skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s get some housekeeping out of the way at the top: DevOps isn’t a job. I see too many articles written about ‘DevOps Engineers’ and ‘DevOps Specialists’ and my understanding of the term doesn’t allow this kind of terminology. DevOps is a design goal like Agile.

Sorry, but the sheer number of people out there working in jobs with "DevOps" as their title and the thousands and thousands of positions that recruiters are trying to fill at the moment means that this idea, which you're far from the first to posit, is simply not correct anymore (if it ever was).

A DevOps is a sysadmin who can program. That's it, end of story. This puts these people in contrast to the non-programming sysadmin (e.g. perhaps of the Windows era of expecting a proper UI to configure things), and the non-administrative developer (again, also very much of the Windows era of producing enterprise software that is "thrown over the fence" to Ops).

The Unix administrators who scripted things in the past are the direct spiritual predecessors of the modern "DevOps" who simply have newer and better tools to accomplish the same goals.

> This means a number of tools can be DevOps as a service.

No, that doesn't make any sense at all. Tools merely provide capabilities; these must be exercised by people who understand them in order to realize value. Even as basic things are automated away, there is still a considerable role for the people who are able to knit systems together, especially for being able to unblock pure-Dev teams (for which there is still a tremendous role), facilitate test engineering and QA needs (again, a specific skillset that shouldn't always be lumped upon developers), and so forth.

Put differently: when you want to take a shop to the level of maturity to have proper automated deployment, or you get stuck with some broken CI problem you cannot figure out, when you need to make your existing product multi-region, when your org acquires some other org and you need to bridge the products together, when you need to expand to a hybrid or multi-cloud system... all of these kinds of situations require the kinds of skillsets that are labelled as "devops" today.

Don't confuse the map for the territory.
If I write a text file to a USB drive without any iot features, and then throw the USB drive in my closet I'm not seeing how anyone could hack it .

I guess you could drop an emp pulse on my house and fry the drive, but absent that it's safe.
I m trying to sell some through godaddy now and i am awed at how bad and broken their system is. It takes 6+ tries to list anything. Sedo was kind of ok but i did not get any bids. In general i have no idea what i m doing and the services aren't helping
I look forward to Apple incurring more anti-competitive regulation and bringing the entire industry with it so that two companies do not get to decide by fiat what software is and is not allowed to be written, and what businesses do and do not get to exist
Why does every Silicon Valley company have these creepy looking people on their websites?
Three times with: "Yet you participate in society. Curious!" in the thread! I wasn't even trying to get those kinds of responses. Amazing.
to check if mechanical brakes have released and aren't seized after having been parked.
Ford Is Going to War for More Software Engineers
From another comment it looks like the IP addresses are not accurate. Otherwise, it would have been interesting to see if many small donations were coming from the same IP.
Do you think the truckers would consider replacing vaccine mandates with police killings as a step down in oppression?
Tripod and Lycos are still around?!
Perhaps this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

> On occasion, the system stays in the active mode (with the screen off) for a longer interval of time. These longer active intervals occur for a variety of reasons, for example, processing incoming email or downloading critical Windows updates.
By jove, I haven't seen this since primary school! It was perhaps 2003-2004, one of the other fellows had just learnt of it and he made each of us sit through it all. Since then, I have been searching for the lost legend.

A visit was much more annoying in IE6 on Windows 2000, which had no way to escape the dialogues.

I believe the original domain was "themostannoyingwebsiteintheworld.com". I would wager it is now either SEOspam or squatted.
> False. I bet the vast majority of content available online is now (think of pics and short videos) created on smartphones.

The actual main point he was making is that you can't use the device to create things for the device, things that can make use of the device's capabilities. In effect the device is a console. And consoles are purely for consumption. Sure, consoles allow you to make recordings of your gaming sessions, etc., but they can't be used to create the games. And gaming recordings are not content, but a byproduct enabled by the actual content.
Firefox on iOS uses WebKit for showing web content, it doesn't use Gecko or any other components you'd think of as "Firefox".

It does have some Mozilla added plugins and syncs with Firefox logins, but the meat of the application isn't really "Firefox".
Interestingly, the first ever candid photo of a person was taken in France.

https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-insolite/premier...
Have you tried creating a messaging app that works in iOS Safari? Thanks to Safari's janky-AF scroll behavior, you can be sure that it's a terrible experience.

Source: I work on a major tech company's web-based messaging product.
Yeah but living in a van means they're not as wretchedly homeless as the campers in the city.
Serious question to the people on this site who are employed by Facebook:

Does it not nag you to be employed by one of - if not the most - ethically disgusting companies in the world?

Do you guys just click "hide" on all these articles - on average 1-2 a day - where Facebook has committed yet another absolutely disgusting transgression?
YYYY-MM-DD is the true path. It is known.
This is victim blaming
previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30027502
Microhttp: Event-driven, zero-dependency web svr, 500 LOC, capable of 100k r/sec
I think that most people mean "foreign" as foreign government (such as CCP) support, not just support from middle-class Americans (and Europeans) who identify with the protests and happen to be foreigners.

And while it could be that foreign governments have donated with false identities over GSG, it is more likely that they would send in people to figure out who is really capable of moving things, and contact them with cash, tips, and resources.

(I am not commenting on the envoy, as so far have only seen it in news outlets [such as CNN & NYT on the left and Fox on the right] who have not earned my trust - so I do not know what is really happening.)
"browser engine" != "browser app"
Personal peeve: the chestnut is not very nutty. And I love nuts of almost all sorts.

It's really more like a small potato.
The conflict between the market wanting systems that are (a) as small and light as possible and (b) as fast as possible means that modern systems are designed to have close integration between the platform and the OS to perform appropriate thermal management. If the OS doesn't indicate that it supports doing this, the hardware will run in a much more constrained mode. Apple can do this without too much trouble since they implement the whole stack, but it's more complicated in the PC space. Intel have a spec called Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework (DPTF), but the useful part of it is the adaptive thermal policy, and Intel refuse to publicly document it.

I reverse engineered a chunk of this (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/54923.html) and it got merged into Intel's Thermal Daemon (https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon) which /should/ improve things, but it's complicated by this mechanism allowing for vendor-specific controls that are usually implemented by having a background service running under Windows that triggers them.

There's multiple things that can be criticised here:
1) Intel pushing OEMs to adopt a technology that they (a) don't document and (b) don't write proper Linux support for
2) Canonical not making it clear that OEM certification only requires that the system work, not that it work as well as it does under Windows
3) Dell not figuring out a decent solution for this, even for systems that they nominally support Linux on

Dell could build hardware that doesn't rely on adaptive thermal management, but that hardware would either be bigger or slower than competitors' hardware. Fixing this unilaterally is hard - we need an open spec that's implemented by both hardware vendors and integrated into mainstream Linux distributions. Given where we are, the easiest way to get there would be for Intel to publicly document DPTF.
Powers of 10
I doubt someone who lived that close to the honking had the ability and chutzpah to do this.

After seeing how angry people got over Joe Rogan, I absolutely think there are militantly progressive people who are more concerned with the content of speech than the chilling effect of limiting free speech who would do this. Which isn't to say I agree with the Ottawa protesters or bridge blockaders; I think both went well outside the bounds of free speech.
I think this is a good change. While I would have preferred to see support for Graphviz over Mermaid, I understand Mermaid was probably chosen for the sake of easier integration. Either way, it will be nice to be able to embed diagrams rather than constantly re-generate and re-commit images to the repo.
I'm curious why they went for mermaid rather then GraphViz. Can anybody comment?
A helpful utility to run before you get too deep into trying to run Linux on some hardware is the 'Firmware Test Suite'; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite

It runs an impressively large suite of checks and can help identify areas of platform insanity, such as regions of ACPI tables that are wholesale missing or otherwise don't make sense per the specs. Ideally while your laptop is under a premium support care package, you can relay this report output to the vendor and keep after them to fix things. If you do not have support or the device is older, you may have some success with back-porting sections of ACPI tables from similar platforms (e.g. the XPS and Precision lines are very similar).

In some cases the Intel ACPI Source Language (`iasl` ) compiler used in Firmware Test Suite will have false-positives/negatives if the ACPI table was initially compiled by Microsoft tooling. You'll see mention of `MSFT` in the ACPI table dump during boot (via dmesg).
> Resolve this problem, and then Europeans will just move over to a local national company and then the issue of Apple being anti competitive will be no longer relevant, as there will be competition.

If Microsoft wasn't able to successfully enter the smartphone space after spending billions and making a product many consumers loved, why should we expect the results to be different for new companies just by deregulating Europe?

Network effects are the primary challenge to competing with Google and Apple, not regulatory restrictions.
I'll im hearing is that this person doesn't like change.
This is Intel's doing, on Microsoft's behalf. There was a big push to replace the old/"normal" sleep (S3) with "modern standby" (S0ix).

In S3, the system controller powers down the CPU and nonvolatile storage while keeping RAM in a low-power self-refresh mode until you wake it up. Your operating system is not running -- the microcontroller that reads the lid sensor and power button determines when the laptop will resume.

In S0ix, the CPU is still running, and the OS kernel is supposed to put itself into a low power state most of the time, while periodically doing things like checking email and performing updates. The lowest power state still uses gobs more power than S3, and Microsoft is aggressively irresponsible about when and why it wakes up. It's more like "turning off the display and spinning down disks after inactivity" and less like a real sleep state. Windows is running the show 100% of the time, even when the laptop is in your backpack.

All this because Microsoft was jealous that Apple can check email and download updates without waking up using their T2 system controller and now their own SoCs. But Apple is way less aggressive about waking up, their firmware is generally pretty okay, and T2 still uses less power than an x86 in standby.

Windows, on the other hand, has to run on every PC, so they can't specify some crazy advanced system controller, nor does Microsoft have any control over the firmware it runs... Instead they had to ask Intel to add a new sleep state that puts Windows in the driver's seat, and in order to make sure it gets used and people don't "accidentally" get stuck using the "old" S3 sleep, they made it so that you can only have either S3 or S0ix enabled, so all system builders would essentially be forced to switch. Some (Lenovo) offered a BIOS flag to surreptitiously switch between S3/S0ix before boot time, but even that seems to be going away or broken lately.

I have to believe that this will get better eventually, if only because the current state of things is so atrocious, but I wouldn't plan on buying a new laptop in the next 2-3 years.
> Dells batteries are rated for less cycles (half compared to apple) [...] They only sell refurbished batteries

Are there any decent battery suppliers that sell dell compatible replacements?
Firefox on Android asks after the second alert if I want to prevent the page from opening further dialogs which I can select to silence it.
Apple hit with Valentine’s Day fine of $5.6M over Dutch dating app regulations
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is a significant regression over the years.
> The Canadian portion of the route will take the cable through fishing grounds and the Fundian Channel-Browns Bank Area of Interest, an area being considered for designation as a Marine Protected Area because of its deepsea corals and sponges.

> Fishing groups in Nova Scotia say their feedback was ignored, including a suggested routing that would avoid key fishing grounds.

> "The consultation here was largely non-existent," said Kris Vascotto with the Atlantic Groundfish Council, which represents large fishing companies in the region.

> Facebook owns 80 per cent of the cable. Other partners in the project include Microsoft and Vodafone.
Excellent comment with all the advantages of Django/Python clearly laid out. 100% agree.
Some people have a "lightning doesn't strike twice" theory about the SEC where getting busted once means you can do the same thing 10x more in the future and won't be busted again. So a $100M fine today unlocks billions in "legitimate" profit tomorrow.
> Black-hole-driven outflows ... probably play a role in heating and expelling gas (thereby suppressing star formation)

I feel like there is a neat science-fiction story in here somewhere :) A hyper-advanced space civilization embarks on a multi-million-year mission to tow black holes into neighboring galaxies in order to suppress star formation there and thus reduce the chances of competing civilization appearing in the next few billion years
I was going to suggest, "Black Holes Provide Umbilical Cords to New Stars"
Facebook Groups supporting the convoy created by foreign content mills:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2022/02/12/repo...
Well it's a matter of interpretation. You can call it just fundamental misunderstanding of the Canadian constitution, or an attempt to overthrow the government, but either way having the GG, Senate, or Elections Canada force an election while the government enjoys the confidence of the house would be a coup. I'm fine with giving the protesters the benefit of the doubt and just agreeing that they don't understand how the electoral process works in Canada.
What was/is(?) fraudulent about it, from the perspective of a single citizen who invested?
The Yoga Slim 7 is a great laptop for the money. (still soldered RAM)
The server-to-server part of matrix has to be convoluted because it is poperly distributed and does encrypted group communication. Obviously, if you leave out security, you can come up much simpler protocol. Matrix has also protection again message loss, which is not in the IRC protocol.

Of course, if those are not needed matrix protocol is just overly complex.

The client-to-server protocol of matrix gets complex due to the large number of features matrix has. The advantage of matrix over xmpp is that those features are mandatory.

Of course, somebody could still try to come up with a very minimal text client. I think there are plugins for some popular messaging clients.

These days, few people are hardcore enough that they want the kind of minimal interface offered by IRC.

I'm not sure matrix should offer a lot of discovery options. Just like webbrowsers don't find web pages.
Well, each case has to be annulled individually - the justice system doesn't do bulk acquittals I think.

It's also hugely embarrassing to the justice system of course. In a way it's the fault of societies near blind assumption that expert=truthful. The Fujitsu people need to go to jail because they repeatedly assured the courts that the software couldn't be at fault even though they had a bug tracker full of loss-of-transactionality bugs. And the legal system just said, well, they're the experts, so if they said it, it's true.
The parent is not just talking about budget cuts. There were policy updates to not pursue most traffic violations and other minor offenses at the beginning of the pandemic (or to take down the info, but not into custody), like in Philly.

There has also been a push to do away with pretextual stops, which includes a lot of traffic law. Not sure that has been wide spread enough, and may also be too recent, to impact these numbers.
There’s a great interview here[0] with some of the folks in Missouri and NYC mentioned in the article. The podcast hosts are actual virologists and immunologists so they really get into the science.

0: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-864/
In the 1950s, you could have a speed skating world record and not be focused on perfecting your training regimen, just like in the early 2000s, you could live a Shaun White lifestyle and dominate halfpipe. As more competitors emerge in a sport, the training system that the top athletes follow gets refined. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1076586/the-chinese-...
I disagree - Spotify is biggest music service despite being the smallest company among its competitors.

Network effects can be broken. It’s not like Google and Apple are #1 in every area where they compete.
My first offence occurred when I was 13 years old. I'd chalk it up to inexperience and a lack of ability to anticipate the consequences of my actions. I was really self-absorbed. I'm not the same person I was back then. It has almost been a decade.
Also no push notifications which at this point is the only reason to bother with native iOS apps as everything else is off limits anyway.
I was a fan of Joe Rogan going back to News Radio. The thing that turned me off him was seeing a clip where he's hanging out with this other comedian (I forget the guy's name) who is boasting about how he used to deny female comedians stage time at a comedy club he managed unless they gave him a blowjob. Rogan's laughing at this in the clip. That's "genuinely creepy" in my view.
substitute Ford for Tesla in the early part of the last century, and on the timescales you are talking about, General Motors ate Ford's lunch.

furthermore, Musk is very impulsive and could already have been cancelled by the SEC for his mistakes: I bring that up to point out that by hitching your wagon to this one individual (or Henry Ford) you are taking on enormous risk, risk that is diversifiable and there's no reward for.
We're waiting for Crafting Typecheckers, Bob!
Only the mermaid identifier is supported for triple backticks blocks, you can't put js and have it spit out script that executes in the browser.
I don't think you get arrested for pulling a chair?
Similar experience with the battery and sleep on XPS devices. Constantly opening my backpack to discover a literal hot mess.

At this point I’m fed up - what’s a better Windows laptop? Not interested in touchscreen/tablet modes and I’m willing to pay quite a bit. I am leaning towards something from the Surface Laptop line, but open to suggestions.
And its really just Safari. Apple forbids other browser engines in iOS so every third party browser in the app store is effectively a safari skin and not at all related to the product's true codebase. Real Firefox uses the Gecko browser engine. iOS Firefox is webkit.

To quote Apple's iOS dev guidelines:

"2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I think that program is for any industry
this is probably sarcasm.
I see what you're saying. I believe both players are not playing that close to optimally, but it is hard to prove this without a more optimal AI. Quackle's AI does not account for many factors, and we can find many situations where it makes the wrong move, so we know it's not playing optimally.
What? Covid is over. Everyone was unmasked yesterday at the Superbowl.

I assume the premier's kids are going through the exact same restrictions. Socialized healthcare means you are all in this together right?
> For example for the given article users of dating apps can already use different payment providers, provided they go with a different phone.

That's right! Just throw out your iPhone, re-buy every app and any digital content you've ever bought for it, and switch to Android! It's easy!

This is like arguing that Microsoft wasn't monopolistic in the 90s because Linux existed.
Quite introverted myself, only that extroverted friends (?) do not reach out or initiate, so it all comes down to what I do. If I don't contact/initiate, then nothing happens, except with the friends I often talk with online anyway.
Different demographics. The support is very high in younger cohorts, and elderly want them killed.

Polarized in every way imaginable.
Huge messes and baseball-sized pods are characteristic of black walnut trees. Chestnuts are much smaller.
The advantage of XMLHttpRequest is that you get feedback through a callback. When the user clicks the vote arrows, they could turn into something else (such as a spinner) that would disappear when the API request finishes. If my internet is spotty, having some feedback (so I know my votes didn't timeout) would be nice.
That all makes sense, I agree totally.

One of the challenges with this sort of unmotivated code (unmotivated in a literal sense, not a derogatory sense -- we don't know what's motivating it) is that it's very hard to know how general a solution to design. I love the C++ template universe when things "just work," but it's very easy to get into a cycle where just a /bit/ more complexity gets you a /bit/ more generality -- only to realize that after beautifully polishing that modular code, you only use it in one or two contexts.

std::apply is a good example of putting that generality and complexity into the standard library; if a caller can then use that directly, even with loss of generality, that's usually my preference. If nothing else, it means folks encountering the caller will have fewer layers to understand, and many fewer non-standard layers.
The US Southwest is hitting megadrought status
You're right. I'm sorry if I was disrespectful with the participants in the discussion and the OP, that wasn't my intetion. It's indeed a completely different situation.
Edward Snowden Says 'Media Pushing for War'
Globalisation is coming to an end, as pandemic has shown how countries have placed too much power on third parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Facebook did it, everybody copies Facebook. It's awful.