skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever run a dictionary cracker like hashcat? You really really should, with modern GPU hardware. Read the documentation too. Your example is a pretty early match. letter/number cycling, single case substitutions, symbol concatenation - GPUs can cycle through those in parallel, fast.

It's a guessable password + guessable ruleset. You've introduced far less entropy than you've imagined. If you want to have protection against attacks and use your technique, you have to come up with a ruleset you (1) don't see in the documentation (2) that's computationally unreasonable.

For instance, combine multiple languages. Strawberry Octopus Sundae, which is pretty memorable, can become
FragolaOctopusEisbecher combining Italian, English and German. And with that we just went O(N^3) where N is dictionary size (actually more than that because you've got a wide choice of latin scripted language).

That gives you far more protection then say sTr4b33ry+0ct0pu5!5und43. You aren't fooling a GeForce RTX 4090 with those tricks.

That's an example I just came up with though. There's lots of things like that. But really run a cracker. Try it out.
> I know people who've been running mx/smtp servers on the internet since 1994 who have now given up on running their own, not because they're technically incapable or unwilling to continue to do so, but because they've been forced into themselves using gsuite or office365 because of the monopolistic practices of the huge email-as-a-service providers.

Please don’t spread the FUD that it’s impossible to run your own e-mail anymore. It’s perfectly possible. It’s just hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32716633
I've been using Fastmail since last year, also with a custom domain. I haven't experienced any issues with deliverability so far.
If this was your worst, you haven't done many interviews...
I've always thought the one way to make the world a better place, would be to randomly throw people who say "I just want to make the world a better place" into the nearest active volcano. For maximum effect it would have to be completely random, but semi-frequently, until that trope is finally dead.
BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
Having hired over 200 people in my career, I always am willing to tell them directly why I didn't hire them and give them constructive feedback or if I found something they should make sure doesn't get discovered by other companies.

The only reason to lie about why I wasn't hired is because they are hiding something.
The generated content was pretty good but it doesn't look like a very fun d&d session. Try reading through reading only the player actions, skipping the long winded DM monologues. The players make very few decisions. They might get to have in character conversations "off screen" that we aren't seeing but their interactions with the actual game world is very minimal.

To have a more realistic round of DND, you'd need more small, brief interactions, more like an actual conversation, which will blow through your message limit with 4 pretty quick.
Maybe I've just been unlucky but this seems rather routine for when a company doesn't want to move forward for whatever reason.
Another odd bit was, when they said they wanted to steal the lizard thing, instead of role-playing the scenario, it just gave them a list of the rolls they’d have to make. I haven’t played a ton of D&D, but at the tables I’ve been at, you’d typically discover the challenges as you go.

It sort of read like the artificially constructed examples of play you’d get in the DM’s handbook though (since these are written with the intent of showing a particular mechanic as smoothly as possible, they tend to have unusually cooperative players and DMs).

I wonder to what extent this sort of thing skews the training set.
Honestly, I feel this rather highlights the engineering effectiveness of the original Tesla snake charger design. It's "just" a bunch of identical injection-molded spine pieces, and a bunch of identical winch actuators pulling on wires. Even the copper cable is much significantly shorter, which is a non-trivial cost and environmental impact if you plan to deploy millions worldwide.

The original Tesla video was dragged for being too sexual, so it's almost a relief to see that any implementation is going to be unnecessarily sexualized. It's just a lame joke that we're all going to have to "get past" as part of our cultural development.
I am a Vicuna developer. We plan to release the weights once we have addressed all concerns and have a low-resource version of the inference code ready. We released the demo first to get some early feedback on the model.
I read the post, it seems someone cancelled a meeting and the candidate got a little antsy, then started using a type of language that scared off the employer.

Nothing in the posts seems extremely outrageous to me, they could have been nicer to him ... but let's be serious.

As a matter of fact, after reading the post I would not hire this candidate either - to be honest. Something feels very odd -like essential information has been left out.

He seems like someone that thinks very highly of themselves, always a bad sign.
The voice interface is such a cool idea!
It's definitely good for me and I wouldn't. Just spreading the word not to work for them.
I was going to respond same thing :sweat:. this seems like _normal_ startup hiring based on my experiences. People pass, people make stuff up to pass. Sticker shock could have factored in for CEO. I def empathize with the author. They thought they were a shoe in, thought everything was smooth and then wasn't responded to promptly, that sucks. I'm sure it was a rollercoaster during the time, excited about the new role, opportunity and $ and then denied for no known reason.

Not sure if it's reasonable to jump to illegal or unethical information?
An open system right up until your users use the junk button as the delete button.
Note the part where the example says "squash:club", not "n!mGgl342r0nin"

Password guessing and cracking is part of my job. GP is right: the advice is absolutely terrible. Your example looks good but the secret sauce is the way by which you create it. Maybe it's just leetspeak for something a million fans know, in which case it would be in my dictionary by virtue of downloading Wikipedia and other cracked password lists and the leetspeakify rules will find it in a matter of hours or days for a typical leaked hash (this looks like a domain admin password we might find on a workstation they logged into).

Eyeballing mGgl3etc., it doesn't look like something you'd find in anyone else's password, which makes it unpredictable, which makes my job hard and your account safe. But you can't determine a password's strength from the generator's output (only if it's terrible) so idk.
Nope, nothing left out.
Not sure if this is canvassed voting, or a ton of people reflexively vote up anything negative.

Based on the entitlement throughout ("rescinded my offer" when the interview process clearly hadn't completed), I'm not surprised they might have found a reason not to go forward.
not really. providers have a lot of tools that monitor IP reputation, and also human contacts never hurt. Fastmail and other providers maintain their reputation by taking spam seriously and having prudent rules in place.

source: i worked at fastmail and regularly got oncall alerts to go deal with some rbl issues
PPP isnt static either. Youd expect as a country becomes more developed the purchasing power gets less as less as coet of living goes up.
Kind of like a Certificate Authority, with all the incentives and fraud issues that follow
No the only thing that can stop the cartels and the overdoses is a robust, effective, and non-corrupt law enforcement system deterring the drug dealing and smuggling with severe criminal penalties.
So, let me get this straight.

They decided to pass on OP, so the CEO is a serial liar (for certain)??

Hmm... I think I need more evidence for such bold claims.

Also...

> Since I am very senior, the 2nd interview was barely an interview at all.

This... just isn't how it works.

Something seemed really off about the entire post.
> Taking two days to respond (...) the most unprofessional I had ever experienced in interviewing at a technology company in decades

Can't say I've had the same experience.
'Modules Matter' Most for the Masses
See my other reply. Perhaps a bit of a jump but then why lie about the reason, especially so dumb as timeline?
Are read receipts common at a certain level? I was under the impression they were extremely frowned upon and virtually nobody uses them.
An interview loop had a scheduling glitch and the company decided to not extend an offer.

Raise your hand if you’ve heard of vastly worse treatment of candidates. Damn, that’s a lot of hands…
This is my biggest fear in the space (aside from potential job displacement and the political outcomes), but AI basically eating its own dogfood, and regurgitating its already bad information. It could go south pretty quickly, and it's like a contagion, it can't be easily just removed from the system.
I’m in early 30s and I do think health is crucial but you’re kinda missing the big picture. I feel like I know 100x more than I knew 10 years ago. I am also much more experienced in many fields, not only work/programming but cooking, driving, swimming, talking to people and so forth. The point is I’m good at many things I wasn’t good in my 20s. But I haven’t improved in my 20s only, I’ve been upgrading myself or so to say every day since day one. As cliche as it sounds.
Therefore I just know my weak spots much better than ever before and I realize I forget about this and that but not due to my aging brain but mostly to my vast knowledge and experience. Also my self awareness is on another level and I’m sure I was dumber even 5 years ago but I couldn’t see it back then. It’s like going back to 1999, looking at Windows 98SE and thinking interfaces couldn’t get any better.

Also I think kids change everything. Got none of my own but it’s so hard to focus when you have to think for them as they do stupid stuff all the time. Once went to play squash with my 10 year old cousin and he literally lost his shoe, then a towel then a key to his locker. All within an hour. And many people will tell you they were smarter as kids.
Their definition fits several genocides committed fairly recently by the US.
You may be right but it sets a terrible precedent if anyone other than social media tries this. If your probability of a service working is only 99% the probability of an overall failure is .99 to the power of the number of services you depend on, which could be a lot.
You’d think, but you still need a megahertz-resolution DSP to emulate some signal chains closely, due to phasing and reflected harmonics:

https://youtu.be/GjtEIYXrqa8

Although to be fair, most of the time “liking the sound” is indeed just due to quirks of the analog implementations, like eq cramping. Those differences were emulated long ago, and producers often do reach for a “colored” emulation instead of the “ideal” digital filter.
Truth is, QBASIC was one of the best programming environments for beginner programmers. Sure it wasn't sophisticated like Turbo Pascal or Smalltalk, but with a single button you could switch back and forth between running your code and live-editing it. If an error occurred you could correct it and continue from where you were. Unfortunately when you got too close to the 640KB memory limit it was no longer possible to fit both the editor and the program in memory at the same time.
They are a bit creepy for sure. It's strange to have entered into an adversarial relationship so suddenly, perhaps the company picked up on it and didn't want to get into an even bigger fight with this person (although, they seem to have taken it there anyway).
OP that experience sounds mildly annoying. You come off as someone I would never want to work with.
Seems like a nice concept, but the website is way too confusing. The app itself is titled 'talksik' (toxic?) instead of Flowy. The animation in the home page, along with the low contrast, is too quick - can barely see what it's about. The demo page has a talking head video instead of the app demo.

The home page should really show a few static screenshots of the app, highlight the core functionality and use cases. And explain it's an audio app. Currently it's mostly marketing fluff, which is not exactly the best way to reach the target audience of developers.
I have to agree with the other comments that this isn't too bad an experience, it's unfortunate and maybe unprofessional. From your article I get the impression there could be any number of legitimate reasons that the CEO isn't prepared to share. It's less likely the CEO just set out to lie to you.

You dodged a bullet I guess, might be worth keeping an eye on the company, maybe they're shutting down unexpectedly. Good luck with the search though.
That works OK because the transformer is relatively close to the lights. If it were a reasonably-large house, and the transformer were on the opposite side of the house, you'd have a problem with a noticeable voltage drop. All these ideas people are throwing out here involve a single whole-house power supply. If it were for 48VDC, it would probably be fine, but 12V would result in significant line losses.
Well, this isn’t true, clearly. The actual correspondence are left out, which is the foundation of everything.
Well yes, of course. What else would you expect? Art has to find an audience large enough to support it or it fails. Same as it ever was.

The great thing about game dev is that you have low barriers to entry and the entire internet is a potential audience.
Why is there demand for something that is more likely to kill the user? Is it cheaper to produce? Harder to test for? Does it give a stronger high?
The real game here is making vague claims and not backing them up.
I'd be curious to hear the CEO respond.

It's rather unfortunate, but with interviewing, like with dating, you don't always get to know why the other party passed on you.
It looks like where you went wrong was replying with a screenshot of your calendar. That and the likely passive aggressive text accompanying it was probably a red flag for Jacob. The fact that you posted this drivel vindicates him.
We're not saying that all police are bad.

We are saying her crimes are made worse by her police adjacency
Ha! That's nothing...I had a senior technologist at Nvidia ask me to reschedule our interview so I could go research his accomplishments and provide a written report outlining his profound impacts...
They’re not even reliable! Something automated might have triggered the read receipt, without the addressee actually opening (let alone reading) the email.
(Replied in bad faith. Deleting it)
Getting ghosted sucks, but this seems like a huge over-reaction. By the end of the article I was thinking that Levee dogged a bullet on this one.
> shipping is free

Shipping is rolled into the price, which varies depending on where you're shipping.
I noticed the blue dot and wondered what it was. I’m OK with it myself.
Crypto wallet company Ledger raises another $108M
This is very much a bookseller's take and not a librarian's. Actually cataloguing rare books is a different, and also fascinating, set of stories.
Thanks! I corrected the link now.
The wires would be thick asf

Not practical
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully played Tic-Tac-Toe with an LLM?
I tried to get both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to play Tic-Tac-Toe and both failed absolutely. Half the time they declared victory or defeat too early, made invalid moves, and let me cheat without questioning it. The other half of the time the moves they made seemed random and they always were easily defeatable. Has anyone else had similar experiences or have a prompt that has been more successful?
The Zoran repetition looked suspicious to me and from some quick googling of some of the ones in the middle of that I can't find "Zoran Vulin football" or soccer or "Luburic Zoran football" or soccer results. So it's less blantant but still seems to have lost the plot.
CEO is slightly tardy replying to an email, then declines to give a detailed reason for passing on the candidate? OP's reaction here makes it pretty clear that the company made a good decision.
Ask HN: Does Spam “Work”?
Scrolling through hundreds of messages in my spam mailbox I have a tough time understanding who spam works for / upon. With all the spelling mistakes, broken links/images, unclear messages, I can’t fathom that there are people out there who see spam and think “oh I want to buy whatever this person is selling”. Am I crazy? Is there some other purpose for spam (other than the obvious phishing attempts which don’t seem to be as common as just plain junk spam)?
Why? Modern code requires a separate lighting power runs
Switch is a goldmine of excellent nintendo-produced titles.

Also, they have an indy store that surpasses the one the xbox 360 had during its heyday.

I haven’t noticed any pay to win bullshit, though mario oddessy has started advertising amiibos at us.
Most teenagers don’t even use your “public infrastructure.” They never started with email and won’t unless they get a job with it.

I don’t think it’s public infrastructure.
That’s how federated protocols work, you choose who you want to federate with. See mastodon instances blocking other instances
We'll find out why when the new CTO is publicly announced. I suspect they simply found someone else. Doesn't help that the CEO is quick to make promises verbally, but I'm sure this is common.
I was going to say the same thing.

Even if you have SPF and DKIM working correctly, they will block your email to outlook, hotmail, and other services unless you fill out their form. If you fill out the form, then you still need to wait months before they decide whether to accept your email.

On my own servers, I warn users who try to use hotmail or outlook that my email to them may not work and they should use a different email address.
As someone who struggles with context switching _and_ who likes to help people out and unstick them, I really feel that you're saying. I need to become more like you in that respect.

I think scheduling a time to talk and using this tool for the convo, is not inherently bad. That said though, at that point just use a Slack Huddle or Teams.
This is one area where I find ChatGPT to be quite decent.
They weren’t wrong. Electron apps and web apps have made switching to Linux or Mac much more seamless for many people.
One thing I've noticed is that it takes a certain energy threshold to do something. At 30s, first, your internal energy level have dropped. You might also be more senior at work and stuck with higher responsibilities and longer hours, or occupied at home - caretaking parents, young children. Einstein didn't make as many groundbreaking discoveries in his latter years; some attributed this to being tied down with more draining work.

Energy management is crucial. It's no longer about time management. When you do have energy, early in the day, that's when you want to want to focus it on self-improvement. Don't try to learn too much late in the day. Allocate plenty of rest periods; many of the smartest people around now don't do anything with their low energy times. It's usually better to sleep early or go for a run instead of forcing yourself to learn more.
I don't doubt that you think nothing was left out ... but I am sure the other side thinks differently.

Are return receipts still a thing?

I have turned off those by default and would never return one - unless I was a candidate and really needed a job :-)

But for a candidate to be harrasing me about a return receipt ... good riddance friend
Got the same impression. If the person writing himself wasn't able to frame this in a way favorable to him, I don't think we even need to know the other side of the story.
DB2 >>> Oracle
I don’t really understand why I found this at the top of HN, but it feels likely to be popular for reasons other than intended, as OP comes off as entitled and prone to overreaction.

I would never hire someone who wrote a post like this in response to such a mild slight, it demonstrates a tendency to blow small things way out of proportion. The supposed offenses of the employer are extremely commonplace in hiring, saying this from having been on both sides many times.

Sometimes you don’t get to know why they took a pass, usually because you wouldn’t like the answer. Having such thin skin is a personality flaw and I daresay the CEO picked up on that.
It’s not great that they were this unprofessional, but many (most?) companies will not give you the real reason for passing. You may get “there were better candidates” and it might be true, but it might just have been your expected salary, or your unwillingness to work weekends/long hours, etc.
The most unprofessional interview process I’ve had was with AWS. Very amateurish.
Webpush is a thing? But I don't get push notifications from my bank, so I don't know what I would be missing?

Also, not everyone is willing to use fingerprints, so there's that too.
I'm happy to share it if you'd like.
> if it costs you three cents in computing power to have AI write the necessary code for something or draw good art, you can't reasonably expect anyone to pay you more than three cents for it

I don't think that's true at all. Haven't you ever heard the expression, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"?
It seems to play with the tops of the fingers rather than the pads of the fingertips at times. In 30 years of playing, I never even thought of trying that. I'm kind of amazed.
I find it rather alarming that, at least in my social circles, those defending TikTok tend to overlap with those people alarmed at the operations by Russian 'troll farms' on Facebook during the US presidential elections.
It's not just that they passed or didn't give a reason, but they gave a clear lie as the reason.
Maybe Levee is wading into the AI-assisted talent search space (ala Draup, Fetcher, hireview) and the algorithm spotted something "iffy"? (Not saying there is anything truly "iffy", but who knows).
I think I broke it pretty badly asking for "A ll(1) grammar validator" as it answered `^(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[A-Z]|[a-z])(?:[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9])):(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[A-Z]|[a-z])(?:[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9])):)+(?:(?:(?

lol

id: chatcmpl-6zxdwNH3hW7DuZqnCkx4Ukx9rXiuA
token usage: 367
date: 1680225296
Or Google can just materialize the expected page into existence at search time.

... it's uncanny how it always finds what you thought you were looking for!
Unfortunately, the fediverse likely will have many of the same problems as email and RBLs today: It's less automated, but groups of admins share servers to block en masse, and not all admins bother to vet the claims before doing so. Once your server is on enough servers' block lists, it's near impossible to get off of them.

One of the most useful block lists people upload is generated based on how many other servers have blocked it. So once you're there, even if the situation has changed, you may have to petition a dozen or so servers to remove a block on you before you come off the list everyone else is using.

Botspam is an increasing problem, servers can get blacklisted because too many spammers get on it faster than the admin addresses the issue. And there's really no automated tools for handling all of it yet.
As a Pole I must say it’s entertaining. They obviously have no idea about our government preferences and aging population. And so much more.
my thoughts exactly, the whole post has a whiff of passive aggressive attitude,

all the names and accusations, it reflects extraordinarily badly on the writer, primarily

goes to show that intelligent people with hurt feelings are doing idiotic things and end up harming themselves just to "get back" to the other side