skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not a mature engineering discipline.

The concept of standardized parts and assembly lines is less than a century old. How accurate do you think their estimates were before they figured out the basic principles of repeatability?

The "mature" engineering disciplines literally just punted on the problem for several centuries, only giving birth to systems engineering [1] in the mid 20th century because they were so bad at it and everyone's back was against the wall in WWII. Before it became its own recognized field, project management in engineering was worse than it is in software now.

Not coincidentally Bell Labs - the company that basically kick started the computing industry - was also the biggest player in the formalization of systems engineering. Since then its been adapted as the methodology for managing engineering projects by everyone from civil engineers to NASA [2]. Any estimate you see for a nontrivial project from the past half century isn't the result of mechanical, civil, or electrical engineers but the product of systems engineers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/nasa-systems-engineering...
You seem to be asserting that the ability of Linux containers to isolate workloads is on par with virtual machines.

That's just not the case.
and now you will just watch more ads :( no easy escape
I'm really fascinated by that era of computer gaming, well that era of computers in general. I've been following this blog about text games since I first seen it on HN.

https://if50.substack.com/

The earlier entries talk about some of the same stuff mentioned in this article.

Reading about these things, I dunno, it reminds me of the wild west or something.

All these university students and programmers writing illicit games like outlaws, hiding their games under simple file names that became almost memes for the ones in the know at the school.

It's really cool and those people are the reason why video games and computers became a thing.

Everytime I learn more about the early history of computers or even video games it always makes me happy. I dunno, to see how far it's all come, to have grown up watching a lot of it evolve.

It's just always great to read about.
This is basically https://www.taxact.com, minus #4
We need to optimize this. Right now, the edge proxy handles the replay request. So if you hit SJC and a server in LAX handles the request (which is probably what's happening for you), you pay the SJC -> LAX latency penalty before the replay happens.

There's no reason we can't replay from LAX, though, just need to build it.
Meaningful improvement is in the eye of the beholder. There's the old tale of how Google found out 500ms in latency was a 1% drop in traffic. http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....

20 to 17 minutes is a 15% time savings still.
this website designed by a programer, finding the price page is like going through a corn maze, ridiculous. Buy Larry Ellison a book called ( don't make me think) by Steve Krug
Schumer amendment shorts states $5B in Covid-19 relief funding
But the points you listed are the same whether it's a person or a machine:

- if you reproduce GPL code verbatim, you're in violation*

- no warning that somebody/something is ingesting the repo

- no way for the repo to have opted out

- closed source (you can't get the source from somebody's brain)

- private profit

* Do we even know if the machine is more or less likely to do this? Humans are certainly capable of it.
I'm surprised the author didn't explore — or even mention — the constitutional question related to levying a federal wealth tax.

Basically, 'direct' taxes (as opposed to income taxes, which are blessed by the 16th Amendment) have to be levied proportionally among the states, based on population. That means that billionaires could just move to Wyoming and pay essentially nothing.

Further reading, from the left and right:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/01/is-elizabeth-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2019/06/25/wealth-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-wan...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elizabeth-warrens-unconstitutio...
Code reviews and PRs are different things. Still, PRs can be effective with the right tooling and methodology. We've doing continuous code reviews with PRs and it's been working great to have early feedback. More details at: https://reviewpad.com/blog/continuous-code-reviews-are-the-w...
So if you work on an open source project and learn some techniques from it, and then in your day job you use a similar technique, is that a copyright violation?

Basically does reading GPL code pollute your brain and make it impossible to work for pay later?

If so you should only ever read BSD code, not GPL.
This is the most absurd thing I've seen today, and I've been on Reddit for an hour.
I would encourage anyone with a little extra time to read about the PLATO system. Truly ahead of its time, invented by an engineer at University of Illinois named Don Bitzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer

I was fortunate to have a parent who worked for Dr. Bitzer and we had a PLATO terminal at home, hardwired in to the university mainframe at 1200 Bd. Played most of the games mentioned in the article along with Empire, a Star Trek-inspired multiplayer team game. Great memories.
Aren't those DevOps KRs? I would track KRs even in software engineering: releases without incident, estimate to reality ration for future planning, etc
The drain's practically the only hard/slow part these days, and it's not really that bad. PEX makes everything stupid-fast for the water lines, given unfinished walls & ceilings.
We've asked you before not to post in the flamewar style to HN. If you keep doing it we are going to have to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

Your comment would be fine without that last bit.
In the sense that you're moving data in to a register and updating the program counter?
Copy-paste suburbs is bad too, that's the other extreme. What you want is for the architecture to have awareness of its surroundings and to have it seek harmony, not conflict.
It is pretty boring. But "the most boring possible way to build globally distributed postgres" is interesting, I think.
Buddhists have preserved most of the Tripitaka for 2500 years, and for the first 500 years it was memorized and transmitted orally from generation to generation. Buddhist monks today spend significant amounts of their time memorizing parts of it. Printed, it's about 12000 pages; it's been translated into many languages, but not all of it has been translated into English yet. Thanissaro Bhikkhu has been working on it for 20 years, publishing his translations under CC-BY, and may finish the job before he dies. Aside from its value to devotees, the Tripitaka is one of our best historical sources about everyday life in South Asia 2500 years ago.

The invention of wood block printing 1300 years ago in the Tang was apparently specifically motivated by the desire to preserve and reproduce Buddhist sutras; the oldest surviving documents printed with movable type, from 900 years ago, are also Buddhist texts.

Of course the Tripitaka is not permanent; it will be lost some day. But you seem to be implicitly claiming that Buddhists do not apply effort to preserving information and in particular textual records, because they know that ultimately they will be lost. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite, and believing your implicit claim would require almost complete ignorance of Buddhism, printing technology, and South Asian classical studies.
Introduction to Cybersecurity for Commercial Satellite Operations (Draft) [pdf]
They explicitly say on their seller help pages that comingled inventory can be tracked to the original source.

https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/external/G2001414...

> Note: Amazon ensures that the initial source of the commingled units can be traced throughout the fulfilment process.

The linked FAQ goes into slightly more detail.
Omg. Could you share your company in private?
Donate money to archive.org! Some of the FAANG companies match donations to it too.
it seems to come from the same place of wanting a simple rule to pattern match against some problem space so we don't have to think too hard about it every time.

also ... the author cites sam altman as evidence that his thinking is on the right track, but can you really argue against a statement like "Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on"? that's about as close to a one size fits all statement as "almost everyone who succeeds thinks"

i sometimes wonder if this comes from a place of fear. Maybe we're scared of really listening to customers / users / colleagues / stakeholders and so we invent these rules to hold ourselves accountable for what's probably pretty obvious from the outside
>How would you feel if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soft-balled Mr. Burns, then one of its commissioners jumped ship to work at Springfield Nuclear?

If I'm from New Hampshire, Ohio, Maine, South Dakota or somewhere else government is still kinda sorta accountable I'm Outraged(TM).

If I'm from Massachusetts, Louisiana, California, New York, or somewhere else government has been unaccountable for generations I shrug and move on with life.
This is how I interview as well. Though I usually have a fairly good idea who I want based on my network before HR ever get involved.
Unless immigration procedures change hugely, any flying car is pointless for anything but domestic travel.

Even then, you're relegated to private airfields with no document checks.

Aside from certification there are huge barriers to adoption. Hyundai - amongst others- are hugely optimistic in their predictions.

Being optimistic doesn't hurt their share price of course.
This reminds me of a startup pitch where it’s always “oh we take care of x so you don’t have to,” but the problem is now I just have another thing to take care of. I cannot speak for people who use Copilot “fluently,” but I know for every chunk of code it spat out I would need to read every line and make sure “Is this right? Is the return type what I want? Will this loop terminate? Is ‘scan’ the right API? Is that string formatted properly? Can I optimize this?” etc. To me it’s hardly “solving the easy parts,” but rather putting the passenger’s hands on the wheel.
> Can I get OpenVMS V9.1?

> Yes, if you are a customer or partner of VSI with a valid support contract.

So, an announcement that applies to ... almost nobody?
Radioactive wild boar-pig hybrid emerges in nuclear wasteland of Fukushima
The first issue you've linked concerns quota support for ephemeral storage requests/limits - which is not about the limits themselves, but the ability to set a limit quotas per tenant/namespace. Eg., team A cannot use a total of more than 100G ephemeral storage in total in the cluster. EDIT: No, sorry, it's about using underlying filesystem quotas for limiting ephemeral storage, vs. the current implementation, see the third point below. Also see KEP: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...

The second is a tracking issue for a KEP that has been implemented but is still in alpha/beta. This will be closed when all the related features are stable. There's also some discussion about related functionality that might be added as part of this KEP/design.

The third issue is about integrating Docker storage quotas with Kubernetes ephemeral quotas - ie., translating ephemeral storage limits into disk quotas (which would result in -ENOSPC to workloads), vs. the standard kubelet implementation which just kills/evicts workloads that run past their limit.

I agree these are difficult to understand if you're not familiar with the k8s development/design process. I also had to spend a few minutes on each one of them to understand what the actual state of the issues is. However, they're in a development issue tracker, and the end-user k8s documentation clearly states that Ephemeral Storage requests/limits works, how it works, and what its limitations are: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-res...
Have you read Accelerando by 'cstross? It plays out kind of like this, only taken to a tangent. Notably, it's written before ethereum or bitcoin were conceived. Great storyline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
I'm not a William Golding fan, but shouldn't you know the difference between the lord of the flies and the one-eyed man?
I worked at Sears selling TVs while in college from 2002-04, and even in their latest POS systems anyone could walk up to the thermal printer, press a button (even with the register itself locked) and print out a reverse-chronological “journal roll,” which included names, addresses, phone numbers and full credit card numbers and expiration dates for every transaction. Crazy that anyone thought that was OK in the early 2000s.
Last week I ordered a screen protector for my phone. I got two boxes in the mail. I thought I ordered twice by mistake but they had the same order number on the packing slip.

My immediate thought was that some order processing step somewhere is not idempotent.
Average vs standard deviation, basically.

Honestly that's what we should be emphasizing to climate doubters more than anything else. The average temperature going up here in Canada may not sound terrifying to people. But if the 95th or 99th percentile is 10-15C higher than they are used to or than the local ecology or population can handle... maybe they'll finally listen?

But I'm not optimistic.
Anyone have any details on the 'Most line changes in a single month' event last October? Some sort of mass refactoring? Pretty cool way to display this info, thank you.
As far as I'm concerned what I'm talking about doesn't have anything to do with remodeling, unless you're doing something janky.
Maybe also refer to figure 6.5, very interesting. Although that wont fit the narrative
Flamewar comments will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>I haven't even read or seen many of the existing cultural artifacts we have from past decades and centuries, what would I do if orders of magnitudes more of them had been preserved?

You might have a better understanding of the culture that produced them. You might appreciate a work of art that would otherwise not exist. We have graffiti from Pompeii, we know Ea-nasir sold cheap copper in ancient Ur 3700-odd years ago, but we've lost countless works of literature, music and film, some by the greatest masters of their age. What artifacts of culture survive the scouring sands of time is often a matter of happenstance, rather than quality.

Chances are almost everything our species has produced culturally, scientifically and artistically - the whole corpus of our knowledge output over the last century - is going to vanish within a generation or two anyway, simply because the digital foundation into which we've transferred so much of it is brittle and ephemeral. If we want to leave anything behind for future generations at all besides climate change, pollution and nuclear waste, we should save as much as possible rather than only what we consider to be relevant.
I disagree that their interface is good, even in the simplest tier.

I get absurd cosmetic delays and animations, text that's tweaked to be so pale and thin that it disappears in some browsers, and tedious wizard-style workflow that you have to traverse half a dozen times when the vague language doesn't match the data on your forms. And don't get me started on confusing between "activities" (that's the official term, not Intuit's fault) because there's no way to see where you are in the process or show an overview until the end, and the final result is in a different format that I can't reconcile with what I filled in.
California Assembly Committee Passes Psychedelics Bill
Agreed. I'm a college student and have a remote job at a company out of DC, and I don't think I'll be staying there, at least in a remote capacity, after I graduate.

While I'm in school, remote work is actually super useful because I can work wherever, whenever, and working around my coursework is incredibly easy. When I'm not in the middle of a term though, it becomes more of a chore. Working 40hrs out of my bedroom isn't ideal by any means (I go out and work at a coffee shop for a few hours each day to combat this), but the work-life separation has been really hard for me to form.

I just got swapped from 1099 to W2 so now I'll at least have a work machine that I can keep separate from all my personal stuff, but I feel like it'll still have more of a blurred line than it should have.

I might feel differently about this when I eventually have a house with a dedicated office, etc. but living out of an apartment with no formal workspace is really difficult, at least for me. Definition of spaces is incredibly important to how I work.
It wasn't even the stupid "spinning numbers" thing that slowed us down. Mostly it was being locked into wizards asking us one question at a time.

Dialog:

Do you have foreign bank accounts? Y/N

Next dialog:

Do you have foreign investments? Y/N

Next dialog:

...

For every single damn thing. FreeTaxUSA put them all in a list so we just clicked on the applicable ones. It was much more efficient.

And if you have to go back and double check/change something TurboTax makes you go through the whole damn wizard again.

TurboTax is supposedly able to import my W2 automatically (I work for a large corporation that use a large professional third party company to do W2s), but this has never worked. I always have to enter the information by hand.
Conspiracy theories are a placebo effect for control. I can't control the world but I can control what I want to believe about the world and that helps me feel like I'm in control.
Corporate death penalty. If corporations are people, and the USA insists on keeping the barbaric death penalty, at least they should use it on companies.

Exxon would be another nice target.
>Why We Need to Tax Wealth More Effectively

uhh, isn't wealth explicitly not taxed? The title makes it sound like there are taxes on wealth but the rich people just keep working around them.
The try / repeat pattern inevitably needs to do a full round trip multiple times in different regions.

What would be awesome to have is something like this but built on top of envoy postgres proxy or similar where it would know where to send the query to based on the table + column value / pk. But one then rebuilds Yugabyte.
The first two clauses of the license are the BSD-2-Clause license, nothing weird or unusual there.

The third clause is... interesting. I suspect it's probably legal, but it may well have unintended consequences because it appears to be requiring you to use a trademark.

The fourth clause may fall afoul of First Sale Doctrine. It's something that I wouldn't trust without talking to an IP lawyer to work out what it actually means and how much is actually viable to be done in an open source license.

The fifth clause is nullified by the terms of GitHub, I think, as GitHub's ToS seems to require you to allow anyone to fork your repository without encumbrance, which the fifth clause tries to narrow.
Prison? Really? A lot of otherwise disadvantaged people have made life-changing money with RH. It offers education, research tools, and generally does a good job of being useful in supporting a proactive investing and trading habit.

I would guess that the real cost here is the publicity and reputation hit, not the fine.
would one do it in the custom db router itself instead?
Fortunately 4chan has (unofficial) archives, but some content was probably lost.
21st century alchemy!
I now see the irony of my comment.
This is a good way to do it. Catching errors lets us reliably ship a library that makes this work for almost everyone, but it's not right for all apps: https://github.com/soupedup/fly-rails/blob/main/lib/fly-rail...
> Does it seem weird to anyone else that a foreigner would say this? Surely someone else living there would understand their own situation better.

Yeah, it should be phrased as a welcome (e.g. come here, we want to take you), not a warning (flee now).
I have not. But I will. Thanks!
Blood Spore, of Murder and Mushrooms
There's probably a way to do this in native postgres by abusing the FDW facility. No real need to involve the CDN or replay the request.
The GBA and later the DS are IMO some of the best platforms for RPGs.
I always thought something like Ethereum could solve this type of thing; that is, if the content itself lived inside the blockchain. Obviously for larger formats that wouldn't work, but for many text based or lower resolution image formats, it wouldn't be too much overhead to just inject it all into the blockchain.
"Big tech" is such a catchall that it almost completely devoid of value.
Some Catholic priests and parishes are considerably more "progressive" than others. Every major city has at least one progressive parish, often it can be the Jesuit parish. Catholic teaching is quite strict that the purpose of sex is "bonding and babies." (More formally, sex is "unitive, marital, and procreative.") The progressive priests and bishops don't blatantly contradict this, but they do stress how "welcoming and inclusive" they are to practitioners of sexual acts that are neither unitive, marital, nor procreative, while never choosing to preach any homilies about God creating sex for the purpose of strengthening the bond between husband and wife and to enable the two to "be fruitful and multiply."
I bought Blood, Sweat, and Pixels because I want to support Jason Schreier and the sort of nonfiction he's writing, but I've been reading it after coming off Masters of Doom and it just doesn't hit the same.
I think the publishing media that predate the web all had the same problem; posters get torn down, newspapers burn, even stone carvings weather. Hardly a new, or possibly even unnecessary phenomenon.
Here is my 2 cents:
1. It looks like you have been a successful software engineer and were able to move up.

2. From the sound of it you hit the mastery portion of S learning curve in terms of technical ability. So no matter how much you "educate" yourself you will never hit the level of growth you experienced when you were younger. So staying current is the best part you can do in this section as that is how the tech world works.

3. There is a new skill set that you might still be in the early stages of and that is as a VP of Engineering/Managing people are getting the best of your team and being able to challenge yourself is this department. Technically no two companies are the same so this is a place where you can constantly challenge yourself. So changing the place you work at can lead to a lot of growth here, or possibly acting as a consultant for companies that don't need a "VP of Engineering"
quiet yet.

3b. If being in management doesn't really interest you and you want to be an engineer, then working in another industry might keep you excited, like becoming a game programmer/iOT programmer, AI, Architecture, etc.

4. Could be changing careers all together because you don't feel challenged enough, you can use your current job to help fund your family and the learning for that new career.

5. Terms of Salary is all subjective to where you work and what the place you work. I technically take a 50k+ pay cut because I work for a small company. The current job gives me a lot of flexibility, less stress than I have ever had to deal with before. That piece of mind and relaxation is more important to me given some medical issues I deal with from time to time. So yes you can be underpaid, but is the great team and the place you work at worth it?

The end of the day these are my 2 cents on the matter, but what I will say at the end is to do what really makes you happy. Is it family, career, challenges, etc. Finding what truly makes you happy and doing that is the best career move you can make. I would say start with that :)