skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google’s speech-to-text can be used to break its own reCAPTCHA
I've done an EE "leetcode" phone interview with a non-technical HR person asking scripted problems. Didn't get to a real interview, then they foolishly called me back a year later where I just told them not again. This is for a company in the hinterlands of Oregon where you're making a sacrifice to work for the only viable employer in the area.
Really appreciate that feedback!

Anduru_h: Great point - we'll add a 'Demo User' button on the sign-up page ASAP so people can try out the functionality without inputting any info

Goatmobile:

Much appreciated!

1) Not possible to upload your own decks yet, but that's the next on the docket. We'll expand our default offerings, develop a 'create card' function, and improve importability of decks that are delivered through other flashcard platforms.

2) Love this tip - we'll add pre-fetching ASAP!
Yeah I think that's fair, maybe I misread your comment. I find that base maxes at $250k but equity has a much higher ceiling as the eng levels get higher.
People are so reactionary here when they read the title it's disappointing.

"Post theory science" really probably means "explanations for complex behaviours are complex and in some cases beyond simply testable theories". We've seen this in quantum physics, where things like string theory are on the edge of testability.

In the first example in the article, they find limits of the behavioural-economic Prospect Theory. This isn't surprising - the tools used to develop that were pretty primitive compared to what we have now.

In this case this is a lot more like how science used to be done: collect data, make some observations, discover they don't align with the current theory and then people might be stuck for a while before they come up with a new one.

Learnt computer models are helpful because if they are good enough they simulate the real world better than many simple mathematical models do.
What does adversarial mean in this context? That I disagree with the original poster?

> In my experience, I can gather more information about a candidate's ability in just 15 minutes talking 1 on 1 with them rather than hours of Leetcode busywork

This is your perspective as someone doing hiring. My perspective is from someone being hired. I really don't think leetcode is that difficult all things considered so a system based on leetcode is just not that bad in my opinion. It's really not that difficult, there is a set of 15 or so algorithms that are all 40 or so lines long and you just need to memorize them to the point of instant recall. Now you can get hired almost anywhere.
If you cut open a rocket engine, is it rocket surgery? Does that require even more knowledge?
Without reading the article, I guessed that this was some idiotic hit piece with an extreme leftist slant. Polygon used to be one of my favorite video game review sites, but once Trump burst onto the scene they went super woke super fast. I haven't been there in years. Judging from what other comments are saying, it seems my guess was right.
This reminds me of the Nortel Displayphone [1], a similar all-in-one computer with 1200bps modem and keyboard. By the time I got mine from a friend in ~1992 it was already way outclassed by PCs, but I loved the hardware integration and the alt-future it suggested. I used it to log into a few BBSes before getting bored with the slow speed and amber monochrome screen. If I'd been older & had one in the early/mid 80s I'm sure it would have been a big part of my life.

Related, in Santa Monica where I grew up we had one of the first municipally operated BBSes in the world called PEN [2][3] that was primarily accessible from the library and other public terminals. I remember it was pretty fascinating but something that was more for adults so I never really used it much.

One thing I loved about the BBS era (1980s to about ~1995) was that everything was distinctly local, due to long distance charges. It added a layer of meaning and rootedness to online activities thats impossible to recapture now.

[1] http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/disphone/index.htm

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160313225121/https://www.wired...

[3] See page 77: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11860/3290549...
I just sort of assume it's because `dig` already has the string mapped. But maybe people just like typing "chaos".
I've got https://phishtrack.net/ which is basically ready to go... but it made me discover how much I hate marketing. If anyone wants to get it, I'd totally sell it. (no active users)
The pride of the Russian navy is at all times accompanied by a tugboat.

Their forces are a joke and we need to stop them before they do something stupid.
There's not even any way to figure out if it's possible or not without trying.
Study Challenges Evolutionary Theory That DNA Mutations Are Random
I completely revitalised my life by deciding to treat myself as the primary focus of my day and my job as the extra that fit in around it i.e. working 8-10am and 5-11pm and having each day to myself.

I was living in Australia but working remotely for a company UK. I got into a terrible habit of waking up at 7-8am and reading and replying to all the emails and slack chats that had happened over night for an hour or two. Then I'd work alone without interruption 9-5 then around 5pm the UK would wake up and I'd get emails and slack notifications on my phone which i'd dip in and out of until 11-12pm when I'd go to bed.

I'd essentially be switched on to work 16 hours a day.

So I swapped it and decided I would take 9-5 everyday for myself and only work the hours around it.

I'd wake up at 8am and do all my emails and chats from bed on my phone then jump up and be on my laptop while eating breakfast. Maybe do a couple of small easy tasks. I'd do that till about 10am.

Then 10-5 was me time. I'd go to the gym, go to the park, play computer games, read, work on hobbies etc. I'd travel and meet friends for lunch if I could. Reading and listening to music as I travelled to their work. I also had alot of friends who worked hospitality so they would also often be free.

Then I'd get to my rented co-working space at 5pm and work for 6 hours till 11pm. Eating dinner at my desk, usually something I'd made in bulk on Sunday that I could reheat.

I'd then walk 10 mins home and either jump straight into bed or do a couple of chores and be in bed by midnight.

If someone wanted to socialise in the evening I'd just tell my colleagues and work during the day that day.

Doing this was amazing. I felt like had so much free time, I'd even sometimes get bored.

I definitely wasn't productive during all these 9-5s, sometimes the time would just vanish and I'd have nothing to show for it. But that's fine.

I made the most of all the sunlight hours rather than being stuck in doors which was amazing.

I don't think my work suffered, I think they preffered it as I was available to talk and join meetings.

I also found it really helpful to spend 8-10am planning my tasks for the day, then letting it all stew in the back of my head for 7 hours before working on it. I'd generally have some eureka moments mid afternoon and excitedly crack on when 5pm came around.

Obviously this isn't possible for everyone and it did cause some issues particularly with dating, but it was alot better than the 9-5 grind.
I took leap seconds for granted, then I read about Google "smearing" leap seconds. And then (on HN) I read about someone else working on a standard for smearing them differently than Google does, just because.

...aaaand there's an xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/2266/
It was just an example of a game that people sink lots of hours into, and yes, way too much gold, to the point where you are swimming in it even if you aren't trying to grind it. There is also the issue that you can break the crafting system to create single potions that are worth hundreds of thousands of gold and that should probably cause the game universe to be sucked into a black hole, but that is a separate issue.
Yeah I’m sure that a janky text file will really impress a manager. Seriously, there’s something to be said for design.
100% agree. Wordle is not a hard game - it has a pleasing mix of luck and skill, and while all the theories and strategising are interesting, none of them are really necessary. I don't understand the "exploration" strategy at all - playing "hard mode" means every guess is a possible winner.

I've done about 30 now and my highest amount of guesses was 5 when I had the "ank" of CRANK and from there it was pure guessing as there were multiple, equally likely (as I understand it) possibilities.

My best score was 2 guesses and it felt like a very hollow victory - just a lucky guess, really. 3 feels like you've done some work and yeah, 4 feels average.
I noticed the other day that Target doesn't sell ANY N95 masks in any stores near me in the Bay Area. This far in to the pandemic and it really feels like the powers that be simply do not care.
I think there is a naive assumption to it that nothing other than humans had ever been proven (smarter && autonomous && self-sustaining) than a human, thus a corporate cannot be alive. I’m not sure how is this proposition remains supported and for how long.
> given how hard it is to hire Rust engineers,

That's not given.

> Remember vala anyone?

Vala is nothing like Rust, doesn't solve the same problems, and is much more narrow in scope (Gnome development).

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AcldYn...
I think focusing just on resources misses part of it.

Upper class parents know how to raise children to present as higher class because they have the benefit of having been raised and lived in that class.

Being able to spend time on my kids helped, but they also entered school at a high level in math and reading and with the diction of a higher class because I knew how to teach this to them.

Some of the knowledge of how to succeed in education and develop children's minds is unevenly distributed, and it's not something easily fixed by just committing resources. (Though committing resources surely helps).
It's a pretty clear evolution of http2 overcoming well documented shortcomings. It does help the mobile use case but overall I'd say no.
Wow. But why would your manager do that though? Were you working unreasonably hard, so much so that others couldn't keep up and it made them look bad? Did they dislike something about your attitude? I want to understand their perspective on why they jettisoned a high-performing employee.
> Somewhere between Newton and Mark Zuckerberg, theory took a back seat.

It is like saying "Somewhere between Ghandi and Wonder Woman, India's independence movement took a back seat"

It is clear that WW has no relevance just as Zuckerberg to science.

Also, comparing one of the most respected human minds of all time to a simply grotesquely powerful active living person this way is something that is very distasteful from a news publication.
Does have to be not just "strong" -- but "extremely strong" evidence?

Not to split hairs - but it does seem to be a peculiar choice of words, there.

I just don't see why the DSA filter has come to be considered so golden that one's ability to not just demonstrate some baseline capacity for this skillset, but to positively master a sequence of concocted performative rituals around it (specifically: reciting these algorithms in front of groups of strangers at a whiteboard; "talking" large blocks of code to someone over a phone; or doing online tests under completely unrealistic time pressure) -- that, in some corners at least, has come to categorically dominate all other selection criteria in the hiring process.

(Actually I do see why -- but it all comes down to factors not related to the intrinsic importance of these skills, or to whether the candidate can effectively do the job).
This statement should give you pause when the FDA has rejected the risk benefit assessments of the qualified advisory committees.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2074

https://www.rollcall.com/2021/11/17/fda-to-sidestep-advisers...
As CrazyStat hints, anagrams are not equivalent in Wordle, because changing the word order means that you're also changing the bucketing, the words in the anagram shifting between yellow and green.

To be more specific, I counted 882 possible words in the worst case using ARISE, versus 697 using SERAI.
Why does health care have anything to do with employers? I simply don't get it. Somebodies health care should not be threatened simply because they may lose a job.
Interesting rant, but wrong. Object databases never took off. The relational model doesn’t fit every application but neither does any other model.

The “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” theory was discredited a long time ago, and this article recapitulates that misleading idea.
Study identifies predictors of severe outcomes in children with Covid-19
These 3 functions will stop on `await event.xxx` (if not, they will continue to execute or terminate).
So when one of the functions is terminate https://github.com/pdubroy/handling-user-input/blob/main/abr...

await Promise.any(fibers.map((f) => f.run()));
fibers.forEach((f) => f.terminate());

Abro will reject the promise of these `await event.xxx` https://github.com/pdubroy/handling-user-input/blob/main/abr...

this._promises.forEach(({ reject }) => reject());

Which will throw an Exception and exit the 2 other functions.
We don't have a perfect model of reality to do science completely virtually using unsupervised ML. Science by definition is not mathematics as it is grounded first and foremost in empiricism. You can use ML to help produce science. E.g. hook up a sufficiently sophisticated "AI" system to do experiments and analyse data and generate hypothesises. But the AI itself won't obsolete the scientific method. I am surprised that the posted article is written by a science journalist, I suspect it is mostly due to her not understanding how ML is implemented rather than misunderstanding the scientific method.
If you, or anyone you love, has been affected by rape or sexual abuse, I highly recommend this book: https://ninaburrowes.com/books/the-courage-to-be-me/

It's the only comic/graphic-style book to address this topic in a practical, sensitive way - a groundbreaking book!
I understand and empathize with the sentiment here. Interviews have a skewed power-dynamic. A handful of people, or sometimes even a single person, can make or break your chances at what you feel is your dream job, and there is nothing you can do about it. It is an extremely frustrating place to be in, indeed.

I've had people with half my years of experience, ask questions that were likely from an algorithms course they took during their (under)grad school days, with little regard for its applicability to the role. These are the kinds of red flags I look for, and while I am yet to walk out of an interview, I do make it a point to provide feedback to the recruiter, along with my decision to withdraw from the process.

It is also pretty telling when a company fails to account for the candidate's experience. At best, it shows a lack of experience with recruiting; at its worst, it is a good indicator of poor culture. Having a person with 10+ years of experience write a quick-sort algorithm is unlikely to produce a good result; mostly because any engineer with that kind of experience would not really write a sort function by hand, unless working on a very low-level system (and even those are mature enough to have an optimized sort function readily available for use).

Like interviewing, conducting an interview is a skill that needs to be developed, and any good company would take measures to ensure it does a good job of it. Recruiting, after all, is a pretty expensive affair.

You've likely dodged a bullet there. Count your blessings, and move on to greener pastures. :)
Yes, but is this causal?

Is it the college education itself that explains all of the earnings difference?

Or is it that the most adept of each income block are more likely to complete college education, and some of the later income difference is because of intrinsic ability rather than the benefits and signaling advantages of a college degree?
Teletext was popular in much of Europe, but the big difference to Minitel is that it was essentially broadcast only: you could browse pages, but not contribute to them. This obviously vastly limited its utility, since things like reservations and chat services were not possible.
OMG thank you for putting this together, OP.

I work with clients for whom this knowledge will be greatly useful. CTRL-R is a revelation, every time.
I believe that is exactly the point OP was trying to make?..
I did something similar including third guesses, but got bored before including letter positions. I included a whole bunch of words in case anyone wants to mix it up each morning. [0]

The main problem I think is that the words certainly aren’t chosen purely randomly, so the actual letter frequency could be completely different…

[0] https://rdrn.me/wordle/
This is also a place where corrupt governments can impose sanctions on other countries through.
> They're very simple and they test for your ability to write code.

Do you have objective evidence that this is an effective test of "the ability to write code", or is that just your belief?
I agree they are, but this is framed in the context of the parent post which implied that experience improvements aren't really features that count.

And of course you're right, the reason almost no one builds polished experiences anymore is that, in most cases, it's not economical. Some developers (e.g. Things, Fantastical, Telegram, etc) make it work, but unfortunately it's very rare. I wish incentives were aligned differently, but I know they're not and I don't have a scalable solution; just have to hope enough developers decide to position themselves as the app with a good experience and make it work.
9 is a weird one. That person could have sent you good clients for a commission or a return favour and ended up much better off than burning bridges like that. Unless they really thought they were sending you nice clients!
Dried goji berries may provide protection against AMD
My router has never seen the switch use upnp.
Leaning San Francisco skyscraper is tilting 3 inches per year
>Eating buttered potatoes for the rest of my life isn’t a win to me

Speak for yourself!
If KDE and GNOME are stuck, it's not because they can't innovate with their UIs enough with traditional ways of interacting with a computer. In fact, I don't think innovating in a way that doesn't involve new ways to interact (such as VR/AR) is very desirable to most users.

The truth is, most people don't want to install operating systems, even if they're free and easier to install than Windows. The only way to go further is to ship with hardware and for that combination of hardware and software to be in demand. On top of that, when the operating system/desktop environment has reached a decent baseline of general usability like KDE Plasma and GNOME have, the software ecosystem around the OS/DE is more of a limiting factor than the UIs of the OS/DE.

The fact that System 76 sells laptops could actually give their DE a significant advantage over other small DEs if they ship their own DE. It's unlikely to overtake KDE and GNOME since System 76 doesn't sell tons of laptops like Dell or other big hardware companies, but I guess never say never.

I don't expect instant world domination, but I hope the Steam Deck (which will ship KDE Plasma for its desktop mode) will greatly boost the popularity and developer community of KDE. With success, there is a chance at a snowball effect where new users who enjoy the product contribute and bring attention, which brings more new users, etc. All things considered, the share of people using the Steam Deck isn't going to be that big compared to Windows or even MacOS, but it is getting a lot of attention.

One of my friends from the KDE community (which I am also a part of) has written multiple articles about this on his blog. Here's one: https://pointieststick.com/2021/12/09/what-desktop-linux-nee...

> A desktop environment isn't that difficult to make, that's why we have so many.

We actually don't have that many and they actually are pretty difficult to make. Linux has quite a lot of window managers, but not complete desktop environments. The 2 most popular ones require a lot of maintenance. Even GNOME, which has gained a bit of a reputation for dropping features is very large in scope.
San Francisco’s Tilting Tower (2018)
> It's just a matter of time before someone wins an Oscar for best cinematography and does it using a couple thousand dollars worth of equipment.

This is a lot more accessible now with things like the red komodo and blackmagic pocket 6k pro. If you buy a pocket 6k pro and rig it with a lot of stuff (a cage, series of external NVME SSDs, matte box, etc) the cost is still way under 8000.

the red komodo is low enough cost that confident UAV operators are taking the risk of flying them on large quadcopters and octocopters in aerobatic/fpv mode.
you can also try the minimal game to waste your time https://www.snapfeel.com/share/post/?id=116
The premise sounds iffy ("SSH bastion hosts are an indispensable security enforcement stack for secure infrastructure access").

Every time you build some infrastructure, you expend scarce resources like engineering effort (=opportunity cost), time, money, and complexity by adding moving parts to your christmas tree of technology. You should always critically evaluate what's the most low hanging fruit you can invest in for a given end goal (eg improving security) considering the complexity costs. SSH bastions can be worth implementing in some situations, but not top of the list in many cases.

The next sentence starts talking about "security compliance standards" - you sometimes have to submit to doing stuff for reasons of ticking boxes, but it's important to remember when you're doing what's best for security and when you're going through motions mainly to tick boxes for someone else.
See also the answer from mindcrime.

There's also one very important difference between those two:

- others can see your favourites.

- you can see both your upvotes and your favourites

so only use favourites for things you don't worry about others seing.

I don't know if this is important for you but for a lot of people here it probably can be.
This is the “Dropbox is just rsync” comment
This Show HN [1] from Armbrust earlier in the week provided lab tests of 300+ masks bought from Amazon.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29878971
The latter, I think. More precisely, it's the same conception, just different perspectives on it.
If my taxes and utility bills are not covering the cost then they should be adjusted to match.
There are 100 black, 100 brown and 100 green balls. We take out 50 black and brown balls, and replace them with 100 green balls. But wait, actually the brown balls replaced the black balls because that's the idea I like. But liking has nothing to do with math. Something that decreased needs a replacement, it cannot be a replacement itself, since it was already there.

You don't even understand how insurance works. Added costs or whatever have no influence on the potential payout after an accident would occur. When even something nuclear proponents call benign like Fukushima costs $200B to cleanup imagine how much Chernobyl would cost today. We are easily talking trillions. Insurances are not lobby driven business like nuclear plants, whose main business model is dumping external costs on the public. E.g. nuclear waste, accident cleanup etc.
> The common cases for using youtube-dl

It works very well with many non-YouTube sites, especially ones hosting “adult” videos.

I assume porn is the most common case, but archiving Stanford lectures might well be second.