skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, it has mostly been about managing operating systems and servers, not much else. There was a whole mess of homegrown scripts, and the PXE mess, and an even worse IPMI mess.

Keep in mind that "ops" and "admin" really depends on 'how much you have', a half rack of hardware was also managed by "ops" and "admin", and generally bootstrapped by hand and maintained with individual remote access or kludges like cssh/pssh. Even legacy systems like puppet were mostly used in the context of cluster management, not an entire fleet of mixed systems. There was no API for any of this either, so any programmatic access had to traverse layers of incompatible proprietary systems.

Developers did (and do) none of this. This work hasn't disappeared or changed much, and also isn't part of the DevelopmentOperations amalgamation. The grey area that it creates used to be the realm of release engineers and technical application operators. Those are the roles that have largely disappeared when an environment goes from legacy to more modern organisational structures.

This overlap (and the legacy disaggregation and hyper-specialisation) exists for a reason: developers that don't have to wait to deploy and instrument can release faster and more often, which adds value. But specialisation to enable developers to do all this is now needed because that extra value that was created now needs to be protected and enabled at scale, something that is enough work to keep one or more FTE busy. This is where specialisation (in a business context) comes from in general. If administrating systems and operating those systems was a very small task and easy to learn, there would be no sysops/sysadmin specialisation and the janitor would do it.
Fair enough. I think Drew is right to value issues such as environmental impact and global wealth inequality to the extent that his company turns away some software projects, even free software projects. I mainly replied to his comment because, taken out of context, that kind of argument can be used (and IMO sometimes is used) to pressure people into taking a stand on a particular issue of the moment.
Once my kids were out of the nest, I left a long career with an SV megacorp that sold to many dubious countries/companies because business.

Now I run a non-profit that is focused on helping people. My income is around 1/5, but my pride and general job satisfaction is 100x.
Got a source on that just because I’m interested in reading more about that “shitshow”.

My understanding of it was the images were put on Wikipedia/Wikimedia because they held the belief that the images were not copyrightable (as the photo was taken by a non legal person), the photographer threatened to sue Wiki over it but I don’t recall that going anywhere. But it was actually PETA who sued the photographer after he published the photos in a book claiming the monkey should have copyright on the images.

What im interested in is was Wikimedia actually behind the lawsuit (or was it a different case, as I said that whole incident was a bit of a shitshow)

Last I heard it never got a final judgement in court so it was never settled if the monkey should have copyright, my understanding is that the case was settled out of court were the photographer agreed to hand over a share of future earnings from the photos (copyright cases get expensive very quickly, they might have seen it as the cheaper option to exit the case)

But that’s just my understanding of what went down, would love to know more. I find it an interesting case esp as we move into the realm of AI creating art.
Sounded like an interesting project, so I reached out to them to see whether they'd be willing to open their API to me so I could build a search target for them (literally, me doing all the work).

Got a curt "not interested at this time". I am no longer interested in Needl.
Why a VM would slow down the loop? You can have shared directories and you can communicate between the two
Welch's apprentices at GE went along to wreck havoc on several companies as well.
If you don't want to do eBay and you're near a Micro Center, they often have some really old refurbished stuff in stock. Got myself a 2014 Mac mini for $250.

:)
Surely the technical requirements of my specific use case are applicable to any use case.
People in these territories face a life of pain any way you look at it, frankly. IP addresses are probably pretty low among their current concerns...

They're currently living in a war-torn country under Putin's iron fist. If at some point the Ukrainian army reconquer these areas, there will probably be a witch hunt if not plain ethnic cleansing. If they stay Russian, they'll live forever under the power of Putin's militias and oligarchy. Unfortunately I see no possible positive outcome for them. That's horrifying.
> it does not means that it's going to be faster all the time, it depends of the maturity of the library / language

I feel like I'm having to repeat myself a lot here as noone seems to have read the original comment correctly: we're talking about one specific language in one specific known environment here. Noone is claiming that JSON outperforms PB in general: only that it does in browsers, where it's actually relevant for UX.
Why would you need an OS when you're running on bare metal? Isn't the whole idea of an Operating System managing shared and limited resources?
M1 has a low power mode in the battery section which limits CPU performance.

Geekbench scores with normal and low power mode

- Single core Normal/low power
- 1749/1053

- Multi core
- 7739/4491

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qj13bv/m1_macbook_ai...
The M1 chips have two types of cores: high-performance "Firestorm" cores and energy-efficient "Icestorm" cores, which are much slower.

It is indeed possible to constrain a process to the Icestorm cores using taskpolicy:

> taskpolicy -b -p 567

where 567 needs to be replaced by the process id.

Reference: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/20/making-the-most-of-apple...
One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved
A couple of reasons I can see, just my opinion

* My buddies in trade-based fields say they are working harder than ever, as their backlog has only increased in size

* Less scrutiny when working from home, more fooling around, less work

* Feeling that "grass is greener" elsewhere, therefore no longer being committed

* Polling has shown that their ideal job for Gen-Z is being a CEO of a company, but few seem motivated to start their own business as those stats have been down. Clearly there's a gap in motivation or understanding
> Doesen't /64 mean that you can't create additional subnets within your ISP given range?

Effectively yes.

> I thought /56 was the smallest allocation an ISP could make for a residential allocation.

They can and often do make /64 allocations. There is an RFC (I think, might just be RIPE guidance or something) that recommends that ISPs issue larger to each customer. Many don't (as it is just a recommendation). Ideally they would allow a customer's router to request a larger allocation like /60 or /56 via a prefix delegation message.
You're right - building a dam and waiting for a thousand years will result in a new stable ecosystem with biodiversity comparable to the original. The problem is that natural systems need 'settling time' to adapt to changing conditions. The immediate impact in dams is a dramatic drop in biodiversity, that's not even a controversial claim. It's great that the ecosystem will rebound after I'm dead but I don't think that's what most people are concerned about. Deforestation and desertification of formerly healthy riparian ecosystems isn't a trivial concern. Not all 'changes' in nature are equally beneficial to humans.
It won't though, this isn't going to be like the Digg exodus.

Digg and Reddit were basically like-for-like, the friction in moving over was non-existent, because the focal point of both sites was the interesting links that people would post and discuss in the comments.

Twitter is different because the 2010s social networks did everything to kill external links, and turn the focus on the 'personalities' on the platform.

Also trying to go from Twitter to Mastodon is going to be like what beginners experience trying to set up a crypto wallet. Terrible UX, especially with dialog prompts with inscrutable messages about 'instances' that are meaningless to people coming from a walled garden.
Are you even capable of making an argument in defense of your claims, instead of laundering the moral sentiment of the issue of the hour?
I think GP is in agreement.
It may not directly help that ISP, but increasing numbers of the people living in that territory will be Russian invaders, as the Ukrainians living there are murdered or deported. And helping the invaders is problematic.

It may indirectly help that ISP or other ISPs in the future if the world makes a general policy of not supporting looting of IP addresses or anything else. If profits from looting are reduced, it may make invasions less likely, as both the rank & file and the leaders/oligarchs have less to gain. And people working at ISPs would generally benefit from their country not being invaded.
Good times. Most of us hadn't gotten "high on our own supply" yet, and the field was wide open.

You got the feeling of a thousand developers all running off in different directions, exploring the human and condition and all of the massively cool things this new hammer called "programming" can do.

Compare that to today. Anywhere you go in the industry, it seems like there's already a conference, a video series, consultants, a community, and so on. Many times there are multiple competing groups.

Intellectually, it's much like the difference folks experienced comparing going cross country by automobile in say, 1935 versus 2022. Back then there was a lot of variation and culture. There was also crappy roads and places you couldn't find help. Now it's all strip malls and box stores, with cell service everywhere. It's its own business world, much more than a brave new frontier. Paraphrasing Ralphie in "A Christmas Story", it's all just crummy marketing.

(Of course, the interesting items are those that don't map to my rough analogy. Things like AI, AR/VR, Big Data, and so on. These are usually extremely narrow and at the end of the day, just bit and pieces from the other areas stuck together)

I remember customers asking me if I could do X, figuring out that I could, and looking around and not finding it done anywhere else. I'm sure hundreds, maybe thousands of other devs had similar experiences.

Not so much now.
24(1998) years ago we paying $1000 per MB to access a computer network at 2400 baud for EDI (electronic document interchange) to Sterling Commerce for swapping files with vendors. This was pricing and tech from 1990. The modem cost $~800 as it was a different format somehow. I thought this was all insane having an personal 128K ISDN line at home and Netscape was a 16MB download. This would be $16,000 download, the price of a new car!
Actually, your comment is foolish. Allowing companies to not sell specialist tools to third party repair persons is not the same as selling weapons grade plutonium.
and yet rust is very complicated and plenty of people read the rust book to learn it.

my first paid software gig was writing perl and i still use it for text processing quick jobs and such but the truth is it’s just a weird language full of bizarre conventions that is a bad choice for building large systems. better languages replaced it
Fair enough - though my car "only" has a 60L tank, so I'd expect much better for modern cars (driven in optimal conditions).
I don't understand why your recall has anything to do with existence of a type of product.
OK... this is the kind of thing I am talking about.

"It's resource-efficient because it relies on volunteer labour."

That's one of the reasons, and it's not a bad reason at all. In fact, I would say that wikipedia couldn't buy what it gets for free at any price. It's also for other reasons. Wikipedia serves lightweight websites. It has a lightweight management structure. It has a lightweight content moderation function.

None of these are incidental. They are what efficiency is made of.

In any case, what is your comment demonstrating other that everything can be criticised. By what standard, is wikimedia worthy of your scorn?
> did I just kinda hit the limit of my IQ / abstract thinking skills?

No, the biggest problem is you haven't been exposed to enough of theory side of maths to have a intuition about how these things combine into the bigger picture this article is covering.

Imagine for a moment, that you are a good basic JavaScript programmer. You don't use typescript, so you don't understand types, just variables (vars), but you get the big concepts (algorithms, classes, strings).

Now say you go look at a large technical C program, like a compiler. On the surface you can see a lot of things you do understand, but there is a lot you don't. What are pointers and doubles, long doubles, how do unsigned ints play into this, what is malloc, why am I mallocing? What is this namespace doing here, how about this struct?

Sure given enough time and a dictionary you could probably make sense of the program and you will have to learn a bit to get there.

Higher level maths are the same way. You have to have a ton of foundational knowledge to start having intuition on the bigger things. Unfortunately for most of us computer people, we just don't even get to scratch the surface of maths theory. Most of us stop just short of the intro to maths theory classes. The equivalent for us would be learning some logic, a few programming languages (algebra, geometry, trig, calculus), maybe intro to algorithms, but no theory of automata, programming language theory, etc (number theory for maths).
From the post:

> And then we wonder why some people hate EVs

I consider that irrational.

The issues with difficulty to repair the emissions systems on diesel vehicles should be something to complain to the vehicle manufacture - not the clean air act itself just as the ire of "can't fix a phone" should be focused on Apple rather than people who use a dumb phone or have a pine phone.
It's crazy to me that there's an entire industry (app stores) built around gambling, and it's just totally unregulated. Most if not all the top-grossing apps are lootbox-style gambling games =/

Advertising and gambling, that's our super fancy gadget dystopia.
And look what it is doing to their stock price.

I'd argue the breakup of AT&T was the coup de grace for mega-corp investment in pie in the sky tech, but even AT&T only invested in such things due to legal mandates.
Maybe what could be added is a debug header when using grpc. If it is present, the proto schema is sent with each request / response. Then the tooling can be enhanced to look for this.

I suspect this would not be much heavier than json so it could be always left on for those who are ok with the overhead.

Win win?
But it doesn't really help Wikipedia, at least not in a measurable way. From the original article opinion of long time wikipedian Steven Walling

> Given that this is a pilot and there have been serious concerns expressed about the ROI and ethics of funding grantees not doing any work that has a direct measurable impact on Wikimedia projects, I would encourage you to stop
Yes, really innovative use of the gamepad for ZombiU gave the game a properly scary aspect when checking in bags and boxes, and nervously looking up at the screen as you're doing it.
And the banner ads always make it sound like the server might grind to a halt any minute.
Imagine explaining to someone that the object system is based on a pun-name about priests. You'd feel like an idiot. Nobody's got time for that kind of wackiness these days.
>- They are commonly created with the explicit goal to scam most people while making very few people rich.

Examples? I'm struggling to come up with examples outside of something like "ponzicoin". The typical token/ICO project has some plausible business model (ie. you're investing in a token that allows you to use this smart contract, which presumably will have demand if the smart contract becomes popular) which makes it hard to call it an "explicit" scam, even if it does turn out to be effectively a ponzi.
I barely notice a performance difference in low power mode.
I wasn't disputing the validity of that study [0]. I was pointing out that it's exceptional to have air flowing through your drains, and knocking down your ridiculous hyperbole of "gas masks".

As I said, air filtration and biological isolation in general are engineering problems. The modern world is built on dragging problems into boring terms we can coldly analyze. What you're doing is jumping between red herrings and then coming to the conclusion that the problem is intractable.

The nonsense train continues with the strawman "you may have been making your family wear respirators, perhaps even at home". Obviously, at least if you're thinking prudently, you define your groups of people you have regular close contact with where transmission is likely a foregone conclusion. You don't take a public health recommendation to wear a mask, extrapolate that as if it's a suggestion to wear them at home in bed etc, figure that's ridiculous, throw your hands up, and then turn to Facebook for validation. Your quick jump to this apparent meme really just demonstrates how far from rationality you are.

[0] I also wasn't agreeing with it - I just don't see a reason to read it. Sure, I'll believe that can happen.
Yeah, we are at the point that we are getting data on black holes colliding millions of light years away from us based on the deviation of a Lazer across miles over the width of a few atoms.

To suggest the universe is full of life and we simply can't see it? I don't buy it.

I think it's more likely that the signals just aren't there, because they are... Not hidden, but are too weak and crossing too grand a distance to be detected.
Phones were invented this year? Or why did they have an effect only just now?
I feel this could work if the "random rulers" would only work as administrators, legally required to follow a long term political plan that has been defined democratically with the population. I believe in both the future and progress, so a long term plan is required to me. Look at China and what they're accomplishing with their 2035 plan. I whish my country's politicians could think at least 15 years in the future when they legislate.
Happened to me this morning. Account banned, username isn't even visible, recovery flow ends up in a combination of error messages/timeouts/rate limits. I don't do much on the account outside post ~once a year, like things and watch the occasional story.

Reddit and Twitter are full of similar reports.
Remix Team Joins Shopify
VM is still an option, many VMs today allow easy file exchange between the host and the VM, with proper configuration you can still code and compile in your original workflow, and test in the VM.
That’s not how medians work
Instagram suspending thousands of accounts for no apparent reason
To the best of my knowledge Russia retains hundreds of ICBMs and about a thousand warheads ready to fire at a moment's notice. Unless I've missed a crucial bit of news, I'd expect a majority of these to function as intended, as everything I read on that part of their military suggests they're operating a lot better than their army. In that case, an all-out nuclear war would mean hundreds of warheads raining down on the US with on average larger yields than the US ones to make up for less reliable targeting, and even optimistic projections for that and the effects of US retaliation assume three-digit million deaths right away and at least one growing season lost to nuclear winter. All infrastructure close to major population centers, military installations, ... would be gone, as would be anything susceptible to EMP from high-altitude detonations. I don't see Starlink software engineering and the infrastructure they require to remain operational in such a scenario.
Way, way too low for me. I notice people who use it tend to be on the younger side and/or must have very good eyes.

Personally, astigmatism causes halation[1] of the text with dark modes. The only time I find them tolerable or needed is when I'm in a very dark room.

In the day, when I do most of my work, I am in a lit room or outside and I am looking at physical documents, desktop environments, and web pages that are all light-colored. I would feel my eyes and brain churning every time I'd have to re-focus on a dark-themed window in this context, so it only makes sense to have my code/text light-colored as well.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halation
What about tRPC?
You are right to say that they are actually using modern technology and sometimes even cutting-edge technology, but that does not mean that it is not inadequate technology.

The meme is about "Nintendo consoles have outdated technical capabilities and the games look like shit", and that is accurate.
One of the most helpful things for me when handling imaginary and complex numbers came not from a math class, but a physics class. My HS physics instructor said rather than "imaginary" we could think of -1 as a "hidden" number, because after you do the math fairly often you see where the number would be, but you just can't see it among the "real" numbers. This was literally an aside to something else he was talking about at the time.

Calling the imaginary numbers "lateral" and saying they were "to the side of" other numbers would've been helpful, too. I'm not sure it would have been quite as helpful to me, personally, but either is better than "imaginary" just to juxtapose with the "real" numbers.
Protocol buffers are used in Dark Souls 3, Pokemon GO, Hearthstone and I'm sure many other games.
If this is true, why was productivity so high pre-pandemic when everyone was in an office?
Weird that energy / natural resource costs werent mentioned given the way that productivity is calculated.
Did Twitter file a California WARN notice? If not, they need to do so and give 60 day notice to workers in California.

So, don't accept anything that doesn't preserve your rights to your Tuesday equity grant.

Details here: https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN

Key Provision: "Layoff of 50 or more employees within a 30-day period regardless of % of workforce. ...."

Penalties for Violation: "A possible civil penalty of $500 a day for each day of violation. Employees may receive back pay to be paid at employee’s final rate or 3 year average rate of compensation, whichever is higher."
If anyone needs to do this with an Intel-based MacBook Air 2020 model, the answer is much simpler: join a Google Meet call.
If you put the Switch and the DS alongside it, you can see where they were coming from / going to.
You just need to familiarize yourself with the prereqs. If you have no idea what a "group homomorphism" is, or how to spot one in the wild, you aren't really expected to grok this stuff.
The biggest problem will be the 6 hrs time difference to the wrong side. We are used to Indian remote workers with 3.5 hrs earlier and horrible English. And lot of meetings with 6-9 hrs later with US colleagues.

China has a pretty good reputation lately, better than Korean or Japanese. They speak better english, use proper tools, have a similar mindset, and are not as crazy as the Indians.
Great astro-photo of the day for Halloween