be the base for transformation into other chemicals that can be used for fuels such as ammonia (primary use is fertilizer but might end up being used for ocean shipping too). Current fossil fuel tech for creating and breaking hydrogen chains may make synthetic kerosene economical, which would allow us to keep the current airline fleet flying without modification.

4) Demand response. Currently the electrical grid has very little price information, which will not be economically efficient as we switch to nearly all primary generation having zero marginal cost, and times of great excess of electricity supply. As we build time-based prices into electricity, we will find that demand for many large energy users is quite flexible, and we will discover the true demand elasticity. This will make the entire economy more efficient than our current utility pricing schemes (at least US utility pricing, I'm not as familiar with the rest of the world.)

We don't need to know everything right now, because the energy world will be unbelievably different within 10 years. After nearly a century of almost no change, the energy world is undergoing a tech revolution which will catch nearly all the old giants off guard. Which is why so many fossil fuel majors are having to write down so many assets, and have not read the writing on the wall that even their financiers have now seen. Utilities (again, at least in the US), are significantly less sophisticated than even the fossil fuel majors, and have no idea of the huge changes they will see in the coming decades.
> The best managers make you feel like there is no manager. They run interference for you.

This is the most important thing, and its hard to recognize as its invisible to the developers. "Do I need a person running interference so I can focus and get stuff done?" is also a useful metric to decide if/when you need a manager.
> If we could say "The Civil War was about slavery" and be done with the subject, I'm pretty sure so many books, studies, and histories about the subject would not have been made.

"We" can. Apparently some people can't. There's a difference.
This is called "own-occupation" (as opposed to any-occupation) and is more expensive but not astronomically so.
Entirely may be hyperbole but solar panels are mostly glass and aluminum by weight and wafers can be resurfaced.
What is a Prototype Pollution vulnerability and how does page-fetch help?
"A pound of steak requires 4000 to 6000 gallons of water."

This statistic is incredibly inaccurate and has been weaponized. Where do you think the water goes when all is said and done?

Rangeland leases are another discussion. I would agree that those are a massive subsidy. Every aspect of our food supply chain is heavily subsidized.
Apple overhauls Siri to address privacy concerns and improve performance
Wouldn't it hurt savers the most?
iOS 15 is already doing some great things for ADHD. These recommendations look even better!
Would APL work as well with the unusual symbols replaced by keywords? Any with APL experience know?
The demand for shipping the oil via train or truck will also diminish over time as these horrible and expensive oil reserves are eventually made too expensive to extract. If you build a pipeline and put in the investment then you have standing infrastructure and sunk cost that will compel people to keep pulling out the tar sands oil, even at a loss. If they are forced to use tankers then the (higher) cost per barrel for transport is paid immediately and by the supplier instead of foisted off on some bond holders somewhere.

Pushing the transportation demand to trains/tankers is a GOOD thing, it makes everything visible and obvious and it prevents the oil company from hiding the factors that make this reserve the pile of flaming dogshit we all know it to be.
I agree with the gist, though I think you maybe over-stating things a bit. Also, neuroscience is pretty wide field.
I wouldn't be so confident 100% ("steering-wheel-less") L5 self-driving is possible. Long tail is a thing. There will for a long time be a need for manual override, for things like tricky parking or slow-speed maneuvering, bad weather, weird lightning conditions, etc.

That rules out de facto driving ban. That leaves driving ban by fiat. Also never gonna happen in this century, unless it carves out an exception for "classic cars."

As far as hazard ratios go, cigarette smoking is orders of magnitude more dangerous than driving. Not a good comparison.
Oh yeah, definitely. It is good to have these all escape hatches at hand. But it is not good to default to them - I guess you could program Rust like Java by throwing everything into Arc<RefCell<..>>, but that's not they way to go IMHO.
Graduated pricing for water will have the same effect it has on electricity. People will be able to optimize the price they pay by making a capital expenditure, bringing them below cost recovery and starving the network of revenue.

In electricity, this is solar panels, in water, it's a well (as evidenced by a comment on this post, where someone did just that).

The price should be the price. If this causes problems with availability, that should be fixed by separate cash payments.

Using energy and water markets to avoid cash welfare just distorts the market and subsidizes rich people.
The solar cells get some organic life form to assist in their reproduction phase. That's pretty efficient too.
Meanwhile, I'm a below-average car user. It would make much more sense for me to use this subscription plan.

Just because it isn't economical for the "average" consumer doesn't mean there isn't a large and profitable niche.
AlphaGo can play games against itself. You can have GANs, MCTS and more.

General AI requires a feedback mechanism from the real world. Unless you have an accurate model of it in a computer, you can’t just test whether a joke will be funny without waiting for humans to laugh. You can’t check whether a tailored diet or workout regimen or gene therapy will have good results without humans trying them.

So you’ve reduced your AI problem to a harder problem: modeling the world and all of its complexity in a computer, and somehow being able to run simulations faster than the stuff that happens in the actual real world
In a way, it's a throwback to that. Each "core" has access to 48kb of SRAM, there is no shared memory across cores.
"The initial application period ended August 24. Applicants will receive an update this fall."

This is not at all what we are looking for.
Well-written article. I believe I actually saw that image a long time ago.

This kind of context-free Reddit post often leads to cascading levels of verbal abuse. All that these kinds of post do, and all it is intended to do, is to incite a hail of abusive comments with a lot of self-righteous sanctimony thrown in.

This was the raison d'etre of now-banned subs like r/fatpeoplehate. People had their photos posted without their permission, for no other reason than for posters to abuse them for all their perceived personality failings (lack of willpower, laziness, entitlement) --- all on the basis of one photo, of a person they've never met.
Imagine how boring the universe would be if we understood everything. I'm sure we'd adapt but it would be tough for a while knowing we accumulated the totality of knowledge.
> developers are delusional about the relative importance of their role

I think it's that developers fail to grasp that they are in the enterprise world. Web development and SaaS has blurred the lines, but at its core it's the same: the product you work on is a tool for another business. It's a bit more sexy because it's not mainframes, cubicles and suites anymore, but in the end the job is the same. And in that setting, the role of a developer is indeed minor in the bigger picture. There are exceptions in R&D, cutting edge projects, or in an early stage startup, but for the vast majority of developers the above is true.
There are actually a fair number if you go looking, in my opinion Lemmy seems to be the best alternative these days and seems to get at least a bit of traffic.
I would really like to find a way to incentivize journalists to stop doing that kind of thing. Artistically misleading people shouldn't be seen as acceptable in factual journalism. This should have been rejected and rewritten.
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It is a very significant difference in terms of investor returns which are already very low in the base case of p50 and very sensitive to changes in output
What if the company hires someone dedicated for this role who... does not report to the lead developer but works with them?
The book itself has a star rating system for the quality of each pattern. Some are one star, others are more.
1. Kudos for handling your mistake gracefully.

2. As of this writing, almost everyone responding to you is using 0.4% as the pricing, when their page shows it's actually 0.5% for the scenario you described ($100k in a year). The lower rate only kicks in if you process over $100k in a _month_.

Unless they've changed their pricing details in the last hour, that's another great reason to let them handle this! Clearly we, collectively, don't have the attention to detail required for this ;)
"Ah, fuck it", he said, "I'm not that drunk anyway."
May I ask you what are you doing on your iPhone that you consider unhealthy?
There's J, which doesn't use the random Unicode things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
I have not idea about VAT (except paying for it), but as I've understood from a previously posted link this is not valid anymore starting July 2021.

https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-news/eu-2021-one-stop...

> At the heart of the 2021 e-commerce EU VAT reboot is the introduction of the One-Stop-Shop (‘OSS’) single EU VAT return and the withdrawal of the Distance Selling thresholds.
[...] Non-EU sellers may also apply to use the OSS regime, and just need to nominate any single EU state to register and file in.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET - they seem to still have it - or at least a keyset.

You can order it custom also: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/KBDCFG - US APL.
> everyone should get an opportunity to be a manager

One way to test drive being a manager: read the Ask A Manager column (https://www.askamanager.org/) for a few days or browse the archives. Read the question submitted by the reader, consider how you would deal that problem, then compare your response with Alison's (and the commentors below.)

Yes, most the problems are not technology or software problems. Some are downright silly. But that's largely true of software development, too.
I think it's not fair to hold against them something that's affecting Ford and Apple too...
These are the only two paragraphs worth reading in that article
Isn’t scaling it down just the normal CPUs we have now?
Yea that’s exactly it.
It depends on your company.

My manager seems to defend the team from a lot of bureaucracy. I see his schedule and task lists and other paperwork and I am extremely happy to have him.
Yeah, but they would lose their license and customers and be sued for damages. The world is not a libertarian / individualistic wild west.
You can still get them, only on certain keyboard though. I want to say you can purchase the individual key caps as well.
Tesla can already generate a pretty good "lidar point cloud" out of just camera input.

But we'll see.
I bought a hard-copy back when SW patterns came in vogue, just to have it. It's pretty interesting even though I know nothing about architecture.

My daughter goes to UO, where Alexander had a hand in applying some of his ideas. If you go to the campus today, though, it's overwhelmingly Uncle Phil who shapes the look and feel, sadly.
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> Google is known to fingerprint you on their sites[0]

To my understanding, Google (and many other sites) use WebGL and other fingerprinting techniques to distinguish real users from bots.

This does not mean they use it to track individual users (if that were even legal in Europe under GDPR).
Yeah - I think that's good insight. You need someone that has all power and resolves conflict if necessary. But even for something as big as the linux kernel, Linus did the dictator part _and_ continued coding, doing PR reviews etc.

So how much management is really necessary?
So the developers take on the responsibility of a manager so they don't need a manager? The value of a good manager is that they can do some of the stuff on that list so the developers don't have to (ideally including all the 'fighting').
It would be a worthwhile investment to pay an administrative assistant (or, actually, stenographer) solely to sit in on meetings and take notes.

One would think that this ought to be automatic these days, since we've got speech-to-text that mostly works, and ubiquitous meeting recording, and yet...
Oh yes indeed. It’s cheap, safe, reliable and runs on mosquito fart quantities of gas.
No it's not. That it textbook click bait. "You won't believe this secret that is short enough to put in the headline, but we won't do that"
A positive outcome of this was that these people dialed down their rage when the person in the photo commented. Before that however, they were still perfectly willing to expend a lot of angry energy trying to eviscerate the person they had created in their minds.
It's not a reason for not adding the feature but I'm sure abuse is something they anticipate. Hopefully there's some way to click on a notification and submit it to Apple as a violation of their guidelines and the app gets pulled from the store once a pattern emerges.
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