skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DevOps just makes the problem worse which it is intended to solve. DevOps started from "deploying is too hard, and the developers don't know how to run complicated shell scripts to deploy our software to release, anyone should be able to deploy it and have it scale!". However, most companies started to cargo-cult Google and just built everything in the "most scalable" way, incurring tons of overhead, both in deployment friction and hardware costs, so we are back to DevOps being an almost completely separate field from software engineering, and the programmers still can't deploy software.
> COVID is on track to kill ~200K people this year

Where are you seeing this? I'm eyeballing cumulative deaths in the linked data tracker, it's about 50k through September 23.[1]

[1]: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths...
Since 99.9% of the flights and the people are already registered, there should be a worldwide limitation per each of the person for CO2 emissions.
DevOps isn’t a role, it’s values and ways of working.
And what about compared to Munich/Bavaria? Munich is very rich by German standards and doesn't seem to be too far off compared to Norway.
I think it is awesome that these "DAW-less" tools are showing up and getting good. There's a lot to be said for them in many contexts.

However, I don't think that they are going to eliminate the current concept of "a fairly big piece of software running on a relatively general purpose computer that is used for recording, editing and mixing".

Por que no los dos, eh?
It's annoying how people blatantly about things like this.
Because it's just a hip way of saying you have a sysadmin team. How can something or someone be "devops" if all the developers are in one team doing dev tasks, and the ops in a separate team doing ops stuff?
> The cost needs to be smashed down. It shouldn't take a moonshot. This is old tech that's not hugely complicated.

The tech is not the problem, the certifications are. It's incredibly expensive and onerous to bring new medical device designs to market, and for good reasons - if it were easier, you'd get even more quackery than you already have now (e.g. homeopathy, penis enhancement pills, "nutritional" supplements).

The same is true for airplanes. Your run-off-the-mill Cessna? Its design dates back to the 50s. Almost all of GA still runs with fucking lead in the fuel because it took the FAA over 12 years to get it certified, and even in the US it is estimated to take until 2026 (!) until G100UL is widely available. Europe doesn't even have a timeframe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#G100UL
I guess it's: You change the way you think about those metrics if you're the one being called at 2AM Saturday night.
I would indeed go rather with Oligocapitalism, than Technofeudalism.
An anthropological account of the Vim text editor [pdf]
Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu
Would it though? The tables have 45 non-zero elements. The zeros aren't all regularly distributed so you're probably looking at storing way more than that.

A full table with the answers stored directly is only 55 elements. Maybe I missed something but what's the point?

Does it scale better than N^2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4dMK7S6KE interview on the same topic.
As another Nashvillian(sp?), I definitely understand the difference between how a city is viewed by tourists and by locals. I don’t mostly hate Nashville, but I basically hate Broadway, 12 south, basically everything everyone thinks of as Nashville
Where does this “can’t see more than 60 fps” rumor come from?

It’s trivially refutable by placing a 60 Hz strobe (e.g. old fluorescent light or even some aftermarket headlights) at the corner of your vision.

Also, for interactive systems, 16 ms is a large chunk of our reaction time. You need close to 1 ms response times (1000 fps) to approximate pen and paper.
Why split the company? What does that do?
> every time this article pops up

I don't think this is the same article of which you're thinking. This is a tool to rotate DKIM keys and publish the old ones (in a sense, a scheme that replaces revocation).
Paying taxes absolutely increases CO2 consumption because you are enabling the US military to conduct wasteful operations around the world.

We should pay less taxes because the government is extremely wasteful and polluting overall.
Why Kerala Hindus vote for communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II
DevOps as a culture vs DevOps as the neo modern unix admin has no right answer. It's just like software development philosophy and organization.

It's a fine approach, if you have a well aligned group of people working with the same understanding. The same is true for places that prefer to draw boundaries of responsibility in other ways.
The thing i have come to dislike is that in both companies i work for it lead to strange working relationships between ops/eng. anything that breaks in the deploy pipeline is now “the devops team problem” and they normally act like it’s also your fault. In the past this has meant people messaging me saying they are blocked because their dockerfile fails in CI. Then you walk through it with them and it’s also broken locally and it comes down to them pinning to something like latest tag and the image “shocker” changed. But now you are fixing it and after you go remind everyone that you should pin your image to as strict as possible image tag. But no one cares because they can move fast and break things and when it does blame it on CI and now it’s not their problem.

Anyway this is just one tiny example but the same underlying thing starts happening in all parts of the development cycle. “My deploy doesn’t work” … well your program has an error and crashes on startup but looking at the logs would be too much work. Let’s just say we are blocked and log off.

As you can see this is a culture issue but it seems to be common when you have a devops team. And even more common when management (read senior management and up) think that developers “should just be developing”.

Anyway thats my rant.
Yes!! Same here. ONE annoying advertisement or waste of my time and the app's privileges get revoked.
Hmm, there were many things in the UK that used to have essentially rental kind of options that were much more expensive in the long run (TVs and sofas) as well as energy being more expensive if you were poor (prepayment meters). The last one is still true, but much more limited now.

You don't need starvation level poverty though, remember the comparison point is with a salaried captain of the police. So if the point was "they don't spend more because they can't buy any shoes" it doesn't relate to the original Pratchett bit.
> I thought that actually was the pairwise number for some algorithms in use. They're designed to produce a list of suspects to investigate, and then if you get a dozen hits against your surveillance camera photo from your database of a few thousand local mugshots, that's what you're after.

You can certainly accept a whole lot more false positives in exchange for a lower false negative rate depending upon application; that's what figure 1 shows.

> Doing the numbers this way implies that the error rate would be ~2800% higher if the database contained the entire population, even under these conditions.

Disagree. Error rates with 1 million people aren't anywhere near 1/12th; they're perhaps half. It's nowhere near a linear relationship.

Also, if you had everyone in the database, you wouldn't have lots of people presenting who aren't in the database, which is where most of the false matches presented.

> But even supposing that this is a problem, wouldn't it still be better to ban facial recognition databases than news reporting?

Don't take my disagreement on the magnitude of the threat of facial recognition as supporting something else.
Last time I heard this crap in real life was back in 2018. Things have progressed immensely over the last decade, though. Now almost everyone "knows better" due to relentless marketing from big companies, including phone and TV vendors.

Before that, 30 was totally fine for the masses. In fact it was preferable. Cinema is the last big holdout and, apparently, it's going to take at least another decade before even mere 48 is standard. As someone who has been riding the 120+ fos for over two decades, going to the movies is awful, especially action scenes and panning.
A mom-and-pop German restaurant near me [1] where for Bavarian Weisswurst, a cabbage salad, some "peasant potatoes" (I don't know the official name) and a non-filtered beer I paid about 30 euros when I went there about a month ago. Had I also ordered a soup, or a second bear, I could have easily gone into the 35-40 euros range.

[1] I highly recommend it, it's the real deal when it comes to eating honest German food in Bucharest https://www.google.com/maps/place/Die+Deutsche+Kneipe/@44.45...
If you have a DevOps team, your company probably doesn’t understand what DevOps is about.
I hate to put it this way, but most flights are commercial passenger or freight. Only a small amount are private jets, so this really only affects a small number of people.

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg would argue in favour of greater privacy for you?

I think the effort of making flight data private (and all of the solutions we'd need to find for very important transponder/communications technology) is better spent on other privacy issues first.
Fossil fuel is not subsidized with tax money. It’s subsidized with tax discounts. That’s happening regardless of tax income because the federal government doesn’t run a balanced budget.
It'd be nice if the code was available as Unicode text too.
> The obligatory recommendation to see the Century of the Self by Adam Curtis

or you could take a shortcut and ask Bard:

"Advertising existed before Freud's nephew Edward L. Bernays came along. What new thing did he contribute to deserve to be called the father of modern advertising?"
KDE Connect requires both devices to be connected to the same network, which means you have to connect your devices to the same VPN if you're on a wifi network with client isolation (most public wifi). If you're away from wifi, you'll have to configure one of the devices to be an access point and join everything else to that device.

Apple's clipboard/handoff/continuity automatically works as long as the devices are within wifi/bluetooth range.
Oh yes, the whole "but you don't have a regular salary and spend it all every month" thing was a problem getting a mortgage for me also. Even though I got a pretty darn good consulting rate in banking and paid the whole mortgage off in very few years in the end... No one could officially understand "I only take out money when I need to" but happily I had a sensible branch manager in the building society that I used...
The point is that because of sampling, order of operations can matter. So having a 88k file -> apply an effect -> downsample to 44k, can sound different than having a 88k file -> downsample to 44k -> apply an effect.
Perhaps I'm misremembering this but IIRC the news at the time the pressure against the door from the inside made it too hard to pull open at get out.
Do you not have access to AT&T and Verizon?
It is achievable, but we've yet to see it come in at its promised cost. It didn't help that the industry made some easily avoidable mistakes.

I think the key problems are the size (big projects always exceed budgets and timelines), as well as the bespoke nature of each power plant. That's why SMRs are attractive -- they address both of those issues.
Yes, thanks: the history is fun and instructive.

My questions were rhetorical, BTW: emphasizing that progress happens when what exists now doesn't stop someone from making something different and maybe better.

We're probably not disagreeing. To summarize:

- practically, given real-world constraints and risk tolerances, yes, very few people should write databases for production. (Except villains. They should expend tremendous energy and effort writing bespoke artisanal databases, resulting in less time to be evil.)

- educationally, there is a lot to be gained by writing your own, even if only a small part [1], such as something around indexing, a write-ahead-log, a query planner, or even a query parser [2]

- if everyone thought e.g. 'writing a new database isn't worth it', collectively we'd be in a worse place

FWIW, I have a soft place in my heart for all the great projects that come out of Berkeley.

Note 1: Let me propose a game for a group of people. One person names some narrow aspect of a database, perhaps in the hopes that it is boring, trivial, or "solved". (Perhaps "autoincrementing indexes" for example.) Then the other people to talk about all the ways that the thing is actually quite hard, interesting, non-obvious, and maybe (?) even a good research area.

Note 2: It is nice that SQL is declarative. AND there is room for improvement, starting with composability. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24730713
Dutchman finds 18th century fortress wall in his backyard
Lame excuses, Google could do the same as Microsoft with PC standards and OEM legal obligations.

They have chosen not to.
Until they show us something more than a boxy little calculator with clever product placement and an Aliexpress-sourced laser beamer, I claim vaporware.
No one said to LIE.

It's the opposite.

You quote high to inform them honestly what it would take, rather than deciding for yourself what is really their choice not yours. Your choice is to not take a job if you just don't want to or can't of course, but is not to tell anyone else what they want or what it's worth to them to get it.

So as long as you don't mind doing the job fundamentally, but it's just a matter of resources or time or efficiency etc, (you're not being asked to do something you morally object to, or totally unrelated to the kind of work you want to do, or requires something like living on an oil rig for a year etc...) then you have no excuse to do anything but make your best guess at the honest estimate whatever that is however outlandish you think it is, including whatever no-promises cya terms you think should apply, and just tell them that. "It will be $200k, 4 months minimum, and you might get nothing in the end."

And part of that is also giving your best honest advice about what they should actually do, and your reasoning. Some other approach that you think is better, or recommendation how to find some other supplier who could do the approach they wanted "that will require rust and high availability, so you want to look for shops that specialize in rust and high availability...", whatever.

The end result is that they are the ones who decide not to do it rather than you. And if they go for it, well, considering you weren't bullshitting them but giving your honest best info, recommendation, and reasoning, you take it and do the job. If that means spending 2 months just learning a new system or language and throwing away a bunch of experiments just to get started, or hiring someone else to do some part you can't do, so be it. You put all that into the quote, and they said do it, so enjoy your big safe gig for the next while.
Like I said I'm not planning to go back and re-watch the entire video to make a list (I'd be writing an entire essay), but here's one illustrative example I noted the first time I watched it:

"[Proof of Stake] suffers from delays when elected validators are offline and the system needs to draw again."

It's easy to look at a poorly designed Proof Of Stake protocol and point out flaws. But since his beef is with PoS itself, I think it's fair to measure his claim up against Ethereum's beacon chain which is considered to be one of the better PoS designs:

* Ethereum's validators are self-chosen, not elected.

* There is a ~99.5% participation rate, meaning that 1 in 200 slots are missed. Offline validators are very, very rare.

* When this 1 in 200 chance occurs and a slot is missed, Ethereum's elastic block size mechanism (EIP-1559) ensures that the chain catches up by effectively adding additional capacity to the subsequent blocks.

* Whereas this slight unpredictability happens very rarely in Proof Of Stake, it happens constantly under Proof Of Work. This is because PoW is an inherently unpredictable poisson process. Thus, PoS is a substantial improvement over PoW in this way.

* The result of this 1 in 200 fluke is that your transaction takes 18 seconds instead of 6 seconds to reach preliminary finality. And that's only for Layer 1 transactions which are by their nature high-value; Layer 2 transactions enjoy quicker and more predictable soft finality.

I also remember there being issues in his economic analysis of PoS, an unwillingness to engage with scaling technologies (hand-waving it away as based on nothing), no mention of for example Secret Shared Validators or Rocket Pool as solutions to the solo staking minimum, no mention of the history or state expiry roadmaps when discussing the growing size of the chain. Those are just some more examples, reconstructed from some old notes of mine I found, without me spending too much more time on this.
I'm not talking about vaslui and it's not the early 2000s anymore.

My reference point is growing up in western europe, and then spending a decade moving around various western european countries, coming to eastern europe and the balkans some years ago. To be quite frank, I found the balkans a massive upgrade in every way possible including the aspects you mentioned - except local wages.

Western europe used to be better, but the past 5 years or so it's nosedived while the balkans has seen improvements.
Consider the multiple S3 leaks that caused AWS to change their defaults to block public access and disable ACLs. You could say that since buckets were always default private, any misconfiguration was simply user error and users complaining were doing so in bad faith. Or you could understand the implications and help your customers protect their data.
> My understanding is that sound with a frequency greater than about 150Khz dissipates after passing through 5cms of air; it must dissipate faster in flesh.

Flesh is basically water. Water transmits sound extremely well.

Ultrasonic imaging typically uses frequencies in the low MHz. Like 1-10 MHz.
Nice thinking but extremely bad for the spinal cord. Repeated usage of this will definitely cause a herniated disc or other orthopedic problems.
That’s fine, it just has nothing to do with DevOps then. The whole point is that these are not separate teams.
Did you check if sources exist? Because my ChatGPT gives me links and citations, but they are almost always 404s or hallucinated.
Fight climate change.
Grothendieck's non mathematical work has always fascinated me, he really has a great style of writing (judging by “recoltes et semailles”).

The great thing about reading the works of people that are as close to mental illness as he was is that they seem to be unable to establish any emotional distance to their works.
When someone like him writes about evil, you know that he was looking directly into the devil's eyes when he wrote about it. He didn’t leave his desk that they to watch Breaking Bad, he couldn’t have. His gift of extreme perception haunted him. Awake and asleep.

Grothendieck’s mind became used to the kind of thinking that made him such an outstanding mathematician. He was all about finding the essence of everything. Distill every idea and every concept to find its underlying core. He was always obsessed, always all-in.

Most of us perceive the world around us in two different dimensions. One abstract and rational, and one subconscious and shaped by culture.
What made Grothendieck so special is that his conscious thinking almost immediately reshaped his subconscious concept of our world.

I felt similar about Ted Kaczynski when reading the Unabomber’s manifest. Kaczynski could not walk away from thoughts that most of us would contain in the "intellectual theories” corner of our mind. But just as with Grothendieck, he had just such a loud inner voice that he couldn’t help but to always listen to it. This voice controlled his feelings, this voice controlled his world.

It must be hard to life like that, but it also creates extremely potent literature.

Every sentence born in pain.
Sorry for being negative, but Humane as-is is going nowhere. It can’t do video calls, it sucks. You’d have to have an iPhone and one of these. AirPods Pro 5 will do 99% of what this can do through voice.

Sorry for saying something irrelevant, but I wish Apple would put e-ink (or equivalent) displays on the back of iPhones and iPads.
What do you think the first iPhone prototypes looked like?
One of the video's conclusion from 2:14:27[1] - 2:18:03 is chilling, "the illusion must be defended at all costs, because the illusion is all that is.". He does call it outward-facing performance, but I'm not so sure if it's not also inward-facing, I think there are many "unhinged" out there who'd rather live in (and defend) the fantasy world rather than accept reality. Accepting reality would mean admitting they've been conned (or even, fooled themselves), that they're not as smart as they thought they were (because in their view: what smart people get conned?), and many of them have too fragile of egos to admit that, and would rather emotionally lash out rather than go down that "shameful" path of self-evalution when challenged.

Throughout the whole video I'm reminded of the Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon[2], where people are thrilled about connecting dots and finding hints where there are none intended.

To delve into politics, there are also many unhinged who put their hope of a better life, some of them probably did so first into Obama (Obama himself has said in his post-presidency book, he found it worrying when running in 2008 that people were putting their dreams and hopes into him), and some of them, when they found their lives hadn't gotten better in 2016, probably thought "Well, Hillary will be more of the similar, and Trump promises greatness (again), what the hell do I have to gain for voting 'similar', and what the hell do I have to lose for voting 'greatness (again)'?". In some sense Bernie also offered that radical change, but if you want to blame brown, gays, etc, people for your suffering, Trump was the easier choice. And rather than admit that they've been conned, they'd rather invent a million scenarios why Trump was (and is) the correct choice, there's just some deep state conspiracy ensuring the continued enslavement of the poor (Note: I don't share this viewpoint, just summarizing it!).

[1] https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8067
[2] https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...
They didn’t talk about them on any stage at that stage
And is wildly misused. (edit: I meant "extra business logic" above, nothing to do with businesses). You commented above with the same thing I said - turns out multiuser DBs are not good for running expensive code beyond the data access stuff, because it interferes with their main job, in ways that are hard to diagnose or mitigate. Aggregation for business computations is fine, cleaning up text with regular expressions is borderline, and procedural code is a disaster waiting to happen. Putting a bunch of functions to hide the SQL in the DB itself to me seems to go against basic norms of how code is developed and deployed as application logic evolves, and not good architecture from risk standpoint either.
I switched from iOS to Android so I could use Firefox, but looked for alternatives when their extension support got so bad. Kiwi Browser has been a huge improvement over Firefox for me: supports extensions, fast, frequent updates. I wouldn't recommend Firefox to anyone, but I would recommend Kiwi Browser to everyone. I really wish I could find another open source Chromium-based Android browser that supported extensions though.
The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either.
As an alternative, I'll ask it to "reckon". For images, simply directing it to "create" an image suffices.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/reckon