skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Making shit up in order to fulfill some requirement" is the definition of lying

I'd argue that there is an element of intent or agency involved. When a human makes things up intentionally or by choice, that is lying. When they do it unintentionally, that is not lying. It is usually called confabulation (or, honest lying - where the actor does not know they are not telling the truth). I don't think AIs/LLMs have agency or the ability to make things up intentionally. They are just doing what they are programmed to do and everything they produce looks the same to them. It is all true as far as the LLM is concerned. They might be confabulating, but I don't think they are lying.
I don't know about that. During all previous major downturns, the base-level credential was a high school diploma or lower (yes, even during the GFC). That's no longer the case. Whatever our older siblings, parents, grandparents, etc. had to do, tack on another 4 years just to get your foot in the door.

A lot of the people being hit today got their first wallops during 2008 (and were affected by their older relatives' struggles during 2001), so you're dealing with compounding misfortune. Oh, also, more people. There are almost 3 times as many people in the US today than during the Great Depression; almost 100 million (~30%) more people than in 1990. It's fundamentally more competitive just on a body count basis.

The only change I see is that the media is more savvy about pretending things are better than they actually are, at the behest of their financiers. You'll finally admit that we had it the worst sometime after your recognition would have made any difference, I suspect.

EDIT: Did I mention the relative cost of housing (most people's largest expensive), transportation, and food in 2023 vs 1987? Because it's bad. Borrowing the lingo of my juniors: "You gripe because you had to pump gas or bag groceries for a few months to pay rent. I, forcing myself to DoorDash knowing that I won't be able to pay rent, am smothering the icebolt of panic in my breast with the bare hope that if I survive another month, there's a chance the markets will crash and the affluent Boomers in charge will FINALLY have to admit how bad things are and be forced to do something. We are not the same."
Anyone can learn a language. The .Net framework and the related ecosystem is huge. I’ve done front end work maybe a decade ago, I still do backend JavaScript and I know the basics of web technologies. But anyone would be a fool to hire me if they wanted a front end developer.

Even if I knew Java that doesn’t mean I could just jump in and start doing Android development.
No only if you explicitely enable it in the config file.
Oh, seems to be a bug =( . Please contact support@monetal.app
The thing is though, each such “mark of the beast”, gets incrementally closer to what the evangelicals warn about.
I work in a tourist town that only stays operational by bringing in thousands of J-1s each summer, and it honestly looks to me more like trafficking more than a legit use of the J-1 program - housing tied to job status with instant evictions if you lose a job, that kind of thing. I've always felt like the whole program feels sketchy with the way it is used here. Is there a good resource for understanding what is actually legal or not in the context of J-1 workers, so I can know for sure when a company in town crosses the line?
I'm watching news coverage of the 1968 presidential primary. Spoiler: Kennedy is leading.
"Consume less, produce less, work less, spend less"

I want that. I'd love to trade money for time but the relationship seems non-linear. Working 50% as many hours would mean less than 50% as much pay for the most part.
Ah, I missed that this requires WAL mode -- indeed, if WAL is used, one transaction should always be able to make progress.
US, Australia Issue Warning Access Control Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
> The time to do something to standout is while you are working.

This is an issue I ran into recently during my post-undergrad job hunt. Having exited college without an internship, it was difficult to distinguish myself in any meaningful way. In my opinion, major, career-defining work needs to be at least six months' worth of dedication to be of any importance on a resume. Most people don't have the savings to go that long between jobs.

I was fortunate enough to secure a well-paying internship over the next six months, but in all honesty I think I got lucky. It's tough out there if you don't have the existing background to set yourself apart.
I've actually gone through this process with the CDE and I was denied access. The privacy issue is a huge red herring, used to co-opt well meaning people like you.

I requested data about STAR, the California standardized test used for Lowell's admissions. I wanted rows of the form (randomized student ID, STAR question ID, answered correctly), however they were recorded, and literally nothing more.

They rejected the request because (1) they claimed such records didn't exist, which makes no sense because how exactly did they administer the test then; and (2) because standardized testing is carved out, in their opinion, from the related sunshine law.

Why did I want these records? I wanted to show that scoring well on tests and using them to gate admissions doesn't mean what people think it means. Specifically, that if you administered the test Lowell used (STAR) by hardest question first, then terminated the test after the student gets N (close to 1) questions wrong, you would select nearly the same list of students. Only asking the vast majority of students only e.g. 1 question, which they all get wrong, can't possibly measure how much they study, how comprehensive their knowledge is, etc. But these claims are routinely made in defense of the test and its purpose in selecting a class. This is coming from someone who wants test based admissions.

So clearly political, right? I had to carefully word my request around all these conclusions. If you read the CDE's requirements, they really have specific political goals. You either align with them or you don't. And I tried to work around that, and I stilled failed. They just looked at the absence of a political bent, and correctly concluded that it wasn't evidence of absence.

If you want to do good, politically impactful educational research: run your own school. That's what the CDE wants you to do. It's not about discovering how to improve public schools.
The ancient server box doesn't need to do that. Publishing the hashes to DNS can happen somewhere else. And the clients would have to trust their local resolver if they don't want to do the validation themselves.
This is a very painful problem to have. Receiving 2FA SMS programmatically is surprisingly difficult because of all the safeguards against scammers, even if your usage is legitimate. As you say, normal providers like Twilio are blacklisted so they are unreliable at best.

https://clerk.chat offers the ability to receive SMS on genuine non-VOIP numbers. They are ridiculously bad at pretty much everything – terrible communication, terrible customer support, terrible reliability, terrible UX, etc. – but they can actually do this where other VOIP-based providers like Twilio can’t. They may be your least worst option.

Another option that’s available is to set up an Android phone with https://ifttt.com and a genuine phone plan. Then get IFTTT to forward any SMS it receives to whatever service you need. There are open-source apps that do similar things as well – the sibling comment mentions a similar solution. It’s a pain to maintain though.

I’d love it if there were a better solution out there, but I haven’t found one yet. Basically the only thing I need is a genuine phone number that will forward SMS on to a web hook.
I have to read a lot of cv's and the job title part is just some empty noise for me. Developer, engineer, programmer they're just terms that go in and out of fashion. At first they will become more and more pompous, Senior 10x-Ninja, or whatever, until they become so ridiculous that the actual capable people will call themselves humbly just a programmer.
Then applicants will start jailbreaking the LLMs in their cover letters to get to the front of the line. Which will be great if you're trying to hire prompt engineers.
The proof of humanhood is being made of meat, and that is what Sam Altman went after.

The mistake he made is adding blockchain and crypto to that physical verification.
Yes but you’re missing the point that it’s a relatively easy and solved problem to ban accounts and have circles of trust for banned accounts. Because these buyers are constrained in how many accounts they can buy it’s relatively effortless to ban bad actors compared to literally limitless fake personas today.
I've been told I can use USD to buy drugs too. In fact, USD is the number one currency on the planet for nefarious purposes, by an absurd amount.

Monero has a 24h buy/sell volume of only $110m. What do you think the global volume is for drug/nefarious trade?

Using crypto for "bad things" is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

Given that Mastercard just stopped allowing debit card usage at Cannabis stores (which makes sense, it is a source of fraud with cashbacks), it seems like there should be a way that people can buy things without having to take on risk by carrying cash into a store.
This is ridiculous in both directions. In one direction, someone can have 12 months of tech industry experience with more knowledge than a Masters degree holder. In the other direction, it's also possible to have 30 years of real experience in the tech industry without being particularly skilled labor (the apocryphal "three months of experience, repeated a hundred times").
Do those client edits get persisted to files on disk?

If so I'd be tempted to have a really shonky system - basically run a "git commit -a -m 'Updates' && git push" on an hourly cron, purely to capture their changes.

Merging in changes made elsewhere would still be hard, but at least you would know what was changed by them and when.
I agree, it's a crazy number of staff.
I think I may do that.

Or buy a "real" SSL cert that I don't need to fiddle with every few months.

I think there are some browsers that won't even connect to HTTP/80 without a warning ?
> bit of a liberal pipe dream

Fail to see any connection here.
> and you have to imagine that a good chunk of unbilled hours also occurred

No, I don’t have to imagine that expert witnesses do an hourly-billed contract gig but are bad billing hours.
That it actually freakin' works at doing the thing it's trying to do (providing a currency with a guarantee that each account is controlled by one person)
Not being tracked? Like my activities ideally should only be know by me and those directly involved. Even better if only i know but that's impossible.
I suppose that in the same way, you could say that at its peak, Bell Labs was a money bonfire.
I don’t think any typical internet user would accept Tor’s latency. User behavior has indicated again and again that convenience and frictionless-ness is the overriding priority for the majority. I appreciate the work done by the Tor community, but I also think we need to be realistic about what the threat model is and what viable solutions are on the table:

* If you’re concerned about the MAANGs of the world hoovering data for targeted adverts I think you’d get far more traction with aggressive privacy legislation and brutal oversight, or (and I recognize this is extreme) straight nationalization of some of their products with a mandate to operate them in the public interest like PBS or the Beeb

* If you’re concerned about an authoritarian state actor Tor was pwned years ago. TBH I think trying to win against ex. US TLAs in straight cryptography or protocol supremacy is kind of a fools errand (you’re ultimately going to get clobbered purely on the resource differential) and that the best bet is security through obscurity.

Just my 2c, maybe overly fatalistic so curious about counter views
I don't have a problem with seeking consent from the user, and that's exactly what Firebase Dynamic Links offered by including "Check to continue my place in the app" on by default, but that product is no more thanks to Apple. Consent is given on the webpage before going to the App Store.

My issue is with Apple acting as the arbiters of what consent looks like. You have to consent with the flow to go through with it, right? Nobody's forcing our users to continue.

And like I have already said, it's not like we can't do what you're suggesting. In fact, we have, but that equates to more churn in our flows because users get confused or are fatigued by the amount of hoops they have to jump through to make the product work, which was my original point to this whole thread.
This sounds like fiction and a publicity stunt. I give there a 0.01% chance that flying taxis take off in Brazil.
The way it is defined in the article we're commenting on.
Observable API Proposal
Hi I am not really asking for specific advice (since I know our situation is already not working out to nice…), I just want to highlight how absurd the state of affair is and maybe get some input on that.

My wife is a US citizen and we currently both live in Germany and planed to move at the and of this year. We’ve filed a I130 in November last year and got an initial estimate of it being done right now (7 Months not to bad). But looking further into it it takes at least 15 Months to process this stage of immigration, worst case scenario it could’ve been 50 months (4 year!!!)

This wouldn’t all be to bad but to add insult to injury it looks like I’m effectively barred from entering the US during this period and US customs can even bar me for 5 years from entering the country if I try.

I just feel incredibly sad about the fact that the way to go if you have a sweetheart in the US seems to be to illegally marry on a Tourist entry into the country…

The earliest the US would even respond to our inquiries is in 2024, which is frankly ridiculous.

There doesn’t seem to be any workarounds other than transferring on an L1 Visa between companies that are situated in Germany and the US, every other visa is single intend (i.e illegal if you plan to stay and the US gets to decided if you’re trying to do that)

I don’t understand what the US is scared of, taking their social benefits? Especially since 90% of the I130 are approved, there is no reason it takes that long or needs such rigorous vetting.

Peter if you know any better or disagree please let me know :(
You can also use the http-server npm package, but there's an issue with non-ES6 module resolution. I have started using Vite since it's lightweight, but also provides me with nice to haves module resolution for different module types, and hot reloading.

I am not affiliated with Vite in any way, I just really like it for vanilla web dev.
This may still hold up 10 years later: as a European myself (Germany), I actually just learned from this post that the cheesecake factory is a real thing.
As much as I think Worldcoin is dumb they do get this part right in that they only use the iris scan as a unique identifier to prevent multiple sign ups from the same physical bag of meat^H^H^H^H^H person.
So what's a good estimate on Apple's expenditures to date on VR/AR ?
how are tax records examined when applying to transition from lpr to citizenship?
Because you mentioned nursing, I'll respond to that. The issue with nursing positions is that they often are not considered H-1B positions. This is why years ago there was a special visa (the H-1C) for nurses to deal with the shortage. Other than the H-1B, there really are no options for nurses.
AI agents would just cause another layer of indirection (who funds, designs and builds them?, who runs them?, who understands their black box innards? who is empowered to act on their output etc.)

The depressing truth is that we already have more than enough information technology to steer society towards "a better place" if we wanted to. The same exact collections of sensors, chips, devices, cables, OS's, algorithms, databases, apps etc can be deployed in countless other configurations to establish ground truth, educate and inform, empower and enrich. Make us wiser rather than dumber.

Why is it not happening? The actual "software" run by society is both far more primitive and far more sticky than what idealistic techies give it credit for. A positive breakthrough after all the negative steps may yet come. History has not stopped. It may have accelerated as of late. But its an unpredictable and convoluted process.
Interesting. AFAIK most US government agencies are using p25 but still interesting.

Also interesting for all of the hoopla about mastodon taking all of the info sec discussion I still haven’t seen a single disclosure broke there.
Call them confabulations.

"Confabulation refers to the production or creation of false or erroneous memories without the intent to deceive, sometimes called 'honest lying'"

"Confabulation is the creation of false memories in the absence of intentions of deception. Individuals who confabulate have no recognition that the information being relayed to others is fabricated. Confabulating individuals are not intentionally being deceptive and sincerely believe the information they are communicating to be genuine and accurate."

https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijnn/international-jour...
Huh, that reference actually never occurred to me.

The name Cap'n Proto actually originally meant "Capabilities and Protobufs" -- it was a capability-based RPC protocol based on Protocol Buffers. However, early on I decided I wanted to try a whole different serialization format instead. "Proto" still makes sense, since it is a protocol, so I kept the name.

The pun "cerealization protocol" is actually something someone else had to point out to me, but I promptly added it to the logo. :)
How did you get into firmware? From what I’ve seen, most of those companies seem to source exclusively from university pipelines for entry level, and only established domain experts for anything else.
I think this is still very accurate. I tell folks from the south that ask if it rains a lot here, that they likely wouldn't call what we get rain. It definitely looks wet all the time in the winter. As if it always recently rained.
Maybe we could just call it babbling.
You mean flatbuffers, not protobuf.

It has established itself as the de-facto standard, with a few other places using SBE instead.

In any case the main problems with binary serialization are:

- schemas and message version management

- delta-encoding

If you ignore these, flat binary serialization is trivial.

No library provides a good solution that covers the two points above.
Insurers withdraw from riskiest areas as threats from climate change grow
Um. Interesting. I knew about Elbakyan's Sci-Hub work, but until now I never knew she believes Joseph Stalin is a god: https://sci-hub.se/why-stalin-is-god

>Hence even if nobody considered Stalin to be a God, he was a real God - in the truest sense of the word, as we can see from the high level of love people had towards him. Someone may disagree by saying: there was a censorship in the Soviet Union, and it was impossible to say anything against Stalin - therefore everyone loved him. However, we must admit: the censorship was done by the people - there must be someone who sends you to prison if you don't love Stalin...

>Hence Stalin was not just an ancient pagan god - but he was that God christians believe in. In a critical moment for the country and for the whole humanity he came down to Earth, wearing a cool mustache avatar, and restored the order: he revived economics and created the powerful science. He created a communist paradise for righteous people, while bad people were sent to GULAG. He won the war against the evil forces of Hitler, and even restored Israel, as he promised to do long time ago.
The only thing I know about worldcoin is that I've received about ten spam emails mentioning it in their subject over the past week.

That alone is enough to make me lose any interest in hearing more.
WC isn’t doing any of the traditional shitcoin behavior. They ban discussion about price speculation. There’s no pre-sales. There’s no sales at all until the coin actually launches. One of the major premises of worldcoin is UBI - literally giving money away. I genuinely believe Sam Altman started WC with others for altruistic reasons
I use an iPhone but I don't have FaceID or TouchID set up.
> The team working on the Mapuche conflict in the Araucania region of Chile, flew to Chile from London, interviewed multiple stakeholders and were back in time for next week’s class.

Jesus, for a class? Who are these people?

I question the lesson, here. A wicked problem isn't one you can solve by flying into a country for a week, developing some incredibly superficial understanding, and then start proposing solutions. Step one, here, should be approaching these issues with deep humility, and this would seem to be the opposite of that.
Do you think the TVs before that were digital or hydraulic? Or what does the world "analog" mean in this context?
Can tech companies police themselves on AI?
VC shitcoin. Bitcoin is the only real, legitimate cryptocurrency because it's not owned by anyone. People getting into worldcoin are just people trying to get their free $ like a free Temu counpon code.
> we didn't lose New Orleans

Not the GP, but on the topic of New Orleans, the metro area lost almost 30% of the population after Katrina, with it having recovered to pre-Katrina levels only in the last few years. So it was severely damaged, and the scars from it are still evident in the city. So this all depends on the GP's definition of "lost".

I often laugh when people ask the question "why do people even live there? Why live somewhere below sea level?" without thinking about the fact that New Orleans is at the mouth of the biggest navigable river system in the world, home to some of the most productive farmland in the world, whose grains all get exported through that city. Until the Mississippi dries up, there will always be a sizable city there, in one shape or another.
In my experience, TOR's been fine for latency, but the problem I've been having is getting stuck in an infinite loop of Cloudflare "Checking if the site connection is secure."
What does any of that have to do with the legal issue of whether a state should be able to prohibit participation in certain lawsuits as a condition of gaining access to research data? Neither party has raised re-identification as a concern, nor have there been any allegations of privacy law violations.
This site says the high in Lamia in Greece on the Monday the 24th was 37C -

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/greece/lamia/historic

Who is lying?

Can someone point to historic data that confirms the BBC and the claim of a high of 45C on Monday the 24th in Lamia as would normally be reported? (BBCs claim - https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1683810369406394368)

[edit] This one has it at 41C - https://www.worldweatheronline.com/lamia-weather-history/cen...

45C is insanely high. That's something you might find at a weather station somewhere really hot like a airport above concrete, but you don't report the hottest station you can find, that would be straight up fake news. We should expect temperatures to be reported as they always have for the region mentioned.
There are things you can do to verify humanity.

Make a human go to a place for example (though even this has difficulties with fraud). I'm not making any specific claims about world coin other than the goal they're trying to solve makes sense as a goal in a world where bots are increasingly capable of mimicking humans successfully, we want to know when something is human and when it isn't.

Attempting to solve that problem now before it becomes critical makes sense, not every attempt will be good.

A better article than this one would have dug into that problem.
By reducing the gargantuan power consumption of Nvidia GPUs.