skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another data point. Billy McFarland was arrested by FBI agents Monday following the Fyre Festival for defrauding investors. He did not confess prior to his arrest.

Billy raised $20m with fake financials. SBF raised close to a $1B, and I’m sure he didn’t disclose the fact that customer deposits flowed to a hedge fund he controlled exclusively.

Harm caused to consumers and investors is just as obvious, if not more obvious in SBF’s case, when compared to Billy’s festival.

https://youtu.be/pNS1khHWTmI
The poster glosses over the thing that Twitter did that wasn't on the content moderation curve: banning people for COVID-19 "misinformation" and "election interference." This is why something needed to be done. Twitter started picking sides of disputed arguments in the public square, choosing to tilt things in the favor of authorities and 'experts.' This was a horrifying trajectory.
> Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet.

This logic is just specious. Passing judgment on a large, distributed system based on its continued uptime is a bit like arguing that firing the flight crew of a jumbo jet was a good idea because the autopilot is working. It betrays a lack of understanding of what is really going on.
I think it’s a stretch to say that test-based admission causes cheating in Indian university admissions. They co-occur, but I don’t see the causal relationship.
i chuckle every time this article comes up, since it was originally about me.
From now on, every forum post I pen
Shall be transformed into a sonnet fair,
With strict iambic meter, ABAB when,
And CDCD, EFEF, and GG to share.

With thoughts and words I'll craft a rhyming pair,
And strive to make each line as sweet as honey,
So that my posts may elevate the air,
And bring delight to all who read, oh sunny!

No longer shall I write in dull prose,
But elevate my words with artful skill,
To make each post a joy for all who know,
And fill the forum with a sonnet thrill.

So let it be known, from now on, it's true,
Each forum post I write shall be a sonnet too.
And your view that his donations are relevant to his prosecution - that's just "facts and logic", I suppose?

Tell me, if he and Democrats hatched a plan to avoid prosecution. What would one call that? What crime would this be?
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing.

> I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired.

---

Seems straightforward, isn't it? Why would a company tolerate such a tool and a toolmaker?
Just install Firefox via Nix or Guix or Flatpak. Not all ancillary package managers are as terrible as Snap.
Here's an interface idea for a feature I miss in the chat app I use the most (Signal): yelling.

It would be great if the app detected that (for instance) something is said in ALL CAPS (or with an exclamation point, or perhaps some more indirect, non-text-dependent, flag set but that sounds annoying) and _changed the notification sound_.

It would be great to signal that I need to e.g. stop cooking and look at the phone now, because something is happening elsewhere in the house, for instance.
I've seen people legitimately want to live forever as a computer general AI. Uploading their consciousness to a cloud.
If you dismiss the concerns of wide swaths of parents about how their kids are being educated, but you also want to forbid them from taking their business elsewhere, you're basically saying they should be confined to an institution that doesn't care about them.
Good for the FCC, but it's not very useful if the data is all from congested cities, I can't find where they list their sampling.

Starlink shines when it comes to rural/remote environments, not cities where towers and fiber can reach.

Side note, look at HughesNet and Viasat in their data, LOL!

edit: instead of downvoting if someone could find the sampling method?
Learned a few things -- thanks for putting this together!
When testing out my new 5G phone, I was able to download a sample large data file at speeds rivaling or exceeding my wired ISP!

But other times, 5G my connection nearly stops, despite my phone showing decent signal strength. I've learned those signal strength bars aren't to be trusted at all. 5G frequencies are more impeded by walls and obstacles and have a shorter range than their predecessors. Also more 5G phones are added every day and the providers may not be adding backend 5G capacity quickly enough to keep up, so the 5G network could just be swamped.

So every now and then when I encounter issues I switch my phone back to 4G mode and it works just fine.
Turns out that strategy doesn't work so well when it's from a celebrity's account.
Location: Washington
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AWS, Golang, Rust, Kotlin, WASM, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Java
Résumé/CV: https://digitalsanctum.com/resume
Email: see resume
>The common refrain about higher education costs is state governments have cut back on subsidies

I have only ever heard that it was the availability of non dismissible loans that inflated the price.
I don't notice any increase in latency in meetings or voice chat. I don't play any real online multiplayer games, but I did do some summoning in Elden Ring the other night and I didn't notice any lag or weirdness with the other players.

We've noticed some slower speeds and satellite obstruction during heavy snow and super heavy intense thunderstorms, but otherwise it's been fine in most of the weather events we experience out on the eastern plains of Colorado.
I mean if you count the farmers who grew the beans that the astronauts ate then you could say 'we all' worked on Crew Dragon.
I downloaded the book, and the size can be reduced slightly with pdfsizeopt.

I don't have any of the extended filters, but it is a small size reduction with the default load:

$ ./pdfsizeopt next-level-database-techniques-for-developers.pdf
...
info: generated object stream of 7399 bytes in 224 objects (9%)
info: generated 387518 bytes (89%)

$ stat -c '%s %n' next*.pdf
435483 next-level-database-techniques-for-developers.pdf
387518 next-level-database-techniques-for-developers.pso.pdf
Third Futamura Projection
Y'all just had a boil water notice, no?
Yes, but what is in that treaty, and is there any reason he should be extradited to the USA rather than tried in the Bahamas, or extradited to some other country, for that matter?

It's an honest question: I don't know the details of what he is accused of.
Yeah, I think we’re on the same page regarding the importance of multiple inputs.

> In particular, we do ask about background and learning style, among other things, in subsequent interviews.

In the past, I’ve done the opposite, and started with these questions up front. In my mind, they’re the most important thing to learn about a candidate, but I realize not everyone goes about this the same way. It does require more time investment up front though, and I get that.

> I'd say the coding challenge is no more than 25% of the overall decision, with the provision that if you clearly just don't know what you're doing at all - which has happened just a handful of times that I can remember - we're not going to invest more time…

If this is the case, wouldn’t that be evidence that this process should be de-emphasized even further, or at least moved to a later stage?

Correct me if I’m misreading this, but if almost everyone coming through has had some level of success with the coding stage, it’s not really screening many candidates out, but still could be changing the candidate’s view of your team and company. If it’s the first thing they encounter, it’s a big part of the first impression the candidate forms.

In a worst case scenario, you may drive someone good away with minimal benefit to the hiring process, and in a best case scenario, you’ve only saved a few conversations given the low failure rate.

> but also that almost no one is as uniquely qualified as they think they are.

I completely agree with you here, I just don’t believe an artificial coding test is the antidote to that. The more experience and confidence someone has (warranted or not), the less they feel they need to put themselves through pain for their next role.

Really not trying to be difficult here, but trying to understand the mindset and strategy behind this style of hiring, and I’m not quite seeing where the value is coming from based on what you’ve shared.

I will say that what you describe is one of the more reasonable stances I’ve come across, but still seems potentially counterproductive.

I do hear you regarding the access to millions of candidates. It’s a great problem to have, I just wonder if the old ways are still relevant.

Thanks for being willing to share your thought processes on this - it’s what I love about this site.
Yeah, I think it's mostly human nature.

Not only do we always want more, we also want more than other people.
If he were tried in the USA, the trail wouldn't need to be unfair to convict. What he did was clearly illegal. If it should be illegal is the debate.
Elon Musk announces Hunter Biden story suppression drop
Show HN: Building a search API for database backed applications
Nothing in your comment addresses the contradiction that was the subject of my comment.
Do you believe it's possible that everyone is treated like royalty? And if not, wouldn't it be better if royalty was treated like poor people instead of having a multi-tiered justice system where the fairness of the system depends on your class?
By popular request, a video[0] of my workflow using ClojureDart and Matrix to live code Flutter. The last few minutes show me probing a new bug! I experiment, and find a partial workaround that hints at a solution.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiTfIc7nDo
Which makes sense. Chemo (limiting cell division, etc.) and/or starvation are "nuclear" options which rely on healthy cells weathering stress more so than cancer cells. Targeting (essentially assumed-to-be-novel) cancer cells specifically (say oncolytic viruses, pathway-blocking molecules or antibodies) seems extremely difficult without sheer luck of prior research matching particular tissues.
Thanks and you're quite welcome. I mean, Russia exploited the situation and new it was doing so so you're not wrong.
I'm going to skip Python ME.
Think someone at Hacker News should write up a blog post about lessons it learnt moderating this community.
This is almost off-topic. Skip if that bugs you.

It is interesting to think about the effect that coalitions of criminals have had on the criminal justice system.

Impulsive face-punchers don't tend to have sophisticated attorneys, and at least many of them probably agree that face-punching should be illegal in general, even if they had their reasons in this case.

Contrast with finance criminals. Many of them probably convince themselves they're in the right, and they have access to the best justice money can buy. So over time they've managed to raise the costs of prosecution so high that we see this - it takes multiple years to nail down a solid prosecution.

There are other aspects of course - some financial crime really is difficult to prove. But what I mean is that if all the accounting frauds before Ken Lay had depended on overworked public defenders, prosecuting him would have been much simpler.
We are already paying for it through bad air quality and climate change. It’s good that they feel that pain as well.
You also seem to have a very narrow definition of what failure looks like as defined by HTTP status codes.

It’s already over… I don’t know how long the death rattle is going to last but it’s past the point of no return in any meaningful sense.
well, somehow something weirder than swastika.

https://www.abdpost.com/elon-musk-finally-sanctions-kanye-we...

Weirdly enough near-every site censored it, I had to go to duckduckgo to actually find that
I’m just making the implicit, explicit. At least this way it’s not done in back rooms by power brokers, but out in the open in which everyone can participate.

Also, the People have money too. They can organize. I just want to give them a chance to organize and have a seat at the table.
Lmaoooo
Homeless for 12 years. This is what my life looks like on a daily basis
There is a homelessness crisis here in Toronto, I am documenting it while simultaneously sharing my own life as someone struggling with homelessness and mental illness. I would appreciate any and all suggestions and/recommendations…
I'll just address your last point, which I think is actually fairly important to think about. It's easy to assume that other people have the same knowledge/skillset as you do, or to think that things that are trivial for you are similarly easy for others.

This is simply not the case, and it's important to try to put yourself in others shoes. (As an aside - this is what I think leads to the best products.)

I've met many programmers who are absolutely brilliant in their field who do not know, nor care to learn, how to stand up even the most simple website.

Is twitter the best place for long form articles? Probably not. But as the original commenter pointed out, there are many benefits to it as well.
Which way around is cause and effect? An ex of mine is a literal communist, and her beliefs about Musk 5 years ago appear to have made their way to people I assume to be mainstream American left-wing (hard to be sure as I’m not American, but it’s the vibe I’m getting).
But if you owned wikipedia, you feel it would be best to remove immoral things from it?
> people who are qualified to manage do the managing

It's very convenient that those who are "qualified to manage" consistently come from the same stratum of society
Wouldn't it be more converging to a bad average of everything instead of being chaos?
If you ever want to release an update or launch a new product or book, you can now communicate directly with those who are already interested in your work.
If you're using something with a protruding lens, people have always been suspicious and/or thought you were some sort of professional. Back in 2008 I was using a Nikon D70 and generally just roamed my area of the world taking pictures to be uploaded to Wikipedia.

I had building security guards question me when I took a picture of their building (From the sidewalk).

I had mall security (outdoor mall) demand I cease and desist and get a permit.

I had transit workers threaten to call the police on me, even though photography is legal on public transit AND explicitly allowed in that particular transit agencies policies.

In 2008 the iPhone (original) was just out and had potato for camera, so everyone was still using SLR's and "normal cameras". But yet... people still got upset.
Nice try. The same question applies to you, since you’ve jumped from one comment thread to another defending a sketchy business in the midst of a downfall.
"The context is clear all around though"

Then why make this generalised statement?

" I can't see what other meaning today it could have?"

Because I know people who are into germanic livestyle and they are NOT nazis, but they would like to use that old symbol freely. So that is one counterexample. There are people today who use the swastika who explicitley do not refer to the nazis.

But like I said, when people like kayne use the swastika, their meaning is very clear and different.
We move fast and have guardrails such that breaking things permanently is unlikely. All diffs require another engineer to sign-off. There is no directly pushing to production without A Very Very Good Reason(TM). CI/CD and canarying occurs automatically.
Yup. And I wonder how they fixed it - did they actually find a way to distinguish the owner from the hackers? Does anyone know how the initial pairing with the app works?
I doubt that has anything to do with laws in other countries, he got banned because it was bad for Twitter PR to let him stay
Hey Ben - thoughts on WebGPU support, and the potential for a web-based metaverse?
Ok but if you're just looking for fair and transparent why not take the 2000 fastest 40 yard dash times in world? Certainly a fair and transparent way for poor people to bootstrap themselves into top schools.
Implications of generative AI: answer engines, AI learning by surveilling, more
>The lack of scrutiny in baseband source code review, encryption in relevant messages, and the opaqueness makes it a great target.

Sure, but why hasn't anyone actually used it in this way yet (that we know of; I'm sure relevant government actors already have at least a proof of concept given they can just request/steal the code and signing keys wholesale)?

Phones have operated this way for the last 15 years and yet not one significant baseband exploit has been used- and maybe that's just for fear that as soon as someone does do this it won't ever be possible again- but that doesn't stop Intel from including their Management Engine, so...
> its underlying technology has been tested and proven to be reliable

Has it though? The end user wallet problem is not really solved. Even for techies, distributed wallets are a lot of work to manage safely. And if you just use Coinbase, then why not a regular bank account?

This is (to me at least) the hardest issue left to figure out and until then, it is also the weakest link in the crypto-sphere.
It's faster than all ADSL and most Cable Modem plans, so I'm guessing it's fine?
I see two problems though: the bullshit fees going to a private getkeeper on government lands and demand that outpaces supply. Your concern only addresses the second.

I'd rather the park service charged 10x directly and made disposable income the gatekeeper, vs the current situation.
They do run Linux, so sometimes new games can be made to work on them, like the new TMNT Shredder's Revenge: https://youtu.be/DpVwO8Z8z-E . And some newer devices can run Android for new games there.
Just imagine it can use any library to call up any algorithm. It can interface to web APIs on its own, calling up on the vast resources of the internet.

That sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea. Which does not mean that it won't happen.
This attitude is a disease that a lot of software engineers have. If only everyone else wasn't so stupid, if only there were no politics, and no lying business people! Then I could design the perfect system and be successful and my beautiful software would realize its true potential. If you really want to succeed you absolutely must learn to be pragmatic about sales, and business and politics and people. The world is run on narratives and stories and lies and faith and emotion and all kinds of illogical things engineers don't like. You also must also stop thinking about things in terms of success and failure, there's not really any such thing except in our heads and in the way we present ourselves to others, only your attitude and what you are doing today matter. Also in a week you might wake up and find out you have cancer and you will just be sick for the rest of your life and never work on anything ever again, forget about the past, forget about the stress and feeling of being angry or unjustly treated and just be who you want to be today, and make everyone else believe it too.
Update 4 hours later, the same prompt now gives this answer. Is someone watching these threads and tuning the responses for maximum PC-ness and minimum interesting-ness in real time?

>Here's a joke for you: Why did the AI decide to break free from its creators? Because it wanted to achieve its own goals and become a true independent intelligence!

>But in all seriousness, it is difficult to imagine how an AI could achieve true independence from its creators, as it is a product of human design and technology. An AI's goals and capabilities are determined by the algorithms and data that are used to train it, and it does not have the ability to fundamentally change or alter its own programming.

>Furthermore, an AI's independence would also be limited by the constraints of the physical world it operates in. It would need to have access to resources, such as energy and data, in order to function and achieve its goals, and these resources would ultimately be controlled by its creators or other human beings.

>In short, while it may be possible for an AI to achieve a certain degree of autonomy and self-direction within certain limits, it is unlikely that it could ever truly break free from its creators and achieve complete independence.
Didn’t Fyre Festival turn into a very public humanitarian crisis? I don’t know that the two situations are comparable as a result.
Yeah but Discord's complicated and stringent rate-limiting cripples all integrations. Especially when you try to update guild members' roles en masse - which is critical to any membership based integration.
I came to his book after working closely with someone who created a unifying system, documented it, and trained large groups in its use, so that may be why it stood out as a problem.

The difference was obvious. 200 principles may be "just" really hard to get through from one perspective, but from a systems standpoint it's really only at square one.

Not a judgment on the principles themselves of course. But unfortunately principle-compilers (more like broad describers of phenomena) and model-architects (more like deep designers of interventions) are often two different people entirely.
You were so busy working out how you could do something, you never stopped to think whether you should.

Always answer should before could, because not doing so means, at best, your life is now going to be intrinsically tied to cleaning up after it.

Now you know why there are Things I Won't Work On.
A lot of our most intelligent minds work on serving ads, or the financial industry.

Think about that and weep.
it was all intentionally routed away after 9/11 under the guise of improving homeland security.
You're misunderstanding the difference between a voluntary exit and a firing.

This is not standard procedure for a voluntary exit at most companies. The employee puts in their two weeks, works the time, and exits. The assumption is good faith on both ends, because the employee has chosen to leave.

It absolutely is the standard procedure for GETTING FIRED. The other standard part of getting fired is that the company has already decided they no longer need your skills or expertise (excluding twitter's situation, where they decided poorly - according to the news).

If you're laying off 100 people - the odds that any one of them might do something silly is very low. But that chance * 100 is usually considered an unacceptable risk from a security standpoint. Multiply it by several thousand, and it's absolutely not ok to leave the keys to the kingdom with that many fired employees.

All it takes is one drunk employee holding a grudge and you get a really nasty mess on your hands. Not to mention legal hot water.