skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a statement easier to conclude in hindsight, especially as you are primed with "this story is describing a scam, definitely". The author describes the thought process and what ended up nudging them toward believing the scammer about the workflow. A code sent like this in a legitimate workflow could be plausible. Maybe it's a requirement to ensure that the customer is indeed acknowledging the operation and the CSR isn't taking actions behind the customer's back, for instance.

The author had a lot of signals pointing toward legitimacy to counteract their natural skepticism, it was a stressful situation and the nature of a phone call puts time pressure into the decision making, increasing the odds of a mistake.

Your example points out that false positives on the "scam or ham" decision do have a cost to the contact recipient too, so "never respond to anything" comes with risks and costs too. It's hard to be perfect.
I made extra effort to fit all in one page and I think it is worth it because it's a sign of respect for the reader's time.

Had to trim some details of old roles and make font a bit smaller.

During interviews I have the chance to expand on my experience.
Presently the biggest challenge confronting the private space industry is creating a market and creating demand. This is no different than any other industry, however.
Can they?

How exactly does your brain do route planning?

How do you pick which lane to turn down in the parking lot when looking for a space?

Why did you get off at exit 14?

Wait, this isn’t even your turn, why did you go left here?

I mean, when you get down to it, why are you even driving to this deadend job?

But yeah, sure, humans can ‘explain’ their behavior, which is why we can trust them.
I believe you that this is the level of talent at western European universities but what about all the other universities outside of Western Europe that aren't like this. Should companies exempt you from a grueling interview process only if you are from one of these schools?
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines ("any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no").

Possibly even a candidate for a consistent exception: any headline that asks if Turing-complete system can run Doom can be answered by the word yes.
While I tend to agree, especially since the photo appears to be of military training and not actual combat, here[1] is a photo of known winter wheat. This photo was taken a little bit later in the year, so the leaf is more pronounced and greener than you'd expect of the current crop, but even then is the casual observer looking for pictures of war going to notice? They really don't look all that different to me without stopping to really study the details and the first photo doesn't have much detail to work with. I would bet that this[2] is a field of wheat seeded into soybean stubble, but how can you really tell for sure?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/MII3Sc1

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPMuO-OXwAsWAuU?format=jpg
First complete gap-free human genome sequence published
no, what I meant is that YOUR company rejects anyone who fails one coding test. You think that failing one doesn’t matter, but it does.
Go mod’s lesser known features
It's a useful, if not technically precise, abstraction. Since it's part of an indictment, it is a magnet for pedantry.

Just like how a long fall doesn't kill you, the sudden stop at the end does. It's a distinction without a difference.
This is pretty useful for NUCs, Qotoms, and x86 routers for showing stats.
I know at least the Java ZGC use top bits as metadata for a load barrier to check for relocated objects. They fake hardware pointer masking by mapping the the same heap to multiple addresses https://www.opsian.com/blog/javas-new-zgc-is-very-exciting/
Apple Maps Incorporates HAAS Safety Cloud to Improve Roadway Hazard Alerts
> Notably, no language will ever be able to catch pure logic errors by itself.

It's true you'll never be able to catch all logic errors automatically, partly because you need full correctness specifications for that.

But languages like Rust with powerful static type systems can catch lots more important logic errors than C, or C++ --- e.g. using typestate (catches bugs with operations on values in incorrect states), affine types (catches bugs with operations on "dead" values), newtypes (e.g. lets you distinguish sanitized vs unsanitized strings), sum types (avoids bugs where "magic values" (e.g. errors) are treated as "normal values").

Also modern languages like Swift, and Rust to a lesser extent, are treating integer overflow as an error instead of just allowing it (or worse, treating it as UB).
This x100! And call them back from a different phone, just in case.
spending months leetcoding sounds terrible to me.
I'm not saying I wouldn't get duped, but Im also not a scam prevention expert! And you are right that I wouldn't be posting this if I was in their place but I'm not sure if that means that makes them immune to criticism. "I bet you'd have done the same" is not an extraordinarily good defense when we are talking about a scam precention expert.

I also don't think this has anything to do with intelligence. You can question expertise without questioning intellect
Does it trigger Virustotal
I'm still at a single page with ~20 years of experience. I've completely dropped the two less relevant jobs I had right after college.

It probably depends on the industry. I think academics and jobs where publications are important tend to have more pages.
A computer system that answers questions logically, creates distributed processes, writes correct distributed threaded code, can operate and create a set of Turing machines, can correctly respond to human social and body language, can create a B2 bomber automatically from scratch without any input, maintains contextual memory in silicon still isn't anymore conscious than a rock. Metallic complexity is not producing instances of consciousness and never will. Computer science has nothing to do with understanding the biological, microscopic electromagnetic phenomenon that produces an instance of consciousness. Silicon is not oxygen+water+blood+flesh+an electromagnetic field, which is the substrate that produces consciousness. It's dishonest to impressionable people to refer to AI as conscious or to view computers as anything but objects like tanks, spoons, speakers. There is no intrinsic value to a computer systems existence, apart from the observation by humans, of the actions it performs (and said humans life system support). There is no value because they are not collapsing the wave function to observe anything (ie, exhibiting free will at the microscopic level smaller than what is observed by deterministic molecules). The only value AIs have is the value formed by the consensus of living humans that can observe their actions. Consciousness is a physical phenomenon specified in the fabric of the universe, discovered by random by life on Earth, that yield(ed) better survival for the implementing organism.
> I was blown away that Amazon would transfer me to a scammer

You shouldn't be. The amazon store's core business model is allowing scammers to sell garbage to unsuspecting buyers.
As someone almost completely without knowledge of AI and ML, these are some signs why I'm skeptical of this kind of claims:

- Most of the imminent AGI / Singularity / Robot Apocalypse stuff seems to come, with few exceptions, not from practitioners or computer scientists specialized in AI, but from "visionaries" (in the best case), internet celebrities, people with unrelated areas of expertise, or downright cranks (who are self-proclaimed experts) such as Yudkowsky.

- The assertion that "a lot of effort/investment is going into this, so it will happen" begs the question that "this" is at all possible. If something is a dead end, no amount of investment and attention is going to bring it into existence. Quoting the article, "with this much distributed attention fixed on the problem, AGI will be solved" is not at all a given.

- Where are all the AI/ML practitioners, i.e. people who don't make a living out of predicting The End of the World, and with actual subject-matter achievements, predicting the Singularity and the Robot Apocalypse?
We're not in disagreement, note I explicitly did not say "the industry as a whole", and I added the qualifier "competent technical leadership". There's a lot packed into those three words, and without it you'll steadily bleed your best talent.

Micro-managing, non-technical leadership is the failure mode you're pointing out, and it's definitely the worst of all worlds, far worse than any failure mode at a FAANG. But on the other hand there is also parochial leadership who knows what they don't know and how to trust talent. Those environments can actually be fine for technical people. Granted, they won't necessarily get exposed to the exchange of ideas and mentorship from FAANG, but that's not a deal breaker in the modern internet age, and autodidactism has its place in furthering the state of the art by side-stepping social convergence to "best practices".

And on the flip side, I agree FAANG people are "sharper than average", but there are also headwinds to retaining the best talent. One is that you have to have a tolerance for moving slow, jumping through hoops, and generally dealing with a whole class of friction which many high performing engineers consider bullshit. Some will suck it up and deal with it to get the fat comp packages, but there is now an entire generation of <35 engineers who have had expectations set on comp levels based on a decade+ bull run of tech stocks which I suspect is unlikely to repeat over the next decade. There's also the appeal of working on classes of large problems that is only available at the biggest tech companies, but the actual interesting work is much fewer than the number of engineers. The majority are just dealing with incidental complexity and requirements of scale itself which can definitely occupy the mind, but may lead to an itch for more tangible impact.

Finally I will say there's a middle-ground between FAANG-style interviews and "throwing darts at a stack of resumes". If you are a small to mid-size company without the brand appeal and top-of-the-funnel recruiting volume of a FAANG, then you are absolutely shooting yourself in the foot by cargo-culting the FAANG approach. You know what the alternative is? Have qualified people do traditional interviews, going deep enough to get a gut feeling on their technical competence. Of course you'll get some Type I errors here, so then you have to actually pay attention to what they're doing once they start working. If they are not able to ramp and be productive in a reasonable amount of time, then you have to let them go (or at least pivot them into a position where they don't do damage). Big companies can't do that because there's enough chaos, lazy managers, and HR legal fears that Type II errors are a material risk. In summary, FAANG approach is solving for specific circumstances that most companies don't have, and it leaves a lot of talent on the table which is an arbitrage opportunity for companies willing to do the hard work to think about their recruiting strategy from first principles.
> It perpetuates the myth that there's something really special about Silicon Valley engineers

In my [disillusioned] experience, this holds true: Silicon Valley engineers are very good for building throwaway MVPs that they won't have to maintain more than 3 years.

I've been very disillusioned by the quality of the software written by Silicon Valley companies, but in hindsight it makes sense: "Run fast break things" development culture resonates with the "raise VC money every 18 months" business culture, and then look for an exit in 5 years tops. There is no incentive in Dev or Business to really develop good software.
we're working closely with Cloudflare and really love their products.

We did consider Cloudflare Workers - ultimately it came down to the open source philosophy of the Deno runtime.
It's incredibly important to us that everything in Supabase has "escape hatches" - you can choose to host wherever you want to. I'm certain that Workers will get there eventually, but it's not there yet. We're still big fans and will be doing other neat things with them in the future (also we'll revisit Workers if the runtime becomes an open source).

> lack of SOC 2 compliance

We've chosen the auditor - I believe SOC2 Type I will be around 4 months away (next Launch Week)
> Yes. If someone uses a racial slur against a white person, it has a much weaker effect.

And you feel confident saying this in general, because...?

> Yes, it came from a moment of anger, but the fact it's in their mind at all implies some internalised racism and disregard for the feelings of black people.

Human beings aren't computers. They don't do logical things. You are (probably) an engineering-type trying to apply logic & engineering concepts to the actions of people. If that worked, politics wouldn't be so disgusting.

I will offer you a piece of advice. This was hard fought for me and took a while to figure out.

All people don't act and think in the same way you do. They don't have the same motivations. They probably do not have the same values.

Your logic is "I would only use a racial slur if I were racist. They used a racial slur. Therefore, they must be racist." That's a flawed way to approach the world. You are making assumptions that don't hold. Starting with invalid assumptions is one of the best ways to fix the wrong problem.

> When should insults that target a group of people be allowed just because they were angry?

allowed != condoned != legal

I would say all of them should be legal because I see that freedom of speech is an important right. We need to be extremely selective about what things we prohibit, because allowing free speech to be eroded is dangerous.

The whole PURPOSE of free speech, after all, is to protect speech that is unpopular. You don't need a law to protect popular speech.

> You're not considering the mob mentality that this causes.

Aren't I? Inciting violence is already a crime.

> If people are used to hearing the n-word, they will feel more comfortable saying it. And the more they have that in their mind, the more objectifying they will be to black people.

I have heard that slur thrown around probably 10000:1 by black people versus anyone else. INCLUDING as a way to be intentionally hurtful.

What's interesting is, you will write this in an online forum but I'm sure you'd never say that to a black person. There would be some mental gymnastics to make a slur acceptable in this narrow scope, establishing a double-standard that has never been set for any other slur.

We're here discussing an article about a 19 year old being jailed for a slur. I would be every penny I have that you have said something at least as stupid at that age. Perhaps not a slur, but something quite hurtful nonetheless. Why? Because WE ALL DO.

Coming to the defense of black people in 2022 doesn't take a lick of courage. Trying to understand the motivations (and cringe) of a stupid 19-year-old, and finding forgiveness for that person, does.
> Once I understood the basic guiding principles of how AI actually works

It was the opposite for me, current machine learning seems fundamentally limited to me.
Yes, my dad took the idea of a "tithe" and set aside 10% of the yard as "wild". Never touched it. I went into it a few times, but it always felt like a type of trespassing.

Wish this was more of a common practice, though I know the (short-term) economic incentives are against it.
Hmm, I think you're right -- I should have phrased things differently. It's not that I don't think AGI won't require a very large model, it's more that I think that we're already pretty close to the scale we need, so OpenAI's goal of scaling another 1000x isn't really the direction I think we should be heading. I honestly think 175B parameters could very well be enough for an AGI if they were organized efficiently.

It's definitely one of the weak points of the article, though, as it's more based on my own opinions, and isn't really empirical. My post is mostly just wild speculation for the sake of speculation anyway :)

Thank you for your comments!
There’s an amazing tool for this on Mac called DaisyDisk. It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac apps.
https://archive.ph/xP8Xx
It’s incredibly obvious that the bookstore is not a real business, more like a hobby where he can do what he likes, without pressure… this obviously gives a different perspective…

Disclaimer: I actually run a comic book shop, that’s very similar to a bookshop and have quite different experience and took different lessons from it.

(Unfortunately, I had to close it after two years. I talked about it in a blog post, in case someone finds it interesting https://wrongsideofmemphis.com/2013/04/01/i-was-once-a-non-t... )
Which itself is a Windows port of the linux utility KDirStat (Which itself has been superseded on most linuxes by QDirStat)
What about Debugging Teams?
When you say OS, do you mean kernel or kernel and the daemons?
As someone why buys a lot of cycling parts online, there are many mom/pop bike shops with web storefronts, that are very reasonably priced and often include "free" shipping. Stop giving bezos your money, you have no excuse.
Or Peopleware
French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings
Was Evony the first web based game to do this?
Honestly this is my dream as well. The iPad Pro has a gorgeous 120Hz Display, the most powerful ultra mobile CPU and is incredibly light. I have hidden hopes that Asahi Linux will offer a path if a new exploit is discovered.
> If people wanted to fight for it, stop using NVIDIA products, but do you see that happening? Not bloody likely.

Why would I ever buy Nvidia? Asking as a non-AI developer who doesn’t play PC-games.

I’m perfectly happy with Intel graphics. I hear it has good, open-source drivers too.

Exactly what am I missing?
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Partner ran a second hand book store. Some customers are lovely but I stress some.

Old books are dirty. There are insects, mould, dust, fingernails, yes, the first five odd bookmarks are funny but after a while, dead peoples bus tickets aren't amusing.

It's hard work. Margins are thin. Paper weighs a tonne and people overpack boxes.
Arthur Riggs Dies – Genomeweb
My 2s response is “don’t read the news” doesn’t necessarily mean don’t consult the news ever. Just not worth making a habit IMHO.
The age discrimination part is starting to feel like a relevant motivator. I'm increasingly unsure I actually want anybody to know I was a working programmer in the nineteen hundreds. I haven't actually experienced age discrimination yet (I think), but dropping the old jobs feels like good strategic sense.
Like the Google Docs of TreeSheets?
(I'm the author of the post)
Oh, 100%! I'm not trying to detract from modern-day AI ethics issues, just speculating for speculation's sake because I enjoy it :)

I actually quite agree with your first sentence -- because AGI is inevitable, there's not a whole lot I can personally do about it right now. This post was mostly a way for me to organize my thoughts and concerns about the matter.
It used to be understood that homes were places for people to live in. They were pretty much hands-off. About 30 years ago, late-night cable-TV advertising started encouraging people to buy another home to flip or rent.

IMO that started the ball rolling; houses started to be seen as gambling chips for investors with TMM, not homes. (See:Vancouver) That led to high-leveraging credit-default-swaps, then the Great Recession. Noone went to jail. No reset. Game over for most of us.
This is a decades old trick, probably more.

It's nice to have a browser-based frontend to handle orienting and scaling the pages, but... really, an account is required? And not just that, but saving is behind a premium account?

That's just so painful to see.
I recently read this[0], someone posted it on HN the other day, even if I don’t make any claims of the likelihood it at least tries to portray what it’d look like for the singularity to suddenly happen.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Clippy
>A former employer of mine was the subject of multiple Krebs pieces. Many of the facts he has reported were incorrect.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

There seems to be a correlation that the more you know about a subject, the more likely you think the journalist is simply wrong.

I have proposed the idea that if I put together a big enough group of experts. We might have a group of people who can refute journalism in whole. What if 100% or damned near 100% of what journalists claim is untrue.

I don't think that's the case, I have many good journalists who are across a spectrum of viewpoints who are good at reporting.

In reality, we should hold journalists accountable via Errors and Omissions. Require all journalists to hold E&O insurance. He screwed up, his insurance covers it.
Sure but we can work around that law by constructing a headline such as "Can Romero beat your ass at doom?" It sure would be a resounding yes for most of us. He would stand no chance at Quake, though
Locally mostly. Also, surprisingly on walmart.com.

Edit: Also from manufacturers' websites.
“As Zeno said, books are a way to have conversations with the dead. You can learn from people who came before you. They can also inspire and reassure you.”

wtf am i reading?
Target and Walmart take online returns at their stores, which no one in the supply chain likes. They will take bad suppliers to the woodshed if too many returns of an item. Hence they have skin in the game to carry quality products
tl;dr: Someone claiming to be from Wells Fargo contacted her by phone and requested a code that she got emailed. The email with the code said "Wells Fargo will not contact you by phone or text to request this code." She gave him the code anyway.
This is everything I love about the Book Barn[1] it's bursting at the seams with used books. Even though the traffic between Boston & NYC is awful I prefer to drive just so I can stop by and explore. I've never encountered a bad used bookstore but the Book Barn is hands down the best I've ever come across.

[1]https://www.bookbarnniantic.com/explore-the-store
Pretty much this. Spending money on an intractable problem won't make it tractable. And we still don't know whether AGI is tractable at all.
Cognitive Accessibility Guidance
Machine-parts startup raises $90M to shake up aerospace supply chain