skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are areas where I am more skeptical of how patents are used (see: publicly funded medical research that creates privately owned patents), but I just don't see this as a problem in this case.

This isn't an essential technology - it's a nice addition to our display options. There's every reason to believe that new tech has actual new costs associated with it and that inventions might require elevated rates to make developing new tech economical. I don't like everything about patents - but they give companies a premium for new tech and the companies reveal how to make the tech in return.

It seems to me that if we eliminated patents w/o a new system, investing in technology would simply have a lower rate of return, and so it would happen less. I actually think that's ok - but I think people who bemoan the legal exclusivity that companies say enables them to invest in research should consider how much longer they would wait for the tech they like.
I was settled on Docker-Compose and Ansible for a long time, and while it was indeed quite easy to use once everything was tweaked correctly, what finally got me to move to k8s was HA. Having a single node with nginx, DNS resolution and Unifi controller running on it meant if I ever took the node down down for something, everything broke. Plex being down because I wanted to play with something unrelated wasn't ideal.

Agree that Ceph is ridiculously overkill though, I tried. Longhorn is much easier and perfectly fine for distributed storage.
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> Functionally, MicroShift repackages OpenShift core components* into a single binary that weighs in at a relatively tiny 160MB executable (without any compression/optimization).

Sorry, 160meg isn't 'relatively tiny'.

I have many thousands of machines running in multiple datacenters and even getting a ~4mb binary distributed onto them without saturating the network (100mbit) and slowing everything else down, is a bit of a challenge.

Edit: It was just over 4mb using .gz and I recently changed to use xz, which decreased the size by about 1mb and I was excited about that given the scale that I operate at.
Hm, didn't occur to me to look at it that way so you're likely correct.

I am personally 41 and I've fought tooth and nail to not just sit at the computer for the sake of it, neither in an office nor at home. Nowadays when I sit at my desk, I have goals in mind and if I catch myself not working towards any of them in an hour, I just get up and go do something else and someplace else.

But I maintain that nowhere did I imply something as dismissive and shallow as "just don't be sad" or, not shallow but still far from what I meant, "fight this with positivity". It's not that at all, it was much more along the lines of: "find your own purpose and don't wait for others to impose theirs on you".

In my current job I am one of 3 recent hires (just recently hit the 4 months mark) and since we come from very different backgrounds compared to the company's culture, we often have 5 PRs just waiting on reviews and we find ourselves completely blocked on any further progress (can't even open other PRs since we still haven't received feedback on the current ones and that would severely change what code we should put in the new ones).

I have raised the problem multiple times, from squad leaders all the way to the CEO, but it seems that the people are cool with it and don't mind if you just twiddle your thumbs every now and then. So I started picking up more and more sysadmin skills which I need for my home NAS management and potentially other home servers in the future. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But maybe my comment up-thread was way too short and open for negative interpretation?
Yes, Prague is the extreme place to live.
For sure. Some people are ok with doing arbitrary tasks for the powerful as long as the money is good. Others of us, me included, care about actual impact on users and the world.

I remember interviewing one very sharp engineer who was desperate to get out of Facebook. He had been attracted by the exciting problems, but after a few years he was entirely sick of spending most of his time trying to shift metrics by fractions of a percent. Metrics whose only real meaning was, at best, increasing the money flowing into Facebook. And all of that was years before the recent revelations on the dangers FB poses and how little they care about that.

My current solution to this problem has been to work for an effective not-for-profit. It still has its problems, but my colleagues at least care about actual impact, and I'm still excited for the chance to make a dent in problems I care about.

(As an aside, I'll note that it's also possible to find meaning in commercial work. I love building things for users, and I'm happy to charge for them when we're creating real value. But given American managerial culture, user benefit is often at best a side effect at many companies.)
What was the aftermath? How much did you lose or had to pay?
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I changed every few months a job after graduation. At the end I stayed in the one with best salary and okayish product. Workload is really low 9 months a year with some meetings and really relaxed deadlines. 3 months I do 50-60 hours weeks. Working topics and scope are a bit boring, but I have exciting private development as my side project what I intend to commercialize. That’s also my career path, there are enough potential candidates for better paid management roles at my day job. I goes without these stressful times I would feel bored and depressed. Salary wise only single company would be better in town, so my options are limited here.
Banks don't need bailed out if interest rates go up. They have very little exposure to mortgages.

They slice up the loans and sell them as MBSes to the Fed and pension funds.

If interest rates go up ~1% - pension liabilities decrease ~12%: https://www.pentegra.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The-Impa... This is not terrible for pension funds.

The Fed doesn't need bailed out...
It's the metabolic pathway that's most jarring: a poison that gets broken down into other poisons, themselves worse than the alcohol.

If your body (liver) didn't produce an enzyme called acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, you would die from one drink.
Why not? People are walking into stores with bags, throwing as much as they can in and then walking out just fine. All in broad daylight. What is amazon doing that will prevent that?
Did you try social distancing at an airport or in the airplane during the pandemic?

> Masking has become a religion.

I mean masks are effective, but there definitely is cargo-cultish behavior to be detected.
These laptops can actually be upgraded with newer GPUs as well. They use a modular graphics card standard called MXM 3.0B, although not all GPUs are compatible. Seems like the 980m and 970m are popular choices: https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/HP-EliteBook-8760w/3989
> Basically, the "fixed rate" very rarely was smaller than the floating rate.

Well that's obviously expected. But by taking an fixed rate loan you're basically betting that the rate will increase in the future. Of course there's a risk that the interest rates will stay close to zero for the next 30 years like in Japan.
I really wish cities in the US had those kind of sprawling electronics markets. So cool and useful. Like if you just need a single SPDT switch instead of a 20 pack on Amazon… you can’t do that right now.
My tip is "distrust against the future value of the currency". Bricks do depreciate as well, but not massively.

The bond buying programs of the ECB are pretty expensive already, and the Green New Deal will be mostly implemented on credit. And Europe is already quite deep in debt. So is the USA, but the USA can at least derive some strength from the dollar being the world reserve currency, with no clear challenger in view.
I watched Good Will Hunting recently and was struck by this scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQBHkzOYvw), particularly these lines:

WILL
What do you mean "cop out?" I mean, w-w-what's
wrong with layin' brick?

SEAN
Nothing.

WILL
There's nothing wrong---That's some-- That's
somebody's home I'm building.

SEAN
Right. My dad laid brick. Okay? Busted his ass so I
could have an education.

WILL
Exactly. That's an honorable profession. What's wrong
with..with fixing somebody's car. Someone can get to
work the next day because of me. There's honor in that.

I don't think you're naive. I think it's hard to find "honor" in a lot of software jobs. If you find a job building a booking app for dog-washers, for example, you might be solving a real problem that someone has. But you're not building someone's house; you're not getting someone to work.
Jordan, one of the few reasonable voices out there that truly wants to enrich the lives of others without ulterior motives.
I couldn't find them. I tried on their .jp site as well with no luck.
That’s not what I asked. I asked if gothy-style belt-heavy clothes would work to handle the vast array of bit of clothing might be obligated to handle, while still looking its intended style.
Came here to say the same! I remember vividly being impressed by its paint simulation almost a decade ago, and watercolor mixing. The wheel keeps spinning.

There has been a ton of uptake for alternative color spaces in design tools recently, especially to generate nicer gradients. It’s surprising that art software would be the slowest to evolve.
Apparently the activist is homeless: https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/11/23/a-homeless-amazon-worker...

And “[NLRB] will issue a complaint if the case does not settle” sounds like some nice leverage to have.
All of human history was workers controlling the means of their production until about 10,000 years ago, when class society was introduced in parts of the world, with one class who worked, and an idle class that did not, expropriating surplus labor time from those who worked.

Unexplained labor still exists deep in the Amazon and elsewhere, but mining companies finding new traces of valuable minerals are extinguishing the last of the old free way.
The C collation applied to UTF-8 just orders everything by Unicode codepoint.
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I should have added "attention and validation" as these are normal social things that we all need. Wanting these are not bad, it's just how we get them that can sometimes be unhealthy.

Is it possible your wife has lower self-esteem? It becomes a vicious circle, as you seek ways to increase it using the best ways you know, until you become self-aware enough to step out of the pattern. Does she have opportunities to be praised by other women for non-material or visual qualities? We all need this.
That's not really a neighborhood; it looks more like off-campus apartments for the nearby university.

The dirt rectangle on Google Maps' satellite view shows the extent of the "neighborhood": https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Arizona+State+University,+Te...
I find it hard to believe. Learning also takes time and in software development you need to learn constantly. You can optimize some type of work, maybe you can code faster, but others are fast too! Remember, everyone around you passed the LeetCode test. How would you optimize meetings, communication with the team, reading/reviewing other peoples code?
The skin of a Boeing 747 is about 2mm thick. We’ve been hurling them at 600mph through storms for half a century at this point.

I don’t know for sure but i suspect the airframe of this concept is within reach of current tech.
This caused my mind to have the following thought: I guess kissing is very technically a super-gentle form of biting.
Using advanced devops tools for IoT is always interesting. I have seen a few demos that were variations of the following comic : https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/05/26/the-internet-of-th...

One demo using Microsoft Azure IoT hub, docker, digital twins (a glorified json from memory), and a raspberry pi was fun because it took minutes to deploy something to make a light blink.
Yeah I dug into the update catalog and downloaded the update that way myself. So there's a few ways to get it. Folks above mentioned the Update Assistant giving it if the Windows Update screen doesn't.
Why do you think there's some algorithm you should run that will, in some determinate sense, tell you how to behave here?

The comment you're replying to was poking fun at you for assuming there would be some objective set of criteria, when in reality there isn't anything of the sort.

There are a lot of heuristics I use when picking out a 3rd party library, but I'm an engineer and these heuristics are practical, so I doubt you'll enjoy thinking in those terms, if your prior comments are any indication of what you're looking for here.
Many of the comments here are pointing out the pluses in a SWE job. But for the most part it's as they say "Putting lipstick on a pig" If you don't like the job there is very little anyone can point out to make it better. My suggestion is to start looking for a new career to get into. The advantage of being a software guy is that you can get paid well. Which gives you the opportunity to work for a bit earn enough money to then try other careers.

Plan to move but start now.
You should reconcile these:

"I have always felt like the schooling system is not a place for me to thrive"

and

"I do love learning new things and concepts, but I simply feel like I am not the right person to do it because my thinking is just way too slow/limited"

Given these two statements, and the struggles you're going through -- why not reconsider/rethink the first statement? You don't have to pursue a degree, but some formal education might actually help you.
See also https://brightdata.com/ (formerly Luminati Networks) which does the same hting but with Chrome Extensions.
Absolutely. I feel there's a lot social pressure involved in accepting to dedicate half our waking time and most of our mental energy to jobs that in no way we'd choose to do if it wasn't for the money.

Not only are many (most?) of SWE jobs quite questionable in their value, but they are also very inefficient in my experience, at least in bigger organizations. So you're not only dealing with the dissatisfaction of doing something that's pretty meh (at best), but also with the boredom of being super inefficient and knowing you could do so much more with your time.

Of course, we're all free to leave and do something else. But it's not easy to go against the current.
Well, it pays off to be aware of the issue at least, right?

I too have grappled with this for a while but I believe this struggle was for the better and it eventually led to reduced stress. Nowadays when I mentally proclaim "I am done for the day!" I know that I did my best and that I have put enough hours / effort to not feel guilty about not putting more.

So yeah, you are right. I just think people should go through this fight for discipline because it's ultimately better for their mental health when they learn to put boundaries.
POWER10 could probably game RYF certification. Raptor is really much stricter than everyone on that topic. If you make bits of firmware non-upgradeable, I believe you can pass them as RYF-certified even if they are blobs - they are counted as part of the hardware.

Raptor didn't accept anything like that, closest is the minimal (it's a RISC after all) microcode mask rom in POWER9 core that AFAIK is effectively covering some hairy and rarely used instructions as multiple standard Power instructions. And it's so small thing that I am not really sure it's there...
If you replace what GP wrote with:

> Congress wanted to pretend in front of the voters and the public that they were making it difficult ...

Then it makes sense
Interestingly, Warsaw is much more affordable. They also build a lot more condos there. AFAIK around 100 000 new housing units were built in Warsaw in span of just 5 years. That pushes the prices down.
Forecasters Foresee a $600B Chip Industry
>But the average person (or even the average IT dept) does not want to open their machine to update the BIOS.

I happily updated BIOS until I experienced a catastrophic failure that bricked the board, don't know how. Since then I'm terrified of updating BIOS. I've also experienced UEFI conflicts(?) loading linux to new boards that took forever to sort out. It seems BIOS development has not progressed as well or far as one might expect, but that may just be me and my klutzy bad luck.
Seems like this thread has highlighted at least two type of relationships people have with their job. Those who’ve accepted the seemingly Faustian bargain of working at something they accept is meaningless. These people treat work as just that and don’t attempt to derive much value from it other than the sustenance it provides. In the other camp are those who have found work they find deeply meaningful, often at the expense of their own financial interest. For those in the latter camp, can you share what you are working on? Curious to learn.
All that aside, some of the Go code here is not optimal or “standard”. Take the first example, it uses appending instead of using the more performant strings.Builder.
>Kind of like when women say they want men with a sensitive side, in touch with emotions, but in reality most women want a strong man who doesn't show any emotions.

First off I want to emphasize I agree with this statement. I don't look at the world in an idealistic way. So let's make sure we're on the same page about this. Women are less empathetic and understanding about men than men are about women and this is a generality that is very very true. This entire narrative of the man as a bumbling buffoon trying to understand this mysterious creature called a woman is a false narrative. Women are by far significantly MORE ignorant about how men think, but women in general just don't care as much; hence why you see men coming up with deep behavioral theories about women like "friendzoning" and the like while women dismiss men as muscular simpletons with penises as brains all the while forgetting the fact that men are responsible for the majority of civilization and technology. Either way, I don't have any ire against the behavioral dichotomy between sexes, it's just nature.

>Could it be that your idea of a boss is how you'd think the world should work, but necessarily not how it does.

I don't think I'm biased. I've worked with leaders who I like and want to succeed. So from experience I've seen it happen. That already literally proves that the world can work this way.

Logically as well, employees do their best work when they love their work, if I hate my work and I hate my boss... well I'm only going to do the minimal work to keep him happy. Any other shit that happens I'm sweeping under the rug.

Typical example: If I code review an ass holes code and I notice a fatal bug, I'm going to approve it to fuck that ass hole over. Then I'll claim it's my fault for not noticing it during review and the ass hole will get blamed for sloppy code either way.

I'm not sure what makes you think the world works that way. From my experience... it doesn't at all. Bosses who do this in my experience literally have to be paying their employees pure gold. In the majority of the software world, however, developers can easily leave and find a job with a better boss.

I'm thinking either you're a manager who's paying people 600k salaries or you're an employee receiving that salary. If the salary isn't that high and if you're a manager, you'll note the attrition rate for your team is astronomical. Probably 3x other teams.... unless the entire company has this shitty culture then the attrition rate for the company is huge. If you're an employee and not getting 500k, well... leave now is my advice.

I've also seen bosses who are assholes while managing to pay their employees low salaries. This only happens when most of the employees are junior, in the sense that this is their first or second job and don't know any better. Guys who've been around much longer know the difference.
I'm curious what you see the most widely used as alternative distros? Also Kubesail is awesome, look to be leveraging it more this year.
People’s opinions on this stuff contain a lot of unstated pain points. Monolith first argues against a coping mechanism people use because they hate Big Ball of Mud projects.

Anyone who has ever done repair work can tell you how often people wait until it’s far too late to do basic maintenance. Software is similarly bimodal. People either run it till it falls apart, or they baby it like a collector’s item.

We have not collectively learned the trick of stopping at the first signs of pain or “strange noises” and figuring out what’s going on. But mostly we have not learned the trick of insisting to the business that we are doing our job when we do this, instead of plowing on blindly for six to eighteen months until there’s a break in the schedule. By which time everything’s a mess and two of the people you hoped would help you clean it up have already quit.
See also: the $10k reporting threshold for banks. Deliberately doing smaller transfers to avoid the reporting threshold can be illegal (depending on intent), and the banks are legally mandated to report suspicious activity (such as that) as well.
Why we'll end up eating bugs
So from your own experience it's 50% are drinking? Do you have references/stats to back it up?
Thanks for the recommendation! You mention that it uses South Korea, does it talk about Shipbuilding? The United States used to be a global ship building giant, but after Regan unilaterally reduced subsidies, it got completely crushed by state subsidized Japanese, Korean, and now Chinese shipbuilders. It's gotten so bad that it's a real national security risk in terms of industrial capability.
When I negotiated my salary last year, one of the things I brought up was inflation. I felt it put me at a disadvantage given that I expected it to quickly get whittled down in value shortly after settling it. A more rational thing to do would have been to wait until inflation settled down and then to use the new and less-volatile cost-of-living benchmark as a basis for negotiation.
Munich is crazy. You would have to be a very upper middle class to afford children and a house there. Unless you inherited one, of course.
So you are saying if one had the choice between being a surgeon saving lives vs swe making easy money, its unfathomable to you if one chooses the former over the latter?

I am trying to understand.
No, and clearly that doesn’t mesh with bioreactor food which typically isn’t enjoyable to eat. I’m saying the science on the health relationship with food isn’t great and I don’t trust it. Especially in the ‘healthy at any size’ era we now live in. I eat meat to help cover gaps in understanding, and by careful measurement I can tell that I’m healthier when I eat it, or specifically less healthy when I don’t. If the science can be improved then maybe we could then shift away from meat.
I am Jeff's complete lack of surprise...

Let's hope the complaint is sustained. It's bad enough that this tactic is even tried. The right to unionize is meaningless if organizers can be silenced this easily.

It's difficult to balance at-will employment, the right to fire people for cause, and the protection of union leaders and members. But there have been far too many cases like this in the last few months alone to believe these are all justified by individuals' behavior and not attempts to stop unionization.
Physical access just means that evil maid attacks go back to being interesting.

You need both.