skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With such an algorithm the pool of potential candidates would quickly converge to 0.

From the sound of things, that may have been happening:

> Moreover, recruitment is not keeping pace with schools' need for teachers, thus leaving hundreds of classroom positions vacant which is affecting the educational progress of students all over Italy.
I have interviewed many candidates from bootcamps. The problem with bootcamps is that they don't teach you the fundamentals and throw you in with some latest hot framework (react etc) without you really understanding the fundamentals.
>>>

BUT ... that is what leetcode optimizes for, just need to memorize all the optimal solutions to a set of problems without having any decent CS background, because "who cares about degrees"?
Moai in Video Games
"This is a website that lists appearances of Moai in video games. Why not, you know? I created it in 2019 and have been maintaining ever since. Contributions come from the video game community thanks to threads on various web forums, and a presence on Twitter. I also enjoy deep diving to find them myself. It's amazing that we are closing in on 1000 games featuring Moai, and that appearances in old games are still being discovered today. If you're still puzzled, there's an FAQ on the website."
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>You're free to delete your content and your account if you're unhappy.

>Senior Director of Monetization at Reddit

You of all people should know that "free to" and "should" and consent by default is perfectly legal. And yet, it's also gross and slimy. So I guess I'm not at all surprised to find out you're a monetization person.

Gross.
Prior discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759801

Mozilla Foundation's post on the announcement: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/slack-takes-an-import...
I later looked up the resources on Wikipedia which also listed Canada as having significant mining capacity. So maybe that argument is not strong either.
That "drop out" concept just seems entirely wrong. Not only because its erroneously constricting the applicant pool, but because it strongly biases the earlier roles in the queue.

For example, consider two roles and two applicants, with fit scores as below:

Role 1 Role 2
----- ----- -----
Applicant A 96% 95%
Applicant B 95% 50%

Ignoring the "drop out" bug, under the algorithm described the system would evaluate all candidates for Role 1, determine Applicant A is the best, then move on. At that point, Applicant B is the best candidate for Role 2... even though they're not a very good one. Overall, not a great outcome (73% avg.).

You'd think the algorithm would want to maximize outcomes across all roles: the more optimal "best fit" solution would be Applicant B in Role 1 and Applicant A in Role 2 (95% avg).

(I'm assuming the reality here is that Role B isn't available at time of evaluation, so there's no way to evaluate the universe without waiting, which may be sub-optimal.)
Trump created the 1776 commission to rewrite American history to make it more "patriotic".
Developers who get paid for this know what they’re doing.

Saying they don’t know is like saying a courier who delivers packages from Mexico never knew they were delivering narcotics. That defense doesn’t really hold up in court. Extension devs who do it should be banned from the store.
> But he didn't say that.

he didn't say what?
What is your team delivering, for customers? It's not tickets and story points.

This recent article seems like what you need: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...
I can't imagine how a retroactive agreement would possibly hold up if this issue were to go to court. It seems like it invalidates the whole ToS if potentially anything can be added at any time to apply across time. Wild. Imagine if a rent contract could do that. You now owe rent for two year ago because your landlord change your contract now to take retroactive effect.
Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads
So you think it's accurate in predicting which customers will generate bigger or smaller claims, but not in who is a bad or good driver?

To me those are functionally the same thing.
> CB&T alleges that Bezos, Amazon’s executive chair – as well as CEO Andy Jassy and members of the company’s board of directors who also serve on its audit committee – “consciously and intentionally breached their most basic fiduciary responsibilities” by awarding contracts for Kuiper missions on a trio or rockets that have yet to launch and are years behind schedule.

> The lawsuit adds that Amazon leadership “excluded the most obvious and affordable launch provider, SpaceX, from its procurement process because of Bezos’ personal rivalry with Musk.”

> The suit also alleges the Bezos-led team did “not even consider SpaceX,” and the Amazon audit committee did not ask for or receive updates on the negotiations for nearly 18 months. Contract values, and how much Amazon is paying in total for the launches, are redacted in the lawsuit.
If you've used Twitter in the last six months or so, you'll have seen serious and obvious bugs.

Large numbers of people report seeing a bug. Having them all be liars seems rather unlikely.
This graph from the 2015 article "Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year" really rammed this home for me:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
Why the heck is Bluesky still invite only?

Truly I do not understand why they are not even attempting to advantage of their competition actively driving people away. And they have history of Google+ to reflect on! But they're making the same mistake.
I would love to know how the people blotivating about this think Twitter worked before.

Of course they’re doing ML training on user data! Every major tech company has been doing ML training on user data for over a decade at this point! Twitter used to have official tutorials on how to do ML on data you pulled from their APIs!

Seriously, how the f** do you all think their moderation algorithms worked before? Unicorn farts? Some guys in a room that could read tweets really fast?

The only thing that’s changed is that they feel the need to put it in their terms of service.

And no, this isn’t a defense of Twitter or Musk. If you actually give a shit about this and don’t just want to perform slacktivism on social media, get off ALL of these platforms. Migrate away from Gmail. Close your Facebook. Use paid services from trusted privacy-focused vendors.
Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations
Wow... well, I'm not here to defend RSC or React as the best solution ever, but some of the objections here are half-baked. React/RSC is not technically equivalent in benefit to having a server return html/css with a smattering of javascript. It's still one app, with more intelligent handling of the client/server boundary (compared to SSR/hydration). I'm all for reading more informed objections about how React may have designed themselves into a corner and what the exit path is, but going back to php isn't it.
sounds like you just need copy pasta drones
It would help to know more about your home, including the materials and composition of the walls and the general layout. WiFi, powerline and MoCa all failing to perform suggests pathological levels of interference or a problem with your computers. Have you tried stringing a long cat 6 patch cable from one room to the other, just for the sake of experimentation?
> If only there was something out there that could thin out this group of people in particular.

it's the same thing that, eventually, will happen to everyone of us.

But literally where I am from they have on average 20 years more to live (second oldest Country in the World) so, regarding the burden on the national healthcare system, smokers cost less (I must specify I believe the economic angle is rather meaningless when talking about health care. I don't believe health care should ever be profitable, barely sustainable it's enough).

A study concluded that the abuse of medicines causes around 40 thousands deaths/year in my Country, which is an incredibly high number, so maybe the secret lies in moderation and not in abolition and prohibition.

There's also the fact that for many people a long meaningless life is much worse than one lived fully, as the "owner" intended.

Maybe someone in the future will convince everyone to avoid any potentially dangerous habit, but I'm also quite sure that such a society will face an epidemic of depression and suicides.
you get used to high speed. I have recently had to download a 3Gb file on a 100mbit wifi. god, it took 5 minutes! that would take <1min on my 1gbit at home.
Yes. My g-grandmother was born in 1880 and died in 1979.
This will get resolved as most things do in the US: rich people will be largely exempt while the practice will continue for everyone else.
I thought the Grusch news a few months back was going to be... something, but it hasn't been.

All we get (if you peruse the UFOs subreddit at least, or twitter) is people like george knapf and the other dude that makes the documentaries like skyranch, everyday saying stuff like "My source in DOD says BIG intel drop coming VERY SOON.". They literally say that stuff everyday. It's getting to QAnon levels of ridiculous.

BTW though I want to believe. LLAP.
Nah this is a government contract. It was definitely done by a consultancy for big money and zero effort and no accountability.
The article only talked about how to protect the author to not fall to such "scams", and therefore protect your users.

But more often than not, the author of the extension was fully aware of all the consequence came with the deal, the money was just too good to say no.
Elon can take his Twitter data and stick it up his big fat jacksie ...

Train your AI on that ...

Respectfully speaking, fully in accordance with HN terms, conditions and guidelines.
Not very well Contained tho.
Mozilla reviewers do very detailed reviews. Unlike Chrome, they sometimes do manual reviews, looking for potential XSS or similar problems, and will let you know the exact line causing it. The Chrome web store is almost unmoderated though.
"Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" (2015)

[A]s soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. Subcultures have a predictable lifecycle, in which popularity causes death. Eventually—around 2000—everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic.... The muggles who invade and ruin subcultures come in two distinct flavors, mops and sociopaths, playing very different roles. This insight was influenced by Venkatesh Rao’s Gervais Principle,[1] an analysis of workplace dynamics. Rao’s theory is hideous, insightful nihilism; I recommend it.... The sociopaths ... work out how to monetize mops—which the fanatics were never good at. With better publicity materials, the addition of a light show, and new, more crowd-friendly product, admission fees go up tenfold, and mops are willing to pay.

<https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths>

________________________________

Notes:

1. <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F9IV64W/?tag=meaningness-20>
They do not have to, but they risk being slashed if they add transactions that are not “correct” as per the network.

The link I provided shows this coercion via OFAC compliance.
I'm not sayings hard to follow, but when you have been shown a very easy way to do a clove hitch, the key being how to hold the rope and your hands, ie the limited movements you have to go through to do a clove hitch, you can do them in your sleep.

We used them as the starter knot before lashing someone down on a stretcher before carrying them out of a disaster zone. It was quite fun, putting the stretcher up on its end or turning it upside down to demonstrate how well protected someone is once lashed to a stretcher.

I like the effort and organisation of the website though, so I'm not knocking it, just pointing out it could be improved with video's that show 1st and 3rd person perspective of hands tying knots. That way, when abseiling, rock climbing or doing other Fred Dibnah style activities, you know if your knots have been tied properly or not.

So much trust is placed on people who run these activities, its nice to have piece of mind, but its probably one of the reasons why the carabiner was invented.
Have you considered laying flat or slim cat5e under the floor skirting, carpet or even just along the floor? Had this setup in rentals, it‘s the most reliable way and not or barely visible if you spend an hour or two.
Show HN: I built an interactive site that generates HTML and CSS code:)
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The way it works in Italy: the design and implementation of the algorithm in Java 8 or an even older version of C# was probably outsourced to one of the Big 4 consultancy companies.

A group of underpaid graduates was put together to crack the problem. All of them crammed for their algo & ds exam since that’s what the Italian university system incentivises so none of them did actually remember a thing about algorithm design. They googled a bunch of words and forked the first PoC they found on GitHub.

Everything was wrapped into a nice PowerPoint full of corporate BS and delivered to the government.

Edit: As expected, the algorithm was developed by a company owned by Dxc Technology [1] and Leonardo which is the Italian defence company. The contract was worth 5 million of euros.

[1]: https://www.wired.it/article/algoritmo-scuola-supplenze-mini...
In a very real, practical sense, GDPR can be safely ignored for most non-EU companies.

Europeans seem to believe things like GDPR apply to the entire world. They don't.

If your company has no physical presence within the EU - ignore EU laws as much as you want. There is nothing they can do about it.
All security is a balance between risks and costs, in this case productivity.

If I believe the Verizon DBIR reports -- and I do -- around 20% of breaches are straight up errors, screw-ups, and accidental disclosures.

After that it's hacking web applications, at around 30% of the breaches.

Keeping these things from happening starts on the developer level, and if I find out a software suite that I'm using in the Enterprise ain't doing their security due-diligence then they're fucking gone, like ASAP; security for highly vetted, well-protected systems is hard enough, and those people are trying.

> Many skilled people had been caught doing 'cybercrime'

There is getting in, getting out, and getting in and out cleanly. Just cuz they didn't get out cleanly and got arrested -- eventually; could be 4 years later -- it doesn't mean they can't do massive damage until then. Shutting down work, destroying data, exposing secrets, whatever.

And these are the ones that you can arrest, cuz plenty of them won't be in countries that will extradite.
Are wild boards from neighboring countries immune?
> Content problems are the business of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

I've often wondered why the FBI don't have a website where I, a random citizen, can get hold of SSN's, credit cards, bank accounts etc. to give to any scammer who asks me.

The FBI would then trace all uses of those numbers and use them like a honeypot.
Both those sums are further eclipsed by wage theft but that's another topic.

This is also only based on federal police statistics, because we don't have data available on state and local police forces who all participate in this looting.

Previous discussion, which mods removed from the frontpage once it was at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975143
Clearly you should live under a rock if you don't want anyone to cross their fingers behind their backs or take advantage of the fact that you didn't say "no backsies".
And it will occur faster than any transition in history. Meatspace has natural limits to how fast things can do this.
I remember sometime in the 90's or so taking a trip to California (I'm on the East Coast) when they'd just banned smoking in bars. That was such a revelation. Doubly so because I went to some jazz/blues place and the it was all just so weird but also so nice.

It makes me a totally hypocrite (my poltics are generally against those kind of bans) but it made everything so much nicer that I couldn't help but like it.

They came for the smokers and I did nothing. Niemöller was totally right.
I gave interview at, they are building payment system in rust.

https://bluecode.com/en/
To be clear, that’s not what I’m saying at all. Plenty of other governments manage to do this fine; the US government, on the other hand, has been shaped by 40 years of anti-government, pro-business philosophy to both favor the largest institutional partners it can find (very often rewarding size and prior government contracts over any actual competency) and to effectively lack the staff and ability to provide proper oversight. We regularly hand over government functions to partners with no actual incentive to provide more than their bare contractually obligated service while extracting the absolute most from users of those services and wind up getting shitty outcomes and high prices, and somehow this is used to _further_ drive the narrative that government is the problem and we should outsource even more.
As I've just posted top-level, "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" (2015) captures this sense quite well.

<https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths>
Even worse, even if you know an extension is OK (you can audit the code: iirc the rules say the source has to be readable), it can auto-update after being acquired by a malicious actor (e.g. The Great Suspender).

For TGS I use the last known good version, as an "unpacked" extension.

I think this approach of taking ownership of the code (i.e. running the extension "manually") is the best option, aside from two critical factors: skill and effort.

(Not very much of either is needed, if you know basic JavaScript, but it's a significant "mental hurdle".)
> Using data to train models is what they are doing.

Yes, among other things.

> Storing copies or parts of images in the model so exact lookalikes will be regenerated from the model is what mistaken people say they are doing.

I'm not sure why you're saying this as a counterargument to me, considering that I've never made that argument in the first place.
> As always, if you're not the customer, you're the product.

FOSS is the exception to that rule.
I think Twitter is not a great place to dig out training data in general. Most of its data is not well structured and/or tagged. Its signal to noise ratio is relatively low. Its texts are generally very short and very dependent on context. Twitter has been largely failing as a short-form video platform. There's some trace of algorithmic generation of interest/topic-based feed on Twitter, but you know, its quality was never great. I guess it's just a hard problem given Twitter's environment.

Its strength is freshness and volume, but I guess these can be achieved without Twitter if you have a strong web crawling infrastructure? Also, the current generation of LLM is not really capable of exploiting minute-level freshness... at least for now.
> there's new data constantly flowing in talking about recent events.

In which the distinction between "data" and "information" is crucial. Especially now that the "floodgates" have been re-opened regarding misinformation, bots, impersonators and the likes.

Data is crucial when in need of training body. But information is crucial when the training must be tuned, limited or just verified.
No, this explot has nothing to do with the TPM. The problem is tricking the initrd in giving you a shell, at which point you are able to run arbitrary "unprivileged" code (i.e your shell commands) and tell the TPM to do whatever you want.

Gaining a shell using the technique in this article is functionally equivalent to the bypass Secure Boot -> boot live Linux scenario I described in parent comment.

The article notes that Windows "avoids" this issue by measuring into PCR11 as early as possible, but it stands to reason that any kind of exploit that is found in the windows boot flow that happens before this moment would be the same issue as the described Clevis+initrd issue.
> Twitter (I will not call it X, because that's just stupid)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37352719

The Register has started calling it Xitter. I like that!
> Wikipedia has a slightly different take:

No it doesn't.

Biden was one of the co-sponsors. But the main sponsor was a Republican, and a Republican signed it into law.

But that's all petty and pointless.
Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle with A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays
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Surely you can understand why artists traumatized by WWI might consider cultural uniformity a worthy goal? After watching millions of people slain simply by being from the wrong side of mostly arbitrary national lines, there is an entirely human and humane argument for a design style that deliberately erases cultural lines.

I agree with you that specificity is a worthy goal too: people like to feel their lives are unique and irreplaceable.