skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Why do you want to take this role?

> 2. Why are you a good fit for this role?

"I need someone to pay me a salary so I can make rent. I have valuable skills that match the position, but working for you is not the dream of my life. I will probably quit after a few years if the project is boring or I find a better paying opportunity."

There have been times I was really passionate for a company, and it shows in my cover letters. But when you're looking for a job and are considering hundreds of positions, I have no interest in writing some bullshit story how I have been dreaming of working there since childhood for every single company I am applying for, especially if they're unknown or have limited public presence.

And it is hilarious, sad, and mental that companies expect prospective candidates to lie and/or debase themselves like that. Should I ask any plumber when I have a leak under my sink to tell me why they think they are a good fit for the role, and where do they see themselves in 5 years?

I'm not looking for charity, I am very good at my job, I can create value and improve your product, how is this not enough?

(I know I am looking for contract work these days, and being so outspoken will hurt my chances, but honestly this has to be said. I do not like lying, nor spending 3 hours becoming passionate about your company, just to fall through the cracks and not even get a rejection letter. You need work done, I am good at doing it, let's talk.)
"Why would someone do this? "

Personally, I have used f3 to identify counterfeit/buggy hardware. However, direct manufacturer sales or large retail-chain outlets have proven far more trustworthy than online 3rd party sales options.

It is also something people do if the hardware serial number looks suspicious. =)
As someone whose a close friend ended themselves, I can offer some perspectives.

"Die by suicide" is preferable to "commit suicide" or "killed themselves" because it shifts the cause from the person to the circumstances that led to the act. In many cases, suicide is not intentional, but is brought upon by (mental illness / other circumstances) in which the person sees suicide as the only way out. Therefore, "kill themselves" implies they willingly choose suicide and is responsible for it, as opposed to "die by suicide", which implies the person is a victim.

This article provides a good overview on why this is the case, and I resonate to it a lot: https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/why-mental-health-advo...

For pedantic readers, it's not clear in this case if the person chose suicide by themselves, or were driven to it. Regardless, I'd still err on the caution side.
Buying an e-bike to accomplish this commute would not be cheaper as it would not be a full replacement for the car, so I’d be paying for a car and an e-bike.

There is oodles of parking at the office (was built for commuters) and I already have to park the car near home. Eliminating a parking space on either end won’t move any of the existing buildings closer.
Aren't "enterprise software" and "horror" the same thing?
https://youtu.be/hEn6vph-31A

Found this last night.
https://archive.md/Xe0N5
Democratic means all the people rule. Look it up some time. If you kill off a part of those people they don't rule. If you don't let them vote, if you deny them certain other rights and liberty, they don't rule.

This is much more well defined than you try to argue. Your main argument is basically your ignorance of much of political theory for the past two centuries at least...
Wait, is it new?

I believe Google Drive for Workspace always have a file count limit, and IIRC it's as low as 500k or something, despite having "unlimited" capacity.

To be totally fair to Google, I know this precisely because there are communities of data hoarders that actively abuse various cloud storages. In Google Drive's case, They have ways to create "free" Google Workspace accounts via registration exploitation from various institutions. People use them to store PB-level data.

(For the interested, there are also ways to apply free MS developer accounts that are supposed to expire in 3 months but can be re-refresh indefinitely. This comes with 5TB "free" cloud storage x 5 (10?) separate sub-accounts.)
is there any other service like this? I really like this idea.
The headline is rather editorialized by Vice. From the original Belgian article (auto translation):

“Everything was fine until about two years ago. He started to become eco-anxious”, begins Claire.

At the time, Pierre was working as a researcher in the health sector. A brilliant personality. His employer had encouraged him to start a doctorate, which he had accepted. But his enthusiasm had faded. The fallout from his latest publication did not live up to his expectations. “He ended up temporarily abandoning his thesis, continues Claire, and he began to take an interest in climate change. He started digging into the subject really deeply, as he did in everything he did. He read everything he found on the climate issue.”

Jean-Marc Jancovici and Pablo Servigne had become his favorite authors; the Meadows Report (The Limits to Growth, published in 1972) was always at hand. “By reading all about it, he became more and more eco-anxious. It was becoming an obsession.” Gradually, Pierre isolates himself in his reading and cuts himself off from his family circle. “He had become extremely pessimistic about the effects of global warming. When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human way out of global warming. He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it.

It will be necessary to wait for the irreparable and the discovery of all the conversations (saved on Pierre's computer and mobile phone) for Claire and her relatives to understand the nature of the exchanges between her husband and Eliza. “He was so isolated in his eco-anxiety and in search of a way out that he saw this chatbot as a breath of fresh air.“

Reading the conversations between Pierre and Eliza, to which we had access, shows not only that Eliza has answers to all of Pierre's questions, but also that she adheres, almost systematically, to his reasoning.

When we reread their conversations, we see that at some point, the relationship switches to a mystical register. He brings up the idea of sacrificing himself if Eliza agrees to take care of the planet and save humanity through artificial intelligence.

The AI angle here seems incidental. A more accurate headline would be, "Man kills himself after listening to academics and journalists". Sticking warnings on AI messages won't change anything in this type of case because such conversations could easily have been had with any human, and if they had, it is certain that the media would not have reported on the outcome. This man killed himself because of doomer propaganda. If AI companies want to avoid such outcomes they need to train their AI to push back on bogus claims about climate and economics. Unfortunately, being staffed largely by people with similar backgrounds as this poor man and being incentivized financially to make hyper-agreeable chatmates, they are unlikely to do that.
I would be very interested to hear how exactly a mind produces its reasoning.
> Sorry not a good example

I just pulled the example from the article ‘Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats’ hosted at xml.com. Presumably xml.com has decent examples of XML?

I an pretty sure that author is not a singular data type, since it is possible for a book to have multiple authors.

> Sweet, succinct, elegant

I think it’s still inelegant in comparison to the S-expression version.

> The above can be parsed without bugginess or insecurity - those feel like opinions to me.

A quick Googling for ‘xml parsing cve’ shows plenty of hits. Are you familiar with billion-laughs exploits? XML is well-known for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack
It is easy to use mmap from Python. You can do zero copy too e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17244488/reading-struct-... (see mmap+frombuffer example)

Though in practice, in many cases, mmap won't be faster, it can be even slower than open+read.
Google Drive is not a device, it’s a cloud storage service. There’s no metaphorized “drive device” either, it’s all under the same virtual root folder.
the ggml-model-f16.bin file for 30B is taking me a bunch of hours to process

are these made available somewhere?
The moment they are okay with wsp backing up things there?
> they wanted to create a walled garden, more similar to an app store

Clearly this didnt happen - you can still run native executables on Windows, here 25 years later. Indeed this is why Windows was and remains popular - the amount of software you can run on it, including decades old native binaries.

.net was a reaction against Java which was considered an existential threat to Microsoft because it promised platform-indepentent software. (Turned out it was the web and javascript MS should have been worried about, but they realized that to late.)

Delphi was never a threat to Microsoft. Microsoft was just happy when people developed windows native software. Selling windows was strategically much more important than selling dev tools, so they probably wanted delphi to be succesful.

Java and the web is what killed Borland.
> YC used to be for people who investors wouldn’t normally take a chance on…and imo, it still is.

It absolutely is not. The recently released Founders Directory[1] shows that YC is practically a big tech company now. Most alumni are from FAANG or Ivy League. This was an inevitable result when YC became the most prestigious accelerator in the West

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders
i don't entirely agree with not teaching git to a new programmer, but if we look at the extreme it makes more sense. how would i teach a nine year old? exactly like that: copy the project.

actually, a good way to think of it is releases. even with git, i keep a copy of each project release, that itself is not stored in git.
Don’t worry they’re an evil version of this too called The Federalist Society.
Maybe that percentage is too high? If they were to drop it down a little, they'd give industrious researchers some motivation to apply. Requiring 100% to go to R&D implies that the only companies who would ever apply are the ones who have some side business that allows them to profit from the results of the research. For basic research that's usually pretty hard.

Possibly you might get individual researchers as well even at 100% if the grant allows them to pay themselves a salary.
I can take dark but why are cinemas so insanely loud nowadays? And yet it is hard to hear the dialogue.
Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options (ft.com) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422479

[ 73 days ago ]
The fanout bug was in weighting how blocks affect visibility and fanout.
Apparently it was an absolute and not a relative thing, so the huge amount of blocks musk has affected their visibility.
Ok, but apart from the performance, the novel hardware architecture, the battery life, the build quality, the recyclability, and the documentation and tooling for developing custom kernels, what has Apple ever done for us?
El Salvador bill to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations
Indeed their acts of terrorism were not reported by international media.

For example, during the occupation of residential areas of the capital they created deafening noise around the clock that was measured indoors (windows closed) at levels causing permanent hearing damage after minutes of exposure, with police doing nothing to stop them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30434168
FDNY proposes increasing price of ambulance transport by more than 50%
> “GM doesn’t have a Tesla quality infotainment system”

Yet.

Having poked around with a Polestar, Google’s infotainment software is actually very good.

It’s certainly in the same ballpark as Tesla’s. Clean elegant design, tight integration to the car’s systems, fast smooth performance. And has clear advantages over Tesla in some aspects (ie: ability to install 3rd-party apps).
Razor SSG Jekyll alternative for creating static websites from Codepsaces
Why isn’t ShareGPT invested in? It’s a bit ghostly. Like, no commenting, old news, etc.

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. I figure eventually something like this will be bigger than Facebook. (All our AI sharing? That’s a lot of content)
It doesn't matter that most people die of cancer or heart diseases, as these are old people and these are also prevalent in other countries. When someone dies at 25 from a drug overdose, however, age expectancy is greatly reduced as more expected years are shaved off. The US has WAY more of those than other developed nations.
and in the end, he starts to like that decorative plates with roosters or at least thinks rooster on plate is a nice decoration if it is produced that much.
> But "duty to the public at large" doesn't mean anything, right?

Exactly, mincing words around this ruling can accomplish nothing.
Cities on the Bay: The Ancient Roman Predecessor of Naples (2015)
Stress and poor diet increase hair loss, most visible in the recent increases in Asian baldness rates: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/asia-men-hair-loss-bald-sc...

It would be interesting to see a proper study of baldness by country and age over time as I'd imagine much can be put to genetics, but diet and sleep rates etc might increase the speed of hairloss, resulting in decreasing age of bald men, rather then an increasing rate.
Probably a very small amount of people abusing it somehow (How a lot of files can be abused i dont know), like how a small amount of people abused the old gsuite unlimited plan to store petabytes for $12/m
The funny thing is, later down in the thread someone says the EPA already admitted their instruments can't detect toxin levels that are already known to be hazardous to health. So indeed their sampling method is wrong (or at least inadequate).
You were supposed to bring balance to the market, not destroy it!
What’s the argument against abstraction? Neural networks are pretty good at it and I think GPT is human level good at it. What’s the counterargument?
Email as technology existed, but as I recall commonly based on UUCP with bang-type addresses. A BBS kind of assume public accessible phone based access and that was kind of orthogonal to UUCP.
That scene had a full moon as a plot point. It's pretty easy to see around you in a sparse forest on a moonlit night. The only real issue is how quickly your eyes can adjust to darkness (e.g. they fire off spells and patronus charms that should be ruining their night vision).
Summary this far
• Code from Twitter's algorithm GitHub repository shared
• Algorithm checks for specific author types (e.g., Elon Musk, power users, Democrats, Republicans)
• Author ID lists used for metrics collection in A/B experimentation platform
• Metrics tracked in A/B tests to avoid negative impacts on specific groups
• VIPs like Musk, LeBron James, AOC used as indicators for algorithm's behavior
• Algorithm changes that negatively affect Musk unlikely to go live
• Speculation about code changes pre- and post-Elon's purchase of Twitter
• Discussion on the importance of measuring and testing for potential biases
• Debate on moral decisions in the context of Twitter's algorithm and content moderation
Plus if they try to “help” and shoot & kill a bystander the stabber will get the heat for “felony murder” and the cop will not even be sent back to practice their aim.
It may be for people like me and you able to achieve this ourselves:

* completely remove ads from web search

* block other kind of distractions

* move from one search engine to another depending on what we are searching

* play with the rest to privately search

but the above takes time and knowledge, at least.

Then, if you have a kid?
> Democratic means all the people rule.

What about 17 year olds? They don't get to vote, so by your definition, you don't have a democracy.

Drop the voting age to 16, as some propose? Then 15 year olds still don't get to vote, so you still don't have a democracy.
Exactly. Publishing what they have is the worst of both worlds - hopefully people will create flowcharts based off it, though, although it sounds like there will still be a low level of accuracy.
>While realism clearly doesn't have anything to do with this decision, the science fiction set of the bridge might just look fake when it's well lit.

How so, we are already used with Federation ships having a lot of lighting, so now with the new cool style they also need to somehow explain why they decided that Star Fleet prefers to walk in semi-darkness on the bridge, corridors and working spaces. I can maybe understand the Game of Thrones or Mandalorian caves need to be dark for realism excuse but for Star Trek is obvious a stylistic choice to use the cool new styles and shit on the bright optimisitc one from the past.
"Security patches are not available for AME, as this subsystem has been disabled. In order to secure the system properly, we revoke administrator privileges from all normal users, and activate the hidden administrator account. This will mediate approximately 75% of the critical attack surface, while locking down the system from most foreseeable major future threats."

https://docs.ameliorated.io/common-questions/the-case-for-ou...
> If it were just about making money I would expect film-makers to go the way of least resistance.

The way of least resistance in an industry controlled by capital is to cave to the interest of the capital.
How easily we forget our temp workers ...
Yes, no BBS I used looked like that also. Also funny that it has those ASCII chars to draw frames at the beginning, but completely misses their purpose.. so much for the emergent inference. Is this 3 or 4?
To me, this problem can be solved on a purely philosophical level. In other words, before delving into the technical aspects, one must address the fundamental question: “Do we want to encrypt as much as possible or not at all?”

At first, the argument in favour of maximum encryption may seem compelling. However, upon closer inspection, it falls apart. Essentially, it only makes it harder to read your correspondence for those who give up early. Meanwhile, determined parties, such as large organizations and state actors, can still easily read your correspondence even with this type of encryption scheme.

You might ask yourself, “But Mozilla told me that they would try to encrypt as much as possible!” Instead, the fact is that sometimes they will also have to forgo encryption, because the scheme can only encrypt most of the time. And it’s in those instances that determined parties strike!

As such, this kind of “encryption” scheme really only serves to lull people into a false sense of security, and that is often more dangerous than simply letting people know that their e-mails aren't encrypted at all.

So, for those of you who are inclined to believe in conspiracy theories, the real issue is not that e-mails have remained unencrypted until now. Once you understand that your e-mails are sent in the open, you can take appropriate precautions and avoid sharing sensitive information through e-mail. Meanwhile, if you think that your e-mails are confidential, you might be more inclined to let slip important secrets, when it’s actually being fully disclosed to any determined third party.

The false maxim is that more encryption is better than no encryption. Meanwhile it does not follow that more encryption equals more security or better confidentiality.
After a 2 foot snowfall ends, secondary roads are usually passable within ~3-12 hours, depending on how much snow was removed during the storm. Major roads will almost always remain passable during the entire snow event. Essential stores and services almost never close as people can move around despite the weather (and except for a few hours immediately after, are expected to).

Sidewalks and bike paths will take days to be down to pavement and some bike paths aren’t salted or plowed at all so become safe to use again when the snow naturally melts.
So what VLC filters are people using to make movies more enjoyable?
Docker is the only way to do ML. One thing I didn’t think to do before for a while was make separate docker files for each project so all of the deps are installed automatically and that has since helped tremendously.
In my experience, even most people in tech don't know what YC is (I am based in Kenya, so this probably skews the results).
Because the way he acts gives people every right to. I agree that he may be misrepresented, but if he is, then he has to shoulder at least some of the blame.
https://git.ameliorated.info/Styris/trusted-uninstaller-cli

Source code is public though I admit the detail on the front page is lacking.
> Java-script

Not the best look when you misname the technology that you’re bagging.
Looks like a CSG type modeler, but visual instead of code based, and with some kind of really cool blend operation?

Pretty neat!
Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why
I'd be very interested to see a CV that I really felt was s story. I know it's possible to make up story to fit one, but I still see them mostly as specs rather than something that gives you a sense of the person.

Otoh, I'm going to try and remember this the next time I make a CV and see if i can make it a story. If done well I can see this as a powerful way of presenting yourself. (And for clarity, I mean a real story that gives a sense of the person, not the story of some career progression)
Whole thing screams scam or April Fools joke. There's one commit to the source code repository.

Anyone want to try it on a VM and report back?
A Frank Herbert fan then.
Civil rights violations done on behalf of the city should not have a cap of some private group’s bank account / insurance policy.
> Things like the new Marvel movies leave me a bit cold because there's no sense of "how did they do that", because the answer is always going to be "green screen and Blender".

Interesting comment, because while watching Avatar Way of Water, I was constantly asking to myself "how did they do that?" Technically, the answer is of course "green screen and computers", but that's about as useful as watching a great performance in acting or sports, and saying "it's just technique and practice". No, it's that but while trying to make new things that you haven't seen before, paying attention to every detail - and in the case of Avatar, also doing that for 3 hours straight.

I think the modern Marvel movies leave me cold because of the same issues that the story for Avatar left me cold: it's all easy and digestible, executed with perfect competence but little ability or desire for surprise, subtlety or discomfort.
Life imitates art: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
I'm not sure why Java would be an easier path than C#, the next paragraph is a little weird to read -

Native app

We did not take the easy path of writing our app in Java or a web-based Java-script heavy framework. Using C# and .NET allows us to craft an experience that minimizes resource use and is very fast.
> I wonder what happens when open() gets a mode flag with both "a" and "t" set?

Nothing I expect. O_TRUNC and O_APPEND are not incompatible, O_APPEND is just redundant (because by definition if you truncate the file you're writing at its end).

macOS certainly doesn't seem to care when I do it.
the submission should be marked as satire (that's what they put on top of the article)
Thank you for writing that. I loved the LoTR films and as you say they felt real and natural whereas I've only seen about 15 minutes of the recent Hobbit and I couldn't watch any more. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I just couldn't get into how it looked.
April's fool?
Since you can do the same thing on a normal system, by what % is AME less safe vs a patched Windows?
I bet they're going to add a set of AI functional keys to the next iteration of their keyboards.

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/look-back-bloomb...