skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I’m not usually on board with gatekeeping, this field already struggles with a huge amount of very non-technical folks and their respective managers, producing overall mediocre results and giving the profession a bad rep, to the point where I now avoid the Data Engineer title and just call it “SWE specialized in large data processing” or something equally as fluffy.

For me it’s more accurate, too. At $work, there’s no difference to how an SWE vs a “DE” works. Same interview process too, DSA, distributed systems etc.

However, having done this for more than a decade, that is relatively rare. It’s usually a mix of GUI tools with zero reproducibility / infra-as-code, untyped python, copy pasted shell scripts, zero tests, zero ci/cd, no lifting/static analysis/code reviews etc., paired with generally zero understanding of the underlying tech. It’s all very formulaic with little to no actual understanding.

I will spare you my usual rant on why a language without a solid type system like python is a horrible idea for this field, too.

Which is why I much appreciate dbt. While some people scoff at the idea of “SQL with jinja templating”, their approach has certainly helped to move DE closer to SWE work, purely by virtue of their value prop mostly being exactly that. And it works out great.
WARNING - title is misleading. this theory has been validated repeatedly, even inadvertently by its skeptics. it is the subject of a nobel prize:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka#Yamanaka's_Nob...
In modern Capitalism, we only nationalize companies that are mostly broken, and then sell it back to the private when it starts to turn profit. /s
Airbus are doing quite well, with the European governments being majority shareholders.
Farm doesn’t always mean hundreds of acres and millions in loans. My neighbors across the street are farmers and live in a residential neighborhood. They have a quarter acre in the front yard for growing veggies and own a 1 acre plot just outside of town.

At some point sitting at a computer becomes unfulfilling and some point some people can’t take it anymore.
The first time I really felt I understood math in depth was my uni linear algebra course. Distance and orthogonality were replaced with a more abstract but better inner product. It behaved like an IT interface: As long as some basic properties were fulfilled, aal of linear algebra came along. Half o the examples were the usual numeric vectors and matrices, the others were integrals, etc...
Not cynical enough in my books.

As the saying goes: trust is good, control/verification is better
that might be gone but in my experience - and I live on a farm in the developed world - while some tasks are handled by professionals on serious operations, its pretty common for farmers to do a bit of their own welding, a bit of their own plumbing, treat their own animals, etc, and only bring in professionals for big jobs. Its still very much a family affair even if a farm is only focused on one crop.
The parent poster said:

> Nationalize Boeing, split it up, turn the pieces into work-owned and controlled co-ops.

Bell didn't turn into co-ops, but otherwise that's the same play. A forcible breakup by the government is fundamentally a nationalization, even if it's just for an instant.
They should, it's basic insurance. You don't have to be a speculator, just understand that you're long the thing you're producing in the future so it makes sense to be short some future contracts to lock in your price in that future.

(Just make sure your futures broker accepts delivery, otherwise there's funny stuff happening)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka#Yamanaka's_Nob...
You’ve just blown my mind.
"The West" usually includes Europe. Since you're in Austria I'm guessing you're using it solely to mean "the US", but that is not the usual usage.
Funny how nobody ever says the same about software, which underpins the entire modern economy and has the power to irreversibly change the lives of billions.
One interesting factor is learning the skill and acquiring the love.

I know a smart guy who went to a Python bootcamp.

He had coded in his spare time and built a simple chess program.
So he was already familiar (if not proficient) in Python.
Autodidacts miss so many things, but he knew that.
He also had nascent perfectionism, a taste for quality and a curiosity about how it could be achieved.

He aced the course, but also displayed social intelligence.

After the course, they offered him a job as course manager:
some admin duties, presenting occasionally, wrangling the experts, timetable for lectures/workshops, handling issues
and also mentoring students who got stuck.

He aced the manager role too and continued to code,
but did not pick up hacker love.

He tumbled around looking for jobs
and ended-up in a different non-coding role
in the tech industry - customer support and scaling various teams.
> You dont see politicians "Under my administration we painted XX buildings...

That's just bad politicking then.

"Under my administration we hired hundreds of workers in Anytown who can proudly say they worked to maintain this city's infrastructure and provide a future for not only their kids but all of our kids. Their paychecks put food on the table and money into the local economy."
Farming Simulator, whilst good for listening to podcasts, seems about as accurate a simulator of farming as Goat Simulator is for being a goat.
We had a Instagram influencer build a huge house across from us at the beach. It has been interesting watching how they present their life online vs what their life is really like. Definitely not my cup of tea. They don't seem to be hurting for money as I looked up what they paid for the two lots they built on. I also know a ballpark what they paid to build the house given its size/finishes/etc. It seems to be a very shallow lifestyle.
- "(Note that a single goat can go for about €1000)"

What a capricious market!
The color printing industry has Snap, Gracol and Swop. Yes, the Gracol logo is a blackbird perched on CMYK dots.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=snap+gracol+swop
Two days off sounds bad but when you’re working for yourself and don’t have to answer some prick manager, suffer on a commute, sit hunched unnaturally at a desk, it could be much better.
Under full load, roughly 100W for the 4790, and 350W for the 14700. Note that both links are for the K variant, and also, both were achieved running Prime95. More normal workloads are probably around 2/3 those peak values.

For a desktop, yeah, you’re generally better off buying newer from a performance/$ standpoint. For servers, the calculus can shift a bit depending on your company’s size and workloads. Most smaller companies (small is relative, but let’s go with “monthly cloud bill is < $1MM”) could run on surprisingly old hardware and not care.

I have three Dell R620s, which are over a decade old. They have distributed storage via Ceph on NVMe over Mellanox ConnectX3-PRO. I’ve run DB benchmarks (with realistic schema and queries, not synthetic), and they nearly always outclass similarly-sized RDS and Aurora instances, despite the latter having multiple generations of hardware advancements. Local NVMe over Infiniband means near-zero latency.

Similarly, between the three of them, I have 384 GiB of RAM, and 36C/72T. Both of those could go significantly higher.

Those three, plus various networking gear, plus two Supermicro servers stuffed with spinning disks pulls down around 700W on average under mild load. Even if I loaded the compute up, I sincerely doubt I’d hit 1 kW. Even then, it doesn’t really matter for a business, because you’re going to colo them, and you’re generally granted a flat power budget per U.

The downside of course is that you need someone[s] on staff that knows how to provision and maintain servers, but it’s honestly not that hard to learn.

[0]: https://www.guru3d.com/review/core-i7-4790k-processor-review...

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i9-14900k-cpu-r...
In railroad design it is important for the track to not be a curved segment of a circle (starting from a straight line), as the acceleration forces start suddenly (aka a high jerk). So this concept exists and is well known in some circles (heh).
It is an active research topic in train engineering.
> We're already forgetting the more important lessons of not designating internal citizen groups as the out-group (if we ever learned it) and not building up those registers labelling for one bad government to use.

I don't think that's even the lesson. That's too detailed. That's not what happened in Cambodia or China. It's not what happened in Indonesia. It's not what happened in the Ottoman Empire.

The problem is the same everyhere: how_wrong_you_are_about_facts * power * conviction, these are the three variables that multiply together to produce mass killings. Mao didn't have an out group (well.. that wasn't the big death toll at least). Mao didn't have registers. He just made people destroy the farming and millions starved.

We have to care about truth. Then we have to limit power. Then we have to be doubtful about what we know so we make small changes and slowly.
"But farming... Really? Man of your talents?"
There’s a lot of inertia in commercial aviation. Airframes last for decades. At some point though, the current path will lead to ruin.
Not everyone is taking on farming as an alternative line of work.

I know a dev who's stopped working in his 40s (made huge money by being in the right startup at the right moment) and took up on farming, but not as a mean to survive rather than "fun".

He even ended up having quite some profit after few years by focusing on exotic edibles for gourmet restaurants, but obviously he doesn't make anywhere near the money he did as a developer, but he does love his life.

I can't lie, I aspire to do kinda the same and pick up on farming, but just for myself and family. The food industry is beyond disgusting and you just can't trust what you're eating, no matter how deep your wallet it.
You really have to be made of the right stuff to go to space in something built by Boeing.
Performance art maybe?
The same thinking everyone claims is happening subconsciously when they're showering or riding their bicycle or whatever that doesn't focus on their code also happens to me when I'm not focused on that code.

Recently I had to decide how to rebuild a fairly large component of our compiler (several passes, artifact emission, etc). It took me about a week for the idea (for how to best do it) to occur to me. I spent that time working on our runtime instead. Then once I had the design/architecture, I worked for 2 weeks straight to implement. And during that 2 weeks I figured out a path forward on something I was blocked on in the runtime.
Isn’t pandas centric ETL much more memory intensive and less compute efficient than using SQL?
research is comprised of peer-reviewed observations. we attempt to triangulate truths
Yes, if you want to subscribe to the stereotypical unsustainable practice of running a mega farm. There is plenty of opportunities for farming on a small scale and selling your products locally or online.
The resources pouring in still pale in comparison to capital expenditures in the semi conductor industry.
The problem is that a JIT implies that you can load arbitrary binary code into memory and execute it.

This means that your app can load arbitrary updates from the server and execute them, for example based on some purchase not made in the AppStore.

This is all about keeping the 30% tax and only tangentially about security.
Photoshop has been around for 34 years, even if they jacked the price up to $500/month nobody would be able to show up with feature parity to compete for 100% of their customers right away. It's a heck of a moat.
Concur. I cannot believe we've gotten to the point where the tech elite poopoo one of the last remaining jobs that actually keeps people alive because it doesn't make the stock price go brrrrr.

Maybe... maybe some things are worth doing not simply because there's a dollar sign in the result. Let's ponder that this Juneteenth.
Yes, I get them to use it, but I help them setting up a suitable client. I deleted all the walled garden apps like WhatsApp.
This is from the actual Slack blog post:

> We examined the conversion rates of approximately 2,300 individual test cases spread out within 338 files. Among these, approximately 500 test cases were successfully converted, executed, and passed. This highlights how effective AI can be, leading to a significant saving of 22% of developer time. It’s important to note that this 22% time saving represents only the documented cases where the test case passed.

So the blog post says they converted 22% of tests, which they claim as saving 22% of developer time, which InfoQ interpreted as converting 80% of tests automatically?

Am I missing something? Or is this InfoQ article just completely misinterpreting the blog post it’s supposed to be reporting on?

The topic itself is interesting, but between all of the statistics games and editorializing of the already editorialized blog post, it feels like I’m doing heavy work just to figure out what’s going on.
Probably easier to use shell history, but I like a loop.

while () ; do sleep 20m; mpv bing.mp3; read; done
In the next version, the screen will feel a lot more integrated. There is a bit of a challenge with larger screens as they tend to have more pixels and the MCU is pretty limited in how much it can push out at a good frame rate.
Hey guys, posted this a few weeks ago and made it to the front page. Made a bunch of updates people requested, would love to get more feedback. Thanks!
Many, and most of them are easy enough that anyone seriously concerned with privacy or secrecy will use them. They do take effort though, which means that while journalists, lawyers, corporations, governments, privacy nerds, and criminals will use them, the average person will not.

What we would lose is that secure communication is actually mainstream now. Billions of people, many of whom don't even know what "end to end encrypted" means use messaging services with strong encryption including WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, even Facebook chat in some cases. These services make mass surveillance difficult or impossible, and targeted surveillance of their users requires significant effort, such as installing malware on a target's device.
If the cops come to your house, divide up your possessions, and give them to a bunch of neighbors, you'd certainly feel briefly nationalized.
Why do I need to sign up?
Jail time is the answer (instead of fines only).
Reversely it's gonna get dark at 4pm in winter.

It's the same in Poland, in this period of the year the sunset is at 10 pm and dusk at 11.
Calling is great. You can also send an email. If they get a barrage of emails, it might help wake them up.

I sent something I composed myself, but this template looks good if you need inspiration.

https://nextcloud.pp-eu.eu/index.php/s/cwyRic7cC5zcfHk?dir=u...
The governments of France, Germany and Spain are the largest shareholders in Airbus but they aren't majority shareholders as together they total only about 26% of shares?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus#Largest_shareholders
Something that I've been wondering about is whether the original development of quantum mechanics involved a simple "mixup" due to the duality of the mathematics involved in wave mechanics.

Imagine implementing a QED simulator: some EM source emitting billions of photons, each with a vector clock rotating to indicate the wavelength. You could code this up as an array tracking each photon.

Alternatively, at very large numbers of photons, you'd notice that each pixel on your screen would have so many (maybe millions!) that you could just simulate the aggregate behaviour of each little square patch of space instead of individual particles.

Ta-da... it's a continuum. No particles.

You can simulate waves in space either using a Monte Carlo particle simulation or by subdividing the space into finite elements and tracking exchanges over their boundaries.

Superficially the maths looks different, but the result is the same, and the finite element method has locality and makes the speed of light limit manifest.

Why do we keep insisting on covering only the particle model in text books?
The kind of follows the standard midwit meme progression one sees in programming as well

1. Making stuff is fun and goofy and hacky
2. Coding is formal and IMPORTANT and SERIOUS
3. What cool products and tools can I make?

I feel like this pattern probably happens in many fields? Would be fun to kind of do a survey/outline of how this works across disciplines
Somewhere that isn't the person updating the article, that is. The trick is to make a random website that does the same, and then it's totally fine!
You are conflating reference frames - it determines causality in your local reference frame but not in any other reference frame. The concept of "real time" - like all time - is entirely relative to the reference frame you are using.
Yes, but as illustrated by the original article/video, bridges are designed as a total system. One of the major causes of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse was certainly the deficient drainage caused by blocked drains.

Bridges (and buildings) are designed as systems. Water management is one of the biggest headaches in civil engineering - poor performance of any subsystem with a water management role is a legitimate cause for concern.
Spark-via-Airflow is also the context we use this, glad of see the pattern also works for you.
It’s a type of understanding, but one we are not really familiar with, because it seems to understand tasks that it was trained on, but fails and other very basic ways on simple but different tasks.
Is it not life that kills?
I always go into the cookie preferences and turn off unnecessary ones. But for the-decoder.com, either it’s a dark pattern or bad UX or I am silly af…

Does clicking the slider turn them off or enable them? Is the ‘off’ what it’s currently set at or is it to turn it off?
I guess we'll all have to go back to using "linux_logo" for our sysinfo ansi-art needs, though that author seems to spend most of their time on the demoscene/video-game demakes these days.
It’s not exactly “average person” usage but Corridor Digital used in one of their video productions to create a looping, infinite corridor with proper reflections and lighting etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaGcLhhhbDs
> For the first time ever, I wasnt counting the days until retirement or a long 7+ day vacation.

That sounds rather positive. Still 'it was not the dream'?
I have done the farm thing for a while (gf to that time had a family farm). While manual labor can be rewarding, I have to say I was often bored out of my mind. And I usually never get bored.
> When does privatization not lead to this?

In a British context - BP, BT, and BA have all performed reasonably well. Financially self sufficient with industry average customer satisfaction.

British Steel is an odd one, in that its financial difficulties were more caused by global market conditions rather as much as any management issues. Not aware of how its customers feel.

Rolls Royce has excelled on all measures.
Do you want to learn how to create a Python client to interact with the Instagram API? Here's a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through the process! Grab the best practices for using the Instagram API to efficiently fetch posts, likes, and follower data
This is breaking my brain a little, any eli5?
> In the first six months of 2023 — the first full year in which Musk controlled the company — X's revenue fell by nearly 40 percent from the same period the prior year. The company brought in $1.48 billion during that time period. Furthermore, X lost $456 million in the first quarter of 2023.

Pretty sure that last clause says otherwise. “Loss” is usually a negative profit, not just your gross outflows. I would tend to trust regulatory filings over the fanciful claims of a well known liar made in a context where he holds zero legal liability for completely making shit up.
Is this a case of titles changing?

Is there just as many people coding, but less people with title 'software developer'?

Or, are companies full of people doing small python 'things'. They don't need a developer, but on other hand all these little python 'things' aren't tested, supportable, sustainable, using any version control. I hesitate to call them programs, projects, etc... It's just a lot of hacking by someone a step up from using excel formulas.

Or, more charitably, is this all that is needed now? There are so many tools now, that joe-blow can just use some python to link some things together, and that is good enough, so they don't need a developer.

Note, this article was just looking at results, not possible causations, that is why i'm asking/speculating here.
> One can roughly divide mathematical education into three stages:

Similarly with programming.

1. Write programs that you think are cool

2. Learn about data structures and algorithms and complexity and software organization.

3. Write programs that you think are cool. But since you know more, you can write more cool programs.

If things are working as they should, the end stage of mathematics and programming should be fun, not tedious. The tedious stuff is just a step along the way for you to be able to do more fun stuff.
KDE Neon is by the KDE team, so it should be updated pretty soon, if you want an Ubuntu-based distro.
> Now imagine how much better it would have been if at those points you were refreshed.

There's no need to imagine it - I'm not inhuman, I get tired just like everyone else and I've been well-rested for most of my life.

> Have to say The worst impacted is memory.

Not everyone is the same. My memory doesn't suffer when I'm tired. My fine motor skills do - I've noticed I have a hard time controlling my ring fingers (during typing) after about 10 hours of work.
Well, it's about bypassing App Review and other static security analysis, undocumented apis, etc. I think there's a fairly strong case here that it's about more than just protecting revenue (which it is also!)
If you want to make a solid living farming, then sure. However, hobby farms that break even or even lose money also exist and are probably the majority by sheer number. "Farming" can be as big or as small as you want it to be.

Distant family member of mine started a hobby farm in retirement and lived on it for probably 30 years until his death. He lived off his pension and savings, not his crops.
>commercial aviation, which has been the bulk of discourse about the problems concerning Boeing.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Most of their problems have been in the military aviation sector, between problems and failures in the KC-46 Pegasus, V-2 Osprey, Air Force One version 2, F-15EX, and F/A-18 Super Hornet programmes among others.

Their failures in civilian aviation and space are all intrinsically linked with their military failures all likely having common causes, it's plaguing their entire company from top to bottom across all their markets.
That why I hate the word "farm" and derivatives like "farmer" and "farming".

On one side is see land cultivators and on the other hand i see animal exploiters. The first do -IHMO- a great job akin to school teacher, the latter do a horrible job akin to a concentration camp commander.

Having one word to describe both is beyond me.

That said, I do find it amazing how these two groups stick together and back each other up in politics!
Not to go down the rabbit hole of assigning blame, but the gains from a pure oxygen environment were of course substantially reduced vehicle pressure. Mercury and Gemini both had used pure oxygen environments with obviously no mishaps.
Call it a structural bailout
Thus the conclusion should be heavily scrutinize future infoq .com articles and perhaps future articles by the same author Eran Stiller.

We shouldn’t detach responsibility from the publisher and author.