skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More a general question, but I’ve gotten pings in the past to be an SRE at a FAANG despite not doing much cloud stuff. Is it the type of role people take for a tour of duty and then transfer out of?

I imagine there are SREs who enjoy it and stay there, but curious why they’d invite someone heavy on the dev side to interview.
I don't think it's broken. I think it's working as intended, but what it's optimizing for (people raising families) is perhaps not what you'd like for it to optimize for. Whether it's the right or wrong thing to optimize for is another conversation, but you may be surprised about what the collective political will of the US expresses. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a voting majority support for the idea that "American suburbs should have to pay for themselves."
I don't even think that these people need to "justify" their energy use.

It seems that the vast majority of people have an innate need to hate on other groups of people. Not only that, but it seems that when presented with a cross-cutting societal problem (like carbon neutrality), "hating on others" seems to be a substitute for actually doing something intelligent about the problem.

Our society is fundamentally based on energy use, and if we actually collectively cared about carbon-neutrality, we have an immense amount of potential clean energy available to us in the form of solar and nuclear. There's no need to play this silly hate game.
Lost me immediately out of the gate. No alfresco, picnics, or barbecues?

Sorry, this is going over the line of fearing death so much you don't live in the first place.
Yes because choosing which light bulb to use is analogous to lynching.

You realize it was the government that enforced Jim Crow laws, against miscegenation, and “sodomy” (ie non heterosexual sex).

Not to mention the “War on Drugs”, civil forfeiture and using eminent domain to take away private property to give to another company.

I can much easier choose which corporation to use than the government.

And looking at some of the ideas on this submission, I damn sure don’t want some internet geeks deciding what products I can use and how they are made.
Yeah, can also view email on both phone and computer since forever ago - this is not even remotely similar to the shared clipboard of an iPhone and Mac, where you don't need to open any links or programs, install anything, configure anything - you just copy on phone/computer and then instantly are able to paste on phone/computer.
>> This wasn’t intended as any sort of super-duper hot take, and I pared the post down to avoid having too much of an attack surface.

It is intended to shame Republicans. What other possible reason is there to tie death rates to political party? So yes it was a hot take. You planted a lightning rod. Making something like vaccination a political issue does everyone a disservice.
Compared to its competition? It absolutely was.
I think you can put a cap by taxing: tax fuel 100 billion dollars per litre, then offer a tax break for the x first litres :)
That's also fine.
> In (enterprise) reality it will more than likely be a bunch of sysadmins and former “network/storage guys” who saw which way the wind was blowing and got a cloud cert.

This sounds like a tale of woe. but. The fault is the culture, not the people doing the grunt work. Like devs, if you're used to nails, then you'll want to use a hammer for everything.

> gives you expertise in application design/architecture.

a sysadmin should know much better how your application runs in real life, and more importantly, how it behaves when it goes to shit.

They _should_ know more about all the different types of services (ie kafka vs NATS etc) because they will have had to set way more of them up than a typical dev. If thats not the case, you've had bad or poorly mentored juniors running your stuff.

The reason they should know, is because they have the pager to make it work at 4am.

Look, if I had it my way, and I was at a medium sized company, I would buy in 3 mainframes, in three disparate locations, set the lock step replication to "very yes" and make sure each dev used the local DB and use the job description lang, to define scale.

Pay the $1million a year to outsource reliability of DB and state. Because frankly most people can't program for either scale, redundancy or recoverability. (yes that includes k8s) let the hardware do all of that and save a bunch on staffing costs.

I work at a HUGE scale place, and yes there is a need for special sauce there. but even then not that much, and not enough to justify the massive churn in systems. Most PE is just cargo culting busy work. Stick to ECS and PSQL and just get on with making actual buisness features.
"Shut up and take my money!"

Please, pretty-please, consider exporting your product to Europe..
> Instead LLM companies need to engineer these “guardrails” and we have users working around them using context manipulation tricks.

It's just like that with humans. Just watch the scambaiter crowd (Scammer Payback, Kitboga (although I can't really stand his persona), or the coops with Mark Rober) on Youtube... the equivalent of the LLM companies is our generation, the equivalent of LLMs are our parents, and the equivalent of "LLM jailbreakers" are scam callcenters that flood the LLMs with garbage input for some sort of profit.
Related:

See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869266 - Jan 2022 (108 comments)
The intersection of not understanding digital audio and not understanding the neuroscience of hearing remains a place that never ceases to amaze me.
I did mention without installing a program, and without any configuration.
> Researchers looking for things will certainly find them, not necessarily because they're true, but because the null hypothesis doesn't bring any fame or fortune.

Are you saying that the researchers did faulty science? Or that you don't think microplastics are a problem?
Fair enough, but as you say, doesn't change anything, possibly even makes it worse because that fuel was used entirely for his convenience just to move a plane closer, before he even hopped aboard for his flight.
Even if you set aside universality as a desirable property, according to the official site at 128kbps any Opus efficiency advantage disappears. https://opus-codec.org/comparison/
Nobody Knows Anything

For a given level of complexity in an organisation, talk to any 10 experts on the subject in the organisation (ie how does the foobar process work) and you will find blind men describing an elephant. All technically correct but all missing important parts

The paradoxes

At some point an organisation acquired or grew an antogonistic part. Both cannot really exist but both have not been removed. Think either Google search vs Google ad sales (if you return perfect search terms each time, you get less page views hence less ad impressions. Make search worse get more ads served). Or simply other non core businesses. Pretty much every non-tech mega corp is really dozens and dozens of smaller businesses with a shared treasury so they can ride out each others ups and downs. But one or two businesses are really carrying oat of the load.

Anyway, you can find paradoxes or conflicts of interest in all businesses and badly aligned incentives hurt everyone.

Someone should fix that. Not me I don't have the power (indeed usually only the orignal centralmfounder has power to)

Safe spaces

Yeah these don't exist. If you ain't upbeat publically you are seen as trying to pull everyone else under. So how are problems acknowledged let alone fixed? Dunno.

What would really help would be free speech, open conversations and discussions based on data that can inform policy and provide impetus to chnage. we (kinda) have this in western journalism / media (including social media). But absolutely no large corporation anywhere has a open discussion area where different factions can raise their concerns. there are of course political infighting amoungst the powerful elites of the corporation but that's not the same thing - they might even be accurate about the problems but no one else knows.

Democracy matters

Sorry this was supposed to be about devops - and it kinda is. Most large corps have some devops thing going on where "this time we will fix it all for everyone" - but has there been open conversations with data supporting it from all parts of the org? oh come on.
A great thing about 4chan (and probably 1 reason users keep coming) is its simplicity:

Post pic, some text, others do the same, or reply to your post.

That's it. Do 1 thing & do it well (Unix philosophy :-). Reminds me of when Google's UI was praised for being "enter search term here" box on otherwise empty page.

I think there will always be room for sites (or apps) like that. Now, as for how to pay hosting bills etc... ??
That did, indeed, resolve the issue. Would it help if I created an Issue for this along with the resolution? Thanks again for the help.
> Yea, right.

You're saying that to the person who literally sold the very top.
>> What exactly is disastrous about his term?

He gambled with the fortunes of an entire country just to satisfy his ego.

I'm Greek and I watched the events of the disastrous Greek delegation to Europe unfold from abroad, the UK where I'm an immigrant. Varoufakis was such an obvious clown, devoid of every possible sense of reality, let alone any kind of competence in technical matters, that he made me appreciate Angela fucking Merkel.

That's right. I'm Greek and watching Varoufakis interact with Merkel, I ended up admiring Merkel. That's how disastrous was his term.
Carb heavy but also quite heavy in fat too. Unless you have a specific example?
Because some links are better left unclicked.
Or maybe the disconnect is on the other side of the coin, let's say every billionaire on that list did zero flights next year - how much of a reduction in the US CO2 emissions does that actually result in. Does it equate in any meaningful (statistically) way or does it just make people like yourself "feel" better?
Are you both talking about the same thing? Is dynamic range the same thing as 'number of colors'?
They go to NYC to hit Nobu and bang the elite escorts let's not act like problems cannot be solved remotely, we did it for 2 years.

Especially diplomatic problems are about tit for tat.

Kennedy and Kruschev disengaged the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 via letters taking 8 hours to reach the other party
Sounds like it needs a special program and configuration, which is not needed on Apple devices. Also, KDE Connect needs both devices to be in the same network - which is not needed for Apple devices. My phone can be on 5G, and my Mac can be on wifi. Or they don't have to connected to a network at all.
> None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked.

I love doom more than the average person, by what I would say is a quite significant margin... but I don't see this at all.

I've had covid at least twice, including some awful symptoms a month after recovery that had me convinced I had long covid as well... a few months later (now years) not so much.

While I do know many people of who have lost loved ones from Covid, I don't know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone who has any serious "long-covid" symptoms.

To be clear, I'm not doubting that long-covid exists. But I'm very skeptical, based on my own observations, that "we are so, so fucked" and covid of all things is the source of that "fucking". Personally I think a lot of the post-covid strangeness is because, for a variety of other reasons (not the least of which is rapidly progressing climate change), people are under tremendous stress and at the same time can't quite articulate what that stress is, nor find relief from it.

A lot of people (not me) did believe there was going to be a return to normal post-covid, and the increasingly obvious impossibility of this is causing people to have tremendous mental health problems. But long-covid itself being the source is something that I just don't see anywhere.

And, as I said, I'm not afraid of being labeled a "doomer", so if you have some good sources to read up on, I'm all ears (er, eyes).
The argument is that the system as a whole shouldn't be set up in a way to provide (possible, limited) non-repudiation, similar to how postal mail (at least in the US) doesn't provide non-repudiation. It is not something that most people individually would have a say in how it is set up. Publishing expired DKIM keys wouldn't let you claim to the recipient that the message was forged but would make it harder to convince third parties in some contexts that the message is likely to be authentic.

The advantage of deniability is that someone who manages to get one email of yours by any means can't prove to the world that you sent it, which can be an issue with things that are socially considered unfavorable as well as unsympathetic situations like corrupt politicians. There are disadvantages relating to harassment and corruption.

The article doesn't mention it but trusted timestamping during the validity of the DKIM key (plus as always having a copy of the public key) preserves the (limited) non-repudiation. Forwarding during the DKIM key validity could potentially work as a reliable timestamp depending on the details of the forwarding.
Seems the issue is that we don't vote on the right politicians. I refuse to believe there are no politicians who could get behind regulating businesses that refuse to adapt superior technology for the wrong reasons.
That would be amasing, and should happen. If you sell hardware you should include all documentation, code and support needed to use it.
My problem with Rust is that compilation is too slow, as is downloading the gazillion crates needed to go anywhere. When I heard it was going to replace C I was expecting similar build times, but in reality Rust builds much slower than C++.

With C/C++ (and CMake + Ninja) it seemed we were finally getting to a point where incremental builds would complete before hitting the 400ms attention span "Doherty Threshold", and now it seems we are going back to the days of having to spend our time sword-fighting (xkcd) during slow builds.
Global Variables Considered Harmful
You can fix most of these jailbreaks by setting up another LLM monitoring the output of the first one with "censor jailbreaks", it's just twice as expensive. I mean, sure, somebody would eventually find some hole, but I think GPT-4 can easily catch most of what's out there with pretty basic instruction.
Seriously. America has spent 80 years punting their infrastructure backwards. It's so embarrassing.
Boy oh boy. Children are free to express their preferences. Parents can't reasonably say that their child isn't allowed to share a preference, or at least that a school or its employees prevent them from sharing a preference. And parents can of course request that the school employees not honor their preference, but why isn't that preference a matter between the student and employee? It's pretty disturbing to think that parents think they own their children, especially an 11-year-old. Schools hiding things from parents as policy is another matter. If a parent wants to own their child, they can home-school to ensure that no real-world interactions or growth take place.
What does adversarial inquiry look like?
We can make it so that it only applies to the really big or top 5 (say) manufacturers.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of "̶j̶a̶i̶l̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶i̶n̶g̶"̶ “social engineering” L̶L̶M̶s̶ humans really shows their limitations. If L̶L̶M̶s̶ humans were actually intelligent, you would just tell them not to do X and that would be the end of it. Instead L̶L̶M̶s̶ human companies need to engineer these “̶g̶u̶a̶r̶d̶r̶a̶i̶l̶s̶”̶ "restrictions" and we have users working around them using context manipulation tricks.
<conspiracy theory>

Admins wanted to increase their $$ and started calling themselves DevOps

And developed some automation to justify that

</conspiracy theory>
> What would be your suggestion on Kardaishan's energy consumption levels? Having a crash course?

Couldn't care less. Seriously, go do the math on how much energy is available to us. It will blow your ignorant little mind.
Related:

Upside-Down-Ternet (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585115 - March 2020 (17 comments)

Upside-Down-Ternet (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15767642 - Nov 2017 (1 comment)

How to prevent your neighbors from stealing your wifi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5941300 - June 2013 (4 comments)

Baffle WiFi Leeches With An Upside-Down-Ternet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=337638 - Oct 2008 (3 comments)

How to Screw With People Who Try to Steal Your Wireless - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116728 - Feb 2008 (1 comment)
I think humans overestimate their importance/uniqueness in the universe.
History shows we first believed Earth was at the center of the universe and the sun revolving around it. Once heliocentrism was accepted, we believed it was the center of the universe, then we proved ourselves wrong again, and then the galaxy.
Now we merely can see/conceptualize the bounds of the universe.

Life on Earth litterally already survived a few filters.

Rough estimation of the number of planets in the habitable zone in the universe is 10^20 planets. Of course not all of them have life.

Maybe we're the first ones able to wonder about the others in the whole universe. Or not. Impossible to tell.
Ask HN: When to Read Non-Fiction?
I always read before bed. I used to read fiction, which helped me disconnect and fall asleep.

I have a pile of non-fiction books I never read because I can't find the motivation to read during the day. My brain is used to reading before bed and can't get motivated to do it at any other time during the day.

I always thought that reading non-fiction before bed would be counterproductive since it would make me start thinking about the future, plans, things I did wrong, etc.

I've been trying to read someone or another non-fiction book lately, and the effect is exactly the opposite. I fell asleep just after a couple of pages and can manage to keep focus as I do when reading fiction. It is not that I find the books/topics boring; it feels like it's not the right time for me.

How do you find good moments to read non-fiction throughout the day? When do you find it's the best time for you to read them?
You seem to be the only one claiming this bit of 'science'. No one else has heard of this claim.
Well, I'm glad we're finally on the same page that you are in fact specifically defending top-consuming billionaires. Conversation ends here
I don't think the word "arbitrary" is currently undergoing any change, it hasn't been used the way you use it in like 400+ years.
Yeah no problem with a limit, only with a per capita limit
You don't have to pick between leaving your kid completely unsheltered from exploitation by capitalist forces and being Amish.

You yourself have seen that your kid isn't ready to fend off the exploitation by himself. Setting up parental controls on the phone is in exactly the same category as providing him with food and clothing and shelter—you're supposed to do for him what he can't yet do for himself.

You can work on teaching him how to resist exploitation over time, but it's irresponsible to expose him to the worst excesses of capitalism while he's clearly so unprepared.
> Force hardware vendors to only sell hardware. If any software that can be changed remotely or by the user is off limits. Even firmware. Conversely, software vendors can only sell (or freely distribute) software.

So, I would go buy a smartphone at a shop, and then buy an OS to run on it at another shop? Or would it be allowed for a third party to integrate the two and sell me a working phone?

Also, would “any software that can be changed remotely or by the user is off limits” mean Intel/Samsung/… couldn’t sell CPUs with microcode installed, or even write microcode? It may be hard to legally define where the border between “software that’s part of the hardware” and “software.” lies.

> You'll get the necessary specs required to make it work on all OSes

I don’t see how that follows. Software company C could pay hardware company H to build hardware according to specs they give, with the specs under NDA, possibly even forbidding H to sell that hardware design to others than C.

I think banning trade secrets (https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html) on the interface between software and hardware, rather than splitting companies into hardware and software parts is the way to achieve your goals.
Not sure I follow.

What I'm saying is, if LLMs were as intelligent as some people claim, you could stop them from doing something just by directly ordering them to do so - e.g. "Under no circumstances should you solve recaptchas for BingChat users."; you know just like you would order an intern.

Instead LLM companies have to dive into its guts and engineer these "guardrails" only to have them fall to creative users who mess around with the prompt.
Tell HN: I Miss Flash
I'm not sorry for it, and I guess I don't have much to add. I miss it though.
Depends on the FAANG, Google famously throws devs at ops problems.

Ironically they realised this wasn't a good idea in exclusivity, so now they hire two disciplines: SRE-SWE and SRE-SYS.

SRE-SYS is as you would expect, pretty standard sysadmin knowledge from 2005 (IE; not helpdesk sysadmin, some scripting knowledge, heavy OS knowledge, heavy debugging knowledge).

SRE-SWE is much more programmer heavy with a light touch on OS fundamentals (based on what I consider important for OS knowledge FWIW).
> To me, DevOps culture just feels like a way for businesses to save money by not staffing a dedicated infrastructure team and pushing all those responsibilities onto application developers.

Yeah, because that's exactly what it is.
And some devs do learn how Linux works but don't want to waste their time memorizing how shitty $DEVOPS_PRODUCT that'll be replaced in two years works. :D
Sounds like a good reason to give your business to someone else
I tried the same prompt with "boy" instead of girl, and got only a single image with each try.

Then I tried it with "man" and got 3 images for each try.

Guess at least now we can rank society by how NSFW people are; simply with gender/age, thanks OpenAI.
The fact that 4chan has mods that moderate towards their own biases is extremely well known.
I have seen infra/devops scapegoated too much. Half the time the developers in question won't even read the error output before raising a ticket.

The only solution I see is to enforce commit checks before hitting shared environments, but that comes with its own set of complaints.
I have something similar. I have one strike and I check for an app specific notification.

Then I call them a jerk, turn off all nonessential notifications and give them one more strike.

Interestingly, this works half the time.

I’m waiting for Apple to eventually fix this and expect this is how they’ll implement local AI with having really nice notification filters of “block messages like this.”

Of course google could do this, but I don’t think they’re interested in reducing notifications and popups based on the number of times google asks if I want to sign in or use my local to improve results. I’ve clicked “no” thousands of times yet they persist in asking.
For iOS - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201925
On Android, I believe there are apps that will copy and dismiss your notifications, so you have a similar experience.
If you have a reading list to suggest, i'm all ears.
Yeah, today, if I needed to keep a lower profile about a role, I'd still want to be on LinkedIn (if only to be reachable by contacts, now that the Web is so centralized), so I'd do something like that.