skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No AI model works that way either though. Think Stability AI: It doesn't have a copy of every image that it was generated with, but has "distilled" the patterns out of images. It no longer has a copy of any specific image inside it, nor is there an ability to extract training data from it.

My point was that it doesn't matter whether AI works exactly like a human brain, humans have additional rights that an AI does not. This comment made my point better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273621

> There is no doubt that AI-generated suggestions generally are "transformative," it is only about whether they are transformative enough.

I don't think even Microsoft/Github actually believes this to be the case because they choose to train on public Github repos and did not include their own proprietary codebase.
Same, but I went with Debian as I wanted to stay in the .deb world.
Yes, in the form of higher housing costs.
A fun way think about it is pressing on a filled balloon from the outside. Inside the balloon is our whole reality/dimension. Everyone is poking inwards and bending the rubber is what we see and how we interact with each other. But we're completely locked into our current senses.

In some ways, it sounds awfully... "spiritual", right?

The challenge is there's no point in trying to imagine what existence or thought outside of our reality looks like. Carl Sagan's FlatLand helps illustrate how stuck we really might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
I run Debian on all my systems, and to be honest firefox is something I always maintain separately.

/opt/firefox contains the latest binary download from the official site.

The application is one that updates frequently enough that the gain is worthwhile.
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Now that's just a lie and you know it. Is this legal?
> Swapped to Arch and haven't looked back yet, Arch took me a lot more work to get set up but once it was it's been pretty invisible, which is how I like my OS to be.

I think that Fedora Workstation[1] is a #1 alternative to Ubuntu in terms of smoothness and ease of use. And if .deb is a requirement – then simply Debian.

[1] https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/
>> just need to delegate authority and let them act mostly autonomously.

Sounds a lot like the representative democracy that created this mess in the first place.
Let me start by saying Debian rolling release is the truth.

That being said, I worry about the archaic community and contributor-tooling behind debian to be a barrier that will lead to its demise though. Makes me sad, but it is what it is. We are all getting old, and to us this interface looks normal, but to new people and those making the apps that the kids depend on, it looks like a shitshow of antiquated code.

Nobody wants to interact with savannah, it's ugly, move those projects somewhere else.

Nobody wants to use mailing lists or byzantine social arrangements through IRC just to get their package submitted.

I've got to be real with you, not a lot of people give a shit about 'free' beyond price either. Make non-free the default and put 'free-only' as the apt option. I love free software and it hurts me to say it, but there's a reason why AUR is killing the game right now. It's easy to use, easy to enter, easy to see people using your code in a mainstream OS without having to opine to holy neckbeards for the mercy to allow your package to be published.

Debian is a great OS, and I'd happily use it for the rest of my life if given the choice, but reality is staring me in the face that this won't last in its current form, and its current form won't be maintained if anything changes. It's a catch-22.
I agree, SF area has a lot of non-tech-related people and activities that should be enough to at least enjoy your non-work hours, but same with other areas. Moved to San Diego, and now I'm happier all around.

Running joke between me and the rest of the startup team in SF was that every time we go to an event, people lead conversations by asking what stack I use, which version of Python, and why the heck I'm messing with XMPP. I understood the importance of seeking out non-techies.
The problem is, with what platform are you gone capture those working class people. You can't just win on the rural working class. You need to convince deserve urban working and upper class citizens.

In the US, if you want to go after the rural working class then you better be talking correct about abortion and guns otherwise you will get nowhere.

Its really not easy to do.
Always good advice to budget and prepare for the worst, but wow this is a big stretch from the article.

Of the large salary companies - Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are in the cloud space. Google doesn't make most of its profits from cloud. Netflix and Facebook don't sell these services at all. Dropbox and Digital Ocean (and sort of Cloudflare) are also in the cloud space and aren't known for such salaries.

It's possible everything is in a bubble from the low interest rates. My prediction is Adtech is far more likely to be in a bubble than cloud computing. The productivity gains and small number of people who can fill the role for cloud are going keep it dominate probably for a long time even in a recession.
The company behind these scans is https://www.lumafield.com/ - a really cool way to do marketing for your product. Love it!
You should keep your VPN on at home too if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information.
Ammonia is fine for big industrial use: we process it in the many millions of tons, already. I would not like to see it pumped at gas stations.
> at least you don't have "Electoral Judges" that will happily fuck with the elections and ignore constitution to make sure their preferred candidate win

Lets revisit this observation in 2024 when the next US Presidential election is held. Many localities have been electing people to oversee their local election process who are 2020 deniers, and who supported overturning Biden's win in order to keep Trump in office. I think 2024 could be interesting.
In the thread, Ben alluded to automated, possibly distributed activity:

> For the record, this is a new account that has posted a bunch of links (all Stratechery interviews) in a short amount of time, from multiple locations around the world.

It seems obvious that the tweets were automated -- during some periods, it tweeted every ~10 seconds. If it were switching IPs at that same rate, especially if the IPs were in known AWS/Azure/etc ranges, then it's obviously not going to be authentic human activity.

In your personal situation, even if you had IP changes between every tweet -- I assume your account has some tenure, and is more than just a few days old? Twitter keeps track of all the IPs you've ever logged in from, and for older known accounts, there's probably more tolerance for weird activity (e.g. bouncing between VPNs) than a days-old account that has done nothing but suspicious spam.
Snap has also ruined Ubuntu for me, and I've moved to Debian and/or Alpine depending on the use case.
adobe, but I live my life in perpetual fear of lawyers. Fun times back then.
To me this is programming during the first 10 years where the "Internet" were local BBS, magazines spoke about Compuserve and Prodigy, and the connection rates where impossible, so we had to get by with what came on magazines and local library.
Still very cool, and it shows the single tab connection that's the bane of old cylindrical cells that the 4680 solves.

I do wish Samsung would already release some of them to the public ffs. Surely they can come up with a price that would beat what Tesla's offering for bulk and sell it on the open market.
Alan Kay said that “Everyone who is serious about software should make their own hardware.” How can you be a good developer if you don’t understand the architectural limitations and choices?

When I design a backend system, I need to think about how the front end developers are going to interact with it. My data storage characteristics and scaling. I need to know am I designing anything that’s hard to deploy. How will logging work and be aggregated. I have to be able to think about the entire system.

It’s not just “cost cutting” at a certain point in your career you are expected to know more than just “how to code”. I’m not saying learn AWS. But I would expect any senior developer to know about what their code runs on top of .
It's the American Way. Reduce the cost of social services, in the short term, by making them very difficult to apply for.

Once I heard Newt Gingrich talk vaguely that high deductible plans and health savings accounts (a core idea of Obamacare) would be a good "free market" solution but it strikes me as another one of those penny wise and pound foolish ideas.

If people don't buy the $200 a month Asthma inhaler which high deductible plans make them pay for themselves they might have 2 hospitalizations a year which cost $15,000 a piece... which high deductible plans will pay for. High deductible plans seem to be a way to maximize the costs of chronic disease like diabetes.
I can't decide whether to be darkly amused or just depressed, watching millions of humans learn together, as if for the first time, that Government Is Hard.

Much ink has been spilled on the topic of governing well. It could fairly be called the entire output of now risen and fallen civilizations. Institutions such as laws, rights, courts, judges, and citizenship are many millenia old, and people have always been willing to pay to get them. Yes, these digital empires are a new beast, but surely there are better options than running around, reacting to emergencies, helping out people with inner circle access, laying down really ineffective law for everyone else, like some sort of overworked bronze age monarch?
I'm not sure about the phrasing "have to give up" getting paid for time and expense not incurred, but yes. On the other hand your employer may be willing to pay relocation expenses.
I agree with you, but that has nothing to do with the city’s management though. SF is a tragedy considering all of its natural gifts.
I was thinking the same thing. We now hire people to watch extremely expensive machines do incredibly menial tasks.

Yes, I clean my own toilets at home.
GitLab team member here.

You can make suggestions to move features between tiers, i.e. moving a paid feature to the free tier, by opening an issue following https://about.gitlab.com/company/pricing/#changing-tiers-and...
Competition, mostly. If users can shop around for different service providers or even self-host, the approach to moderation can be an important differentiator.
Mario Castle Problems
SROs in SF have a long and storied history and generally one of the good lessons to draw from this history is wood structures are a bad idea for housing homeless people.
The complexity of what we are building keeps expanding. Theres no large conspiracy. We have a lot of tooling to build things that were near impossible to build in the past.
Firefox ESR is available in a PPA that is maintained by Mozilla. Even though that's a third party, that's as close to an official package as it gets.

I'm just hoping that it will remain available until this snap thing subsides, or until I make the switch to GNU Guix or something.

Edit: It seems that the latest stable Firefox is available, too.[1] I thought it was only ESR and that Ubuntu's switch to snap was requested by Mozilla. I'm confused.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+pack...
Source, my dear friend. The world is just too weird for me delineate between real and unreal at this point.
> Yet I am regularly tasked with maintaining the full deployment of code.

Same shoes, but I have different perspectives. I can figure out where it's not working and if it's my/our team's area of responsibility then we go fix it.

Since we handle infrastructure (as code) and deployments in team, along with all the development, most of the problems are handled by us. Unless it's clear that it isn't, e.g. some API that we consume that keeps throwing 500, can't fix that.

Our operations is helped by 100s of automated tests and 1000s of metrics. I always thought that this is DevOps, but it sounds different from what most of the people here are alluding to.
MagicDNS is generally available
I do exactly the same. You import from CSV, everything ends up as a string, and then you copy the data to a STRICT table so you can understand what's really going on.
What's strange with GPUs specifically is how nVidia has aggressively pushed power up with very little performance increase. With RTX 30 cards you could reduce the power target a fair bit with minimal performance loss, and with the RTX 4090 you can reduce the power consumption by almost 50 % or so and only loose single digit FPS. It's a weird part of the perf/power curve to pick for stock.
I worked on encrypted voice over ip where timeliness is key and is part of the OS (VxWorks). I read the Abstract but I don't think is talking about the same thing. I wonder.
I think everyone can agree that for most complicated things there are many sides to a story that makes up the present state of the system. I think taking a very opinionated stand in any complicated subject by itself negates the possibility of a mature and complete analysis of any subject. So the title itself of this article is unfortunate.
> Maybe I should give Pop OS a try...

I'm a big fan: it's like Ubuntu, but with much of Canonical's divisive changes reverted, and with a few other improvements.

I switched from Ubuntu to Pop!_OS a few releases back when I got a System76 computer. (I also use it on my Lenovo laptop.)
Hopefully you didnt have to be involved in that very fun massive lawsuit
There had to be a prototypical Milton somewhere. Hilarious!
A very beautiful video that usually pops up in such discussions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaVhXn49xY
I was semi salty reading this....but they are spot on in a lot of ways. There are times where my code looks like a bad 4 year old wrote it, but 10 minutes later I'm in a conversation where I have to explain basic security concepts, like not leaving everything wide open to the internet, to some random Sr Software Dev.

For every operations person without software development skills, there are FORTY engineers without cloud operations skills. If you are going to build an internal platform, you’ll need experts with overlapping experience in both fields working together.

I guess I just need to find a role with more inter-team collaboration; Being able to mostly self teach is great, until you have no one to learn from anymore.
> Not so, says Alex Graveley, principal engineer at GitHub and the inventor of Copilot, who responded that “the code in question is different from the example given. Similar, but different.”

Isn't this still a copyright violation? I'm not a lawyer, but I always thought that swapping in a few synonyms wasn't enough to sidestep copyright issues.
Y Combinator Individual company pages are returning 500
There's a term for it: Trial balloon, and Wikipedia lists "kite-flying" as what it's called in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon
This is just incredibly frustrating and disheartening to read. How is one supposed to plan for a future in this career when your lifestyle can just disappear overnight?
I'm basing this off of what Justice Thomas has said when he has been asked about this in the past. But if you want to form your impressions based on your personal biases and prejudices, there's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise.
>But I don't really have a choice.

Jup, wireless is one thing, i run around with a old smartphone and tether over usb (on my laptop). But the other one is fan-speed, i can even play AAA-Games...for a minute then my GPU crashes because of overheating (on the workstation with a AMD-Card). No way to adjust fan-speed from the OS is not good.

On both machines FreeBSD
Uber to Let Marketers Target Riders by Destination
Whoa, thanks to your comment, which helpfully illustrates some of the "poetic" aspects of the digits' decimal arrangement, I became instantly convinced the digits of pi are the theme on which Elgar wrote his "Enigma" Variations. It's mentioned on Wikipedia but pretty far down as a recent theory (the source is here[0]). But now I feel almost foolish for not thinking it before.

Quoting Wikipedia, "on the evening of 21 October 1898, after a tiring day's teaching, he sat down at the piano. A melody he played caught the attention of his wife, and he began to improvise variations on it in styles which reflected the character of some of his friends." It's pretty easy to imagine he was just plinking out scale degrees corresponding to the digits of pi in a pleasing rhythm and one thing led to another.

[0]https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8377M82/do...
In what way is a one-line command harder than assembling an entire PC? Maybe the Linux distros should expose this more prominently, but you can change the RAPL parameters on the fly to suit yourself.
I don't understand what definition of "progressive" you're using here, if you think that putting pretty names on oppressive policies constitutes "progressivism".
The issue is the inability of the Remain leaders to speak to the population as a whole, especially those inclined to nativism
I am not disputing the bill, just curious how he got there. He doesn't say in his post.
So far I see everyone discussing search results. Recall that Amazon has been known to go to their competitor's factories and produce identical products with their brand with an undercut price. In some cases they steal the design of and make crap versions of quality products that are selling well
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/04/amazon-accused-of-copying-ca...

Only they know how many people and companies they've hurt doing this.

As far as I'm concerned the whole company is ethically bankrupt and rotten to the core starting with Bezos and can disappear from the Earth.
I am not being dishonest at all.

Amazon operates globally.

The fine is just another cost of doing business for Amazon.

From Amazon’s perspective there’s no significance to the fine’s relationship to UK revenue.

Because the practice generates revenue globally.

To be clear, I don’t have an opinion about the fine or Amazon’s practice because it is not worth having one.

(And of course, the practice has been ongoing and the calculation of revenue hit should be amortized over the years since inception and discounted for the time value of money).
Except that most of the time you won't even know what metrics it is making judgements on, and neither will most of the people who made the model
> This is definitely a symptom of a broken model and not what I would call devops.

I'm I the crazy one here? This kind of work is my bread and butter as a "devops" person. PagerDuty fires, I find the bad query, match it up with the most recent PRs to find where the n+1 got introduced and either patch it right there at 2AM with the on-call manager's approval or roll it back. Then we have a postmorterm in the morning with the team.

I'm the person positioned the best to do this work because I'm god in my little ops domain, have the most visibility and the biggest toolbox of potential fixes.
Platform Engineering is the future.
Russian Empire Aerospace Refugees
How does the correlation result in qualia or the experience of color?
It's being absorbed by the bureaucrats who have made it cost $1.7M to build a single toilet.
> The bigger the service the bigger the audience.

This is not true with decentralized services. If, for example, I have a Mastodon account and you want to follow me, we don't have to use the same service provider. You don't even have to use Mastodon software. You could use something else that speaks ActivityPub like Pixelfed or Friendica.
DevOps has suffered the same fate as Agile. In particular there is one thing that both had in common that got lost somewhere in most implementations: cross-functional teams [0].

Agile teams were supposed to be composed of not just devs doing everything (quickly, because agile is about raw speed, right?) but people competent in the various aspects of the system development, potentially deployment, customer needs, etc. working together as multidisciplinary teams to meet a particular objective. The purpose of this was to break the silo that is common because it feels natural to many managers (the same sort, I presume, who don't like when their mashed potatoes touch their fried chicken on the plate).

Silos impede communication and promote the "throw it over the wall" approach to product/system development. A system engineer (or team of) made the design after sales (and possibly only sales) talked to the users. Throw that design over the wall and let the devs build it. Devs throw it over the wall to test, maybe there's a volley. Eventually it's tossed to ops. A goat is sacrificed and maybe it works.

Multidisciplinary teams are able to communicate across those boundaries because instead of the role-silo the roles are all in the same team, working (more clearly) towards one common objective. But then businesses managed to fuck it up. They got rid of test, devs do all testing now. Devs do all the database logic. There are no UI/UX experts anymore, it's all full-stack, and on and on.

DevOps was supposed to be the same. It was supposed to take that Agile cross-functional team and add in the sysadmin/operators (among other things). The critical problem being solved was the two (really more, but at the limit) silos of dev and ops failing to communicate. A Friday release with Ops spending the weekend rolling things back because Dev wasn't there and didn't even know the system wouldn't work as intended. Maybe their test environment was too different from the operational environment, the reasons matter a bit but there are too many to enumerate.

Instead, businesses did what they do best, they fucked it up. Again. They said, "Take the sysadmins and teach them to code. If they can't, dump them in the woods. The devs will takeover the world." Then they started making "devops" job listings and full-stack grew to encompass a new set of skills.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-functional_team
Your logic is flawed on many levels, and I will be glad to parse the errors after I have my breakfast and nothing more important emerges. Just one point for now:

> What you’re worried about is governmental action and is not equivalent here.

My kids tried to point me in the same direction. I’ve just pointed them to the router and said: I am a private citizen paying for Internet connection in this house. In 24 hours this router will be configured to drop all connections to Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. Prepare yourself.

Boy, how worried they were. Never seen any person more worried in my life. See, they use Facebook for studies and Amazon for buying textbooks, so why I am so cruel?

I said: exactly my point. I was not that cruel though, but probably I should have.
It seems that should be weighed against no home at all.
Yes, I just the wrong reply link.

So I'm agreeing with you!
> Which seems logical to me.

I expect text to be text (i.e., Unicode, these days).
Are you then incentivized to work on managerial features rather than core product features? The disincentive comes from the fact that profits aren’t tied to the quality of the product.