skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if the government either is now or will eventually be owned by corporations

Railroad period in California politics. About 187x or so.

The (only) transcontinental railroad is completed. The owners, Stanford (yes, that Stanford) and Co see the enormous economic power in their hands. They can set tariffs as they please. If a farm is owned by a relative or a loyal person - shipping oranges to Chicago is extremely profitable. A "bad" person gets a prohibiting tariff. So, only a loyal person can be elected at any post. Only a loyal person can own a (profitable) newspaper.

This continues for a couple dozen years, then there is a popular revolt and no railroad-connected person can ever be elected anywhere. And the first anti-monopoly laws are introduced. Suddenly a private business can't set private tariffs as it's pleased.

"What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun."

-- Having said that, the post you agree with is flawed on much simpler basis. The constitution protects us from government censorship. Protection from private censorship (and yes, it's a censorship) is placed in our own private hands. So to say "nothing to worry about" is extremely counter-productive. Exactly because there is no other recourse except the private action of stopping dealing with a business that engages is censorship.
No, unaccelerated framebuffer for now. X works though.
Official Labour Twitter account with a NIMBY proposal:

https://twitter.com/uklabour/status/1406947513857462276

Afterwards reaction:

> Lucy Powell has said that she “would not have signed off” a “NIMBY” Labour Party graphic distributed on social media earlier this year that criticised the government’s plans to build on “your green spaces without your say”.

https://labourlist.org/2021/09/i-would-not-have-signed-off-n...
I've been on Ubuntu 22.04 for a few weeks now, and every now and then Firefox will create a popup notification that says "Firefox needs to be closed to update (12 days left)". When I close it and re-open, Firefox is still not updated. Even when I go to the Software Center and update all apps, it apparently doesn't update snaps.

I'm not entirely sure if Firefox is updateable via the UI. It's truly awful; and that's coming from an Ubuntu lover.
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Firefox is a particularly interesting case because it has a bunch of issues that only exist when it's installed via snap. I just recently ripped out the default snap version and installed via the official PPA, and Firefox seems to be running much smoother now.

For basically any app I use that's installed via snap, I eventually run into a gamebreaking issue and have to remove the snap version and find a normal .deb to install from. Whether it's customization issues (setting up custom fonts in VS Code didn't work) or stability issues (the tab bar in Firefox windows freezing up), there always seems to be some kind of problem
If someone is actually way smarter than me, my concerns would be:

1. Would they get bored or frustrated here?

2. Are their people skills good enough for the role?

3. How long do they plan to be here?

4. What do they expect from us?

But I’m a generalist and find being the dumbest person in the room to be very educational. :)
Americans are rich enough that they don't just buy the very cheapest thing. A sizable portion of the customers will click on "Amazon's choice" or similar and spend a few bucks extra. Consequently, the profit margins aren't that bad. The top spot for pretty much any product niche on Amazon is worth millions. If they can in-house just a few hundred, they've unlocked another billion dollars in value. You have a point, but they're trying to conquer the world. And frankly, when you own the marketplace, pulling it off is easy.
I agree; the video in the comment above yours was edited specifically to focus hate on a couple of high school students.

While I have to admit I'm not a fan of that debate style, if you want to know the context behind it, there's an episode of Radiolab on the topic: https://radiolab.org/episodes/debatable

The short version is that it seems to have been a response and rebellion to what was already an arguably ridiculous style of competitive "debating": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0
That seems odd, I normally think of text strings as explicitly disallowing control characters, and instead, consider this a binary blob.
I don't think it is the tool for that job, but for footage acquired on the iPad it will do just fine thank you very much. The iPads are being used for shooting way more frequently than I'd have given credit, until I realize that if an iPad was available back when I was unable to afford other equipment, I'd have used the hell out of it too. We shot the shit out of VHS=>SVHS=>Hi8=>Digi8=>DV/MiniDV as if it were film. Now, there's image stabilization, light as a feather, prices are a fraction of prior so for the price of one thing you can get like 3 or 4, and then consider them crash cams, etc. Then when you get done shooting, there's 0 time wasted on transfering to your editor as your friggin camera is the editor and the color corrector. I mean, why the hell would you not do this if you're a broke ass college film student. hell, even elementary school kids could be doing this. it's mind boggling what kids have at their finger tips now.
While that lasts, you can't be charging a flat $200 in a world where the other players are charging 5-10¢/GB of egress.
Spandex, mullets and profanity: the eternal genius of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Looking at the bigger picture - would seem that the Texas state legislature's unwillingness to tackle the issue of overly permissive firearm access is the "lazy take" to be concerned about.
What makes a GUI app worth containerizing and CLI tools not worth containerizing?
MagicDNS is really cool, but it seems like it is only a useful for ssh-ing into hosts or for tiny home networks where you run a service on a single box. And maybe that is totally fine! I just don't see how to use it in a larger environment beyond `ssh <hostname>`.

In larger environments we never have any kind of internal web site or service running on one host so we can't really have MagicDNS short names for things. It would be nice for users to just be able to type `https://deploy` to get to our deployment tool for example. But that web interface runs across many nodes behind a load balancer so there is no way to use MagicDNS here.

I wonder if some day we can register duplicate hostnames and have it do DNS load balancing? I'm not sure how that would work with the tailscale cert command either. Each node would need the private key.

Anyway, we'll probably start using it but the only real use cases I see right now are for ssh and for users accessing their remote dev boxes.
It seems like you still do not understand, despite the explanations and you are mis-characterizing my definition of work. You also seem to think that I'm siding with employers here. In fact it is the opposite.

My "definition" of "Work" in an employer-employee relationship: Time my employer pays me for in which I perform something we agreed upon.

Thus my commute was never work time. And because it was never work time, if I no longer commute to the office, they can't expect me to now work during the time frame that I used to commute. They can only expect me to work during the times of the commute that I actually worked. It's part of the (say that was the arrangement) 8 hours of work I did for them.

Unless of course I was fortunate enough to have that last arrangement I mentioned, where yes, working on the commute was paid for. Take the 1.5 train commute again. Let's say 30 minutes of that was getting to the train station on time, waiting for the train to arrive and walking to work and thus of that I was able to work for one hour, because I was lucky enough to work for an employer where they do pay me for work regardless of where I am even in the "office times".

Most people are not in that category. In fact, a lot of people do not even know how many hours they really put in. I can only recommend, if you don't track your hours, do so. Tracking hours is good for employees and bad for employers. Look at what your pay stub says, how many nominal hours you are working. That is your target. Try to stay close to that.

EDIT: Forgot about the conferences and such. Of course the employer has to pay for that. It's work time. By only the nominal hours. If they make me represent them at some conference for 12 hours that's fine, I'll do that for that weekend or whatever, but I plunk down 12 hours in my "timesheet" and I don't work for a day or so the week after or some other time that I choose and I damn well expect hotel, transportation and food to be paid for.
A GUT would be a theory in which a single fundamental force/interaction exists - one that unifies the electro-magnetic interaction with the weak interactions*, and the strong interaction, and perhaps with gravity. But there is no reason why the universe shouldn't have 3 or 4 different fundamental interactions.

In contrast, QM/QFT can't deal with particles curbing space-time, and GR can't explain the movement of elementary particles, so we know for sure those two theories can't be completely correct: there must exist something we're missing to explain how gravity works at the lowest detail level.

* these are already unified to some extent as the electro-weak interaction, which as I understand is believed to be a single kind of interaction at very high energy levels, as seen in the early universe, with 2 different aspects at the lower energies typical of our age. I may be wrong on some of the details here though.
Yeah, it's totally possible to configure a stack like that. I roll my own stack of unbound+nsd as adblocking split-horizon DNS for LAN, roaming and management WG network.

Tailscale value prop as I understand it - they can manage this whole thing for you.
My, how odd that copilot wants to "liberate" other peoples code from attribution, licenses, the project it was ripped from...

How curious that copilot doesn't ripoff Microsoft Windows or Office code...

Spare us the astroturfed ideals. You are not one of "us", Microsoft PR person.

You sound like a Russian diplomat defending the indefensible.
In my opinion, it's probably better to stick with windows until the drawbacks of running windows outweigh the meaningful percentage of those 1000+ games you still play.
> Thing is, it does disappear approximately every 10 years, as we've observed since software first became a thing.

It slows down, along with the rest of the economy during recessions, because it, like everything else, is driven by the same market forces.

My point is that in the average case, there is ~zero opportunity cost or damage to your career, because you worked at MS Azure, instead of... Somewhere else.

You cite fartapp startups that run on rainbows and free VC money, but cloud providers are about as dissimilar from the fartapp as you can get, in terms of their economics and prospects.

You may be bearish on them, that's fine, I can't predict the future, but I see no reason to believe that you're going to have a better life working at literally any other random software firm, during an economic contraction. There's always a few workplaces that tend to be counter-cyclical, but they are, by definition, a minority.

... Also, many government jobs are a political football, that are only as secure as the next election. The best part is that after you worked one, and had half your compensation deferred to retirement, some politician will come along, and campaign on reneging on your pay, after you've given your thirty years of service.
You're wrong about this too. I live in Eastern Europe, I had Ukrainian refugees in my house and I have been warning Westerners like yourself about the Russian danger for almost 30 years or so.

But, like now, nobody listened...
Asking for a friend who is amateur, how does this compare to LumaTouch’s LumaFusion?
You're forgetting that these decisions are probably made by middle managers whose compensation/promotional prospects is tied to the success of a product launch.
It says a lot about the incredible success of the Raspberry Pi that headline features in Ubuntu releases are now aimed specifically at it.
I mean, those batteries are liquid cooled anyway.
In principle, although the controls don't seem to be working for me at the moment (in either Firefox or Chrome). I guess it's a work-in-progress... (or maybe it's just me).
Vitamin K, Calcium, etc; a surprisingly in depth article.
He's explicitly attempting to trigger people who agree with Herb Caen ("Don't call it Frisco").
NATO was quite happy to bomb Serbia and Libya, to name but two.
The way to express "cosine squared" in words, without including "cosine" or "squared", would be a lesson in cosines and a lesson in squaring. So you're correct, but why is this point useful?
That bit of my comment is not accurate - sorry.

I was trying to make the point that The Conservative Party had members making some pretty average comments on a regular basis.
But at least it provides an avenue for recourse against bad actors.
Licensing should be simple and easy to obtain.

"Per the article, "It takes four years to get licensed for a variety of residential and commercial construction work in Florida, according to data collected by the Institute for Justice."

This should be a simple knowledge test, and perhaps an inspection of their work product.
> The problem is most engineers don’t want to do operations work.

Nah, the problem is that most (software) engineers don't have the skills to do operations work.

Let's not fool ourselves: software development is 95% development (writing code/docs/test etc) and 5% system administration (getting your local mysql or whatever up and running etc) whereas operations is usually 95% screaming at the machines (various linux tasks, writing glue scripts, infrastructure, networking etc) and 5% development (the aforementioned glue scripts, writing internal docs).

The fields do overlap, but very little.

They require two different skill sets.

They require two different mindsets, too: a software engineer is usually optimistic (works on my machine, will work in prod too) whereas a sysadmin/operations person is usually pessimistic (what's our disaster recovery strategy?).
My Chrome kept "Aw Snapping" on this page. Is it just me?

Error code: SIGILL
One downside of using tailscale cert, or LE for "private" records is that it writes the domain name in a public Certificate Transparency Log [1]. So make sure that the name doesn't contain any sensitive information.

An alternative is to issue wildcard certificates with LE, so that the subdomains names are kept private.

[1] https://crt.sh/
If people wouldn't go insane at the idea, the government should provide lists of contractors, and a public record of what work they've done, and allow homeowner's to cross reference contact data with with family, friends, neighbors.

It's a pity that we cannot trust each other enough to pool our data for our common good.
Funny, two of the three products (Elastic, and MongoDB) mentioned as successful open core aren't even open core anymore, but use a non-open source license. Does that mean they were so successful they didn't need to have an open source product anymore? I don't see it as anything to celebrate.
I learned SQL because my coworker was stuck on a bug she couldn't figure out and 'knew' I'd be able to solve her problem.

I just kept asking questions until I found the one she missed.

I also ended up becoming a bespoke VxWorks admin because the guy who volunteered was never available, and someone asserted my code wasn't working well on VxWorks, so of course I had to know enough to do benchmarks. I fixed a few problems but the real issue was the hard drive wasn't doing DMA due to the kernel not recognizing the processor revision number.

Somewhere between those two events I realized that if my part of the project is great but the whole project is on fire, nobody cares about my stuff. I don't get points for being right and the team being wrong. I mean, I do for some people, but I still feel bad at the end of the project, and those are the 'points' I have to live with the most.

The way that played on on the latter project is that once we got our shit together, we started work stealing from our peer orgs. Volunteering to carve off little pieces of interface between us and 'take care' of this bit of data handling here and that one over there. I came to realize that the Org subconsciously knew this and any past success they had was due to self-organization and collective work-stealing.

Throw people at it, turn a blind eye to precise mission statements, and hope for the best.
> one of the primary points of containerization is the ability to have multiple copies of an application running in parallel using different "application images". One should be able to upgrade (i.e. install a new image in parallel to the old one) without disrupting existing execution environments.

Would you like to run a completely new Firefox with a completely new profile whenever you update it? You do know that you can't use the same profile even with the same version of Firefox in two separate Firefox instances concurrently, right? If the updater was aware of snap and snap aware of the application it's updating, you could have a graceful update procedure that serializes the current state and reloads the new container, but that's a lot of hoops to jump through, and the jumping must be coordinated between multiple stakeholders.
If you look only at the new nix command and flakes and disregard all the “legacy” commands nix is very simple and the learning curve isn’t much steeper than jumping to any other distro. The documentation around flakes is also much more complete and much higher quality on top of the NixOS discord being happy to help or point to where you can find the answers.
> a period of rapid US economic expansion

Over what time period?

GDP growth is in a long term (i.e. multiple decades) downtrend.

Growth is up over the last couple of years if you cherry-pick and use the COVID/lockdown crash the starting point.
Companies compete, in unequal parts, by brain and by muscle. "A" marketing with "B" product beats "B" marketing of "A" product most of the time. Money can be applied to weaken the competitor or tilt the playing field, then your product can be inferior.

You can substitute a lot of different subjects in for "software" there.
Let the users curate their own feeds rather than trying to curate things centrally. If some threshold of users have blocked one twitter user, then ban them maybe, otherwise leave it alone. They can remove obvious spam or whatever, but let me choose whether to ban that particular take on a subject or not from my feed.

I'm likely in the minority on this, but I'd rather have the control than trust others to moderate in my best interests for me.
How to multi-cloud.

* Start with your architecture, KISS is king. Monolith using as few pieces as you reasonably can. Do you really need two DBs? Do you really need a message queue? etc. Trim, cut, remove. Scaling is mostly accomplished by using larger/faster systems.

* Only use the basic services universally available (VM, S3). You need your own provisioning and backup scripts and routines.

* Use your own VPN, nebula has been good for me. Makes your multi cloud infrastructure look like a flat network internally.

* Be very aware of egress costs and how your provider calculates them. Keep intra-cloud comms down. Don't do obviously bad things like host the DB at a different provider than the app server.

You can also mix on-prem/colo with cloud fairly seamlessly if you've built up this way. Cloud makes sense for really small, and for quick changes. Own your hardware when it makes sense. Make the switch when the finances line up with no need to change any software.
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Why Is That Funny?
I've got a bunch of HPC experience (similar hardware and database requirements). Feel free to email me. I'd be happy to answer any questions and depending on your location I have reputable contacts that are vendors in that space.
> wtf. who would ever want that?

Each and every biostatistician on this planet. Especially those touching clinical data. Personally, I was saddened to learn that DuckDB did not include dynamically typed, or at least untyped, columns. Happily my data loads are usually small enough for a row-oriented data store.

CHECK constraints, now in conjunction with STRICT tables, are the best invention since sliced bread! If I could improve on one thing, it would be to remove any type notion from non-STRICT tables.
Yep. I was just looking at a voicemail / spam blocking one last night and their privacy policy said they use / share and contacts you upload (aka that they upload). The average person has no idea that’s happening.
Great job! I love that you only need to press the record and stop on the phone and the rest is done automagically in the background.

I wonder if there's a thing for Android that's as accurate as Whisper!?
Some time ago, i was talking to an MBA people /project manager guy was ho had a completely different definition of what "devops" meant. His meaning was some kind of project management approach.

We have a way to prostitute words in this field... agile, QA, devops.
Firefox isn't the only thing that has been switched off .deb and to a snap. LXD, for example, has been shipping as a only a snap for years.

But even if it were only firefox, telling people they should download tarballs instead of having their distro ship packages is really missing the point.
So, it's not Microsofts information they are selling for $10/month.
They are wholesale ripping it, sans attribution and sans licenses, IN VIOLATION OF LAW on an industrial scale.

It surely must be stopped and punished, or no license will ever be respected again.

MS is taking OTHER PEOPLES CODE and using it ways those people explicitly do not allow and putting it in a walled-garden tool for paid access: license violation as a service.
That is why you must get rich with crypto or startups before the AI panopticon comes for you. Become who you are. Free yourself from capitalism.

That’s the first step.

That is to say, you become a super-human; someone who cannt be financially pressured into serfdom.

The AI panopticon, once it is unleashed, will scan your mind, read all your thoughts, and extract all your emotions and goals. Only the wealty will be able to afford freedom ftom the panopticon.
The numbers of zeros after the dot/comma (depending on your locale)
I'll admit it depends a bit. We're moving to Github Actions and their runners are … slow. There are custom runners, but they're a PITA to set up. There's a beta for bigger runners, but you have to be blessed by Github to get in right now, apparently.
What is UTXO and the UTXO set
People are starting to see how overpriced most degrees are. They're effectively High School+ at this point, with the knowledge that is attained in most degrees pretty comparable to what one would get repeating 12th grade several more times, except not at home and now you have to pay a lot of money for the pleasure.

There are still some degree paths where college absolutely makes sense and the degrees provide actual value, but they are clearly in the minority now. For everything else, you can learn it from YouTube for free.

Also, we really need to do more to tax these astronomical endowments these overpriced predatory institutions are sitting on.
I do seem to recall a AGESA update (motherboard firmware) that did managed to reduce the IOD power usage when idle. Sad that it was months after most of the reviews came out.
> They are biologists, though, who do not generally have a good track record on replication.

What, now biologists too? o-O I thought the list consisted of economists and social scientists.
If it’s anything like their television service, it will basically be old school 2010 Facebook Zynga: a bunch of meaningless homegrown titles that aren’t worth the time they take to even start them up.