skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scheduling an interview with a candidate and not showing up is just how it works??
We all saw this coming. Even if this instance is low-quality, eventually a similar scenario will happen with one that is good enough to fool most people. I think it is not long until official videos come with cryptographic signatures.

I am just realising that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actually had a similar scenario in an episode that aired in 1998. Essentially, a deepfake of a meeting of military leaders is created in a plot to persuade a neutral nation to join a war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Pale_Moonlight
> "Being on the same continent is a very basic minimum requirement which Syria doesn’t pass."

Why is being on the same continent a "very basic minimum requirement"?
I still use a cnc milling machine controlled by a 386. The only way to load gcode is via manual entry or floppy. However, it still gets the job done just fine for 90% of my needs.
90% of the time, you are correct. I like living here because people leave me alone, mostly.

That being said, you are absolutely on your own. The hospital struggles, the schools struggle, the roads are awful, and anything remotely related to 'government' is funded just above the point of being dead. And if you do not seem to be 'from here' (read: white, straight, middle- to upper-middle class, or have the right last name) you absolutely will be excluded from most social, religious, and other institutions.

In other words, it's not all puppies and sunshine.

That other 10% is political discussion. Which is a hot garbage pile covered in blatant racism and antisemitism.
Grasshopper is used a lot for parametric 3D printing as well (the printer prints a one continuous space-filling curve rather than individual layer slices).
If you are in the US, you can buy I-bonds [1]. You can only purchase up to $10000 per person per year in electronic form, and $5000 more in paper form. So, if you are married, you can invest $90k in 3 years. If you have kids, it appears to me you can open minor accounts for them, and invest in their name as well, but I'm not 100% sure.

I didn't do that myself yet, but I plan to do it.

Quote from the Treasury website:

What interest does an I bond earn?

A combination of a fixed rate that stays the same for the life of the bond and an inflation rate that is set twice a year. For bonds issued from November 2021 through April 2022, the combined rate is 7.12%

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
Just signed up for an invite -- looks like a great tool for a tab addict like me.
BartPE was inspired by what Microsoft had already done.

From the http://www.optimizingpc.com/miscellaneous/manual_bartpe.html page linked above:

> WinPE (Microsoft's tool Windows Preinstallation Environment) is used by system builders to install and configure the Windows operating system on new computers. WinPE is commercial software and only available for system builders. Bart Lagerweij saw the advantages of this tool and decided to develop his own PE, named BartPE.
The weird cages on Russian tanks seem to consists of mattress springs
or maybe they are too busy with the rest of their life to wait for telegram alerts, clicking on the link in time, checking out, etc etc?
You want me to make up something nice to make everyone’s day delightful? I didn’t make this world.
"isn't a larger political scandal" - somehow I have the feeling, nowadays only wacky assertions are able to trigger big discussions (and big feelings). Lots of things having a grain of sense are left aside, maybe for being not ridiculous enough...
Yes of course, these products are being shoved in our faces and sugar is even being snuck into things like bread and pasta sauce where you wouldn’t expect it. It’s really insidious but that doesn’t negate the personal responsibility people have. It’s a nuanced issue, it’s not all the individuals fault and it’s not all the food manufacturers faults. For example there’s also an education component (or lack there of) at play here.

But anyways, my point wasn’t about the contributing factors of obesity, but rather that if people are struggling with their health how are they expected to be worrying about things like privacy
I would argee that if it confirms a view they already hold or are inclined to believe then that is all that is needed.
There are actual models for this, I think they're often similar to a spin glass.
Given the context was explicitly "teenagers", getting to school is generally something kids can be expected to handle on their own. Admittedly having to arrive to early sucks for the few that truly rely on their parents to get there, but at least it only sucks for a few. (My school did start first at 8.30 (I think) and then 9, this is completely normal in many countries)
It's also to drive a narrative: think of all the discussions on HN where we're reacting to the headline and not the article.

This is a dynamic we've not seen before - Zelensky is out and about so he's seen by his people, but a huge amount of this entire effort is being shared online through social media. You don't have to convince people its authentic - you can just convince everyone that everything is fake.
usually the pattern is in reverse on reddit

government doesn't want you to hear people -> subject matter expert sees -> informs that information is faulty -> minority fight against the tide

Although usually this follows the covid lab grown pattern where the fight against the tide crowd usually treats their info as 100% certain which muddies the water when informed opinions have varying confidence levels.
> We as a community do not tolerate verbal abuse or marginalizing[0] language anymore. Grow up, live in the fucking now (and not the 90s/2000s when open source was a good ole boys' club) and adjust your attitude -- or face the consequences. It doesn't matter how long you've been in the community or how much you contribute; you are not entitled to leadership or prestige if you're a bigoted asshole.

English might not be my native language but, in my opinion, this statements contradicts itself.
They did say "there is a" not "there is only a". In the end it doesn't matter though, they can't get confirmation mail delivered to that and nothing bad happens.
I read many computer books and magazines from the 60s, 70s and 80s. It is really interesting from many sides; some logic explanation books from that era I find better programming beginner explanations than modern books. Modern books usually skip rigid logic introductions but are more about tooling, hello world and then more examples of practically implementing working solutions with that knowledge. Which contains a lot of plumbing including logic but gives the beginning programmer the idea that low level stuff is somehow mashed in with the high level stuff. I had many juniors crash on that; they cannot keep them apart at first and worry about implementation details while the actual logic/algo basically has in no way at all formed in their head.

Even in asm books they would show flowcharts of the logic first and then try to implement those flowcharts while many modern things assume you have that global idea and jump right into the details.

I never sweat the details until I need to which seems to make me a child of those times, which I am of course.

On the flip side, these old books also discuss far more low level stuff, some to the gates level.
You're kinda late to the party - these two are over two weeks old.

https://streamable.com/8inzvg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVcokRghpE
Uh, no.

1. You're way overestimating the wealth of the Near East in the time period we're talking about. If you look at Maddison's estimates of historical GDP (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...), you can see that circa 1000, "Western Europe" had a GDP of about 10.9 billion (1990) USD, slightly below "West Asia's" 12.4 billion. But by 1500, Western Europe has ballooned 44.2 billion, while West Asia has fallen to 10.5 billion.

2. Italian merchants had regular access to the Near East throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, so "suddenly the West had easy access to trade with the East after Lepanto" is not even remotely true.

3. Lepanto's significance even in the context of the 16th Century Mediterranean is highly debatable; arguably, the most it did was to halt further westward expansion by the Ottomans, while they solidified their hold over the Eastern Mediterranean (they did, after all, rebuild their fleet within a year). See, e.g. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important...

4. The most significant transfers of "knowledge" happened earlier, during the 12th Century Renaissance (translation of Arabic works and Arabic translations of Greek works) and the Italian Renaissance (translation of additional Greek works); continued transfer is evident in the apparent presence of 14th and 15th Century Arabic mathematical and astronomy texts in early 15th Century Italy, where they influenced Copernicus. And, of course, the transmission of other forms of knowledge and technology (compasses, paper, new agricultural products like citrus fruits, rice, and sugar, etc.) occurred throughout the period.
The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s cured, and it’s not better for you (2019)
Does location-based DNS even have a future? fly.io doesn't seem to think so: https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/
Does Excel support SQL? Because I feel confident that Excel+SQL would 100% replace Tableau and save us a million dollars
In Swedish telephone directories there used to be a section entitled "Om kriget kommer" (If there's war). Prominent among it was the phrase:

> Varje meddelande att motsåndet ska uppges är falskt.

(Every message stating that resistance has ceased is false).

No doubt something similar is stated in Ukraine.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/siteassets/5-information-och-f...
https://archive.ph/l31jI
Almost as if the mistakes were the important part of self-driving.
Crazy huh.
The same thing happened to me when I was last job hunting, albeit with a much lower ratio and far smaller companies. I chalked it up to people being disorganized and just wrote off those companies as possible employers in most cases.
This is great in theory. In practice you can get banned from your provider due to a high bounce rate.
If nobody believes this poorly executed deepfake, but it is used as a pretext for further censorship, whose agenda does it advance?
I agree, specifically this part:

> "In 2020 the German Environment Agency extended the award criteria to include software products, which was the first in the world of environmental certifications to link transparency and user autonomy with sustainability. In order to obtain the ecolabel, a software product must demonstrate that it meets a list of stringent requirements considered critical for the environment over the product’s life cycle. These include providing transparency in the energy consumption when using the software – for example, in the case of Okular, while reading or annotating a PDF – and the ability to run the application on hardware at least five years old. The Blue Angel award criteria also include a list of user autonomy requirements which reduce the environmental impact of software."

Okular is great and I'm a big fan of Free software generally, but the extension of this environmentalism award to encompass Free software values seems like a well-intentioned stretch and that 'runs on 5 year old hardware' thing is a joke. I'm hard pressed to think of any software that can't run on a computer from 2017. They might as well give the certification to the rest of all the Linux desktop software too. That won't happen I'm sure; Okular got it because KDE has organized an effort to get such certifications (https://eco.kde.org/#be4foss). Free software authors/groups that don't have the time/energy to seek the certification doubtlessly won't receive it.

So Okular has this certification and Envice does not. Does this actually tell you anything about which of the two is more ecological? I don't think so, it isn't safe to assume just from this certification that Okular is more efficient than Envice. But if an ecological certification isn't useful for such product comparisons, then what exactly is it for?
The New Neurasthenia: How burnout became the buzzword of the moment
To add on, it is a lot better story to tell during behavioral interviews:

“I was hired by the Director to solve $x problem. I led the project. I put processes in place. I led training for the team and they went public a year later. I met my former director for lunch a year later and most of my processes are still there in a slightly evolved form.”

About the same as above from my job after that. But change “Director” to “CTO” and change “went public” to “got acquired for 10x revenue”.

(Yes I can draw a direct line from the architectural changes that let them pivot to selling access to micro services to their value proposition when acquired)
Humour is dangerous in a corporate environment or in a dictatorship. Especially when it ridicules the "leaders".
As the XKCD prophecy foretold, there are now 15 competing standards...
https://xkcd.com/927/
Give it a couple of years and the tech will spread A LOT.
Tixati is the best client out there

It's fast, and has all the features needed
Hah, I still remember that promo. Even on Windows, the tool was super flaky and often did not detect the hardware.
I am not a real advocate, but Jacque Fresco has been told some ideas of how it might look if completed. Like round cities with all the good things in center and if you take a cam (for example) and after some time return a cam and a good photos/videos then you deserve to take a better cam. As far as I have understood, the key to such transformation is that people has to get rid of money somehow.

But of course there are not any ideas except one programmer's joke that all the governments might be replaced with one little script of code. Maybe we should return to this discussion after some examples of the script will be appeared somewhere.
Nah I call bullshit. This is not how the world works. You don't needlessly waste people time. If you have decided to move on to other candidates, you inform the person rather than just leave them waiting on an unanswered zoom call. This extremely unprofessional. This is how you're organization get's a bad reputation. Burning bridges is particularly stupid, when a simple email would suffice.
The biggest concern that I would have about the pay cut is the possibility in decreasing the caliber of team you'll be working with.

If you're experienced and taking this cut, what are the expectations of peers, juniors, even managers who aren't taking this paycut consciously.
Quite an interesting paper in it's impact study, but the questions it asks all boil down to "the masses are not to be trusted with our vaunted knowledge, because harm can be done. How can we prevent them from moving outside the boundaries of knowledge we like" and then the example used is how GPT-3 is managed. This is without a doubt a terrific example of bad technological stewardship: Any malicious state actor gets to use what you make for evil, while at the same time keeping it away from the folks you're making it for. I wish they had had a more substantial and innovative thing to say about it, but as it stands it reads as regressive.
O, well, let me see: because people are more susceptible to believing a video than a picture and some accompanying text when it comes to statements by a person?
I doubt the public targeted by this video knows what a key pair is, let alone how to use one.
> “It’s only good for as long as that computer lasts,” Nover tells me in 2020. “Once that computer is gone, we are out of luck.”

Not true, just save the binary and someone will figure out how to make it run. Especially windows programs. Wine can still run all kinds of obsolete windows software.
You can also look at it as a 66% paycut. I can make 30k and be richer than like 95% of the world, I doubt saying this would comfort anyone who did
Mental health affects happiness. You can have good and poor mental health both being single and not.
In a small unventilated closed room you'd be right - the aerosol from mask leakage would saturate the room and the masks would be useless. The kind of masks that most people wear are mainly useful for preventing direct droplet transmission when two people's faces are in close proximity - especially when there's talking involved.

However an airliner is extremely well ventilated - the entire cabin air is refreshed every 3 minutes, through a combination of HEPA filters and fresh outside air. In addition, the airflow in the cabin is vertical - new air is introduced at the top through the nozzles you're used to, and the intakes are by your feet. This means the risk from ambient aerosol transmission is much reduced and direct droplet infection becomes the primary risk vector. I would absolutely expect to see a reduction in transmission if everyone kept wearing masks.
Crypto is Mary Kay for young men.
I think "technical debt" works as an analogy because businesses traditionally see written code as an asset. And "technical debt" makes it clear that the value of that asset is being reduced, and communicates the fact that if the debt becomes large enough then that asset can actually become a liability.
So from viewing some videos it is apparent to you that Tesla's FSD is the most advanced? Sorry to say this, but this is as unscientific as it gets. There are data and metrics to determine this and there is so much to consider when evaluation and comparing the data from these kinds of systems.
One person assessing this from on person's (and an employee even more so) youtube channel is just fanboy talk.
Exactly. We elect people not ideas.
Don’t bring schizophrenia into this. These people are overwhelmingly not schizophrenics nor is affinity towards conspiracy theories commonplace in schizoaffective disorders
Are you applying directly or are you going through a third party recruiter?
Bacon buying guide: What uncured, center-cut and other package terms really mean

https://archive.ph/HFgkv
Space-based ballistic missile defense: a multidimensional analysis (1985)
You just spread "Fake News" about Eleanor Roosevelt:

See: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/
There's probably a way to fit an SD card or flash drive in a floppy emulator?

I'm curious now. Is that a 386 PC? Does it boot off of a small hard drive?
Meanwhile, Julian Assange is still in prison and about to be deported to a country openly embracing torture.
> Unlike a die you can't weight one of the faces

You can just glue a weight to one side of the faces at an offset.
Author here! I know that the title is a bit click-batei, but did not know how to better say it clearly. In the article I show two real-life examples of input-validation failures and why it is important to have server-side validation for the data received from the user. Also, I don't recommend using this for your channel (or any such service), due to the really bad quality of the subscribers.
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Ugh, I feel your pain! I've had a .CC domain name for over a decade now, so this happens often to me. Happily, it is happening far, far less nowadays...so maybe in the future, more/other newer TLDs will be more accepted. Then again, .CC is technically associated to a country, so maybe its getting better because i think it is NOT technically a generic TLD. For this reason, and maybe other reasons to do with pseudo-privacy/pesudo-anonymity, maybe just have a silly, secondary email address from the big providers (e.g. gmail, yahoo, etc.) at your disposal...otherwise you will simply continuously bang your head against the wall with some of these services. ;-)
How to make an IBM 1311 disk drive move around the floor
It’s not a synchronous task. You don’t have to block your life, you set an alert and when you get the alert, you try to buy it. It takes 5 minutes for an attempt, and if it doesn’t work you try again next time.

I know, because I did it when the shortage was at its peak. I set up telegram alerts and I kept my personal laptop on standby. If an alert came in, as long as I wasn’t in a work meeting, I opened my laptop and quickly followed through to the link.

It just takes a little bit of patience but it’s not too bad. But hopefully the shortage improves soon and this will no longer be necessary.
No, it's not normal. Honestly, it is not even normal to be 5 mins late from an interview. I'm a VPE at a not-very-big company, still involved in occasional intro calls with junior engineers (with zero experience). I'd be ashamed if I were 5 mins late from those interviews.

I find it somewhat acceptable to not respond to applications (sometimes companies get too many to handle all of them, especially if they don't have a well-resourced HR dept), but intentionally not appearing on an interview should be a firing offence I believe.
Are you telling me that everyone who clones a repo from GitHub via SSH is in fact authorizing GitHub to use their private key? Why hasn't anyone made a slick web page with a catchy name like AuthBleed or SecretAgent to describe that one yet?
Yes, unless you have some programmed lights to help you wake up. Sleep normally ends as the sun starts shining. If you don't get that "signal", your body will have a harder time waking up, and be more confused about the right rhythm.
No, this is not normal. The companies that do this to you clearly have a bad hiring culture.
Can anyone help me find the book? I remember it vividly as a child in 90s, translated into russian, so not new. It had very distinct illustrations with lots of pointing fingers rolling on wheels (pointers?) and samples of same program in different programming languages, like Lisp or Fortran.
Whether intentional or not, the way you presented these (including the one about CGI) is how these sorts of conspiracies get wings and spread.

"Oh of course this is not true... except for maybe this little sliver here..."

That's the thing that gets latched onto and eventually the conspiracy nuts argue the whole thing must be true.
Not the person you're replying to, but it doesn't really matter if it's for "an average" person, so long as its something they enjoy and is a social niche.

The "average" man probably doesn't do archery, or SCUBA diving, or play ultimate frisbee.

But enough do.
(note: I am the Director of Data Science at System)

Thank you for the comment. This is a great observation and it is true that many of current relationships on System are not comprehensive (i.e. they are not based on a representative sample of overall scientific consensus in that field). Some topics/relationships are more comprehensive than others (e.g. relationship between food fortification and anemia: https://system.com/view/topic-relationship/yQrSS5fcTQs/d9wUM...)

System is still in its infancy. Compare it to early days of Wikipedia. Over time, our goal is improve the depth and breath of knowledge on System through various methods including community engagement and partnership with domain experts.

Meanwhile, if you are interested in exploring a specific topic, please let us know through our slack community (link on the platform) and we will be happy to prioritize them.
Syria’s not in Western, Eastern or any Europe. Might as well be Papua New Guinea, there’s zero connection there.

The horror stories like “Syrian refugee kills pregnant woman with machete” or “10 men gang rape woman outside nightclub” (8/10 being Syrian refugees) certainly aren’t helping either.
That's one viewpoint. In some situations, it allows innocent people to die in large numbers. That's part of the moral situation too. Ignoring it, insisting it's all black-and-white, is easy from an armchair.
That's true for now, but eventually, as the technology progresses, it will take very little training data to create deepfakes of anyone unfortunately. Probably just a minute or two of video.
> Is this in the USA or Europe or somewhere else?

The companies are explicitly mentioned. Are you asking about the location of the poster? If so, why?