skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you have money doesn’t mean you can hire anyone you want to. Talent is scarce, especially in highly-specialized roles, and people have free will.

I think the complexity of GitHub’s data management requirements would surprise you. Better to withhold judgment until you possess all the facts.
After receiving a “Logitech” webcam in sketchy packaging from Amazon last year, I promptly returned it and ordered the same model from Best Buy for local pick up. The retail packaging was completely different and the webcam itself felt heavier. The price difference was all of about $15… well worth the peace of mind.

That was likely my last electronics purchase from Amazon.
> Seeing how little pre-college programming experience matters vs. coming in with no programming knowledge is an interesting lesson of doing college.

Wait what do you mean by this? I started programming in 6th grade (after begging my dad for a month to spend $50 on a Java textbook) and so the CS portions of college was incredibly easy. When I didn't understand algorithms I just implemented them and learned by doing (and I instantly understood how they could be applied to past projects). I would show up to classes only on the midterm and final days because it was such a headstart. I mostly focused on the humanities because there's nothing the computer science department could teach me that I couldn't teach myself online.
Recently former kid here.
No kids ain't nicer (anecdotal evidence of 1).
If anything, they have become more of a pain in the recent years thanks to unrestricted YouTube + $social_media.
The pros of reading the news can outweigh the cons if you choose good sources. For example, a friend who is Chinese has become a lot more alert when going outdoors and taking public transit due to spikes in anti-Asian racism in many cities, which could help her avoid physical assault.

Quality newspapers have also been a relatively better source for information than social media (e.g. when newspapers identified a viral Tweet about supposed combat footage in Ukraine as a clip from a video game flight simulator).

I suppose one could completely cut out both social media and news entirely, but then it's hard to receive useful information (e.g. that gas prices and wheat prices are expected to go up, and so many people should plan accordingly).
when i spent not quite a year working for (non AWS) Amazon, a document was leaked that such treatment was actually business plan. It was beyond obvious before the document was leaked.

I contrasted the structure of several years of Apple engineering with the insanity of this business plan, which put roughly a dozen layers of non technical middle managers above our team of people with pretty hardcore technical degrees and who were dependable and capable, yet who were treated like fungible assets.

I became resolute to quit as soon as possible...but it DID take months to believe my perceptions of the stupidity were valid.

Life's too short to spend working for oligarchs.
The time was reduced by 68%. Typical confusing factor, lots of people get a "reduction" mixed up with "rate of work". Happens all the time in games..

I would agree with you, 200% faster is more appropriate, or time reduced by 68%.
Your Ubuntu VPS is free, open, loosely configured, and vulnerable.

Your Netlify account is closed, tightly configured with specific focus on one problem, and secured with timely patches and a monitored network.

What product is free, open, tightly configured, and secured with updates and a default iptables that isn’t just -P INPUT ACCEPT?

Perhaps someone awesome is providing docker images that have the latest and greatest in single-problem-focused software, with a built in firewall, and a security team? That’s the kind of thing I’d be into helping out, in my spare time.
I think the point is that most of this, other than buying extra hard drives, is solved by having a decent FOSS project.

For example, an OS that has a nextcloud-like suite of services, and a very easy to use GUI to enable a VPN / mesh network for all of your devices pretty much removes much of the concerns you mentioned regarding networking/firewalls/etc.
The people who provide the funding and the labor which perpetuate the existence of employers who exploit workers aren't innocent -- simply complicit. Or, at best, negligent.
This is a one sided thread not taking into account the bad behaviour by the boot camps themselves. There are plenty who just point their “students” to the Odin Project and go, here’s your reading material. Then they pair untrained kids with each other and call it a day. Where is their skin in the game?

I’m talking from experience. There’s one, which I won’t name, roping in kids from South Asia, Africa, and South America and tying them up with ISAs. I wouldn’t call them scummy but don’t feel great about them either.
Rise in defense spending means smaller increase for science in new U.S. budget
Reading text on a low-res screen sucks. I agree, color isn't that important though.

Depends on your workload, compiling a large program can chew a lot of RAM.
> I don't understand, how do you end paying 150% of the principal loan if it's zero interest?

That extra 50% is a once-off fee.

A high fee, to be sure, and one that is deferred, but a fee nonetheless.
I left my job when covid started and I do not intend to return into the workforce ever. I run some small projects and make a bit of money on it, although it is much less than what I did with the 9-5 job I have more money now than before.

That's because Working has a cost:

- living in an expensive area with high rents

- transportation to the company

- Eating out (No time to cook)

- Taxes!

- Health (Sitting around so much got me neck issues)

In the end you end up not making any significant money and just playing into the pockets of some greedy landlord or company.
Easy: push it to a preproduction server first.
But people do have an understanding that some schools are better than others. That's why Harvard has prestige and is well known even in those neighborhoods and some random school doesn't.
> Lambda school, which fortunately also collapsed was notorious for this.

This statement seems to be going unchallenged. It wouldn't surprise me, but if you check @BloomTech and @Austen on twitter, you can see they're still talking it up: https://twitter.com/BloomTech https://twitter.com/Austen
In the early days of Vuescan, you got unlimited updates for something like $40 and, as far as I can tell, those agreements are still being honoured. I suppose Hamrick could have said "Sorry, your license is for Vuescan, but now it’s vu-scan, that’s different", but he hasn’t.
The problem is configuration itself. Things should not need configuration.

Configuration is for builders, not users.

When you buy a car, do you "configure" the gearbox? The engine?

Imagine yourself buying a car, and the car dealer starts to ask you "where would you like to place the gas tank?" or "How many pipes do you want going from the engine to the gas tank?". Oh and by the way, if you place the gas tank in the wrong place or choose the wrong number or placement for pipes, the car won't start at all; it might even blow up!

This is basically what debian is asking the user to do.
Absolutely, and I genuinely hate that.

But for new open source projects of mine the ease of contribution and user expectation of a github repository are a trade-off worth making even so (I also maintain a self hosted master git repo that I consider the source of truth to -me- but these days it syncs from, rather than to, github, just because of the trade-offs involved).
It seems to me like one thing that would have made these failures way more manageable would be a solid adaptive load throttling framework. Presumably, the total load only exceeded their maximum capacity by a couple percent, so a good identity-aware throttling framework should be able to maintain full functionality for ~97% of users by shedding requests early in the flow, or probably better if some automated traffic is prioritized lower and can be dropped first. If I remember correctly, Tencent had a nice paper about how they do this, but I can't find a link now.
'Unfreeze Afghan Funds' Demanded After 13,000 Newborns Die from Malnutrition
You intentionally filed for a trademark for "Webassembly" and "WASM". You did not file for a trademark for "Webassembly Foundation".
> I didn't state either way, I just reported the claims that anyone can verify online.

I hope you can understand how making unsupported claims of this caliber can be very damaging specially if done without any verification whatsoever. You didn't stated it but you did implied it.

> Are you implying Wasmer was rejected from the Alliance for a different reason?

You shall ask them instead of me.
I had to quit my job due to mental health (autism). I rationalised it at the time, thinking with all the newfound time I could get so much done specifically for what I wanted to achieve personally rather than what brings in revenue for some billionaire family I don't know in Germany. 4 months later, I'm feeling a lot better mentally. My discipline has returned and all that. But there was a very heavy dip, especially due to the loneliness. That ritual of seeing some light every morning commute and meeting a lot of people every day is very undervalued, if you like me mostly judge a job by the tasks you have to get done. But it was worth it, quitting your job is a short term loss and a long term gain. We only have one life, and have to sacrifice money and an awe-inspiring LinkedIn facade to find beauty and passion. I'd rather learn music instruments, read three books a week, paint and sew clothes, than to have every day look the same in a cubicle and watch the months go by quickly and forgettably.
Is it true that the intent behind Oxide is that the customer can only run images signed by you?
You're in trouble so by the numbers:

1. We are all struggling with mental health. Such is life. That's no shame.

2. Counselors recommend stability, thus jobs. No shock there.

3. Counselors don't recommend quitting your job with no plan. What's the real story there? I can't tell. You proceed boldly, though . . .

4. You don't have endless possibilities. In fact you just ended one of them yourself, quite publicly!

5. If pragmatic decisions are a burden, consider seeking help. Other people or institutions can make pragmatic decisions for you while preserving your future options.

6. You don't owe anyone an explanation of why you were taken in. It's normal. We all are, sometimes, I think.

7. Real software engineers understand that they don't solve perfect math problems that will be taught in universities in perpetuity. We make things that will be (in some way) destroyed. And we are proud to build destroyable things. Sorry nobody told you abuot that. Seriously. I wish we were clearer!

8. Again, engineers get reassigned. Same as above. Sorry nobody explained that. It is hard for some people to deal. Especially the first time it happens. Hope they have good mentors/managers!

9. It's not any judgement on you. It's seriously not about you. It's about the project(s). It's impersonal and with no kind of malice directed at you.

10. You grew corporate domain knowledge. Companies claim they care abuot that. They don't. They show they care with money. And they pay money for core skills. (Note also, these skills do not degrade over time and you can gain them over a long career.)

11. Talking about "irrational" things. Stop. That's tainted with bad faith. Even if it matters, stop and take a breath.

12. What's next? You don't know but you have some bridges to burn. That should help give you direction.

I only ask that if you stick with software, this is not a meditative profession so much as a highly collaborative one. We work together (and try to understand one another and talk with one another just like this) because we love being makers with other makers. There is nothing so delightful as creating a new thing with someone new, stranger!
Yeah it read like he was competent in his job, but elsewhere in the company people were struggling so he was reassigned to help out.

He should not have treated his employer's asset (the product) as his child and sacrifice things for it.
Yep. Just like Fortran runs my bank. Both critical services, and both rumps of employment for a once-widespread speciality.
Every time I've tried it it's been an absolutely hellish experience. It abstracts too much of what the scanner driver is doing. I don't know what units it's doing things in. It snaps input numbers to the nearest number the scanner driver supports (if I enter "5" it'll change to "4.998" after a second), but again, I have no idea what it's actually measuring because everything's in scaled floats when it shouldn't be.

Auto exposure uh... happens, but I don't get to know what it's decided, nor can I set it manually. I can "lock" the auto exposure for all frames in a strip, or I can add or subtract from the auto-chosen value. Do I get to choose the value though? Nope.

If it runs out of ram it just deletes previews and makes you scan them again when you go scroll back to them (you can increase the ram limit in settings to mitigate this), losing your settings for that image.

All in all, I'm glad I can use my scanner at all, but it's too buggy and I wish they would let me pay for their huge amount of reverse engineering effort as a driver and write my own TWAIN software on top. From what I understand it's just a two-man team behind it and I think it's just too much to expect them to maintain the amount of complexity they've signed on for, so I can't be mad. However, it does sound a lot like that FSF/GPL origin story where RMS got mad he couldn't fix something in the printer software.
> I would have gladly had that discussion in the original context! but he did not reply to me there, nor to any of the other 6 people who replied to that horrendously incorrect comment of his

I think your response in that thread was sufficient. If you feel it was insufficient, that thread would be the correct place to continue the discussion or further clarify any misinformation where people may actually it.

People rarely admit when they are wrong and you don't have a right to (or even a reasonble expectation of) any such admission in this context. Harassing them about it in other threads is not a positive contribution to the discussion or the community.
Stephen E. Wilhite has died
Definitely. You can try stuff like - UI/UX design, backend development, app development etc.
stop.lying.cloud is the accurate AWS status page.
You don't really have control of any of the hardware on AWS, and therefore they can track everything you do. (If they say they don't, you just have to trust them - there's never a real way to verify)
If you're fine with that, then OK - but the public has been shown time and again this doesn't always end happily. So if they leak all of your life's passwords in plaintext, you have to be ok with that.

Which is exactly why OP pointed out this is where we should be headed if we care about privacy.
> I imagine building solutions to problems I see in my surroundings. For some irrational reason, I feel a desire to give back to society.

I think there is nothing irrational about this. Look up “purpose economy”. Grinding away your life in the interests of some company that basically just wants to achieve financial gains is not satisfying at all, we’re just normalizing it because it’s lucrative and we live in a world where bills need to be paid. The future isn’t build by greed and hustle, but by ambition and dreams. Don’t let people tell you off for this. Artists don’t do what they do because they seek any kind of validation for it, yet they shape the cultures that we identify with. All relevant progress, both individual and societal, comes from people who don’t care for the established worldly order. The future is build by dreamers and visionaries, not by people who confuse the treadmill for a life worth living. You do you.
And also install their spyware/crapware, deal with terrible performance, watch it fail every update, etc.

Vuscan is a gem for making computers just work the way people assume they should. I used to have deal with printer/scanner problems regularly for a particular family member; now I sometimes proactively ask to see if any issues have arisen - nope. It has just been working across two printers and a major OS upgrade.
You do realize that people get vaccinated for non-deadly diseases all the time, right?

What doesn't kill you can still put you out of work for a few weeks or longer, which can be a very serious problem for the poor.
Docker will not solve the problem. It's just another layer in the pile of garbage. It's just another confusing system that the user must learn and become an expert in to even get started. Totally the wrong solution.

You want something that just works without the user having to know anything.
"talent"

Nothing I have seen about Azure SQL fills me with confidence about their technical capabilities.

Performance at all tiers is woeful, the networking connectivity is madness, and disaster recovery doesn't.
A new picture of the hot water beneath Yellowstone’s geysers
My father texted me the other day with the question of how to get his old Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 running again. I suggested trying Vuescan - IIRC it used to be possible to use Vuescan drivers with the original software too.

A few hours later he replied "hmm, well, I prefer the original software and I can't get that running, but according to the box [of the scanner] it should work with Windows XP."

So in the end my dad managed to find an old XP computer from 2005 somewhere in his attic, set it up (without internet of course) just to scan his old negatives and slides, then does all the actual editing work on his new laptop. It works but the old computer is clearly the bottleneck.

I think the next time I visit him I'll try to get the software running with Vuescan instead, it probably would be faster (the scanning software always uses 100% of the CPU while scanning, so that might actually be more of a bottleneck than the USB2.0 connection). Plus I wouldn't mind supporting the developers behind it.

(also, re:"get a new scanner", I'm not sure how slide scanners these days would compare to that 5400. Sometimes technology peaks and then gets worse, especially on the consumer end as the market shrinks, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is true for film scanning tech)
Edit: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ruigu/papers/socc18-final100.pd...
It's a mean to an end but also a way to alter/improve your perception of things and your existence outside the daily duties.
Corporate Power Plays
Is it irrational to care about/for your neighbor? I don't think so.
What happened to Azure DevOps?
I read this as witty snark until I saw your other comments and realized you were serious...
> And also install their spyware/crapware, deal with terrible performance, watch it fail every update, etc.

Just to clarify: you mean the software that comes with new scanners, not Vuescan, right?
For me it's less an issue of paying for news, than that the presence of money in news gathering and news publishing creates a conflict of interest about what is shown to readers. The news organization and its reporting will be controlled by whoever controls its finances, which for mainstream news is usually some oligarch (I guess we can use that word here now). So the org publishes the oligarch point of view, as noted in the soubriquet "Bezos Post". In the case of ad-supported online news, it's the clickbait point of view, and so on. It is hard to stop any organization from morphing into this over time as it gains resources and recognition and sees those as a goal to pursue. The Wikimedia Foundation is another example that gets discussed here now and then.

The other thing is that news stops being news almost immediately. "Madeleine Albright passed away earlier today" was news this morning but now it is olds. I might be willing to pay for news but it's harder to tell myself I should pay for olds. Then I ask what value I gained in finding out about Madeleine Albright earlier instead of later, and the answer is: not much, so there is more payment resistance.
I disagree heavily with this. Lots of people make a living doing what they love/building a better world. Just because we normalized selling our attention to the highest fiscal bidder, doesn’t mean that the highest fiscal bid is actually valuable in terms of life quality. Nobody looks back and says “eh, I wish I’d have worked more at [soulless job]”. I think your perspective is extreme dystopian, and it makes me sad to think about how many people live their lifes with that mindset. Look up “purpose economy”
Why would I donate when literally every update takes away something I was using?
Just remember, containers don't just run everywhere. Your team will need to devote time to understanding multi-arch images and builds. If you're a python/data science team, I hope you have someone on your team that actually knows how to debug these problems. Otherwise you'll be using your $3k Mac as a thin client to an x86 resource to do your development work.
Pastiche Master: Exemplar-Based High-Resolution Portrait Style Transfer
Good response, I agree that these changes would benefit Django.
> When your identity is linked to your hobby [...]

> Lost here is the gentle pursuit of a modest competence, the doing of something just because you enjoy it, not because you are good at it...

Isn't this the issue, though? If "you are what you do", because you link your identity to that, and what you do isn't "good", I can see how than can cause some issues.

To take your example, if you're taking up jogging, so you can run a marathon, so you can take some Instagram photos at the finish line, so you can get the likes, this is the end result. So of course, just cruising around the block won't attract the likes, so it doesn't really help the end goal, does it?

I think the issue is one of not stopping to smell the roses.
> ps. meta analysis of 60 years of Vitamin C studies with placebo controls showed the opposite of what you are remembering, C did not prevent or reduce the common cold symptoms/severity

Looks like there were two conflicting studies [1][2]. One concludes Vitamin C reduces frequency of common cold, but has no effect on severity, and the other concludes Vitamin C reduces severity of common cold, but has no effect on incidence. This is disconcerting, because I recall quite clearly that the study was around 2010, was a massive study and concluded as I described above in my reply to OP. But these studies are from 2005 and 2013. Another from 2005, concerning a boost to immune system, states "These trials document that adequate intakes of vitamin C and zinc ameliorate symptoms and shorten the duration of respiratory tract infections including the common cold. Furthermore, vitamin C and zinc reduce the incidence and improve the outcome of pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea infections, especially in children in developing countries." [3]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/1602261

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23440782/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16373990/
The company that I have built develop mostly for amd64 (Linux), because our customers run things on amd64. Mostly Kubernetes and OpenShift. Kubernetes does exist on arm64, but not OpenShift. So to test/develop I have to go sometimes to my MBP 16" i9 2019 (top specs). I use 2 5K LG monitors. And just development experience is not that great on Intel, especially after switching to M1 Max, when I don't hear fans, don't see glitches in window manager, don't see constant CPU throttling, because laptop of hot running GPU and CPU to run those 2 5K monitors.
What about the hardware side of this? All this talk about software...
If you are interested in working on open source, check out these internships:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#internsh...

The Google Summer of Code for 2022 has just started for eg.