skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re in consulting this brings a lot more professionalism to the table if your video and audio are higher quality. For normal coworkers, yea probably not worth it though a good quality mic + boom will be greatly appreciated.
Or he's the person to put it where it's viability and economic reality is: in the trashcan alongside tabloids and other raw, undigested and overwrought media belongs.
"a total and complete inability to prevent total environmental collapse" strangely isn't on the list
Oh, so you convolved an anecdote with company culture. If it only happened once, it's an outlier. As you wrote it, you made it sound like a regular thing.

If I was the employee affected and received that invite, I'd ask to speak to the SVP in charge of my division and ask them a few questions about how a good employee got fired. ANd I'd also let them know that as a human, it was a devaluing experience.

Having worked at a number of enterprises and been a manager, I can't say I'd ever want to work in your environment. Hiring and firing quickly isn't a recipe for nimbleness, it's a recipe for a weak foundation. Note: I have vendors and contractors for me, and I can easily hire or fire them. That's entirely different from FTEs.
> Disagree. You still get a ton from a low res image of a person vs a static image.

Like what? Having worked from home since the time when (affordable) connections were too slow for anything but text, it's questionable if audio even brings any value. I never watch any video streams that may be present on calls. They are, while a fun novelty, useless.

> Why would my coworkers need to see the individual pores on my nose anyways?

Your coworkers wouldn't need to see you at all under normal circumstances, but if video is your product then doing it right is worthwhile. There's good reason why movies aren't filmed on first generation iPhones.
It's the name. "Picasso" sounds similar to names like "Michelangelo", "Leonardo (da vinci)", and "Raphael" (short but not too much, easy to remember, and pleasant to the eye/ear). It's also a very uncommon name. Hence why we are tempted to associate a famous painter named "Picasso" with the distant past. Like we would associate a painter named "Jennifer" or "Peter" with more modern times.
Thanks for the note — would love to hear what infrastructure outside of Kubernetes you’d like to connect to, so I can target the answer more specifically.

For expanding to infrastructure outside of Kubernetes, we will ultimately generating short-lived credentials from and distributing them to either humans or machine users. This can be done through different means, and we’ll select the best method for that infrastructure.

1. With where we want to take Infra, we want to enable teams to build an access system using the principles of least privilege so statically users can have a minimal permission (or no permission), and when access is needed, dynamically provision that access (automatic or manual approval depending on configuration). Infra will always be able to show who has access to what at any given time to satisfy audits.

Infra is currently self-hosted, and we will definitely be taking it through compliance audits & penetration tests (including SOC 2) as we mature the project.

2. Yes, we love desktop apps - starting from the early versions of Kite we've built, Kitematic, Docker desktop, and Infra app. We believe good software just works in the background without affecting users' flow.

3. We’ve already tried using both Google workspaces / Azure active directory via OIDC. It should work. We’re just not pitching it because we have not done extensive testing with it yet. I should note, Infra is OIDC-compliant, so it should work with any custom identity providers that support OIDC. (I will asterisk it because one OIDC-compliant provider may differ from another, even from a major vendor)
except he is too far from a typical "worker"
Uppercase letters are nice for emphasis. If we got away with having a set of both I'd vote for keeping the uppercase ones since they are easier to write. Mostly just simple straight lines. Especially useful when you're carving letters into something.
I think you forgot your meds.
I’ll talk about it. Methalox engines will be solar powered within 5-10 years.

Kerolox is dying off in that time frame.
Electric costs will only rise as expensive storage systems and higher capacity grid ties are deployed. Renewable generation is great, but it's useless for much of the day when there's little wind or sunshine. So in order to prevent outages we need to either import the power from far away, or store enough to cover multiple days of generation shortfalls.
I am too. I mean the democrats have consistently failed in delivering meaningful and lasting change.

Sigh. I hope we wake up as a society a bit.
Every single one of these recent layoffs, I haven't seen a single engineer. It's all seemed to be recruiters or "talent managers".
Heroku CI and Review App Secrets Compromised
Just got an email from Salesforce: "Action Required: Heroku security notification".

Looks like the database that stores pipeline-level config variables for both Review Apps and Heroku CI were compromised.

Per Heroku, "...any secrets you set in Review Apps and Heroku CI config may have been compromised and should be rotated".

This...is really messed up :/
LOX-hydrocarbon engines typically operate a bit fuel rich. This is because at stoichiometric ratios, the flame is so hot that you lose significant energy to dissociation. Therefore, diluting the gas slightly by a fuel that adds hydrogen, thereby reducing the average molecular weight, can win back enough of that energy that you come out ahead (higher Isp).

Interestingly, Hydrogen Peroxide/hydrocarbon engines optimize to stoichiometric, since the extra water from the peroxide dilutes and cools the gas enough that this effect no longer is a win. For this reason, the jets from such engines have little unburned fuel and are almost invisible.
Yep, and methalox will be solar powered in the not too distant future.

We have the tech we just need to build the fuel farms
Okay, may have been my bad but it sounded like you thought that the same manager who fired the IC also was the one to offer to re-hire or something. Although your clarification about a firing theoretically needing approval from higher up sheds some light on that.

To your point, in general if you leave a place due to a bad manager (or get fired) and some kind of reform happens and you get invited back, usually the best move is not to come back. The organization already showed it was willing to toss you away at least once. That being said Netflix is probably a bit of an exception because it’s explicitly where you go to work if you want to work with people who are all insanely competent and hardworking and where performance is actually a core focus.

Also I still don’t quite understand the sociopathy element. It doesn’t seem sociopathic to say “hey we got rid of the toxic manager, want your old job back?” although like I said it’s still generally a bad idea to actually take the job back
This is incomplete without talking a bit about when the inner loop starts to feel more like a call stack.

https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0
I admit it's a slight stretch, but I do think there's something gaslighting about it. The reader is expected to think they're reading a valid argument put together by a top research analyst whom they can trust to follow basic standards of competence, and not notice their own inner voice objecting that the numbers on the slide are logical non-sequiturs that wouldn't even be acceptable in the context of a high school class presentation.

I don't get what context could possibly make OpenSea's take rate vs YouTube's take rate make logical sense. If a realtor charges a 3% commission to help sell your house, are they less extortionist than Meta? If Robinhood charges 0% commission on trades, are they less extortionist than OpenSea?

I would say it's gaslighting to the extent that "the emperor has no clothes" is an instance of gaslighting.
If Google is so great at developer experience why is it so much easier to get things done with AWS and Azure?
In Toronto, Canada there is:

* https://www.toronto.ca/home/311-toronto-at-your-service/311-...
any interesting gopher site to visit?
Given the current state of the stock market, it's even better.
It's been mentioned in this thread already but the Canon EOS webcam software is kind of cool and it allows you to use fairly high end SLR cameras as a web cam. I bought a battery adapter and tried it with a Canon 5DmIV not too long ago and it worked pretty well.

If I were doing some serious webcamming I'd probably go with something smaller and less expensive, there are whole youtube series on what best cameras to use when streaming or recording. I forget which one seemed to lead the pack. A panasonic maybe?
This was sometime around 2005. I think it was Logitech, but it might have been another brand.
Probably they were referring to Linux on an M1 desktop, which remains problematic, and might stay that way.

Certainly I would never want to use an M1-family machine with the stock software shipped with it.
I’m wondering if a setup with an external webcam would make it easier to record yourself while using video chat software that doesn’t support recordings (like Duo).
Now check out how much money they borrowed ever year to produce and acquire content.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/netflix-is-borrowing-anothe...

That just changed last year.
> enforced at the end of a gun like every other tax rule.

Ahh, like every other tax rule - so not really at all for rich people and quite heavily for poor and middle class people? Sounds about right.

> That's why I say details of plan first, not last

I hope that's not the approach you take with everything in life. "Do you want to go out to eat?" ... "What restaurant? I'll only say if I want to go when the venue has been selected." That's not measured caution, or the ideal - a collaborative approach to solving problems - that response is a trap where every suggestion is met with disdain. Saying "Yes I would like to go out to eat, what restaurant did you have in mind?" doesn't mean you have to go if the selected venue turns out to be chuck-e-cheese.
Well, I certainly don't remember the names of the officers tried in the beating of Rodney King: there were several of them.
Those interested in R with tidyverse may find "R for Data Science" (https://r4ds.had.co.nz) to be a valuable resource.
I wondered beforehand how they were going to manage it, and indeed, they cancelled my order and refunded me (for the og full price of the meal).
> The emissions weren't so pleasant, however!

Do you mean from cars or horses? If the former, early automobiles were far cleaner than the animals they replaced (and still are). Cities faced huge issues with animal excrement and cars represented a cleaner alternative.
While the exact logic TF2 uses leaves a lot to be improved, you absolutely need this kind of lag compensation. Without rewinding any amount of latency results in having to aim where an enemy gamer will be by the time your packet reaches the server instead of where they are on your screen. If you remember before they patched the Pyro class you had to aim significantly in front of players because the flames weren't lag-compentated.
>I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop).

I absolutely love that Robocop is the specific movie that you felt needed to be mentioned. :)
> No, he was using an HDMI capture card and trying to do things with OBS.

There’s definitely a lot of variables and points of failure here but this isn’t my experience using an elgato cam link and a Sony camera. Granted it was a desktop so it’s quite a bit more powerful than a laptop but once setup I had no such issues with overheating or random drop outs (tested for 3-4 hrs at times).

Adjusting the mic should also not take much time, put it in front of your face.

I’m far from an expert in such setups as well so it sounds like your coworker either had bad hardware or less than optimal config.

I agree with you though, if you’re going to use this setup make sure it’s solid before you rely on it.
> trying to perfectly emulate another human at painting is going to be virtually impossible

No one is saying "draw a copy of something that already exists with near-pixel-perfect accuracy". When the parent comment said "emulate", they meant "create something of your own in a similar art style/genre".

I can bet you that if you try to "scribble a random mish mash of curves", it won't look and feel anywhere as great as that Picasso painting, and it will be extremely difficult to get anywhere even close to his level. And even if you show both yours and Picasso's paintings side-by-side to a person who has never seen a Picasso's painting before (and who doesn't even know who Picasso is), they will always pick the Picasso's painting as more artistically impressive.
Sounds like more people want to visit NYC than live there if the market supports this type of situation.

Either way, the only way to satiate demand is to create more supply.
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This primarily a brain dump, which is good, because it's a cleanser, but will not be conclusive, maybe in our lifetimes.

I note some particular passages:

> Perhaps as a consequence, we’re swimming in acronyms, magic metrics, and methodologies, but not a lot of rigorous systems thinking.

Performance along sustained, abstract effort is far from rigor. Measuring it causes a wave collapse so to speak.

> Devs are systems thinkers. Our job is to model and build systems, and we often draw out diagrams and schematics to illustrate how those systems work. But when it comes to our own work, we are letting others draw the pictures—and they’ve done a poor job.

This is systemic. The trenches don't build themselves. And we don't get to decide when to charge at the same time.

> that feeling of flow can be quite the gateway drug. But many get stuck in the second graph when they code professionally, and that is a great source of developer misery and lost productivity.

No comment here, just interesting.

> productivity

Is a loaded term.

> Software development is at its core an innovative endeavor.

Now we're cooking.

> The goal is to produce new and useful knowledge.

If only SaaS would stop playing mind games with each other.

> but iteration frequency. We might call this unit of quantity developer hertz

No fuck off.

> You can draw this out in a picture where you’ve broken down a project into different deliverables. The finished product is a pyramid of sorts, where the blocks at the bottom have to be laid before the ones on top:

I choose to see software dev as a cyberpunk vertical foundation where you can scale many foundations wide, and scale many stories high, and at some point you might lean-to on high-rises to bespoke a business vertical. This of course decreases flex, but at least we have the blueprints.

> The two developers have the advantage that they can build separate blocks in parallel, but their parallelism is constrained by serial dependencies (some blocks must be laid before others), the friction of onboarding to unfamiliar parts of the code, and communication overhead.

Mmmm. We are getting closer to my thesis

> It is to our benefit, and to the benefit of our industry and society at large, to advance mental models that reflect the reality of our work and honor its essential creativity

This is why we are inconclusive, not that this piece was an oracle of The Goal, but more of a stimulant to sell more books, or transfer your thoughts to your organization.

IMO, I think devs need an internal PR shield, like the DPS tank sponge, to soak critics, and communicate technical limitations, and coerce a system that bends like a tree branch. Too far and you'll snap into firewood, too little and you will only be one vertical.

The PR team paints many directions, and belays the authoritative button pushers who understand only abstraction.

Truly, developer salesmanship.

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Netflix lost my sub when they removed stargate way back in the day.

That started my path down the NAS/PLEX rabbit hole, and 40TB later I don’t regret a thing.
50 states' election procedures are not Twitter.

Stop spreading lies.
11 days ago they said "While we confirmed that the threat actor had access to encrypted Heroku customer secrets stored in config var, the secrets are encrypted at rest and the threat actor did not access the encryption key necessary to decrypt config var secrets."

I guess that was a lie?!
The different features omitted and added are precisely one of the reasons you'd still want to be using an abstraction library. Otherwise you end up having to stick with the lowest common denominator, or having the user figure out how to enable each terminal feature in every app individually. These libraries were invented with good reason.

Even now there's big differences between terminal emulators. Especially when you take modern features like images into account, there's like 6 different ways of doing it as some terminals have invented their own (kitty for one) and there's more standard ones like sixels which come originally from the Dec VT340 series. Though they were ridiculously slow on that hardware so it didn't take off until much later.
I think it's a little bit more complicated than that.

What you are describing is "treat developer productivity as a supply side problem." developers continually demand resources to improve their productivity.

However, there's two issues:

#1: Developers don't necessarily know how to be productive developers.

#2: Developers might not be motivated to improve their productivity.

Hence, it's not necessarily an efficient market.

I find that you need to control for market inefficiencies by:

- Control for #2 by having a "tech lead" or senior engineer be directly responsible for their developer's performance. Whether that's a 2 parent leadership team (people manager + tech leader) or otherwise, developers must have direct oversight of their personal productivity.

- Have an appropriate incentives in place for developers to improve. A couple of places (IBM) actually have an excellent infrastructure for providing productivity. But no incentive.
Wow, I thought Russian bots (or at least bot herders working for Russia) got kicked off the internet when the Ukrainian war of aggression and genocide started.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Maybe try reddit?
Show me the companies that only ever implement policies that have shown to be effective in rigorous empirical studies.

Usually some person (or a group of people) is in charge of some decision and that person will make judgment calls based on their beliefs. This is no less true of programming techniques than it is of management styles, corporate strategy or anything else.

Your insistence that we may not have beliefs about the very things we work with daily, unless they're empirically verified, is IMHO frankly ridiculous.
The fact that people care more about the perpetrators of plagiarism, than it's victim tells me it's not really a crime.

Think about it. If you saw someone holding a blood-covered knife in their hand, and an angry look on their face, you would be able to guess he/she committed a murder. But then, your next thought would be to know who was murdered?

But this does not seem to be the case with plagiarism. Perhaps because victim is not really the victim. It's just a way for people to obtain some schadenfreude. In the same way that the mob involved in a mob lynching does not do it for victim, or "justice", but plainly to get pleasure out of the act.
Swift Playgrounds 4.1
No issues with any of of my 4 elgato cards (2x camlink, 2x HD60s)
It's something of a double-edged sword because, naturally, "George Floyd trials" made it sound like George Floyd was the person on trial.
> We have a lot of control over how social media presents us with information, just most people don't bother trying to make it work for them.

It's just not worth it. I can hop into a Matrix room or a Subreddit and make posts about a topic I'm interested in and receive immediate interaction without seeing a firehose of emotional or inflammatory content. On those platforms you need to post/read a lot or come with a controversial mindset before you start dealing with the problems of the platform, so your initial start can be gentle and you still derive value from the interactions.

This crazy amount of stewardship for Twitter is pretty nuts. I guess some people really want to be part of The Conversation and they'll do anything to do it, but I'm not that person myself. I can get a lot of value talking on Matrix right now.
I’ve never in over a quarter of a century worried about whether a company is viable. My concern is whether my skillset is in sync with the market, my network strong and having a go to hell fund.
Haven't you heard? Q isn't real, and Q drops are just meaningless gibberish.
Many first time novelists already have a track record of publishing poetry and short stories in smaller publications.

It's often the way novelists are able to attract an agent, and by extension a publishing contract.

At that point the 'anticipation' is often just the effect of the publisher's marketing efforts.
Man, I really hope that twitter deal goes through at some point. This woke lunacy will end within a year.
Don't give people like that the excuse of mental illness. They are morally responsible for choosing to consume and believe that crap.
We're in agreement- it makes sense to return if we feel strongly that it was the right place to work and don't care that we were treated arbitrarily.

The reason it's sociopathic is because companies shouldn't devalue their employees by treating them so callously as allowing a single bad manager to fire them. It speaks volumes about the nature of the company- one that is willing to bring in people and kick them back out without ever considering things like growth potential, job training, life circumstances, and any number of other things that affect employees.

I guess that's the sort of difference between companies that hire people and invest in them, and companies that just sort of churn through employees.
WOW, I'm pretty sure this would be 100% illegal in Australia and quite a few other countries. At least they're up front about it so people know to avoid them.
depending on how you build the storage, you could also use the excess water for power, no? Some sort of gravity battery setup.
“90 days tops”

(famous quote from the author about how long CIG had left before bankruptcy)
Is there an Apple II tracker? I have the Music Construction Set which was actually my introduction to electronic music. But is there anything else out there?
That was my first question too. I guess samatman is probably correct, this is what the old boys club looks like when it is not just old and boys. We are not part of the "in" group, so we just don't see the noise.
Not only that, you can have a decade old DSLRs on ebay for <$200. I already happened to have a D7000 from when it was new. Checking on ebay that same (very serviceable) model seems to cost $150~$250. Of course, that might mean a high shutter count, but for the usecase of a webcam, as long as it can capture an image it will work great.
pareidolia
True, though there's a question of whether there will be demand to keep up those ag uses as water becomes more scarce generally (I could see it going either way).

Electricity is something like half of desalination's operational cost, and we're already in a situation where the price on the grid goes negative (or is curtailed) during solar peaks and more and more solar is being added to the grid each year. So power for desalination is going to be near free in the coming years. (Whereas for other less flexible loads, electricity isn't likely to get cheaper quickly, since we have to either have storage or use gas plants.)
You can already do this by using rqlite to redirect writes.