skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the last few years has really brought into sharp focus is that many people who distrust "official sources" (mainstream media, scientists, etc) seem to unquestioningly accept fringe sources, so long as it matches their prior beliefs.

Many of these same people consider themselves "skeptics" because they instinctively distrust the official sources.
But ..

"Risk of misuse
The thought had never previously struck us. We were vaguely aware of security concerns around work with pathogens or toxic chemicals, but that did not relate to us; we primarily operate in a virtual setting."!!!

Operating in the rarefied air of 'science' they were unaware of the risk of misuse!

I don't think they can even conceive of the idea that the government might misuse this technology.
I have a classic from '82. The wiring harness is a mess, at some point people all kind of accessories to the standard wiring, including a second switch for the main head lights and a totally illegal boat horn with a separate switch to turn it off. I figured out the horn and the head lights, since then I decided to not touch it as long as it works. The car has all of three fuses, no way to have a simpler harness. I once asked a garage, for what turned out to be a faulty relay, and I got a conservative estimate of 2k just for diagnostics. It took me almost two weekends to figure the relay out by sheer chance.

Replacing, and diagnosing, a modern cars harness for 5k is actually quite reasonable if not even cheap. Especially since the harness rebuild means basically disassembling the majority of the car simply to get access.
> Real people suffer real harms from the unintended consequences of poorly written laws.

I agree. I was more talking about the kinds of cases where a law is pragmatically unenforceable. Eg: where you could never make a reasonable case that a thing happened, or that the penalties have given the courts leeway to bring basically no consequence to an action. Perhaps the part that could have been more clear was "enforce" to which I more meant "enact"? I didn't mean apply costly consequences so much as "go through the motions".

There also is another subcase where I didnt bring up before, such as police not bothering due to effort:outcome ratio -- forexample police don't bother to go after bicycle thieves in san francisco
One thing you might consider doing is using https://github.com/USER.keys to verify the identity of the person connecting. Then use the GitHub API to verify they have at least N followers and has existed for N days. It would be wonderful to have a social network for open source developers on the command line.
> potential

That's the keyword here. It looks dangerous to some, but evidently, no one's hurt yet, driver or pedestrain. And we're talking 60K people with FSD Beta as of Jan (perhaps getting close to 100K around now). At 100K, and average 1000 miles, over 3-6month period, you have 100 million miles driven without a single injury let alone fatality. US average is 1.1 death per 100 million miles. If you don't look at these numbers and just go with the news, it sounds like Teslas are running over people GTA style.

> Why is it out there to begin with?

Because that turns out to be the only way so far to massively train the AIs to move this tech forward. If you think Waymo or any other self driving companies out there are gonna get anywhere with the amount of data they have, you need to get in the weeds a little and see what's what.
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The idea could also be to first post something obviously fake, in order to make everyone think, that their deep fake video tech is not addvanced enough to create really good fakes. Later they post something, where they put in maximum effort to make it seem real, having people think back to the previous fake and think: "Oh but this looks real and they are not able to produce better deep fakes than that other video."
...heh, can't believe it we're not yet at "Siri, use the TensorFlow 4.6 OmegaFold model to design potentially stable variants of COVID-25 with active BSE prionic inserts. ...DONE. Great, now place an order of the best generated sequence to the cheapest gene synthesis provider in <unregulared country x>. Air-mail delivery."
I don't think the rank of the position matters - it is unprofessional to not show for an interview, regardless of role, and leaves an appropriately bad impression on the candidate.

In a previous role, I would go on campus recruiting trips for my company, and we'd often have back to back interviews. Even when the I was literally trapped in a room, so the candidate knew I was there, I would do my best to finish on time and quickly get the next candidate. Eventually, our recruiters started building in buffer time, but until then, if I wanted to present myself and my company in the best light, then we had to start on the right foot - on time.

I occasionally interview higher level roles these days, and it's the same thing. Being virtual makes it far easier, since I can go from any meeting to the next with a button click, but when we were doing in-person interviews, it was necessary to plan for travel time between rooms. In the best of cases, the interviewers were the ones who moved, and not the candidate, but in either case, I'd rather wait on them than they wait on me.

So, no, it's neither normal nor professional.
We have no proof you are not a Nazi either. Let's assume you are, just to be safe. And maybe we can write a few blogs about it and drum up a following?
Is a deep fake asking Ukrainians to surrender an Article 37 violation of Geneva convention for perfidy?

I know false surrender is a crime, but using propaganda to trick the enemy into a surrender by pretending to be them, I wasn't sure.

I guess - is this a tool we will see more often or a tool not fit for civilized warfare?
Employer Ghosting: A Troubling Workplace Trend
The Red State Murder Problem
> and the ecosystem is maybe a bit more patchy..

Well that makes all the difference, if one is writing programs in professional capacity.
I'm Romanian and we don't have streets named after Antonescu, which is what Bandera was for the Ukranians in WW2. It is illegal to have streets named after Antonescu, because he killed hundreds of thousands of Jewish people in WW2, apparently in Ukraine is still legal to have a street named after Bandera, who collaborated in the killings of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
A poll conducted during the first winter of the first year where the status quo was different, and where institutions hadn't yet made changes to their procedures and schedules to prepare for it is not a true poll of the issue.
Although every mildly surprising authentic image is also now greeted by inevitable shouts of "FAKE!".

In a world of easy image trickery, people stopped believing any image they didn't want to believe.
(Forgot to mention--the X40 has the more powerful CPU and the greater amount of memory).
This is a very dangerous precedent for RISC-V.

Allwinner is known as a champion in GPL violations, obfuscating technical details and keeping binary blobs. This defeats the entire purpose of RISC-V and creates an environment similar to what is now for ARM (everything locked down, everything opaque).

The advertisement is basically false advertisement, this is no computer for "free hackers" but another locked down SCB with a non free core.
Living in rural America, where it is safe, and folks are polite and friendly and happy to leave you alone (if you're white), I have to say that doesn't mean people don't believe batsht crazy things. Because lots of them do. Or at least say they do, 'cause there is a big step between saying you believe something and actually acting like you do.
There are things where you can't do without preemptive multitasking. I remember that under Windows 3.1, I couldn't download a file over zmodem at 2400 baud while doing anything else, whether the terminal application was DOS or Win16. With the same DOS app, on the same computer, under OS/2, I could do pretty much as I liked while downloading.

Cooperative multitasking has gotten a lot better these days, though, in the form of coroutines and async io.
Interesting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_war_comes
How come in Romania (from where I'm from) it is illegal to have a street named after Antonescu (our Bandera counter-part from WW2) while in neighbouring Ukraine it is not? Why aren't they 100% for eliminating their Nazi past from, well, the present?
The Future of Work in Inda
The method I described it a bit weird and round-about, exactly because it has to work around not knowing the bias.

Essentially, it generates a thousand flips, and then carefully extracts the randomness only out of how those flips are shuffled, but now how many heads there are.

However, the closer to 500/500 your distribution is, the more entropy the method I describes can extract. Conversely, if you randomly hit 1000 heads and 0 tails, the method can't extract anything, and you'll have to sample again.

In contrast, a method that knows the bias and can exploit it, can extract the same number of random bits, no matter what you actually flipped. Eg in the special case of a known unbiased coin, you always get 1000 random bits for 1000 flips. Even if those flips happen to be 1000 heads.
Quick guide to identifying the Russian tanks
I was thinking more the infrastructure, though I guess the video streaming services are probably hostile actors too. Something like “this video was not signed by the president” similar to a blue check mark on the bird app.
I rewatched lotr after having seen GoT, and I was struck by how simplistic the good vs evil narrative of everything was.
> I'm surprised so many people trust their software and operating systems

As opposed to what? Creating your own OS and software down to the silicon?
Talking about people in politics is almost always a smoke screen. There are weakest links in every political caucus. Personal failings are a fine reason to dislike or vote against specific people, in most democracies we each vote for a person and who that is should absolutely matter, but it generally has nothing to do with the actual issues. The fact that you hate the Clintons (with you there) or can't stand Trump isn't really relevant IMHO to whether you vote for your specific local Republican or Democrat candidate.
It's good, but Austrian bread is still a bit better.
> Russians in Russia don't have a choice

Each country has the leadership it tolerates (or deserves, I guess). It is of course very hard to depose an entrenched rul(er|ing class), but not impossible. I'm not even demanding you do so, it makes sense to my mind that you would choose flight over fight. But that does not put you in the same position as fleeing Ukrainians.
You ever run backups every Sunday at 2am UTC? Does that ever confuse you or the computer doing it’s job? If not, the problem you describe doesn’t really exist.
GoTek being most popular, yes.
Makes me question what else they are incompetent in.
FYI, a good solution for youtube on Android is FireFox + "Video Background Play Fix"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...

or the NewPipe App...
> again submit their transactions containing any speech they like using again VPN/Tor and not interacting with those wallets with any KYC-enabled exchange.

That last part seems like the key challenge to me: what you described isn't cheap and it only works to the extent that you can do business with people who aren't following KYC. That makes it more likely that the entire service will be tainted because the non-trivial cost means that people aren't going to use it if they don't need to.

The other problem is that durable records are inherently risky. Your use of such a system isn't just a question of whether someone can see the transactions immediately but whether it'll retroactively become de-anonymized — the public blockchains are right out there but if you're trying to use a private L2 system you now have another party you're placing a lot of trust in — not unlike the questions about how you'd be able to trust a VPN provider or Tor nodes not logging your traffic.
So they should do unpaid emotional labour for free?
Exactly. I found myself fascinated about these vintage army videos. Vintage training videos from the 70s/80s are also very good. Compact, effective, no bullshit, and occasionally a sense of humor.
My thoughts

- not normal and quite the statistical clustering.

- Depending on the role, sometimes things happen. I'm in operations, and I have at times been late or had to reschedule due to critical incident. But we double and triple up on coverage so there's always SOMEbody to open up the meeting and talk to the candidate, on time. And while we have at times been slow to respond via email in scheduling or following up, we never ghosted somebody for a scheduled interview - that seems weird and rare. Similarly, I've never personally been ghosted (I know lots of people who have though).

- One thing though - are you applying to the companies directly, or are you going through agency/recruitment company? Just to isolate whether there's some single point of failure.
You seem to be under the impression that daylight saving time is a new invention?

Yeah, changing the time of solar noon doesn't change the number of daylight hours, nobody thinks it does. The point is to stop using 1:00 noon 8 months of the year, and 12:00 noon 4 months of the year, just to pick one and stick with it.
Stepan Bandera Avenue was called Moscow Avenue up until 2016, where it was renamed after anti-communist (and, granted, nazi sympathiser) Stepan Bandera. He was arrested by the Gestapo and put in a concentration camp after refusing to revoke an attempt to make Ukraine an independent state.

You're doing some interesting mental gymnastics here. Do you think "a Russian bomb doing its thing very close to a boulevard" is in any way evidence of the "mainstream media" hiding the Truth or whatever? Who do you work for? Do you actually believe the Russians are attacking Ukraine because of nazis? Do you believe their invasion and the murder of civilians is warranted?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
those are good points, especially the one about feigning interest. but i don't quite get this:

hang out with people i don't want to be around

why should i hang out with people if i already know that i don't want to be around them?

maybe you mean that you don't want to be around people that you don't know. that's an important distinction. if being around unknown people is uncomfortable then yes, i should try to deal with that, my approach is to find some reason to be there other than the people themselves. a hobby or some other common interest which allows me to focus on that interest and ignore the people until i am more comfortable with the people themselves.
for synthetic data generation, what methods are they using to sample data from the distribution? What assumptions about the distribution are being made? Does it model correlations between sample attributes that could adversely effect some ML methods (multi-colinearity can cause problems).
Not to mention, while it could be hard for random online trolls, certain state actors in your country of residence likely already have a ton of your face stored on video, celebrity or not.
Did Columbia University Cheat Its Way to the Top of the US News Rankings?
It feels like if the author was really that indespensable, they could've used that leverage to get pretty much anything they wanted out of the company. Doesn't sound like a bad position to be in to me if you're ready to have some aggressive negotiation
The right wing political machine made Hillary Clinton out to be the devil. They, correctly, anticipated her run for president after Obama, and spent years making her out to be the worst person in America before she even began campaigning.

The result is many conservative circles are still obsessed with her even though she is relatively unimportant.
I doubt that any propagandist ever thinks a single piece of propaganda will single-handedly turn the tide of a war. I am no expert but I assume it's more a case of 'every little bit helps'
> There is really something non-human in Russians attacking Ukrainians.

This reasoning/process is dehumanisation, and is the secret sauce in getting people to commit atrocities against other people. No matter how well-intentioned you yourself might be, please do not perpetuate dehumanising language.
I feel old and crotchety now, but Society has changed.

The dating world has moved into (or mirrors?) the greater world and there "No answer is an answer" is the law of the land. And why not, seems there's no consequence for bad manners, and maybe no reward for good manners. So good manners are an inefficient liability these days.

This is one of the outcomes of massively expanding our spheres of communication (globalization + internet are enablers). What does it mean when you can cheat every customer that comes along and there will always be a new one? Or be rude to every option on (tinder|hinge|bumble) and there will always be another one? or ghost a candidate, and there will always be another one?

Also another way to think about it is external recruiters get to coast on the good will of the greater brand (say "Google") and any small damage they do to it is unlikely to be attributed back to the external recruiter. They don't have to buck up and reject you explicitly because they can just let "google" take the nick to their reputation.
Or the Red bull guy from Milton Keynes
> They definitely charged money for e.g. going to windows 10 from windows 7 or whatever.

No, they didn't.

> You also don't have to pay to install macos on non-mac hardware.

You "don't have to pay" because Apple doesn't allow it. If we're going to talk about bypassing restrictions and violating licensing agreements, you "don't have to pay" for most software because you can find a cracked version online for free. That's not an argument.
> Are these 3rd party recruiters

I've been ghosted by 3rd-party recruiters since before we had the term. I've had 3rd-party recruiters make materially false claims about the job, the location, the pay bands. This is just bog standard industry behavior.

I've also had one 1st-party recruiter recruiter ghost me (oddly, from a world-famous law firm) that took the time to bring me in for on-site interviews.

Just as "go in person with a firm handshake to get a job" is a social norm of a bygone era, treating applicants with enough respect to at least send a generic "thanks for applying" is a dying norm. Folks feel they don't owe their fellow man any basic courtesies, be it replacing a shopping cart, or sending a rejection email.
I've has internal interviews where people were late, HR didn't send the link, and the worst - the TL showed up but worked on their laptop the whole time, so distracted that they didn't even respond/acknowledge the answer I gave for the one question they asked (they offered me that job and I turned it down stating that I felt I wouldn't get the resources needed for growth on that team. They couldn't comprehend why I would feel that way even after going into detail. They tried to use that to make me look bad, which might have succeeded to some degree as my manager had a talk with me about it).
- law above religion

- equality

- democracy

- Separation of powers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers)

- ...

See for official EU value: https://ec.europa.eu/component-library/eu/about/eu-values/
Nice to see Huiming Qu getting a mention.

Home Depot seemed to have a tradition of good, practical engineering when I was there. Emphasis on solving the problem incrementally and reliably, rather than trying to boil the ocean.

(Disclaimer: Former employee)
I think that is generally true everywhere. People are against censorship, except when they're for it. They're for religious freedom, except for "those people". They're for free speech, except when you say things they don't like. I've not seen one group that values their own speech, their own beliefs, their own values, actions and communities, that doesn't undervalue the speech, beliefs, values and communities of other people.
It's extremely normal for recruiters to ghost you during the process, when they've found someone else or the open req simply went away. This is routine for third-party recruiters, but also to be expected from in-house recruiters too.

I've never scheduled an actual interview with an actual engineering person, and then be ghosted at that specific step. Years ago, I once had someone miss an initial technical phone screen, because a production outage came up minutes before the scheduled time. But even then, the company reached out shortly to let me know.

I would not even consider moving forward with such a company as you're describing, especially in the current job market.
>If they allow me to register an account with a weird email, why does having that weird email prevent me from paying?

Often times the merchant or payment processor has different systems entirely (and data is simply scraped from the form and input into their system for you).

Its happened to me before as well. Specifically when donating to my local PBS station...

So the operator doesnt care what your account name is, but the merchant they use to process payments/ensure PCI may care.
I'm in the UK and covid is over and I don't think anyone will ever accept anymore restrictions

We've just got to live with it now, fatality rates are below that of seasonal flu
This advice of being “so good they can’t ignore you” is better applied to the industry as a whole than a particular company. Since employees are dispensable and the average tenure is a short two years, it’s better to have indispensable skills for your industry so that you can easily find a new job at a higher salary or title.
It's a form of what is called 'black propaganda': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda
The demo signup form has a required field "Token" that's blocking me from signing up
That seems self-defeating via Streisand Effect or at least Cry Wolf effect.

Most of the people who’d believe a video saying the opposite of what they’d expect is real have never been aware of deep fakes.

And now thanks to this poor deepfake they are aware of deepfakes and are primed to question future videos, even if they seem real.
The strength of browsers (universally, near instant code deployment via URL) is also a weakness, unfortunately.
> I know shaming companies with their name is not nice, but ghosting candidates also isn't nice

From my perspective, your post is courteous. I doubt that any of those companies want other people to have your experience. If you don't name the companies, they might never know that there is an issue.
That's a fair point, I think as a non-native speaker I don't always notice these separate-yet-linked connotations, and pointing them out definitely helps in that regard. What would be a better way to get the same idea across?
FWIW: Write speed does not improve on Ubuntu 20.04. Still stuck at 400 to 500 MB/s. This was the issue which made me want to install the new firmware, and there was nothing on the drives which I cared about.

Upgraded from to 3B2QGXA7 to 5B2QGXA7.
I do not believe Zelensky is a Nazi. The evidence against it is much stronger than the evidence for it. Your ire against me is misdirected.
We do not yet have AI features for private feeds. But we do have it on the roadmap.
Depending on when you tested it last year, you were probably not even able to add your private feeds. In the meantime, you can add your private feeds and listen to them, just like any other podcast app. You can also create highlights, but without the transcript or any other AI features.
I've added your vote to this feature request to increase its priority.
Does it actually matter though? If he was a nazi, and if he engaged in practices from WW2 nazis like putting people into concentration camps, then there would be a case.

But it doesn't warrant an unprovoked single-party invasion. We're better than that these days.
Looks like the n-word filter is working.