skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it implies that sysadmins never used to code either"

It does, but to be honest, when I studied computer science "not coding" was a big deal.

There were many people who simply didn't like to do it for whatever reason, and those weren't "theory people". There were meetups on how to structure your studies so you would get your degree with at least code to write as possible, and most of those people focused on getting jobs in operations later.

For some of them DevOps was cool, because it finally allowed them to learn to code in an area they were interested in, but for others it meant their low-code jobs transformed to developer jobs over time, which they didn't like at all.
> What would you have had them do instead

Not undermine climate change activism and legislation at every turn?

It's one thing to be unhappy about climate regulation, another to blatantly lie about their own impact on climate.

This is the planet we're talking about, you realize that, right? There's a degree of responsibility especially if you are one of the biggest players in the undergoing change.
This is absolutely wrong - DevOps is not a job title. At least it shouldn't be, as anyone in the sector will tell you. The conflation of DevOps responsibilities and specializations with SysAdmin work is the reason why the vast majority of "DevOps" teams are...vastly unqualified.
This literally could have been written by any developer in the UK. I think most of us start out like this! I think the best one was a company I worked for in Leeds, it was building a secure learning platform for schools which ultimately fell flat on it's arse. The company was run by a self-made millionaire who was notorious for scamming people.

He'd randomly lay off huge numbers of the sales team, and the first anyone would know about it is when the door code would be changed and we'd have to ring the "office manager" (ex-SAS) for the new code.

His grand idea to save the failing online learning platform was "pivoting" to selling personalised dog food online........... (and I mean personalised in the sense of just slapping the dogs name and their face on some generic crap dog food, not actually nutritionally personalised to the dog)

Left that place being owed 3 months wages (which I never got).

Last I heard he was being investigated for fraud. (this was the scum bag in question: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/sep/04/barclays-sm...)
> If you told me forty years ago that I’d be using a MacBook one day I wouldn’t have believed you - they were always the fringe systems that couldn’t integrate

40 years ago, the Mac had not been released yet. Hell, neither had the IBM PC, MS-DOS 1.0, or even the Commodore 64.
Stopped reading immediately after “Apple had to convince their fans…”.
> Most people here would agree with that for most things - people get bent out of shape about advertising cookies. But somehow covid has made everyone hysterical and no indignity can be too much in the name of preaching and checking for covid orthodoxy. I find it really weird.

It's actually not that weird. Tracking cookies haven't caused 600,000 deaths and countless hospitalization. The "indignity" of showing your vaccine card, like the indignity of showing your ID to get into a bar or buy alcohol?

I originally brought up home schooling because people seemed shocked anyone can ask for vaccination records. I'm bringing up ID here because you seem shocked that businesses ask for additional records.
You are right about the technique not being very useful as of today. My fascination stems from my assumption that more resources poured into this approach would yield vastly better results.

Even just watching the video, I came up with several possible improvements to try out. Eg adversarial training, that would really hone in on the situations and aspects where the model is weak so far, like edge conditions; instead of just using normal gameplay as input.
I recommend "How to Think About Abstract Algebra" by Lara Alcock and "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter.
I am going to assume you haven't read/understood everything I wrote

I don't force users to use Google/FB. They can use traditional email signup just fine

Emails could be masked before Apple ID came along. Namely, gmail addresses let you do this. So it's not anything new or revolutionary. Users could use that to sign up for Groups before

I would have probably ended up implementing Apple ID, but the fact that they forced it in a most discorteous manner frankly p**d me off. When someone does this kind of stuff you need to remember and try to curb their behavior where possible. That's what I'm doing

ps. I don't trust FB or Google either
The immediate problem is not sea-level rise, which will take hundreds of years for largest impacts [0].

Ocean acidification is already happening [1], and threaten ocean life.

"When pteropod shells were placed in sea water with pH and carbonate levels projected for the year 2100, the shells slowly dissolved after 45 days. ... The last time the ocean pH was this low was during the middle Miocene, 14-17 million years ago. The Earth was several degrees warmer and a major extinction event was occurring." [2].

Also as oceans warm, CO2 absorption go down:
"As the oceans warm, they will become
less and less capable of taking up carbon dioxide.
As a result, more of our carbon pollution
will stay in the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming" [3].

[0] https://earthsky.org/earth/anticipating-future-sea-level-pro...

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/ocean-...

[2] https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

[3] http://www.lteconomy.it/en/articles-en/articoli/the-power-of...

Phew! That was just the oceans, for starters!
This is why I like the 'platform engineering' meme - much better way to frame the value proposition. See: Thoughtworks' blogs and podcasts on platform-engineering-centric topics.
MongoDB released the Wired Tiger storage engine in 2015 which replaced the MMAP storage engine. So whatever your read about MMAP is obsolete.

https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/a-technical-introducti...
DevOps is a Developer which does Operational Support by writing code instead of performing operations manually.

Sysadmin is a System Administrator, which performs operations manually.
Some software developers make the world a better place. Many produce software that ultimately not that useful, and in the worst case scenario, actively harmful to society. Is the world a better place because of Apple, Amazon, or Google? Eh, you can make an argument either way. Is it a better place because of Facebook or Twitter? Unambiguously no.
You're making an entire argument about something you clearly haven't properly tried. It sounds like you have your own misconceptions about what static typing is and how types work. Your premise is flawed so it's difficult to have a conversation.

I would encourage you to try typescript for a while, it's very approachable and has excellent tooling.
Complex systems are, well..., complicated. Policy choices always have trade-offs, most side-effects are only obvious with hindsight.

I think it will be years, and it will take hundreds of thousands of person/years of research to really assess what we did wrong and what we did right in the pandemic. And it is best to be this way, as any conclusions we come to now are going to be probably contaminated with politics.
Gpgpu, ML Inference, and Vulkan Compute
As someone who would want to buy a house, I would like to know what issues you had with your property.

I don't like surprises after the selling.
Really good tweets to read from. Now no hassle in finding good people to follow. Thanks Entweets.
I wonder why gradual typing isn't more common. Shouldn't we be able to have the best of both worlds?
Too often "DevOps" emerged as a way to walk around system administrators and their "blabling" about security, resource management, upgrades and long-term maintainability.

I'm always upset when I see a installations that are created with pattern: "we need it to run and we doesn't care where system will be in next two years" (in trashcan, usually - or it will act as a jumphost for another scam/DDoS). And I see such systems everyday. And that dramas, when I ask a simple question like: "how it will be upgraded"? "What is your plan about dealing with manually-installed python modules that overwrites files from system-installed ones when system upgrade will be performed?" and so on, and so on...

Fortunately a separate "devops" team that really cares about infrastructure reliability usually evolves into a normal sysadmins in no-time and their priorities are usually different that rest of "dev-teams".
I don't really think that the culture at the company to be equal to the culture of gaming overall to be honest.

In fact Blizzard and especially Activision aren't really well loved company by gamers. Didn't EA got the title of worst company multiple times? They probably have a decent competitor now.
Taking this to an extreme: If an image is 100% generated and looks to be a nude of a human, from whom should consent be obtained?

Especially if "this image is similar to me" is factored in, what degree of similarity makes an image a representation of a real person?

We're not far from this being less about privacy and dignity, and being more about whether the idea of nudity is permitted.
"Never work for a small business unless you own it". Citation: me, 35 years ago after my first small business employee experience.
For sure, there are people people who don’t like to code but they should not really have entered a computing discipline.

I was intimidated when I learned but that was a little bit because my first language book was COBOL and I didn’t even have a working compiler.

The “good” sysadmins I learned from were all able to code, in fact many of them used to be developers themselves.
Note that this is already an offense in Scotland. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/22/section/2

> A person (“A”) commits an offense if—

> (a)A discloses, or threatens to disclose, a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (“B”) in an intimate situation,

> (b)by doing so, A intends to cause B fear, alarm or distress or A is reckless as to whether B will be caused fear, alarm or distress, and

> (c)the photograph or film has not previously been disclosed to the public at large, or any section of the public, by B or with B's consent

(my highlighting: "appears to show" would cover realistic fakes).
The Expanse Series,
Murderbot Series
Maybe it’s time to let go of this comfortable idea that we are a animal doing natural things in nature. We are really like Yuval Noah Harari said Homo dues. We are letting go of this idea of natural a long time a go and we have been interfering with our own immune systems, environment and what not for centuries. Maybe we will get yearly shots to strengthen our immune system from the flu to train it some how and not get sick. oh wait that exists already and is common practice. The flu shot.
Humans get into plenty of accidents under clear skies, too.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/30/waymo-... which tries somewhat to correct for conditions.
I've worked with non-native English speakers before and I think some people underestimate how much jargon and dialect that native English speakers use on a daily basis that people that live in non-English speaking countries don't get exposed to.

For example saying: "how are you getting on?" seems to be a rarer expression than simply asking "how are you?" and is more difficult for non-native speakers to parse, of course they can learn specific British and American expressions, dialect and office jargon but it's another hurdle to communication.
Sure, this also makes sense when it is about math. But what I write mostly is about managing files on the disk, querying databases, processing text and XML and also some web frontend. Occasionally even communicating via a COM port. And when I need math I do it with NumPy. These tasks seem rather easy to implement and rather hard to test.
I'm vaccinated and don't wear a mask now unless a place still requires it. Fight me.
Idiotic dumbass.
Our spinoff company (https://tramatm.com/) automates a lot of work around trademark registration/protection and the research that comes with that.[0]

They are new in the game but doing pretty well.

[0] https://vacuumlabs.com/blog/lifevacuum/how-to-build-a-google...
> The people originally assuming all white/male/heterosexual/whatever people can and should be lumped together are the ones who have and continue to try to restrict jobs, property, and liberty from being given to people outside that group.

Isn't that exactly what the author is doing by using the term "cishet white guys" though?
Thanks for information this is useful.

https://www.mcdvoice.tips/
End-to-End Encryption through Kafka
Try "The Three-Body Problem". It opened my eyes when I first read it, and every re-read still mesmerized me. The original text is in Chinese but the translation to English was done very well.

It's a trilogy in three books. If you are not sure, just purchase the first one. But I bet you would regret about only purchasing the first one.
The Abel–Ruffini theorem, that general quintics and higher have no solutions via radicals, feels to me like such a fundamental result, that there must be some intuitive explanation for it. I have tried to understand the topic at a level that shows me that intuition, but I have never quite reached it. Any suggestions?
wow, at first glance it seems like decent startup idea

it removes all overhead of DNA tests
That is until you have Keyboard problem and Display problem from MacBook Pro 2016 where it was clearly a design defect.
> It’s a shame the headline communicates the former when it seems the proposal is the latter.

Because a headline blubbing about AI-X-ray-specs grabs attention. Making people more likely to click the link.

You can see the effect in action right here: the link made it to the top of the front page in less than an hour of being submitted.

Besides that tough, the article does contain the typical misunderstanding of politicians about how software works ("software developers should be forced make $SOFTWARE so that it can't do $MY_SPECIAL_EXCEPTION_CASE"), which is problematic per se, unrelated to any machine learning aspect.
Does every single one of these things not already apply to regular business scenarios? Dealing with people who get ahead by playing the people game is already a thing. As is seeing the sometimes incompetent get promoted. As to having a second boss, if you want to look at it like that, then I think you have a very strange concept about what collective bargaining is supposed to achieve, and what the actual dynamic between workers and company owners actually is.
> They are nested in a physical sense, its simply not valid html.

For this to be true, you'd need containment to be a nontransitive relationship. In the sense in which h3 #2 is contained within h3 #1, all of the following hold:

- tr #1 contains h3 #1

- h3 #1 contains h3 #2

- tr #1 does not contain h3 #2
Wow, talk about technology making hijab and similar clothes obsolete which will be a massive culture shock.
> Unfortunately this is broken on the "modern" web as many web pages "helpfully" override the "/" key

Argh this kind of thing makes me really cross. So many sites seem to feel the need to reimplement things that are already part of most browsers or even in the spec. It's not just overridng default shortcuts, but custom context/rightclick menus, custom 'links' (where clicking them runs javascript code to window.open, instead of being a real link), custom form fields that advertise 'excellent accessibility', where the fields would have been accessible anyway if they didn't decide to reimplement them, disabling text selection, overriding focus styles because the accessible styles 'look ugly' ... the 'modern' web is pain.

Anyway, this wasn't going to be a rant. My point was going to be that consistency is key. Your comment on '"Ctrl+F" instead as I'm too scared to try "/" now' really resonated with me, because I've thought about this before. I've found that a feature or shortcut is only useful if it's consistent. I can't build muscle memory or be confident using a feature if it only works 90% of the time. Or even 99%.

I've tried tridacyl and other vim-style plugins for browsers several times in the past, but always end up uninstalling them in disappointment, because it's not possible to have a consistent experience. 99% of the time it works perfectly, but then there are the handful of sites or browser specific pages (eg. about: or view-source:) where it doesn't work at all, or doesn't work consistently so one must disable it. Then muscle memory totally breaks; you need to learn two sets of keybindings for the same context, and that introduces a hesitation for every keypress, which kills speed and enjoyment.
Turkey is pretty fab if you’re a history buff. There’s so much to see. Just search for historical landmarks anywhere in Turkey on Google Maps and you’ll see what I mean.
AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
>I will quibble with your first point a bit. Law is a profession that attracts large numbers of people who default into it because they can’t think of what to do with their liberal arts undergraduate degree. It’s a demanding, detail oriented, analytical job, and many of those people become quite disillusioned with it.

Underrated comment -- literally half of all lawyers I've worked with (financial regulation) admit they chose law because they didn't like math.
> "I'm not being political, you're being political!"

Your original comment had factually incorrect information, as demonstrated. Please don't try and hide that behind name calling or distractions.
How come it’s not a muscle if the vaccination works?

Obviously getting more sick isn’t going to make your immune system stronger, but just getting sick is going to make it learn how to make antibodies for specific illnesses.
Why are all substack articles complete crap?
Its organic discovery. Some I come across in HN discussions. Some I find while googling stuff. Since my interests aren't mainstream, most of the blogs I come across this way are interesting to me and I subscribe.

These days there are few awesome lists or the like for curated, sorted and tagged personal blogs too. Its a great time to start with RSS.
Whats in Store? Weird Memories of Computers Past
“Unionized elite”? CNN wanting Kenosha to burn down so people will serve them?

You and I are not experiencing the same reality.
Political science has plenty of literature about sophisticated voting systems (vs the simpler systems in general use today): there one can find a good part of the theoretical background. (I am focusing here on the feedback as fundamental to the goal.)

An example: Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George Szpiro is a primer.

Of course it depends on the goal defining "improvement" - heuristics, informative/insightful/funny, educational, sinister goals (compulsion, sensationalism etc.).

For example, votes should be clustered and weighted (the Professor has more more insight than the Child - so "weighted" - in some areas - so "clustered").

Also: technically, that platform should be heavily modified to allow for fruitful discussion.
Iraq was not at all like North Korea, but let’s for a moment assume it was. Let’s say the US attacked NK and it resulted in a million deaths. Would you claim it’s not US fault, because while they started the killing, some of the dead were killed by the defenders?

As for “both ways” - there is a fundamental difference between government sending people with an explicit mission of killing people - which is what US did in Iraq - and the government sending people to doing something else entirely, yet ending with some of the victims dead.

Let’s assume your numbers are right, and the number of incarcerated Uyghurs really is as high as the number of incarcerated Americans: is that genocide, in both cases? Would you say it would be better for those people to get killed instead?
perhaps you could save yourself (or your employer) some money and downgrade to a >10 year old used laptop because it sounds like you don't need the M1? It also sounds like trying to find ways to "show off" the laptop may not be the best use of time, nor have the best personal/business outcomes.
this is the kind of EVs the world needs more and more.

simple, and less overwhelming : technically and financially.
Agreed. I find the mere sight of the Facebook or Google logo off-putting and resent the implication that it is a higher-priority login mechanism than email, a sort of act of fealty of the app/web developer to the big platform middlemen.

I run my own mail server so it's easy for me to implement vendor-specific email addresses that cannot be correlated with other vendors', but more and more companies are offering that as a service nowadays, DuckDuckGo most recently:

https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-b...

I do use GitHub federated login, but only for apps like vulnerability scanners that do need OAuth access to my repos.
That doesn't seem like an accurate summary. The actual quotes address the generation of those images, not just the distribution:

> "Parliament needs to have the opportunity to debate whether nude and sexually explicit images generated digitally without consent should be outlawed, and I believe if this were to happen the law would change."

And it's about restricting the tools, not just what's done with them:

> "If software providers develop this technology, they are complicit in a very serious crime and should be required to design their products to stop this happening."
Kubernetes is a complex solution but it solves a very complex problem. It could have been made slightly simpler (and slightly less flexible too) but it's a really good solution IMO. The structure is mostly straight forward and intuitive (at least to me as a developer).
I'm willing to take a raise and never go into the office again.
From the person who appears to be depicted on it. Not that different from an image being a picture painted by an artist from memory/imagination, honestly. In the end, it basically boils down to having the rights on your appearance.
This person gets it. Which is rare - do you want a job? :)

But seriously, you hit upon something which is important, but very hard to communicate/admit - a big part of making the "DevOps Transformation" happen - which is a cheesy term but it conveys something better than just DevOps - is saying _no_ to devs and traditional SysAdmins and giving them a better alternative. Unfortunately this means that SysAdmin skillsets need to be supplemented or even supplanted by SWE skillsets. But the TL;DR is yes, doing DevOps often means putting the brakes on fun.
According to [1] full-time employed people with professional degrees earn a median of $117,679 while full time employed high school graduates earn a median of $38,102.

If it were easy to earn high five figures with a GED, wouldn't the earnings of GED holders be much higher?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Don't overlook PHK's replies in the comments there
Don't forget in your threat model that Apple can cancel your account at any time for any reason whatsoever. They've even done it to security researchers using Apple's own bug bounty program. If that happens, you are stranded with those accounts effectively inaccessible to you forever.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/20/man-sues-apple-fo...
Just print to pdf and add pdftops (from poppler) to your pipeline.
How to Increase the Value of Your Business
As a counter example - I was at a startup where all the CEO did was sales. Everything worked really great.

I think the key here is is the culture pathological or not - not the specific role of the CEO. CEO can have good enough understanding of tech to do their job well even thought they are not elbows deep in it themselves.
Also known as embrace the timesharing terminal.