skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the AAD encoding is a good point, and you're right (and so is everyone else that pointed this out, including the above commenter) --- there is an actual footgun here with how the AAD is encoded.
I am not, I was making an observation about the "It's a mess and a revolving door of people" comment. The recruiting practice that OP described is not acceptable for any company, public or private.
Blind is still an alright forum for a gut check I think?
For. Real. What pathetic nonsense.
This is great - love the detail this goes into.
It really doesn't have too much with regulations etc usually.

For engineers for example, you will earn higher income and pay less tax, different rates. And larger companies usually have a set asside budget for contractors.

Its easier as an engineer as its never hard to find another job. If this wasn't the case, you would see a higher percentage of employees who require job securoty.

Nothing to do with regulation from my experience, just better pay and more flexibility.
Where to start really depends on what your goals are but you mention no knowledge of business. You'd probably quickly realize you know more than you give your self credit for. If you want to check out a classic primer there is as book called The Personal MBA. It's a super high level overview/quick read and does a good job covering a bunch of basic business topics.
It sounds like Justice Thomas is suggesting that this might be a reasonable thing for legislators to write laws about. It is not Justice Thomas saying, the US Supreme Court is likely to issue opinions on Twitter as a common carrier.

Maybe that’s what you intended to suggest, by the phrase “wading in.”
I'm getting myself into a lot of trouble today randomly throwing around terms, like as if HKDF meant "any secure hash based KDF, like HKDF but you know with Blake3".
Think of the bullet you dodged.
Student loan forgiveness may be a handout to a certain sector but it's a way to shape the economy. The problem the US has is vastly expanded educational sector that's also, uh, crap. A more rigorous but less inflated system would be appropriate. But how you get that is hard to see.

The thing is, you have huge sectors; education, public transit, health care etc, that would be reasonable to improve but where privatization based capital investment have resulted in huge, costly and, well, shitty systems.

The only way out is removing a huge group of corrupt operators at the heart of each of these sectors. I don't know what hope there is of this tbh.
There were certainly fast “shouty” shows back then, like The McLaughlin Group. Computer Chronicles was a lot more laid back. That may have just been how Cheifet and Kildall actually we’re all the time, or they might have been extra mellow to fit the PBS vibe. I don’t know.
Winamp has a media library feature, it can keep track of what you're listening to and builds playlists of your most listened and top rated tracks. Quite handy.
Paywall.

(Not complaining about the author's right to do that. I am complaining about posting unreadable content to HN.)
I moved from Helm to Ivy a while back, but yeah. Booting into vanilla Emacs is almost a foreign country to me now.
> and take advantage of long term compounding.

Yeah that is what I mean, what happens when the stock market drops 75% over 25 years? Not much compounding happening. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EN225?p=%5EN225
I'd suggest to just use your electric kettle (the same you use for making water for your tea), if you have one.

If you aren't careful, microwaved water can explode as soon as you move it. See eg https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/explodi...
Systems that install new machine code without changing page permissions run an instruction cache barrier after installing and before running. Rosetta catches this instruction.
I like to compare Nix to ice-nine from Cat's Cradle, in that it tends towards restructuring whatever it comes into contact with.
... which has widespread deployment without DNSSEC.
In my profile. Thanks!
For a startup you probably don't have the capital / financial support to ensure redundancy packages etc.

If you need someone to come in on your greenfield project and hit the ground running, thats what contractors are usually used for; the beginning and the end of the lifecycle.
At least with tech there seems to be very little de-globalization. The vast majority of tech companies and even consumer products have both a workforce and customer-base that spans the globe.

A few outliers like Huawei make news but not a global trend.
Hah, ouch. My brother and I both grew up with a nanny as Mom and Dad commited 100% of their time to work. We hardly saw them.
Encouraging your employees to be political activists at work, regardless of affiliation, seems firmly in 'stupid games; stupid prizes' territory. I don't think that applies just to progressive activism.
> Credit unions are not-for-profit, while REI makes billions in revenue,

Periodic reminder: revenue is not profit. A not-for-profit can bring in billions in revenue. (I don’t know of any non-profit organizations that fit this description)
I'm sorry; that's bad. Can you email me with details so that we can investigate what happened? (patrick@stripe.com; others welcome to do so too.)

More than 10,000 people have interviewed at Stripe so far this year, so "several sigma bad" still happens to an unfortunate number of people. That said, we want those who interact with Stripe to come away having been treated professionally and respectfully, and our recruiting team cares about fixing our process failures. On behalf of Stripe, I apologize.
I've been reading a Neil Gaiman book to the youngest kid every now and then which goes like:

> Ladies of Light & Ladies of Darkness,

> & Ladies of Never-You-Mind,

> this is a prayer for a Blueberry Girl.

> First, May you ladies be kind.

> …

> Dull days at forty, false friends at fifteen;

> Let her have brave days and truth.

> Let her go places that we’ve never been;

> Trust and delight in her youth.

And then I read stuff like this, or articles about the grim reality of private schools (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private...), and I wonder … how did we get here? is this what it means to want your kids to go places we've never been? Is this ... good?

From Flanagan's Atlantic article:

> Why do these parents need so much reassurance? They “are finding that it’s harder and harder to get their children through the eye of the needle”—admitted into the best programs, all the way from kindergarten to college. But it’s more than that. The parents have a sense that their kids will be emerging into a bleaker landscape than they did. The brutal, winner-take-all economy won’t come for them—they’ve been grandfathered in. But they fear that it’s coming for their children, and that even a good education might not secure them a professional-class career.

> …

> Daniel Markovits, a professor at Yale Law School, coined the term meritocracy trap—a system that rewards an ever-growing share of society’s riches to an ever-shrinking pool of winners. “Today’s meritocrats still claim to get ahead through talent and effort, using means open to anyone,” he has written in these pages. “In practice, however, meritocracy now excludes everyone outside of a narrow elite.” This is a system that screws the poor, hollows out the middle class, and turns rich kids into exhausted, anxious, and maximally stressed-out adolescents who believe their future depends on getting into one of a very small group of colleges that routinely reject upwards of 90 percent of their applicants.

Is that all there is? Is it just, work work work, get the kids into a good school, line up their tutors and extracurricular enrichment, watch them graduate, maybe meet the grandkids, die?

Why do so many people want this so much?
Major cities are still experiencing a rate of population growth much higher than the national average.
Pretty easy if you have a reasonably fast PC (>8 cores, ideally HEDT/server), use one of the two popular platforms (Windows or Ubuntu) and don't try to outsmart the build system.
> Salaries for hired software engineers in Europe are dismal

I strongly disagree, it might be all relative of course, but dismal is not a word that would even come close.
How much electricity could we save by shutting down every porn site on the internet? Probably more than we’d “save” by shutting down PoW blockchains.

Every economic activity uses energy (electricity, or combustion) in one form or another. The argument you’re really making is that the net increase in energy usage due to Bitcoin’s existence—and the resultant carbon impact, however you propose to measure it—is not worth the benefit provided by the Bitcoin network. But if you’re going to judge Bitcoin by its carbon footprint, you might want to judge all other economic activities by the same standard to avoid accusations of hypocrisy.
I think you’re missing out on the almost infinite possibilities of how body language and tone can give off different moods or intentions of a person. But these cues aren’t often processed in a literal sense, our brain can pick things up without us knowing exactly why something is wrong or different, it just is. It’s very intuitive based I think.
I think the trade off is a subsidized price point, and associated specs, and an unsubsidized one.

I’d guess the panels are all pretty common.
My favorite feature of NixOS so far though is the ease of creating containers via the configuration.nix file. There's a few services I run that don't have nix packages, but do have containers. It's essentially like writing a docker compose file, but instead of YAML, you use Nix and all of the niceties that come with it. Seems like the best of both worlds (as someone who isn't themselves creating containers).
How can an article about "elite competition" not mention anything about how, during a few decades in the 20th Century, labor's share of profits increased, and since 1980 has flatlined, with all rewards accruing to capital?

What analysis of elites doesn't include reference to Rupert Murdoch and Charles Koch?

The author seems to get that the ruthless competition in our world is destroying lives, but he seems to blame the competitors and those who seek to improve things.
I have no idea. I’ve never been diagnosed as such if I am.
It seems rude to call something a code smell the instant (or… two years before the instant?) it gets replaced. Though it is C++, where you're apparently never supposed to use several of the features.

Although, I mean, iostreams is pretty bad.
Anecdotally, healthcare benefits did factor in to my decision making when I thought about opening my own shop. I have two small kids and decided at this point in my life I’m going to stay put instead of starting something.
It was also 20 years ago when Microsoft didn't constantly release half finished versions of Windows.
This is a very real annoyance for me too.

It takes wayyyyy too long to power/boot up.

That being said, I just hook up my own speakers.
Didn't realize the ghosting was so common. I had a leadership development and coaching firm approach me to join them, asked me to interview, spent 2.5 hours of my time and then ghosted. I thought this was amusing as it shows piss poor leadership skills and they're supposed to be high quality coaches, sent an emailing saying as such, no reply. In addition to our "Who is hiring?", "who wants to be hired?", we should add "who was ghosted?", heh.

Shout out to Sourcegraph who interviewed me ~Q1, had a good process, and although it wasn't a fit, didn't ghost me. It was one of the better interviews I'd had in my career.
Make the Sign Bigger
Is that localizable, or does it compile the interpolated string into code so it can't be replaced?
Them: "I will only need 20 minutes for this. "

Me: "I only need a few seconds. Either you are more perceptive than anyone else I've ever met or you or as arrogant as anyone I've met. Either way I'm not a good fit. Thank-you and good luck in your search!"
>Basically you add noise to reduce noise. Fascinating...

for a video demonstration: https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM?t=873
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The "larger system around it" is not trained to "do what a human brain does". That's called "behavioral cloning". The major players do not do that.

That's why the systems are more robust than you probably think to failures in perception. It's also why these systems sometimes fail in ways that humans would never fail.
Anyone who uses Shopify want to hop on a 10min call with me?
Because it's a conservative journal. Their entire world view basically doesn't consider that as something to be concerned about to begin with.
> some might even say now inorder to get an ok return one needs to chase risk further with things like ARKK tech stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Returns of broad market index funds like SPY are not considered OK now? Am I living in an alternate reality?
Off topic.

We have our images saved into private ECR. We are trying to deploy those using AWS lighthouse or copilot. Haven’t found any material on how to deploy an ECR image to either one of those services. Any references you can provide?
My advice is to find a company that more or less specializes in IT consulting/outsourcing and spend a couple of years learning the ropes. Get an understanding for how it operates, how they generate leads, the contract side, negotiation, etc.

Doing this will give you not only a good sense of the business side, but also whether it’s something you really want to do on your own.

Also, find a niche and specialize. Part of the reason there is so much noise is your skill set is presumably generic. Saying “I’m a senior web developer” puts you in competition with millions of others.

The competition is global as well, when it comes to the freelance market (e.g., India, Pakistan, etc.). Whereas, I’m a “Senior developer in X technology” when there are only 5-10 others who can do the same thing puts you in a league of your own.
Karpenter by AWS – Kubernetes node autoscaling
I would be my own boss right now if health insurance for a family of five didn’t cost a small fortune. But it does.
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I pay under $400/mo for a pretty good marketplace plan. That’s not prohibitive.
Yes, expensive but indeed dumb commercial displays for offices.
My MBP left Shenzen early this morning and I'm super interested in details of how you did this. Are there any examples of doing this that you followed or recommend? Ansible is more my tooling of choice, though I'm fascinated by Nix, but I wasn't sure even how to get started with using Ansible to set up the Mac.
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PoW also requires ASICs, and as the recent semiconductor shortage illustrates there are definitely limits to how much supply that industry can crank out. Mining rigs depreciate and must be replaced eventually, so it’s not like the supply can just grow without bound either.
I use Firefox as my main browser, Brave as backup foot sites that don't work well with FF.
Brave does a good job with randomizing fingerprints.
There’s just too many edge cases and system/language oddities that make me continuously reach for Docker as default, even after 4 years of NixOS as daily driver.
To be fair it does mention "Retreads of the Reagan program today serve as a stale punchline rather than a serious attempt at politics. ...adding more free-market Reaganism to combat the fallout from free-market Reaganism".
I think you - and a lot of other people - overstate how hard this is. It's really not much of a churn to get leads in todays market. Even for someone who keeps working at small companies (whoops) in a tech backwater like me.

Also clients are really not like bosses at all - even for me who is on the "software pro" - to use the Daedtech terminology [0]- end of the self employment spectrum.

- There's no polite fiction that I'm going to stick around indefinitely

- The 'interviews' are way shorter, because it's so much easier to fire me. I'm backing myself to deliver which is a show of confidence

- It's just a much more honest and less un-equal conversation. I can survive without them, they can survive without me, but we have a mutually beneficial relationship. Not one based on power or desperation.

[0]: https://daedtech.com/a-taxonomy-of-software-consultants/
My mother working at Walmart pays $60/month since the rest is paid by the government. If you’re starting something, you probably won’t have income so the cost goes down for you too.
> there are four projections of the 50-dimensional vector space that would project out just as well from a random matrix because, well, projecting 20 generic points in a 50-dimensional space to 2-dimensions you can make the points fall exactly where you want in 2 dimensions.

Well, no. Linear projections follow a bunch of rules that enforce conservation of various linear structures. You can't manipulate things arbitrarily.

For example, if three points are colinear in the original space, they will be colinear in every projection. Perhaps more relevant to the GloVe examples, if a-b = c-d in the original space then the same equality holds in every projection. Since the projections are Lipschitz continuous, we can also say that is a-b is close to c-d in the original space then they are also close in every projection.

Anyway, the point that these figures illustrate is easily confirmed by downloading the embeddings yourself, so insinuating that the authors are getting away with something that they should be held to account for is silly.
If somebody is a no-hire, what favour are you doing them by extending the interview loop to the end? You're just wasting their time at that point. (Though I've never heard of an interview slot being cut short like that based on a couple of questions. If the interviewers are habitually preparing for that, it is just insane.)
How could it not be? I want to pay the creators, not some useless middlemen who only exist to solve the problems created by copyright.
In this case a security person appears to have used their position to change chrome for google users to display a message when they visited a website of a contractor google was working with (that was anti-union, the employee presumably being pro-union).

This sounds like a stunt someone who hadn't gone to college yet might pull, but this person was a google engineer in a position of trust / authority - not sure how the google hiring process works but she made it in.

I mean, no business is going to willing let one employee hijack the browser used by their users to spread a message the company doesn't like. Most businesses make this very clear - you can't use company resource to spread your messages (political, MLM, side hustles, religious etc).
Recruiters have gotten strangely more persistent and aggressive recently. Somehow my corporate work email (@google.com) got into some leads database recruiters use and I get emails about once every two weeks from recruiters, which I usually ignore (or tell them to remove the address as it's for work, not personal stuff). Several that I have ignored have sent multiple repeated emails ("Just following up in case you missed it") and so on.

I used to get recruiter cold emails once every 6 or 7 months. Now it's at least once a week. I got two the other day in the same day from two recruiters at the same headhunting company with 90% of the same boilerplate text in common. Inconsiderate, I think?

I don't feel bad about not responding.

Actually if it reminds me of anything, it's 1999/2000 right before the .COM crash. That's the last time I remember it being this crazy. I remember a day in 1999 when I worked at a startup where everyone's phone (yes, we had desk phones then) all rang in sequence one after another as a recruiter made their way one by one through the company directory.
> I think the basic intellij config is set at max 2 gigs of RAM

yes, that is the conservative JDK defaults iirc; its likely unrelated to intellij specifically. I only mentioned the system specs because the other commenter was like 'i buy nice machines and give the editor tons of RAM'. but thats the cost of them using java. I don't want to tune my editor to ensure its responsive and can get its job done.

> Windows issue, and has nothing to do with intellij

except I exclusively run linux. ;)

> what language was that project written in?

early days for a flutter app. most of the issues most certainly due to the plugins themselves.

it was primarily gradle tasks running without prompting and fucking up my build.

I didn't configure anything. the experience was so bad I just bailed out, switched to my standard stack vscode and the command line stuff and never looked back.
You should have read to the end...you also probably should have actually read more about what conservatives think, rather than what people who aren't conservatives say conservatives think.
Georgism seems obviously helpful.
Another, simpler (and therefore potentially attracting the wrong kind of response) way of getting at the crux:
There's a reason much (maybe even most) anger on the left revolves around a perceived denial of the existence of privilege, and perhaps most of the anger on the right ultimately boiling down to a perceived denial of the existence of responsibility.
> If I pushed a pop-up notice out company wide with a message my employer didn't approve of, I'd definitely be expecting to be going out the door rather than doing the litigation process.

If it were relating to anything other than labor organization, it would be a no brainer. But there are special legal protections for labor organization, so I not sure it's clear cut in this particular circumstance.
So capitalism is the only economic system capable of producing vaccines? If we had any other system of production, we would just be S.O.L because it takes an kleptocratic, imperialist oligarchy to make stuff?

It never fails to surprise me how little thinking technolibertarians do outside of their professional domains. I so wish we trained more generalists capable of recognising at a glance how ludicrous an argument like that is. People who's only qualification is that they're good with computers should really just stop thinking their opinions are useful on topics outside of their domains of expertise.
“The first 2 categories need better help than healthcare insurance. I think it's plainly obvious after SF spending $50k/homeless person that more money isn't going to help them.”
I had a similar thought recently; I'd gladly pay 15% to someone that can consistently find me interesting work that pays well.
One suggestion is to do a half-step instead of full leap.

Find a small business or smaller shop to work for (even accept less pay and use a little savings so you know how that feels), raise your hand to do stuff you normally wouldn't do (if you're an engineer, volunteer to help with sales, marketing, customer service, etc.), make nice with the owners, and constantly learn what they do.

Once you get their playbook, jump out on your own or side hustle practicing it until you're ready.

That is what I did. It took a few years, but I'm happy I did.
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Most energy arguments are little more than hot takes, speculating on what might happen in hypothetical worlds where the cost of energy behaves in a way that it literally has never behaved in human history. The efficiency of energy production, storage, and transmission has always been and will always be the fundamental anchor of worldwide economic growth.
Yeah I know, but this seems like a throwaway line designed to add "both sides" cover, in between several paragraphs of shadowboxing the Left.

The owners of the system seem curiously left out of most analysis.
Would that logic suggest that washing machine brands are equally unreliable? If not, why not?

Eg Miele benefits from having a reputation of building reliable products. They can and do charge more for that reputation, but also have to live up to it, if they want to keep it.