skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who demands final product for free?

Just about everyone. The final product is RHEL in this context.

> which is their right

No, as per the GPL they only have to provide sources to paying customers.
Ask HN: How to get good as a self taught ML engineer?
I am a self taught programmer and ML engineer. At work I find myself usually downloading models from huggingaface and sometimes training them to get the job done. That is enough to impress people in my country. But I know I'm not a good ML engineer. I want to get good, real good, Andrej Karpathy good dare I say, How do I do it? I have done the Andrew Ng course and the Fast.ai course. Those got me into the field, but what do I do to thrive in this field. I really want to do some great work and help people. Great people from HN please tell me how can I level up as an ML engineer.

Thank you in advance
Hey, thanks for letting us know!

I most recently tried the AMD GPU that came with my ThinkStation P620, and it could not drive the monitor at native resolution :(

Maybe I should try a 6900XT. Which particular model do you have?

How much power does it use when driving the 8K monitor?

Do you have PCIe ASPM enabled in the UEFI setup for your PEG slot, and does that run reliably? I was running into problems with ASPM with my nVidia: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/pcie-errors-after-enab...
It’s cute that Google thinks we’re all going to pay for YouTube Premium/TV instead of just not watching YouTube. That’s where I’m at. I don’t watch anything on YouTube anymore, and like when Reddit got “smart” and drove me away, I’ve noticed my mental health improve.
What problem are you trying to solve that requires one word answers?
At that point, what value does the salted+hashed IP address give you over a randomly generated number (say, a UUID) per session?
I would not care to work for a team where members flippantly disregard exclusion of significant subsections of the population from their ranks, for whatever excuse they design to choose. Either way. There are competent people of all colours, creeds, and classes, and if your company is not able to get any, there's something wrong with you.
Can you say more about what you don't like about Kobra's art vs. other street art? I'm curious, not familiar with the genre!
Unmasking the Shadows: An Introduction to State-Sponsored Hacking Groups
Yes, this is what I meant. Changing the rating would require storing every rating and recalculating all dependent ratings which could be quite a large DAG.

While not impossible I don't think it would be particularly scalable.
So what's you work and do you enjoy it?

For me the key is just having other hobbies. I do less of that (which is vaguely defined ops work + some programming) as hobby because I do it at work, but it's not like I lack other hobbies.

I usually go back to it when the job takes me away from it (say we're speccing project for the client or other non-work that is required to get work later down the line).

It's essentially sacrificing one hobby for another. Sure I no longer tinker with penguins all day but I can afford stuff for my other hobbies and still not hate my job.
Where the author made a mistake was in trying to make "what the market wants" rather than just making stuff he/she actually wanted to make and trying to see if it was possible to make money from it. If you try to make "what the market wants" rather than what you want, you're going to make garbage and further saturate a market that is already filled with garbage that was designed to cash in on "what the market wants". And you're not going to be good at it because you're not a large corporation that has perfected a soulless formula so your work is just going to be a worse version of what the large corporations are doing (soon that stuff will probably be produced by AI rather than humans).

You don't turn a creative field into a career or a business until you know that what you want to make is going to be marketable or you are independently wealthy and don't need an income to live. And once you're successful in a creative field, resist the urge to pay attention to marketing data.

A creative who doesn't have the backing of a large corporation needs to lead (i.e. innovate, challenge conventions, etc.) not follow. That's because you can either be better, worse or different than the competition. If you're not different and you have a smaller budget, you will inevitably be worse. That applies to startups and even incumbent underdogs in any line of business.
I’d expect an artist to know that a mural is just art applied to a wall. That includes frescos like The Last Supper.

Usually artists also don’t police and get so angry about other people’s self expression.
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Coming to terms with death is a necessary adaption to the fact that we're all going to die in a fairly short time. If we had an expected lifespan of ten thousand years, then I wonder how many people would think that the way to "grow up" is to give up 99% of that time, rather than living those years and learning whatever lessons they bring.

Perhaps, when the solar system is full of 5000-year-olds, they'll marvel that we infants were able to muddle through at all.
I wonder if author has paid a red cent to the maintainers of libjpeg
Do you have any evidence for your imaginations of how people lived in the past?

My understanding is that a healthy old age in the past was rarer, but that we've not really changed the limits, just improved the median experience. See, e.g.: https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-n...

> Are we on the cusp of technological developments that will make how we live further unrecognizable. Totally.

I too like science fiction. But we've been "on the cusp of" a lot of those things for quite a long time. I think that's more indicative of what people who are afraid of death want than a cold-eyed analysis of current tech and rates of progress.
How do you think Redhat got in the door? People like me and my friends way back in the day staying late and porting our product over on our own time and convincing management to make it an offering. People like us who were our client's pet neckbeards convincing them it was ok to go with our Linux offering. No one buys Redhat without an application to run on top of it. That's how they cracked large market industries. Not on their own, but from good will from neckbeards who found it fun to spend their weeknights on a skunk works port on a frankenputer we hacked together (corporate was happy to stay with just offering SCO).

The Redhat that this last week has been on an anti-neckbeard crusade saying 'we aren't the distro for your type' to those of us who got them in the market is what is disappointing. It's like you help your friend become part of your larger friends group and then they ghost you when they don't need you anymore and are 'too cool' for you. So yeah, fuck off Redhat. They can do whatever they want, but they won't be getting any good will, and the petty anarchist in me will take advantage of any situations that come up to do ill upon them if it has a low personal cost.
FGPA’s have been tried and dismissed. GPU’s are simply better with speed and efficiency.
> if someone is on a second round with us and hasn't bothered to use our free tier, that also tells us

Now that you've said it on HN... soon, most of the applicants you get using your free tier by second round will be doing so because that'll be added as a standard part of the generic tech jobs interviewing ritual for people who just go through the motions (along with memorizing Leetcode, and practicing good-sounding lies to behavioral questions).
IMO, it hardly seems useful to consider a dynamic language with statically checkable type annotations to be a static language.

I think it’s interesting how static and dynamic languages have grown closer together since this was done. I’m not sure there’s really all that much to argue about anymore. Your static languages tend to have many of the features people like about dynamic languages and vice-versa, though of course that depends on the specific language.
Never going to be able to justify the current price but I’m still really interested in playing with it to see if I think they hit my personal bar.

I’m perfectly comfortable spending 8+ hours in a day writing code on a non-4K screen (widescreen with the pixel density of a 27in 1440p) and based on what I’ve used in the past could probably handle anything as good as a 27in 1080p monitor with the right fonts.

That said, I do find the screen door effect on my Valve Index rather distracting and can’t use it for longer than an hour or two without risking a headache, especially if I am reading any text (tried watching a movie with subtitles and oh boy).

So I don’t think retina resolution is necessary for work (at least for me personally) but it does seem like having the screens so close and completely covering vision does increase sensitivity to picture quality so I may be wrong about that.
Needing to extract money to live from hobbies that don’t pay is stressful and awful. If your hobby does that easily, good on you. Having agency — money to live and freedom/time to indulge in hobbies is the ideal.
https://uka.life

To filter English posts.
https://uka.life/category/english/

Often non-technical.
In hindsight, that does look plausible. However I'm not sure that the timeframe supports it. The company acquired the CentOS organisation in 2014, and it didn't kill off the free Linux distro until 2020. That's a pretty big gap.
I keep wondering whether it is even still true that RH drives those projects. Poettering left RH for MS a while back, AFAIK. Are NetworkManager, GNOME, and Wayland still heavily RH driven?
Based on their legal situation, they may (unfortunately) feel in a unique situation to NOT make a startup out of this.
Judge blocks U.S. officials from tech contacts in First Amendment case
Fedora was released and all of us that used Red Hat Linux just moved right over like nothing happened.
https://jacobdoescode.com/blog
The readers may not like it, but you're not actually wrong. Go ask 100 developers if BSL or ELv2 are open source and the majority of them will say that it is -- because the source code is available, and for the majority of users, these licenses are less restrictive than AGPL. Not Open Source (tm*), but open source -- FOSS vs OSS.

(I do understand that Solargraph is now using a proprietary enterprise license, so this comment is directed at the OP mentioning "OSI approved" licenses, not at Solargraph's new license.)

* it ain't trademarked.
Can you give some examples? What was the job function and approximate level of the characters in your examples?

In my experience, ordinary lowly FAANG software engineers are expected to treat each other with respect and kindness that is simply unimaginable in average companies. But I have zero insight into what happens at the managerial or director levels.
It looks like langserver.org they maintain is indeed serving the right content and the repo accepts PRs. What did Sourcegraph do wrong here?
Eh, depends on the ISA.
Oh awesome. I suppose you can also do the menu overlays? Obviously there's no track pad to put them on but I imagine could work well mapped to eg a left joystick.
Found it*
cancerous ads are an integral part of the internet since the dot-com boom

so is ad-blocking
Red Hat made a fateful choice when they acquired JBoss, against the express wishes of Oracle and Larry Ellison.

Oracle then forked the distribution, and their presence far outweighs CentOS.

For those who would argue against this assertion, run the command "wsl.exe -l -o" inside a Microsoft Windows command prompt.

You will not find CentOS there, and you will not find Red Hat, but the coverage of Oracle Linux is quite thorough.

Red Hat has a long history of antagonism of their partners and users, and they have paid dearly for it.
If nobody can use it at school, then overall it makes it probably less likely they will be owned or used at all. Then your kids risk falling behind and becoming as adept with technology as "old people" today. Not saying that this trade-off means that everyone should use smart phones all the time, but let's not act like this isn't a potential downside when they are a part of everyday life for French adults.
https://frest.substack.com

I am working on better APIs driven by a better user interface experience.

The better APIs are REST but relational. The better UIs are driven by an embeddable component-based view of the API and its data.

The result is plastic software that out of the box more resembles Access or FileMaker than Ruby on Rails.
>"I studied art in university, am an artist myself" Garbage argument.

Why? I would assume "what is art?" is a subject on which much time is spent in art school.
https://simonhamp.me/blog
if you check language/graphics or anything similar you are an editor, not an author.
Grandparents sure, but great grandparents? Great great grandparents? I think at a certain point additional surviving generations would be either a neutral or even net disadvantageous change for the greater population. Assuming 20 years per generation, there wouldn't be a huge pressure to live longer than 60-70. We clearly didn't evolve to naturally live forever.
http://marble.onl/

(general purpose personal website that's mostly a blog)
Do you really think interviews only cull people that would be a poor fit?

People are terrible judges of character and interviewing is every bit the shit show dating is.
One wonders if businesses know what digital privacy is.
Ask yourself how many things RH has done for the community also directly contributed to their bottom line.

Now combine that with its new business leaders that promise explicitly to pare back efforts that don't help or even hurt the bottom line.

Would that make you happy with them? Sure, they aren't under an obligation to drive FOSS, but there is an obvious and notable change in direction here.
Up to a point, yes. As I understand it, though, SUSE originally was bootstrapped from SLS, Soft Landing Linux, and it only gained rpm support later on.
I’m not a filesystem admin, but we at LLNL use OpenZFS as the storage layer for all of our Lustre file systems in production, including using raid-z for resilience in each pool (order 100 disks each), and have for most of a decade. That combined with improvements in Lustre have taken the rate of data loss or need to clear large scale shared file systems down to nearly zero. There’s a reason we spend as many engineer hours as we do maintaining it, it’s worth it.

LLNL openzfs project: https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/openzfs
Old presentation from intel with info on what was one of our bigger deployments in 2016 (~50pb): https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
Yes, without TLS offload, we're CPU limited. For example, on our 400GbE (4x100GbE) servers, we are CPU (really memory bandwidth) limited at ~240Gb/s without NIC TLS offload. Using Mellanox CX6-DX NICs to move most of crypto onto the NIC increases the effective limit to ~375Gb/s.

We encrypt everything we can with TLS to protect the privacy of our members.
You can't force people to do stuff like that.
> you cannot get the source code unless you are a paying customer

That's literally the GPL.

> if you are a paying customer you get terminated if you share the code

And that's shit, but also the problem with tethering yourself to a single vendor. They don't have to do business with you.

There are plenty of other RPM enterprise vendors, switch to SUSE.
Depends on the job and the question.

I had a candidate that didn't believe they were allowed to make decisions, just carry out edicts of "the leaders" even if terrible idea. They didn't believe they should ask questions to clarify or help structure the request. This person has worked at a higherarchial bank then a rule by fiat game studio.

There's no way I could have used this person at our company. Didn't matter their tech chops. They would have been a disaster. In this case behavioral would have caught them.

Instead I asked a tech question which they failed hard and started blaming the recruiter on for not knowing this was a tech position. I tried pivoting to behavioral and it went downhill from there.

I had to try and save the interview by talking about games war stories for 45 minutes taking us over by 30 minutes. It was not great.

But if I had caught it with behavioral I would still had to ask the tech question for fairness. So I'm not sure what would have helped.
https://archive.ph/KVLkN
In 30 years, the GUI could have been deprecated about 7 times.
Computers becoming like phones has to be avoided at all costs.. That's not a world I wanna live in.
It is. See for yourself:

https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/2367c1b9fa3126...

I see no reason to disable it. Its fast, and its no more personal than basic metadata like image format and resolution... I can't think of any use case for disabling it other than passing AI generated images as authentic.
Guile has the extra layer of being "Guy L." (Steele)
Interesting! I don't remember ever hearing about that at the time. I'm not saying that I don't believe you, but I'd be very interested if you had any links or references for that.
So definitely don't give the boss that fired you as a reference that they might call to check up?
Nah. It's either the 2nd biggest communication problem, or a side effect of a bigger problem. Depending on how you analyse it.

The biggest communication problem is that you always need to take into account that your reader might be braindead trash. That has two consequences:

1. Unless you expose your full train of thought, expect screeches like "I dun unrurrstand, SPOONFEED ME BASIC REASONING, REEE".

2. Unless you explicitly say something, expect some assumer to claim that you said the opposite. Bonus points if this is due to failure to take context into account, or even notice that the context is missing.

Both consequences have been training writers to idiot-proof their texts with big walls of unnecessary words. And that's the case here.
https://www.brightball.com
Redhat didn't move into that space originally though. They moved into the SCO space off of the goodwill of 'geeks'. Then Redhat leveraged that into the larger UNIX space. That is why the community of 'geeks' is disappointed in them and their current moves. They have forgotten where they come from.
Then also arrive at the cinema late so you can skip the ads. I always arrive about 10 min late to skip the ads.
I've spent the last two days working with (not-Kubernetes) virtualisation software that has serious, workflow-breaking bugs from... uploading and removing regular files, of a format it expects. In some random-aaS frontend I could expect that, but this is systems stuff.

:(.
https://rachitsingh.com/

Trying to write more!
I'm really interested to see what studies you're talking about specifically, but I didn't put much value in your comment without it.

I've had a ton of trouble finding good research on this.

Studies have shown.
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Edit: you did this in at least one other place recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544081. Please don't.
I write about privacy, security, old software, sometimes programming: https://raduzaharia.medium.com/
Actually it is the opposite, it is a scream from those who don't really have a voice in the city.

Really recommend watching the documentary PIXO, you can find the full doc in YouTube with english subtitles.

[edit: suggesting the documentary]
JS/TS/node madness is too complex even for AI ;)

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1674498970842972160
https://jamesg.blog
> So viewing from 40cm away is about the point where 220PPI crosses the point where you can tell any difference?

There is a difference between your ability to resolve, and whether you can tell _any_ difference. The usual measure of sight is visual acuity, which is your ability to discern details of a certain size at a certain distance. Specifically, in most exams, it's the ability to tell strokes from blobs.

However, even when the pixel density is beyond your ability to discern details, they can still affect your perception in other ways. For example, misalignment of borders can be detected far beyond what your visual acuity is.

On computer screens, particularly, pixel density also affects how things are rendered, think diagonal lines, curves, hollow spaces, etc. Take an extreme example, a box rendered on a 4x4 screen is going to look better than on a 2x2 screen even if the former is twice the distance away.
Isn't running out of phosphate rock almost a similar scale problem? I thought like a billion people were going to starve to death without it or or something?
https://frominsidethebox.com

I lived in a box truck for six years while working at Google and chronicled my thoughts and experiences and shenanigans.

Still not sure what I'll do with the blog going forward, my current life being significantly less novel.
In the same way that today everyone is dependent on phones. When I grew up, the phone hung in the kitchen with a long curly lead. Nowadays everyone (including adults) seems to have their head in their mobile phones at any and every lull in conversation.

My car projects traffic info and directions straight onto the windscreen. A fancy feature now, but surely ubiquitous in just a few years.

My windows computer, an Operating system which I paid for, has started injecting ads and promoted content into the start menu.

And so it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to be bombarded by injected ads in a future world whether we like it or not?
At some point the people making absurd claims like this need to be called out. So many people are just scared of looking foolish in the other direction (discounting a world changing technology at an inflection point).
There’re lots of studies on the dangerous of the ads but girls are not exposed to beauty ads many hours per day like on a smartphone.
there are engineers who specialise on systems that have been in industry long enough to be called senior that have never touched anything non-cloud.

Most people who are “devops” with <8 YoE are unlikely to have touched non-cloud systems. Worse still, whether you want to admit it or not: some people are "DevOps" with no prior developer or sysadmin experience. (Since the term "Systems Administrator" is out of vogue but the need for systems administrators has never gone away.)

There are so many bootcamps for this too, and they mainly focus on AWS skills.

Here's a few bootcamps that people might decide to take to break into "DevOps" of which none are assuming prior knowledge, though techworld with Nana does teach a little Linux.

https://www.techworld-with-nana.com/devops-bootcamp

https://clarusway.com/aws-devops/

https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-devops-bootcamp/

https://techproeducation.com/courses/aws-devops-engineering/

https://aws.amazon.com/training/classroom/devops-engineering...
Unfortunately we were left with no open protocol other than e-mail. That is the biggest tragedy.

Protocols like ActivityPub do not come even close.
Research weights but they should release the weights for everyone this month.