skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure being German or from 1945 has much to do with this. I’d think if I had some candidate plaintext that looked German and where a letter didn’t map to itself it’s likely to be right.

Sure, you could argue that it’s not quite as unambiguous as JSON but, in the realm of all possible plaintext, I’d say JSON and 1945 German aren’t too far apart in terms of likelihood of getting a false positive on a string of non-trivial size.

If you want a bit more certainty you could just try it on another string (which is the next step in the process either way), and then another. At least to me the constraints of “German and a char doesn’t map to itself” seem like pretty limiting factors here.
This is what happens when you give a single company monopoly over your computing. I know there's a lot of apple fans around here, but I think it's largely social proof, apple products are jewelry in my eyes. Why anyone would develop for such an unpredicrably restrictive platform is beyond me. Apple is just too controlled for my taste. If I developed mobile apps I wouldn't even try to build an iPhone version.
There is always a lot of bitterness on the topic of FAANG interviews, and also a lot of bashing of engineers working there.

It's difficult to hire large number of people globally without some level of standardization. What I like with FAANG is that the interview process is fair. The rules are explicit and they give a chance to quite a lot of people (including people with slightly unconventional profile).

Another myth is that FAANG engineers are just leetcode grinders and are useless beyond that. What struck me is how diverse the people working there are. In term of educational background, origin, professional experience, age... I find it pretty remarkable. It's hard to make any general statement about this population considering how diverse it is.
As edgyquant says, these pills are called probiotics, and they're readily available. The problem is that the gut biome is composed of 16 gajillion types of microbes, and understanding their individual & synergistic effects is nearly impossible currently. I do self-treat with probiotics periodically, but I see it as basically a leeching- or bloodletting-tier technique.

See fecal matter transplantation - we're still in the dark ages here.
I don't even have a dipstick in my car at this point - the computer will warn you when the oil level is low, otherwise you're to assume it's fine. It also warns me when the windshield wiper fluid reservoir is low so that I can fill it before running out.

Not that gas stations in Oregon were doing any of this anyway, they were pumping gas and nothing else.
There already is a penalty for not holding and a tax on wash trading (selling and rebuying within 30 days.)
Whatever the exact failure mode, it was the most dangerous thing that let to Titan's destruction and the death of five people: the combination of stupidity and hubris.
Nice post, thanks for sharing! Learnt about new dbs / solutions for vector search from it.

Vicki mentions this survey I wrote some time ago: https://towardsdatascience.com/milvus-pinecone-vespa-weaviat...

Hoping it'll be useful as well!
SpaceX produces the most rocket engines in the world by far and the are the best at it by a very.

Europe is terrible at engine development. Vulcaine is simply open cycle engine and its development has been very slow compared to for example Merlin.

Thier small stage engine will take over 25 years before flight.

Europe has never built a large staged engine or a reusabile engine.

The Soviets have built better engine in the 70 the Europe can now.

There are many startups in the US that I would trust more to build a large engine then anybody in Europe.
A woman charged with pushing generative AI into the real world
Can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or just very American
How long before we see a SaaS (s*t-as-a-service) startup where you can get fecal transplants sourced from people who only forage for their food?
I seem to remember that it was also a switch to a different citrus fruit which had way less vitamin C in it so the processing was much mroe important.

However, since the switch corresponded to the rise of steam power (ship trips were much faster), nobody noticed that that they weren't protected from scurvy anymore.

It wasn't until the artic expeditions that scurvy protection got tested again.
For an western expat it is more difficult to move to Turkey. Administrative and government stuff. Economy as well.
Migration to bigger tier one cities is partly to blame. Many young people want to live in NY and rent a shoebox flat for life. They think that they can become Friends protagonists when in fact they become broke and blame government.
Unless I'm mistaken, Chrome mobile doesn't support userscripts (or extensions). Which browser are you using?
Which Canadian subreddits idolize the U.S? Generally both countries have pretty similarly horrible development patterns with a tiny amount of exceptions. My impression is that the U.S just does sprawl and car-centricity to an extreme, like Toronto, but I can't say I've come across anywhere more compelling.
Visited France or UK recently? :)
These Multibillion-dollar lawsuits could reshape how we buy and sell homes
> There is no any guarantees Stream doesn't break ABI compatibility.

This is incorrect. Or, sure, there are no _guarantees_, but any such break would also break a future RHEL release, and is therefore a bug.

2. Five years.
M * V = PL * Output is the key equation. V dropped massively during the pandemic, M went up massively, output decreased and as a result PL went up.

Talking about supply without velocity is not very useful I don't think.
Considering that, the only other thing I could think Apple sees is that the tip partially goes to the developer, making (b) false. But then: https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673347949718548487

Seems like the developer has a strong case, assuming these statements are truthful.
It is worth it imo. there is a caveat that you will have to learn a little bit about emacs to effectively use it if you accidentally do something that throws you into a buffer(file). you need to be able to navigate and delete buffers and frames. if you know vim bindings and install doom emacs it helps a bit too since emacs commands are a bit inscrutable and hard to configure well without it.

i don't use emacs as a daily driver anymore but i solely use it for my git stuff.
Currently using Firebase Auth, which was fairly easy to implement and is free/cheap at high user counts, so is an option for a B2C application, unlike most commercial solutions I ran across.

Cons: difficult (sometimes impossible) to customize, password complexity can't be set (6-letter passwords allowed, wtf), and worst of all - it's Google, so expect appropriate level of care from the company (read: none). Definitely planning to switch out when/if there is traction, but for an early MVP I found it to be quite decent.
Hi HN, this is my efforts in reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor where it's app has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone.

It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China on a continued basis. Google and Apple app store pages say no personal data is collected or sent to 3rd parties.

Hopefully readers pick up a few tips on reversing apps for their connected devices.
This is a dead person who isn’t here to defend himself. I am certain that if he had a chance to reclaim life and correct a mistake, he would. As in airplane accidents, though it is sometimes hubris or poor communication, it is more often a chain of incorrect decisions that were at the time rationalized as safe. Nobody is trying to die.
The typical method to inspect composite parts is through-transmission ultrasonic. Essentially, two streams of water are aimed at the part from opposite sides, one stream of water has a ultrasonic generator embedded in it, the other side has a transducer, and you scan/raster the stream of water across the part to inspect it. There are limits on how thick of a part you can inspect with this method, and this hull significantly exceeds how thick we would use these materials in aerospace designs.
I appear to have struck a nerve, and I apologize for the offense. My intent wasn't to imply or argue that Jewish people have never been persecuted. I would agree that Jewish people have certainly been persecuted for their faith.

My point was primarily that in a world view where flimsy excuses like the side of a combatant makes something not a gendered massacre, those same flimsy excuses would also apply to other instances of mass killings. I'm essentially arguing that if a mass killing predominantly or solely impacts a certain group of people, then it counts as a targeted killing of that group. The justification is largely irrelevant.

Given the 2 responses, I apparently did a poor job of conveying that and should have been more clear.
TED proper is just rich people playing gentlemen science again. There's been a lot of pseudoscience and self help gurus in those talks.
I'm not sure "diversity of gut flora" is a good indicator of quality of life. It might just mean you have less dirt in your diet.
Although all keys generate some string of letters and numbers, the right key will produce a message with reasonable letter frequencies and of course with legible words.

For English, about 13% of letters are "e", so if the frequency is too far off that it is probably not the right key; likewise, if 13% of the letters are "z" it is also not likely to be the right key. By applying frequency checks to the most and least common letters it should be a fairly strong filter for plausible keys.
> None of them even cared about my Github repository that's full of code I write for fun.

Context: I've interviewed around 200 people for our current org, and have "settled" on an interview that's used for a certain position. I don't think I'm necessarily good at interviews, and I'm not sure I'm "doing it right". I give the number to show that my sample size is reasonable. We're solving practical problems, with code. Our interview sessions are 45 minutes for each person (which is the fundamental limitation).

I don't look at GitHub projects, or really ask about previous work.

I used to, but I very quickly found that the vast majority of people lie on their resumes. Generally, the more senior, the more lies. Most people put bullet points of "achieved x" which end up really being "kinda helped those people who were achieving x". For GitHub, in most cases, it was obvious the person was not the author of the Github repo they gave me. They could answer questions about the code, but couldn't go into any depth about it.

I found that going over previous work, or Github repos, ended up taking a huge chunk of the 45 minutes, that put each person on a different standard, somewhat of their own crafting, leaving no time to find out if they were actually able to write a for loop or not, which I've had Phd candidates, with "15 years of experience", fail to do. For feedback of the candidate, I need a tangible justification, and clear demonstration of why I say yes/maybe/no. There are no "gut feelings" allowed from the panel; you need reasons.

So, I give the candidate a simple, practical, work relevant, problem to solve during the interview. No compilation, no running code, no worries about perfect syntax, and no esoteric knowledge/libraries required. They're free to use whatever language they want. It's an interview where they have to demonstrate their thought process, how they question/navigate the requirements, and ability to see consequences (which I think is 90% of programming).

Maybe a few percent have finished within 10 minutes. For these people, we had fun talking about their other work, and they showed great knowledge, as expected. But, as desired, that wasn't required to do first. The interview itself proved that they would already.

I would love feedback about this approach, even though it seems to be working well for our orgs needs. Ideally, I would take the Jim Keller approach, and have a nerd out session, but, I have a feeling people are more properly filtered before they would get to him.
It's worth saying I've been subjected to LeetCode interviews for SRE Systems Engineering positions. Though I write application code it doesn't even begin to reflect the problem domain I work in. It's simply a test that you must pass that someone arbitrarily believes does a good job of filtering. From my perspective as a senior engineer, and knowing that many of the people who can pass these tests suck when it comes to practical skills, the only thing it filters for is how bad you want the role.
> I'd like to say it's a supply problem

It is to the extent that various laws and regulations prevent or strongly disincentivize new construction, yes.

> the fact that it involves most of the western world makes me think it may have to do with monetary policy

It does. Mortgage loans have always been one of the primary places that governments choose to put newly printed money. The ostensible purpose of this is to make it easier for people to own homes, but what it actually does is bid up home prices to the point where consumers are no better off than they were before, but financial institutions and other corporate interests make a nice extra profit. It's similar to the way the easy availability of financial aid for college has not actually made it easier for people to go to the college of their choice (indeed, admission rates to many colleges have sharply declined as financial aid becomes more available), it's just transferred more wealth to the colleges from taxpayers.
I'm a big fan of Postgres, and my app backends are usually very Postgres-heavy. But yeah, I don't get why you'd want to use Postgres for AI inference unless there's some performance reason.
I'm not sure I'd count that as brute-force because his method can't decrypt every possible message. He's using a statistical test to determine whether a given configuration is better or worse and then uses that to narrow down the search space, but he clarifies it's not generic - it can't decrypt all possible messages (ones which trip up his tests) and also requires a minimum message length for the statistical tests to be effective.

It's still extremely cool, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's really what OPs asking. Given what's mentioned in the video (~12:50) and what some other commenters have mentioned I get the impression an actual brute-force is not really practical.
If you've read the article, its clearly stated that many more people were just using CentOS as free RHEL, never needing to pay anything because it gives them everything they need for free.

It wasn't worth putting up with so many free users for a paid product, just to have a small minority actually pay anything.
... underground traffic jam and battery fire

Count me out, I'm telecommuting.
It would be awesome if there's a message that when decoded incorrectly said "Drink your Ovaltine", but when decoded correctly was a different message
What does stand the test of time even mean in this case? People still listen to both Radiohead and the Beatles and lesser known "alternative" acts from the 1960s like the velvet underground today. All went on to influence others. I'd say they all stood the test of time. Stuff like record sales depends a lot more on how well your label commercialized you versus your musicianship. The mid century media era was also much smaller in terms of competing artists that were actually put in front of listeners. 3 stations on TV, a few radio stations playing music from the same record labels, a shop in town selling records from a few major labels, and that's all the discovery you have. popular acts were far more popular proportionally than popular acts in later years, just because you didn't have much option or choice otherwise back then.
I understand sales tax is in theory regressive, but this seems wrong/naive upon scrutiny because you would assume higher earners consume more than low earners, thus contribute more sales tax in absolute terms, if not quite in relative terms.
I gave it some css paths extracted from devtools, and some sample elements with data that needed extraction and had it write a beautiful soup + regex routine to do the extractions. worked fine. Also thousands of times faster.
Phil Spencer, Xbox chief, on AI: ‘I’m protective of the creative process’
None of those seem like benefits to the iPhone owner; why wouldn't I use the App Store?
https://www.noodoe.com/blog/what-is-dc-fast-charging-and-how...

Most certainly DC to DC is faster. It is only limited by the local infrastructure. i.e. want to charge faster? own a bigger / better battery bank, with bigger charging cables and a better car.

DC -> DC (with some PWM / battery management) can also be slowed down (or use reduced amps) to best suit the moment. So if versatility is better, then DC to DC is again "better".
https://www.google.com/search?q=fecal+transplant+as+a+servic...

halfway there
>Edit: I looked it up. The human body almost instantly incinerates. It takes a matter of milliseconds.

This is most likely BS- consider that a shotgun shell is made from a low melting-temp plastic and handles higher pressures and temperatures without issue (and repeatedly if you're reloading them).

Probably your hair and light clothing would burn somewhat during an implosion, but would be extinguished as soon as the water hit it.
Then it would stop being hair and light clothing just due to the kinetic energy of water hitting you at cannon-ball velocity.
I've dealt with people whos whole CV was fake. One of the points of the interview is to sniff this out.

Diving into a github and then asking questions about it, in the same way as you would ask about stuff on a CV seems like a massive win for the skilled interviewer.
FAANG are a good place to get a high salary as someone who just graduated.

What are you doing applying there with 15 years of experience? Are you looking to retire already?
I interviewed at AWS for an application security engineer position years ago, and I was surprised about the questions I was asked.

I did the recruiter call, then phone screen, then a series of 4 hour-long interviews. Since it was AppSec, not coding, I expected 3 interviews asking me technical questions about AppSec and a behavioral interview. Instead, all I got 3 hours of behavioral/leadership principles questions (With a lot of repeated questions between them), and 1 coding exercise.

I got rejected while feeling like I never actually got a chance to show my technical ability to do the job. I know how much they value leadership principles, so I probably wasn't going to get the job anyways, but it still made me feel a bit disgruntled.
> Step one to improving the situation for men is to destroy the right-wing MRM.

Step one is building the future you want to see. Step one isn't waging a cultural battle.

A well articulated alternative might even sap the wind from it's sails. But if you want to wage war without anything else to offer them... you'll just be entrenching the status quo.

Connecting to men might require discussing sore cultural subjects with a bit of impropriety. The problem for you, is that all the people willing to say "fuck good taste" aren't following it up with the message you want.
Wouldn’t a financial transaction tax be the friction required? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax
In the US? Here in Europeyou're usually locked up for a long until you admit wrongdoing or fix it.
Point is well taken that I shouldn’t generalize and that it’s likely been a trade off.

I suppose my rebut would claim that the diet of the average US adult today is worse than the average Paleolithic person, but that the healthiest US adult would be healthier than the healthiest Paleolithic person.
https://thenewstack.io/how-vodafone-greece-built-80-java-mic...
The thought 'disidentify' is just a word for describing the process of understanding it.

Think about it like this: As long as you believe that you are your thoughts, you are identified with them. They are you. Can you control your thoughts? No? Ok, there's the problem.

But you are not your thoughts, actually. You are able to 'hear' your thoughts. If it weren't so, who would be unable to control their thoughts in the thought experiment above?

Did you ever walk down the street and suddenly have your mind comment on something you see without you having asked for it? Where did that thought come from? Did you intentionally cause it? Or did it just happen and you recognized it happily (or sadly) talking inside your mind for no good reason?

Try the following experiment: Ask yourself what will be your next thought? What happens? If you really are your thoughts, then you should be able to know what the next one will be, no?

Edit: You asked how do you define yourself? For me, it's easiest to think of me as the one who thinks or feels, or better "the one who can hear thoughts or feel feelings". Ultimately, I believe this is just another thought that helps deprogramming a conditioning. In reality, your 'self' does not even exist. It's a concept made up by the mind.
All those kettles from the 70s look realy well made. Maybe it’s the abundant chrome.
There will always be an antenna somewhere. Remove/destroy that, or put a faraday cage around it, and it doesn't matter what the manufacturer wants.
> Nowadays, it's obvious to me that it's my responsibility to make it easy for them to see that I am good. That's what practice is - it's you working on your ability to articulate your fit for the role

I second that. As an interviewer it's much easier to pass someone if they directly articulate how they meet the question rubrik. For coding interviews that can mean explicitly communicating a methodical approach and covering edge cases. For behavioral that can mean clearly communicating a situation and it's impact. This does take practice.
Depends on what kind of user experience you're trying to program. For instance, the post office has multiple levels of precision -- state, city, street, etc., and managed to deliver the mail prior to the computer age. On the other hand, limitations of conventional floating point are imaginable, in which case you choose a different kind of numbering system.

As it stands right now the typically cited value for the distance to Alpha Centauri doesn't take the position of the earth relative to the sun into account. We live with this imprecision. And in the post office example, a conventional address would be problematic because a person might move during the 8 year round trip between the stars.
> Is there room for reframing how you deal with fails?

What would be your advice? How do you personally deal with fails? It feels shitty every time it happens, regardless of the amount of reframing or whatever else I put into my mind.
Spain here, last order from China was 5 days, but they now have warehouses in Spain so some products arrive in 3 days
In the US its often just the brand name slapping a label on for the store. There aren't any local suppliers for things like paprika when McCormick already cornered the market 100 years ago.
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