skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was your code not written with cost control in mind because there was a finite hardware limit you were running yourselves up against? Otherwise, I am baffled at how the difference could be so great between the three.
We forced AI to understand Data Nets so you don't have to (nobody does)
I was just reading comments on HN that said companies are starting to realize the cloud is too expensive and moving back to DC's
These are just eastereggs.
I've tried living in NYC. Wasn't a fan. Too many cars, too much trash all over the place, too hard & expensive to get out of the city on the weekend.

Right now I live in a small New England town, which suits my hobbies and walkability desire pretty well. The biggest con, of course, is the difficulty finding other young folks with similar interests... but I found that tough in NYC, too.

What made NYC "one of the most desirable cities" to you? I suspect you're more interested in night life, museums, theatre, etc. than me. If you're not interested in that stuff (I mostly just want places to hike, bike, run, and good food/craft beer)... NYC's value:cost ratio really falls apart. But I understand that different people have different preferences.

Sidenote: if anyone reads this and knows of a moderate size town that's walkable, bikeable, close to nature (preferably by bike), has good food and beer, low crime, where I don't have to deal with huge volumes of cars on a daily basis... I'd love to hear about it! Right now Fort Collins, CO and Montpelier, VT are high on my list.
Thank you for this frank breakdown of what's going on. This seems like a good possible explanation for the testimonials I'm reading in this thread. I'm still struggling with what is espoused by those from SFO area and tech culture compared to the reality of what's going on.

If anybody is dedicated to 'social justice', to remove/resist facilities to relieve oneself just seems so far off the mark. I'm sure a lot of this is due to me not being in a city as dense as SFO, that undoubtedly has to change the dynamic. How much is this a "this is just a great place to live" issue, and how much is this a "this is a great place for easy resources if you're disadvantaged" issue?

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but in a chicken and egg way, I'm curious if a city with this much "not-here" going on, do people give money to initiatives and charities and people who ask for money/food on the street, or is it typically a city where people avert their gaze? I ask this because if resources were hard to be secured without effort, and if the city is generally expensive to reside in, the amount of those without resources should decline, right?

Where my hypothesis / thought-experiment falls apart is from what I can tell, most of California has amazing weather, so even sleeping on a sidewalk it's got to be quite hospitable and paradise-like (as odd as it feels to say)
I do wonder if people are tweeting out of character because twitter seems so good at provoking people.

The result is people get banned without objectively looking at the reasons.

That said I also know Twitter has quite odd rules about where it takes hardlines.
Good, I hope they face more though. Amazon product catalog has become a cesspool of knock offs, imitations and super low quality products that basically go straight to the trash.
Erm, no they don't.
> The difference is they all went to the same schools together.

There's a number of components to the sentence I responded to:

> same schools

and

> together

An undergrad studying PPE and postgrad studying Law are not "going to Oxford together." Instead of trying to uncover some insidious bias on my end, I'd strongly recommend doing more than a surface level scan of Wikipedia pages to "win the argument," so to speak.
> although many are profiting from it and are probably more than happy about the situation being the way it is

This is the "grift" part of it; those "many [...] profiting from it" are often times friends or acquaintances of the officials regulating them
> Could be a toggle, a checkbox, a separate searchbox, etc.

They already have a “seller” filter that lets you choose products sold directly by Amazon, but for reasons I don’t fully understand[1] it’s not shown on the default SERP. You can only get it by drilling down into a specific department.

1. I assume it’s related to the sheer number of sellers that can be present in the first set of results because any one query could include dozens of departments, but this seems like a solvable problem. Maybe it’s just not a revenue priority.
GP had made clear the format was fixed, and writing 1 or 2 tests for it takes seconds, so I don't really agree with your conclusion.

Personally I mostly wanted to offer a warning to somebody else who might take this code.
Yes, I was a burnt out software engineer in the defense industry and I found really meaningful work with a non profit that got me so excited. And I started my new job after a two week break and I was still burnt out. That sucked because I thought the break and the excitement for meaningful work would cure my burnout. I stayed with the job, kept working, albeit not at the pace I wanted due to the burnout and anxiety. I had been seeing a good therapist for years but just couldn't get out of the funk. What finally helped me was surprisingly acupuncture. I went for computer neck and it released a bunch of tension I was needlessly carrying, the physical result of trauma and anxiety. I am not saying acupuncture will necessarily work for you; rather, I think that seeing if there are underlying causes you can address rather than just changing your work situation seemed to yield more results. Good luck and I hope you find happiness!
I used to use Ubuntu for everything and was very happy in the massive Ubuntu ecosystem with a .deb for everything till I was forced to use Snap a few releases ago for installing even some basic utils I used on a daily basis. I then had Snap constantly hang on installs and just break for no apparent reason and waste my time debugging it. It didn't "just work" anymore.

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'd probably happily swap back to Ubuntu if I read somewhere that Snap was removed entirely/canceled or something.
Circa 2002 I got into developing with CVS where trunk based development with release branches was the only model that wouldn't have you pulling your hair out.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/branch-for-release/

For a while after that it was CVS, Visual Source Safe, or Subversion and usually it was trunk based development with a very little bit of feature branches.

More recently (post 2015 or so) it has always been Git. Projects I do on my own account are still trunk based because there's no need for anything else. For work it is always feature branches with pull requests, largely it works pretty well. Most of the feature branches I work on last less than 2 weeks, often just a few days. Once in a while there is a big one that takes a month. I find it an easy way to work.
Will be adding dark! You can turn off Instagram and Twitter from the menu on the top right.
I remember when Magnum was being proposed and developed. I think the issue is that it really didn't have that much of a head start on Kubernetes, and the difficulty of getting OpenStack installed, just so that you could use Magnum, compared to just using Kubernetes, sort of doomed Magnum.
Nor when May took over from Cameron, when Major took over from Thatcher, when Callaghan took over from Wilson, when Home took over from MacMillan, when Churchill took over from Chamberlain or when Chamberlain took over from Baldwin.

It's extremely common in British politics for the prime minister to change without calling a general election. In fact there were only two PMs in the entire 20th century (Heath and Attlee) who both entered and left the premiership as the result of an election.

Anyone who complains about "unelected PMs" needs to read more history.
Just a quick shout-out to Python Poetry (https://python-poetry.org/) which makes package, version, and virtual environment management extremely simple!

I love it so much that I can't imagine having to work on a python project without Poetry now, lol.
I put a 5800X3D in my gaming PC. It actually runs kind of hot and draws more power than I expected from the reviews, especially at idle.

For day to day use (including non-gaming work) my old Intel CPU consumes less power overall because the idle power was so much lower.

Peak TDP isn’t everything.
>A private entity deciding they don’t want to do business with a company

You mean like how OP decided not to do business with Amazon?
Be it VC money, or just general apathy, it seems cloud costs are rarely a priority. My biggest gripe is when see that justification that goes like, "developer's time is $100/hr and better spent elsewhere." Okay, I agree, doing something like self-hosting everything to reduce costs would be a terrible idea, but there's a fine balance.

In 2019, Lyft spent $300M on AWS [1]. Sure, it's a big service, but are you seriously telling my that it's necessary to spend $300M in a single year?

I think the meme that developer's time spent on cost control is useless needs to die. Engineers should be encouraged to control costs so that they can take better decisions early on. They should be nudged to pick more cost-efficient choices. This won't only reduce costs, the chances are companies will also end up having dramatically simpler architecture.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/lyft-plans-to-spend-300-mill...
its hard to appreciate anything else when you are bleeding through the ears due to expenses.
> I don't really get this argument. if you're putting a PC together yourself, you're certainly capable of turning down the PL2 limit. so are the OEMs like dell.

Tuning power profiles down to something reasonable is much harder than putting together a computer. You overestimate the competency of DIYers. System integrators aren't going to go out of their way to reduce the performance of their systems.

Enthusiasts should carry the burden of tuning their systems to eke out its maximum performance to the point of massive diminishing returns. That should not be the default profile.
if his money falls through maybe he can wiggle out.

The only reason for his money to "fall through" is because he wants to wiggle out.
That page has some outdated information. There's an official guide on OpenBSD's own website: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html - No need to rely on third party blogs with BSD most of the time. Official docs and man pages are always better and up to date.

(I wish this was true for Linux too...)
the next step, is sharing remote access to the device not just a password to an account.
Elected officials decide what shall be done, but it is up to others to actually do it.
These were a life saver for me a couple weeks back!
I don't know how complete it is, but this site [1] claims to verify which cameras are truly ONVIF compliant as apparently some companies make false claims about their cameras or gatekeep some ONVIF functions.

[1] - https://www.onvif.org/conformant-products/
I feel like I need some definitions to understand this article and discussion. What is dev? What is ops? What is devops? What is system administration? What is sysadmin?

I'm 47 and what is described seems like the old problems that I thought devops solved.
> I think the latest tools like Copilot and the stuff Stability AI is releasing fits right in here as amazing tools heralding a new future of exploration and leveling up the power of creators to create. Remixing existing data, maybe copying it, whatever.

I agree with this, but information seems only to be free for very large players, while it's still very expensive for small/medium-sized players and individuals. It's an absolute inversion of the nominal purpose and justification of copyright if it only protects the strong from the weak.
I think we as a society have collectively forgotten that to be a stakeholder in something means you have something at stake. You make people ante up to keep a discussion open (doesn't have to be money, just something that requires non-trivial effort on their part) and you'll very quickly separate out those who have legitimate concerns from those who are just bikeshedding. Require people who want to attend a public comment meeting to do 4 hours of community service, make the default vote an abstention and require anyone who wants to vote yea or nay to write a 500 word essay explaining why, have someone who wants to add new requirements late in the process to put a percentage of their income in escrow until the project is complete, etc. It should be something anyone can do, but only those who really care would be willing to do.
At least 1,400 US-based ethnic Chinese scientists exited American institutions
Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/jqukI
Yes, supposedly the consciousness interacts with the physical body and is able to migrate from one world-line reality to another world-line reality. Warning, this is all pretty much woo woo land, I don't think this person is well mentally, but has some really weird and interesting ideas.

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-...

There's a bunch of other bizarre articles on the website.
Few take respite in smoke shelter amid unhealthy Seattle air quality
100% agreed, the Donut tutorial is great. Make sure to use the 3.0 version instead of the 2.8 version, he released an updated tutorial with the improved Blender UI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw

PS, definitely use an external mouse! You cannot really only use the trackpad/keyboard for Blender effectively.
BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD
I can see why you were downvoted. You are correct about the submitted article, and these types of posts attract a different audience - newer, lower karma accounts that tend to focus on non-technical subjects.

Yahoo doesn't produce much content, they distribute it. This is from the National Review, which is a partisan editorial magazine. It is not bias or incorrect to say it is not journalism. It is a subsidiary of the NRI, which is a dedicated to advancing conservative ideas and politicians (that is in their words - https://www.flipsnack.com/nrinst/2022-my-newsletter.html)

This type of content is fairly well crafted to appeal to certain worst impulses, and manipulate people. There is a US political movement based on creating a long standing state of aggrievement and thrive on this sort of cortisol raising material. It's is a shame to see it getting a foothold here.
When I've visited Boston, I found it to be a pretty car-dependent city, both in Cambridge and in the city center. To the point where crossing the street at corners in Cambridge was uncomfortable because cars are parked way way too close to the corner, impeding visibility. Is Brookline significantly different? Personally I wish I could live in a community with no street parking and only essential car traffic, but keep my car in a garage within biking/walking distance for longer trips.
I strongly disagree with the analogy - it's much more like welcome to the big city! Where all would you like to hang out and make friends? The park? The sports bar? Sex club? Political rally? Neonazi hangout? Anarchist collective?
In the analogy each place is a different instance that you start following people on, with its own culture and interests.

I've not run across any neonazis that I'm aware of, I believe they tend to be blocked by most servers pretty quickly, though one could seek instances filled with them if they wish. I could see that if you were seeking political discussion the Fediverse might be less attractive, since I imagine it would tend to be more extreme (right and left).
They could really have held off on announcing it an extra couple hours till it is actually available
I still don't see how this is going to be worse than wildfires. There are naturally caused firestorms 100x larger in area than Hiroshima, and they don't seem to be a major issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_Burn#First_fire_(193...
Quite funny. Did repl.it copy our logo at yazz.com or did we copy theirs?
DevOps to me is:

* Infra as code

* Infra code sits in a repo

* Infra code is managed by the (senior) devs

* No separate ops team, or ops role, is needed: it's a responsibility of the devs now.

* Monitoring production: also by the devs -- if an issue arises "we" take turns in solving them as devs.

DevOps is no longer managing your own hardware, but using hardware-behind-an-API in the cloud.
When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert back in February or March, it was not to threaten Ukraine, but to threaten NATO countries who might come to its assistance. I have not since then heard him threaten Ukraine with his nukes. Perhaps I missed his threats? Do you have a link to one?

As for whose fault is what — honestly, would you care, if either Russia launches nukes or NATO does so preemptively, and then the other side inevitably retaliates, and our world dies in flames — would you really care whose fault it would have been? Would it really matter to you?
DevOps is bullshit in the same way that Agile is bullshit. So, it's actually not at all, but just has become so fashionable that the term is sufficiently abused to become almost useless.
OP that newsletter button on my mobile browser is covering up words in the article. What the fuck.
I am the person screenshotted who was confidently wrong. It was definitely a useful exercise, in my opinion.
I'm not sure what reasonable looks like when a system has 237 million daily active users and the reinstatement system itself would be intentionally gamed by adversaries.

Do we have any examples to draw from operating at that scale? Due to the Musk purchase, we have a rare public disclosure of a major tech giant's internal workings where Twitter claims (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/07/twitter-s...) it suspends half a million spam accounts a day. It's trivial to file an appeal, so (because the attackers are by no means disincentivized from appealing) that's probably on the order of 250,000 appeals a day if we assume even half the banned won't bother (and I think that assumption is low, since a reasonable system should probably make it trivial to file an appeal, therefore people will). How does one reasonably handle that? To scale up to thousands of humans handling it, you'd need strict rules to even approximate getting the same result across everyone, and if strict rules worked you could code them into the auto-ban system.

One solution might actually be "Stop having 'get every human being on the service' as a goal," but then sucks for the people who can't use the thing.
> In cases like this, the benefits of the technology are so huge, and the downsides to the original code author so tiny.

Benefits to whom? I don't recall Microsoft making this technology free for OSS development.

Suppose you're right and 5 years from now everyone is using co-pilot. To remain competitive with proprietary software, OSS developers will have to use it also but they will still be paying Microsoft $10/month for the privilege. Meanwhile none of them were compensated for making this possible in the first place.
One thing I miss:

Most developers have no fucking clue how Linux, networking, storage or whatever works under the hood. They know how to develop whatever stack you're at, but stuff like latency, packet loss, redundancy factors, backup policies, monitoring or other classic ops topics are completely beyond the comprehension of 99% of developers.

"DevOps" usually means some C-level execs say "fire the expensive neckbeards that have the time to properly understand a system" followed by them saying one of

- "oh fuck, someone managed to compromise a service and because no one knows what the fuck firewalls are / Kubernetes doesn't come with ones OOTB the hacker got complete control of everything"

- "oh fuck, production is down because someone fat-fingered in Elastic Beanstalk which recreated the environment, dropped the RDS database and there were no backups" (I've been personally bitten in the arse by their definition of "recreate" - all I wanted it to do was to replace the damn EC2 instance)

- "oh fuck, we're seeing insane AWS bills because someone DDoS'd us and no one created a cost limit or a sensible limit for autoscale or a simple dumb monitor that alerts someone"

- "oh fuck, we're seeing an insane AWS bill because someone got his AWS access credentials stolen and some shithead spun up a ton of g3.xlarge instances to mine shitcoins"

Other C-level execs see constant issues between "ops and dev teams" because their team leads are friends of the silo model and decide that instead of getting rid of the dumbass managers they're getting rid of the ops team because "cloud", with the exact same result.
> I meant that if we “turn a blind eye” on dark matter in GR, then no universal formula can cover it. In the same sense that universal jet aerodynamics formulas don’t account for trees and mountains.

I'm still not sure what you mean here. The "universal formula" in GR is the Einstein Field Equation, which covers everything (more precisely, everything in which quantum effects are negligible).
I have bewilderingly tried to discern why software development continues to grow more and more complex.

It wasn’t always like this. There was a time when we talked about languages and OSes and libraries as if they made a difference on how much you could get done with as little people and cognitive load as possible (the claims were very much overrated, but the point was we acted like it mattered).

And then it started ballooning. It seems to me that much of that coincides with a lot of new money being dumped into the economy, and software moving past the necessary-evil-so-how-do-I-drive-down-my-costs and on to the gold rush of you must have a web app for your service that rivals a video game in complexity and visual finesse. It seems to me that as long as their is so much free money sloshing around venture capital funding, that it was inevitable that the process of making software would complexify to soak up the extra cash. After all, you can only add so many levels and varieties of managers to add value. After that comes the variegation in roles of software development.

That’s my working theory anyway.
> I would much rather be destitute in a big city where I can access all kinds of formal and informal resources like temp agencies or subways to sleep on, than in a rural area

This is why so many commuters forego cities' public transit in favor of driving.
I too have a hard time trusting people who use words
This is childish though. Ben has written about Twitter long enough to know how it works.

Careful review doesn't mean that a human reviewed it, just that a group of them were highly paid to implement the system of rules that banned him.
It's a lawsuit in the UK, so only UK revenue is relevant.

There's also the point about profit vs revenue made by someone else.

And finally, even if the fine is "low", they still need to change their business practices (assuming they lose the lawsuit).