skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I see “service config” referenced a lot in that thread, but your answers has the more occurrences.

I’m not sure I follow what it is.

A technical construct, like a code template or a API that services implements ?

Or a process constructs, like a SOP to follow with checkboxes?

Thanks
Free Expression: The Decline of Men in the Workforce
It’s not a myth. I worked for a prominent US company that routinely hired non-Americans based on price. There are innumerable ways around the H-1B limits. I quit the company.
Thanks! I would never have guessed that.
Facebook seems like a strange place.
Why should "journalists" be immune from bans if they break the rules?
When I was quite a bit younger I went through a Wendy Carlos obsession, and spent a lot of time with Switched On Bach, Clockwork Orange, and some of Wendy’s other synth works.

Much later on, after my interests had wandered a long way from analog synth stuff, I went through a Bossa Nova phase, and at some point discovered Joao Gilberto’s 1973 self titled album which shortly became one of my favourite albums of all time. It’s an absolutely hypnotic, beautifully stripped back yet harmonically complex distillation of the bossa sound.

Only after having listened to it surely hundreds of times I read up on the recording and discovered that Carlos was the sound engineer!
What rules have been broken here?
Heyo disqard -- thanks for the feedback! You can actually already do something like this.

From readwise.io/export there is a bulk markdown option which lets you save all of your highlights/notes in a zip file, with one markdown file per document.

Automating this via a kind of folder sync is not something we do yet, but could be cool! We do have an api that makes it really easy to pull out all your highlights/notes too readwise.io/api_deets#export
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter...”
>I am vaccinated but

Funny how this sounds like you have some special kind of keycard to be allowed to say what you said.
A couple of people I know through Twitter said it wasn't going to be so quick even if it would happen eventually. I have to admit that the speed is something I am surprised at, I had Musk figured for more smarts than this.
Were they convinced, or are you convinced that they were convinced? The Kubrick thing is an old joke (which usually ends by saying he insisted on filming "on location" for the sake of authenticity)
I agree about the statement of being surrounded by yes-people, but how does getting booed in an SF club (which must be pretty much a badge of honor at this point?) link to the "authoritarian right"? Does that mean that SF is, or Elon at least thinks so, predominantly "authoritarian left"? And how is that any better?

On the whole I think that the language from figures like Elon have indeed become too Infowars-ish, but I dont really see your angle of "not SF equals authoritarian right". At least that's what I got...?
I ran into something like this recently. I have multiple dental implants and had a problem with one of the crowns. The dentist ended up removing the crown and when they went to make an adjustment to the abutment realized that they didn’t have the tool they needed at their office because they moved away from using that implant system. They have another office and knew they had the tool there, and ended up having me come in at a later date when they could be certain to have the tool available.

This makes me wonder what happens if the implant maker goes bust and/or nobody is left locally that uses that system and can fix issues that come up.
Which rules now? Have they been changed again?
Most people aren't equipped to ensure their IP devices can only talk to other LAN devices (I am, my cameras live on a VLAN that can't route to the web). Combine IP capability with the possibility for software updates, and you have botnet fuel. It's why IP cameras are a leading source of botnet participants: Long-lasting IP hardware often managed by users without VLAN segmentation.
Difficult not to see this as anything other petulance. It's Musk's site and he's free to do whatever he wants with it, but this seems squarely against "any legal speech will be allowed"
We'd still have to take care of the plastics problem and also any population growth problem which would arise from that. It seems that historically, any improvements in efficiency has lead to population booms which negated the efficiency improvements. That's why I think the solution is systemic and cultural. The best that technology can offer IMO is to support a cultural shift and new incentive structures based on scarcity.
I think these are good questions to ask but IME SREs are expected to learn and even contribute to these either as they onboard to their team or as they take ownership of reliability for a particular service.

The way this is phrased, it sounds like the author is managing reliability for things where they don’t already know the answers to these questions nor do they have the context or bandwidth (or even access?) to answer it themselves. Seems like a recipe for disaster, or at the very least, a lot of frantic learn-as-you-go.

That said, as a dev, I do think we could do a lot better adding playbooks. Though on the other side of the fence, they’re often ignored with a “I don’t know what’s going on and you wrote this, can you help?”
One of my points was even if you restrict the employee market, customers remains global, revenues remains global. Forcing wage costs higher will eventually make the US uncompetitive.
I don't even find it despicable, just sad. I mentioned yesterday how it seemed as if he was on a quest to destroy it, quoting him as saying that the mere existence of social media was inhibiting civilization's conquest of Mars and putting human consciousness at risk.

Perhaps he concluded that he needs to destroy the public square in order to save it. Or that provoking sociocultural instability serves some grand strategic purpose, like Adrian Veidt in Watchmen (which looks more prescient by the day). It's also possible that he's having a psychotic break with or without the aid of very expensive drugs and that other than his brother nobody is in a position to tell the ubermensch with the giant balance sheet that he needs to several days of bed rest.
Been thinking about that as well. Can you add contact details to your profile?
Lots of journalists suspended from Twitter tonight
It's hardly a "turning point", but this one really struck me.
It would be neat if GPL advocates only complained about proprietary software, but some of them are hellbent against other open source software. They bash BSD-style licensing and treat anything not under what are regarded to be GPL compatible OSS licenses even worse.

I have done a significant amount of work in OpenZFS and the hostility from certain GPL proponents has been ridiculous. Meanwhile, the way that Linux's kernel module interface interacts with the GPL means there is no problem for using ZFS with Linux since ports from other systems in the form of kernel modules are not derived works works. This has passed legal review by actual lawyers, one of which is a co-author of the GPLv3:

https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl...

The view that the GPL is what enabled OSS to develop is also ridiculous. The original BSD license for example, predates the GPL. If anything, OSS developed in spite of the GPL, since controversies surrounding the GPL have been the single most counterproductive aspect of the OSS community. It is a wonder developers have any time to develop software given all of the headaches caused by GPL supremacists.

If the GPL had never existed, the community would have avoided GPL supremacists and we would all be happily using BSD/Apache/Mozilla licensed software.
To clarify why it bothers me: It tries to tell a story of "we as a company care about you", but at least in my experience, health care plans cover less than $100 per session, and in the SF Bay Area you easily pay $200+ per session for mental health professionals (as they are often out of network).

Maybe Apollo's health care plan has much better out of network coverage than what I'm familiar with, in which case I stand corrected (and agreed that its good to help cover copays, if this is what this actually does).
Is low code a dead end?
I'm considering specializing in low code applications, like salesforce or dynamics 356. If seems like it's not 'real' Software development and I'll eventually got a dead end in terms of career progression.
Anybody who's worked content moderation at scale (like, products with 100+M users) would read the description and nod along understandingly. I think they did favor some democratic narratives, but personally I feel like that's the perogative of the company.
How Twitter Influencers Used Penny Stocks to Dupe Retail Investors
Clearly the expectation of privacy for corporate jets, frontrunners in the emerging battle for control over our data.
"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means"

—Elon Musk, April 2022
I had a blocklist with > 10K entries and about 12K followers when I quit, Twitter was mostly what you made it. For me it served a lot of purposes and I got a lot of mileage out of it, and even if I disagreed with plenty of people there on plenty of subjects as a rule it worked fine in that capacity.
I assume the stuff from 5 years ago was essentially spitting out a midi output which would be fed in to a traditional tool to play samples. So it's going to sound a lot sharper while being a lot less sophisticated. The real breakthrough here is this is generating everything from scratch and it still resembles the prompt.

One of the automated prompts was "Eminem anger rap", I'm confident if you had showed me the audio without the prompt I could identify which artist it sounded like.

And this is just a basic first attempt at reusing a tool not even designed for audio. I can only imagine how powerful it could be after some trivial revisions like using GPT-3 to generate coherent lyrics.
This somewhat misses the point that a substantial fraction of HN commenters/users spend their working hours building UX stuff.
>> Does copyright law protect “in the style of”

Well, pastiches are a thing, and I've read and watched a few. Never heard about anyone getting into trouble for them.
ADSBexchange has been suspended from Twitter
If we take your vision at face value, what do you think should be done?
https://archive.vn/JjOpK
I'm talking about a system at scale, not individual actors. You don't know what I'm doing as an individual and it's not relevant to a discussion of material reality as observed. If your solution to this problem at scale is for everyone to become a rich employer in order to avoid wage theft, I don't know what to tell you

Re: risk staked, I will add that for many business owners their greatest risk and fear is simply having to work for a wage themselves.
As I type this on one of my main computers, a machine built in 2011, I have to question your definition of "retro"; I appreciate that it's a sliding scale, but I think I would stick with "old" for anything x86_64 and up. And your list goes to 2015; do you really think 7 years old is "retro"?
Does Schneier have some association to the NSA I don't know about? I'd normally consider that statement as weak evidence they did make the changes in good faith.
The problem I see with “low code” solutions is that most of them are dependent on a company to back their product up. If the company ever goes under, so does the product.
That was the way things were back in the 1980s. The only reason I managed to gain any experience programming in C on my Amiga is because one of my uncles bought me a $400 compiler to use (Aztec C). Things became easier in the 1990s as gcc improved and was ported to virtually every architecture on the planet. Richard Stallman was right to focus on a C compiler as a prerequisite to building the rest of the free software ecosystem.
It’s like one private pay visit at a really good clinic. They can then help guide you somewhere that’s covered by insurance. Mental health is full of quackery so best start at a top notch place
You say that’s not controversial but irl I’ve worked with more than a handful of non-jr engineers and even managers who think developer job ends at seeing green build in ci (btw a ci which some other team is supposed to manage). Sometimes even green build locally
Twitter abruptly suspends half a dozen journalists
I think they're pretty cringe and LARPy, but rather doubt they have violated the Twitter TOS in any way. They mostly publish cranky op-eds and overdramatic accounts of political demonstrations.
Trump NFTs on Ethereum
Hm, could you provide one as an example? I’m kidding. That’s fair. I was just thinking of ASCII. How many services live up to AWS’ standards?
That's fair, but even so what I found admirable is mostly the restraint. If it had been me I would have wielded the ban hammer a lot more freely. Ditto HN by the way.

And I'm saying that as the former moderator of a 1M+ active accounts community.
Google+ had a big user base of tech people talking to other tech people. Facebook had the college crowd, and they got their families to join. Twitter isn't all that big, but they got the brands on board.
Island of Misfit Toys becomes Alternate Timeline of Misfit Toys.
David Sinclair on FDA's NMN supplement ban
Just FYI, shipping container costs are back to pre-pandemic levels now.

Also in the article, it states that this is Ducey’s last day in office and his successor wants to get rid of the containers.
That is the point of my comment :) I argue that coming changes are underestimated, there is not enough awareness, and as such discussion and preparedness for them. I would rather have stable societal transition than hunger, riots, civil or world war.
You could do some theoretical calculations about bridges yourself, inspect for cracks, and prove from first principles that the bridge is in fact safe; it's not some complicated biological process.
I’m hearing that what they really need is a Developer who understands operations so the “DevOps” guy just has to take care of operations?

That was suppose to be the definition of “DeVOps” in the first place. Any company that has a DevOps role is going to really be an operation role by another name.
I very strongly agree. Mandatory & makes things much clearer, for a negligible cost. (And really, the curly braces, colon and semicolon are all mandatory (well, except the last semicolon of a ruleset), and alternative syntaxes with less punctuation like Sass’s have failed; the & is frankly more consistent than its absence.)

For a more technical justification: with optional &, priority is given (by brevity) to the descendant combinator, but what of other combinators? Do they require & or not? It could reasonably go either way. I haven’t read recent proposals, but am very familiar with CSS grammar, and I’m genuinely unsure.

parent {
/* This might or might not work. */
> child {
…
}
}

parent {
& > child {
…
}
}
Twitter is suspending several tech journalists who cover Elon Musk
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

No. 3 is the knee jerk, in the heat of the moment response; but no. 5 makes the most sense long term.
You can get close to that:

https://github.com/seancroach/ts-opaque
> In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done.

That is only because the vast majority of computer programming that is done is not very good.
That sounds like the "revolution" option.
I'm not sure who you think your target audience is, but I can tell you that multi-minute screen recordings are probably about the worst possible medium for conveying information about your software to developers.
they die. just like everyone else
How exactly did social media kill anyone here?
They are rated low on both reliability and quality. Consumer Reports rates them second to last in reliability. And Tesla has for years done warranty work as "goodwill repairs" to hide how bad their reliability is.
I'd say that the solutions should start from the top first.

100 companies are responsible for 71% of global GHG emissions.[1] That's a mind-boggling statistic.

The counterargument is, of course, that these companies are supplying the demand; that consumers should vote with their wallets, change their habits, recycle, reduce their "carbon footprint", etc. This is the usual deflection propaganda pushed by the companies themselves, and shills who benefit from them.

But the reality is that if only a fraction of these companies changed a fraction of their processes to lower their emissions, or—heaven forbid—reduced their growth and shareholder profits, the positive impact would be far, far greater than anything individuals could ever do.

It's ludicrously counterproductive to invest in _new_ companies to reduce our effects on the climate, while existing companies are the major cause of the problems we're trying to solve. It's like we're in a sinking ship, trying to remove the water with buckets, instead of patching up the hole the water is rushing in, and stopping the assholes who made it in the first place.

I'm not saying climate tech companies shouldn't exist. But let's get our priorities straight first.

[1]: https://www.cdp.net/en/articles/media/new-report-shows-just-...
You literally just made the wild leap of logic the parent comment was talking about.

The mRNA vaccines have a modified spike protein, that is non functional compared to natural infection. On top of that, cells naturally infected with covid also express the spike protein [1], and would do so in far greater amounts than what would be caused by the vaccine.

People's different genetic dispositions will change their immune response, and that might maybe change how they respond to the vaccine as opposed to the virus. But there's no way of knowing which way you will fall, and our current evidence suggests that getting the vaccine is probably always the safer alternative.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941975/
Do people on HN still believe Elon isn't destroying Twitter?
Oracle is expensive. Salesforce has been developing something similar internally for years to replace Oracle.
With this line of reasoning, I'd bet on a cat-and-mouse game between "poison pill"-removing AI generators and new tools and techniques for introducing the pill.
This sentiment seems related to an observation I've been making more frequently as of late on this topic.

Before DevOps was en vogue (i.e. was a descriptive term more so than a buzz word), the whole premise was to collapse the bulwark between engineers and sys admins. All SWE's should care about how their application is deployed, monitored, and scaled in production. This leads to far better application engineering outcomes in most efforts in which I've been involved.

The end result of those efforts was often, but not always, engineers writing some amount of operations tooling themselves.

But now we've come full circle. There is a ton of operations tooling you can pull off the shelf, and those tools are generic/complex enough to require administration. So many DevOps roles now as a result, particularly in larger orgs, are mostly administration-focused and less so about building the tooling itself.

It feels like we've reinvented the bulwark we tried to escape previously. There's an open question as to whether, from a practical perspective, we still have gained a net win there irrespective of the logical separation between eng and ops. I'm not sure where I've landed yet on that question.
He owns car dealerships, why is he keeping a car long enough to require license plates? Like content moderation, his predecessors already figured that out.
Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation
I still think of him as the Life in Hell guy. When I saw the first Simpsons short on the Tracy Ullman show, I recognized his style right away.
Just go one step ahead, and realize, that perhaps the most fictitious side of that book is that AI actually lost due to basically magical powers.
Perhaps. I think it's funny to lump them with Washington Post reporters in this instance.
Did not realize that these laws apply outside of politics and do not just relate to business with elected officials or members of government.
IIUC, SHA-3 isn't actually better in any known way, it's just meant to be a vastly different algorithm so we'd have an alternative to the other ones.
literally [nextcloud's talk](https://nextcloud.com/talk/)

and keep your advertising out of my contact list
/r/AgedLikeMilk
You’re stating confidently that python is orders of magnitude slower than it actually is because of some pseudo code, which you haven’t seen implemented, and you called into across a network link?

…do you see the problem?
He will get a tax break and he doesn't even need to sell the shares immediately. And he still controls the shares through the foundation, just for starters. Don't you think this is a sweet deal? Every aspect of the "charity foundation" created by billionaires is designed to benefit them the most.

If I told you that you can control your wealth, diversify your holdings, and pay only 5% of assets per year (in the way you personally decide) instead of 15%, 20%, or 25% in taxes, would you think it is a good or bad deal?
Click through for the punch line.
It seems unlikely that Google will attempt to re-enter the social market with a new product that competes with YouTube comments.
Couldn't they make a "dummy" die for non-cache products? Basically the only features on the die would be whatever through vias were necessary; I'd assume this could be done on with comparatively old/cheap/debugged processes and have an extremely high yield.
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon
it's not everyone

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1597614237093...
Might as well just use seawater then...
Parent didn't say they are "paid less because their jobs have been automated." Parent said "they have to work two jobs because just one doesn't pay enough when a company can automate it cheaper." I interpret that to mean "their jobs could be automated for less than the cost of supporting them on the pay from a single job, so they need to take two jobs at less pay per job to stay below the cost of automation."

There are already many industries, including service industries, where there would be more employment if automation were a little cheaper and less automation if wages were a little lower. And sometimes it is a blend of automation and telepresence. https://gizmodo.com/want-to-order-food-from-a-minimally-paid...

There are other forces pushing the other way, especially in the past few years with various COVID-related disruptions in the labor market. But long-term the effects of automation on pay for low-skilled jobs is pretty clear. Only so many get to move up the value chain and yes they likely benefit. The rest are cut mercilessly.
Now democrats know how republicans have felt all long.
> the majority of people are forced into something much worse than wage slavery by those in control of the thinking machines.

This is why it is important that we ensure everyone has collective control of the means of production (through voluntary means - a federation of collectives that agree to trade with one another as much as possible).
The NYC numbers are from the spring of 2020. This was before Omicron and before Delta.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e5.htm was a initial report on the excess deaths in NYC in the spring of 2020.

The by age micromorts are based on a paper that was published in December of 2020. Delta was first detected in the US in Feb of 2021 and named in May of 2021 - again, those numbers are before Delta and Omicron (and vaccination).

The numbers may not be current, but they are not inflated. They are an accurate representation of the excess deaths at that time.