skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously we had better division of labor IMHO. 1) UX people (Photoshop, CSS) who made the front-end look nice, 2) Developers (JavaScript, C#, Ruby, Java) who wrote application code and business logic, 3) DBAs who controlled the database, and 4) Sys Admins (Unix, Windows Server) who deployed the built code and ensured it ran correctly and securely in production. Now some of us seem to think this should all be the same discipline, and if you don't care to, you are a bad engineer.
I mean at the time like five years ago I just literally opened LinkedIn, searched for software engineering jobs, and did a tally of the first 200 jobs or so on a piece of paper. About 50 were C# and 50 were Java, and then a mixture of other stuff.

Pretty low tech but it got me a job. I came from a background of doing Elixir and Node.js backend which if someone recognized Elixir seemed to get me brownie points for doing something interesting. I guess whatever site you’re using to look for job listings you could do the same.
Depending on your needs, GitHub Packages is an option
> will it just put together a technically correct and properly structured reply that may sound kinda plausible to the uninformed but which lacks any real insight?

Most humans would fail this standard. (Hence the memes "Never read the comments!" and "Eternal September" and widespread beliefs in paranormal and so on).

The (surprising to me) difference is that GPT-3 generally does a bit better than, e.g. Hollywood script writers when facing similar prompts.

This surprising quality is why GPT-3 led to GitHub Copilot.
Sure, substitute live in San Francisco with live in commuting distance of San Francisco. It's not like Daly city or Oakland are cheap either.

Even when we focus on the fiscal aspect of it, I don't think a machine is a bad idea compared to a plan of "find some willing to clean up after addicts and the mentally ill at all hours" - how much would you need to be paid to take that job and show up to outcompete the toilet-dishwasher-machine every day? California has tons of other jobs and generous social programs.

And that's ignoring the angle that we're allocating a human life to this extremely unpleasant and automatable task.
Last time I poked at Desktop Linux I tried all three of the major solutions for this, and the only one I could tolerate was AppImage, but its ecosystem seemed a bit weak and its official (I think?) site & repo were... not confidence-inspiring.
> Previous attempts such as exterminating anyone with flawed genes was certainly unethical, but that was just an example of people drunk on power exercising it.

IMO it really depends on how you're doing the extermination. Killing adults/children with the relevant genes is of course hilariously unethical. Killing fetuses with the same genes is very debatably unethical - as in, a lot of people will very strongly say it's unethical, but other societies will do so at >90% rates (see Down's in Iceland as an example).

I find it hard to think of a way in which editing an individual embryo to change the relevant genes is unethical besides the "changing anything is evil eugenics" objection.
According to Wikipedia a subway car is only 300k more, so it might be a better deal to buy subway cars to use as restrooms than buying these toilets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R160_(New_York_City_Subway_car...
The article points out that Florida is NOT one of the states with licensing reciprocity.
>They're electric, so that solves the emissions and noise problems.

60% [1] of the electricity in the US is produced by burning fossil fuels (21% coal!), and this will not change in a long while. In California specifically it's a bit better, with ~40% fossil fuels [2]. Also, battery production specifically is a tremendously energy intensive industrial process that also involves a lot of emissions [3]. Factoring in efficiency losses it results that electric cars, while maybe better than ICE cars, are inferior to biking, walking, and electric trains.

As for the noise, as other commenters pointed out, at average city speeds most of the noise a regular car makes comes from the tires rolling, not the engine.

>Once self-driving cars are common people will figure out that it's safe to jaywalk in front of them, and nobody minds inconveniencing a robot, so I expect jaywalking to rise substantially too.

If this starts to happen, congestion will only get worse as the average speed of roads goes down. Cars suddenly stopping in the middle of the road isn't good for traffic flow. It also doesn't address the fact that most people in LA can't leave their homes and be anywhere just by walking.

>A self-driving hire car isn't idle 23 hours a day like a normal car so that should solve some of the inefficiency and expense issues.

I concede that this is strictly true -- having a single shared vehicle is more efficient than several privately owned. However, most people need to use their cars at the same time for their commute. Demand still peaks in the morning and in the afternoon, and if you have enough vehicles to cover that, during the rest of the day they will be idle, same as now.

>All I'm left with on your list is congestion, and that'll remain, even if the self-driving cars start communicating with each other to allow closer spacing. Making something cheaper and/or easier inevitably increases usage.

So poor people still don't have access to transport, and the congestion is even worse than before? Why would this be a good solution to the car problems of LA?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
[2] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
[3] https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufac...
Yep, I think he'd be a terrible choice.

I think he's ambitious for his own sake but I don't think he really cares about the country long term. I base that on the fact that his wife didn't pay tax here until it threatened his career and that he retained a US green card as a "plan B" for after he'd finished being in power.

I feel he had no skin in the game.
If you're a former tech lead with 10 years of experience, and struggling to get a job then you're doing something wrong.

Have a friend / former colleague who knows you and the industry. Get them to look at your CV and do a mock interview. Then listen to their advice.

You are probably making a basic mistake like badmouthing former employers / being bad at leetcode / not having good reasons for gaps / unreasonable requirements ...

Increasing resilliance will just make you keep failing. You need to fix the problem that has caused you to fail 40 interviews despite 10 years of experience.
External drives just like people using macbooks
“We Don't Know How to Compute ” – Gerald Sussman (2011)
Kinesis Keyboard Rebuild
Apple Pencil is iPad only
It exists? I got mine from Teklager, shipped internationally. Unfortunately the SFP didn’t work with my ISP’s fibre module (it would flap). I believe this is a Linux thing though. Otherwise quite happy with it.

https://teklager.se/en/products/router-components/pc-engines...
OG Thieves Get Prison Time
No, the recent change [0] was to add non-free firmware to the official installer (instead of relegating it to a separate unofficial installer). GP, however, was talking about the apt repository: the non-free apt repository is disabled by default. This hasn't changed and is unlikely to ever change. The non-free apt repository be enabled via a trivial /etc/apt/sources.list edit.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Non-Free-Firmware-Resul...
< FWIW I really really wish I could run FF + ublock origin on my iphone.

I feel the same.

I have one OpenVPN setup and one wireguard setup, both with Pi-hole in them. Since some OpenVPN don't work in some networks/countries(I am looking at you China!), it helps to have an alternative.

I have a self-hosted bitwarden which is accessible only via my VPNs. So it's important to have a backup VPN to access my password manager and to block those pesky ads/trackers.
Bounty hunter; you find them.
Job listings in your local area
They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.
Or union types. Just tack "...or a string" onto any questionable column.
The details always being a bit off makes me think the better route might be to create an environment that follows macOS in the broad strokes (e.g. global menubar, applications presiding over windows in navigation, a general inclination towards loose organization of odd sized windows, etc) but when it comes to aesthetics has its own identity filling in the details.

A lot of DEs already do similar for Windows, being variants on the Win9X desktop paradigm (taskbar, windows over applications, inclination towards windows being maximized) so it’s hardly a novel concept and I think it more consistently delivers decent results.
It would make zero difference, except, maybe, for the PCIe bandwidth test. Because all other tests were stressed interfaces that reside within the GPU silicon itself or between the GPU and the DRAM.

Even the numbers of PCIe bandwidth test might not change much, even it's trying to test medium size memory to memory block transfers.
I have no idea!

I’m currently working on a small team of computer engineers who support a custom Turing-complete DSL for an “operations” team that both programs and directly interfaces with clients.

It doesn’t seem that different from what Apple or Microsoft do, which is write custom languages and tools for developing on their platforms, albeit specifically for general purpose programming.
Thanks for the clarification. I was running off of memory from a Peter Schiff podcast where he talked about the Jones Act.

That is still an issue though. Those ships need to try and maximize on board cargo at every port. They have wasted dollars if they don't. There is zero reason for this law to exist except to prohibit free trade and stomp out domestic competition.
40 interviews indicate the market is hot.
How Capitalism Kills Good Software
At first glance, the difference between a headless and decoupled cms may be hard to spot, which is why we've written a no-nonsense guide settling the discussion once and for all.
Whoops sorry, I meant Blackmagic.
Java is the only ecosystem on comparable level, hence why both of them are my daily tools.
A lot of very exploitative people come into disaster areas. Contractors in times like these have the ability to ask for payment in advance. My own family was a victim of just such a scam after Andrew - pay in advance and disappear. I'm glad Florida is taking requirements for licensing seriously.
Boston Internet startup Starry lays off half its workforce
In the rural areas you have "poor people" who have their own land and may even live off it a bit - which means they have housing and so are not as noticeable as actual homeless.

If you own your hovel outright you can be incredibly far below the poverty line and be "okish" for some value of "ok". Especially if you have a number of people banding together on the same property (very common in rural areas) - some on SSI or SSD, some on welfare, some making some money on odd jobs.

You can't really have that in the city or near it; the land is too valuable.
While I doubt it will ever be enabled by default due to backwards compatibility, there is a strict tables[1] feature now.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping
Yeah completely matches my experience. Twitter banned my account for far less and unlike Ben, I dont have major presence or large audience. I wrote about my experience on the blog [0] so others can learn but what I learned is that there is an automated system to flag and automated system to respond to your questions and the later system rejects 99.99% of cases. You have to be in Ben's position to fall into that .01%

[0] https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/twitter-ban
The Journey of Friar John of Pian de Carpine to the Court of Kuyuk Khan 1245-47
I think that they are looking for a way to make money. A snap app store managed by them could be a source of cash. I'm still on 20.04 and maybe I'll switch to Debian or PopOS. I need to find the time to experiment. I'll buy a second SSD and dual boot.
“Action” is different from involuntary commitment.

All I can say is that out of the many thousands of calls yearly to the Seattle-area hotlines, the number of direct involuntary interventions was on the order of a few dozen a year at most.

Yes, if you are in imminent danger, people will come to you and try and talk you out of it, and there are lots of voluntary hospitalizations, but it’s honestly rare for someone to be taken against their will and usually only happens in cases of heavy psychosis.

The thing with a therapist is that many are not set up to be crisis counsellors and so they will want you to talk to someone who can help in a crisis rather than once a week for an hour. But that’s all.
Kind of a low effort dunk don't you think?
I’ve had good experiences with logical replication and pg_auto_failover. The cool thing is that the libpq-based clients do some of the work during failovers. You’ll need three nodes though.
Price is the main difference between AWS CloudFront/Fastly and CF. In most cases, CF prices are fixed, like $200 for business or $20 for the pro plan. If you like fixed prices VMs from Linode or DO, chances are high that you will like Cloudflare too. Of course, advanced addons features like CF Argo and CF Bot management cost more money at Cloudflare too.
> I said: exactly my point.

They're both not government action, but they're very different kinds. There's a huge difference between "I will not assist this entity" and "I will stop other people from assisting this entity".

Along similar lines, I am deeply upset with the level of power that payment processors have/use around censorship. But I don't care too much what AWS does.
There's also a YouTube video essay summarizing it —

A Medieval Friar's Incredible Mission to Mongolia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ge6eLofP4Y
The Privacy community speak higher of Mullvad in relation to privacy. If they mislead, it could be harmful for their audience.
If you wish to make that claim now, then you appear to be mixing your definitions in the middle of your argument.
here is my take.

currently there are all microsoft-y nudge user till they allow then say "user accepted"...
case in point.
i have a moto phone that has stock android. very nice.
it has default sms as "messages". this app keeps nudging me to use "chat features" and other bs so the "dont use connected features" line is really small while accept is a big button. they dont want me to not accept so they keep pushing me.

same for "play protect". i have decided to not accept it so every often i install an app it asks me if i want to enable it.

same for "enable location". i keep my location off so when i have to use an app, i turn it on and i get a message "for better experience, tun on device location which uses google location service". so if i accept this, "google location accuracy" and "emergency location service" and even wifi scanning (sometimes) gets enabled so these are really scummy techniques.

i use F-droid as my default app store and aurora store to download apps not on f-droid.
haven't signed in to play store because i don't have a google account.

these "keep nudging till the user accepts" should be banned as well. if the user does not want to allow location accuracy, don't auto enable it.
No Mearsheimer just extremely conceited to the point he refuses to admit how dead wrong he's been about this whole thing. He actually said that there was no evidence Putin was an imperialist during a debate(the audience laughed at him).
They don't shut you off if you're alt right, lol.
She resigned because of what she said at Questions?
System76 now shipping Intel 13th Gen and AMD Zen 4 on Thelios desktops
The old saw "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all", basically.
i don't understand what you are trying to say?
Yep. 3 GB JSON handler reporting in.

It all depends on what assumptions you can make about update frequency and the continuity of link.

If you can't assume 100% availability of the link, but you need to maintain operability in between link uptime windows, it's worth paying the price for a sizable data file download, and perform runtime deserialization of that in the abscence of uplink.

Remember:

The network being available should never, ever be taken for granted.
A Brief History of the Past 10k Years of Monetary Policy[..]
I'm pretty sure that sentence was supposed to be a joke. First of all, everybody knows this, secondly you really don't need a CT scanner to measure the diameter of a thing.
If Lyft consistently made money, I'd completely agree with you. That's not the world we live in, though.
You are arguing an ideal and they are making a point about practice and fact. The practice on the ground and public policy is that certain "public toilets" are for the homeless. This informs government decisions about how they are designed, who has to maintain them, where they are placed, and who uses them.

A public toilet in the tenderloin is a homeless toilet in all but name. A public toilet in Golden Gate Park is actually a public toilet in the sense that you are talking about.
Netflix confirms it's looking to launch a Cloud Gaming service
Rewrite it in Rust. /s
Implement transparent APIs from AWS, Azure, GCP for OpenStack, so we can reuse
Pulumi and Terraform.
Make it easier to install it.
Make it easier to work with Prometheus stacks, Service mesh and other cloud
native tools.
Make it less consulting-ware… whatever that means.

Uff. How about to make OpenStack manageable by small infra team without paying to vendors? I guess it's the last point.
What I don't get: why would Amazon bother?

They're not a manufacturer. They're a marketplace. Sure, they have the data to do the manufacturing and undercut their suppliers, but it's not really their wheelhouse. Their suppliers already compete with each other to squeeze margins, so they can't be making all that much money on it. Why not just take their (hefty) cut of each sale and let others worry about the pain-in-the-ass of getting products built.

Sure, Bezos and the company are rotten to the core, and would pawn their own mothers for an extra nickel. But doesn't it reach a point where the overhead of getting that money just dilutes what your company is actually good at, and makes you overall less healthy as a company?
Writing a GCC Plugin in Python
Which, in my opinion, completely defeats the whole purpose of using NixOS. The last thing I want is a bunch of ad-hoc changes to my reproducible environment setup
>Just one company, sure, but it did make me wonder about adtech in general.

The margins are so insane that it just doesn’t matter. They are trading engineering time for time to market.
.NET core/C# is pretty dope though and its the most widely used in fortune 500s in the backend aside from Java. It’s much less verbose than Java and any Junior engineer can pick it up if they’ve worked with OOP based languages or even JavaScript.
Aren't PayTM and PhonePe bigger?
It's cute to imagine a world where that happens, but there isn't a chance Apple abandons their multi-billion dollar European investments because everyone hates the lightning connector. The premise of Apple leaving Europe is an idle threat.
Building on this, his barbell method implies allocating a large part of one’s portfolio to low-risk assets, a small portion to high-risk assets, and none to medium-risk assets
How Satellite-Based 5G Technology Works
Webflow charging –$65,000/year for more than 10k CMS records
https://archive.ph/Zf10O
TIL that there were ARM64 windows laptops.
Hi,

Is German or French more common? >

It depends base on the canton, but in the overall swiss german is more spoken than french.

I knew someone in S.F. who married a woman from Switzerland roughly 5 years ago and moved out there...did you work at a software consulting company in S.F.? >

Can't be me, I'm a female ^^.
I am interested by your expertise as we'll soon be building data center automation and would appreciate having a consultant being able to advise us on what we'd need to plan for. Could you please contact me at this address: 7vmq5a5fd@mozmail.com
Ockam

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam
Just to get OTP up for inference would require a very large spend. To use GPT-NeoX (20B parameters) for inference requires 45GB of vRAM minimally. Its hard for me to imagine using a 170B model for fun somewhere unless one has a large GPU farm or lots of money.
Before iOS, to be fair. Touchscreens got the attention but the use of the iPod’s popularity to negotiate a non-terrible cellular market was equally transformative. The carriers used to charge something on the order of $50k each to be listed in their app stores and their percentage of revenue was high and negotiated based on your perceived ability to pay: we had several clients bail on J2ME projects because they were being asked to take home less than half of each sale and making 6-7 figure minimum profit commitments to each carrier! The sales person would look at their total corporate revenue to base their first offer on, and they were not quick to negotiate down to our actual budget.
I've seen quite the opposite. A good percentage of people coming from Premiere or After Effects feel burnt for all the years they spent in the Adobe suite. Just in stability alone is Resolve leagues better. The "batteries included" feature set is not only comprehensive in all parts of the video production pipeline, it is world class in many of the specific categories it competes in.
Moved this response as an edit to the main comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277308 instead, but keeping this comment rather than deleting it, because the replies to it have value to the discussion.
> One may suggest: “If things are running perfectly, won’t customers reduce their required engagement or remove the support plan?” Generally, no. The cost of keeping experts around is usually far lower than a SaaS bill and new features will always need to be built.

I don't understand this assertion. One of the main perverse incentives affecting open core software quality is that the more help people need with the software, the more they'll value support. This article about open core incentives regarding software quality just handwaves this away.

The other demotivator is that having your (OSS) open core be good means that if you make any user-hostile business-motivated demands, somebody will simply fork you and take over your business.

The best defense against the latter is the GPL. Make your competition share all of their work while you don't have to. And ask yourself: if your strategy is going to be to leverage an OSS application to sell proprietary accessories, why be bitchy about copyleft? It's the best of both worlds - open enough that you're contributing to the commons, and restrictive enough that you (as the copyright holder) can still play games with licensing keys and obfuscation to accomplish business objectives. If the community forks your GPL core and publicly builds on it better than you do behind closed doors, it means that you've been outcompeted fair and square.
That's not very surprising. I think what's surprising is the perception of RubyGems, PyPI, etc is much better than npm's when there are common problems. There's an element of suffering from success but some of the problems have been around in RubyGems and PyPI before Node/npm took off and those were seen as the hot technologies.
"Indefinitely suspended" might be better, but just "suspended" is probably going to be very confusing. In education, for example, "suspension" is a temporary ban, and "expulsion" is a permanent ban.