skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my impression is that we’ve gone from packaging or building an installer taking 10% of effort to cloud deployment infrastructure being 25-30% of effort, but that’s just one data point

The old bad days of shrink-wrapped software involved installing in environments we could not control. Tbe direct costs of writing an installer and testing (the larger effort) install, upgrade, uninstall, recovering from partial installs, etc. were nothing compared to the costs of dealing with all the weirdness that could exist on a customer's machine.

We're doing things like blue/green deploys and CD - things not remotely possible in that other world. And we're hooking up all kinds of monitoring and observability tooling that . . . even if we could have shipped that to customers on physical media, we'd be unable to harvest data from in those old times.

I think we're spending a lot less engineering time and getting a bigger bang for the effort.

I worry, though, that because software engineering has the shared professional memory of a goldfish that can always swim to an unvisited side of its bowl, we'll somehow try to repeat that pattern we've overcome.
Have to say, the video footage and editing was terrible. I suppose thats what you get when you’re sponsored and the important thing is the product placement.
How the public domain can win
> Does eMacs have a good remote editing and debugging system comparable to VSC?

Emacs has a remote editing system sort of similar to VSCode, but much older, less slick, and a bit quirkier. But imo it's quite good. It's called TRAMP mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
If that manipulation runs contrary to the interests of the government, that corporation and its leadership are in for a bad day.

Imagine a world where Zuckerberg wasn't obviously some kind of early Boston Dynamics prototype assembled before the team responsible for the ethics subroutines got their CI/CD going.

When the FBI shows up and tells him to do something, he's going to do it. He can either enjoy the billionaire lifestyle and do as he's told, or suffer the rather predictable consequences. After all, there are well over five thousand federal crimes in the USC. Zuckerberg, along with everybody reading this, is definitely guilty of something. Just takes a bit of digging to figure out what.

Doesn't matter how much money you have or how great your lawyers are. If the government wants to squash you, they are going to squash you.
Yeah exactly. Meta, Alphabet, Google, Microsoft, Apple[1] or permutations thereof.

Basically you pick the initialism and then you choose companies that plausibly could fit into it.

[1] Edit: errrr, that doesn't quite work does it. Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple lets say.
my primary keyboards are a planck for my personal desktop and ergodox infinity for work. i guess if i used the planck every day i'd get used to it but i think that the braces/brackets/parens are common enough they deserve their own keys instead of chords. but again, i've not given the time to learn to type with chords as a daily driver.

i would like one of these though and maybe move on from the planck for my desktop. the minimalism is sexy as hell
I dislike VCs and startup culture..

I suspect you are quite unusual in the demographics of HN readers then.

while I work in a 150yo bank

I'm British so I think 150 year old banks are quite new.
> Each advertiser and publisher is hand-approved so that every ad is relevant and interesting.

With respect to relevancy and interestingness, what’s your criteria for approving advertiser and publisher? If I have a nascent product of uncertain interestingness, can I still be accepted as an advertiser?

> Next, we built a crawler that indexes the sites on our network to help target our ads. Using an ML classifier (built with SpaCy), it can tell if a page is about data science or about full stack development. This allows advertisers to target the niche they are focused on and ensure the ads perform well, without doing any user tracking.

This sounds very interesting really. Have you done any tests to compare your method with Google’s user info harvesting method? I would really love to get a more detailed overview on how the whole system works if you’ve written about that somewhere.
In the software biz, where one day--Allah willing--we may find ourselves in direct/indirect competition with Microsoft, integrating one of their data probes into the heart of the business does not seem like the best move.

VSCode! It has electrolytes!
This is a good summary of the playing field, but I think they're way overblowing the panic

In summary Microsoft has:

- Made an incredibly good web-based code editor which is 100% OSS, no strings attached

- Made an extensions repository and a bunch of really high quality first-party extensions that have restricted licenses

Sure, in a perfect world the whole thing would be fully OSS. But in the worst-case, where people some day decide they want to fork or whatever, we're still much better off than before VSCode. The editor project is a net gain, even if forking means building some of the other bits yourself. This is still a net increase in value for everyone- even if you exclude the restricted parts; not a decrease, much less an apocalypse.
Presses powerbutton for 4 seconds
Artist today use the exact same method of learning from other peoples artwork to generate new artwork and styles. These models are learning just like any artist learns and then producing new content.
Strangely enough the dates of the first 5 languages are nearly the same, but I'm a different age.

I got exposed to lisp 8 years earlier than the author though, as I took an AI class in high-school.
You could try the reverse search in a images search engine. Google or Bing support that for example.
Can you provide a list of all the stockholders, who get a 6% dividend?
> No-one expected creative AIs to come for the artist jobs first, but here we are!

Maybe that's because we never really thought about it. In hindsight, it's only logical. For an artistic rendering, correctness doesn't matter much nor does understanding the model. For flying a plane or driving a car or just transforming code from one language to another, it very much does.
A reminder that DJI's mobile flight control app ("DJI Fly") was removed from the Google Play store over 1.5 years ago. The company officially wants you to sideload an APK downloaded from their website. No clear explanation has been given.

https://forum.dji.com/thread-256590-1-1.html

There's a joke about red flags somewhere in there.
Microsoft can’t seem to kick the old Microsoft no matter how hard they try. They embraced, extended, and now are extinguishing with the python extension.
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According to you, what would be some of the best resources to dive into economics from a perspective of an entrepreneur who is just starting up?
Posted and discussed yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648245
Yeah, losing focus while a robot drives is impressively easy even if you know you need to watch for safety. For some reason it's just so easy to trust them once they work even for just a little bit. It's part of the reason "level 3" robotic vehicles won't pan out.

Can also confirm about the zero turn mowers. Recently switched jobs from automating cars/tanks to mowers myself. At the very minimum mowers have way tighter power and space constraints plus hydros are not easy to control well automatically.
Interestingly, JetBrains offer Community Edition IDEs with the same extension interface as the paid versions. You could (and likely already can) support LSP integration through that.

(What JetBrains sell is the depth of knowledge of a language and its ecosystem, advanced and specific code manipulation tools, and general polish and attention to detail. This is not impossible but pretty hard to reproduce in an open-source product, sadly.)
How would you have applied it? Japan surrendered so they had a lot less say in how things where handled. No such thing happened with the USSR/Russia.
When I see this much effort, it just makes me think that, at some point, maybe it's worth ditching the whole concept of giant buttons: https://www.charachorder.com/products/charachorder-one
I'm confused, if you're running an M2 Mac, you're probably going to be running Asahi Linux. (Not really sure there is any other option :P)
That would be set up on the first day with the simple asahilinux she'll script, and then theres essentially nothing else needed after that.

So you should be able to just `pacman -Syu`
The given reason for going from 58 keys, then to 34, is ergononics. There has to be a better way to provide ergonomics than such a heavily shifted system, no? I'm not sure I could switch to a keyboard if it meant giving up QWERTY touch typing.
Pretty much any ethical discussion about race is suppressed on HN because this is a “Silicon Valley neo rationalist” site

Liam Kofi Bright outlines this with the Represser archetype in his new essay “White Psychodrama”
Google/Apple shouldn't be trusted as a global censor. Each app store are dominant platform.
I really like the increase in transparency, I found it somewhat disturbing to pay for what feels like a random amount of stuff. How should I know if I need Pro or Pro+ if there is no estimate out there what either might get me. The update does not seem to change that though.
I would love to have a distribution plotted of how much compute I might expect. Or at least Min/Average/Max run time until disconnect (rn. only Max is known).
Creating a bot farm in an MMORPG got me into programming
HN posters don’t unanimously agree on loving or hating anything. Stop trying to stir up drama.
you're underestimating the control software. with consumer grade cameras and simple image processing, you can write "go to x, find the nearest person and drop on them". also, just having the camera in the air is enough to make it much easier to launch a rocket at a target for juicier targets.
> I was there at the time and I was very aware of the story.

Your ability to know about a story does not tell us whether the wider population knew.

> At no point was it difficult to learn more.

And yet it was actively suppressed. I also wonder what topic you couldn't claim that for?

> Again, if you are somehow equating this hunter biden story with the censorship of, say, tiannamen square by the ccp

I didn't use that example, perhaps it was used further up. Regardless, equating is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Comparing would be a better fit. Yes, all instances of censorship can be compared simply because they are censorship.

> you will see how awfully bad the us gov is at censorship

Are you suggesting that we shouldn't be worried about this censorship because the government is bad at it compared to the Chinese government? That's not going to fly. I also think the obvious slippery slope here would be hard to characterise as fallacious, given we're provided with both ends of the slope, and in actual fact, the US is not at the top of the slope.

> If the government was so concerned about trump as you say, then why did the same fbi re open an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just weeks before the 2016 election?

The government is not of one mind, it is made up of many departments, groups and individuals, each with their own attitudes, desires and intentions. Regardless, how am I supposed to answer that? Or more to the point, what kind of answer would satisfy you?

> if you believe that the efforts to censor the hunter biden laptop story and tiannamen square are equivalent

Did you mean to reply to me?

> I will make a bet

I skipped this as it was childish and unhelpful, and only builds on the straw man (intentional or not) that you are building.
The ideologies and power structures of the axis powers ceased to exist as a result of the outcome of WW2. This was not the case when the Russian Federation took on the mantle of the inheritor of the legacy of the USSR. Therefore it does not make sense to equate the history of authoritarianism in these places.
Anti-competitive for me but not for thee
The consequences for the majority are such that, over time, leading language ecosystems become tied to Microsoft services.

One example in the article is the availability of alternative editors and IDEs decreasing over time in favor of extensions to VSCode. Essentially, we are driving towards a monoculture - either you are using VSCode and adjacent services, or you choose an alternative, pay the price of compatibility, and experience paper cuts.
2 minutes is a pretty long time for a lot of use cases.
Meta-Journal After Three Months of Daily Journaling
TIL as well: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/10/28/22751274/facebook-m...
For all intents and prepared we already live in a post-scarcity society. We're just too shitty to make an effort to distribute the wealth, the food, the products etc.
Here's one crossover: the Blair Witch Project was marketed as an Alternate Reality Game, as were many of the later low budget found-footage horrors. It turns out that the top-of-the-list creepypasta "Slender man", in the form of the "Marble Hornets" youtube series, was mistaken for an ARG by the members of Unfiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
The way I remember as a far off observer was the Soviet Union went through a few very old and ineffective leaders after Brezhnev died, while their war in Afghanistan drained resources so they couldn't possibly keep up with Reagan's Star Wars initiative. Gorbachev was a young, vital fresh face with new ideas that they had to go with to try to reform and survive.
You mean Neocolonialist practices like in African or South American countries?

Russia was and will always be a superpower. No need for humiliating "pats on the back" by Anglo-Saxons. They always wanted to see them fall.

Tough luck though.
why is this absolute dreck on HN?

nothing in this piece gives any indication that the authors have any idea what Hashi even does. the extent of analysis is "hurr durr cloud computing is big" and then a long nondescript "Open Source is Key to Product-Led Growth" buzzword bingo that reads like a noob discovering how bottom up open source works for the first time

i need a downvote button at the post level, i want a refund on my time spent reading this shit
Investor Sex Change?
I'm blanking on the name, but there was an older 5-way switch keyboard, where the 4 non-thumb fingers went in a recess with 4 paddles and a push-button; I've known several people who used that because of severe RSI, but it was quite expensive.

[edit]

Searching split keyboards on google image search for long enough found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand#/media/File:DataHand_...
The Codium build mentioned in OP is fully free. You don't have to use the proprietary version unless you're actually relying on the few extra custom features/addons it provides over the open source one.
There's just so much support for Markdown at this point, I've just bit the bullet and used it. RemarkJS has a bunch of plugins, so if you know enough to wire it together it's relatively simple to get decent results customized to your needs. It separates the input from the output and uses a real AST, so maybe it might spur some new ideas for some sort of text+ spec that could be adopted.

The idea of Markdown isn't bad - separate the writing from the design. It's just horribly designed. I'd actually love to see a basic rich text document format based on a very strict subset of HTML with no JS, extremely limited CSS and basic tags - created for reading and writing, unlike most web pages - but still compatible with the full spec. Like an editable ePub or mobi format.

For anyone who happens upon this later, after finishing the resume, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out the CSS printing rules for page breaks don't work with CSS grid, making printing a PDF a nightmare.
I don't have quite the experience with programming languages this guy has, but I've found myself enthralled with functional programming as well. Lisp is really cool, I'm really interested in Scheme in particular, and beyond that Haskell, Erlang and R (I like math). I don't know where this is taking me but it feels exciting.
In this example, 25 frames are generated using Stable Diffusion, then frames are interpolated using FILM-Net. I hadn't see FILM-net before, it looks really neat.
That is no different than any other large market with established players. Amazon in India is a relatively new entrant compared to established players that have multiple decades of India experience having faced different regulatory regimes across different parties that have been in power (Reliance, Aditya Birla Group, Tatas etc.,).

But India is also a highly fragmented hyperlocal market. There are a lot of startups in this space addressing logistics, fulfillment, mobility etc., There are multiple startups that seem to have cracked fresh groceries / fresh meat/seafood delivery (less than 30 minutes delivery in many cases). So, while these upstarts are ambitious and want to grow, they are also satisfied to play in a small geographic area (which is difficult for Amazon to follow). Therefore, by sheer numbers, Amazon has a lot of competition.

One place where they seemed to have made a difference is in their approach to Amazon Prime Video in India where they seem to have greater success relative to their pale cousin Netflix. They seem to have done this by promoting the local talent and partnership with local talent.

The small business owners in India are a huge voting block and therefore wield significant local political power. That has been an issue that Amazon had to contend with due to the diverse political spectrum across the various states in India (again, not very different from what an Amazon/Walmart may face in any given region in say the US).

The government is also committed to building the Open Network for Digital Commerce which is a very early initiative to disaggregate e-Commerce and is hoping to repeat the success of adoption of the UPI payment network that revolutionized diigital payments in India. If it succeeds, it would upend the marketplace model of companies like Amazon/Flipkart etc., That is a bigger threat and one to watch for.

https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1814143

https://github.com/ONDC-Official/ONDC-Protocol-Specs

https://developers.becknprotocol.io/docs/introduction/video-...
They have built a few datacenters around the globe.

They’re spending 10B between 2018 and 2023 to build datacenters in the US.

They’ve been a big customer on all cloud platforms (learning). The last contract with aws is worth at least 1.5b (300m/year but growing since 2018) and ends in about 1.5 year.

Seems like a good place to save billions, and make some more by offering cloud services on efficient systems.

And they've been hiring a lot of infra people since 2020
Or the term "side effect" (especially in a language that does not enforce return types): https://dev.to/ruizb/side-effects-21fc
Also: parts one can obtain at a local Ace Hardware. Forget your pentalobe 1.27mm screws
What is your actual body fat content? And I mean by a real test like a DEXA scan, not calipers.
My understanding is that safe lead levels are often measure in parts per billion

Which means that, if they are measuring in ppm, even the lowest lead paints are vastly higher than what they ought to be.
I've been reading the original 1897 Dracula via Dracula Daily, where each chapter is emailed to you on the day of the year that the events happen in the book. I think the format helps, but it's pretty scary.
> The actual consequence (as implied by this article) seems to be people who build their business around these tools

But there aren't really even consequences for those. The core editor really is free to use however you want; you can use the auxiliary bits which are proprietary, or you can not use them and fill the gaps yourself. That's up to you.
I'm not beating around the bush.

The story is funnier because of stereotypes. That's the function mentioning the group serves. Taking a joke overly seriously and then having it explained to you is also a stereotype. It's just mildly humorous, and now it's slightly moreso.
>Android is a kiosk. iOS is a kiosk. Windows is a kiosk. These are not operating systems, they don't enable you to operate your property, they enable you to use services. They're kiosks.

For what it's worth, all of them enable me and everyone I know to achieve the things I need or want to get done.

Working on some paperwork? Office and Windows right there to get me through it.

Need to use some industry standard tooling for work? Windows more than likely (probably the only one) handles it.

Need a reliable workstation? Macbooks and Thinkpads can seemingly last the better part of a decade if not more, no matter how badly they're handled.

Need to do some important phone calls? I've literally never seen an iPhone fail to be a phone.

Want a nice and compact, all-purpose portable device on the road? Android phones and tablets can handle mostly anything nowadays.

If anything is a "kiosk", it's desktop Linux. They don't enable me to operate my property (because they literally can't outside of very specific niches), they enable me to bask in their ideologies (which IDGAF about).
And visual assistance has been well supported in most commercial drones for years.
Good article. The author makes a compelling case about how Microsoft’s strategy isn’t on the up and up. I was never convinced that telemetry was inherently evil, but I do see the downsides of non-OSS language servers.

I have only one request of the author and others - please stop citing TIOBE (https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/)
Ronald Reagan jokes on Youtube are more worthwhile than most what Netflix has to offer.
There's a pub where I grew up that claim it's been there since 1040 odd. Not sure of the historical accuracy but the claim is its mention in the domesday book.
A place to move: gym or indoor basketball / racquetball court
> Zuck is trying to blame the FBI to draw attention away from the fact that it was his company that decided to limit the sharing of that story.

That may well be true.

> The government tells publishers all the time not to print things. The decision is up to the publishers. That’s free speech.

If the mafia offer your business protection you could also make your own decision. Would that be freedom of conscience?

> What do you think the government said when the Washington Post called them up and said “we have a bunch of top-secret stuff that one of your contractors stole from the NSA”? The Post published the Snowden stories anyway. This sort of thing happens a lot.

Why does that incident mean that this incident is different? Were the same people involved?

> Many people posted and talked about the Hunter laptop story. None of those people went to jail for it.

Would people need to go to jail for the aims of the censor to be realised?

So many questions, so few answers.
> leading language ecosystems become tied to Microsoft services

until a free alternative is developed. Making a freely-licensed language plugin is not inherently hard, it's just a lot of work. You're paying for convenience.
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Holy hell, this blog is virtually unreadable. Article content aside, the fact that after pretty much every single paragraph there's 1-2 giant links to some other article and/or an ad is just infurianting and makes it impossible to focus. I stopped reading after the first few and will be adding this site to my blocklist.
I wonder did the drive behind people creating open source JDKs have nothing to do with Sun open sourcing theirs? I wonder in an alternative world where Sun locked down Java as hard as possible and sued anyone and everyone, would they not have been bought by Oracle?

Are we sure that an editor will be able to displace VS Code in the future, if it's given away for free and so feature-packed? Browsers are another example of this. Or would the VS Code successor look like an Apple/Google/Amazon fork of VS Code?