skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know they have constant problems in places like NYC with just that, i.e. with underground stuff that no-one knows anything about anymore.

> Maybe the infrastructure in some places is better because those places were more concerned with the infrastructure in the first place

Probably, yes, but it is easier to make the infrastructure more user-friendly in order to be handled by not perfect administrations than to make those administrations as close to perfect as possible, because the latter case is only present/valid in only some select locations (for example see how NYC is not part of that club of select locations).
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More discussion on official post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997832

and this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997636
There is no reason that they can't all share some of the blame.
Your actively thinking of the brand you want to avoid; so at least the ads were successful in registering the brand. Even if your avoiding said brand it's probably counted as success in terms of brand awareness.
The problem is that these kinds of things become shackles for the mind, denying the agency and mental suppleness required to navigate a changing and chaotic world for which we can never achieve perfect knowledge (or even anything remotely close to it).

There is no such thing as a perfect set of rules or practices - only things that are useful in certain contexts. It is the practitioner's task to decide which principles apply, and to what degree.

Saying "You're not doing [brand new popular thing] unless you do it this exact way" is a trap laid for neophytes who lack the experience to discern that this is just arrogant bullshit, denying them the exercise of their own brain to judge what applies where (and learn from their mistakes).
"But sir, on what does the Windows operating system rest?"

"Why, on the back of an error, of course."

"Um... and on what, may I ask, does the error stand?"

"Ah, but you're clever, young man. Too clever by half. It's errors, all the way down."
> Project is a dud? just nuke the cloud project and no more charges for it.

How is that a negative? Not every project is going to be successful. That's just a basic fact of life. That you don't have to deal with the sunk cost fallacy and just pull the plug is a good thing.

> Project is poorly architected and running like a dog? throw more resources at it.

Another positive...?! You can continue to serve your clients and maintain a revenue stream while you work on a better architecture. Instead of failing completely. And once you need less ressources, you easily scale down.
Everything gets pushed to its breaking point in the cycle of improvement and then enshittification, and YouTube is the perfect example.

Loads of people were happy with the ads early on. One ad, immediately skippable but occasionally it would grab your attention and you'd stick through it, and then you got to the content.

Now it's multiple ads, many unskippable, and then randomly inserted ad breaks with zero respect for the content (you would think that Google would have the AI chops to find appropriate "intermission" points), all so you can watch the content where the creator is pushing snake-oil supplements, pillows and VPN products. It has reached the point of absurdity. For a content system where a tiny fraction of creators are yielding all of the rewards.

And while Premium seems like the solution, at least for the former problem, we all surely realize that once Google has captured enough of the market in Premium, "trials" of Premium, "curated" ads will begin. Something something support creators.

As a total aside about ads, I'm surprised the ad industry has made zero headway into ad customization or even variations. There's some gambling ad that plays over and over again during NFL games here in Canada (and probably all other sports) that has a guy talking about his "system" for gambling responsibly or some such whitewashing of a garbage industry. The other guy then reveals his system and it's a cat pawing at some balloons. I've seen this ad literally thousands of times. I don't even know what fungible, evil gambling company runs the ads because it's tuned out so much. But couldn't they have dozens of variations of the guy revealing his system? How is that not a thing? 100s of variations. Thousands. It would probably capture my attention instead of always the same cat balloons thing.
I did a grad scheme where a consultancy trained me for 3 months and then worked for them under contract for 2 years. I studied humanities at university and had never coded before.

The first 2 years were very hard and it felt like swimming upstream the entire time as I didn't have that basis. It was only at the end of the 2 year programme that I actually felt like I could provide value independently.

A lot of my knowledge is very applied and I've noticed that I lack the CS fundamentals which sometimes makes it a bit harder as I'm having to learn 'basics' as I go.

In fairness my role is a Data Engineer now so it's a lot lighter on the more traditional CS areas like Data Structure and Algorithms.
I wish your response was more generalized and people would punish brands for intrusive/abusive or advertising in bad taste. In Europe and perhaps other parts of the world advertising is a bit more bearable as compared to what’s the norm in the US.
The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007. As of November 2018 more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. The child suicide rate topped out when the cell phone market became saturated. Hardly proof but it would be interesting to see suicide statistics broken out by cell phone use.
I’m aware of both Modern Monetary Theory as well as behavioral economics. I’m aware of what bankers say “off tape” or “LDL”, (“let’s discuss live”). I’ve worked places where we said “he was with us at Goldman”, because I’ve worked at places and during times that were so elite that my last name, Reesman, which is Dutch, was overlooked for “sounding too Jewish”, which is an actual thing I’ve been tapped on the shoulder about but still to this day don’t understand. I’m not aware of what social dynamics are in play when sounding too Jewish is an issue. Bet your ass New York bankers say shit like that though.

You sir, like many, imply an academic knowledge of markets that would be tradable. If you know what’s wrong with my comment there’s serious money in it, and no one can buy the education you’re implying because the price would be the arb value of all the misprinted securities, trillions easily.

I’m asserting that actual guys called names like Cavendish, who get the actual spread by virtue of being in jobs where you need a name like that laugh in their beer, I’ve been there and I’ve seen it.

“You’ve never dealt with Harkonnens, I have, they’re not human they’re BRUTAL”.

You’re free to disagree, and free to do so under a pseudonym. But if you know anything I don’t about markets generally and US sovereign debt markets in particular I don’t: fuck this HN shit and go trade it. You’ll own HN by the close of business tomorrow, and I will be the least of your worries.
Isn't that basically what Nebula is trying to do? It's a company not a project, but it pays creators and some of my favorite creators do publish their stuff there first. I've subscribed because I think it's important that they succeed.
If the service is a de facto monopoly, then what right do you have?
(UK CTO) I'd disagree with the "Personal intros are not important" bit, I use that a lot when filtering but the rest of this is good advice. It's also missing a list of skills you consider yourself to have, what you like doing with those skills, things you maybe do in your off-time - personality basically.

The other thing I'd suggest is tailoring your CV to the roles you're going for - the last time I had to write my own I had a two page appendix of the awards won by my projects as that's the sort of thing the hirers I was targeting would be looking for. And as someone hiring now I'm far more likely to interview someone who's CV shows some interest in the kind of work we do and who we do it for.
I went to college with a guy who said he was going to build a submarine. I thought it was a bit out there, but he was a driven guy.

40 years later I had a random call from his brother and asked about his sub dream. Turns out he not only built one, he built an entire company and his company has been building the SportSub for over 30 years now. Several hundred of them exist.

https://sportsub.com/

If I had 93000 USD laying around I might get one too.

Never stop dreaming.
gk: k interpreter
Maybe I'm risk averse, but if a volcano erupted where I live, not just once, but twice, I would leave.

Actually I wouldn't, because I would have left THE FIRST TIME THE VOLCANO SEEMED THREATENING!

History is ripe with government officials pretending "all is good" until the volcano kills everyone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... :

"The newspapers still claimed the city was safe. News of the Soufrière volcano erupting on the nearby island of Saint Vincent reassured the people, who believed it was a sign that Mount Pelée's internal pressure was being relieved. However, Captain Marina Leboffe, of the barque Orsolina, left the harbor with only half of his sugar cargo loaded, despite shippers' protests, clearance being refused by port authorities, and under threat of arrest. Many other civilians were refused permission to leave town.[6] Governor Louis Mouttet and his wife stayed in the city. By the evening, Mount Pelée's tremors seemed to calm down again."
That's quite strange. What distro? For a while I was managing several hundred Linux devices remotely, so I've done thousands of updates with no issues. Linux has been my daily driver for 15 years, and never had an update issue there (that I didn't create myself). Specifically the thing I've NEVER had an issue with was a standard system update. Apt upgrade, pacman or yay -SYU, things of that nature. Had plenty of problems when trying to do weird shit, but I've also learned how to solve those problems. I've never borked an important system so bad it became unrecoverable. Some distros are prone to update failure because they always give you bleeding edge releases. I'd suggest running Debian, a ridiculously stable "fire and forget" system. Many rolling distros, like Arch, I'd say to update every couple of days to avoid dependency chain problems. But again, none of this is difficult beyond having to read some documentation, and none of this should even be able to cause system loss. Did you do something else weird that you forgot to mention?
43% identified as independents in 2023.
Record-low 27% identify as Democrats, tying Republicans.
Democratic identification has now declined by one point in each of the past three years.
Last year, slightly more independents leaned Republican than leaned Democratic. As a result, a combined 45% of U.S. adults identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP, while 43% are Democrats or Democratic leaners. <
> The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again.

I think this is the really important part, you have to challenge yourself and go outside of your comfort zones to keep learning.
> If your on-prem team can't spin up a VM same day, then firing them is probably higher ROI than "going to cloud".

I haven’t seen this be due to one set of incompetents since the turn of the century. What I have seen is this caused by politics, change management politics, and shortsighted budgetary practices (better to spend thousands of dollars per day on developers going idle or building bizarre things than spend tens on infrastructure!).

In such cases, the only times where firing someone would help would be if they were the C-level people who created and sustained that inefficient system.
I used ganeti 10 years ago at a company I was at. It was really great then. Glad to see it's still worked on.
In middle school one of my science teachers was really great and thorough, the kind of teacher that you remember the things you learned years later because they made the classes memorable.

We would drop things off the roof of the building and record with slow-mo cameras to calculate the formula for gravity, he lit hydrogen balloons on fire and you could feel the heat. The coolest day of the year was when we got to play with his “hovercraft”. He had repurposed a Vacuum cleaner to create a baby hovercraft.

It was basically a small platform, with a plastic tarp on the bottom that had little holes and when you turned the vacuum on it would expel the air and the little platform would ever so slightly lift up and glide across the ground.

The reason I remember it so vividly was because each of us students got a chance to sit on the chair atop the hovercraft platform and the teacher would push us down the hall and we’d “hover” from one side of the building to the other.

I am forever grateful for the teachers who go above and beyond to make learning fun for students with no reward to themselves.
And Canada has infrastructure issues galore so they really needed that money. Short term gain, long term massive loss.
KVM works great. Do you think major cloud providers are building everything on VMware?
My assets have beaten inflation across the board.
People like that see other people as NPCs, not as people.
I'm not going to watch that and give Rossman any revenue. Care to summarize what his argument is?
I've been programming professionally for 8 years now and came out of a bootcamp. I had taken some programming courses in high school and college for fun but my knowledge was very limited.

The bootcamp stayed true to the name. Core hours were 9-5 but many of us would get in early (usually 7am) and leave late (sometimes 10pm). I would also go in on weekends, sometimes taking Sunday off. I intentionally went to one in a different city so I wouldn't by distracted by a social life.

The focus was in ruby, then javascript. I got a job as an intern in C#/.NET a few months after graduating. I took the intern position because it seemed a tough sell to get a junior dev position right away. I was promoted to junior dev after just 2 weeks.

The school is no longer around, bought by kaplan and dissolved.
That was damn cool. Reminds me of fluids in college. Difficult course.
I've seen my backyard spontaneously bust into flames from the extreme heat. Never had a power outage.
So long as we aren't using the AI to punish the posters. Vis-a-vis the google incident last year with the guy loosing his entire account because of telemedicine.
I'm okay with false positives. You took down my video of a sphinx cat because your AI fagged it as NSFW. fine. I can't think of a scenario where random people being able to post things getting blocked occasionally for things being incorrectly flagged is a risk. The risk comes when they then use that to ban and delete accounts. If they just lock the account in a non-destructive way, i.e. block new posting/shadow ban. and reverse it on appeal.
This is of course excluding the use of such tools in a non-good faith way.
There's still the 'offers over xxx,000' blind auction, but gazumping which is allowed in England (still I believe) is not in Scotland, and a good thing too.
> I mean, how often is quality software made?

I have no idea what you mean by quality software, so I can't answer that. Can you give an example? I also have no idea what your alternative framing is. It seems like fundamentally not how people think of software.

> The "primary goal" as you state is often characterized by others as "bias"

...yes, that's the point of I (and I believe the others) have been making. People are generally biased to focus on the happy path.

I'm honestly having trouble figuring out your line of argument from your various comments. Maybe I misunderstood what you said earlier about your experience contradicting mine. Were you actually saying that you really did believe everyone else was worse at programming?
>someone who will not treat their datacenter like a home lab

What does this mean? They steal company resources for themselves, or just configure things incompetently?
This has nothing to do with AI. AI can't replace a decent newgrad. It literally can't find a React import and cannot be relied on for anything without a human double checking it, which takes as long as writing it yourself, when it comes to line-of-business applications.

The only people espousing AI magic are those who used it for "lol generate me an HTML/JavaScript book about AI that has pagination" or "lol build me a linked list" or serious researchers in traditional AI areas.

This has everything to do with COVID over-hiring and a ton of people coasting because they are used to doing nothing from when everyone was desperate for devs.
Mozilla founder documents 20 years of nightclub ownership
You just literally described recruiting (for anything other than low/mid level employees).
As stated elsewhere [1], I do think that governments have a (large) role to play. But we also shouldn't be naive and look at current (EU/US) regulations and pray the fines will deter data brokering from continuing unheeded.

As with any 'tech genie', once out its bottle existing political instruments may need adjusting to this new reality. We have been living in the big data era for over 15 years now, and I have yet to reap any of the profits surely made by the many stakeholders benefitting from my online presence.

We have tax breaks and incentives; why no equivalent for our digital contributions, which governments and financial institutions equally make use of and benefit from?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38997955
Why use AdBlock with Brave? That functionality is built in.
Massgravel's MAS is an option. Not a license transfer but gets you an activated machine.

HN appearances: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=massgravel&type=comment
I think as someone else said - be authentic.

We can have a tendency to underplay what we have done. Often in tech we pull amazing rabbits out of hats - and then when people say how great it is, we'll respond with how it was nothing and anyone could have done it. It's nothing special...

Someone gave me some advice a few years back which was - if you don't feel mildly embarrassed when you read your CV you are probably underselling yourself.

On the reaching out to old employers - unless you left on really bad terms - drop them a line. You are a known quantity, it's a low effort hire that won't cost them anything (apart from your salary).
“As god is my witness … I really thought turkeys could fly.”

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2017/11/23/ci...
Thanks very much for putting the point I was trying to make so well and succinctly.

It's similar to how people are worried about AI killing all programming jobs. Yes, I've also been blown away by the ability of LLMs to write some code, but my value as a developer comes more from being detail oriented, understanding when requirements are underspecified, thinking through edge-cases, and then finally being able to turn this into something a machine can execute. Compilers didn't put earlier assembly language programmers out of business, it just required most programmers to program differently.

While I do worry about the sheer number of jobs (because I think more junior, entry-level jobs will get supplanted, which makes it harder to move up the career ladder in the first place), I think people will still want the expertise of good photographers.
Unfortunately, it appears the peninsula has entered a new eruptive era after eight hundred years of inactivity. The last episode lasted 30 years. That it is hard to predict is shown by the fact that they just opened the Blue Lagoon two days before this eruption, and the same thing happened in December. Both times they thought the danger had passed just before it actually erupted.
20-30 years of savings is a fortune already though, how do we make it so that all professions allow for such savings to be accumulated if we don't allow for interest rates or dividends?

And if the 20-30 years isn't enough, do we re-employ 80-year olds that have been retired for 20-30 years?

I'm nowhere near the mentioned 0.5% and still don't think this is a good idea.

In fact I think society should do the opposite, "escape velocity" should be made attainable by more people, not fewer.

If people can retire by 50 (instead of 70 or whatever it will be after another decade of this economy) more young people will get employed at better salaries, and 50 year olds can still come up with cool things do do with their lives.
The answer is an unqualified yes for at least one of my family members.

After seeing many doctors over many years and receiving many diagnoses that didn't add up and which did not result in any health benefits, we finally saw benefits from change in diet. The starting point was a healthy, balanced diet, with very little sugar/sweets, no alcohol. Starting BMI was in normal range.

Removing all grains from the diet helped out. Family member lost a size in clothes, but did not lose weight. This was reduction in inflammation throughout the body, and relieved some symptoms.

Trial and error led to eventually getting on the lion diet (only red meat. no veg, fruit, grain). This has led to correcting of many health issues. Family member is now off of blood pressure medicine, can think clearly, no longer has signs of rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc. If you're interested, look up 'mcas'.

Every person is different, but transformation to health after many years is marked.
We are still an early space civilization. We don't know if more advanced ones must have an energy trail as we don't have their science yet. We don't know even if they must expand neither, nor live in planetary surfaces or a lot of things that culture assumes from other civilizations.
As of now, our engineering interviews will encourage candidates to use an LLM
And the Apple IIGS where it was allegedly underclocked so as not to horn in on the Macintosh.
Perception and "promotion". We've fetishized and normalized excessive wealth.

Imagine you collected Fubar Widgets and the media promoted you as having a Fubar Widget collection with 50+ billion such Widgets...most would look upon you as being a weirdo, with some sort of personality disorder, etc.

Do that with money, and the concept of normal and decent goes out the window. Your obsession...your hoarding (if you will)... Perfectly normal. Perfectly acceptable. But ultimately, textbook bonkers.

Mind you, I don't have a philosophical issue with excessive wealth per se. To me, it's strange, but what do I know? However, in the context of poverty and a slew of countless other ills in the world, such hoarding feels disturbing and disconnected. I don't see such behavior as being enviable, let alone put on a pedestal as we do.