skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens won't we. Seems to me that the economic problems that Europe is seeing right now are far worse than ones in Russia. So, if things continue the way they are European economy can't last a long time.

The Russians have a deficit of over 40 billion dollars, it doesn't look super rosy.

Additionally they are losing a lot of people in the war and having countries cancel military equipment orders.
I can't imagine unironically saying fam or poggers either, but I don't need to, that slang isn't for me. So I don't really see the point.

Help me understand the difference between this conversation and the general phenomenon of looking at what the kids are doing and finding it weird and scary. Because everything I did as a teen was supposed to destroy my generation, too.
Sounds like a nice balance! You've got a great job :)
Very few people in private industry have access to fixed benefit plans (other than social security). Most everyone has fixed contribution plans: 401(k) [or 403(b) for education/non-profit].
I don't know how it is in Spanish culture, but in English culture there is certainly an amount of sneering done at "modernisations" of older English texts.
> Why do you throw the word socialism about as if it is exactly the same as communism?

Because I don't respect them enough to even make the distinction. I feel bad even saying the words "communist" and "socialist". I really don't want to give any legitimacy to ideas that caused misery, famine, oppression, genocide every time they were put in practice anywhere. I want those ideas to literally fade from people's minds instead of being studied as if they were serious subjects.

I've had the privilege of reading posts written by citizens of formerly communist states here on HN. That's all the evidence I need. It's not pretty.

> The Nordic nations are socialist democracies and they’re regarded as some of the best run and happiest places on earth, with a business friendly environment that allows for entrepreneurs to take risks because they know there is a social safety net to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.

So what you're telling me is there's supposedly socialist nations in Europe right now that allow businesses to accumulate capital. Doesn't make any sense.
Bankman-Fried hints at blame-the-lawyers defense in criminal case
Just discovered nim some time ago, really want to try it on my next project.
He wants to be right. A job interview is not like an exam, it's like dating. An opportunity for two parties to decide if they can work together. Hiding who you really are to 'pass' is a bad foundation.

That's why I don't like the conclusion of the article. Anand didn't fail the interview because the criteria were wrong - the interviewer failed because they suck at being an engineering manager.
They definitely are. What’s more, elementary kids already know what porn is and how to find it. My son was exposed to porn by other kids in 4th grade!
Haha, good call! I saw the update on the issue on Github (then 3 hours ago) and rushed here to post. I've stopped relying on Tailscale much due to this exact issue, so I never noticed.
The 1-1-3-1-1 (with tolerance) works at angles as well, as long as the code is not perspectively warped.
You are right in assuming that there‘s a lot more to it than that. Localization and decoding (usually these are considered separately) 2D codes is an active research field, and there are a lot different approaches.

Disclaimer: I an the author of STRICH (https://strich.io) and have dived relatively deep into the topic.
I always find this take so weird. Do you audit every single line of code from OSS you use?
Are you comparing slang words to tech engineered addiction machine that is a source of mental illnesses, or am I missing something?
If 6 bothers you, the number of toddlers/infants I see using phones and tablets would really concern you. I'd say a good half of the kids who are brought into the store where I work end up on a tablet or phone without an adult. Including the little littles.
I don't know so I'm asking: does LibreOffice solidly support live collaborative multi-user online editing, the way Douglas Engelbart intended? If not, then good riddance.
I ran a forum that pinned a link collection. They need maintenance and they’re not always things that everyone agrees on. Sporadic threads where everyone posts are a lot easier to interpret and don’t require maintenance.
Much of the time this stuff is outsourced to a 3rd party. Even many "big" banks don't really want anything to do with developing their own software.
I work somewhere that sees moms with their little littles (under 3) fairly often. THAT age group is addicted. It's terrifying.
This isn't some untrusted unauditable binary blob from a possibly shady manufacturer.

It is a program that reads unstrusted binary blobs (many document formats) using C++ deserialization code that has a history tracing back to the nineties and even eighties (through StarOffice). I sure as hell want such an application to be sandboxed and ask for elevated permissions. This is pretty normal on other platforms like macOS (Office and iWork from the Mac App Store run sandboxed), iOS, and Android.

Furthermore nothing is fundamentally stopping anyone to apply SELinux policies to this application just like a flatpak would.

You need more than policies. E.g. if a program cannot read outside its sandbox, you need some way to mediate access to files/directories on the user's request, which are provided by e.g. Flatpak/XDG desktop portals.
Illustrated Whitehat Manifesto
To give some insight from the other side of the table, I've posted in that thread as someone hiring freelancers. I'm currently doing ongoing weekly work (10-40 hours) related to some GPT agent projects with 2 freelancers that reached out after seeing one of my "seeking freelancer" comments. I've also worked for a temporary period with 3 others freelancers that reached out from seeing my comments.

For example here's my comment in the latest thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154077. I post monthly and typically get 2-5 inbounds.

I'll also note that I haven't emailed any freelancers who posted in the thread. I rely on people seeing my comment and reaching out to me.

My advice would be:

* After posting your "seeking work" comment, cmd-f/ctrl-f for "seeking freelancer" and email any that look interesting to you. Reach out.

My advice on reaching out:

* Make your emails short

* You can leave your rate out of the first email unless they explicitly ask for it, that way if they don't reply you can tell if it was more likely because they no longer have the need or they weren't interested in your background, whereas if they don't reply after they ask for your rate and you send it, then you know it was probably out of their range

* You can politely include a soft deadline. For example - "it would be helpful if you could let me know sometime in the next 7 days whether you're interested or not, thanks" - you can replace 7 with something else but I wouldn't go shorter than 4. This way, if they don't reply by the 8th day, you can treat it as a gentle "no" and you can direct your energy elsewhere

* Include what the poster asks for (if they ask for links to prior projects you've made, include those)

* Don't try and make it sound impressive, instead just go for "fast facts" - include your links, include what they ask for, and leave it at that. You can send the same thing to each person, other than modifying for any specific requests people have.
This is the country which the Nazis thought nothing of, they thought it would just collapse when they attacked.
It's not as if the guy is staging Transformers porn, somehow damaging the children's toy brand. What would Mattel say to him? "Cease and desist advertising the Transformers for us for free unless you also pay for the privilege?"
That is BS, a big load of BS. There are a ton of people in tech that struggle, and reach 50 just to be nearly living on the street. This thread must have a lot of top FAANG's managers posting this morning.
Brazilian is an extremely unequal country. The poorest population is very sensitive to foods' prices fluctuation. Rejecting Russian fertilizers could mean famine (and not only for Brazil).

There are some recent photos that show the result of accumulated inflation and unemployment during the pandemic:

People scavenging bones to eat: https://f.i.uol.com.br/fotografia/2021/09/29/16329448496154c...

People scavenging garbage to eat: https://publisher-publish.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pb-b...
Yeah but have you viewed it? I haven't. Also what about iPhone blobs or similar?

I'm actually curious here as to what we can & can't prove as to being 'secure'.
A chrome extension that helps you write better prompts in chatGPT using AI on the go.

Writing better prompts will help you explore the full potential of chatGPT.

Start your prompt with "opt:" and PromptGenius will do the magic to get the best results from chatGPT
Also, you can always look at how libraries such as ZXing do it. Especially for QR codes, there is a lot of code available on the internet.
Sometimes they do, look at the UK strike for an example although the environment here is no where near as toxic.

One of the shortage issues is that it takes 9-12 years to train a specialty physician. For example we need more radiologists today but we can’t fix that until we increase residency spots which won’t impact the job market for 6 years so until then I’m reading more than I want to, even though I’d gladly work less for less total compensation.

Someone has to do the work though and I can’t just say “not me” and leave the studies unreported. There is a human on the other end who needs care.
2017, but it only started having real value once SCT auditing rolled out in 2022.
Social media is addictive and harmful. The fact that TikTok looks weird to the olds, is not.
OTOH maybe the VP feels challenged, which is why the questions are 'annoying'.

I mean, in this climate where people are being asked to win X-factor competitions for the privilege of a job, how sure are we that those already onboard would pass if they had to run the gauntlet?
Astronomers “Stunned” by Discovery of Mysterious Filaments in Milky Way’s Center
Because for a lot of parents it is a way to get their kid to engage with something other than the parent.
Ask HN: Why this “stupid default” still available on Windows system?
I'm annoyed with the fact that the default Downloads folder on Chrome on Windows is on C drive.

C drive is used for mostly system, application folder, why messing up with Downloads there ?
Whatever you ask for may be (mis-)interpreted as extortion. There's very thin ice in that direction.
Yeah, but the client and/or server are closed source aren't they? AFAIK Signal server source code nor servers themselves are audited.

So that means all bets are off: it's entirely possible to implement a perfect peer reviewed protocol in a client and/or server full of backdoors that entirely bypasses the protocol deliberately?
This was possible because alternative fuel sources were available. US fuel exports to Europe reached record levels, and political will was a large part of that.

Alternative fertilizer suppliers might not be available.
> Thinking you can be richer by destroying Amazonia is pure delusion.

What? Literally any economical activity you can think of would be a better use for that massive amount of land. If you told me I could have a billion dollar fab built in my country but the only place I could build it was in the middle of the amazon, it wouldn't take me even one second to decide.

Did you know there's oil reserves in the amazon? People in the government keep making noises about that. Every once in a while I see news about some environmental drama concerning the extraction of petroleum in that region. I wish they'd just do it already.
> And IT departments in some random company were much bigger.

Not sure about that. There appear to be just as many people in IT, it's just that they're not that technical anymore, mostly producing policy documents and pushing tickets around. The actual work is outsourced to the cloud, SaaS products and outside consultants (for duct taping the mishmash of SaaS products together). But that may be just my lacking understanding of my strange little part of the globe.
Recapping recent LLM research concerning tuning strategies and data efficiency
Think that is the point. If their is expense equipment, high capital. Then companies will try to maximize the current labor first, grind them down, before taking the leap to hire more labor. Like running 2, 10 hour shifts, with few hours downtime, will be better than running 3, 8 hour shifts, at 24 hour uptime. The incentive is to stretch labor head count out, before adding more.
Well, I view it as hiding an attack surface. It's still there, just harder to find.

But I know I'm a bit of an absolutist on security.
Same thing with the argument "instead of spending $44B on a cesspool, that money could've ended world hunger".

The reality of poverty, homelessness, hunger, etc, is so much more complex than how much money is put into solving it, that promoting "monetary investment" as a solution for any of these problems is disingenous at best, and downright corrupt at worst.
Agreed. I try to do the same with my stuff. Honest, transparent market research / placement improves your offering, rather than diminishes it.
Hello everyone,

I recently graduated with a master's degree in Engineering Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. Throughout my academic career, I have worked on a variety of deep learning applications, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). I also have some experience with ROS.

Additionally, in the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to work as a Machine Learning Engineer at Volvo Group North America for 8 months. During my time there, I was involved in industrializing four projects. Three of these projects focused on machine learning and deep learning, while the last one involved implementing a robot in a warehouse.

I am eager to learn new technologies, and currently, I am immersing myself in CUDA and fine-tuning LLMs.

I would be thrilled to explore any potential opportunities in the fields of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or NLP. I am also open to working on short-term projects.

Thank you for your "attention"(no pun intended).

Technologies: Python, C++, SQL, CUDA, Matlab

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"Code working" isn't necessarily black-and-white. For a new user (the one asking the question), the code may appear to solve the problem, but may have corner-cases or even security risks. That's entirely possible with user-generated code as well, of course, but GPT/AI allows it to be produced at a much higher rate, with the person who posted the answer often not being capable of (or not caring to) validate or correct it.
It's crazy how much bots can keep trying to enter, and this bot from China really keeps trying, fail2ban really saves our ass
Ask HN: Constant impulse to create something, yet never act?
Quite often when I see other projects on GitHub or other Show HN posts, I feel an impulse to "create something" (as in, software). Then I think to myself: "I should sit down and write a toy DNS server in language X, as a means to learn about DNS while also learn the language".

I especially feel this when I see small toy/pet projects or projects that are built throughout a long period of time (i.e. curl). For the latter case, I admire the dedication some people put in their passion projects, building/evolving/maintaining it over a long period of time (again, curl is a prime example).

However, despite these thoughts, while I do sit and try to learn a new language, I never start a project like this. But on the other hand I constantly feel this impulse to "create something", even if it's a toy project.

Does anyone else falls into this endless loop of unsatisfied creativity impulse? If so, have you found any way to tackle it somehow?
I'm still not a huge fan of rust. Python takes 6 minutes to compile on my arm boards, where rust takes 5 hours. (No kidding)
> Do you audit every single line of code from OSS you use?

I audit some of it sometimes. I trust that other do the same. Many hands make light work.
I get really concerned about this as someone who worked in universities for a while. Watching the 18 year old kids get targeted by the credit card/loan/predatory industries made me really sad.
It's the best one I've ever seen. Completely free of dark patterns (except maybe the fact that "Select All" and "Confirm Selection" are arguably the wrong way round) and literally the only one I've encountered where I could reject all but necessary cookies with a single click. All the non-essential ones are off by default, and they're not advertising ones anyway.
Although it could be much clearer, the article doesn't actually specify an order. Half the participants did the stimulation night first, per the paper:

>participants were tested during two experimental nights (order counterbalanced): an intervention night and an undisturbed night
I would split it in pieces and create a DIY CDN (like lots of Linux distros have). From the numbers I've seen in the article, the big problem is the storage, not the transfer, although they say that the space can be reduce by garbage collecting the less used caches (although not ideal).

Note that they are using Fastly as CDN in the front, but that's not important for them (monetary wise at least). The big part of the bill is just the storage part.

With little detail about their data I would chose one of these architectures...

Debian (or other distro) mirror style:
- Split the cache storage in pieces (by architecture, release or other categories)...
- Deploy a bunch (10-30) of cheap servers in affordable hosting around the world. The most popular data is distributed in more servers (for example, the x86_64 build caches for the latest version of the packages)
- Get some people to volunteer with small mirrors

CDN style:
- Get a couple or three medium/big sized (in disk, not CPU) servers for storing all the cache, for example, with Minio, so they don't even have to stop using S3 storage libraries.
And then either:
- Keep using Fastly
or
- Distribute tiny servers with Varnish or the like
- Get some people to volunteer tiny edge cache servers

Some weeks ago this was on the front page:

- Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883053

- The scripts they use: https://github.com/PhirePhly/micromirrors
Try asking on IRC: https://lobste.rs/chat
> most games without any main character

Candy crush? Bejeweled? That farm thing on FB a while back?
For me, not at all. Along the same line, I don't expose the kids to tiny bits of pornography or heroin either. These examples may sound like hyperbole, but not everything can be prevented with vaccine methodology, imo. If kids need tiktok to know how to interact properly with the world, that's a failure of parents and society. Maybe they'll instead be one of the few with cognitive superpowers that include independent thought, creativity, and attention.
Could be, maybe even probable. And maybe they figured it out too, but decided to stick to their story of the headless man because, well that's more interesting innit?

And one more thing, this was in the days when capital punishment was still in effect, but with a growing opposition from the humanitarian, enlightened liberal bourgeoisie. And a story about how a decapitated criminal is haunting arbitrary pedestrians does fit that agenda. All subconsciously construed of course.
Clients and server are open source: https://github.com/signalapp

The protocol does not trust the server. Android has reproducible builds, iOS doesn't.
This. This is best advice. I can't imagine there isn't some software company that could use a doctor-SWE combo. Usually SWE struggle not knowing the subject matter they are coding about. It is the subject matter experts that they need.
You can‘t use the CloudFlare CDN to offload the egress for file downloads. That‘s against their terms of service.
I don't get why these things aren't designed around bittorrent, at least as first line of defence.

Also means the most popular packages have the most seeders

I bet it is easier to get people to seed a bit than to get them to pull out a credit card
I worked at Psion during the Psion 3 era (and then later at Symbian). Hands down the best company I have ever worked for, and such an exciting time. Seeing the software one wrote in the hands of strangers in the street and on the shelves in Dixons was thrilling.
> In the late 80s.. Before that there was some growth intertwined with stagnation.

In both 70th and 80th there was no growth. Maybe in 60th there was some but it was before my time. Anyway, it was depressing place. There were some great people there but it was despite the system not because of it.
There have been a number of third party audits and lots of academic research: https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-...
I lost about 15-20 kg on Ozempic over about six months to a year, and held that weight for another year – continuing on 1 mg Ozempic / wk – until last autumn (2022). Then Ozempic was more widely approved than it had been before somewhere (for over-the-counter sales in the USA? Something like that.), and became unavailable in pharmacies where I live, in Finland. (AIUI, because it's more lucrative to sell it in the USA where prices aren't regulated like here, so all the limited supply is redirected there.) No problem, I was prescribed a substitute, a daily pill (brandname Rybelsus, forgot the active substance) in stead of the weekly injection pen. Worked the same, held my weight. (More of a hassle to take though, and tastes horribly, so on the whole I vastly prefer the Ozempic.)

Then, earlier this spring, that prescription ran out. Being in the middle of changing my primary healthcare provider I couldn't immediately get it renewed. And to be honest I wasn't at first all that bothered; I thought now that I've lost so much weight, and kept it off for so long with the help of these drugs, maybe I've got into the habit of eating less, so I can stay constant without them? Nope – in just a few weeks, ballooned back up some 8-10 kg. Had to scramble a bit to get the pill prescription renewed, been on it again for a couple weeks, but still some 6-7 kg above where I was before they ran out. Sure hope I'll get back down the rest of the way.

TLDR: Anecdata (n=1) says yes, going off the drugs even for a rather short while puts the weight back on quite quickly.
Like wireshark directors but more general