skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this a surprise?

Why the fuck Apple would even be considered to have any major mobile phone share in Africa, a continent where in the majority of countries (and surely the most populous ones), the average monthly way is below $400/month?

The same, to a lesser degree, for Samsung.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037141 - Oct 2023 (124 comments)

Google Online SRE Books - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31373170 - May 2022 (11 comments)

What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14153545 - April 2017 (86 comments)

Site Reliability Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503161 - Jan 2017 (111 comments)

Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474002 - April 2016 (93 comments)
Reading Hacker News ;)
One problem with feedback is that the reality is that people are often not hired rather than rejected.

I've been on a bunch of hiring committees (for mostly not purely technical jobs). And a lot of the time the discussion takes the form of "eh," "not feeling the love," or "we can probably do better." Usually it's not about alarms blaring or red flags going up or some specific skill set missing. (To be fair, the jobs I've been on committees for usually involve a lot of interpersonal relationship skills rather than a specific set of technical requirements.)
Pretty impressive. I wonder though why it was necessary to put the point map of the second image into the coordinate frame of the first. Isn’t it all the same from the point of the neural net?
I mean it’s true. Borrowing costs are a HUGE input into people’s lives and they’re not included in the standard measures of inflation so there’s a real substantive disconnect that has developed.
As a non Googler myself, it still is if you want to know how to set up an SRE team and introduce SRE (ie good sysadmin, for lack of a better word) best practices. The focus on actual indicators such as SLI and SLO, the importance of reducing "toil" (boring repetitive tasks) and automating,... these are all valid concerns.

If you want more about system design and how to design reliability, I suggest reading https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-system...
I just wonder in this data if people who are homeless have mental disorders or addiction problems that make them way more likely to die and the problem isn’t that they are homeless, but that they are addicts or have untreated mental illness. Correlation is not causation.
Plume looks neat!

What is the pricing model you have in mind?
It's a rare company that does marketing well though.

Just off the top of my head I can only think of one company that I allow to send me marketing e-mails -- I bought a ukulele over 20 years ago and they send out a couple 'newsletters' a year which IMHO is acceptable, doubly so since I haven't picked up a ukulele in over a decade.

Contrast that with my last online order that started sending out at least two a day as soon as they got their dirty paws on my e-mail address and I had to unsubscribe even though I was/am interested in the 'new releases' they were spamming my inbox with.
In practice the standard deviation used is implied from option prices, making the whole thing completely circular. To match the market you need to use different standard deviations (volatilities) for different options!
The platform exists but it is probably not what you want: Library Genesis. Publishers insist on pushing paper-book characteristics like 'wear and tear' to digital copies in libraries so they can only be lent out a given number of times or a certain number of months after which they are 'worn out' and the library needs to buy a new copy. Here are some of the rules set by different publishers [1]:

Penguin Random House: one copy/one user, metered access: titles expire after 24 months, then library must repurchase

Hachette Livre: one copy/one user, metered access: titles expire after 24 months, then library must repurchase

HarperCollins: one copy/one user, metered access: titles expire after 26 checkouts, then library must repurchase

Macmillan: one copy/one user, libraries limited to 1 copy of newest titles for the first 8 weeks after publication, metered access: most titles expire after 24 months or 52 checkouts (whichever comes first), then library must repurchase

Simon & Schuster: one copy/one user, metered access: titles expire after 24 months, then library must repurchase

Ebooks are priced at 2 to 4 times the retail rice when sold to libraries.

A question to those working in publishing: where does the revenue end up? Is this another example of a rent-seeking scheme like Elsevier/Wiley et al. have been up to in scientific publishing or does it work like Spotify where at least part of the revenue goes to the authors?

[1] https://cheshirelibraryblog.com/2019/09/10/why-do-i-have-to-...
By “completely different” I mean something that I haven’t encountered before. Something completely outside of and unrelated to my current interests. The old internet allowed for this kind of random discovery. The problem with curated content is that if you do manage to find something new and different, the algorithm will then start serving you related things. There’s no way to truly “wander the stacks” as it will keep showing similar and related content.
"My hourly rate to consult on hiring processes is ${houry rate}, minimum 8 hours. Alternately, I'd consider a full-time role in HR at your company for ${salary requirements}."

Seriously though, asking a rejected candidate to do free work to benefit the company is unbelievable.
Hmm, in my humble opinion, it's better not to post like this as it kind of wastes other folks' time.

Sorry if this comment comes across as too harsh.
Unlike in fantasy novels, feudal castles aren't found out in the middle of nowhere; they're found in places where they had control of either trade routes or a substantial local economy.
Your comment is so fraught and keeps on jumping around so I can't figure out what you'd like to see happen.

But regulation of people's behaviour is how we deal with these things. There should be consequences for abusing other people no matter what tools you use.

If you're talking about banning AI ("AI apologists"?) then were do you draw the line? People use cars to kidnap children and rape and murder them, should be ban cars? AI has positive and negative uses just like cars.
since when did the FTC switch to SMS-speak?

> Such software can allow landlords to collude on pricing by using an algorithm—something the law doesn’t allow IRL.

"IRL"?
No rewriting history.

The US decimated Iraq (literally) because Bush wanted to put thousands of angry teenagers and 20-somethings onto a battlefield for revenge for 9/11 when it was the Saudis all along.

All the "intelligence" after that was reverse engineered to make that invasion and war happen.
Code with no users seems roughly equivalent to writing with no readers to me. Or possibly unpublishable writing.

There are repos everywhere with code about as useful as this author's writing.
I always click the unsubscribe button at the footer of e-mails if I don't want to be micro-harassed daily in my Inbox. I never want to read newsletters, and there's no anomalous exception to that.

We are all living on borrowed time here on earth and I don't want to spend significant portions of it reading newsletters and promotional material. It's just a gimmicky growth hack your service/product uses to gain leads.

And most of the e-mail I receive is bacn[0] instead of spam.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21830739
I am not sure why someone would downvote this. It is 100% revolting and indicative of a really rotten system that allows this to happen.
Alt: https://web.archive.org/web/20240303150044/https://www.nytim...
> America was wrong. Saddam was evil. They can both be true.

Is there a word in psychology for people not being able to process such thinking?
I usually assume that interacting with spam in any way will only mark my email address as active in their database. It is the worst when legit business is sending reminders about expiring service even after I deleted my account. That tells much about their personal data handling.
What I wish for, is some sort of way to legally be eligible for small amount of money for each spam or GDPR breaking email message. Want to send unsolicited email - pay up.
"Coll, an American journalist and author, fought a legal battle to gain access to a tranche of the material which is now the basis for his book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq.

It is a tale of mutual misunderstanding, often told from a western perspective but now, for the first time in depth, from Saddam’s idiosyncratic point of view. The Iraqi dictator believed the CIA to be all-knowing and all-powerful, so assumed George W Bush’s administration knew very well Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) left after Saddam ordered their destruction in the 1990s.

The threatening rhetoric coming out of Washington was just propaganda, Saddam concluded, as he kept up a pretense of possessing WMD to deter his enemies, Iran in particular.

“He was trying to signal his pride and his fear of humiliation and of vulnerability to both internal attacks and potentially external attacks,” Coll said.

In apparent moments of doubt, Saddam would occasionally buttonhole ministers to ask if they had hidden any remnants of the nuclear, chemical or biological programmes he started.

“Do we have any programmes going on that I don’t know about?” he demanded to know from his deputy prime minister in 1998. He was reassured that everything had been dismantled. "

Unbelievable!
> I like to think that most people who are upset at Kubernetes don't hate on all of it. I think the configuration aspect (YAML) …

I question the competence of anyone who does not question (and rag on) the prevalence of templating YAML.

> But rough edges exist everywhere, and when I get to a point where K8s hits a problem, I would think that it would be much worse if I wasn't using it.

Damn straight. It’s only bad because everything else is strictly worse.
Nah, the analogy is excellent and you are dumb. In both cases you can't see the important parts: calculations/energy conversion, and in both cases you can see the part that doesn't really tell you anything: CPU lid/the colors of the thing.

Do you realize how many bright gazzy things have visible layers? Hell, even a match flame has visible layers and is also part plasma.
For particular classes of email (unwelcome recruiters, people soliciting me directly that I know I didn't give permission to, stuff without an obvious "unsubscribe" or unsubscribe that doesn't work) I go to the trouble of reporting to their email providers which I find via the link below. I do get responses from the other end often enough and if enough complaints get in they'll start getting blacklisted.

https://acidtool.com/
Thanks!

It will be a subscription model. $25 paid yearly or $3 monthly (that’s the idea for now).
They DID spend that money right back into the economy.

Do you mean to compare spending it versus giving it away?

Or would it be less revolting if they had listed the house on Airbnb or something?

Please explain.

That quote from Chouinard is awesome!
Cloud providers automate things like lease renewals, dealing with customs and part time labor contract compliance disputes for that datacenter in that Asian country that you don't know the language of.

I'm constantly fascinated how people handwaivingly underestimate the cost and headaches of actually running on prem global infrastructure.
> All the "intelligence" after that was reverse engineered to make that invasion and war happen.

Agreed. Any article about "Desert Storm" which does not mention the Project for the New American Century [0], and the Office of Special Plans [1] is a greatly lacking piece of writing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
GTA Vice City on a Consumer TP-Link Router
Is there any vendor of actually good email-as-a-service? O365/Exchange/Outlook/Hotmail is a mess. Google has a support problem. Fastmail has an offline email problem. iCloud is not obviously suitable for professional use.

What’s left?
i didn't get music with Firefox on Windows either. Will keep trying though.

Edit: Oddly, if i open and close uBlockOrigin (nothing listed as blocked) then the animation will proceed frame by frame. One frame for open, one frame for close. Dropped an issue for you on your github.
The amount of attention and care a bug report or a piece of feedback receives is inversely proportional to how easy it is to file it.
> not because they enjoy being evil.

There's a line from Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" that floors
me every time.

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

A devil sick of sin! Wow.

As you say. They don't enjoy being evil. But they are. They know it
too, and it sickens them as much as all of us.
Why B2B marketing needs brand building more than lead gen
Since that thread didn't get significant attention, the current thread doesn't count as a dupe. There are some comments there though:

Wikipedia downgrades CNET's reliability rating after AI-generated articles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39556041 - Feb 2024 (10 comments)
The other books.
We'll be lost in a Library of Babel full with every possible syntactically valid article, regardless of truth value.
Are there any entry level SDE roles, perhaps ones for new grads?
> with the option of requesting a phone or video call

If they want to tell something real instead of "you were a fan-tas-tic candidate, but we decided to go with another." There's no information, nothing helpful in there.

If HR thinks that saying something about e.g. experience is supposed to be helpful, they should have informed everyone in advance where they stood wrt. experience. Because that message still makes the recipient feel "and now you tell me?" So don't mention it, or inform throughout the process. If HR doesn't like that, because it reduces their options, but then please cut the BS.
For multicloud I usually think of my local K8s cluster and GKE, it's been a few years since I touched EKS. I'd love to hear your opinions on the substantive differences you run into. When switching between clouds I'm usually able to get away with only changing annotations on resources, which is easy enough to put in a values.yml file. I can't remember the last time I had to use a cloud specific CRD. What CRD's do you have to reach for commonly?

Thinking about it; the things I see as very cloud agnostic: Horizontal pod autoscaling, Node autoscaling, Layer 4 loadbalancing, Persistent volumes, Volume snapshots, Certificate managment, External DNS, External secrets, Ingress (when run in cluster, not through a cloud service),

That ends up covering a huge swath of my usecases, probably 80-90%. The main pain points I usually run into are: IAM, Trying to use cloud layer 7 ingress (app loadbalancers?)

I totally agree the underlying implementation if resources can be very different, but that's not the fault of Kubernetes; it's an issue with the implementation from the operator of the K8s cluster. All abstractions are going to be leaky at this level. But for PVCs I feel like storageclasses capture that well, and can be used to pick the level of performance you need per cloud; without having to rewrite the common provision of block device.
Why would you find that strange? He's using his own definition of intelligence while acknowledging there's no universal agreement.

Expressing your own point of view while acknowledging that other points of view exist shouldn't be strange. Strange is not being able to see things from different perspectives, those people are abnormal even when they happen to be in the majority.

The only valid criticism I see is that "by any stretch" is hyperbolic, but that's easily forgivable.
Your needs and wants are not a claim on my life. My life is my own. If you want to feed your money into whatever you define good as, go ahead. Dont expect anyone to cater to your whims with the fruits of their labors though.

this is the fundamental problem with society today. Everyone thinks they have a claim to goods and services they did not earn and hate people that earned them, rather than pushing for antitrust enforcement to break up market power that allows incompetent offspring to stay rich rather than lose their wealth and return to average wealth where their capability says they belong.
Depends on how you measure wrong, I don't think that Newtonian vs. Special Relativity Physics is the same amount of wrong as geocentric vs. heliocentric
$SHOP has such a good set up this year
Far from it. TF is mostly writing static content, maybe read one or two things. It’s missing the runtime aspect of it, so are most cloud offerings, without excessive configuration. Rollouts, health probes, logs, service discovery. Just to name a few.
>which is what happened for one job I applied for

One job?

My (few) jobs have been through personal connections for 20+ years now. But way back when in the days of sending letters into the void, there were countless examples. Admittedly far fewer when I actually had in-person interviews.
Tesla's core customer is a person buying a fairly spartan EV sedan or crossover. That's not going to change until the current rate of Cybertruck production and pre-order delivery acceptance changes.
If i insure my house for 200k, i get 200k whether it costs 200k or 400k to rebuild it.

My home insurance has doubled from 2022 to 2024 for the same level of insurance. And the value of my house crrtainly hasn’t doubled. I expect some increase year to year but that is excessive.

Inflation is expected but a lot of companies are also taking advantage of the rise in prices and using excuses that no longer apply.

Companies aren’t willingly going to go back to reasonable prices if people are still willing to pay higher ones or if customers are locked in.

Check out Pepsis earnings call a few quarters back. Basically “we raised prices bc we can and our margins have increased”. Its just capitalism. Supply chain shock is over.
> The core issue here is whether governments should control how iOS is designed and which part of iOS.

That's Apple's core issue, maybe.

Now, look at it from the perspective of a sovereign market. Their core issue (a-la United States v. Microsoft Corp.) is how much they are willing to allow while admitting market access. In Microsoft's case, their manipulation of technical capabilities was considered illegal monopoly action. Apple is treading on the exact same ground with Safari and going even further in the case of the App Store - corrective litigation was an inevitability.

Apple ultimately doesn't have to abide by the EU's decisions if they don't intend to intend to access their markets. Governments[0] already[1] control[2] so much[3] of iOS[4] though[5] that it's kinda a moot point =)

> Furthermore, it can be argued that forcing iOS to be more like Android decreases competition.

It can be argued that competition with Android is not what iCloud, Safari and App Store regulation is about. It's certainly not mentioned anywhere in the DMA or Japan's equivalent legislation.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sl...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/politics/nso-contract-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361762/iphone-russia-sta...
Do you have any friends that can go through a mock interview with you? There are also mentorship platforms that offer this as a service. I am biased since I have been on the mentor side of this, but I think they are well worth the money.
HN and old reddit are pretty similar, but HN does seems slightly more useable without JavaScript. I think it is just the default level of folding? I usually use HN with JavaScript enables—I think it is required for comments—but trying it now without it, it seems like everything is defaulting to non-folded, which is good.
I agree that they are a zero sum game, but I’d argue that the sum is a net positive for traders over a long period of time, and the people who are systematically loosing are the workers who’s true earnings were siphoned away from them and onto the stock market, where they are sold as derivatives.

This manifests in e.g. how much cheaper it is for people to borrow money who hold a large stock portofolio, how interests in a normal savings account are usually much less than people who keep stocks, etc.

If you trade in derivatives perhaps every individual trade is a zero sum game, but taken together a whole year of trading yields benefits regardless, and that is also a zero sum game, but this time an unfair one, where you are guaranteed earnings at the cost of the workers.
If you have a neighborhood with abandoned buildings, some of which are burned out or boarded up or just have all the windows smashed out, and you then clean up the abandoned buildings, then property values will go up. When property values go up, rent goes up. Which part of what I said disagrees with 'the research'?
If you need access to legacy Windows software, this may not be an option. I know Wine has gotten a lot better in recent years, but it still isn't 100%. There are other options as well such as virtual machines, but these often come with worse hardware requirements.

I also think it's perfectly valid to just prefer the feel of one OS over another. We live so much of our lives in front of a computer, it is meaningful whether or not that OS brings you joy.
> Is there an IPV6 for phone where we could have billions of throwaway numbers and use them as we see fit? Introduce a new country code that has 32 digit phone numbers and if you don’t accept those numbers, you don’t get our business?

This is my question too. I've always thought something like you describe would be a pretty good, fairly practical approach to phone/text spammers just guessing numbers in valid area codes. Yet I never hear the FCC and other 'powers that be' talking about this kind of approach. They only seem to focus on ways of stopping spam at the source or network edge, which seems like a potentially intractable problem. Conversely, approaches which make it impractical to reach targets seem like they would be nearly impossible to circumvent.

Yes, there are downsides in eventually displacing the 10-digit perma-number space but those could be mitigated by keeping the old number space but allowing users to quarantine inbound 10-digit comms that aren't already in their 10-digit address book (or don't have caller ID).
Must say, there are hilarious roasts here.
Some, yes, but many of them were former local overseers taking advantage of the fall of globalisation to convert their de facto control into de jure.
> if a human is ever waiting for a pod to start, Kubernetes is the wrong choice.

As someone who is always working "under" a particular set of infrastructure choices I want people who write this kind of article to understand something: the people who dislike particular infrastructure systems are by-in-large those who are working under sub-optimal uses of them. No one who has the space to think about "if their infrastructure choices will create an effect" in the future hates any infrastructure system. Their life is good. They can choose and most everyone agrees that any system can be done well.

The haters come from being in situations where a system has not been done well - where for whatever combination of reasons they are stuck using a system that's the wrong mix of complex / monitorable / fragile / etc. It's true enough that, if that system had been built with more attention to its needs, that people would not hate it - but that's just not how people come to hate k8s (or any other tool).
This attitude leads to the state of society today in the US.