skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://adriel.co.nz/ is my personal site, made it a few years ago now.

Hosted on the free tier netlify, is all plain old html/css (only js for tracking and netlify stuff)
This is not really just the problem in Google. We might as well claim that promotion processes in big companies promote promotion-oriented work (yes, I intentionally use the word promotion this many times). The result is title inflation, lots of good employees leaving, and superfluous yet mediocre projects. I wouldn't say only unqualified people get promoted, though. Big companies have very different dynamics than small ones. Some people are just good at navigating big companies and are capable of aligning multiple organizations, for good or for bad. Big companies need such talent as well. As for individuals, the reward of getting promoted is not worth the effort, at least statistically. A much better alternative, is focusing on solving truly interesting and meaning problems in a blow-out company. The financial return and title bumps will follow naturally.
> While it is still a stretch, the title should be "Google's promo committee is killing Kubernetes", since no other FAANG-equivalent is using or contributing to Kubernetes in a meaningful way.

Apple puts Kubernetes on https://opensource.apple.com as a project they "lead and contribute to"…

> Very little work that a single engineer does can be assigned a provable revenue number. How does someone working on an internal build tool get promoted?

While I generally agree, I've made changes in our internal build tools that I can easily put a number on, although it's not a revenue number. Make build process 10s faster, 1000 engineers run this 10x a day, you're saving more than an engineer day per day of time. That's a definite impact right there, assuming your management is on board with accepting it :)
I was thinking the same. What we have here is a security nightmare. You have executable code on globally unique URLs with no protective mechanisms in front of it except for the ability to do IAM. Yikes.
There has been precedent for such a movement. In 2011, an "art collective" sourced user-submitted artwork without the artists' consent for an installation where visitors were instructed to step all over printouts of the art on the floor. The artists complained that their work was being used inappropriately. A large number of those artists to left for other art websites en masse.[0]

There doesn't seem to be an equivalent movement with AI-generated art, probably because the understanding of how the models are trained from large datasets is not mainstream yet. I would imagine thousands of those same artists/consumers would be up in arms if they had a basic understanding of ML and millions of average people were beginning to feed the models their own keywords.

This I think ties in with the "responsibility" principles that OpenAI outlines. Once the generation technique has been reverse-engineered and can be used without limits, there is no way to uninvent it. It can be made illegal, but humans can always find a way around laws if they want something badly enough. This could have drastic consequences if enough artists believe that the training violates their respect or other intangible humanistic qualities. With technological advancement that can never be put back in the bottle and spreads to occupy the entire consciousness of the Internet, their options for recourse will be far different than being able to tell a single fringe art group siphoning others' content to pack up and leave.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv#Chaos_Lounge
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Been around for almost 17 years now. Jekyll-based site, all custom designed myself, hosted on Netlify with media on S3/Cloudfront. One section in particular I'm fond of is my set of "stuff i use" pages, where the sections have icons I custom designed: https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/
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I feel like Ethiopian food is designed to take advantage of that texture; you couldn't use a wheat or rice pancake the same way.
Indeed. If lots of people with money want to live in a place and building more housing is illegal the price of existing housing will go up a lot. If you want the problem to go away you can either build more housing or make it so the people with money don't want to live there.
If we don't get our act together soon emissions wise, a climate disaster and millions to billions of ensuing refugees may put a kink in the infinite growth economic model in the next few hundred years.

Interestingly that's similar to one hypothesis as to how the Bronze Age collapsed - climate refugees from a non-man-made disaster destabilizing a complex economy where each civilization relied on another for goods and services.
As others have mentioned, one advantage is that lambda gives you the kind of uptime that would require at least 3 VMs spread across different AZs.

But then, I have been running my SaaS on a single, rented beefy bare metal server in a data center with unmetered data and have had no more than 15 minutes of downtime per year for 3 years now.
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I'm not talking about general advice like owning equity and stuff. I want to the actionables, like maybe joining a startup accelerator and work on my own thing (not the best example)

I was to reach FU money and get away from the salary addiction
Yes, the faster you drive the more likely an accident will occur and the more deadly it might be... That is a separate issue than "speeding"
Just because Unreal does it doesn’t mean it’s “popular”. I’m not familiar with any other game engine that has something like this as a first class feature.

The reason blueprints exist in UE is because they needed a way to allow non-expert programmers on the team to write code that isn’t C++, but they didn’t want to use a high level scripting language like Lua.

IIRC, Sweeney said (on Twitter) that in the past, it was a burden to constantly be designing and maintaining language bindings for scripts, especially with a rapidly changing engine.

Also, (I’m guessing here), blueprints result in less bugs since it provides static typing and makes it possible to do some advanced visual debugging. These are things that, even if they were available in a language like Lua, they would be intimidating and/or uncomfortable for the artists/non-programmers on a team. Plus I’d imagine that it’s relatively easy to produce some highly optimized code from blueprints, maybe even compile it to native instructions.

It’s also probably no coincidence that the visual node-based concept is used a lot in other tools used primarily by artists, like for material creation.
This looks awesome!

Am.. am I about to teach myself Fortran?
It'd be ironic if we ended up destroying our planet by using so much electricity to train models to generate a maximally optimal version of the type of content that you refer to similar to crypto mining.
To build on this, those parameters that are exposed require a ton of tuning, more tuning and retuning. As a game programmer, exposing those numbers to someone who cares a lot about it and whose job it is to monkey with them frees them up to iterate without you in the loop. They get better results (because more iterations) and you are out of the loop so you can work on teh next thing. This is vital because, unlike accounting software, there is no "right answer" to arrive at.

There used to be junior programmer positions for people to listen to artists and modify/rebuild the source with different magic numbers. That's a waste of everyone's time.
I agree this is an issue, it's in part because s*t's just complicated, but also because I sacrificed some clarity for the April 1st infomercial joke
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Let's pretend Linus Torvalds worked for Google, would he be able to get promoted for creating and maintaining Linux? As far as the bottom line goes it brings in zero dollars and costs the company his total compensation or more to maintain.

How would Linus quantify his revenue impact in his promotion packet and compete against another hypothetical engineer that improved ad targeting by 0.0X% and can directly measure an increase of revenue for the comapny in the millions of dollars?
>Apply the same logic to any other type of work and it's clear how shallow these arguments are.

Nobody wants their kids to grow up and do sex work, no matter how progressive they claim to be. So yes, there is a clear difference.
Right... Just what everyone wants: a "patent portfolio" intertwined with supposedly open architecture.

BTW - it's somewhat telling that the company isn't even self-aware enough to run their own web site on MIPS.
That doesn’t sound right. Then Saudi Arabia and Russia should be super high west with all the fossil fuels they produce and export…

As you say that’s double counting.
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Some of the comments (in the original link in your parent comment) are pretty weird:

> I sometimes wish [Julia] had just appeared one day as version 1, and made periodic updates every year or three.

> Its “multi-paradigm” nature. Yeah, I know other languages have this too, but it does tend to bloat a language.

And some are just funny:

> The language is not stable, and by that I mean it seems to have a lot of bugs [links to github issues with label:bug]. You can’t really call something that has bugs stable.
It is pretty much impossible for a micro-service architecture to be simpler than a well designed monolith. To create a micro-service architecture from a well designed monolith you need to take the N libraries the monolith is built from and add protocols/serialisation/deployment etc. to each library. Each of which adds new distributed failure scenarios you now have to test/handle.
I use https://github.com/rimutaka/lambda-debug-proxy to run Lambdas locally while still being part of the AWS pipeline. It eliminates the need to emulate the input/output. That tool is for Rust only, but there is no reason why it can't be ported to other languages.
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This probably has a lot to do with the anti-consumer segmentation and processor locking that Intel implemented at the dawn of the decade- arbitrary socket changes every 2 years so you couldn't upgrade without buying a new motherboard, and locking overclocking behind a paywall being the two most egregious.

AMD's processors, while not fast, did none of those things and were cheap. I guess that buys you a lot of good will when Intel's still charging 300 dollars for CPUs that wouldn't beat a 2500K at 4.6GHz until several years down the line.
Revenue is not the only way to quantify impact.

Plenty of infrastructure teams promote plenty of people at Google and other companies despite not directly selling products.
Have you actually had a look at Rails 7 with Turbo? It's nothing like what you're describing with NextJS etc. in that it aims to keep Javascript to an absolute minimum.
My site is http://www.yuyaykuna6.com/. I am interested in the language Quecua, and programming. I am working on several projects. Theres two that I want to mention , one, is a message-board-like site Qhipu, like Reddit, but used the way Twitter is, for talking in threads, or as a database so you can store your data using the messageboard tree structure. The other one is an app, i call BuubleIM. Its an Instant Messenger written in ios Swift. It does basic 1-1 messaging right now, with ejabberd on the backend. If either of these 2 projects interests you hmu, i allow creative freedom.
The real reason why things are fast in popular shells is because they implement most of coreutils as builtins. The /bin/true being empty file would prevent it from working when called with exec for example, so that's why we don't use empty files anymore.
Maybe he stole them to protect them from another plot to steal them for profit. After a 20 year saga, he finally triumphed over his adversary and returned them to their rightful owner.
Guido got paid to work on python
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Minifree is selling freedom. coreboot-preinstalled ThinkPad T440p. now with BSD“
these machines have osboot, based on coreboot, that replaces proprietary bios/uefi firmware, and a libre OS like linux/bsd with full driver support. encrypted ssd by default. secure, private laptops for people who need it. no proprietary bloatware, just freedom. sales fund osboot development
I had to read this line in the article twice:

"Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next two decades..."

Two decades :)
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The definition of CCA is then simply incompatible with the definition of an OTP. Making the question wether OTP is vulnerable to CCA meaningless.
I appreciate weird sites like this. Makes me want to dust off one of my web projects.

It's interesting that you generate the site dynamically, but then drop everything into a pre tag which makes it very anti-responsive. Like others have mentioned, the word-wrapping is choppy on smaller screens
At this point California has distinct regional styles. I’m guessing Texas too.
The prolog thing sounds brilliant but I can’t quite see how it would work. Any insight?
Thanks, yes, that makes much more sense!
> What Maxar has to with the cyclist? The cyclist video is completely independent from Maxar.

No one is connecting Maxar reports to the cyclist killing. Maxar reported that other killings happened on or before 19th March, whereas there's at least one evidence that the images were taken on the 1st April, after the Russian troops left the town on 30th March and after Bucha mayor's reporting on liberation of the town on 31st March [1] [2].

> That it was done by Russians is clear from all the available information.

It's clear in the case of the cyclist. It's not clear in the case of the dead people with white armbands.

> And those gunners wouldn't care about your white armband.

It's also clear that Ukrainian forces sometimes are willing to kill surrendered people with white armbands, after tying their hands too [3]

> There is rich history how Russian/USSR convoys have been entering cities even back in 80ties like Baku

there also is a rich history of Ukrainian nationalists shooting at peaceful villages just for fun [4]

[1] https://telegra-ph.translate.goog/Situaciya-v-Buche-CHto-byl...

[2] https://telegra-ph.translate.goog/Stoit-li-doveryat-sputniko...

[3] https://t.me/warcrimes_ua/29 | https://t.me/warcrimes_ua/28

[4] https://twitter.com/camaradabruno/status/1500248165970329603
Also it's Google, so we should be looking to promote operating system authors who aren't white or male anyway.

Expecting hate for this, but I've been on the receiving end of company notifications (not at Google) where it was stated explicitly that the newly-opened distinguished engineer role was exclusively available to not-men.

(I'm generally-supportive of DEI efforts, but at sane companies those efforts wouldn't block qualified people from being promoted to their proper roles. Among the FAANGs, I have a lot more confidence in Facebook and Amazon's ability to operate sanely than I do Google. Prior evidence and all.)
I stumbled upon your site a long while back and really loved all the projects you did. It eventually inspired me to pursue a DIY NAS build.
There certainly are alternatives in Unreal. You can implement everything (and far more) in C++ without ever needing to use blueprints.
I started a new web project recently and I decided to either use Elixir/Phoenix or Julia/Genie. I wanted to use the later but two main issues led me ultimately to the former. 1) JIT compile times to first view were very slow — like 10 seconds, 2) Macro usage in Julia seems too common making the code ugly and difficult to read. e.g. @with_kw. What’s the point of an elegant language if you have to annotate it with obtuse macros at every turn?
I am specifically referring to the flamingo example: "DALL·E 2 can make realistic edits to existing images from a natural language caption."

You provide the background image and a text prompt and it doodles on top of the image you provided as per their demonstration. I wasn't referring to the other examples down the page where it conjures up a brand new image from scratch based on your image input.

It is great that you can tell it to add a flamingo and it fits into the background you provide nicely due to the well tuned style transfer. That part is cool. And it is impressive that sometimes the flamingo it adds is reflected in the water. But sometimes it isn't reflected. And it isn't up to you, it is up to it. And you can't tell it to add a reflection as a discrete step.

Look more carefully. This is more akin to a clipart finder, except if the clipart doesn't exist it uses the most similar thing in its training set to what it guesses you want as a starting point to synthesize new clipart from.

It doesn't add it in like an artist would and you can't control it at all. I don't know how to better express this.

This isn't unimpressive or un-useful but not quite as mind blowing on second glance.
A little self-hosted site with tech and BL reading notes.
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I have worked on massive well designed monoliths and they were so much easier to maintain than equivalent micro-service implementations would have been. Monoliths and Micro-services will be easy/hard/impossible to maintain depending on how well they are designed. Not depending on whether it is a monolith or micro-service architecture.
That looks really solid!
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I love gringo tacos. I love authentic Mexican ones too. But I grew up with gringo tacos and I make them sometimes because it reminds me of what I grew up on which is as authentic an experience as anything else.
My understanding was that you would get error responses from the load balancer if you set Fargate to scale all the way down to zero: https://serverfault.com/a/951440
Mine is a Hugo-generated site with very little content -- eventually I'll migrate all the old content from my former WordPress-based site from years ago. My site can be seen at https://matecha.net :)
Looks like LabVIEW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW
It’s woefully out of date (including my current employer) but it was a fun project.

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My personal site is https://siddhantpyasi.com/

It's a static site on Github Pages. The theme is WordPress 2020. Back in the day I was working a really boring job so I spent a fair bit of time writing a newsletter about nothing which I've shoehorned into the "Blog" section, makes the blog section a lot more presentable too.
Turo's service fee feels very random and inconsistent.

I was looking at renting a car in LA for a day and the service fee was the same price as renting the car, across most of the cars. If I changed the query to be a two day rental, then the service fee dropped to 1/10th the 1day price.

In a Different city, though, even the 1 day rental doesn't have such a large fee.
You recall wrong.
Isn't leaking the length pretty harmless? You can make that leak arbitrarily small by adding randomized amounts of padding with various distributions as well, right?
> vectorization, out of order execution, modern branch predictors

Two out of three of those are controversial because of Spectre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
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> But somewhat right because the antidepressant effect isn't very durable, so it's mostly useful in emergency situations (suicidal tendencies) and for kickstarting conventional therapy. Even the rare patients who convince their doctor to prescribe ketamine multiple times per week over the long term usually encounter diminishing effects as tolerance sets in.

This is the unfortunate reality with all depression treatments, including SSRIs, Tricyclics, ECT, TMS, and even MAOIs.

Most people who have treatment resistant depression that is "biological" i.e. not situational will end up requiring treatment for the rest of their lives. SSRIs are well known for "pooping-out" after some number of years, and most patients will end up cycling through different treatments, sometimes finding something that works well for a long time, and other times not finding lasting relief for years at a time while experimenting with "cocktails" of meds from different psychiatrists.

The only problem with Ketamine at this time is that it is quite expensive as commonly provided (patented formulations, in-clinic requirements e.g. REMs, fusion providers, etc). If it turns out to be safe to use in lower doses via lozenges or some other compounded route, without the current associated high costs of administration and procurement, then there's no reason Ketamine can't end up being given out as a generic prescription to be used once or twice a week at just a few dollars / month, similar to what generic SSRIs or Tricyclics now cost.

But I imagine the Pharma industry and the increasing number of very profitable infusion providers will do everything they can to ensure this doesn't become mainstream anytime soon.
Aesthetics. Speed. Utility.

That's a trifecta.
When you have difficulty quantifying, you start qualifying, and that leads to some options for quantification as a second order effect.

"Lead the development and maintenance of custom OS underpinning our entire enterprise's technical stack. Worked with stakeholders across every domain within engineering to improve stability, performance, and feature set that enabled every part of the engineering org to better deliver" - "Examples of revenue visible effect are the debugging and patching of (performance improvement to the underlying OS) that reduced CPU utilization across the org, enabling a 3% reduction in fleet costs, allowing the company to save an estimated (estimate 3% reduction in fleet cost from before it was introduced)"

I can't speak to Google, but a good manager can work with their team to really highlight their achievements in a way the promo committee can understand. Admittedly, it still means learning and playing the system, but that's true regardless of the system you use.

Remember, too, that any impact on engineer time -also- has a direct provable reduction in cost. "Took 10 seconds off (process people wait on, build, test, whatever), saving an estimated (###) of engineering hours per year based on the number of teams using (part of process you affected)" should still be evaluated equivalent to revenue. If it isn't, you call it out, "leading to a reduction of engineering operating costs and saving the company roughly (estimate number of man hours * average cost of man hours)". So something that starts "saves effort" can be translated to "saves time" which can be translated to "saves money".
sounds like something Mark Hoffman would do
Yeah. Of course there are bugs, but none of them are serious. Julia is still a young language, but it’s rock solid and used in high stakes, high performance computing in industry, government, and academia. Like I said, there are only four high-level languages that can perform at this level. Julia is certainly the most advanced and interesting of these, and, yes, it’s just a lot of fun to use.
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Do the people on waiting lists care what it costs the government or what could be but isn’t?
I mean you should really be demoted for continuing to push the k8s microservices crap.
My take is that game studios have a lot of "designers" who need to express a lot of basic scripting logic but may not be familiar with traditional programming. So graphical nodes may be more accessible for them