skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to work as part of a team - all the bootcamp candidates that've come to us only did solo projects.

How to read documentation - I know its not an easy skill to teach but so many of them will ask how to do something rather than investigate the docs themselves.

Pros and cons of different approaches, a lot of candidates seem to think there's only 1 way to accomplish something - usually because that's the way they were taught.
Some of the buildings look quite decrepit but if you look at photos of Britain or France or Germany from the 50’s you will see many similar buildings that need painted and cleaned.[0] People don’t look like they are dressed in rags. If anything I was surprised by the number of cars in some of the photos.

I didn’t think they illustrated what it felt like to have secret police looking over your shoulder. If you weren’t in trouble with the state or an upper class westerner I don’t think there was a huge difference in lifestyle between East and West Europe for most people until the late 60’s / early 70’s

Remember state housing was common in Britain as well. E.g 80% of the population of Glasgow lived in state owned housing until the 1980’s.

[O] E.g. look at 1960’s London in the film ‘The Ipcress File’.
A fun aside: https://old-sound.medium.com/pierre-menard-inventor-of-lisp-...
Exploring the UX of Sharly, the AI Tool Revolutionizing Document Interactions
I guess when an old text is translated into a foreign language, the translator often takes certain liberties to make the translated text more accessible to a modern audience. But there isn't really any separate process by which old works are "translated" to a more modern version of their original language (and any such process could be controversial). An interesting lacuna.
> I ran DNSSEC for hundreds of TLDs as a one man team

That’s not a good thing?
I used 31 days last year. At my firm, if you don't use a minimum of 15 days, your manager is dinged. So it's more like "flexible PTO but you have a minimum".
Heh, fair point regarding the "idea of fun". Disagree, though, that you have to enjoy the feeling of banging your head against hard problems (no one does). You just have believe that getting through it will make you better off eventually.
So is the number of homeless. That's exactly my point.
That's still not really security but just a nuisance mitigation IMO :)
Good grief.

Check the paper and references first before blindly submitting by title alone.

A principal reference to that paper is [1] which strongly states:

The proliferation of elections in even those states that are arguably anything but democratic has given rise to a focused interest on developing methods for detecting fraud in the official statistics of a state's election returns.

Among these efforts are those that employ Benford's Law, with the most common application being an attempt to proclaim some election or another fraud free or replete with fraud.

Despite its apparent utility in looking at other phenomena, Benford's Law is problematical at best as a forensic tool when applied to elections.

Looking at simulations designed to model both fair and fraudulent contests as well as data drawn from elections we know, on the basis of other investigations, were either permeated by fraud or unlikely to have experienced any measurable malfeasance, we find that conformity with and deviations from Benford's Law follow no pattern.

It is not simply that the Law occasionally judges a fraudulent election fair or a fair election fraudulent. Its “success rate” either way is essentially equivalent to a toss of a coin, thereby rendering it problematical at best as a forensic tool and wholly misleading at worst.

Yes - that is a paper that applys Benfords Law to US Election results to see how that turns out .. but NO that paper dos not prove any fraud took place .. it jut reports what happens if Benfords Law is used.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/a...
Really!!

All the jobs I’ve seen for COBOL programmers paid atrociously bad rates.
Your income is relatively insane (multiple 100k), you have ultimate job security even in old age, opening a private practice makes your income essentially open ended depending on how much hard work you put in, you can help your loved ones and yourself to better navigate health care, will always receive priority treatment and probably have the job with the highest social standing that exists.

I don‘t know what it is with doctors world wide having zero awareness of their maximum privilege and zero perspective on how their average and median fellow citizens do.

Yes it‘s hard, but so are many, many other jobs you don‘t hear much about.
Another great glimpse into the everyday life of the Soviet Union of an earlier period, the 1920s, is the movie "Man with a Movie Camera" from 1929: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkvjWIEcoU. It is an experimental documentary which is considered a classic of cinema.
> accused of espionage

Surely it should say his "espionage was detected" if he's a spy as per the title?

Although the article does not suggest he is a spy. Perhaps the title should be changed his deportation might have been a sore spot and it seems unfair to label him definitively a spy if it's not so certain.
> We've had the X.509 certificate infrastructure for 30+ years, a

You could argue that because TLS is both free and ubiquitous, DNSSEC is just added burden given the outages. Personally, I don't see BigTech pouring resources, like they do at HTTP/TLS/WebPKI.
Agree, one of my favourite short story collections. Each story is like its own thought experiment.
I don't think so. When you are drawing a poster, you don't necessarily think in terms of security. Most people drawing a poster are graphics designer, not security researcher. You think in terms of readability, convenience and esthetics. I don't think most people check the URL under a QR Code before flashing anyway.

Since most people don't type URLs themselves and can scan a QR code, it might not even occur to you that having the URL in plain text can be useful. It also takes space and it's not necessarily pretty.

(I do put the URL when making a visual with a QR Code, and require the URL to be there if I'm involved but not making the visual)
This is one of the reasons I moved into embedded software. It's much more satisfying for me personally. But even when I worked on business software, it was nice once in a while to go out an meet the actual customers who used the stuff day-in day-out. I learned a lot from them, and took it back to improve things, and that made it quite a bit more interesting, knowing I was addressing real usability and functionality problems which would improve their job.
I also wonder if they'd grossly underestimate the complexity of the whole thing, like we tended to do with ecosystems and biological organisms.

Something like "no way this one random half-row of pixels on the left and the four pixels in the bottom right have a completely different meaning than the rest of the pixels!"

Also, I figure, it would be very difficult to reconstruct the mask patterns if you don't already know the formulas in advance. Someone might be able to figure out the codes that use the simple masks, but I figure, there'd still be many "unreadable" QR codes left that use the more complex masks.
There are any% any glitch speedruns, any% glitchless speedruns, 100% speedruns glitchless or not etc etc.

Just watch the ones you like. Personally I prefer glitchless but then I only ever watched speedruns for Soulbornes which are pretty ... cinematic.
I can recommend Hetzner Storage boxes https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box?country=us its quite cheap (€40.60 for 20 TB).

Just order 25x BX41 Boxes with 500 TB for 1015€. They do not support S3 protocol, but have plenty of other protocol options (FTP, SFTP, HTTPS, rsync, mount as network drive, ...).
I will review what you have. Looks interesting and open source is a plus
I've had an ebay watchlist for the Comdyna GP-6 for a few years now.
Seems like Im not the only one in this hole. :-)
About 4-5 weeks a year. 'Unlimited' pto is a scummy practice and they wouldn't do it unless it was in their best interest. I have enough to deal with in life without losing sleep over irl dark patterns, so I take off when I feel like I need it. If they don't like that then they should go back to a set number.
> So it's more like "flexible PTO but you have a minimum".

Not really. Unless you get paid out for it when you resign it's not really a minimum.
Australia has compulsory voting, which must change that dynamic a bit. Someone voting as multiple other people in different places is going to double up with the actual people, since they have to vote, so the incentive will be lower.

That said, NZ has a similar system without compulsory voting, and I've never heard of any significant voter fraud. We have decent voter turnout.
> And so bending over backwards to absolutely ensure there's no reasonable doubt whatsoever

There is no reasonable doubt. To the extent that any doubt remains, it is only in the mind of people who wouldn’t be swayed by facts.

As someone who have spent the Trump years learning about epistemology (how we come to believe the things we do), I have realized that motivated reasoning will always blind humans to the truth. The truth is that elections require some amount of trust. It’s not possible to allow every voter the ability to see and verify each of the 162million ballots and no election would work if that was a requirement.
Tampering with manual counting at scale without being detected sounds very difficult.
I’d say ai art lets me get to a point where I can justify paying someone. It’s hard to understand a game without decent visuals, even if they’re filled with ai turds.
I think to serve files over WebTorrent / BitTorrent with a (HTTP) web seed stored across blob stores at Cloudflare R2 / Backblaze B2 / Wasabi is a better model for a distributed CDN.
It's both, really. If you're not getting scanned, you've reduced an attack surface, and that can only be good.
Some context for Germany:
Before the probation period ends (usually 6 months), a company can fire you without any reason on 2 weeks notice.
After that, it's very hard to fire someone for being sick.

Now to your question:
30 days is the norm for knowledge workers. Days off, including: when you are sick, when your kid is sick so you have to take care of them, special occasions such as death of a close relative, marriage, relocation) don't get counted on these 30 days at all.
Compared to productivity software, sure, but cycle-for-cycle, the 90s gaming was driven by developers like John Carmack and spiritual forebears who didn't just have to invent their gameplay metaphors, they had to find ways to trick hardware into doing things faster (a lot of mathematical shortcuts, but also working in the terms the hardware worked).

Again, I agree that gaming has come further, but I actually think the comparison works well because gaming is reaching that Windows 2k/XP plateau. We're waist-deep into diminishing returns now. Cyberpunk is the Windows Vista of gamedev. Gosh it's pretty at times but at an almighty cost, we're shovelling gold into our PCs to make generic compute modules work out how light interacts with virtual surfaces. Doesn't sound like gaming to me.

The software continues to get flabbier, demands more and more, and we have to keep up of we can't load Office in under 10 seconds, or play games at the native resolutions. It just feels wasteful.
> Now last year Google implemented a hiring freeze, so you could have fell into that.

I think this was earlier than the freeze. It was certainly earlier than any awareness of a freezing job market made it onto HN; the email from the recruiter promising to give me good news on a phone call tomorrow -- a rare example of a Google recruiter putting something in writing -- arrived on January 12 of last year. There was a very long lag between that call, described in my earlier comment and presumably taking place on Jan 13, and the followup telling me I'd been rejected on March 2. I undersold that by describing it as "a couple weeks".

On the other hand, according to my memory I was informed that I should see a job offer by the end of February - I noted at the time (to myself) that the schedule was surprisingly long - and in the light of your comment, that and the timing of my eventual rejection do tend to support the idea that the hiring committee's next scheduled meeting was at the end of February.
I found these interesting:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-86xo22o6jeE/WN5Rye49UvI/AAAAAAACn...

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cc6ZoLe139M/WN5RzS1AhCI/AAAAAAACn...

Woman doing such manual labor would have been highly unusual in Western countries at the time (and still are). They probably were assigned these jobs by the system.

Also curious: Selling ice cream in winter?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JgJPVcAaAwo/WN5R7tuIlLI/AAAAAAACo...
I'm using this successfully: https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap
I've read the article from DHH he makes some decent arguments, but as I see it that article is mostly notable because most people don't self-host. At least in my corner of the tech scene (ie EU startups) there are probably hundreds of companies hosting in the cloud for every company choosing to self-host and I haven't seen a shift in that trend yet. If anything it seems to be shifting more towards the cloud.
Show HN: Summate – tool for summarizing ALL of your YouTube / substacks
hey hackernews!

decided to share a little project of mine that i've been working on.

over the past several years the number of content creators is consistently and exponentially growing.
while I like the fact, that i can learn any topic nowadays on the internet for free, i found 2 problems: people post too many content, so I can't read / watch all of them; and there is a continuous repackaging of the same information, which i already know.

i thought why not give an AI a task to watch all the content I am watching and then send me summaries to my inbox in a format of a digest.

built that – shared with a bunch of friends – they liked it.

thought of sharing here, as i know hackernews as a community of life-long learners, and I hope some people from here can benefit and spend their time more meaningfully.

for now it summarizes youtube videos from the channels I subscribe to, and also 2 days ago i've added a feature to summarize all substacks, that i am subscribed to.

p.s. I am committed to make it free for as long as possible, unless it really breaks my wallet. i wrote some simple algorithm, which would allow to summarize each content only once and then distribute to everyone, so hopefully costs won't be to big :)
It's the interviewee's decision to attend, or not.

I don't think many handymen offered a chance for a two year, full-time building gig would say "sure, wire me $100 for the consultation and I'll come over", and if they did they'd be smart enough to realise they were politely turning down the job.

Frankly, "too preoccupied with the idea of getting paid for a single day of producing no output to take into account the potential to earn $xx,xxx more over the course of the year", sounds like an excellent way for employers to filter out candidates who have low interest in or confidence of getting the job or poor decision-making ability...
I think that's fair - it isn't the same as accrued PTO. But no one in the firm took less than 16 days off in the last 12 months.
How do they even see there's facebook comments being loaded? You'd have to have the dev tools open or be looking at an add-on like privacy badger
My contract says 20+bank holidays, but our internal policy says unlimited subject to local minimum requirements.

It's a small company, so it's an honour system. I've taken far more than my contractual minimum every year I've worked here, so having to get backpay or carry over hasn't come up just yet.
I didn't have glasses (lens) as a teenager, so I wasn't wearing any up to when I got to about -2.0/-1.5. From that time I was generally wearing glasses more often than not, and my eyesight hasn't dramatically changed. For me your theory simply doesn't hold.
What computer special effects are in Star Wars?
https://archive.is/aYCRZ
Cows are docility personified.

But there are many videos of their wild African cousins destroying lions.
Ask HN: Is there a Nix without the functional programming bit
I really like the idea of Nix, but I never understood why it uses the functional programming approach. As a great fan of the procedural programming paradigm, I feel that a better version of Nix could be build around a more mainstream language. Surely, you'd need some ideas of functional programming, but I don't see why a package manager/OS of this type couldn't benefit from a language that looks much more like Python or C++.

Does such a thing/project exist (even if only in beta)?

(I last looked at Nix two years ago.)
> indications

such as?
Yeah, makes sense for that situation. :)
Yeah, compulsory voting is what makes it a viable way to detect fraud.

I was also mistaken somewhat when I said "paper ballots". There is certainly electronic voting in Australia, but the "authentication" aspect of just saying a name is still the same. It's essentially "trust but verify"
Oh, to me it sounded like the loading of a large image or so would give it away. If it's transparent to the user that something was shared with them, I'm not sure it can still be called a deanonymisation attack but basically straight up says to the user "I think you're Joe"
The usecase is a cache. http://cache.nixos.org/

All it needs to do is to get you the data faster than the compilation itself - most of the time - to be useful.

I also wonder at the original thinking, given the use case. Cache usually has high ratio of download to upload and doesn't need high reliability. S3 doesn't excel at the costs of fetching the data from it, at all.
Texas Instruments has also done interesting work in this area with "Compute Through Power Loss" where they use the non volatile FRAM in some MSP430s as working memory [1]

I don't think it needs the kind of compiler tricks this article describes though, instead it's just different hardware. I would be quite interested in seeing a benchmark of the technique in this paper (fast computation in SRAM and cleverly timed checkpoints to Flash) vs just running the stack in FRAM to start with, especially on this MSP430 that has both all 3 memory typed and can work as an RFID tag [2]

[1] https://www.ti.com/tool/TIDM-FRAM-CTPL

[2] https://www.ti.com/product/RF430FRL152H
About 5 weeks per year, in 2 chunks of 2 weeks and the other week is a bunch of "one-offs"
I usually go, “I’m reality I’d spend a couple of hours researching the best solution to this before starting, but seeing as I can’t d that here…”

And then proceed with my non-optimal solution. They often don’t care about optimality at all. I’ve passed interviews by implementing a bubble sort before. And I have no shame in doing so. I’ve never needed to implement a sort in an actual job, and if I did need to I would be looking up how to do it.
This looks beautiful. When there's more data I bet it's going to be a great tool to hook up to LLMs. "Draw the first frame of this video using fq."
Clickbait worked. You're not really saying that the less intelligent brains solve these problems less accurately.
Sounds similar to Finnish system, for the sake of further comparison across countries.
I've also been looking for a course that goes over this step by step, and step 1 is not pip install opencv/pyzbar/pytorch...
My work requires me to open links in different VMs. How exactly do I tell a browser to override link clicks to be handled by an external program? This would be very useful indeed
Ah, TIL, thanks. But they all should look like Big Boss then? Considering the reply to your comment that Venom underwent plastic surgery...

Kojima may be a genius game designer, but he's an awful writer IMO. None of his lore makes sense, and is only convoluted for it be served in exposition dumps in hour-long cutscenes. Death Stranding is a prime example of that. I enjoyed playing it, but can't remember a thing about the motivation of any of the characters.
This is the initial PR which implemented support for this - https://github.com/trinodb/trino/pull/6550
Hey this might piss you off as Americans, but every US company I've worked for has respected my Australian minimum working conditions (2 weeks sick, 4 weeks holiday, etc etc) .. They will do what they can get away with, vote in someone with the balls to change your system.
Oh, I’m not claiming plagiarism, it’s just that it always goes unmentioned, when it’s such an obvious copy of the largest part of the gameplay.
And change the sshd port. I use my birth year. 0 brute force attempts in the logs after that.
> Also curious: Selling ice cream in winter?

I live in a tropical country, and it's quite common to drink hot tea in the heat of summer, to help one cool down.

Perhaps the opposite effect works in the cold regions of the world.
Sick days are not vacation, you get to stay home for however long your doctor put on your sick note and health insurance will reimburse your employer.
I spent 10 minutes to set this up. I was shocked to see that I got my first taker less than a second after I opened port 22 on my firewall.

https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/178.62.237.183

Unfortunately, it only wasted 30 seconds of that IP's time.

It's not clear what type of tarpit would waste the most of the operator's time. Maybe something like a "byzantine VM", that seems exploitable, takes payloads, passes initial checks, and then starts having "problems". DDOS attacks redirect to the C&C server. Coin miners report false mined coins. Hosted files have corruption, and won't complete transfer, etc. Whatever it is, it needs to somehow seem like the operator has an error in their code :)
Deletion means deletion, not replacing with a space.
Though taking care of a sick kid is an unpaid leave. But your health insurance compensates that to a certain degree. Usually up to €110 per day.
This is what “radiation-hardening” means in the context of programming challenges, it doesn't refer to actual radiation.
Or the NSA subverts a cryptographic standard in order to produce predictable seeds for cryptographic random-number generators that are used to produce private keys. [1]

(1: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24048343 )
What do you mean? That's the entire point of talking about things.
Its hard because the drug dealers follow where the vulnerable populations go. Crime increases because the drugs increase as the populations shift locations.
Really philosophically interesting that a consistent, rhythmic signal induces reward. Music is pleasurable even at a neural level?
Very quickly, the roadmap page you linked to seems to be available only for GitHub users (and probably people who are also given permissions on your repo?). I only see a long list of “You can’t see this item” cards.
While I understand the teaching approach, this sound like the type of task which, even if it came up as a completely random one-off need, I would feel is much easier to solve in code. The inevitable bugs in my script are at least repeatable and I can iterate until I have a solution, whereas a single bit error in the manual process will waste the entire effort with no progress.

And experience has shown that, more often than not, such hack scripts find ways to grow into mission critical services. Sure, it's an ancient Mayan qr code that is unique in the world and we just so happen to have found precise decoding instructions; but are you sure the one of the stone bits isn't just a piece of fossilized bird poo that was not present in the original? Are you sure all the stone pieces were found? are you sure no other ancient qr codes will be found in the future?

Life is too short not to automate everthing.
Previously (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657094
Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’
logrotate compresses logs.