skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can’t observe it at all there is no reason to believe that it exists.
> DevOps has never been about scaling.

How do you support tens of thousands of GPUs in a cluster?
Their history is very well documented. The Ashkenazi came from Italy into Germany, then moved into Poland (a bit different geographically from modern day Poland) after crusader pogroms in the 11th century.
Isn t that election intereference?
I expect that silicon valley developers will indeed pay for some AI products long term. Some other professionals will too.

But, people are spending shocking sums on these products. They need to make a vast sum to pay back what they've spent, and that sort of income can't cover it.
I agree with you.

These sports in general provide value in the sense that many people find them worth paying for. That's the definition of value.

Now, it's true that they're not generally excited to see the #503rd ranked player in the world play the #489th ranked player. But, the top 50 players in the world were once ranked at the bottom. They played their way up.

In other words, how would you know who are the best players in the world unless you have a large pool of professional players?

Like many, I have a lot of issues with the way tennis rankings are calculated and the way prize money is distributed. You need those lower ranked players and therefore they should be paid more.
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Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
> I suspect

Never do this. No one cares what you "suspect" but never bothered to investigate. And you're completely incorrect. People study these things. You could just read what they wrote.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/06/425646/california-statewid...
It wouldn't be naked, there would be an event horizon.

Even approaching the critical density, barely anything would be escaping.

But if it's really really big, there wouldn't need to be any notable spaghettification.
> Many vintage computers are defined by their fonts.

But the article doesn't mention my favorite ASCII table ever, known as the "running man character set":

http://www.lazilong.com/apple_ii/a2font/readme.html

It includes open and closed apples, sand clock, and elements to build GUI's: windows, tabs, scrollbars, and even a pointer!
gopher client ux was really nice, but building the "gopherapps" was not fun at all.
Most of those arguments are not about code quality though.
Yeah, the name was misleading. I thought it was going to be source to object translation maybe with techniques like how they translate foreign languages.
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> Would you feel appreciated by a coworker who does sloppy work that you have to pick up slack for, yet smiles at you every morning? Didn't think so. It would likely make it worse in some ways, wouldn't it? You might feel pity and guilt, not happiness.

>But I think most would still try to work with them to improve in good faith because that's work. The smile is irrelevant.

The OP mentioned walking past a hundred peoples' desks. Do you really need to feel appreciated by a hundred random coworkers to act like a decent human being?
FWIW Go doesn't have an implementation of XAES in the stdlib yet, there's only the reference implementation in C2SP.
Is it fair to say that you are in favor of Heroku, fly.io, ECS, etc?
I think his bitterness and open hostility are not well received on HN and simar places, but I find it absolutely refreshing. He's often right too.
Only the delivery team had to actually lift a 400 lb TV by 1/2" sloped handholds. I'm the warehouse, we had forklifts and pallet jacks to handle that.
> ASCII dates from the 70’s.

Yes, and ASCII did not have these characters.
Is it more or less energy dense than oil?

The consumption of oil has steadily increased over the last three decades, totaling 4.53 billion metric tons in 2023,

That's oil shipped and used, not methane drifting free from biowaste across the plant.

How much can we actually capture, how much energy is that, and how great is the conversion challenge to shift most cars to methane, etc?

It appears a little larger than a handwave problem IRL.
https://archive.is/FncrI
https://www.threads.net/@aiatmeta/post/C8ubaKupPwC
It's amazing how people who don't know homelessness talk about it. I never see my own experiences reflected in these hot takes. Something about the topic breaks people's brains. I suspect people are simply terrified of homelessness and will do anything to distance themselves from the reality that there but for the grace of God they go.
Isn’t that exactly what newspapers are supposed to do, as long as they don’t lie and tell readers what they think and why?
Dunno how it can be considered a "chronograph" when it has a lever escapement.
Youtube premium still shows ads, but because they’re not a specific kind of injected non-skippable ads that interrupts the content, it’s somehow not an “ad” because content creators can hide behind the term “sponsored content”. It’s an ad by another name.
Why do you need thousands of GPUs in a cluster?
Does the word "observe" have any constraints? For example: claimed observations, but that lack a way of measuring scientifically. Could science study this phenomenon?
The last thing I say as I am subsumed into the God AI complex will be

tuturuu~
> what matters at this point is Platform Engineering or Site Reliabiliy Engineering.

Show me the difference between these 3 pictures (the third being DevOps Engineering.) Go ahead, I'll wait.

They're all the same role, where people are all doing a mixed bag of things for companies that their developers decided they didn't want to do (or sometimes didn't have the experience to do.) I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer, and you could give me any one of the 3 titles, and they would all be correct characterizations of what I do.
> Your california bias is showing.

They weren't even right about California. Most people in CA are homeless near where they were last housed.
Not being observable directly or indirectly is the definition of non-existence.
> And we’re not even easy to make friends with on our own. ;)

I think that's generally true around the world. Is there actually a country where it's easy to make friends with people, especially when you're an expat ?
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And also get a hot spare for that big relational database. And take good snapshot backups and verify they work and verify you can access them when required. Maybe your internal IT /can/ do all of this, in production, without making you want to cry on a daily basis.

We didn't really need the scale. We just didn't want to deal with any of those problems. Often there's a little checkbox you can check that solves one or more of these problems, the cost of checking the box is dependent on the size of the data itself. This is convenient _and_ predictable. We like that.
Can I set-up a homeless shelter on a farm and unless you pick strawberries you aren't allow to stay?

Shelter with strings attached shouldn't count as a shelter.
I am likely to believe he is one of those. Guess which one.
It’s interesting, in a certain sense, to read what gets the green light and what doesn’t…
That's fair enough for sure.

Do you think I may have overreacted?
interesting death. walked into the ocean?
Not just vegans, lactose intolerant people too (of which there are many).
How is Texas a theocracy?
Aws compared to the unelected and unaccountable "expert" bureaucrats making arbitrary rules that do things like penalize you for collection rainwater on your own property?
I no longer have the book. Unfortunately, I can't find a corresponding quote online that I seem to remember.

I mostly remember the feeling there is something wrong with this guy.
Similar story with me. I started with Pomodoro and I can live with it but wanted something more flexible. I relied on the idea of timers, but without a hard break or a loud noise demanding me to break my flow.

In fact, a physical hourglass timer helped me build up a habit. Now, I don't even use it and have tuned to taking regular breaks without fixed 'Pomodoros'.

I wrote something in that line of thought at https://brajeshwar.com/2023/timer/
Even a desk-mounted arm dampens movement drastically compared to modern cheap stands which shake like crazy from every touch. Another upside is that you can push a keyboard right to or even beyond the point where the display “casts shadow” and there’s nothing for it to stumble upon. Useful when you switch to pen and paper mode.
Related ongoing thread:

A Eulogy for DevOps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826236 - June 2024 (94 comments)

Also discussed a bit at the time (of the OP):

DevOps: The Funeral - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36482646 - June 2023 (4 comments)
Try as we have, we just couldn't stop 'literally' from turning into a synonym for 'figuratively'.
I don't think the point was raised in bad faith nor do I find myself shocked by it's content. Flagging here seems extreme.
Ask HN: As of July 2024, which Debian stable laptop can rival an M1 air?
I am mostly concerned with battery life since I spend a significant amount of time at airports.
How do you handle tagging, the whole repo gets a new tag / version every time something change?
I've never heard of this method, sounds like a great way to stay in the flow state without burning out
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It's not unconstitutional for Congress to pass legislation delegating authority over certain areas to executive agencies.
I think there’s a good chance that we’ll see (yet again) that $6 billion in private investment distributed over 43 startups is a lot more than $22 billion in tax money sunk into some hole in France.
I mean now that you've got it open you could run a check against all the running services for known XSS and root exploits to see if any have open exploits that could be used to get in from the normal firmware, i mean.. you cheated but hey if they left the image decrypted ... is it really cheating
A few decades ago it didn't seem realistic that someone like Barack Obama could be elected President. And yet it happened twice. Our system has some flaws but a bit of idealism is still warranted.
Corollary: energy is going to much more expensive the further you get away from the equator (in the absence of very predictable winds/lots of hydro/cheap geothermal).
> Just like congress can legislate abortion laws rather than leaving it to judicial precedence.

Actually they can't. They can only pass legislation that involves interstate commerce or spending. See https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10787
marketplace seems horrible, I'm trying to find a number of used digital pianos and there's a ton of old listings (like 8+ week old listings)

meanwhile craigslist is just kinda ugly and any real spam is obvious and easy to ignore or filter out.
Wow, truly amazing all the people in here who are perfectly content to let unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats make one "rule" after another because it makes them feel like they're doing their jobs, only increasing the regulatory burden on everyday Americans. So sad how many people prefer an oppressive regulatory government over the freedoms and liberties America was founded on.
Congress could do that. But I don’t think democrats would like what the next Republican administration would do with that precedent.
They were absolutely torture palaces for society's undesirables, but that's not why Reagan got rid of them. He just didn't care. The psych ward is perhaps more oppressive than prison. At least in prison, you have an idea when you might get out, forced drugging is minimal, and no one pretends they're doing it for your own good. To hear today's tech workers talk, most would be happy to bring back the torture palaces if it made their commute more comfortable.
On the other hand, the gold standard of scientific verification is the prediction of something not yet observed, and in that light, it seems to me to be somewhat inconsistent to reject a prediction of your own theory on the basis of it being at odds with your a priori feelings about how things should be, while still maintaining that everything else about your theory is correct.

Update: It is one thing to suppose that the singularity is a mathematical artifact, and another to reject black hole formation entirely. In this regard, the article seems vague about exactly what Einstein and Rosen were saying in their 1939 paper. It seems to me to be saying that, having concluded that collapse would not stop at the Schwartzchild radius and that would lead to a singularity, we should conclude that collapse to the Schwartzchild radius itself is not possible.

The article linked to this point is (IMHO) well worth reading, and seems to support this view of Einstein’s position.
Ditto. Fantastic site.
Lol it’s going to take 30 years to take effect? Delusional take.
It got weird when “Devops” became a job role and the tools were CI/CD pipelines built on config automation and cluster orchestration. That becomes the baseline for everything. No matter how overkill it is.

The vast majority of web software is comically over-engineered. The deployment process has so many features and components that you need a full-time staff of specialists to configure and monitor the build system.

And it could be something as straightforward as a marketplace website or medium complex like some kinds of SaaS. The web application could probably be compiled into a single binary or container and it’s database could run in RAM. And yet to ship a single change doesn’t take one developer but a whole team, eye watering enterprise contracts with several vendors, and it’s still slow as molasses.

There’s a time and a place for config as code and container orchestration. The problem is that it’s used for every single project regardless of requirements.
thank you for listening!

im not used to conducting these kinds of interviews and felt out of my depth. please suggestions questions that you felt should have been asked but werent.
I don’t understand why these people are continuing
to try to play tennis professionally when the odds
of them making something resembling a living wage
seems so grim

This is a great question and I'll try to answer it.

Like, after a few years of trying it’s got to be obvious.

It took Roger Federer a few years on the pro tour to break into the top 100.

The difference between the top 100 players and the players ranked 400-500 is not that large and crucially, it's perhaps not the sort of difference you might think.

It's not like, say, power lifting where one guy can lift 500lbs every time and another guy can only lift 300lbs and if he's not able to get near 500lbs then yeah, he can probably see this isn't for him.

In tennis, the 100th ranked guy is doing the same stuff as the 1st ranked guy. Just not as consistently. Even a weekend player occasionally smokes an unreturnable winner right down the line.

A few more reasons.

1. As you climb the rankings and earn more, you can afford better coaching etc.

2. A lot of the low ranked guys have some skills equal to the top 10 guys. But one part of their game may be lacking. They think: if I can just improve that one thing I can go on a run. This isn't delusional, it happens a lot, and even the Federers and Nadals of the world improved their games over time. (Nadal had a subpar serve for years; for example)

3. These guys are young. Athletes peak around ~25 years. A 19 year old ranked #500 is still growing. It'd be different if he was 38 years old and still ranked #500.

4. These guys aren't dumb. They know the odds.
Hopefully we build a small transmitter and experiment with it, now that we have a receiver
I don't mean to generalize but every time I had to deal with a DevOps team shipping velocity was much slower compared to when I was able to handle infrastructure myself through a vendor like Heroku, Vercel or even plain AWS.

I find myself agreeing with the part about "scaling", meaning a (good) DevOps team makes it easier to integrate new projects into an existing infrastructure that's built in house. The point where relying on the vendors above becomes more expensive than having a full time DevOps team only happens once you react a certain scale.
There are definitely frameworks, languages features, and libraries that reduce the need for such tedious and redundant boilerplate code.
This is the problem with any profession where there is a pyramid structure people vie to be part of. It takes an immense of dedication to reach that spot and the competition is insane. You spend all waking hours working on that craft with no assurance that you can even make a living off it. This is why I never pushed my kids towards sports as much as I love it.
Haha no. I’m fine with the US being a Christian nation. I just think a lot of people make a big deal about church and state and the two things are the same thing.
It's a myth that homeless people move to better cities. If we could do that, we wouldn't be homeless. People tend to be homeless near the last place they were housed.
That’s a good example, but it goes even deeper than that. Chevron itself was a case that reversed a judgment in favor of an environmental organization written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg (when she was a D.C. Circuit judge), and siding with the Reagan EPA.
Might also be useful (one of the authors is the same). https://assets.cambridge.org/97810093/17863/frontmatter/9781...
> The black hole “photo” was constructed using machine learning. I don’t know how it can reasonably be called a “photo.” And although I’m sure their work was reviewed, knowing the nature of computers and data, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were all sorts of errors in the construction of the model that produced that output. What makes the output correct anyway, the fact that it looks like what we expected?

The images of the EHT data were made using several independent techniques performed by different sub-teams who largely worked independently (e.g., [0] for M87). Most of the imaging techniques used are not machine learning approaches, but are rather standard imaging approaches, some of which have have been used for decades in radio astronomy (e.g., CLEAN). The fact that the images made from these different techniques look similar is what lends support to the idea that the "photo" is a reasonable representation. Sure, some images have been created using machine learning approaches, but other images have been done using well vetted approaches that are not machine learning.

But if one doesn't want to trust the imaging techniques, the size of the black hole shadow can be estimated directly from the radio telescope measurements. These are the "visibilities" (essentially measurements of components of the Fourier Transform of the distribution of radio emission on the sky) and the amplitudes of the visibilities (e.g., figure 2 of [1]) indicates that the brightness distribution of the source is approximately a thin ring, with the ring diameter setting the baseline length at which the amplitudes have their minimum.

So the basic result about the black hole shadow can be made from the visibilities themselves, without relying on the imaging. But the images of course make it easier to see some of the complexity (e.g., that the ring around M87 is not axisymmetric).

[0] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...875L...4E/abstra...

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...875L...1E/abstra...
Interestingly, if you ever scan a FedEx barcode, they use tons of ASCII separator characters. About the only time I've seen them significantly used though.
I wonder if the solution is to run the message through another LLM to make the message as polite as possible removing any profanities. Cost >2x as much to run though.
I wouldn't say it was a failure. They had a good run in a very quickly evolving time. That they got a slice of business for years during that period isn't bad!
The devil is in the details: whose "bang", whose "buck", and who gets the say when the subjective threshold is met?
A chronograph is any watch with a stopwatch complication. I'm really not sure what your concern with a lever escapement is, as this is used on almost all mechanical watches.
> The vast majority of web software is comically over-engineered.

Im not sure downloading libraries from NPM and adding services till it works is "engineering"

Im not even sure it is good or fast.

I am certain that it is expensive.

For the 2nd time today Im going to say it the only metric that matters is Cost per customer, cost per user, that includes the systems that includes the engineers to run it.

If you don't know these numbers what the hell kind of business are you running.

Follow the money.
Why the Guardian's Creative Team Is Making It's Election Artwork by Hand
Ha, if you think that was bad, you should have been there when it was just Entourage ;).
Which ended up destroying the American republic and the constitutional system.
Have you seen this channel? https://youtube.com/@audittheaudit?si=Q9r2ARA71itTa3Lw

There are definitely “auditor” types who are provocative but that’s a small minority
Related issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33349 . There' a fix available.

The summary of issue is "systemd-tmpfiles" also creates/manages '/home' in some cases and if one tries to run that command with "--purge" and expect it to just clean-up all generated temp files, it will delete '/home' too!

Not looking to start a flamewar, but sometimes the criticisms of massive scope creep in systemd do feel justified.
Right, it’s grammatically the same as saying “how you drive can screw you over”
You don't need to be a bacteria to produce antifreeze. Even a frog can do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor_frog

Lots of antifreeze out there in the biology world. Most of them aren't useful because ethylene glycol is easy to produce and is quite superior (albeit super toxic) so nobody cares.

Also, the title is wrong. The bacteria is making proteins that produce antifreeze. The protein itself isn't the antifreeze or acting like an antifreeze. Otherwise it would be super wasteful metabolically but would actually make it an interesting evolution adaptation.