skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent about three months consulting for some crypto company as a distributed systems engineer.

They paid me to design an eventually consistent, self-healing data store with a cache layer / write ahead log, with peers determined by paxos consensus, transfers metered by finops and govered with kademlia, and a storage layer capable of byzantine fault tolerance, which we implemented via signature chains.

See, they had this crazy idea that they'd make a cryptocurrency that they could sell to western digital, who could offer hard drives that "filled themselves up" with other people's data when idle. WD would obv make a buck and maybe sell these drives for much cheaper than the component cost. I'm not exactly sure of the economics. I think the idea was to have half the drives be "receivers" and half be "senders" and actually sell the "senders" for way more than component cost, but provide trivial effort file backup.

I think they're still building it. I dunno if it'll be a scam or not. I had fun though.
So you say deepfake is a powerful tool and the responsibility bears with who is using the tool.
Like guns are powerful tools but some guns are military grade and illegal if possessed by the public because of their power of destruction. It’s not about the tool per se but the possible damage that classify the gun, even if I’m a responsible being and will never misuse such tools, out of safety I’m not allowed to own several classes of guns.
Why is light slower in glass? [video]
But is the skill of interviewing a skill needed at the job? I'd wager not. So why are you selecting for it, and deeming those not good at it lazy? Sounds like a good way to bias your pool and throw away lots of good candidates.
Practically, rollbacks due to transactions accessing an overlapping set of pages shouldn't be unexpected: the same client programmers who asked for BEGIN CONCURRENT are responsible for knowing what their queries do and dealing with their own conflicts by retrying the transaction or by avoiding or organizing concurrent access.

Moreover, high performance applications that want to saturate disk writing rates can usually afford to organize their architecture around making massively parallel modifications interference-free (for example, support for the nonconsecutive key assignments the article suggests has vast ramifications).
How does this logic cope with someone who puts intense levels of effort into developing interview skills, but not the depth of development or design skills to be a continued success post hire?

Nothing is easy.

Everything in a balance.

Downturns always reveal the important of relationships — the true gold and what is always worth investing in and collecting.

This is my fourth downturn. Nothing — nothing — has fundamentally changed.
Contrary: There absolutely is such a stigma here, and it gets people socially in trouble if they’re picky.

I suppose it varies, but it only needs to be true some of the time for CCF to be profitable.
Sorry, your only options are to not have pictures of yourself on the internet, or be seen in public.

This of course is pretty much impossible for all but most introverted or hermits.
My guess is "total comp 0".
Blind has a culture that somewhat turned into a meme that any post should be accompanied by you disclosing your total comp at the bottom of the post.
To the original poster: if you're in the EU I can see if I have anything in my network to help you get some interviews. Feel free to reach out.
A Tesla has exactly what you describe in the Energy app, and it is very accurate, always within 1-2% in my experience. The newest version also has a breakdown of which systems are drawing power.

But that’s off topic; this article is about the car not meeting its EPA range, because the EPA test is very synthetic[1] and doesn’t match most people’s driving habits. I find InsideEVs’ “70 mph range test”[2] series to be far closer to my personal experience.

[1]
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/testing-national-vehicle-a...

[2]
https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom/bev-ievs-70mph-range-te...
> do you use it as a major factor when choosing candidates? If you do, why?

Definitely. Motivation is of major importance in whether a new employee will be successful or not. And if a candidate obviously has put a lot of effort in preparing for the interview, then this indicates that he/she is motivated to get the job.

Ofc it is not the only factor to take into consideration, but surely an important one.
It seems that you're not American, so you don't appear to be aware of the history of lynchings in America.

Aldean has been accused of being in support of lynching because he literally sings that he will lynch someone in his song if they try shit in his town. Aldean is from the South, he damn well knows what lynching means and it's history.

Lynching refers to an extrajudicial murder, carried out by a mob or a posse. Literally, what Aldean sings about in his song. Over and over again.

Specifically the lyrics: "See how far ya make it down the road/Around here, we take care of our own/You cross that line, it won't take long/ For you to find out, I recommend you don't/Try that in a small town".

In the music video, he says these lines while prancing in front of a courthouse infamous for the lynching of an innocent black man by a white mob.

If Aldean doesn't want to be accused of supporting lynching he shouldn't glorify it in a song and music video in which he happily sings about lynching. Over and over again. In front of a courthouse where an innocent black men was lynched by a white mob.

people accusing him of such are actually engaging in that very behavior of inflaming racial tension.

Today I learned that when a white man sings about lynching black men, in a music video full of images of black men committing activities (not even crimes!) of the type that he sings about wanting to lynch them for, I'm the one inflaming racial tensions when I call him out for it. Not the racist guy singing the race-baiting lyrics. Me.

By the way, his name was Henry Choate. He was accused of rape (you cross that line), but even though the supposed victim said he wasn't her attacker, that night (it won't take long) a mob of about 250 white men (around here, we take care of our own), broke him out of holding, beat him with a hammer (for you to find out, I recommend you don't), tied to him a car, dragged him through the city, tied a noose to the second story balcony of the Columbia County Courthouse, threw him over the railing, and hanged him. http://john-banks.blogspot.com/2020/03/that-sends-you-to-hel...

Changes things when you know what the lyrics of the song actually refer to, doesn't it?
The whole idea with reinforced concrete is that concrete has thermal expansion very similar to that of steel, thus both steel rebars and the concrete that encloses them move in the same manner.

A rule of the thumb with bridges is that the movements (thermal expansion/contraction + elongation or contraction due to loads + in case of pre-stressed concrete fluage/creep) is in the range of 6-9 mm every 10 m.

Expansion joints on (long) continuous beam bridges can thus need to have very large displacement, up to 1,200-1,400 mm are relatively common.
That literally cannot be true unless the supposed "more or less qualified" applicants actually aren't qualified. Now, I suppose it's possible that thousands of people are lying on their resumes just to get a chance to work at Dropbox, but given this year's layoffs, I find it far, far more likely that people on the hiring side have gone off the deep end.

You can disagree with me on that, and that's fine, but stay with me for a second here... if there's an open role, presumably they'd be better off with someone filling it than having it stay open for months on end, right? And, given that the candidate pool has been recently enriched with people who were recently employed and would not normally be out on the job market (remember, these are "more or less qualified" candidates, at least according to their resumes), I have a hard time believing the disconnect isn't that companies either think it's a good time to go unicorn hunting, or they don't actually want to hire at all for some reason.

But, again, unicorn hunting only works out in a tiny percentage of cases, because the supply of unicorns is low, and the real unicorns probably are not the ones out there pounding the pavement. I can't even begin to explain why any sane company would post a job listing in good faith and then never hire anyone for it, given that they're supposedly inundated with reasonable-looking candidates.

So, what's the deal here? If you have the explanation, I'd love to hear it, because I've been on the hiring side, and you can damn well bet I wouldn't devote my time to resume screening and interviewing if I didn't think we were actually going to hire anyone.
> There seems not much activity in the Hadoop community

There is apache ozone https://ozone.apache.org/
It's unclear what was posted, because the account claims it was to attract attention to the abuse, not to show it, so systems for detecting known such content would've detected it as a frame of a video of known such content, but it doesn't mean the image itself showed such activity.

I'm not saying this in defense of anyone, as the account in question is a troll who posts anything for attention, Elon's the same. But the media is also the same.

Musk says no one outside Twitter saw these tweets, but WaPo categorizes them as "child sex abuse" just by assumption, because it'll attract attention to their article.

I'm so sick of this society.
I wonder if there is a pattern here that people who are complaining about MS Teams are also largely non-Windows users?

My company is almost exclusively made up of Windows users and overall, I don't hear many complaints about MS Teams.
Shame. It actually spawned an interesting discussion about reader mode, ASCII emails, browser rendering engines and the meeting of old and new. And I learnt things.
Go on Civit.ai (the hub of custom diffusion models besides huggingface), make an account and login. You may notice that well over 60% of all models are porn, especially Waifu porn.

Even without logging in the majority of models market themselves with cute/scantly clad women. That’s why they focus on porn, because that’s what everyone is doing with AI image generators.
My humble advice would be to take any job that gets offered (as long as it isn't sweatshop conditions or unrealistically low wages) and then simply continue the job search.

Once in a job, you are more employable. And employers are for sure not entitled to their worker's unquestioning loyalty. So I see nothing wrong with moving positions if a better one presents itself.
Exactly. The "victim" of a deepfake simply needs to say "it's fake". The burden of integrity is then on whoever is indulging the fake images, spreading them or raising questions about them.

Added benefit, as you say, is that any image can now be faked. So even a real photo of someone caught in the act, could be dismissed by the victim as fake if they wanted to make the problem go away.
i use the browser version it is surprisingly better
It was more the correct spelling claim I object to. Considering all variations of English.
In my expirience, EU companies dont hire people from USA. They seem to prefer people from middle east and latin america.

Reason? I'd say 90% is because they usually have higher salary expectations so they dont bother interviewing them.
I'm curious what the experience/incentive has been to change jobs so quickly. Was it a cluster of redundancies that is inflating the number or do you plan to stay at a job for no more than 1 year + a little? Do your interviewers find this suspicious or negative? I've always been told that if you switch jobs too fast then no one will hire you cause they know you'll leave as soon as you get up to speed.
It’s self evident to anyone whose seriously worked in the field.
Show HN: My own tokenization method in Python, open to feedback
Hi, i like python a lot and i dont like JWT so when i needed a tokenization method, i tried making my own.

Missinputed the link :( https://github.com/YasTouchedMySpaggett/Fernet_Tokenization here's the correct one

I would love some feedback on it : )
Ok you changed my view
> I think the unfortunate reality is just that we as humans do bias toward wanting to hire people who are in fact able to communicate well and demonstrate their abilities to you

I mostly agree with your assessment, except I don't think that it's unfortunate at all. If applicants are so dense that no one can get along with them, those people, imo, should be removed from the team.

It doesn't matter that you can 10x everyone around you, when you are bumming a team consisting of hundreds of people out.
In this context "TC" probably means "Total Compensation", and "TC 0" meaning "currently not earning anything at all".
I’m confused by the question. Are you under the impression that the term “full stack” didn’t exist in the early ‘00s? I recall the term already being an overused joke by then. It basically just means that whatever stack you got, the person can work on all parts of it.
I understand why people won’t be happy about what you are saying, but what you saying grabs at the essential nature of their success.

I don’t think it’s an “upper middle” thing but it is the class thing. It’s the default. The mass produced essential corner store or bar. And anyone can be seen there, and the food is customizable and nobody ever gets embarrassed or loses face for picking the place and the service is consistent.

It is the quintessential Hydreuma — for every thirsty Roman.
Deepfake porn is already illegal in some jurisdictions afaik.
cuz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction
I don't know if thats true. I've been working on Rails apps for over 10 years (some poorly written.) I worked on one particular Rails app for 7 years.

I've also worked on Java, Go, Elixir, and Haskell codebases.

I find that anytime we went "Slow" was because of decisions that were made around the data model, which can happen in any framework or language.

The thing that I love about working in Ruby is Rubyists tend to write fantastic tests (which double as documentation of what ever business logic), and the culture around "convention over configuration."

So even when we decided to port one of those Rails apps to Elixir/Phoenix, it wasn't an absolutely awful rewrite.
Fwiw: I’m an employer, and sometimes people ignore the “how to apply” instructions on our site (which say to email to jobs@) and reach out straight via eg LinkedIn and I always file those in my “can’t follow a simple instruction” pile.

Not to say that what you say will never work, but I think it’s worth pointing out that at some companies, application processes might exist for a reason. For me, having all applications in a single place is key to actually being able to deal with them effectively.
I miss Fireworks each time i need to make something fast.
Yes and no?

> The UK is a highly surveilled country. We have more CCTV cameras than any other country.

https://aithority.com/news/top-10-countries-and-cities-by-nu...

China has 200 million CCTV cameras

US has 50 million

Germany 5.2 million

UK has 5 million

> The United States has 15.28 CCTV cameras every 100 individuals, followed by China with 14.36 and the United Kingdom with 7.5.

You'll need to provide better citations than just saying that the UK has more CCTV cameras than anyone else, when we have less than the US or Germany, and less per capita too.
is that what C stands for? challenging++
Not that surprising, given this was already extensively documented in the 2000's (so already widely known by then) with iSCSI and such, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3385 for example.
Treating "losing is fun" as an explicit design goal and not merely an observation about some games is something I haven't seen, but it makes a lot of sense.
Your answer to fake revenge porn is basically "suck it up". Jesus dude.
Finetuning is not useful for teaching new facts, the current solution for that is using RAG: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/why-you-need-rag-not-finetunin...
I was thinking connect four with only one column. But if you do only 1 row, it is indeed winnable. In fact, in 2D connect four, that is one of my favorite strategies with a new player - try to get two pugs next to each other on the bottom row with space on both sides
People often don't realise but it's not the invention itself which results in fame. It's the ability to commercialise and market it. There have undoubtedly been countless incredible inventions over the millennia. I myself "invented" LinkedIn a decade before it was a thing, but I never successfully commercialised it. I would estimate that most inventions were never widely known. This is why many startups begin with two people: an expert, and a business person.

So you're not wrong: this invention is perhaps nothing particularly special. What made it special was the combination of novelty, utility, and successful commercialisation.
The Lex Friedman podcast with J. Carmack goes over all the major innovations in every game, really interesting episode, strongly advised if you have time (roughly 5 hours long)
You've basically explained why none of these ai image models are fair use.
Turing mechanism sounds a lot closer to Turing machine than a chemical process discovered by Turing which does not have the word mechanism in its name.
Never heard the full stack term in early '00s, but I was very very junior so it might be me, anyway I'm pretty sure that nowadays "full stack" has a specific meaning (basically only related to web development) and that it was different back in the day
ARM isn't a customer though. It's IP that Intel's potential customers can use.
LispE: Lisp Elémentaire
The article also mentions buttresses. I presume you can build a single brick wall and keep that strong with a buttress every x meters. I understood from the article that a wavy wall uses less bricks than that.
Exactly. This difference makes it easier to (1)understand how IAM works, and (2) how the s3 works...because IAM and S3 work together, but in a different way than the other services.

I heard that AA is done via asics, but resource-level permissions implies that authorization is done at the local level for s3. To me that implies that the system extracts S3 permissions from IAM and sends them downstream s3, which get merged with stuff that s3 manages.

I guess that occurs when permissions are saved up in IAM world. At some point those need to be joined against a principal somewhere, as roles can exist without assignment.

Again, it's be so interesting to see how this is done IRL.
There are a lot of technically possible things you can do with a computer that are currently illegal. Just because you are able to do something doesn't mean there won't eventually be legal consequences, even if enforcement is impractical.
I don't know, why should we have to be "motivated" to get a job, when the company can just get rid of us at any time? What's the point?

Seems like a double standard.
I really love that quote, too. A few friends and I have been talking about going back to "dumb" phones again, just because they were more fun. Same vein.

Funnily enough, we're all in Berlin.
Firecracker may be better but it's irrelevant if I cannot use it in my environment.

In particular firecracker runs on bare metal or VMs that support nested virtualization, which unfortunately is not widely available in the clouds (and bare metal is expensive)
Linus Tech Tips: I Put a GPU in the M2 Mac Pro [video]
> What we've seen happen over and over is that product A needs Feature A, and product B needs Feature B, and they both need it tomorrow, and the platform team only has resources for one.

Is this any different from a product team where there's competing demands between Customer A and Customer B?
Neither does pretending most of the victims of this bullshit aren't mostly women.
That's what, ~5k wafers a month?
https://jort.link/
Operating a computer with mouse and keyboard is manipulating real, physical objects. I move my mouse and point it towards something, that is quite real. The computer is a tool, I do not want to talk to it. Imagine talking to your hammer and asking it to drive in a nail instead of just doing it.- Voice commands are hilariously inefficient. For simple commands like open an app, set an alarm etc. they suffice but fore more complex operations its just horseshit.
Lol at least one is recoverable
BTW what is it with recruiters being overwhelmingly British also outside of Britain (say, German speaking tech space)?
Yes, but have they ever caused structural damage to a building, like Streetlight Manifesto fans once did?!
I would it very strange to get happy birthday messages from former colleagues. Do people really do this?
Creating Hyperscale Face Datasets via ControlNet and Stable Diffusion
That probability is significantly lower than one in a billion.

One in a billion would be if keys were ~30 bits. Luckily it isn't.
Is this the same Microsoft handling United States primaries?
I love it. We'll talk soon.
>many modern electric power steering systems are still hydraulic by nature

No they aren't. I have a car with EPS (electronic power steering) and it isn't playing any tricks. It's just an electric motor. What you are talking about is EHPS (electro-hydraulic power steering). Stop mixing up your terminology.
Agree on the portion sizes. The only time I've been we were next to a table of a college football team or something - like 20 huge guys, and I don't think many of them finished their portions (none of us did, we didn't even want cheesecake afterwards!)
Platform teams mean that you ended up with a bare minimum of 5 different teams, not including deployment and support to transfer a file from a folder to another one in an automatic way.
My current pain.
One of the things that's quite popular
with people out in the world is being
able to set up a Linux server and then
leave it be for the better part of a
decade without having to reinstall it
or upgrade the distribution.

Why not the better part of the century?

I have never seen anybody who runs a business being happy about something new in the next version of the distro which powers their onlineshop or blog or whatever they run. But I constantly see how annoying it is for real world applications having to update the "outdated" stack every few years.

The stack is almost always already perfectly fine for what they are doing. All it needs is security updates. Which get less and less frequent as the system matures.

There should be an effort to offer 50 years of security updates for Debian 12. That would create more value for real businesses than all the work that will go into Debian 13, 14, 15 etc.
The idea that TC is a meaningful measure of anything is kind of silly given how incredibly volatile it can be. If you’re working at a company whose stock is on a constant rise, your TC also skyrockets for as long as your RSUs take to vest, and then you often get a cliff-fill, so your TC basically just keeps ratcheting up as a function of the stock price. I’m not complaining, but quoting my TC at you as if it gives me some kind of clout is kinda delusional if 2/3 of that TC is due to the stock doubling since my RSU grant.
Edit: removed unreasonable tirade
> If f and g are in the same file, where g calls f, then implementations are not required to allow f and go to be separately redefinable. So that is to say, if f is redefined only, the existing g may keep calling the old f. The intent is that redefinition has the granularity of compiled files: if a new version of the entire compiled file is loaded, then f and g get redefined together and all is cool.

This isn't the default behaviour though, right?
Difficulty spending it all haha. I'm really happy for her.