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I turns out none of them were

I think the real longcon of this is to seed people into a TikTok competitor using the existing meta user base who will gladly give it a try initially. It will catch plenty of the Twitter crowd and even reddit crowd but that's just a coincidence of the state of those platforms. Long term I think it will be to agrigate their more active users away from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat into something that provides the lowest common denominator of all of them so they can slowly erode them as part of the Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook taking a cue from M$ They took the best engineers and lessons learned from the platforms they bought but ideally they don't want to maintain products that do 80% of the same functions

Let them go implement fuchsia. It will check all their boxes right before it slams into a mountain from a km to mi conversion.

I thought we handled this years ago and coming from aviation experts is rather strange that they don't know the industry has migrated away from having a singular operating system that can't die to having a series of redundant fail-safes to fall back to when it does. It's strange to see the places where the microkernel debate still rages on....and how little investment is being made by those complaining multibillion $$ international corporations into projects like fuschia, RTOS, ZephyerOS, GNU Hurd, MIT Mach (or even Darwin), or even Minix!

I think these arguments are disingenuous and while they are valid the various organizations making them seem to aggressively not want to find solutions. I smell a strong desire to hold the vanguard of what they have built until they retire and can be unconcerned with compliance...understandable to a degree but harmful in the long run to be going so fast in the wrong direction.

Maybe Linux isn't a good fit, that's fine but they clearly don't care about that, they just don't want to implement anything and Linux is a convenient scape goat to not have to contribute back into an open source project even one on a BSD license

No amount of financial cost is sufficient for these kinds of things if you wish to truly prevent them in the future. There needs to be associated criminal charges for the individuals responsible. We are all still suffering from the Equifax breach all these years later and it won't be long before another Enron shows itself and that is simply because there was never any real consequences for the people primarily responsible.

Technically savvy people roll their eyes at the misunderstandings around how an AI becomes "intelligent" but they also ignore the various ways that AI is as dangerous as people think it is for reasons that are unrelated.

I don't think we should be rolling our eyes at an abundance of caution among most people concerning the adoption of AI and LLM, what is the harm in carefully introducing a technology?

AI doesn't need to become sentient to overthrow the natural order of the technocratic society we are currently holding together with gum and glue, it just needs to flip a burger and pump gas...

It's sad to see a post like this get so much hate in the comments section. We all benefit greatly from an organization maintaining a stable Linux ecosystem and the idea that somehow redhat isn't entitled to give back to Linux as much as they have benefited from OSS goes to show just how much coolaid HN has been drinking as of late.

These corporate concerns are not some law of nature and it's up to us to support people when they are willing to fight for end consumers, something that modern redhat has all together abandoned

The thing I find most sad about articles like this is that it doesn't seem to actually address any of the reasons that it got this way, it blames individuals within the field not a series of MBA graduates telling you what the spec is and hiring 50 people to hit an arbitrary deadline for a software project moving in the wrong direction FAST.

It's a false dichotomy to say you only have rock stars and as this person smugly tip toes around "normal people" when in reality you don't need rock stars anymore to make good software and let's be honest... Most rock stars didn't make good software they just make it in a time when software was generally even more crap than it is now.

You want to stop suffering among us plebs? Don't advocate for goofy rockstar developer propaganda, advocate for healthy work life balance and reasonable deadlines for things that truly don't matter. Stop letting sales and marketing write your software and stop taking opinions about systems design from your project managers and "technical leads" when they do not work in these systems day to day.

If you treat engineers well and respect them before a client who will drop you the moment a new product fits their need then yes you will lose clients from time to time but if you focus on making good software and happy people then you will attract stable clients who do the same and maybe the stock holders at the top don't get the ridiculous return per year that they expect out of more shameless companies but at least you have a half decent chance of sleeping at night...

I am well aware that we live in a world where this will be borderline impossible but the first step to solving a problem is admitting it

There are so many articles that float through here that can be summed up as "do this, unless you should do that" with a title equivalent to "why you should always do this"

Does this article present findings from other projects? Does it have a personal code story? Does it use any data or even antidotal evidence to support it's claims.

The answer to all of these is NO it does not...it's just a half hearted article talking about a fundamental problem in modern programming with no real solutions other that an axe to grind that they can't even really elaborate on the origins of.

I used to run several pfsense routers, tried various forks including opnsense and they were fine but ate quite a bit of memory and didn't have great driver support. If you are like me and just need a router solution for a homelab or small office I would recommend the x86 variant of openwrt. It uses a trickle of memory and CPU and will route anything you ask it too with or without a ton of filters and sniffers. I've never looked back.

Can we stop using accident to describe the haphazard and often disingenuous policies of multi billion $ international corporations as though they are freshman writing a merge sort or something. It's not an accident when a company does it... it's a crime

This article seems to assume that this is an isolated incident or that the CEO and other CEOs in question are somehow not responsible for the murder of their consumers. This wasn't somehow being risky trying to find a solution to cold fusion or how to grow food the size of a car to solve world hunger...they wanted to skim money from the wealthy to go see a monument to the folly and decadence of wealth.

This is as true of Tesla, meta, Amazon, alphabet, M$ and apple and the reason this incident has sparked such catharsis is that it happens constantly. There is a great article to be written on why there is such hatred for these people but it has to start by admitting that people's feelings are valid and this article simply didn't have the spine to explore that idea. It was clearly written to allow the author to convince themselves of something they know they don't really believe and it doesn't deserve to be read by anybody on here, go read a vacume manual and you will find more thought provoking content.

I love IRC and I am particularly fond of terminal IRC clients. In an age when Twitter and reddit are destroying their own platforms its comforting to see a major release of something that by all accounts should be as dead as ICQ or AIM but persists through passion and pure force of will.

It's concerning the level of handwaving people do by pointing to a specification and showing how this is in accordance with it. This is not a normal way for a language to behave which is why it gets this attention. Languages shouldn't get people to accept their flaws people should push to resolve the flaws in languages.

This assumes that the suicide rate isn't increasing among a number of people in various different walks of life. Things are not going well people and farmers just know that all too we'll.

I'm surprised we still post articles from Krebs on here. I'm also surprised people think SMS is a safe mechanism for verification or validation

It's not available to purchase. I have yet to see affordable and consistant RISCV hardware availability just breadcrumbs leading to preorders or coming soon or something that costs 500$

This smells of someone who has bought into the industry wholesale and has been known to make very unreasonable deadlines throughout all of their projects. Go look at doom on Sega Saturn to see an example but there are two interpretations here

1. He is disconnected from the reality of the situation he is in where he has had total autonomy of something he loves his whole life and cannot understand the concerns of others who are the backbone of his success.

2. He is disingenuous and needs to be a voice to disuate politicians and corporations from implementing something that would negatively impact his bottom line personally.

I'll leave it up to you to think about but either is quite sad for someone who is in a position of power to reduce the suffering of millions of people by just speaking out.

I always see arguments for working faster. Never arguments for taking your time to get solutions correct even if it doesn't produce something immediately visible.

...I'm sure there is no economic correlation

I don't see managers who grow and the reason is because they often weren't growing as engineers...

The most common reason I see people become managers is because they weren't cut out for engineering work or it burnt them out over time. Many couldn't keep up with the ocean of new technologies and philosophies software has gained in the last few decades and so they are relegated to being a machine that checks email for twice a starting engineers salary.

Some managers really have done so to steward a company or team through a problem but so many more of them just want to "check out" essentially and in just a few short years loose most of the engineering context value they had and become some degree of roadblock to progress because sadly they want their cake and they want to engineer it too...they often create tasks and conversations they don't make sense or deliverables that are missing the point because they are no longer engineers no matter how badly they still want to identify as one after leaving a organic growing codebase.

I get it they have families and they are getting older and the kids coming out of college are honestly intimidating sometimes but that's a problem with the absolute lack of upward mobility within engineering and they unhealthy standards of modern corporate culture.

It's sad really. Very intelligent opinionated people slowly go from talking about solutions in concrete terms to a mix of language about deliverables, burn charts, agile, circling wagons, getting on the same page, and determining a funnel for Q4 while the software they are talking about has no unit tests and they themselves have determined that it's not part of the MVP...

If they could go back 10 years and hear themselves I wonder what they would think of the people they've become...

Your code is bad sometimes, so is everyone else around you. I've seen people who have been doing this for 30 years and think they are gods because they refuse criticism. In reality all they are doing is creating an environment of hostility and suffering because while they were awarded the seniority they hadn't earned the responsibility to own it until they can admit the first critical step

All code sucks, your job isn't to make great code it's to make great products and do your best to reduce the stress on your team, code quality will follow but first you have to be honest, open, and compassionate and sometimes a JR will take that personally and that's ok, eventually they won't or they will find out this industry isn't for them.

Story Time

I was an IT person for the math building while I was in college and I was mining a newish crypto called doggo on a computer lab while everyone was out for the summer. I had approval to do it and it was going to turn off as soon as the semester started back but they all had workstation cards and I couldn't resist. A man had offered to sell me a 99 civic if I got 200k and I needed a car.

Cut to weeks later and I'm hundreds of miles away for the day eating and drinking at a vitnamese restaurant with some friends and I get some notifications that the mining stopped.

I wasn't worried or afraid though because I knew in my pocket I could just pull out my android and click the magic button, Termux, to get a friendly and sensible shell with which to fix whatever mess had been thrown my way.

It was over in 5 minutes, I just rebooted them, process continued and I kept eating my noodles. Couldn't recommend it enough.

I had 300k by winter break and I had been set to meet the person for the civic after Christmas but that holiday a bunch of people's wallet got hacked and mine was no exception.

I ended up getting a card eventually but it wasn't the 99 civic -_-.

Termux on the other hand has been on every phone ive owned since

I'm honestly shocked that HN hasn't taken this down yet. They tend to have self awareness the way I have self control around a buffet.

They do however have a short term effect on the income of a particular counties law enforcement.

This Article like much of the commentary around the current recession leaves the CEOs here mostly blameless in a world where half of all profit increases were done by companies, not by the growth of material cost or the loss of venture capital. They are not laying people off because they are struggling quite the opposite, they are laying them off because they promised 17% growth and they can achieve that by firing their engineers and assuming more with come.

It's always sad to see the "who could have forseen this" argument passed around whenever things like this happen.

In fact if you treated companies like any financial advisor would tell you to treat something like a 401k or a savings account they would have considered what these companies have been doing for the last two years outright gambling with them and in turn also gambling employees futures.

With a lack of accountability for these reckless financial decisions though there is little chance that things will improve in the short or long term. This will continue to happen until legislation provides some kind of guardrail to simply firing at will anyone who disrupts a profit margin with their well paid talent and years of service.

Strangely enough I think this is the first objectively bad decision he has made since owning Twitter. The others are questionable for sure but this is a good way to lose your best engineers to companies that will respect them.

This reminds me of a study where purses would be dropped with < 20 usd equivalent in them at random places around the world and the sociologists, psychologists and economists couldn't understand why most of them were returned given their understanding of human nature and the answer that they didn't want to accept was that their understanding was wrong.

People don't work harder because their work is unfulfilling, their pay is underwhelming, and their hours are exhausting. Inflation just went through the roof and half of all price increases in domestic product are directly corperate profits and even the most uneducated among us are aware that every single part of this system is rigged.

and the Washington post claims "no one is sure why" but in reality they mean "nobody in a position of privilege that we would hire or talk to has an excuse that doesn't point out the obvious things we can't say about class struggle and income inequality"

This device is great....once it's hacked.

If you just take the device on its own functions it is less powerful than it's competitors the supernote and the onyx tablets. It's had pretty bad customer relations due to paywalling a bunch of their features and then walking that back but the build quality is great.

One thing that they did right by pure accident though is give users a root shell into a mostly standard Linux and the community has built tooling that turns this into the most functional of the tablets...but keep in mind this is at the lament of the remarkable team who would rather you use the device as intended.

Supernote is the clear winner among the eink tablets if you use them as intended but many attempts to beg the supernote team to put shell access in have resulted in responses that are at best cautious and at worse condisending.

Until supernote releases the a5x2 (and even then it remains to be seen) this is the best eink tablet

...once hacked that is

If you think you are truly anonymous anywhere I've got a bridge to sell you.

"DevOps is broken"

Said the 4th article on the subject this month.

Would love to see development for accountants so everytime marketing needs a new tool integrated to run a report they can see the time it takes to provision, implement, test, release, and then audit it.