skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has managed teams (including devops teams, while not being a dev myself) for 26+ years...

What we need is LESS HR.

And what youre saying is what we just refer to as an SME (Subject Matter Expert [SUBJECT])

Its stupid to worry about labels. But if youre an SME on the sites DBs, or Network, or scaling factors etc... your the SME for [SUBJECT] and you can still be an SRE, Dev, Ops, Network guy and still be on the Devops team/ops team/ IT team.
> Doing shit because you have no choice but to do it sucks, period.

Isn't life composed almost entirely of this? Cooking, eating, sleeping, using the toilet, taking care of love ones... If every responsibility you have in life is automatically absolutely horrible by nature of being a responsibility, why live?
Why should the users have any vote over anything?
> [Google is] running kernels from three years ago that are missing security patches from two years ago.

This is ridiculous. No, they aren't. No one is. Kernels on production Linux devices[1] are cut from an LTS branch and get prompt and expertly audited security backports of everything anyone knows about. Now, sure, that process does break down occasionally; but this is an area being shepherded by some of the best engineering effort in the world. In fact I'd go so far as to say a regularly updated LTS kernel is probably the software product that is most responsive to security issues.

[1] All the ones I know about anyway. Surely there are some gadgets being less prudent, but Android and ChromeOS are absolutely not on the list.
Forget Tic Tac Toe; can it play Global Thermonuclear War?
DevOps was supposed to be about accelerating the software development lifecycle. In my current role as a "DevOps Engineer", a significant portion of my time is spent being a roadblock. This is mostly due to misaligned incentives and incompetent management. It's debilitating for both the devs and myself.

If platform engineering can fix it, fine, but I'm not holding my breath.
I might be wrong but I think they are sitting on the corpse of the golden goose.
What about it is valuable? Isn't all of that "data" just their content that is pretty easily scrape-able by anyone?
come join us and contribute!

built my startup on elixir/phoenix. while there could certainly be a better selection of libraries, its not that hard to roll your own and elixir has straight up features that you can't replicate in most other ecosystems
Interestingly, in the US, slavery is explicitly permitted by the Constitution as a punishment for crimes. (Though whether prison labor should count as "slavery" or as a different form of "involuntary servitude" is an interesting semantic question.)

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
> Do we need to legislate having big "FRAUD WARNING" signs on every gift card display, just like we need "do not use in bathtub" labels on hair dryers?

The market has provided these without legislation, at least near me.
Wasn't a core point of that story that only the primer backed and guided by a single invested & nurturing adult had the intended effect? The two that were driven programmatically failed to achieve the project's goals.
I don't, but I don't want to see it either or allow them to see my stuff since I'm extremely anti-nazi and anti-fascist and don't them to come trolling me. Nor do I want them using my resources to try and bring young impressionable people into their fold.
You may be interested in GeNVS (https://nvlabs.github.io/genvs/) which combines NeRFs and generative diffusion models.
right no I guess thats not what I meant to say, rather that I expected any learning material from Jane Street(which has some really rigorous interviews) to give a better heads-up to the type of thinking thats required to do well in those interviews.
>"If you work at a for-profit corporation, your job will be pointless, because the only reason it exists is to generate profits. It's as simple as that."

I certainly understand and can empathize with being jaded about corporate greed, but I don't follow your reasoning on this one. It implies the only jobs that are not pointless are those that don't generate profit?
And how do you move on?
It’s completely made up.
> I did not succeed in getting 100% of my students interested in programming. (Not even close)

> By the end of my class, many were determined to never try coding again in their lives.

Replace "high school CS" with "shop class" or "biology" or "auto body" or "english composition" and you'll get the same result.

Most people are not interested in most things as a career or hobby. It's bizarre that programmers think their thing is or should be any different.
The myth of technological progress may be dead, but the myth of social progress is alive and well. Tearing down the old institutions is the most "progressive" thing you can do.
Is it known what happened to them?
That’s not what an oligarchy is. It’s pretty close to the exact opposite, as an oligarchy is when the government gives individuals (oligarchs) monopolies over industries and enforces them with their monopoly on violence. Really wish people would actually learn the definition of this word instead of throwing it around in place of everything they don’t like.

Oligarchy != rich people existing and doing stuff
Or perhaps the Lisa
Developer credentials should not be able to deploy to production, only CICD system credentials should.

Absolutely, you need proper controls in the system to control and authorize deployments with appropriate responsibilities in place, but fundamentally if your deployments are fully hands-off, it shouldn't matter who clicks the 'deploy' button
Weird, my chemistry teacher was the exact opposite. He didn't even have a degree in chemistry, it was in physics. He hated teaching that class but loved us as students so we did basically nothing all year. May explain why my knowledge of chemistry is equivalent to that of a medieval peasant. Cool guy though.
Apropos Scheme and shells, this is how you write acknowledgments:

https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
Unfortunately for reddit, there are many backups of that data that aren't held by reddit.
I'm very similar.

In social situations, I usually just say "I'm into computers". Most people who ask what I do don't really care, they're just engaging in ritualistic small talk anyway. If someone does care, they'll ask clarifying questions.
Oh yes, it brings happy memories.
The percentage of their party apps, vs people using the first party app, just based on Google play downloads is very miniscule. It is like saying using youtube-dl to consume YouTube is killing it. I mean we all love sponsor block and uBlock origin, do we have the same sympathy for YouTube?
Right now these weekly breakdowns of highly profitable companies:
https://netincome.substack.com/

But there are more ConvertKit based newsletters I read.
Only RSS. On my own time.
> Still don't know what it is, other than I should go to the Firebase website to find out.

You almost got it :)

95 pct of people arriving on WebStudios' site will be coming from search engines. What search term did they most likely use? Webflow, perhaps?

You are confused by the marketing copy because the website link was given to you, you didn't have to think of anything to search for.
This isn't a good take because the evidence is contextual. Joe Average users typically download the reddit app because they are forced to or face the dysfunctional mobile site. I watched my own partner do it. She doesnt like the app or care for reddit at all, its simply next generation facebook style walled garden garbage, including reddits fucking terrible video hosting format.

The business has abandoned its once core userbase in favour of cheap eyeballs. It's sheer modern tech laziness and an embarassment to the "innovation" culture that it lazily still staples itself to.
dang, might the title be corrected to NeRF instead of the toy? ;)
It is exactly a problem in practice because Linden was using the GPL for exactly that purpose.

Go back and reread my response above. And then reread the (L)GPL. If you modify (L)GPL'd code, co pile it and distribute the executables you produced, you are REQUIRED by the terms of the license to release the source.
I've been trialling Marginalia Search a little and one thing that's struck me is the latency. The only other site I use with similar latency is HN; Marginalia seems even lower despite being dynamic (HN has a much easier caching story). I wonder is it just down to having lower traffic. It's certainly a lot lower than many low-/zero-traffic blogs I've frequented though.

I've had a look at the README[0] for the Java sourcecode, but it's highly focused on crawls, database & indexing (understandable for search); would be cool to see a front-end focused write-up.

[0] https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
This is what will eventually happen. The moderators who do it for free almost always crave power and are extremely biased. Most subs are a cesspool of arbitrary bans and overt condescension.

Mods will often lock threads if it fits within the sub guidelines, but supports a topic they don’t like.

They’ll find a small argument somewhere in a comment chain and lock the thread, leaving behind a pinned comment such as “Locking the thread since you all refuse to behave”.

It’s ridiculous. Especially since arguments spanning hundreds of comments are often allowed if the mods dislike the person/topic being dunked on.
Let's assume the point of technology is to automate routine labor and software engineers have been hard at work automating routine labor for 50ish years. Why are we still hiring software engineers? Shouldn't 50 years be enough time to automate most of what needs to get done in an office?

What happened during that time is that the gemini twins of technology and bureaucracy continued to layer their shit on top of each other, creating more problems in need of more solutions with more administration to satisfy with each new layer.

The software engineer is one example of a high paying bullshit jobs. No really. As much as you love the job of SWE it is a bullshit job. The problem you are solving is mostly in the hands of gravity, local politics, insane financial machinery, the hubris of a few powerful people. It doesn't mean you can't get good at your job and find it fulfilling along with the other aspects of your life. This is the architecture of your reality and you've basically mastered it, not unlike a level 60 MMO player. Good job!

Most people who read this website are doing bullshit jobs.

That's why, above all else, probably the most important thing you can do is look outside what you do for a living and do some good in the world.
If reddit isn't profitable now, they're certainly not going to be profitable without thousands of hours of unpaid labor being done for them.
I pulled that trigger later than I could have, I was earning 2x my salary from my side project before I quit.

At 50% if you can see an upward trend, ~6 months savings, and have a plan that the time will give you to execute, got for it.
It is exactly that. We are putting it deep into the ground and ignoring the problem.
Indeed. The fact that they didn't do this and the extremely high cost of API access is good evidence that they wanted to kill 3rd part apps outright.
> – You “fail” the interview if you get the wrong answer

> We care about how you think about and approach tough problems, which includes how you take hints and respond to being wrong.

First and second sentences need to swapped.
The old adage holds true: it’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
Share a single link on social media to showcase what you like and dislike
WhatIsMyStance is a website that offer you a simple and fast way to showcase your interests on social media.
Quickly create a profile (no email required), choose from a wide variety of theme what you like and dislike, then share your profile link on social media.
Is that really a problem? There's endless stream of data, called "The real World". Just start using a camera and a microphone.

Sure, it's not labeled but vision and sound are how neural networks were trained for billions years.

We also have huge archives of pre-generative AI data.
:-) Good luck finding a qualified paid army of mods doing this at reddit scale. Even if they manage to find, do they have the money?
Hard to fathom the stupidity, but the arc of this (Huffman's statements, including the dishonest and the just plain "tells") and Verge interview yesterday suggest that the reason for the line in the sand killing Apollo, RIF, etc. is jealousy / spite.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/15/reddit-blackout-third-party-a...

Reminds me of:

https://youtu.be/uimI1pXDZcg

Except, here, it's not just some jacket and a couple of people. It's some perhaps dozens of $millions made by a few app devs against a $multi-billion IPO and access and usefulness of a key site on the internet (e.g., inability of many to access valuable info and communities for days, now).

Something personal like this interfering with the IPO, and activities of so many beyond that, is a monumental failure of judgment. Combined with Huffman's past history of dishonesty and ineptness in multiple areas (including making Reddit profitable after 7+ years at the helm in this current round), seems like the best solution to the problem at this point would be removing him from the CEO position.

(Obviously, this seems easy from the outside, but I have no idea how easy / practical this would be in the "full picture")
Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.

'we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!'

It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.
"Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi): Inherited from the MPT family, this feature eliminates the context length limits by replacing positional embeddings, allowing for efficient and effective processing of lengthy documents. In future we are planning to finish training on our larger dataset and to increase amount of tokens for context."

This is interesting, but also confusing. What is the current context limit? It mentions eliminating the limit but then mentions increasing it in the future.
The keyword is self-service. Instead of engineers filing tickets that say "please deploy my application", you have a dedicated team create an internal web app or something that lets engineers deploy their application themselves, but minimizes the risk (compliance, security, stability, etc.) associated with that deploy.

This approach scales because it doesn't create a queue in front of ops.
> Binary wheels are just archives, I don't see differences in the way they install between different systems.

The subtlety here is in which binary wheel is selected: a particular (host, arch, libc) tuple may cause `pip` to select a more specific wheel for the same version of the package, or even an entirely different wheel. This makes wheels themselves reproducible between systems, but it also means that which wheel isn't guaranteed.
Well, for one, they're the sole value prop for the site. They generate, rank, and curate the content in concert with mods and admins.
Why not? What specific problems does it not solve?
There goes reddit. No one wants an unmoderated slop.
Tales from infosec...

Also the number of highly compensated tech workers who pirate software on the job. Guys, do not pirate shit at work!

Also: Companies, buy your employees software! It is super hard to talk an employer into spending money on software for productivity.
> we all die is just silly.

Not all then, just hundreds of millions of person. Phew!
Some Reddit staff at some point jump in to say this, impromptu:

> Tim Rathschmidt, Reddit’s director of consumer and product communications: An angle no one else has been writing about is the desire and frustration with users that want their communities back. Especially being vocal about it. That’s just not something that’s really been covered.

> Steve Huffman: The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community. Users may have been for this on Monday, they’re not for it now.

Same exact kind of FUD about the Real Public™ being inconvenienced and unsupportive you'd hear from the suits with respect to a regular labor strike. But here presented as some kind of special insight that the media are all conspiring to hide.
I usually list it for $5. Free seems to attract too many high maintenance or scary customers.
>We know for a fact that the universe can't support unbounded exponential growth;

I am never entirely convinced by this.

First because it does not need to, it only needs to support exponential growth for (say) 100 years and that is plenty of time for me. Or 1000 for me and my grandchildren's grandchildren. Then we can go to "stable state" etc

Second because economic growth is not purely a matter of physical resources. Oil use cannot grow forever. But Dollar value can.

>If the people ever became convinced that after tomorrow the growth will stop, the system would collapse overnight.

This is 110% true though. The main source of growth is optimism, the main source of optimism is growth. God help the government that cannot sustain those (like now here in the UK).
Glass houses, my friend. Academia demands people spend their entire lives slowly crawling up a ladder while simultaneously threatening to kick them off that ladder for a large portion of that climb. Spend your life working towards tenure only to get denied and wash out after 15-20 years seems insane.

a decade of your life to get past "novice" level for teaching something like CS to high school students is not something we should be pushing to replicate in other fields.

Education is begging to be disrupted. Maybe this guy doesn't have all the answers, but pretending like what we have is good is a joke. He's on a better track than sitting in a classroom trying to get past "novice" during the most productive time of his life.
The article confirmed what I thought. The best way to teach students CS is to work to their interests. Almost everything any student wants to do is involved with computers. Find some way to give them a project related to their interest and introduce a CS way to do it or enhance what they would already do.
HashiCorp 2023 State of Cloud Strategy Survey
That would be PEP 508.

508 notably excludes hash-pinning, which is a significant limitation -- hash-pinning is defined by how `pip` implements it.
None when I entered the thread, but I have a few now hah
> This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer.

In theory... but in practice if you allow it to not be a walled garden, then it will tip one way over the other. You suddenly give companies the ability to say "bring down your walls or don't use our app." While you technically still have a choice, it's not much of a choice if you depend on a certain app. The fact is we are all subject to the choices of other companies, developers, users, etc, so for those of us who prefer the walls it won't do us much good if everyone is living outside of the walls.
It's their content. Reddit wouldn't exist without user contributed, moderated and 'engaged' content.
Imo, it would be tough to regulate such a device though. It could be a mere router that is rooted with custom firmware or a Raspberry Pi. Not to mention, China is the manufacturing hub for most of these electronics, they have a lot of the components there as well to help you build one from "scratch" if you really want to.

Regulating the distribution of electronics at such a micro scale would be detrimental to businesses and startups in China.
>So, HN should definitely fix text/background contrast ratios ASAP, whether or not they add a dark mode.

Agreed!
I'm already paying criminals every time I pay my taxes. Hell, even when I fill up my car with gas, or when I buy meds. If you really want to live ethically and not pay criminals, you have to be autonomous.

The real crime here is preventing me from opening my third eye!
"Securely" being the key term here. Something that is buried securely today may not be buried securely tomorrow, or in 100 or a 1000 years, because the geology of the planet is not static. This can become even more of a problem if the knowledge should be lost what was buried where.
Not only is the word "material" common/standard in the world of computer graphics but not in the world of UI, MaterialX was launched at Industrial Light and Magic in 2012 (https://materialx.org/index.html). Google's Material Design launched two years later, in 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Design).
Translation: Reddit will take a heavier hand and stamp out any behavior they don't like.

And the obvious next step is to sell control of subreddits to the highest bidder.
>> don't have the numbers reversed. I'm talking about when a single atom actually undergoes fission...

Well then maybe you should talk about the problem at hand, which is the stuff people are considering "nuclear waste" and wanting to bury.
I mean, they're better than branded subs being moderated by the brand. Imagine Disney just being given the ability to moderate all of the starwars or marvel subs.
Python NHS Number Validation Library
#python and #nhsdata #nhstech people - just announcing something I've been working on for the last few weeks with some colleagues - an #opensource Python library for #NHSnumber validation. The need emerged from other work I was doing in which we needed to validate NHS numbers entered by clinicians. Clearly the validation is not super hard to write code for, but it's a #wasteofbrains for everyone to have to implement it themselves.
> But the climate changes slowly, we are becoming richer and we'll adapt.

WE are, sure, as in the people in this comment section having this conversation right now. Billions of people are not included in this "we" and have much grimmer outcomes predicted. Seems nasty to leave that out.
This take annoys some people but...

That's basically spot on, trying to convince people that they have to drastically lower or stagnant their standard of living is not going to be a successful strategy.

Electric cars only started to gain adoption once they are good enough. Exactly the same with solar panel prices.

We just need more technological breakthroughs it's the only realistic strategy.
can we just have this thing become another Digg and go away already? this is so tedious
I think the people you're referring to want us to stop producing nuclear waste in the first place.

This approach of geological sequestration, while being the scientifically preferred solution, still has potential very negative consequences for some future generation many years in the future. By some people calling this safe, it enables the nuclear proponents to leverage that to say there is no issue with the waste so it's fine to create more.
I think it is an apt comparison, since social media companies don't need to extract monetary value from every single individual, unlike rent, and do run their orgs for large amounts of time in the 'red' thanks to VC money. Which let's be honest, is another game of VC's leveraging credit/debt systems via financial institutions.

Perhaps you feel this way because you still think the government is individually on our side, when every announcement sounds more and more for a vague concept of good, that seems to enrich the announcers, while doing nothing for my life, or any real person I have ever interacted with. Which puts paid to the concept of government being on the individual's side.
I vote with my feet. I don’t use Twitter anymore because of Musk and now I won’t use Reddit because of spez. Tbh, it feels great getting these sites out of my life.
Pre-2022 Internet content definitely had spam/bot contamination though.