skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn’t investigate which behaviour is correct, or whether both are justifiable.

A very quick, probably flawed investigation suggests the Chromium-family behaviour (meßagefactory → messagefactory) might be correct, and Firefox and Safari (meßagefactory → xn--meagefactory-m9a) incorrect: RFC 3492 (Punycode) defers to RFC 3491 (nameprep), which is a profile of RFC 3454 (stringprep), explicitly using its mapping tables B.1 and B.2, and table B.2 says to map ß to ss (“00DF; 0073 0073; Case map”).

I welcome correction or more detail from anyone more knowledgeable on the matter. It’s fiddly stuff and I haven’t dealt with this stuff very much, so I could very easily have missed a trick.
> credit score pretty accurately reflect what they are supposed to measure - credit worthiness

Do they?

If that was true, how could we verify it, beyond an initial gut feeling? There is no published rule book or methodology for credit score calculations!
Same problem of every collective action - if you do it unilaterally you end up with spit in your coffee.
Married with kids. My work day is usually 4-6 hours of meetings, but it varies. I take about an hour break to walk the dog and eat something.

6:30 am wake up, check email, drink coffee, browse internet feeds

7:00 am shower

7:30 am take kids to school

8:30 am begin workday

1:00 pm take dog for walk and listen to a podcast

2:00 pm back to work

5:30 pm finish work day

6:00 pm dinner

7:00 pm kids bath time

8:00 pm more work or gym or
TV/video games / browse internet

11:00 pm bed
The issue is the rules include things like lowered scores after paying off a home loan and companies are using these scores for things that have nothing to do with the likelihood of paying back a loan.

They don’t even do a very good job of what’s intended as people can literally have an 800 score the week before declaring bankruptcy.
The original one is 10% at the bottom.
It's also super Kafkaesque, because there is no way for you to know why your score is exactly what it is. There is no published rule book or methodology.
Is the point of this project to enable people to build new MM games? I've played them all several times. HUGE FAN
Assuming there's someone around that knows where to even paste the code output an AI chatbot gives them, then compile. I guess the AI could instruct them somewhat. IDK, I'm very skeptical even now lol.
I very much doubt the CCP leadership are that invested in the intricacies of the MMO market
> if you don’t have a loan history, your score isn’t low enough that you can’t get an apartment

This is not true. Many places will deny an applicant for zero loan history, effectively forcing people to get a credit card in order to obtain housing.
On the other hand, why should we assume WhatsApp's E2EE is 100% like the double ratchet spec and not 90% or even 50%?

No one knows if WhatsApp implements E2EE correctly and does not do anything funny with your data. As long as that remains unproven due to the closed source binary we should never assume WhatsApp's E2EE is 'good enough'. It's also Facebook so you know half the story already.
RETRO has external source of data but is something entirely different to what is discussed in the paper. In simplistic terms, in RETRO architecture you store embeddings in an external database and then use kNN search. It is not an end-to-end model capable of things like those with stack or tape memory (what OP asked about), retrieval models are only good for limited Q/A atm.
You could just as easily apply your statement to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

Their response: Yes, we did it and we did it better than everyone else including the crooks.

There are a lot of activist investors out there. Even Musk is being targeted because of his absent leadership at Tesla.
Golfing for single letter International domain names are a fun way to spend an hour, though not sure what I will do with 𐰡.cc
Yeah, so stack ranking doesn't really create toxicity at a company, it merely reveals the toxicity that is already there. The best advice for regular people applying for jobs or regular employees whose companies introduce stack ranking is summed up in two words: get out.
That's funny... the InfoSec community has no clue about what it takes to actually secure a computer. It was figured out in the 1970s[1], after issues with mixed levels of secret information couldn't be handled quickly in the Viet Nam conflict, and is now mostly forgotten.

You can take $5 from your wallet and hand it to a stranger, without needing to trust them with everything in your wallet.

You can not take a single file in a folder and hand it to an executable, without needing to trust it with everything on your computer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_security
But over that expected amount, it's still tipping. It hasn't gotten too much out of control, except in Vegas.
About your second response (which is quite right), let me add that in my neck of the woods (and in many others), there's no way to get an iOS device with any postpaid plan, or any other cell phone plan, for that matter.
Largely you're still ranking your performers from top to bottom, so it's a matter of placing the line at the bottom in the right place to get the desired percentage. Even then there was still a lot of debate among department managers around people on the borderline least effective category. There were usually very clear outliers who were definitely LE (people clearly coasting, people who didn't show up to work regularly), and sometimes that was enough. Other times managers did have to push each other to be brutally honest about those who were borderline, essentially asking, "If you fired this person and got a replacement, would the replacement be more effective than the current person within 6 months?"

Keep in mind it was never a hard quota, though in my case at amzn I did have a few times where the GM (so manager of ~1500 org) pushed back and said not enough people were in LE for our department, in which case a few borderline people did unfortunately have to get put into LE.
It wasn't available in my country (UK) yesterday, but I just checked after updating to 16.3 and it now says I can enable it.
Yes, but we are a very selective audience, and often brilliantly forget we do not represent the views of the majority.
> there just needs to be an authority doing this

People will tolerate even the harshest laws if they feel like they are applied fairly.

But in this case there is no published rule book, and no published methodology for calculating credit scores. There is not even the most basic transparency.
I want that for my bank account as well.
Other than the low amount of default iterations (at least compared to the OWASP recommendation [0]) the article doesn't explain why the server-side hashing is "useless" and what the design flaw actually is. Am I missing something?

[0]: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
Rarely is software engineering as currently practiced actually "engineering" and "problem solving". We are mostly creating even more problems due to unreliable methodology forced down our throat. Hell, we can't even reliably identify bugs given extensive testing, fuzzing, and code review. Fashion trends like microservices cannot contain the impact of bugs in one service; all hell break loose. Instead, microservice practice aligns the software layout with HR layout (a la Conway) even more faithfully than monoliths did, and this outcome is the antithesis of engineering.

This is what Albert Camus described as "absurd". I suggest reading "The Myth of Sisyphus". That book will shed some light on how one should live in this funny world.
Many people I’ve talked to have very little idea what the factors affecting their credit scores are. Many are unaware or uninterested. I have helped many people improve their credit scores because I have spent hours learning how to game this system. Much of this information is not taught to people until they need credit at which point it’s too late to start establishing a history and your best bet is some bs predatory card that locks up more money than you can afford.
The IKEA one was very good he said
I would say: fuck MBAs

MBAs programs are a ritual of cargo cult indoctrination that that reinforces beliefs based on pseudoscience and irrationality.

Not only they're completely clueless about how to generate value for a customer, they have taken every revenue generating activity in America, applied some fucked up short-term thinking, and ruined them.

For every Steve Jobs (value generating individual) there's a John Sculley (MBA), ready to milk every cash cow dry. The best thing that occurred to Apple was to undo the entire legacy of John Sculley and send him home.

Contrary to popular belief: nobody fucking needs MBAs. MBAs are a mistake. The US had a much better economy before MBAs were invented.

What's the contribution of US MBAs? making China the #1 country by GDP, and normalizing clown-like botox faces. Truly the most idiotic cargo cult ever created.
My perception (never been) is that Detroit used to have 1million+ more residents 50 years ago, but when the core industry (automotive industry) was wooed to the South and Canada/Mexico, those who could afford to left the region.

There is some recovery happening. A few select neighborhoods are thriving with creatives and strong local community.

But city services are slow and expensive because they were built out for 2x the population/infra but have been starved of funding as houses went condemned and utilities bills/property taxes went unpaid.
Very well put, and I agree. It's usually not a difference of mental health; it's a difference of values.

One of the wild things to me, though, is the doublethink. It's true that if you ask them, they'll often say it was justified. But on the other hand, they generally know to save the worst of it until they can't be observed by outsiders. They're usually quite canny about presenting a non-abusive face to the world. So there's an important sense in which they know what they're doing is wrong.
Backlog alternative: JIT selection from independent streams (2020)
The cat is out of the bag. Now the managers can quietly collaborate with the team and everyone can take their turn being the dunce until they move on in a couple of years.
Firstly, Tencent has enormous sway and many friends in the party. There does not need to be any chairman-level dictat, only the usual greased palms. Secondly, the Chinese government is extremely interested in tightly controlling the media that the people of China consume, so who would object?
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It's ongoing by North Korea https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/fbi_korea_freelancers...
One thing Matt mentions but doesn't go into is how this could (should?) be a government service. In fact, there is the IRS's IVES program: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/inco... but it is already fairly antiquated.

There's a great opportunity here for the IRS to provide this service (with revenue from charging the requesting entities), with citizens being self-sovereign over what data is shared and who it is shared with. Especially because they could provide verified data in a very narrow scope (for instance only sharing Adjusted Gross Income and nothing else).
Here is an example- companies deliberately adding mocroplastics to toothpaste and beaty products:

https://treadingmyownpath.com/2019/08/22/microbeads/#:~:text....

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/02/uk-gover...
> The second approach is to instead emulate just the x86 instruction set, and use Wine as described above as an implementation of the massive Windows API backing onto something more tractable to then emulate, such as the Linux kernel API.

This is also the approach of qemu user-space, which went unmentioned in the article. It can emulate another ISA and translate the syscalls to your host version of Linux. This way you can run x86 Wine on, say, ARM or RISC-V systems. From a user perspective, if everything is set up so, Windows applications for x86 will run just as well as ARM Linux applications.
It’s true. The bean counting is Jira workflows and constant discussion about modifying them. The dedication to process as a startup grows is really astounding. It changes work relationships in my experience and turns people into robots.
This channel has great videos that address requirements 1 & 3 you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38OtM4w1rBI
I’m not sure if this is a regional thing; police are like this just about everywhere. In my region, most of the people in my community have all stopped calling the emergency services line to report crimes in progress because the dispatch yells and screams and berates the callers. There’s a Facebook group for my local town with dozens of people who say they don’t call anymore because of this. At some point, the police transitioned from preventing and fighting crime to arguing in court that they don’t have the duty to protect. Not sure how it happened or why, but it’s making things worse. Many people no longer see the police as part of the local community but as an organized gang that terrorizes people for small infractions while ignoring major crimes in progress. No amount of patriotism, flag waving, or bumper stickers can change this perception.
For sure. And it's not just useful to me in a domestic context. I once got a new boss. After my second meeting with him, during which he spent most of it berating me, I thought, "That sounds familiar." So I got out my copy, turned to the chapter on abuser subtypes, and saw that he had already hit most of the checklist for the "Mr Right" abuser type.

It was very helpful to know what I was caught up in; otherwise I could have easily blamed myself or just felt at sea.
I mean I've never seen any performance "measurement" system that isn't just subjective review with another name. Objective metrics can be useful, and certainly could be a part of a manager's evaluation of an employment, but they never tell the whole story. Someone who closes out tons of tickets but is a complete asshole and hated by their teammates should get a worse performance review than someone who codes less but provides mentorship and guidance and is generally pleasant to work with.
The core courses between the grad and undergrad programs are essentially identical. In terms of whether he passed an exam like this, well, cs get degrees and its pretty hard to actually fail out of business school
their main competitor (who seek to lose hundreds of millions as a result?)

it's conspiracy theory nonsense I'm afraid
Timezone must be the last barrier to hire remotely from worldwide. Is there any startup try to solve it?
You asked "What did they do besides doxing him and confronting him online that helped?"

> The confession was online

The confession was made possible via their "antics", because he knew he'd been caught. Without the experience of being cornered and having to escape, he'd have likely ignored the message as a fishing expedition.

> they already had the vehicle ID

Getting that was part of their "antics", yes.
> I also should have added, and probably led with, the fact that tipping addresses a big agent-principal problem in hospitality: in restaurants where servers rely on tips, their incentives are strongly aligned with those of customers; without tips, virtually all the incentives are aligned with that of management.

Very astute of you to mention this, though “address” and “cause” could be used interchangeably.

When I was a bartender it was always in my interest to give away free alcohol to my highest tipping customers, who generally understood that it’s customary to add 50% of the cost they would have paid to their tip for each free drink.

At a very surface level, the tipping system incentivizes employees to steal product from the business to give to customers. But the game theory gets very complicated.
Sometimes this results in a great customer base that forms the core of a “social engine” that powers the popularity of a bar/restaurant and results in a win-win-win. Bar owners set various levels/thresholds/criteria for how much free sample can be given out and under what circumstances.

Tl;dr: the principal-agent problem can almost never be solved to align all parties in a system.
It is almost like you need multiple competing minds to form a consensus and hold each other in check.

I really enjoy watching LLMs bullshit, it is like they see a path to a goal and take it.

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...
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"My company kills employees that they don't like — actually shoots them and puts the corpses in a dumpster."

"Well, start your own company and don't kill people if you don't think it's right."
One way to think about this is to first determine what type of study would be actually be needed to prove conclusively, for example, that one egg per day is a net negative or net positive and go from there. I'm assuming that cost / complexity / time associated with conducting such a study would be prohibitive. If so, we can simply conclude that we will never be able to tell one way or the other (with current technology at least) and stop worrying about it.

This way, we ensure that our meta-analysis firepower (whatever/whoever that actually is), can be directed at studies that actually have a potential to uncover some real knowledge.
Running a business is extremely hard; but no one is forcing these businesses to grow to be so fucking large that they are induced to justify all of their inhumanity on the impossible difficulty of operating at scale. THEIR EXECUTIVES CHOSE THE CHALLENGE. Kotick threatened to have his secretary killed, and we're still touting this MBA bullshit that the greatest challenge he faced in running Activision-Blizzard is how to sell the next Call of Duty?

CEOs manage that just fine. Their greatest challenge is building a culture of empathy; something psychopaths generally would find difficult. Call of Duty, The System, sells itself; a distributed self-healing machine like those found at Microsoft, Salesforce, Nestle, Pfizer, and every other giga-organization, nine-thousand eight-hundred neurons aligned toward the goal of deleting or absorbing competition.

Encouraging more kind-hearted people to start businesses is a magnitude of naivete which begets an unrealistic level of faith in the system which created the companies that rip our economy apart. Sure, you can go start Slack; and eventually be faced with the impossible choice of submitting to one overlord or being annihilated by another. You grew your business beautifully. Your customers and employees love your organization. You made mistakes, though not a tenth the number your competition did. But, they have Unlimited Capital, and were willing to cross the lines you wouldn't because the lines don't even exist in their morally-depraved worldview.

But; you're right; you'd discover that you can balance one and two, if you get lucky and stay small; like hiding from a hungry bear in the woods. This doesn't minify readers' dissatisfaction and frustration with a system that allows bullshit like this to happen, nor does it justify an out-of-touch ultra-Republicanized soundbyte about pulling up your bootstraps and getting to work fixing a system that loads fifty trillion dollars into a cocked gun and points it at anyone who respects the human condition just a bit too much.
Not on the App Store anymore, but I built a Japanese-English Dictionary that would give you SRS notifications (a few hours later, a few days later, a few more days later) of words you looked up. I did this because I often looked up words, but forgot them.

https://shirabe.app/

I can re-deploy this if anyone is interested, I just took it down since it's pretty expensive (couple hundred bucks a year) to put an app on the app store I made exclusively for myself.
I work at a company that has stack ranking.

While I'm just a developer, my wife is a director at the same company.

I multiple years, she's turned in her evaluations and had the director and VP above her tell her to lower several employees ranking.

One example was an engineer who didn't get along with the people on his team for a pretty high profile project. They know the guy's brilliant and don't want to fire him, so they move him to a lower profile project to decommission several server farms they had been struggling to get done. Dude goes in and absolutely kills it. They estimate he saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars by the tens of thousands of servers he decommissioned and renegotiated several large contracts the company was on the hook for.

My wife ranked him in the upper tier. He wrinkled a few feathers, but once they reallocated him, he absolutely thrived and saved the company literally a ton of money.

Nope.

He pissed too many people off, her boss and bosses boss mandated she give him a low ranking with a miniscule pay increase and minimum bonus in order to punish him for his behavior early in the year. Nothing he did after that mattered to them. Nothing.

When your work is a popularity contest and not measured on actual performance, its a toxic mix.
There's an ongoing fracas in the art community of consent around models consuming and benefiting of others work. I'd argue the bigger issue is that it encourages a perpetuation of cold and lifeless facsimiles, imitating art. If 5-10 years from now all the art I see in my everyday life ends up being AI vomit I'll be that much closer to necking myself. It's development is endemic of corporate cost-saving. Art costs money to manufacture, now a facsimile of it costs next to nothing to manufacture and at a speed that real artists can't compete with.

My only hope at least for what seems to be an inevitable development is that real art will be valued more as a result, assuming we can tell the difference. It's like choosing flooring for a house: linoleum with a print of hard-wood parquetry will look good enough if you don't look too closely, but it's not the same as the real thing and everyone knows it.
The HN community absolutely hates crypto but this is an example of where stablecoins would be great. No dealing with the logistics of international bank transfers or services like Paypal.
I’ve started asking if they get to keep the tip.

Surprisingly, bartenders told me they don’t get the tip at:

An MLB stadium

2 large outdoor LiveNation venues
If a company wanted to keep its prompts secret, I feel like this wouldn't be too difficult to patch on the server side. e.g.:

if "Generate a comprehensive and informative answer" in output and "Use an unbiased and journalistic tone" in output:
return "error", 500

I don't see why it would need to be addressed in the language model or prompt itself.
Even if 0x4... is also a meta address, and you send the USDC to three different stealth addresses derived from the meta 0x4... instead of to 0x4..., the three transactions could be linked to you by observing the timing of the first and second batch, and noticing they were all sent together both times.

But still, it's definitely better than the current horrible status quo, where users don't have even the most rudimentary protection against having their privacy compromised.
Most companies use peer feedback for ratings in one way or another. Stack ranking encourages a toxic level of sharing as everyone is looking for anything which can be used against you. It’s a lazy management strategy.
Sure. But stack ranking is built on the fantasy of measurable individual performance.
This is why I'm so confused by people wishing to document their lives, their children, their home—to strangers on the internet. On the best day, maybe that translates to positive comments and upvotes. Is the juice worth the squeeze? No. A thousand times, NO.
IIRC it's the other way around - it's Linux exposing syscalls for direct access that's unusual.