skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the heads up! Its gonna get turned off in a moment
There was an attempted mass shooting at the Republican practice for the Congressional baseball game back in 2017 [0] that was a politically motivated domestic terrorist attack (per the FBI's report on the incident in 2021). If Steve Scalise (the house GOP whip who was shot that day) hadn't been there with his security detail, a couple dozen Republicans would have likely died that day including Senator Rand Paul and future Florida governor (and the current leading 2024 presidential candidate not named Trump or Biden) Ron DeSantis.

We've had 4 presidents assassinated in our history (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy) and there were attempts on the lives of at least 3 more while they were president or president-elect (Jackson, FDR, Reagan). There have also been a significant number of attempts on the life of presidential candidates (Huey Long and RFK were assassinated, George Wallace was shot and paralyzed) We also don't know where Flight 93 would have gone on 9/11 if the heroes on board hadn't charged the cockpit and crashed the plane in a Pennsylvania field instead of somewhere in DC. The reason why we haven't had many politicians assassinated lately is largely good luck but also because we now have Secret Service protection for all major presidential candidates.

Words like "scum" and "detest" are also not that different from the way people speak about political opponents here. Every presidential election for at least the past 20 years has involved people throwing words like "socialist", "communist", "fascist" and "theocrat" around to describe the other party's presidential candidate even when those candidates were centrists. There's always alarmist insinuations that we're going to turn into the USSR or Nazi Germany if the wrong political party wins the next election. In reality, the US will be largely the same but always getting slightly worse no matter which party wins the election. The difference between the donkeys and the elephants is that one of them makes things worse faster than the other (but people don't agree which is the lesser evil). I imagine Labour and Tory are probably the same way in the UK (although Truss did seem to be especially terrible at her job even compared to her predecessors).

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shoot...
There must be some a rite of passage or initiation ritual that I haven't been good enough for yet where you need to write an opinion piece about the term DevOps, because otherwise I'm not sure why in 2022 we're still having to read these articles. Whoever wrote the first one has trolled an entire generation of engineers.
Agreed. They should honestly just use prison labor.
Agreed! Its gonna get turned off in a moment
FreeBSD is focused on the same market Linux is. It will probably give you the least trouble in terms of software and hardware compatibility.

OpenBSD is "the way things should be" according to a certain group of people. Generally feels good if you're tired of the Linux Mexican design standoff, but will sometimes leave you either very happy or very confused depending on whether or not you're on the same page as the developers.

I haven't used NetBSD extensively myself, but it seems to be a pretty simple system with a focus on portability.

None of the above matters if what you want to use doesn't work on your hardware. Test each one.
Hmm, there's that weird sound that I hear multiple times a day. I wonder what it could be...
If iOS has language detection like that, it's been broken for Finnish for years.
Idk, I've had systemd-resolved eat itself because of an update that added some new required config that I missed when running an update. Very annoying when dealing with headless servers. Arch is fine for laptops, but I would not put anything that I rely on daily on Arch and I certainly wouldn't want to maintain a fleet of Arch VMs/containers/whatever
You're comparing global revenue to a fine in the UK. That's kind of dishonest.

In 2021, Amazon's UK profits were £23.2B, or $26.2B - of which $1B is almost 4%. Big difference.

To top that off, you're looking at revenue, instead of profit.

I completely agree that the fines should be substantially higher, but being dishonest is bad.
I’m also confused by this article. Perhaps this is more applicable to companies that develop software that is very tightly coupled with the web and cloud services. I work in the embedded industry and from my understanding (as naive as it may be), DevOps has simply meant the automation of building, testing and releasing our products to a customer accessible endpoint and is something that is life changing. It massively cuts back on manual human interaction getting our software to our customers. Perhaps since our product is not nearly as monolithic as most products that really hook into DevOps processes that can match the actual product in terms of its scale and complexity, DevOps is something wonderful that I would never define as ‘bullshit’.
My theory is a variation on that, which is that the money has placed so many more people in the space you inevitably end up with more people working in different directions, the JS ecosystem especially comes to mind here.
>> Create an account and continue browsing on a computer to experience the demo assets.

Super cool, but requires account to check out a scan-which won’t work on mobile regardless, fyi.
Nuclear engineers and anyone else who want bragging rights.
I had a very weird sensation while reading this where I was shaking my head disapprovingly at this article. Specifically when they were talking about the commoditization of DevOps.

Speaking personally, I used to work on a Platform Engineering team for a major multinational that rhymes with ay-do-bay. And their requirements for the workloads that we needed to be built and hosted where very unique because you have teams running completely different languages and toolchains, esp. from acquisitions. I can argue there that the template K8s setups wouldn't work.

In the author's case, the only reason why they feel the way they do is because we finally have some sense of standardization on what Infra looks like for most companies. It's no longer a question for most folks if they should adopt Docker, we have accepted images into our lives. Same for K8s (after a certain point of scale). So uh... yea. Catchy blog title to sell some thin layer on top of K8s in which it doesn't solve the root issue that they are talking about.
It's not some startups self cleaning sensor, this is old technology that is in several other cities without attendants, and is basically idiot proof. The attendant hopefully makes it american-idiot proof too.
> In code compilation Intel beats AMD.

How do you come to that conclusion?
Here's a Chromium Compile Benchmark in which the 7950x beats the 13900k.
https://youtu.be/P40gp_DJk5E?t=593
there are a lot of people who basically save nothing but they don't think about tomorrow.
> Asking one person to do two (actually three) job functions is a scam.

The word "scam" is overused. It's a scam if it was a bait-and-switch. It's not a scam if it was advertised this way up front. In the latter case it's just a job whose description you don't like.
I think you could have a very polished desktop with Fedora and flatkpaks (no daemon) without much work, but I'm glad Arch is working for you.
I’d love to see an itemized break down of “red tape” that actually adds up to $1.7M. We too often accept officials obfuscating costs on these projects into opaque buckets like “studies” and “reviews”. “We’ll of course it’s expensive! It all goes to uh… RED TAPE! Yea that’s where it goes obviously!”
Did you mean to say 'charge' instead of 'change'?
At companies I've worked for where they actually do this the DevOps people are generally assigned to a team. So you might have 10 developers on a project, and one guy managing just the devops exactly to solve this problem. In smaller companies/etc I can see where this is a problem. I agree, and there's nothing wrong with knowledge sharing. This could even be as simple as having PR descriptions including benchmarks/code/etc and making sure the devops people make their points clear during design/planning.

In theory, devops shouldn't be responsible for maintaining the performance of code. The specification should say what it should run on, the devops guys set up a pipeline and manage that thing, and the developers are the ones taking heat for not hitting that goal. If devops guys are taking the heat for that it sounds more like cost-cutting measures flowing the other direction.
You benefit from cosmic rays not randomly corrupting your data in memory.
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu but does not use snap. Doing "a lot more work" to install an OS does not sound appealing.
Everybody has a story like that about every distro ever
FYI, I used to use openVPN but eventually switched to Wireguard (via pivpn) for two reasons:

- Wireguard is allegedly more efficient... I'm not 100% sure about that, but it does seem to connect faster, and my battery metrics report < 5% battery usage from WG, compared to ~8% for openVPN. YMMV ofc.

- Wireguard can automatically connect to the VPN whenever you're not using a whitelisted Wi-Fi SSID. It's nice that my phone doesn't use VPN on my home wifi, but the minute I leave home, the VPN automatically updates.

Not that you're doing anything wrong, but I just figured I'd shared because I put off the switch to WG for a long time and I've had a positive experience since.

FWIW I really really wish I could run FF + ublock origin on my iphone.
They are far beyond momentarily unpopular right now. A policy blip that would lose the Tories a few dozen seats - VAT or income tax hike - is one thing. What they’re facing is an extraordinary collapse. They’re polling as if they’d just enacted prohibition and banned football
FWIW I didn't downvote you
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal’
I don't think the automated abuse detection systems need to go away. They should still be around, but only serving to notify human moderators of what they find, not doing any deletions or bans themselves.
It is not meant (I'd guess) as a characterization for people, but as a way to explain/read the words left and right, especially when one is criticizing the right

(i.e.: right is used mostly as a synonym for bad, for some people)
Agreed, it covers up the article text. Complete BS

Reader mode on Safari is a savior in these cases.
Political articles that are very likely to devolve into mudsling fests are regularly nuked from hn, as I'm sure you and everyone who uses the rss feed knows. I'm frankly fine with that. It's not the focus of this site. Occasionally those articles are pretty interesting, and then I'm happy I see them from the rss, but usually I can see why they were removed.
Digitizing the wood processing operation and put it on a public blockchain
My favorite consultant I ever worked with was a boat programmer. You hired him for super specialized MySQL magics so he, well his company, charged a pretty substantial hourly rate and he apparently had enough revenue/leverage to get his company to foot the bill for two separate satellite internet connections on his boat. I feel like I would get lonely but it's definitely a vibe.
That used to be a separate job called sys admin.
I'm mostly interested in numbers under 100W, maybe even 65W, since I plan to down-clock my (future) Zen 4 machine.

AMD is killing it with efficiency there.
Because you have, in 90 (99?) percent of instances a smart person (probably IQ 120+) doing a stupid menial job that requires a level of competence that only someone smart can provide.

So to prevent themselves from ending it all, they invent things to do to keep themselves sane while they churn out CRUD apps all day long for decades. Sometimes you get truly amazing software, but most of the times it's just reinventing the wheel, but worse.

Even worse, some of them become infatuated with doing things "Like Google," and errant CTOs enable them, leading to a 6 person team supporting a piece of software that could be replaced with WordPress, to the betterment of the primary stakeholder.

I've been consulting for over a decade now. The number of times a potential client has told me they've spent into the six figures (or eight) for something that free software does out of the box but better is depressing. The worst part? I usually can't convince that person they've been absolutely swindled, and so I have to let them keep on their merry way.
This echoes the philosophy of Google Site Reliability Engineering, which (this is key) is an engineering discipline.

The job of DevOps is not to close tickets. That'd be like driving a car by shouting directions at someone lying on the floorboards holding a wrench to the steering pinion.

The job of DevOps is to build a steering wheel (and ideally, teach SWEs how to drive... at least enough that they understand what a "road" is and why it's a pleasant experience for everyone if you stay on it. If the road doesn't go where they need to be, then it's time to file a ticket, but that ticket had better be "Build a new road," not "Offroad this one car to the cabin in the woods and call it a job well done").

The raw hardware of an enterprise deployment is so flexible it solves nobody's problem. DevOps is in the business of writing the operating system for a mega-computer physically represented by hundreds to possibly millions of heterogeneous computers. It's a process of continuous growth to make that work.
Is that the secure key enclave thing?
how does gaming for several hours on weekends add up to your PC being at load 25% of it's life? think that through. you'd need to spend 42 hours/week gaming for that to be correct, literally gaming like it's a full-time job. that's not unheard of, but it's not common and it's certainly not healthy.
It is the id model, and it's not without value, it's just short of what I'd really call an "open source game" since so much of a game is about the assets, levels, etc. and not just the code.

I think id's open source code has been great for lots of reasons. I just think there is untapped potential in "fully" open source games where all the assets (including the source assets like Blender files and not just the intermediate formats like .fbx) are open source as well as the code as that makes it easier for people to experiment, learn and remix the content.
Right, block roughly 10% of the world. Great idea!
This one is stupid, you can walk in between cars.
"devops" is just when developers do operations, and most developers generally don't want to because they are more interesting in writing software. If your job is just to manage infrastructure and you use terraform, you're still just a sysadmin. It's a "boring" job but someone has to do it.
It’s easy to pile onto articles that highlight some of the city’s mismanagement, but San Francisco is one of the most naturally beautiful places in the country. If you’re out on the west side by Golden Gate Park, Baker Beach or the Presidio it feels like you’re in a nature movie.

Even with all of its problems, I will always love that city.
My Twitter account was suspended for "spam" a year ago because I kept replying to someone with the same reaction image. They reverted the suspension pretty quickly after I appealed.

I guess they handle appeals differently depending on the alleged infraction.
We used oVirt since 7 years. About 550 VMs (Linux and Windows Server).
Works really fine.
I left a large employer (Irvine based, I think) that would occasionally run into this.

The final straw was a feature that should have taken 15 minutes. It instead took three weeks, because customer support, product owners and the design team couldn't agree on whether the change was necessary or if it would be harmful. Of course, none of this conversation happened until my change was already mostly done and I had to ask a question to clarify something in the ticket's acceptance criteria.

I got dinged because my work took too long... and I immediately started interviewing elsewhere. When good workers leave because they cannot tolerate bad inertia, all you're left with is people who don't mind or find a way to game it, and the problem gets worse.
> The problem is most engineers don’t want to do operations work.

Glad to finally see someone else saying this.
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DevOps to me is all about bridging what used to be a huge gap between operations and development. Developers need to know top 10 OWASP. One cannot simply say "it works locally". Ops people need to understand how your tools and programs work at a high level at minimum.
Trained AI models are arguably fair use under the "transformative" prong (which is itself a relatively new concept in copyright law), but they are also arguably derivative and thus infringing: there's a strong possibility that training generative AIs on copyrighted work will be found an infringement by the courts, whenever a case makes it to adjudication.

If Copilot emanates chunks of copyrighted code verbatim, that makes it harder to argue that it's a truly transformative use. An apposite ruling can be found in Warner Bros. v. RDR Books, 575 F.Supp.2d 513 (SDNY 2008), which found against the defendant due to the reproduction of extensive verbatim passages from the Harry Potter books in a reference book about the series; in this case, one could argue that Copilot fixes in a tangible medium (thus evading Galoob) verbatim copyrighted code without annotation or commentary; indeed, the entirety of the model is nothing more than copyrighted material. (The counterargument is that the text embeddings are fundamentally transformative and thus protected in the same way a third-party index or concordance would be.)

Google v. Oracle, meanwhile, distinguishes between an API signature, which "provides a way ... to access prewritten computer code" from "the code that actually instructs the computer to execute a task," noting that "Google did not copy the task-implementing programs ... from the Sun Java API." In addition, the decision in that case rested in part on the fact that Google only copied a small portion of the Java codebase, whereas in this case Microsoft used the entirety of the repos.

As for YouTube, that's a different matter -- DCMA doesn't apply here, because Copilot isn't a service provider, it's the alleged infringement itself.

To summarize, one argument against Microsoft is that:

1. Training an AI model on copyrighted work does not substantially "transform" the work, but merely fixes it in a different format and generates additional derivative works from the copyrighted material;

2. The code being used is not merely "descriptive" (as in API signatures) but is creative in nature;

3. The entirety of the work is being indiscriminately consumed in the process; and

4. By generating derivative works, Copilot reduces the value of software developers and undermines the market for further software creation.

While there are plenty of arguments in favor of Microsoft, I wouldn't assume that fair use is a slam dunk defense.
Strongtalk, a typed variant of Smalltalk, had most of this 25 years ago - shame all it was used for was HotSpot. You can run it in a Windows XP VM, there’s a lot of information inside that you can’t find online. What I found really interesting was that the browser used HTML with Strongtalk embedded - living too far in the future!
> M247 is extremely popular with VPN providers. A pro-privacy VPN provider should know to avoid upstream’s known for hosting large amounts of VPN traffic. Passing user traffic though M247 is like painting a target on their back to be more heavily spied by security services, such as GCHQ and NSA.

Of course the exact same goes for servers hosted by mullvad themselves.

A VPN provider of their scale just doesn't fly under the radar.

Considering the threat model for most users this is fine. It's good enough for avoiding copyright lawsuits after torrenting. If you're on the radar of state actors, Tor and i2p are a better bet (but I'm sure their exit nodes are heavily monitored too!)
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Thanks for the heads up and resources.
I'm still on 6.something sorry but that is my hardware. I should update. :-)
I only know about the 88k since Apple prototyped using it for their first RISC Mac back in the day before pushing for the PowerPC alliance
> sound like something I’d see back home in India

I have started appreciating bribery and corruption as a necessary lubrication for any excessively bureaucratic system to work.

Trying to go through all of the legal rigamarole of the Indian regulatory process would mean nothing ever gets done.
The $1.7M toilet is symptomatic of the root cause of homelessness in the Bay Area: you can't build anything within a reasonable time and budget there, even something as simple and small-footprint as a toilet.
Yeah, you're right - quite a big difference.
Because, like Agile, it was seized on as a label for "whatever reorg I want to introduce in my three year term at this company before I leave for the next one".
A new storage engine for vectors
It also seems like we cycle through ideas, so what was outdated a few years ago becomes interesting again due to a new perspective on modern technology as well as new developers entering unfamiliar spaces.
Seriously they big mad that companies haven't reclaimed saved commute hours for work, they believe that time belongs to them SMDH.
“decrease in hours worked away from home only partially offset by an increase in working at home” cue the violins.

By the way, this is all during a period of rapid US economic expansion. You're welcome plutes.
I think you need to be a bit desensitized to problems that are visible all over the city (e.g. trash under and along freeways etc) for that to not be the memory that sticks rather than the beauty.

It is like SF needs a “clean up the city volunteer day” once a month that is broadly attended.
> You have people who build stuff without caring where and how it runs.

Why would someone who wants to build stuff not care about where and how it runs? Operational requirements are the same as any other requirements.
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Appropriately the same way they knew about this exact thing, even with software, before every business was connected to the internet: the BSA, for example, which I understand performs audits.

And if that isn't good enough, I'm sure the copyright holders can lobby for whatever to make it easier to find, and they'll only be thwarted in this if the governments are convinced that the interests of the lobbyists are no longer aligned with the government's interests.
India following EU to claim a piece of that ad money.
The core problem is that the market owner and operator is also a market competitor. It's just not believable that they wouldn't cheat.

They have sales data from all their competitors on this market- numbers, prices, trends, across many different competing companies in many different sectors. They have priority access to consumer eyes by owning the home page, owning the search results, and owning the customer relationship.

And all of this wouldn't be that big of a problem if Amazon wasn't the absolutely dominant player in the still-growing e-commerce market. Because at that scale, these problems become societal problems that governments have to address.
This needs to be an offline app. There is no reason to trust this.
Try taking a wheelchair between cars.
I don't know about you, but people don't charge me money to talk to them. All I have to do to meet people outside of my work peer group is go somewhere different.
I like doing "devops"/operations work. Getting a service out the door with well thought out infrastructure, plus observability/alerting/runbooks to be handed off to an Ops/SOC team is a great feeling. Then you work on the next service.

If you don't have some sort of Devops team (yes, the term is too broad) to push back on infrastructure complexity and ensure that logging/metrics/alerting/documentation is done, developers just won't do it.
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