skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from a former socialist european country, and we use grades + standardized tests results to get into most colleges (art, music and acting colleges are an exception, due to obvious reasons). Everybody has to pass a standardized test at the end of highschool, 5 subjects, for most, the first three are slovene (our native language), english (second language) and math + two subjects chosen by the student (eg. physics and sociology, or chemisty and informatics, or whatever).

The colleges just give out rules how to calculate "points" (usually 40% are the grades, 60% is the test score, but some (eg medicine back in my time) require you to choose chemistry or biology as one of your subjects and that is worth 20%, next to 40% for the other ones and 40% for the grades).

Students know those rules, apply for a college they want, finish the year, do the standardized tests, get the results, colleges calculate them into points, and if there are 60 spots for that study course, top 60 students are accepted... you don't even have to wait to get your letter, colleges publish that the cuttoff was 82 points to get accepted, and if you're above that, you're in, if not, you compete in other colleges/programmes that still have open spots left over.

No races, no letters, no subjective stuff, no problems with -isms.
> companies will be forced to adopt cloud due to the lack of skilled bare-metal sysadmins.

More likely that they're just not paying enough, and those skilled sysadmins would rather go to any other company that will pay them appropriately for their skills.

This is just another take on the "nobody wants to work anymore" rant that happens when companies can't understand why nobody is accepting their open positions.
I am surprised that people still actually spend significant money on marketing. Marketing usually never materializes into sales/customers, it’s largely a waste of money. I would say ideally spend as close to 0 as possible.

https://theantistartup.com/i-stopped-advertising-everywhere-...
The black market for stolen verified accounts from Twitter and Instagram
Kadyrov is certainly not a likely successor to Putin.
While Pachyderm (a great product by the way) helps teams to automate transformation tasks, ODD is more of a discovery/observability/monitoring solution for your pipelines. Basically if Pachyderm helps you to build a pipeline, ODD helps you to monitor all of your pipelines in a context of your whole data infrastructure
I'm very lucky to work for a company that's understanding about this, and lets me get Economy+ -type tickets for this reason.

But it's the first company I've ever worked for that's so considerate.
They serve me well as geeky coasters for my coffee mugs.
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> "nobody would frame someone for deception's sake"

What you must have meant is that most people would not.

I have known people who certainly would, even without any antipathy toward the person framed, just because they could. Stir in a trace of resentment, and they would go out of their way to do it.

Maybe you have heard of Alex Jones, Roger Stone, or Steve Bannon? They have ardent fans.
What entity in your analogy is the regulatory body?
Part of the argument for dropping the SAT is that the SAT has been shown to be a proxy for family socio-economic status and is no better an indicator of success at college than GPA, honor/AP/IB course participation, and extracurriculars.

(I’m not making that argument myself, I haven’t seen numbers explained well enough to form a solid opinion)
I felt the tweet thread was dismissive as well. Hey is running pretty standard Rails things IIRC and I wouldn't consider them niche. They like to make money and they know they can make more of it if they run on baremetal. I think more companies are going to move back to a more hybrid model of cloud + baremetal in the next 10 years. Especially the ones that need more power, flexibility, and cost savings from their infra.

You nailed it on the head. The problems have just moved from one camp to another. We make our life easier because we can talk to an API to get our network, compute, and storage but the complexity in doing so has a pretty high price as well. The current devops trends are mindbogglingly complex compared to most of software that is getting deployed with them.
Is hiring support staff so expensive that it threatens your business model? Not having access to a human being is an unacceptable business risk for many. I have been suffering a six-month integration / certification process with Chase's byzantine Merchant Services API. It's a parody how awful it is, I mean shockingly, amusingly bad, but I have access to bankers directly when something goes wrong, and so I will suffer it.

Can't you just offer paid, guaranteed support? People will gladly pay for it.
I’ve been enjoying this keyboard a lot as well. Unfortunately, it seems to randomly keep waking up my MacBook every several minutes and the only fix I’ve been able to find is to manually turn the switch off when I’m done using the computer.

I’m also not a huge fan of having to charge both sides individually although so far the battery life seems quite good. I don’t move my computer often and use a dock so it would be nice to be able to just leave it plugged in without worrying about battery, but doing that requires both sides to each have a cable plugged into a power source.
> even if on-prem is cheaper

Surely this calculation should include the cost of people with the required skills?
Didn't just shock a generation, it shocked the President.

There is the apocryphal story about Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor who turned politician, who saw The Day After and asked his staff if would really be that bad. His staff, hardened Cold War generals and such, replied that it would be so, so much worse.

This spooked the hell out of Reagan, and led him to reach out to the USSR to ease tensions.

Didn't stop him from building deterrents in the form of Star Wars, etc. though...
It doesn't even look like it has been removed. Restricted probably means you cannot share it, but it is still in your drive.
Especially because the entire purported schtick of the SAT is to measure aptitude (the "A" in the acronym). In principle, if the SAT is true to its name, getting a study book shouldn't help at all. But since study guides or repeated testing does improve the score, it can't be a true measurement of aptitude.
It will get worse when the manufacturers of the best performing hardware will be the cloud providers themselves :) I am afraid Amazon will slowly drown out independent CPU (and eventually other gear, but with CPUs the playbook is most evident) manufacturers.

Today, Intel (and probably also AMD et al.) offer them exclusive deals on and even exclusive models of their hardware, due to the insane volumes "hyper-scalers" procure. In parallel, Amazon offers their own CPU arch (Graviton) cheaper than x86 cores to users of their platform in order to make it more attractive - at the insane margin AWS operates at, it can make these instances a loss leader, no problem. As a result, those in the x86 market that do not have a cloud business attached will grow weaker and weaker in comparison, and most cloud-native developer mindshare will shift to the cheaper option (since most engineering work in cloud envs is about reducing cost, period), which is AWS/GCP/... custom CPUs. And you, the random shmuck with an appetite for powerful on-prem hardware, will be left with worse products to buy for a higher price.
I find myself reaching for both depending on the situation. I usually prefer to list an email address instead of a generic "Send us a message" form but there are lots of times when I (or a client) wants to collect specific information; in those cases contact forms are great.
Public evidence? No. Do you have public evidence of everything your proven trustworthy friends tell you? Luckily, my anecdote isn't supporting a legal action or news story.

He said the union absolutely used it to pressure management into a more favorable stance towards Unionization, and the plant is now unionized.
It is illegal to do so, but is it an actual problem?

This point is always repeated, and never proven.
"Or on a horseback" is my favourite line.
> I do this for fun (with larger targets).

What are we talking? Like a peanut m&m? A macaroon?
Can most offices get a sufficiently fast link to properly utilize servers on premises?
You are.
The physical principle of using microwaves for drilling is a sound concept, the application, refitting coal plants as geothermal, is a very good idea.

Predicting the future is always error-prone. Simply predicting failure is a cheap cop-out.
No, that was not my logic. You substituted your own. My argument is that under no circumstances is any entity 'required' to accomodate your desired market conditions. There are existing markets (i.e hotels) that towns/cities/whatevers provide. The mere desire from a consumer (or even massive group of them) does not oblige others to service that desire. And, the expectation that those desires are always met is the entitlement.

Many markets have demand, but society prevents their legal existence. For example, organ trades. I'm sure a lot of alcoholics would love just being able to go get a new liver whenever they want or when theirs fails. However, the... issues that creates have been deemed unacceptable and therefore, it's not allowed (obviously, it still happens illegally).

Some people want AirBnBs so they can have all the accoutrements of a home wherever they travel. Other people do not want such a market to exist, for a variety of reasons. I don't think that simply because an economic opportunity exists, it should be serviced or be allowed to be serviced. Obviously, advertisers want to increased the amount and effectiveness of their ads. FaceBook and Google would block out the sky and plaster it with ads if they could. Should they be allowed to?
> "Admitted guilt forthrightly" is also suspicious.

Not really. IMHO, it's pretty common impulse try to apologize when caught doing something in order to get less punishment. An apology is often effectively a confession.

> The principal activity of higher level spooks and investigators is coercing people...

So? Even if there are people who do stuff like that, it's a tiny fraction of cases like this.
Winterizing my backyard and testing my snowblower before it gets too cold, making sure we're ready for the first snowfall.
Using source control tools as part of the deploy process really is a valuable innovation. It's not an "old fad".

I think you're clinging a bit too heavily to the "good old days". It's ironic how this entire thread has turned into a mix of people either

1) complaining that modern technology is too complex and complicated

or

2) complaining that modern job applicants have lost the skills necessary to run things
The total number of databases in the world has not gone down though, rather the opposite I suspect. It's not that there aren't any competent DBAs anymore, rather it's just that the cloud companies have better offers for the DBAs out there than most small/medium enterprises are willing to pay.
What is the point of comparing it with Horizon Worlds? The games have a different art style, have access to a different amount of compute power, and are targeting different frame rates and resolutions.
Then create your own extracurricular activity. There aren't any rules about it. It just has to be something that shows initiative, drive, and ability to accomplish something significant. I did things like build a gokart out of scrap (had a lot of fun with that, too!). No adults were involved in any way.
100%

It feels like character movements haven’t changed much in the last 20 years. Which is a shame because the visuals are great, but let down by 2006 style animation.
curiously at the small chair I work, the professor goes against that flow and we do our small cluster all on our own. We also don't have much money (small), so dedicating probably half a year of state-funded PhD-time paid off (still quite academic around here) as we now have an environment newcomers can get work with in week 1. On top me and a colleague have a niche but interesting skillset pxe-booting a slurm cluster, running RoCE and NFS. Our softwaredistribution (as in "compiled sensibly"...) is arguably better than on some parts of the HPC-center (continent-wide academic TOP10 iirc) nearby. Also a first year PhD has some interest in that and will probably carry this on.
I learned recently that the customers kick you in the balls once per minute either way. Loudly on Twitter.
> Days of editing files in Notepad++, FTPing them to a live server, then quickly switching to my browser to refresh the page and make sure it works...

If you just add local machine testing, and a test server to that mix, what is the problem?
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Well, actually to prove you're the legal husband of Penelope already. Not having an universally acceptable form of ID led to some major inconveniences...
Defaulting to recent posts? Yes please!
Is that kind of support really possible? Isn't our society literally built on coercing people to work under threat of starvation?
No, I don't think there is. Anyone about to do evil will cook up a batch of kool-aid to transform the act of evil into a "mere" act of being wrong, and the "mere" act of being wrong can certainly lead to being evil in short order. I do not think this distinction exists with anywhere near the level of clarity that would be required to redeem the concept of moral relativism.
Weird, it's still up on YouTube. Maybe driven by flagging and different algorithms across the two platforms.
This rings true for myself and a couple of my friends who grew up relatively poor in a wealthy area - our test scores on the SAT and relevant subject tests boosted us into private schools that we would not have gone to otherwise, which then led us to well-paying jobs right out of college. Last I checked, my high school implemented affordable/free SAT tutoring for all students and I hope to see more of it nationwide as I believe it helps immensely in socioeconomic mobility.
I moved my CouchDB and Pocketbase instances previously running on the cheapest DO droplets to Fly.io, and they're both faster and I haven't paid Fly.io anything to run them.

(They're small projects, so not running into paid tier yet)
Security, compliance, flexibility...
Well that is odd...
10-cent CH32V003 RISC-V MCU offers 2KB SRAM, 16KB flash, SOP8 to QFN20 packages
One under discussed issue I’ve noticed is how the size of The compute sold to the end user does not increase at the rate the underlying hardware improves at.

It’s reasonable to presume there’s now an entire generation of developers who simply don’t know what’s possible in state of the art hardware.
Don't forget that the already beleaguered world of government IT also listens to Gartner. But government doesn't really go out of business when that bad advice leads to bad initiatives, it just becomes even more dysfunctional.
Confusingly, on-premise does not always mean "in the same building". Oftentimes it also refers to dedicated servers in a shared datacenter (aka colocation), or a separate datacenter that only serves a single company if that company is large enough.
The tweet thread came off in the completely wrong way to me, and suggested that the person writing it was pretty ignorant about how software engineering actually works. Are you suggesting that everyone should be using [insert dev fad here] for all but a few special cases?

Have you considered that sometimes (really, almost all the time) people run code that is more than 2 years old? Have you considered the costs of things like serverless when you have a reasonably constant load?

I am a huge fan of cloud as a platform for time-shared server rentals. Cloud for "value added" products like serverless and whatever new database they cook up starts to get really funky and weird, in addition to being extremely expensive.
> but the people who hate the Scouts got them kicked out because they had a religious requirement for one of the ranks.

Actually people who love our Constitution got them kicked out.
I would make the case, especially in the broadcast / entertainment industry, that is was not the cloud that resulted in de-skilling but rather outsourcing / off shoring.

There are famous examples of large media companies screwing over their internal IT depts through out the 2000's and 2010's
Did you also see the Captain Disillusion video today? "CD / The Horrors of the Alpha Channel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XobSAXZaKJ8
Melodyne is one such software package. I think there may be at least one other on the market that showed up several years after Melodyne.

https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne
I guess it was never “your Gdrive”.
Exactly. And so the crowd shouting "tHe cHiNeSe dIdN't mAkE iT" has been dominating the conversation by disingenuously pretending that the bar to be met is 100% total from-scratch lab synthesis or nothing.
Nobody knew how to use the cloud when it first came out, and AWS and GCP are both fairly obtuse. IAM alone...

Hell, for that matter, nobody knew how to set up a transcode server for live streaming 30 years ago - it's not some ancient art where we lost 50+ years of experience.

I don't believe that people who can learn to operate cloud services can't learn how to rack servers and install software. Ten to fifteen years ago I was in companies where ten percent of the software team was managing the datacenter. Now ten percent is managing kubernetes and AWS and all that. I've seen the cloud be better for smaller shops since you no longer have to have that server management if you only have one or two people, but I haven't seen it "deskill" things so much as "differently skill" them in larger orgs.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but FYI (and it's been said before and may be said again) that there are LEGAL requirements by the US federal government for banks to NOT tell customers the status/reason for frozen assets if they have been flagged for potential money laundering. That may be the case here, it may not, and I don't know if Stripe is regulated like that or not.
Everyone says it’s better on paper but you rarely get to actually use it in real code.
Or maybe those at the top at Google happen to believe that it's their duty to protect the world from "wrongthink" and they are just doing what they believe is best.
AWS going down is in no way dissimilar to L3 going down back in the day. You were still down and there was not much you could do about it.
>You'll wind up just knowing the formulas from paying attention in math class, and especially from doing all the homework problems and taking all the math classes your high school offers. To be sure, maybe your high school is deficient in teaching math (mine was). For test prep, then you need some extra math instruction, not test prep.

I don't agree that math classes are enough because teachers do vary, some sucks, some are great, but also at the end of the day they have to teach whole class, not just you, meanwhile maths on youtube runs at your pace
> Your way of argumentation can be applied to anything.

That's because it's a good argument. And no, people don't need nutritious food either. Unless you _want_ them to live healthy lives. To satisfy your "want", there is a list of "needs". If you really want to, you can turn any want into a need by applying it to a higher level want. I happen to want people to live long healthy lives but I'm not going to frame that as a "need" because it simply isn't.

> The point is that society should agree on some level of basic needs

Ok, let's start there.

> how you view other people and their requirements for life.

I would _like_ everyone to live a happy and fulfilled life free of suffering. I pay taxes and donate to charity to help provide that for people. It is, however, not a requirement for life or a "need" in any way.

> And yes, if you want the future to be in any way a human future, "being able to raise a family" is absolutely in the "need" column.

Ok. If that's the goal, yes. Is that the goal? People are having children at a sub-replacement level. It doesn't seem like that's really a goal for those people.

I _want_ to live in a free society. I _want_ there to be no or minimal human suffering. If humanity goes extinct through a process of dwindling birthrates because people choose not to have children, I really could not care less.

Every "need" has an implicit "in order to accomplish [goal]" on the end of it. Framing something as a "need" assumes a common goal which is often abused people to put more and more things into the "need" column when there is no consensus goal.

So what do people "need" housing for? The availability of affordable housing is already an accomplished goal. The availability of affordable housing in NYC is not an accomplished goal.

The availability of affordable housing in NYC is only a need for the survival of NYC itself which I, again, could not care less about (provided humans don't suffer in the collapse).

People talk past each other constantly by omitting their priors discussing these things. When you say "housing is a need", for what? And in the context of this article, I'd interpret your statement of "need" to be NYC specific so, "housing in NYC is a need", for what?
> Publicly-described facts of specific cases don’t always match the actual facts...users do also sometimes publicly misrepresent what’s going on. We’re also restricted by privacy rules to not share specifics in those cases.

Not affiliated with Stripe in any way, but I used to work on payment fraud detection on a comparable scale. I'd say this describes ~90% of the cases that I saw that got traction on social media with a good sob story. Many of them were egregiously misrepresented to the point where it was obvious that they were trying to run a scam and use public pressure to get some result that they clearly didn't deserve. It's quite frustrating in those cases where your model says they're 99% fraud, your domain experts who actually investigated the issue say it's 100% fraud, and your privacy/legal/strategy policy prevents you from just responding with "this is BS and here's why".
Tolkien was an able soldier at the front in WWI. He despised war as veterans do, but by the same token he was obviously no pacifist. He also despised the NAZIs, but was confronted by students, and a nation of voters, who declared themselves uninterested in defending their country or opposing the NAZIs. Tolkein began writing LOTR in 1937. Lewis, very similar views. It is impossible to construe TLOTR as a pacifist work; although it clearly warns against pursuing "any means possible" against an enemy (as is consistent with his Christian faith.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_Country_debate

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/11/tolkien-lewis...

(I can't vouch for the latter journal, it's just consistent with what I've previously read.)

Winston Churchill, in the first volume of his history of WWII, goes into great detail re this ubiquitous democratic feckless pseudo-pacifism of the thirties. This is the context Tolkien was writing against; a thoroughgoing refusal to consider arms. It was well worth opposing, and had armed opposition been used earlier, England would have experienced only a very short, sharp war.

"Unlike other members of the "Lost Generation" who spent their words rejecting time-honored concepts such as heroism and virtue, Tolkien and Lewis borrowed heavily from the great epic stories of the past.
...
According to the C.S. Lewis Institute, "In the stories of Tolkien and Lewis, there is this very important idea about our responsibility to resist evil and choose to do the right thing, even when it looks very risky. This is what heroes do." Both men learned these lessons while on the battlefields of France during the so-called "War to End All Wars." "

https://www.grunge.com/596312/the-c-s-lewis-and-j-r-r-tolkie...