skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad used to tell me there are 2 types of jobs, jobs where you use your hands or intellect to make something more valuable from less expensive constituent parts, and jobs where you skim off the top of people doing #1
How do you usually direct people to generate passwords they'll need to remember?
Sorry to hear that you had this experience. Sometimes, things happen for a reason. Given your prior experience as a very senior person, you're probably in-tune with the current state of the economy. It's easy to imagine that a company that is primarily focused on transforming the hiring process may be experiencing real hardship and uncertainty at the moment. Circumstances change. Don't resort to public personal attacks.
It’s all good providing feedback left and right until someone sues for discrimination. This risk is why hr prefers to ghost candidates instead.
Actually, they've interviewed 25 people for the role and no one else is in the pipeline.
What’s NI?
Note that I don’t have a dog in this fight as I’m no longer in AA, but I have to nitpick: “a power greater than yourself” can be a pretty big umbrella, especially depending on the meetings you attend.

It doesn’t have to mean “God”, and it certainly doesn’t have to be the Judeo-Christian definition of God. It just has to mean “something other than yourself”. It can be the meetings themselves, the cute dog you saw in the dog park the other day who let you rub his belly, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or whatever.

The idea behind it is that, if your best thinking brought you to rock bottom, and you’ve tried everything you could think of to stop drinking without success, then maybe it’s time to let something else take the wheel.

Again, let me stress that I don’t have an opinion on this one way or the other, I am simply correcting the record here. It wasn’t for me, and I certainly don’t think AA/NA has a monopoly on sobriety. But I had 5 good years of being clean and sober before going back out, and when I finally did start drinking again, it was in a MUCH healthier way. It also helped a lot of good friends, and I’m grateful for that.
Great questions!

For getting components into the system: we're working on a protocol (more specifically a TypeScript interface) that defines a mapping from component types that the tool understands (sidebar, navigation header, etc) to component implementations. You can add component types that the tool doesn't understand too, but like you point out, then it's more work to define the rules they use. Anyway, you can bring your company's design system into the tool by implementing this protocol - the tool loads your implementation (currently from npm, but could be anywhere) at runtime.

Right now the default rules are based on component type, so when you add a new design system implementation, you start with the default rules for known components. These can be customized on a per-design-system basis via the protocol, but again it's a bit tedious to do. We've explored using generative AI for determining component rules which seems promising so far. This could potentially be less tedious and more flexible for custom design systems, and is one area we hope to explore more.
Well, yes, but "enough" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Learning git is a large and steep learning curve, but the benefits from doing so outweigh the costs.
My small company (30people) has one about each quarter. More just to keep everyone up to speed on the latest etc
I should have "not nearly as fictional". I know some of it's true, some of it's 'ripped from the headlines', some is rumor, but nothing Hollywood does is ever entirely accurate. Even the documentaries (maybe especially the documentaries)
If I were a trans person, I would be insulted by large corporations draping themselves in such superficial, low effort, utterly incongruous lip service to my cause, using past and present prejudice against me as a marketing opportunity to sell more web browsers. Corporations love to passively attach themselves to causes like this. Social responsibility has become the responsibility of the marketing department, plus whatever minimum corporate change is sufficient to sell the sizzle.

This story has played out countless times, whether it's world hunger in the 1980s, third-wave feminism in the 1990s, global warming in the 2000s, or generic environmentalism (i.e. "greenwashing") in the 2010s. If they wanted to, corporations can be a force for good. The treadmill of causes du jour gives them a convenient excuse to not try.

For the sake of the trans community I'd like to think that this time they're being sincere. This time it's authentic. But I find it hard to believe. Maybe I'm too cynical.
It does actually seem rather lazy. "Whitelists suck" is not informative or helpful.
I interviewed with Roku a few weeks ago. Mercifully, I failed.
Here is my reply to Jacob when the meeting was cancelled. Would you call this antsy language?:

FYI: Calendly is not a very reliable piece of software. When I went to reschedule the meeting, it said it was cancelled. I'm sure she sent her note through it and Calendly just didn't cancel the meeting on my calendar, which I've experienced several times while using it. Not Laila's fault at all. No hard feelings.

Just want to push forward :)
Flicker in smartphone displays has a different impact from flicker in lighting. One typically holds a smartphone fairly still while viewing it, but flickery lighting becomes evident when things illuminated by it move, or when the viewer moves their head or eyes relative to the light source.

250Hz flicker in very visible in lighting under certain circumstances. I'm of the opinion lighting should be flicker-free, or at least over about 5kHz.
Guitar players and hifi folks have been buying and using tubes since before they became popular and obsolete enough to be scarce and expensive. I’ve seen more than a few voice the complaint that they can’t find good tubes for under a buck at goodwill and garage sales anymore.
Labour campaigned and voted against Brexit shouting this would happen. "Project Fear" as it was called. But now they pretend like Brexit has nothing to do with it... it's just the torries fault apparently.
It's based off of alpaca.cpp, and llama.cpp recently added support for it. So yes, it's Apple Silicon ready.
That is a bad thing to guess about when you can just ask us! though sinister speculation is more fun, I know.

Moderation didn't see it until someone told us about it and then we put it back on the front page.
I was in Vietnam last month. I also work in IT and had both my personal and work laptop with me. I waited to reply because i still had friends in country at the time.

There is no proof of vaccination required and hasnt been since at least the beginning of this year.

I did not notice any blocks of internet on Viettel (and BBC is in my news feeds).

I would periodically hop on a VPN i own and use Firefox Focus if i was googling something that the government may have viewed as controversial. But I wasnt given a reason to, I am just a bit of a privacy freak and assume they are logging traffic.

And the sim card did not require any ID. When we arrived one of our friends handed them out, about 10 of them to all of us. I even went as far as to call and upgrade it to a higher plan as 1GB/day wasnt sufficient.
Most people just shrug, mutter "companies can be stupid" and move on
Funny. I have none of these spam problems with Fastmail.

I assume the problem is because email is an afterthought at the big near-monopoly providers.
It doesn't work if you don't tick the boxes and it's not obvious which boxes should be ticked. I could see a couple that would apply but wouldn't be dealbreakers.

Also this is not a proposed solution to spam. It is a proposed solution to aggressive anti-spam.
The tubes that are currently still produced (mostly late designs for audio use) have never been particularly rare, at least until very recently. I'm pretty sure the 12AX7 has never gone out of production completely worldwide. There's several manufacturers; one in China, one in Slovakia, and one in Russia, at least. As the article notes the fact that a lot of tubes come from Russia is causing a bit of a price spike now.

But in general, since the transistors took over, they've been available for about $10 in current dollars, only a little more expensive than they were back in the 1960s. US manufacturing faded out in the 80s, but tubes were manufactured elsewhere commonly into the 90s. It's apparently still profitable to manufacture them for $10 or so, at least with legacy tube-making equipment.

The real expensive ones are like binned semiconductor parts. The best frequency response, least micro-vibrations, etc. Or manually selected pairs with similar properties. But if you just want to replace the pre-amp and don't care much they were like $12 just a couple years ago.

So I don't know what the collectors are doing, really. Not exactly a market you can corner so long as people keep burning out their tubes and multiple companies keep making them.
No one will do anything because free and independent email is less valuable to the general public than spam free email. HN loves to downplay the existence of abuse on the internet. Gmail isn't dropping your emails as some big evil corporate plan, it's collateral damage in a war on unimaginable amounts of spam.
>The country doesn't need this. Trump was fading away.

Agree with the former, disagree with the latter. he's still the frontrunner to win the gop primary
All: please don't post low-substance and/or high-indignation and/or political battle comments to this thread, or any HN thread. We're trying for something else here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This is on the front page because it's historically significant and intellectually interesting; so please comment if you have something to say that enhances those aspects. I know it's hard to detach from the passions of the moment, but that's kind of necessary for curious conversation*, so it's good practice.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Why is this top headline?
>Anarchy doesn't mean no rules

That is exactly what it means...
How is this different from just having a teams meeting left open?
Here’s an additional piece of nuance that these conversations always overlook: how much waste heat is actually waste heat? Where I am in Quebec, we have hydroelectric electricity in spades and since it is so cheap many homes have electric baseboard heating. Couple that with the fact that in Quebec we run our heaters for 7 months of the year, and that means that 60% of the time your waste heat is not entirely wasted. Assuming at least 75% of the infrared radiation from the bulb remains within your home, then on average year-round 45% of the thermal energy is not wasted and your 90% efficiency improvement of LEDs suddenly only looks like a 50% improvement.
this kind of always-on cross-desk chat is of course rife/everywhere/ubiquitous on the trading/brokerage side of banks. i suppose it fits their fast-changing/hectic day rather than the more-focused (?) engineer trades?

in my first unix tech support job at a big US bank, some bond trader would yell at us over the squawk box that they needed a new keyboard (because they'd just smashed it with the heavy handsets on their dealerbox/trading turret).

no jira back then!
Weirdly reminiscent of organized crime.
You can vouch for comments, but not (to my knowledge) posts.
I never harassed him about a return receipt. I just get to see when he reads my emails so I know how long it takes him to respond.

It's a feature of Superhuman. Controversial for sure, but you can even enable them in Gmail. Honestly, a feature built into every Enterprise email software out there. Not uncommon at all.
It would still work for more open LLMs like LLaMA and Alpaca, no? Because I don't think OpenAI's plugins are open source nor would they work outside of their GPT.
The Hidden Costs of Air Quality Monitoring
The example I gave isn't that guessable. It's combining things from different popculture into one new phrase that won't be in any dictionary. An even better attempt is to insert a whole word between two sides of a broken up word, e.g. `4mAzonij-0rdan4Npr7nces7`. And yes I use hashcat frequently.

Using something like a 20 character password following that formula is going to be fine for most people - it isn't going to be brute forced before someone gets an alert that passwords are compromised and can change it.

It's a much better solution IMO than using something entirely random and writing it down, or using something like LastPass.
National Instruments. https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.html
I've had a pretty good experience with retool but its component library definitely needs more documentation, as a frontend developer I'm able to go through all those props and tinker a bit until I get something done, but it's time consuming and not intuitive at first glance.

An example of this is the Table components, which allows you to create columns and set them a specific type, but that component documentation page doesn't include a section about which column types are allowed and how they work. Even further, there's a column type called Tag that it's available for us to use, but we don't have documentation about it and Tag documentation isn't helpful either,

It wouldn't hurt to add some common examples like a storybook along some way to let us see how to configure the components like that, or json examples we can import into our projects.
> I'll agree in principle that we can and should make space in tech for people who for whatever reason really just want to be code factories with as little human interaction as possible

I’m actually not saying that at all. I think people with severely underdeveloped social skills, such as many of the people who identify themselves as introverts in HN threads, are not qualified to do most jobs in any organisation. There are people who operate as little isolated code factories, but their deficiencies come at a massive cost to the organisation and everybody around them.
Thousands of conductance levels in memristors integrated on CMOS
That's why it's interesting he didn't ghost me. He did provide a reason: timeline. Which is a stupid reason since timeline can be pushed out. Then he didn't even try to give another reason and just ghosted me.
i wound up developing a pretty complex email sending infrastructure because of situations like this. it involves putting a message in a queue and then sending to a list of predefined proxies (mailjet, mailgun,sendgrid, etc, etc) and using backoff algorithms per proxy per hour....
This type of rhetoric is so backwards it's infuriating. Cities need to adapt to the higher quality of life people are getting. You have to adapt, it's natural. Imagine this 150 years ago when towns in WV we're saying "we need to get people back into the coal mines".
That feels too easy, I have a feeling the answer is more complicated. I doubt the revenue from spammers is actually worth the reputational damage and annoyance.
I feel like this post comes off more poorly for you than them.

Honestly, there's nothing that they've done that's particularly egregious - lying about reasons isn't ethical but it's something that happens a lot. Writing a full blog post about how terrible they are though might make other companies nervous that you'd do the same to them for some perceived slight.
Whether or not Trump was fading away has nothing to do with whether he should be charged, which is a function of his conduct and the law, not his political success or lack thereof.
He's running for president is at the top or 2nd place in polls with Republicans

He is lying about election fraud, states tried to send fake electors, they used the courts to push phony cases.
Oh wow. I just came within millimeters of impulse-buying one of his clocks:

https://www.daliborfarny.com/product/puri-nixie-clock/

For $1700, I might think about it first :/
This isn't FUD and I still run my own, I'm just saying that some people have given up dealing with the hassle. These are even people who have effectively free zero dollar 1U rack spaces for colo, bandwidth at the small to mid sized regional ISPs that they themselves run engineering operations at.

For the record I do not endorse bowing to the pressure of the gsuite/office365 monopolists.

One of the important parts that's hard to solve for a person who doesn't work at an ISP these days is that you absolutely don't want to be in a /24 netblock (and parent /22, /20, etc) that also contains $5 per month VPS/VM/hosting customers.

Because the inevitable result of having shared hosting IP space where anyone with a pulse and credit card can buy a VM for one month for 5 dollars is that your IP space will end up on some blacklists/spam lists/opaque and not publicly available spam-blockage lists run by gmail, because other peoples' server IPs in the same adjacent ranges announced into global BGP tables by the same ASN have historically been a source of spam/UCE within the past 12, 24, 36 months.
> With something completely unrelated? That's a concerning viewpoint.

I guess it would be concerning if you commit so many crimes that nobody knew which one you'd actually be charged with first.

Me, I just try to not do that.
I don't think so. The post claims there's ways to deal with spam without trusting single authorities to police it.

Additionally, the linked post explains that if you get flagged as spam or "sending to many emails" there's literally no way to fix it without sounding the alarm in a post like this.
Meanwhile Gmail happily lets through any scam email from any hijacked account on outlook.com.
"...200 words of fact mixed with 30,000 words of filler..."

Agree fully. Padding—presumably paid by the chr$.
He is lying about election fraud causing people to attack the Capital. That's an outcome
Nearly the entire point of the United States at its founding was that the law should apply to political leaders. We are overdue for setting the precedent of a former President being charged with a crime, and we ought to go back and charge a few other former Presidents with crimes while we’re at it.
That is pretty funny. It decided to just interpolate between “meeting an old friend and having a chat” and “listening in on a table of bandits without them knowing” and ended up on “having a chat with an old friend/table of bandits without them knowing.”
How are people using vector DBs in production? Do you typically use and manage Faiss indexes alone or use something like Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma?
Except for guitar amps - I think you underestimate how tribal and idiosyncratic the tone hounds can get.
> Note the part where the example says "squash:club", not "n!mGgl342r0nin"

Sure, the example I gave was more complex, but I was specifically referring to the "We recommend choosing a word or phrase that means something to you, and then adding one or two numbers or symbols, like "!" or "+"." being terrible advice.

It's not great advice, but they are on the right track.

> Password guessing and cracking is part of my job

Same here.

> GP is right: the advice is absolutely terrible.

It was just worded badly.

> 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).

Sure, there are tons of domain specific dictionaries, but that's really more useful for people that are targeting an individual and know something about them, or are just going to go through every dictionary they can. Most attackers are not doing that.

And besides, it's not about ensuring the password can never be cracked, that's not a great goal considering the compromise it would take - the goal is to delay brute forcing enough so that you can change passwords after you have an alert that a site has been breached.
> edit: I can't reply, so...

For very fresh comments (<1 minute?) you need to go to the comment page by clicking on its time to get a reply box. (Honestly not sure what that's trying to achieve: it's not like one considered the comment for longer before loading up keyboard_warrior.exe just because the comment existed for longer at the moment one loaded the page.)
What is the business reason for having an api?

I’ve always found it kind of strange that they have one.
I think most people would agree with that.
There are certainly some effective language model benchmarks; however, they are not well-suited for evaluating a chat assistant. Some projects employ human evaluation, while this blog post explores an alternative approach based on GPT-4. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, making this blog post an intriguing case study that can inspire the future development of more comprehensive evaluations.
Well done Bloomberg!

I've advocated for this in the past[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951652
EU Lawmakers Vote in Favor of Payment Limits on Anonymous Crypto Wallets
I haven’t been able to tell the difference for a while. I switched from a Marshal JTM45 to an Axe FX III w/ a big FR/FR cab and it sounds damn good and is a lot more flexible.

The other benefit to the new modellers (which for the past 5 or so years have been really high quality) is they are far more versatile and weigh a lot less.

Now the key is to invest in a good speaker cabinet, just like with a tube amp. Unfortunately there aren’t a ton of places where you can test drive them at least where I live. There’s another company that makes high quality modellers (Kemper) and they make a matching cab, but I’ve never seen one in person.
This framing comes up all the time. Is there anything that would…not be good for Trump’s campaign?
> So there is precedent for indictments for this particular crime

Sure, but boy does it seem like a Plan Z attempt by Democrats to get literally any kind of charge to stick to Trump after 7!!! years of trying. And this particular case is one that's been known about for pretty much that entire time but was shelved, probably because they know it's weak.
It’s not hard to move a million emails over imap between providers.

However, gmail has some anti abuse throttling, so you might need to do a one time painful manually rate limited slow sync to get them out.

The smaller providers generally don’t engage in such bullshit, in my experience.
OpenAI may have to halt ChatGPT releases following FTC complaint
For all email. I disagree that marketing email in general is a problem though. Eg. we send a monthly newsletter that is explicitly marketing, but it's opt-in (not opt-out; users need to explicitly choose to receive it), so I'm not sure what the harm is there. And yes, it's easy to unsubscribe too.

Unsolicited marketing email is a problem, and I don't think we send anything that a reasonable person could categorize as that. We send

-replies to user support requests

-new vehicle listing alerts that users have explicitly signed up for (eg by running a search for a car on autotempest and then entering their email address in the "get alerts for this search" field)

-monthly newsletter, again with explicit opt-in only

And I send a handful of personal B2B emails.
Sounds like there are 34 counts of falsifying business records so it is probably more than just that one payoff.
Wait - 50% of npm packages AREN'T spam??
AI and the Future of Health
I knew I’d like RuneQuest when the DM said “roll a hit location.”
More likely Elon wants to keep selling Teslas in China.