skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely think there is a difference in mindset between people who specialize in writing code and people who specialize in operations. The number of people who excel at both skill sets (and enjoy doing both) is vanishingly small, and is likely to remain so.

The great majority of developers I've worked with fit the description of not being interested in doing ops. I can count on one hand the number of devs I've worked with who thought their responsibilities extended beyond getting unit tests passing on their local machine. I don't blame them; the increasing responsibilities placed on development teams as enumerated in the article combined with the advent of the "DevOps team" has created a convenient demarcation of responsibility that just happens to recreate the siloed situation the DevOps movement was introduced to alleviate in the first place.

I don't know what the solution is, but after a decade of DevOps, the pendulum does seem to be swinging back in the direction of dedicated operations teams. This is not to say that the collaboration has not born fruit (infrastructure as version-controlled code, GitOps, etc.), but I think it's likely that we've reached an inflection point where the fault line between development and operations is re-emerging.
And even if you don't like fiddling with dotfiles you can install some really nice distribution like spacemacs or doom for emacs and lunar for neovim. They have a pleasant dev experience out of the box.
Amazing how little has changed in 20 years...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/08/23/peiter-mudge-...
There's cheap VPS hosts, but the problem is that they all go away after a year and pop up with a new name after that.

Maybe the 3.50$ instance would do the job: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
Hi! Very cool project. Just out of curiosity, what trips up Crawlee on CreepJS? I haven't heard of anyone actually using it in production (actually don't think it's meant for production use). It's certainly overzealous in its aggregate "trust score", but (a) it seems like a good benchmark to aim for; (b) some of its sub-scores, like "stealth" and "like headless", might be helpful for Crawlee to evaluate, given the signals included in those analyses are fairly simple for people to throw together in their own custom (production) bot detection scripts and are somewhat ubiquitous.
Telemetry is malware. Always has been.
> the product is studied extensively by researchers

Which researchers and funded by whom? This is the line Monsanto brings out every time. It turns out their corrupt research couldn't convince a court, who decided glyphosate was to blame for cancer, to the tune of $300M c.f. Johnson v. Monsanto Co.

And it's not just roundworms
https://sites.psu.edu/soilmicrobiology/projects/glyphosate-i...

This chemical is bad news and the only reason it's legal is regulatory capture by Monsanto/Bayer.
will they win the war though?
Saddam and Gaddafi went directly against Washington, they weren't neutral.
> Really depends on location and crop type.

Great point; around me they let the small fields on the hills go back to forest and stopped building little dams. Can still find traces of the horse drawn plowed fields, further up the hills, where they turned furrows to be terraces. Those last got plowed 100+ yr ago in some cases and now stand out from the gullies below them.
Same here! I'll reach out on other channels when I've compiled my notes and have a fully functioning prototype :)
I'm old enough to remember the browser wars and FUD against linux.
It is funny to see MS going from 'M$' to the gatekeeper of OpenSource.
Base load accounts for 70-80% of most grid demand. Plus, the demand peaks usually happen when renewables aren't producing electricity.
I removed the cuttings in past years, but it doesn't seem to have an effect. I think every inch of soil is throroughly saturated with a large variety of seeds. After whacking it down it's just a smooth carpet of green. So I gave up on the removal as not worth the effort.
My Lenovo has a matte screen and has an a lot less visible screen than my wifes glossy macbook air. Unfortunately glossy or matte no longer is an indicator on how readable a screen is.
This is the opinion of an individual or state who has not fully reckoned with existential threats.
Dunno about PyChsrm, but IntelliJ developers solve WSL2 issues in low-priority mode. I posted a few and followed a few others, resolution time is many months long.
DigitalOcean to Buy Web-Hosting Firm Cloudways for $350M
I always think this is a funny argument because most companies don't need top talent.

For nearly every business, good enough is definitely good enough.

So the question to me is for average to slightly above average employees, will remote companies "win"?
NASA discovered what a black hole sounds like. One review: ‘Cosmic horror.’
The UK's longest direct train journey: Aberdeen to Penzance over 13hrs [video]
The photographs can be retrieved as needed while still being encrypted and not impeding text search.
One simple test can always be applied to a news article - does it present the other side's arguments at the same depth? If not - it's propaganda.
When workers say 'hybrid' they really mean 100% remote? what aspect of this definition is a hybrid of working from the office?

The problem? When workers say hybrid, they typically mean they want the flexibility to choose where they work from and when, all the time. (In a sign of how jarring this concept is to ingrained expectations, Gartner refers to this as “radical flexibility.”) On average, that will be three days a week from home, two from somewhere else.
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Fascinating; I never realized Oracle is such a massive player in that space. Ugh :(
It was noted elsewhere that this is like trying to fix a hard drive with a magnet, and I think that analogy works. The size of the magnet isn't really the issue if you don't know what you're doing.
I use IntelliJ for $dayjob, and while I love it, it too submits telemetry. I do not know how pervasive it is, but the controls for it are not obvious in the general config window.
The article went into detail about it.
For those of us whose CS background doesn't go this deep, what about ARM makes it more performant than x86? Is it something at a theoretical level, or does it have to do with CPU manufacturing constraints/tradeoffs, or a simpler/more efficient instruction set?
Even 20 years ago, extremely well spoken and has worked at high political levels...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/08/23/peiter-mudge-...
You absolutely can lock down what permissions your vscodium has, and what it can talk to.
> How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time

You don't need to, because long before that it will have become economical to reprocess the "waste" (much of which is not "waste" at all, it contains usable fuel), and what is left over after that is only dangerous for a much shorter time.
Right? Startup wages are pathetic for top talent, there would need to be a fundamental shift in the industry to afford them.
I'm not sure that Swift was ever super beginner friendly. I'm thinking of protocols and how they mix with generics and associated types, as well as "class vs struct" ref/value semantics, in particular.

But, anyway, I do agree that Swift is a mess now. Personally, I think the last salvageable version of Swift was 3. That's not to say that everything added since 3 is bad, but rather that they've done much more harm than good to the language since then.

Examples:

* Swift used to not have a Result type. Rather, you were supposed to mark fallible functions with the `throws` keyword, and the compiler would force callers to handle the possible failure. However, that didn't work with so-called "escaping" callback functions that are passed as arguments and then held to be called at a later time, because there may be nobody around to handle the failure when it's called. (This is as opposed to some functions that are marked as `rethrows`, which guarantees that they execute any callbacks immediately, and therefore can be passed `throws` functions/closures. So, then they added the Result type. The reason this sucks is because now there are two ways to define a fallible function: either mark it `throws` or make it return `Result`. What's even more infuriatingly inconsistent is that a function that is marked `throws` does not specify the type of the `Error` that it throws; however, the `Result` type is actually `Result<T, E>` and does specify the `Error` type. So, which is it? Are we supposed to care about the specific error types or not? Of course people will come up with some rule of thumb or convention around when to use which, but I think it's clear from how the language evolved that this was more-or-less a design back-track.

* Swift has an unapologetically imperative syntax. Almost nothing is an expression, and even handling null/nil involves imperative constructs like `switch`, `if let` and `guard let` blocks. That's fine. It's not my favorite syntax style, but whatever. Until Apple decided that super-imperative code isn't that elegant for writing UI logic. So, they tacked on this God-awful "result builder" syntax/API/feature with annotations and arcane syntax/semantics that is completely out of place in the rest of the language. I feel the same way about property wrappers and dynamic member lookup. They are totally out of place with how the core of the language works.
Hmmm.. Only top talent wishes to work remotely while the plebes want to drive into work each day and socialize instead of doing the heavy lifting. Going to work each day obviously makes such lack luster behavior easier to get away with.
you know that this judgment was very controversial or you believe everything is just 1 and zeroes in life?
Eh, hard to grok why you think Twitter is not evil like Facebook. Have we learned nothing about the public/private partnership between the social media companies and the surveillance state? Twitter management is littered with "former" government officials. For all we know, Mudge himself and his whistle are moves in an ongoing internecine fight over who calls the shots at a valuable tool of social control. We were recently treated to a completely astroturfed whistleblower at Facebook. Fool me once...

Caveat emptor and Cui bono.
What is the expected inputs and outputs? How do you see this fitting into a users workflow?
Was this bothering people when PTA was blocking YouTube for years?
It’s possible that some companies will pay significantly more to keep all of their employees in office all of the time. But they’ll be paying 2-3 times: higher TCO, more expensive real-estate, and more scope for the (fortunately few) “I’m have people skills damnit” careerist middle managers without technical chops (higher payroll and worse mechanism design).

The A16Z model sounds about right to me: flex work with low real-estate burden, spend some of the savings on frequent, family friendly off sites.

I know this is controversial, just like, my opinion man.
^^^ this.
I remember looking out of the window with my girlfriend trying to find a restaurant that Grubhub claimed was across the street. It was a ghost kitchen inside of another place and the food is pretty good, but I have generally stuck with places I've at least seen with my own eyes since then.
It's Twitter. What possible serious security implications could possibly warrant everyone in Washington getting into a frenzy?

All you do is make public comments that have zero value.

And if this is indeed serious, where the fuck have we landed?
It depends. 4 years later, you could get:

- A 64 MB Ram module, not bad for games and a boost for Win95.

AMD K6. Not as good as a late Pentium II/early Pentium III , but it would be much better than a Pentium 120.

https://www.forbes.com/1999/06/21/mu2.html?sh=4dc70c70494b

Then, the K7 was more expensive but damn cheap compared to a Pentium III.
If you know the 2 brands, would you mind sharing their names? That's a great feature, so i'm genuinely curious. Thanks!
Sure you could! (Back when they were new and they wanted to woo you as a user, and when features and functionality worked as expected)... Hah.
It's more fundamental than that. Prices and features of low-cost things and services are equally picked in this manner.
https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dco...

Estimated ~60+% of worldwide employment (and 15+% of GDP) is "informal" thus no verifiable source of legal funds would be found if those persons put it into Tornado Cash. I'm not sure how you define the 1/4 cited figured in Tornado Cash, but the point is I'm not sure that it indicates anything unusual about the proportion of transactions, especially considering informal workers tend to have less access to the formal banking system.

Whether that is a good thing? I don't know, I guess it would be better if those people starve to death so they could make sure they had a traceable source of tax-paying employment? This kind of thing probably covers the vast majority of people in places like Argentina where the tax on corporations is 107% of profit [see publication 'doing business argentina'], that is there is basically no legal way to run a business fully above board. I definitely don't see these people trying to survive on otherwise honest employment as Jeffrey Dahmer, but I agree it would be better if they had a way to work that allowed them better access to the banking system.

To put it simply using your analogy, if 1/4 (or more) of the wold is 'Jeffrey Dahhmer' it doesn't look like your service favors Jeffrey Dahmer if only 1/4 of the service is servicing Jeffrey Dahmers.
This person seems to be pretty far out of their depth TBH. Writing emails like this genuinely is difficult and you are optimizing for a very diverse set of stakeholders - not just engineers - but this is amateur hour. From a purely utilitarian perspective the cost/benefit of directly attacking Mudge obviously doesn't work out.
I'm not sure productivity maps that directly to revenue. People are wildly productive when they work remotely. What's harder is sharing context and tackling large problems with other people.
Faking video engagements stats to convince a whole generation of small news sites to pivot to video and ultimately fail.

Running psychological experiments on users.

Amplifying hate groups associated with everything from genocide in Myanmar to the groups that brought Kyle Rittenhouse to Kenosha.

Blatantly breaking state facial recognition laws.

I’m sure that’s just scratching the surface.
People are making an error based on the past 20 years of debt binge and capital flooding that took over the world.

When the FDI dries up, India is a very weird place. The energy costs will put a number in Asia and Europe in the next decade with dramatic food security challenges.

Overall, at macro level, US beats India, but are there positive offshoots in some niches.. perhaps!
Or maybe I haven't and GPT-4 will be ~on par with PaLM, already exhibiting diminishing returns as expected.
This is such a weird claim that doesn't stack up at all with my experience.

Unusable at 80% of the comfortable angles? Come on now.
I really miss RSS integration in Firefox. Now I have to dig in website source code to see if it has RSS feed or not. Hopefully after Chrome RSS reader will get some success, Mozilla might build RSS reader into Firefox too. It would be even more useful to sync RSS feeds using Firefox account between devices, like bookmarks.
Oh, I misread it, I thought GGP meant the other way around x)
Leaving the EU won't help. Laws like this impact the global internet, even if you don't live in the EU.
not weird at all the the measurements are in mass. Mass is conserved, volume is not. For instance what do you get when you add half a yard of silt to a yard of pebbles? thats right, a yard of silty pebbles
Not to denigrate the scientific effort and achievement of the people creating this, but if even a fraction of what our medicine can do in mice were at all workably, usefully applicable to humans, we'd be living dream lives of medical therapy by now. Too bad so much that works in said mice would instead simply kill us stone dead, or just do nothing.
That might be true, but this is probably the beginning of sharply declining developer salaries. If you're going remote, a developer in California is going to be competing with devleopers in Kansas, not to mention overseas. The era of people fresh out of a developer bootcamp getting six figure salaries is all but done.
My productivity went at least 10x when the pandemic happened.

- No commute

- No 1 hour lunch (walking, buying, eating, cleaning up)

- Not in an open-desk office where I'm constantly interrupted

- Meetings are much more focused and I can hop between meetings quickly

- Easy to do chores if necessary during the day and then work extra hours at night to make up

- Office politics much reduced, output is easier to measure by necessity and people's output is much more clear

Additionally I was forced to double-down on socialization outside of the office, reinforcing relationships that exist no matter what company I work for, further reducing my aversion to jumping ship.

In summation, WFH forever, I'm never going back
Why? Why should be fight for legal recourse first before we tackle the real problem? (At least in this context, legal recourse for unwarranted service termination can also be useful for things unrelated to scanning of private data, but that's not the point) This sounds like the "step back" in the "two steps forward, one step backwards" ideom.
They seem to charge $60/year for markdown (free plan only has plaintext). I wouldn't even want to evaluate it.
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Who would top talent work for somebody else? It is remote, but you still have to deal with meetings, HR, woke bs, egomaniac visions... And there is always a risk that startup fails...

It is pretty easy to start your own project, with some consulting on a side.
Saves on gas peaker plant runtimes (and potentially capacity payments, which generators can receive for being on standby). Instead of firing up an inefficient once through gas turbine (really just a jet engine bolted to the ground), you call on the distributed batteries in aggregate to discharge for a short duration (and, ideally, they charged when power was cheap and low carbon).

Refer to first chart “Levelized Cost of Energy Comparison-Unsubsidized Analysis”, “gas peaking” cost: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Note the quoted gas peaking cost ($151-$196 per MWh) is assuming a fossil gas cost of $3.45/MMBTU. Current spot prices are double that (Henry Hub).

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngwhhdm.htm
And yet every Apple product I've ever used was pretty below average and absolutely normal things like nice keyboards, and mice with useful buttons. Their laptops, for example, often lack absolutely fundamentally basic things like common ports. And there are no replaceable batteries! As far as I'm concerned, their stuff is half baked at best.
Efficient resource usage or Java. You can only choose one :p
Because the AI is not a person and there is no reason to treat it like one, including by allowing it to "learn by looking at other peoples work".
You’re ascribing the worst possible motives to someone based on your hatred of Elon Musk. Someone who has no known relationship with Musk, who has claimed publicly they started this process before Musk was involved with twitter, and who is a long standing and well regarded figure in the infosec world.

I think you’re gonna need more than Musk Derangement Syndrome fueled conspiracy theories to make your accusations stick here.
It reminds me of the days using the Opera browser in the early 2000's. It had a wonderfully quick and easy to use feed reader. I still miss the ease of it.
I like them. I don't really understand how it would apply to telemetry - it's not something I've read into - and I don't think many other folks are looking into GDPR compliance with telemetry either.
I am one of those who began coding in Notepad and then quickly moved on to Vim and then to Emacs.

When the whole world of internet services began consolidating around the web and then later when the whole web began consolidating around a few powerful walled gardens, I saw how these trends began chipping away at our anonymity, privacy, web performance and software performance. Computers are ubiquitous but privacy is under attack. Hardware is faster but software is slower. Internet pipes are faster but websites are sluggish.

In all this turbulence I thought at least my software development tools are not affected by these terrible user-hostile trends. Emacs has become faster with faster hardware. While Vim was always fast, I am sure the Vim folks too would agree that they can now run Vim with a lot of plugins thanks to faster hardware. These editors do not do hidden telemetry. They don't add user hostile features. The core editor experience remains more or less the same year after year.

Even after all the disruption (I mean literally, disruption, not in some positive metaphorical way) in the rest of tech world, I have found consolation in my modest code editor, Emacs for me, Vim for some, other editors for other people. My code editor has always served my best interests. It helps me write code and documentation without any distractions. But when I read articles like this about VSCode and its telemetry, it really makes me anxious. Perhaps Emacs or Vim will never be afflicted by issues like this. But still ... If developer tools meant for ordinary software developers like me are going to start sneaking on my data and begin bundling user-hostile features, what hope is there for all other kind of software tools!
>> It's Twitter. What possible serious security implications could possibly warrant everyone in Washington getting into a frenzy?

Considering how widely used Twitter is, at this point we can comfortably assume that most politicians and political operatives, even high profile ones, must have very sensitive information in their Twitter DM inboxes.
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I never really understood why people say productivity and socializing is difficult remote. It's difficult because people aren't putting thought into it. At my last big-co job the leadership just kept waiting for 'covid to be over' and not improving our remote work culture.

Hybrid models will always struggle and 1/3/1 is going to be probably the best you can do.

My company is fully remote, we embraced the GitLab model and are EXTREMELY collaborative. Every meeting has a note taker, we use Figma and Figjam for white boarding with incredible efficacy. We essentially have near the same level of documentation as a major enterprise with only 30 staff.

Socializing is encouraged via huddles in Slack and I can communicate with anyone in the company if I need to. Collaboration and new ideas disseminate differently online, but as a leader I have made it a goal to make sure we are not putting barriers up online, and actively encourage 'water cooler' talk.

Meanwhile we have had no problem sourcing candidates since we can pull from anywhere in the world, we have some incredible people all over the world that we would not have gotten otherwise.
Raspberry Pi has a distinctively different target audience. If you expect an RPi to run non-ARM code, then I'd say it's not made for you.

I agree that M1/M2 Macs are good, but I implore everyone to not get sucked into and stuck into the Apple ecosystem. Nothing good can come out of tech dominance.
Oh come on. He's playing dumb for the positive PR view. Of course he knows what his product is going to be used for.
I agree. I've assumed that once Lattner left as Swift lead, that Apple basically decided that Swift would be Apple-only. That's the only reasonable explanation for them adding Combine, result builders, etc into the language.
My company pays SF-payscale salaries no matter where the employee lives. That's how we attract and retain the best talent.