skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest issue with devops is that it originally meant "socialising" your sysadmins, by getting them to sit with your devs, so that shit didn't get lost because nobody thought to talk to the right team.

But then it morphed into "oh lets innovate with infrastructure" but the innovation turned into "lol lets just restart from scratch and ignore history" Anybody who used early k8s can attest to how un production ready it was for the longest time. It _felt_ like progress because it required a lot of (to dev eyes) hidden magic to make it work.

Now, we are back with sysadmins, but they are called SREs. They provide a platform, which devs talk to to deploy stuff.

Basically we're back where we were in 2015, just with more yaml.

The good things that have come out of devops has been the dashboarding and metrics tools. Its just a shame that everything else touched by it appears to be an infinite source of busy work (looking at you kubernetes)

(before anyone asks, I'm an SRE at a FAANG.)
Patterns for Consuming REST API's in TypeScript Vol.2 – AsyncResult
Semantic dilution.
https://archive.ph/53M22
I live in Switzerland since a few years back. I love Switzerland, it is the best country in the world I've ever been, by far. Unless you want to live in a mega city or on the coast. The only drawback is you must speak either French, Italian or learn Swiss-Deutch, a very difficult German dialect to learn.

I'd scratch France, Belgium, Sweden and the UK off that list. I've worked 6+ months in all those countries and well, they're not great. What's worse is they're going in the wrong direction.

I'm from Sweden and it is rapidly deteriorating. It saddens me greatly to say this, but I don't think my home country has a very bright future. When you hear the politicians talk it seems they finally realize that they have fucked up the country. But not to what extent, and their solutions are a joke.
It will only get worse, and it will never be the same.

Before you consider Belgium, I suggest you spend some time in Brussels. You will know what I mean.
Maybe Flanders... I really like Antwerp, actually it's one of my favorite cities. If you like beer, you will love Antwerp.
I was working in Antwerp for a long time. But why bother with Belgium when Netherlands is right there?

The UK is dirty and the cities are full of homeless and it has a byzantine bureaucracy on top of everything. I'm currently working in Liverpool(not by choice, posted by my company) but I have been pretty much all over the U.K. Some places are better than others, the country side is all right, but still.
Don't go there. The U.K. truly is a dying empire.
A $1 tax. I’m not sure who they think will be dissuaded by this fee.
I build it in about 2 days with ChatGPT, totally doable. tech stack Nextjs + Typescript + Google Map Api (I use react-google-maps/api package which is much more user friendly).
That two people are walking and living together is amazing to read honestly — there is hope for accepting Palestinians. Especially when you read about other areas of Palestine where settlers are harassing natives or areas of Israel where the government is trying to move nomads out.

At the same time I will say that your comment on the refugees being born in a foreign country shows that you have written them off. These are humans remember? Their parents were stripped of property and driven to neighboring countries condemned to live as foreigners only hundreds of kilometers away from home. Isn’t it a tragedy when second generation refugees live next door to where their parents lived? All so some European settlers move in and take their lands and homes? We can’t just write them off as “not even born in Palestine”.
Perhaps you'll categorize this in the first group, but I've found Robert Miles' arguments/videos to be convincing, and he was talking about it before it became particularly fashionable to do so:

https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI/videos
That's what the parent comment is talking about though: and I agree it's better, but it just pops as another global PR.

The UI doesn't know what to do with it, and most developers don't really understand it without spending a bunch of time explaining it.

When it works, it works great but the overhead is ridiculous since you get nothing inline on the UI: ideally something like the commits should pop up as comments, with accept/reject/discuss options.
MyMate: Digital virtual co-op player for every game
Just saw this, looks interesting. I wonder whether it will be fully local or you will need an internet connection for it. Also I am interested in how this might affect/deal with anti-cheat engines?
Many people do not have the disposable income to pay for email, news, or other services and even among those who do, aren't economically educated enough to think about the systemic downsides of taking the free option. Systemic problems are uniquely difficult to address at the individual level through individual action.
I believe this [0] is the article (with discussion at [1]). To cherry-pick two quotes to contextualize what I recalled:

> "Tires release 100 times the amount of volatile organic compounds as a modern tailpipe, says an analyst."

> "Moreover, tire emissions from electric vehicles are 20 percent higher than those from fossil-fuel vehicles. EVs weigh more and have greater torque, which wears out tires faster."

I'm not sure how all of this works out in the grand scheme of things, or how accurate those claims are, but I think those are issues that surely deserve more looking into.

[0] https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37569137
about how much lakewater are we talking
A tribute to Andrew: the love of my life [video]
> What about when the output of the lossy codec is passed through another lossy codec, e.g. MP3 through AAC over Bluetooth? I would expect better results (from the second codec) when starting from a pristine lossless source.

It's true that, technically, you'll get better results from the second codec when starting from the uncompressed source. Generally, it's always better to avoid unnecessary generation loss. That doesn't necessarily mean that you'll hear a difference since that depends on the cumulative output quality.
There absolutely was an enormous amount of misinformation around Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. And as far as it was picked up politically, that was almost exclusively by Republicans.

And Hydroxychloroquine was certainly dropped much later than it should have. It was added to studies in the control branch because people were expecting it to be the standard of care. There never was justification for that, but it was unreasonably hyped from the start.
Yes the specific object is dumb, both because it's design has holes, and because there are better ways to get it's ultimate function.

But the market for something like that is not limited to the exact specific population of homeless in London. A thing like that could be produced in the volume necessary to get economy of scale, simply by not being limited to one city and a single particular model of bike, or even limited to the homeless for that matter.

If you don't understand that, then you are in a poor position from which to call anyone else dumb.
Anyone know of any good books about or introductions to RDF triples that cover practical applications? I’ve been meaning to look into it for representing data about US laws and regulations but ChatGPT isn’t really helping.
Rejecting "technology" is, IMHO, a perfectly rational response to the typical layers of consultants, sales teams, and general lack of knowledge of the fundamentals of tech that result in the isses described above. You can't win.
It must be nice having such a great escape hatch you can use whenever your ideology is questioned ("government did it") and when confronted you can just use it again. Unfortunately the world isn't so simple. I am not sure how you reconcile reality with your dogma, as you can literally see monopolies forming in real time, but I guess throwing the government boogie man in works well enough for you that no attempt at reason will break through it.
Recommend pi [0] on iOS or iPad if you want to try really pretty convincing conversational voice AI.

[0] https://pi.ai/
If people are still finding bugs in Donald Knuth’s code, then surely any one of us will fare worse when under the microscope.
Sorry for the offtopicness (I'm a mod here) - I'm afraid I only just saw these posts of yours from a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37376466 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372118 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367785 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37357369 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37345115 (Aug 2023)

Those comments broke the site guidelines so badly that I need to let you know that we ban accounts that post like that, and ask you not to do it again—no matter how badly someone else's comments are or you feel they are. We're really trying to avoid having this site burn itself to a crisp, which is what unchecked flamewar leads to.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> > Hating on individuals solves nothing at all

It does. It's a huge problem with so many complexities and requires so many sacrifices by all inhabitants of the planet.

The celebrities are already calling dibs on the problem claiming that they are the ones who solved it. If sacrifices are needed then some climate change dividend is also required at the end of such effort. And if there is no dividend for us then there shouldn't be for the celebrities.

It's only positive that an out of scale public shame would fall on them for flying private as it counteracts their massive PR effort orchestrated to fool the world into thinking that they alone have solved climate change or that they are 'the person who is doing the most in the world to solve climate change'.
> However, Varoufakis has a point that a monopolist capitalism, enabled by technology, is not an attractive system.

Not only is it not a attractive state, in the sense of the capitalistic economic system being a dynamical system, it is a attractor state [1] of the system. That is what the core of the issue is. To fix things, you can't just stay within the capitalistic system. You have to change to a different dynamic system with a different attractor state.

[1] Tongue-in-cheek pun fully intended.
> Humane will reveal its first pass at its ambient computing idea in Spring 2023.

Okay, so an outdated article that already shows the company is failing to keep its promises. These are a dime a dozen, I'm afraid.
I appreciate your response, I will give that a try. It's important to acknowledge that while users should ideally report issues to benefit the community, there are situations where immediate problem-solving takes precedence. So, if finding an alternative solution works, that's often the practical choice, even if they plan to report the issue simultaneously.
How to raise a Series A in today’s market
This is so cool! I would love to see this for other protocols actually, maybe SSL or something!
Even if it's a monopoly (not strictly required), nationalisation means the nation becomes the only shareholder, and the profits are directed to the growth of the nation rather than the business.

Apps are probably not the right target for that, but Amazon might well be — it has expanded to the point it needs its own delivery network because government owned post isn't enough in certain countries.

It would be a massive pain to do this well, certainly more than would fit into a comment box like this. And not just because it's a multinational, and different governments will have different opinions about the process of nationalisation.
I guess no one who is paying attention to aliasing uses built-in speakers, how else this could have gone unnoticed
That is rough. Perhaps a very stupid question but did you have access to Vitamin D supplementation during that time?
It can be engineered. It has already begun. Whenever you experience some kind of synchronicity in an ad that looks as if it had read your mind, because you thought about the same thing a few hours before, the algorithm is optimizing what may be relevant to you – relevancy of which you know almost nothing in the bigger picture of the life process you're embedded in.

Give AI a few centuries of development and integration and we may live in a providential future.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-shows-that-expander...

> Six years ago, Afonso Bandeira and Shuyang Ling were attempting to come up with a better way to discern clusters in enormous data sets when they stumbled into a surreal world. Ling realized that the equations they’d come up with were, unexpectedly, a perfect match for a mathematical model of spontaneous synchronization. Spontaneous synchronization is a phenomenon in which oscillators, which might take the form of pendulums, springs, human heart cells or fireflies, end up moving in lockstep without any central coordination mechanism.
Most western diets gets more than enough d-vitamin through food additives. Just a couple of slices of cheese per day and some milk is all the d-vit you need here apparently.

The old folk saying is to take d-vitamin supplements in all months that has an R in them. Probably sound advice
Don't believe the official propaganda. The goal is just to increase local income as everything else is increasing.
FWIW, GPT4V (which is what I assume Bing uses behind the scenes) performs considerably worse on Recaptcha[1].

[1] https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision/
No thank you. There's no need for that.

Instead of this petty, divisive and hostile nonsense, how about we just acknowledge that our civilization is fundamentally based on energy use, and work towards making all our energy use carbon-neutral?

Our planet receives enough harnessable solar energy to allow every single human being an energy allocation far in excess of a typical American.

There's absolutely no need to be hostile towards other people's energy use. Advocate for fundamental change, not petty ineffectual bullshit.
Yuck, Portainer... when I read that I get nightmares.

The problem is: when you give developers access to Kubernetes, to ECS, to Portainer, to whatever they. will. not. care. about literally anything. You'll find a hotpot of cobbled together Dockerfiles with zero provenance, with base images pinned to stuff years old, and completely inefficient layer ordering. Pipelines won't use caching or parallelism (okay, sometimes because they use Maven which is a clusterfuck on its own).

Software developers are developers, 90%+ will never have heard of how Linux works below the hood, how Docker actually works, they'll just copy and paste together stuff from Stackoverflow without even attempting to understand how it works.

And I don't even blame them. I can't, I don't want and I won't.

Companies, it's time to stop loading stuff onto your developers that they don't have to (have) any clue. JFC.
What is the point of this? Why do people care? Do you expect these people to fly commercial like you and me? Hoping for that fateful day when you're sandwiched between Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos on a Ryanair flight, so you can give them your elevator speech with all three of your knees pressed up against your nostrils?

Taylor Swift would be mobbed everywhere in the airport.

Donald was a former president. The Secret Service doesn't let you drive a car after that, let alone fly commercial. Even if they wanted to; they can't. Many former presidents were car fanatics; Bush Jr. lamented to Jay Leno about not being able to drive his truck off private property anymore. 45 was known for sneaking past security detail in his pre-POTUS days to drive his Rolls around NYC. Not to mention Biden and his Corvettes, in his pre-dementia days anyway.

This article is implying wrongdoing for situations can logically cannot exist.
>in the hands of a kid, today's phone technology and it's inability to stop this crap it's the incarnation of evil.

Yet you continue to pay his phone bills.
It doesn't specify the model but I don't think its DALL-E 3. It doesn't specify exactly, but the classic "horse riding an astronaut" test fails and instead shows an astronaut riding a horse. And the DALL-E from openai with paid credits is DALL-E 2

I think it works really well with comics generation though, although imitating R. Crumb seems to have triggered its "unsafe" content. I wish we stopped using this term "unsafe" and just judge it by "is it what is being asked".
Nobody knows anything

The difficult paradoxes have not been resolved

No-one can say this loudly because there is no safe space
What do you think happens to solar energy which doesn't land on a solar panel currently? Say it lands on a dark coloured roof?
Any "vendor lock in" practices should be considered as monopoly practices. And anti-monopoly laws are already here in EU. Just a matter of interpretation of what falls to monopoly.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of “jailbreaking” LLMs really shows their limitations. If LLMs were actually intelligent, you would just tell them not to do X and that would be the end of it. Instead LLM companies need to engineer these “guardrails” and we have users working around them using context manipulation tricks.

Edit: I'm not knocking the failure of LLMs to obey orders. But I am pointing out that you have to get into its guts to engineer a restraint instead of just telling it not to do it - like you would a regular human being. Whether the LLM/human obey the order is irrelevant.
Some more discussion about this paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728571
They look like a massage table, without the rest of the table.
I understand why people don't want to stay there, but shelters could also provide "walk-in" services like swapping an empty power bank for a full one.
To me, log4j exemplifies why Java is not dead. Super complicated for what it does, with plenty of much better replacements for years, and yet still there because enterprise dev shops know it, and imagine that any other ecosystem will be just as hard so why bother changing or even trying something new.
No one said intentional. Nothing about the process requires anything like intention or purpose. The process is nothing more than "That which works, works." That's it. Even "works" isn't a value judged or decided by anyone, it's just what happens, or doesn't happen.
The article specifically mentions how nitric oxide is only released from UVA activation.
Just tax externalities and let people pay for the privilege. Banning things - literally using the force of the state to prevent traveling too often by plane or banning cars or making everyone ride bikes - is only a green fantasy, and a terrible authoritarian unworkable one.
> The fun part is Ops wants us engineers to help more, but they don't even trust (and some don't know how to run) my Terraform or CloudFormation scripts (I let them choose which), so they just read the tf/yaml and click AWS buttons manually. Often making lots of mistakes.

Yeahnah, you're part of the problem.

If you've not documented it properly, and more importantly, if the team are weary of prodfucking TF/CF scripts, there is a culture problem. You both need to understand how that works, if they don't have enough time, then you're understaffed, that needs to be fixed.

I worked at place that was going through a really painful ops->devops->dev oncall transition. Ops still had a shit ton of power, but nobody included them, and just shouted at them when stuff went red. It took a huge culture shift, and devs sitting in ops and doing a shift or two, to sort it out.
> I wish Varoufakis expanded on this more.

He has a book out by the name of Technofeudalism [1]. Haven't read it, but I am sure he discusses these ideas in more detail there.

One chapter's subsections are as follows.

> Chapter 7 – Escape from Technofeudalism

> The death of the liberal individual

> The impossibility of social democracy

> Crypto’s false promise

> Imagining Another Now

> Democratised companies

> Democratised money

> The cloud and the land as a commons

> A cloud-rebellion to overthrow technofeudalism

> Back to your question, one last time

"Democratised companies" probably means he stands for anarcho-syndicalism [2] - meaning workers of all companies should be the ones who own the company they work at. Or some similar prescription of giving workers more control over the economy.

[1] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/09/07/technofeudalism-ha...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism
> None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked.

In what sense? I'm in a deep red state, and I haven't noticed much "devastation" in my community due to COVID. Seems like you can work yourself up about anything. Doomscroll enough Type 2 diabetes articles and you'll convince yourself that COVID is the absolute least of USA's public health problems compared to the complications resulting from that.
Decomp me: Collaboratively decompile code in the browser
This is an important overlooked point. Several commenters are saying "social media just reflects human behavior." And we can get into lots of philosophical arguments about free speech, recommendations algorithms, UX patterns, etc. But a key piece here is that there was not a free market for social media or news apps; Facebook was subsidized by the major telecom company so it had a privileged position. A platform with privileged monopoly position should therefore be expected to bear greater responsibility. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
So you mean, DevOps has made Sysadmins more service oriented and now instead of having their pets and being in overprotective silos, they actually provide best practices and proper platforms for the poeple developing the software?
Yeah, just read that and I was going to edit my comment.
I totally agree with the fundamental changes. Rest is bullshit.

What would be your suggestion on Kardaishan's energy consumption levels? Having a crash course?
I really like this. Other than an upvote I would very much like to express my support for this idea and I hope someone with connections to the halls of power passes it on, there is a lot of merit to this. It would immediately result in hardware manufacturers having to document each and every input and output of their hardware if they expect any sales at all and it would also do an end run around various monopolies.

Check out the idiocy around Broadcomm's WiFi/Bluetooth drivers on the Mac, it's absolute insanity, there are so many of them that to install Linux on one of the machines with such a chipset you need to copy your drivers from the Mac operating system (if you still have it installed...) in order to give Linux the ability to load firmware onto the devices so that they can work. Three different files iirc.
As powerful as the Internet is, there has been fewer transformative technologies developed from 1950 to now than from the steam engine to 1950.

Just a few: radio, radar, penicillin, automobiles, telephone, refrigeration (huge), air flight, train transport, x-rays, and much much more.

Rewrite the headline to "make phone calls obsolete" and it'll give you 1) an idea of how transformative voice transmissions were (and still are for families) and 2) an idea of how people forget what phones are actually good for.

If I had to give up everything on my smart phone except one function I would keep the ability to speak to my mother, children, and grandchildren.

Yes, I could use VoIP on my desktop if I wanted, but I don't want and I can't take my desktop with me. I can buy a GPS, radio/mp3 player, camera,e-book reader and more to replace those functions. I would retain voice calls and give up only what? Social media? I don't use any. Email when not at home (yawn)? Surfing the Web?