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adw commented on Positron, a New Data Science IDE posit.co/blog/positron-pr... · Posted by u/kgwgk

ecshafer · 8 days ago

The source code looks very open.

This moving the goal posts of open-source to exclude anyone making money off of it is annoying. I can get the project for FREE and I can see the source code and make changes to it. How is it not open source? Because I can't also turn around and sell it?

adw · 8 days ago

Nonfree license. You may or may not like the Elastic license but it's definitely not OSD.

adw commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

mdaniel · 12 days ago

In the midst of a gold rush, sell shovels and maps

In the less glib way, I'll draw attention to the fact that machine learning roles are only one moving part of the machinery required to manage, operate, train, evaluate, demo, and integrate AI adjacent opportunities. That's to say one need not be a pytorch or differential equation ninja to contribute meaningful to riding the hype train

adw · 11 days ago

Entirely agree. Most of the critical path roles are not foundation model training, even in places that do foundation model training.

adw commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

siliconc0w · 12 days ago

After a long drought I've seen more recruiter emails recently but I do think the days of 500k-1M TC are dwindling. Big Tech seems to be moving a lot of positions to LCOL areas and I don't see that abating.

adw · 12 days ago

This very very very much depends what you do. ML critical-path roles are doing much better than everything else as far as I can tell.

adw commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? · Posted by u/superasn

eitally · 19 days ago

What I wonder is what this means for Coreweave, Lambda and the rest, who are essentially just renting out fleets of racks like this. Does it ultimately result in acquisition by a larger player? Severe loss of demand? Can they even sell enough to cover the capex costs?

adw · 19 days ago

These are also depreciating assets.

adw commented on Telo MT1 telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht

Aurornis · 25 days ago

> They are often touted as off road capable with high utility, and I see them in pristine condition on city streets

When I was off-roading and traveling a lot of dirt trails with my truck I would also wash it, wax it, and keep it in pristine condition when I got back home.

What did you expect? That we’d leave the mud on it forever, never wash it, and all of the side panels would be bashed in? If you’d climb under the truck (as I do for oil changes) you could see a lot of scrapes and dings from rocks, but I avoid damaging the side and front because that’s very expensive to repair.

Anyway, most of the trucks sold today aren’t sold in the off-road trim. They’re sold with features like lower clearance air dams up front for better fuel economy, on-road tires for better road noise and fuel economy, and commonly in 2WD trims. A new F150 can get 25mpg on the freeway even without the hybrid option.

I work remote so my truck isn’t used for commutes. I frequently haul things in the bed. I off road with friends.

Yet that doesn’t stop some people from making snide remarks about driving a truck. Some people love being angry at truck drivers and imagining they’re all just making irrational choices. They won’t be happy until we’re driving to Home Depot or UHaul every other weekend to rent a truck or trailer instead of parking one in our driveways.

It doesn’t stop them from calling me up and asking for help moving furniture when they need it, though. :)

adw · 24 days ago

25mpg is still insanely, obscenely profligate when a reasonable vehicle (say a Renault Clio) gets somewhere between 50 and 70. That will make some people angry and it’s hard to see that as entirely irrational.

adw commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero

wiseowise · a month ago

Java unequivocally won the war, though.

adw · a month ago

C# is the Java of Lua (thanks to Unity) which will never not be weird.

adw commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero

tgv · a month ago

Python's success is entirely due to entry-level programming courses. They all switched to Python, because you have to explain less. I don't think I heard about web servers in Python before 2012. I suppose a 2005 computer wouldn't be able to serve a Python backend smoothly.

PHP's popularity isn't really from 2005-2006. It was popular at the end of the 90s, and it looks like JS as much as it looks like a potato.

adw · a month ago

Peak PHP was Facebook around 2008!

adw commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero

pyman · a month ago

From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins. It started gaining more traction when Canonical adopted it as the main language for Ubuntu 4.10 in 2004.

Then, in 2005, Guido van Rossum was hired by Google to work on Google Cloud. That opened the door for wider adoption in academia, since Python had strong math libraries and integrated well with tools researchers were already using, like Hadoop, right around the time big data and ML were starting to take off.

Also, between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened: Ruby on Rails came out and inspired Django, which was starting to gain popularity, and web developers were getting tired of Perl's messy syntax. That's how Python quickly became a solid choice not just for server-side scripts, but for building proper web apps. In the meantime, another language that could be embedded directly into HTML was storming the web: PHP. Its syntax was similar to JavaScript, it was easy to pick up, lowered the barrier to entry for software development, worked straight out of the box, and didn't require thousands of print statements to get things done.

The 3 Ps made history. According to programmers from 20 years ago, they were like religions. Each had its own philosophy and a loyal group of followers crusading online, getting into heated debates, all trying to win over more adopters. The new generation of devs is more pragmatic. These days it's less about language wars and more about picking the right tool for the job.

adw · a month ago

Python was everywhere in science by earlier than that (Numeric and numarray, Numpy’s predecessors, are from the late 90s/early 2000s).

adw commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero

wiseowise · a month ago

Bizarre is that you don’t consider it ugly.

Kotlin: constructor is either part of class definition or keyword constructor.

Ruby: initialize

JS: constructor

Python: ______new______, _______init_______

Literally this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/three-headed-dragon

adw · a month ago

Fewer characters than “initialize” or “constructor”, clearly marked as being “not a normal method”. Python is better here.

adw commented on German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws therecord.media/german-co... · Posted by u/bundie

oblio · 2 months ago

> AFAIK Germany (and most European countries) has civil law

Most of the world, actually. Pure common law systems are just in CANZUKUS (and a few dozen of other minuscule former British colonies).

adw · 2 months ago

Not even all of the UK. Scotland is a hybrid system.