skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the US Surgeon General report I cited, my statement is true.

> Also logically, both are inhaling smoke from burning organic matter.

No, that is my point. At least half of what is in national brand cigarettes is not organic. [1]

> There is no way it is not going to be very unhealthy, once you look at the chemical composition of the smoke.

Since I made no mention of health, this is a straw man. Please take better note of what my claim is, which concerns mortality, not health. But yes, the chemical composition of cigarette smoke is terrifying, though there is confusion here. Cigarettes are not tobacco, and what is in (nearly all) cigarettes is not natural tobacco.

Regarding your endnote, what you are (effectively) claiming is that the infusion of 300+ known carcinogens in cigarette tobacco has no effect on mortality, which is absurd on its face. Also, it is possible to likely that popular pipe tobaccos have in the last 45 years changed to include these carcinogens. If so, these participants were not smoking natural tobacco, and the study says nothing whatsoever about smoking natural tobacco.

So please produce a study showing the differences in mortality rates between smokers of national brand cigarettes (which since the 1950's chemical revolution or thereabouts have intentionally added carcinogens [1]) compared to mortality rates of smokers of unadulterated natural tobacco, as in tobacco that is merely grown, dried and smoked without any processing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdV_1u-TodY&t=13m25s
I thought about this a bit more, and I'll give it a shot. I might see if I can contol my mouse using a layer (saw a person on youtube do something similar, but I forgot which video it was :/). That would actually force me to use the layers and see how it feels like in my daily workflow.
That some unexplainable force cheats the rules of the universe to beat me at Pong.
>Wanna take a guess as to how many assholes out there just want to make a mouthy cunt from the bar lose sleep

Hey it might be easy to forget we're talking about a real person here, and I'm sure you mean this is how a hypothetical person could be perceived by another hypothetical person, but this kind of language directed at a victim of a stalking attempt feels really icky.
13 percent of US trade is with china. 20 percent of EU trade. And that's trade, not percent of economy.

I think you might be over estimating how indispensable they are.

This is one of (not the only reason) China is so hungry to move into harder to replace industries (cutting edge chip manufacturing for instance, infrastructure like 5G).

And of course Chinese markets are mostly closed to Western goods and services already...
Somehow it seems System Engineers got renamed into DevOps, from the kind of tasks that land on my table when I happen to wear the DevOps hat on some consulting gigs.
We have a 1 year old. We try to avoid intentional exposure, but the knowledge I have indicates COVID is no more of a threat for children than many other viruses. Flu, RSV, etc all have similar risk profiles in young kids. As such, we approach COVID the same way we approach many other things.

Wash hands, avoid known sick people, monitor conditions, avoid known bad situations.

We are avoid daycare facilities for now since that would introduce a many-to-many situation where an outbreak is inevitable.
Huh, right, with all the talk about the privacy preserving location sharing, I missed that Airtags have a serial number that Apple can look up.

However, my main criticism (that Apple customers were not asked whether they want to participate in a network that may indirectly reveal their location) still stands.
I did not entirely agree with the main assertion of the post. However having re-read it, I do now broadly agree.

I would say that devops _should_ be a spectrum. I have always worked at places that never really had rigid boundaries between sysadmin and dev. So I was really quite baffled by the initial push to devops (Isn't that what you were doing before? How can you be a sysadmin if you can't code.)

Having a department of devops is fine, so long as most of them are embedded into dev teams. Assuming you rotate your devops around dev teams, its a good way to remove single persons of failure, and increase standardisation. Depending on size, there might be a chance to have a core systems/platform team.
I connected a Raspberry Pi I keep under the desk as a server via HDMI and I could easily issue commands. Wanted to write a deamon that translates MQTT -> DDC, but never got to that and I removed the cable last time i needed it for something else.
Paywalled?! I don’t see a paywall here, maybe I’m still in the”free articles limit”. By the way thanks for your quotes!
I used to have that positive outlook. Work was exciting, and fun. Over time, the reality became impossible to deny.
Really great post. When I was at AWS, we did everything with IaC but that luxury of time and investment is not avail to many. We're working on this problem but ensuring that devs has a) full transparency what's going on, b) ability to evolve their arch and c) building right on your AWS account. We just moved someone from Heroku to AWS handling 1B requests/day at 1/4 of the cost.

have a bunch of AWS execs backing us too; they know this is a problem.
Happy to chat more if you want to give it a spin: tinystacks.com
Yeah, those features started showing up first in the regular builds of Windows Nashville. I was downloading them almost daily to see the (at the time) amazing new UI concepts that were being tested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_96
> They told a six or seven year old girl that she wasn't allowed to cry when she missed her parents and toys.

Oof. A teachable moment for the instructors hopefully becomes one for the student. Good teachers are amazing; bad ones are horrible at both teaching and learning from their students.
Comparing Jobs and references is not apples to apples,. One is understood to be a list of employers you've had in recent years,. The other is understood to be one to three people that would recommend your skills not every single person you've worked with the last 10 years..

You can easily lie by omission.. The root of it is deceitful intentions.
We don't expect books to include "Not guaranteed to make you smarter" on the label.

Though we technically expect securities to include "Not guaranteed to make you rich," it's in small text nobody ever reads. I doubt a high school student would be reading it and rethinking their major...

If you're American, you already know that liberal arts majors don't go to college thinking "people are going to pay me so much money for this degree in gender studies."
I go for a run everyday after work. When it is raining or too cold I do 15-20 minutes weight training at home.
> There was no doubt that there was a lot in our collective past that was shameful — though how this made us different from every other nation was never clear to me. What was clear was that feeling ourselves to be the worst was — like feeling ourselves to be the best — characteristic of our particular form of national narcissism. And I thought that, if we were going to turn our backs on our patrimony, we ought to do it consciously. We ought, at the very least, to know what that culture was, what it had been

Wise words.
This is a general problem with proactive alerts related to rare events. How many "OMG, you're separated from $X" alerts am I willing to put up with for the one legitimate "You just left $X in the restaurant!" alert.
As a Lithuanian, I have mixed feelings about this. From one side, I applaud my country for standing up to China. However, the rest of the EU seems to not be supporting us in taking strong position against China. This makes it easy for China to retaliate against Lithuania.

The real issue, in my opinion, is that the EU and the rest of the world depend heavily on China for manufacturing goods. There is that great initiative in the EU to invest in the semiconductor industry so that we would manufacture them in the EU.
It's called Darling, apparently it works well for most Terminal apps while support for GUI apps is still limited at the moment

https://www.darlinghq.org/

https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
Yes is not how much we will live but how well we will live!
The problem with philosophy is that reality has a way of getting in the way.

Think of home improvement. If my toilet is clogged, it doesn’t make sense for most people to call a plumber. That doesn’t mean that plumbers are bad, just that it’s easy for a generalist to do basic tasks.

Likewise “pure” devops rarely makes sense because developers are assigned to projects that end, and sustainment doesn’t require the same skills. It’s cheaper to pay for 20% of a $75/hr ops engineer than 100% of a $150/hr senior dev.
sounds like a trap

"Arbitrary and Capricious means doing something according to one’s will or caprice and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. In U.S this is one of the basic standards for review of appeals."
So if there exists anyone who does something slightly worse, everyone else gets a pass? Our prisons will be emptier at least.
> something like

Yeah, that's correct. And IMHO, if Damore had presented just that, I would expect the outcome to be different, although still fraught for other reasons. But he didn't present just that.

> questions

You did end up answering them, although in a different chain! And I appreciate it.

> disagreement

I mean, bluntly, I'm pretty much ready to abandon it, although since others are engaging seems like you're good to go without me :)

> conversation

One issue that seems to come up in these situations - not always, and I don't really know one way the other if it came up in Damore's - was recently demonstrated by Dave Chappelle, when he went to his alma mater saying (paraphrased) "let's have a conversation", and then (IMO) very much didn't, even if people said words to each other. So that happens.

> you and others

So... Like. To the extent that I've invited you to a conversation, that we're then having here - do you feel like we're having a conversation, or do you feel like there's more heretic burning?
Yes yes. Sorry for the vitriol. As you say, emotionally activating (:
they have to sell
When the cloud was young, devs could indeed push their own code. They didn't need the sysops people. It was a major change.

But as the cloud became more complex, invariably, SysOps just took on a whole new shape. Instead of buying hardware and keeping Ethernet boxes wired and alive, you now have K8s etc..

I suggest we have failed somewhere along the way: it shouldn't be necessary for real DevOps up to significant scale.

If our tooling were good enough, it should be mostly fairly automated.

'Containers' seem to be a messy, hacky afterthought when what we really probably just needed was 'configs'. Cloud Lambdas, Queing, Caching, Logging could be feasibly made very simply configed ... on all the Cloud Providers it's fairly complicated, just beyond the ability for a regular dev to stay on top of along with the rest of dev stuff.
> the more unique you appear

If your fingerprint is unique and doesn't change then yes, you stand out. But if your fingerprint changes on every page load, then you become indistinguishable from other users.
When you open a GPS tracker you find a SIM and that's enough to identify the owner in any country that requires an ID to get a SIM. AirTags are anonymous by design AFAIK. Furthermore the owner is spared with the burden of getting a SIM (time and cost), ID or not.
> This trend is also supported by Kubernetes as this is a technology which is hard to master. So people start splitting up responsibilities again. One part of the team developing the application the other part of the team managing the infrastructure.

Kubernetes administration is hard to master. It's analogous to running VMware in production, or any cloud technology for that matter. None of them is easy, and they all require relatively specialized knowledge.

Kubernetes development on the other hand is relatively straightforward. Minikube is my goto environment whenever I have to put together an app that consists of more than a single process. As long as you pay reasonable attention it is not hard to move such applications from dev to staging to production.

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I suspect your estimate of the commonality of such behavior reflects more on you and your social group’s predilections than anything
local election held outside the regularly scheduled cadence, usually because the incumbent resigned or died
The red scare happened before that. If not about the left in the US, who were they afraid of?
I don't want "low cost zero friction startup world", I want completed products that actually work, ffs.
Decentralized is easy, you’re just describing a system where your key/password escrowed to one or more trusted parties tasked with verifying your IRL identity before turning the key over to you. No single central authority is required.

You can use SSS to break your key up if you’re worried about leaks or malicious hosts so that it requires n compromised services to recover your key at the cost of having to do n separate recoveries for each recovery.

Distributed is the harder game since you don’t get to have trusted parties in the usual sense.
Well, who do you suppose created Allah, then? Hint: It's the same god that was created by the exiled Jews who were later invited back to their lands by Cyrus. And this Allah you're referring to is the same deity that hebrews, christians and muslims are all viewing from different angles.

And this single god is the consolidated version of all the deities that had come before then and understandably it's a deity that loves violence and has little to no mercy to those who oppose it. You wouldn't expect people who were oppressed for centuries to create a god that has never-ending love for all humans.

God is an extension of human consciousness that replaces conscience. It's a way to easily delegate responsibilities and defer wrongdoings. It's there so you can contain compartmentalized conflicting thoughts in your head so you don't go insane. You have your god because you can't tell right from wrong. It's like a tick that's attached to your skull and feeds off of your thoughts. Obviously like with any other tick, it's hard to rid of it.
Good point, but may I add 5) AirTags are a very expensive way of stalking someone. Surely, there may be some creeps willing to put up this sort of money. But some random guy who sees her on a night out and who happens to have an AirTag with attached magnet with him? And if that was indeed the case, wouldn’t there be some pretext to this, like someone hitting on her that night and she turned him away? She doesn’t mention anything in this regard.

So no, this story doesn’t line up and looks more like cheap attention grabbing at the expensive of a real problem with Apple’s AirTags.
> I've been through health issues and every single doctor/therapist is pointing out to stress and sedentarism.

I'm in the exact same position right now. Can you elaborate on the symptoms your seeing?
> Another way to abuse it would be for example, you could place an Airtag somewhere on an iPhone users driveway, and use it to determine when they arrive home by checking for pings. The victim won't even see a notification, since the Airtag is stationary.

You can hide an arbitrary device near a victim's driveway and your choice of surveillance device is an Airtag? Come on.
Start having kids in your twenties. After the second one, you or your spouse stops working. The person who works, works from home at a project based company, where you do at most a stand up per day for set meetings. Start work early enough to be done at 3:30 or 4 pm. Raise your kids yourself, with your spouse. Coach youth sports.

That’s my recipe for happiness.
> I wonder if it provides an avenue to higher education to students that would otherwise have no such path.

Was that not the original purpose?
it may not exist for you, but people like me are fighting like hell to get back the rights everyone else willingly gave up
That is, if you're lucky and they understand what you're talking about.

You'll probably have to spend some time explaining how it works, why it is a serious issue, and then probably be dismissed.
100% agree. The industry took the term DevOps and started applying it to old-style ops teams (only difference is the ops teams use more "modern" tools).

There's still value in having an infrastructure or platform team focused on building tools to enable dev teams to more efficiently deploy, monitor, and run their code, and to step in with expertise when needed (ie help debug things like database performance, etc). More "teach a man to fish" type help, but also "give them a good boat and fishing net".
$250k is a decent new grad offer at FAANG in the Bay Area. Assuming that you're at L5 level, you should be easily able to clear that with a remote position.
Bloomberg has got to be kidding with the three popups all blocking each other. Can't read this.
>But why haven’t fish sausages etc. been created before?

Apparently they have been. Google fish sausage or seafood sausage. There's a ton of recipes and there's other vendors selling them. To be honest I hadn't heard of them until now but it seems to be a thing.
People don’t get Oracle because they want to get stuck with a super expensive (and still only ok), or super insanely expensive (and maybe sweet) support contract. They get it because they usually don’t know about these things, are trying to do something and BLAM they get hooked.

Many people don’t even realize how long it can take to get a real issue fixed even with a super sweet support contract. For instance, I once was a wet behind the ears Oracle DBA, and when creating a schema i dumbly used a feature in the documentation without checking to see how long it had been released. Unfortunately, it had been released about 6 months before, as I found out later.

It took 6 months for them to figure out that it was the cause of our sporadic ORA600 errors (aka core dumps), by which point we’d already migrated to MySQL for many of the workloads because the database was having at best 95% reliability because of it.

Once we migrated the table off with the feature, somehow our problems ceased, but that was still well before they told us what was going on.
From the article, it doesn't seem that life being bad is the point:

"But it's not that I'm unhappy in my life. My life is good, but I'd rather not be here. You know it's like there's a nice room, but I don't want to be in that room"
Or infrastructure team, or systems administrator, perhaps sysadmin for short ;)
How do they do it in practice? How do the neurons know when they succeed / fail?
Just emphasizing the reality of how assholes in bars can view and treat people, which is part of the point being made; it's icky, and there's plenty of that to go around. Now there's AirTags at their disposal, for better or worse.

For the record I'm a mouthy cunt in a bar after a few drinks.
I'm more surprised that people are still surprised this happens.
Why Isn't Ld.lld Faster
At the very least, a report should be made. If something does happen, at least there's a paper trail and they would be highest on the list of suspects. Could be used as evidence to get a restraining order as well.

If the person does indeed get near to the victim, then the police can actually do something since they are in violation of a court order.
Yep that is an option, you can subscribe at https://dashboard.expose.sh, set your api key (copy and paste what's shown) then run `expose` like `expose 80 as mysite.expose.sh`
From an economic standpoint, they are more important.

People with massive, life-ruining debt are more important for us to help than people who graduated debt-free or who got jobs/careers that let them pay off their debt.

If you can divorce yourself from a kindergarten-esque "fairness" complaint, it's pretty obvious that yeah, we should (unfairly!) help people who are being destroyed by debt.
"Coffee shops" in Amsterdam had this rule when I was there. Only tobacco was specifically outlawed indoors.
This was too long for me to understand. The author should just get to the point they want to make.
Similar thing happened to Agile.

Agile is a practice of speeding up improvement. Idea being that organisations that improve faster will, over time, overtake organisations that improve slower. If so, it makes sense to focus on the improvement loop itself. You remove management from the loop (because management takes too long and slows down improvement) and you empower and encourage individual contributors within their teams to improve the process because they can do it faster, have hands on knowledge of the process and can observe results faster.

Additional benefit of Agile is that you now have a tightly knit team that tends to be more engaged with their work and more focused on thinking through what they are doing -- this tends to cause people to be more satisfied with their jobs because satisfaction of being able to affect the process positively is a great motivator.

Yet, the management thinks they can come with a book and institute "Agile process" by telling everybody what they have to do, exactly.

Usually, improvement within team structure is then actively discouraged with many explanations like "that's not what the book says" or "I was doing scrum at a company where it worked and so we must do the same" or "we need to standardise processes" or some other variation of it.

I have observed this time and time again at various stages -- always with the same miserable outcome.

At my last company they additionally decided we are introducing Scaled Agile Framework meaning, according to them, we will now plan not at team structure but at a department level. This innovation means all planning and retrospective are combined for about 400 people. Because this was too time consuming to do every two weeks, they decided we will do this every 5 sprints (10 weeks). Just to be clear -- every 5 sprints we were supposed to select and plan tickets for the next 10 weeks of development. This was presented as an efficiency improvement.
In the places I've been, a sysadmin has been someone who operates someone else's product -- not a person operating the systems developers use to operate their own product.
Volatility Estimation Methods
As a developer within this space I am excited for the format for application installers since the alternatives are all terrible
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>2) We would need to provide a "third way" where those skill paths that don't really belong in universities can be met. We'd need to further fix decades of telling our kids that they have to go to university and instead convince them that they will do just as well being welders and plumbers.

but the third way already exists? ie. vocational schools, community colleges, and apprenticeships. it's just that they're not as prestigious as university, and people go with university because they want the best.
A VLSI class, even from an average university will contribute very little to your employability. As I said, Big Semi barely if ever employs entry level professionals. And besides Big Semi, there is really very few companies left.

Even startups <$1m are full of seasoned professionals coming from abroad, seeking PhDs in US universities. I think it's more characteristic for semiconductor startups to hire much more senior engineers than the industry average to convince their investors, not the other way around.
not op, but maybe this one? https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fda-study-cancer...
https://www.facebook.com/adam.bradley.106/posts/101593606730...
Then what's your benchmark for "underfunded"? How are we to determine whether we're getting value for our investment, or whether it's something other than funding that's handicapping the outcomes?
What kinds of things will this enable?
Perhaps a new corollary to the axiom that no country with "democratic" in its name is a democracy?