skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming djb is correct and the current process is broken... is trying to expose it and then fix it through FOIA requests really the best approach?

If your codebase is hairy enough, and the problem to be solved is fundamentally fairly simple, sometimes it's better to rewrite than refactor. Doubly so if you believe a clever adversary has attempted to insert a subtle backdoor or bugdoor.

What would a better crypto selection process look like? I like the idea of incorporating "skin in the game" somehow... for example, the cryptographer who designs the scheme could wager some cash that it won't be broken within a particular timeframe. Perhaps a philanthropist could offer a large cash prize to anyone who's able to break the winning algorithm. Etc.
Thanks, I will reach out to you.
For some of us (genetically predisposed to sweating a lot), it definitely would. I am a pretty athletic person but just walking between two rooms with a shift in temperature makes me sweat. A five minute bike ride makes me have to change clothes.
Wait wait wait...

You've been using AI to rapidly filter through all the resumes, and now finally we have something to fight that, and now WE need to stop?

And yes, I don't know if the OP uses AI. This is a more general complaint about the state of hiring managers and the disproportionate advantage they had over the job market. Ability to ingest massive amounts of resumes, parse them, send out emails to take personality tests etc, requiring cover letters why the applicant believes they are the most suitable candidate for the job being offered, and how it will be a magical experience...

Now finally, when applicants get some help to do mass-applying, it's not ok?

How the turntables... [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwmGLzyRDk
...was this AI generated?
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/188882/let-exclusive-10g-r...
Thanks for your interest. My email is in my profile.
> Grammatical nit in the voiceover: "sit or lie down", not "lay down."

... unless you're Sally[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_Down_Sally
The people trying to insult him by saying his success is "just luck" probably include plenty of Americans. I think usually success needs both luck and hard work, so being lucky is not an insult but a given.
UK-born Gen X here. We entirely expected to be nuked before we were 40. If millenials can have PTSD from climate change [0], then we had PTSD from the cold war.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/20/climate-...
This other Axios post today about Meta's news leader stepping down also has some interesting points about the context in which this drop has taken place.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/03/campbell-brown-meta-news-ex...
Lifehack: use another search engine and at least avoid the search query lists
Have you tried not being poor? We all know the poors don't deserve healthcare.

The answer unfortunately lies in Health Insurance companies existing and we don't really want to do anything else. Eventually they'll have to stop somewhere but with everything else going up what will give if not guillotines?
I am sorry to play the role of devil's advocate.

The hiring industry put up with ridiculous requirements on the engineers. There is such a disconnect between the requirements on job post and actual job. As a result, all entry level people are forced to apply to 300-400 jobs at least. And you are all looking for programmers. If one thing I know is most of them are having a heck of fun creating their automated system.

I know it's annoying to you but it is equally annoying to us. I hope the upper management learns something out of this. Compile a presentation and show it to upper management. If they don't do something, expect more weird stuffs down the line.

I think your upper management will force your senior engineers to come with a filter and we will come with ways to bypass the filter. The race to the bottom is on.
To provide some context, CredCore [1] is a company with around eighteen employees, as indicated on their current LinkedIn page [2].

Given the scale of this company, I believe that crafting a sincere cover letter is a wise choice, should they require one. In the case of larger organizations like Facebook, to mention one example, cover letters are overwhelmingly unlikely to have any impact. It’s highly probable that they won’t even be reviewed, and even if they are, they won’t significantly influence your chances if you can’t successfully navigate the interview process.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740448

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/company/credcore/people/

I remember when I applied for one of my previous jobs at a relatively small game studio with about 120 employees. The CEO took the time to read every single cover letter they received. This was possible because the number of applicants was manageable, and they genuinely cared about understanding what kind of work each candidate was passionate about. I made sure to convey my genuine passion for the industry in my cover letter, and as a result, I secured a position that aligned perfectly with my interests at the time: learning about and developing distributed systems.

Later on, the company was acquired by a major player in the gaming industry. Although the HR department continued to collect cover letters, there was no longer anyone available to read and assess them.

When I applied for a job at Apple, I submitted a cover letter with the hope that, at some point during the interview process, perhaps towards the very end, someone would take the time to read it. I thought maybe the hiring manager or some higher-level managers might review it. However, a few weeks into my new job during the onboarding process, I asked some people I had met during the interviews, “By the way, regarding the content of my cover letter, what were your thoughts?” To my surprise, not a single person could recall ever reading or even seeing a cover letter from any candidate.
Almost everyone I know is using Bluesky now. I’ve yet to see anyone using threads.
I'm guessing most people on HN are employees, not employers. It's therefore not surprising that the "concensus" seems to revolve around "employee think".

When I've responded in the past, with an employer point of view, I get down-voted. That's OK. You may not like what i have to say.

Of course companies are different. There are many reasons for office work. Many of them bad. You may work for a company with many layers of useless management. I commiserate with you, and clearly my experience, and answer, isn't relevant to you. I can only speak to my situation.

I only have a short commute, so I go into the office about 3 days a week. I usually work from home a couple days as well.

When I'm in the office, people ask me questions. When I'm at home they don't. For me this is good, I'd like people to ask rather than waste time. Those who are never in the office never ask.

Which brings me to the next observation. People in the office are growing faster than those at home. Or perhaps my perception is that those in the office are growing. Peoplecat home seem to "do their thing", which includes making the same mistakes, and taking longer to do things.

Equally people at home are not challenged with questions, they are not pushed out of their comfort zones. They are not helping others along.

All of this plays out when folk are being promoted. For some I can see their evolution. For others their stagnation. Long-term it'll be interesting to see if this progresses.

For the record, we all come to the office on Wednesday, for the rest they're free to choose. Their has been un uptick in morale since we started coming back for that. I think some folk get very lonely and isolated being permanently at home.

Ultimately full-remote is not actually ideal for either party, but YMMV depending on pretty much every other part of the business culture.
Inefficient Transfer Encoding. We create elaborate documents with AI to be summarized and distilled by AI, wasting gpu cycles on both ends

Same as with email already
By using the !reset tag I've tried to make use of the override file completely optional and therefore no example override file is needed.

I did also consider using environment variables instead of the override file. It's not a bad idea and perhaps gets around some of the limitations with !reset.

I still think using traefik to get names instead of a load of different port numbers is cool, though, especially if you want to share these links with others on your network. For that I think you would need the override file, or you could just commit the labels to the main file as they wouldn't cause any harm, but then you've you a load of noise that people might not care about (and what if they have their own label based tool of choice?)

Thanks for the link to your work, it looks very useful.
Yes. I would not normally do it, but given the question, I thought it served a purpose.
More than double at least until Windows 11. You could get 2008 era systems to run Windows 10 fairly decently assuming you replaced the HDD with an SSD.
I usually start out with, "Have you ever heard of SCSI?"
You’re fighting the tide. Within a few years, everyone’s favourite author will be someone who writes using AI, the highest-flying entrepreneurs and most sought-after employees will be adept at using AI, and you will be forced to jump into the same boat as you discover that your reticence is seeing you left behind.

Really, is this any different to the usual smoke and mirrors people use to get ahead? Before now, it was hiring ghostwriters or farming your work out to other humans and pretending you did it and accepting plaudits barefacedly - this is just the newest iteration of the same old shit.

Think of Damien Hirst. The guy is renowned as an artist, but doesn’t actually produce anything himself - he has a team of pet artisans who come up with concepts and execute them, and he then sticks his signature and a price tag on them. Just like Michelangelo, or da Vinci, or titian.

Think of the biggest pop stars - none of them write their material, none of them can sing or play an instrument - their chief skill is in taking credit and self-aggrandisement.

Think of politicians - they have armies of advisors, writers, and staffers - they are empty vessels which echo sonorously.

Sorry to break it to you, but this is how it works, and always has. The biggest bullshitter always wins.
It is an example of who has the most power. If you don't have a different service that does the same for you, you'll have to suck it up or live without the service.

This becomes a big issue as soon as all services in a specific niche do 'the thing', be it refusing cash or stuff like removing headphone jacks.

At that point, what are you gonna do? Stop using products from that niche altogether?
That's the point lol, you can easily tell it's AI because ChatGPT has a certain style.
You have no idea if the author has been doing this. I've hired > 100 developers and have never used AI for this.

(also, not being snarky, but it's "how the tables have turned")
Definitely. BBC News Labs has a drawer full of “Completed” projects as seen at https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753719
Hey,

I'm @a8m's co-founder and also a maintainer of Atlas. I don't have an exact feature comparision but Atlas (and esp the Postgres driver) are heavily maintained with advanced features like views and materialized views (functions and procedures coming up, followed by triggers and more).

What features specifically are you missing in migra? Perhaps we can prioritize them. Also feel free to join our Discord https://discord.gg/zZ6sWVg6NT
It is too early to say, if it is important or not.
unless you're hiring a DJ. In which case saying something like "how the turntables have turned!" might be appropriate.
Right. See also Ochopod and OpenStack. Open source is the means to a promotion, nothing more, nothing less.
Maybe it's a reverse filter. If you're dumb enough to hire them with the AI cover letter, they could hold several jobs like yours, or do the job with AI?
Why are they correlated with low-income areas then? Surely greed is more or less evenly distributed in the population… do you think there might be a reason why robberies aren’t?
I read the whole thing because of who the author was.

The executive summary is above the fold:

Take a deep breath and relax. When cryptographers are analyzing the security of cryptographic systems, of course they don't make stupid mistakes such as multiplying numbers that should have been added.

If such an error somehow managed to appear, of course it would immediately be caught by the robust procedures that cryptographers follow to thoroughly review security analyses.

Furthermore, in the context of standardization processes such as the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project (NISTPQC), of course the review procedures are even more stringent.

The only way for the security claims for modern cryptographic standards to turn out to fail would be because of some unpredictable new discovery revolutionizing the field.

Oops, wait, maybe not. In 2022, NIST announced plans to standardize a particular cryptosystem, Kyber-512. As justification, NIST issued claims regarding the security level of Kyber-512. In 2023, NIST issued a draft standard for Kyber-512.

NIST's underlying calculation of the security level was a severe and indefensible miscalculation. NIST's primary error is exposed in this blog post, and boils down to nonsensically multiplying two costs that should have been added.

How did such a serious error slip past NIST's review process? Do we dismiss this as an isolated incident? Or do we conclude that something is fundamentally broken in the procedures that NIST is following?
Definitely get the SSD. It will literally transform the experience. I don't know how people stand HDDs in Macs. Every one I've tried feels unusably slow by comparison.
You know it just feels like the ruling class will tell us what to do and we have to go along with it.

Here we are debating RTO policy as if our opinions will make a difference.

They want you back in the office except they don't want you to have an actual office unless you are very special at most places.

I get the whole "collaborate" angle but different teams collaborate differently. And when you have team members who are fully remote but you have to do partial rto then the remote team members get excluded from that collaboration.

It's just one big shitty copy cat management cancer. This is also why everyone and their mother were laying off people, the in-group country club members decided to fight "antiwork" culuture and rising wages by setting a trend and having everyone copy cat after them. "Money-see, monkey do" management.

I hope Gen-Z would get proper politicians in power to rein in the ruling class some day.
Satoshi Nakamoto posts on X about Bitcoin halving
First tweets since 2018
I kept my food down reading that, so you're all clear
PromptPlay, a visual prompt chaining editor
Most likely what was meant was "or", but the lawmakers made a mistake.

The prisoner is not responsible for this, and therefore, the law must be interpreted literally. "and". Set him free.
IIRC this is not a reflection on actual CPU use. Those extra CPU usage is more like throttling. I don't remember where I read this though, worth searching about this if you're interested.
> Don't worry: You are NOT your job, and your job isn't going to change you forever. This is just a scare piece.

Jobs definitely can and do change people though. For a while I worked for a financial company (and I had previously worked in videogames) and I definitely became a different person there, one whom I didn't like. I ended up leaving because I could see myself changing over time and it made me uncomfortable when looking at the "lifers" in the company and understanding that was my future.
Vietnam isn’t that bad these days (it could be way better). Nobody is blocking you from moving away or starting your own business. And while it isn’t a democracy there is some freedom to do what you want (outside of openly criticising the government, journalism, etc)

Like there are billionaires in Vietnam who made their money while living there and still live there. There is no such thing in North Korea for example. There is also enough law/policing to make running a business possible (some random thug with an AK won’t show up tomorrow to take your business as their own)

edit: Also note that I said living not born in a democratic/western country. The moment you get into such a country (with a visa that allows you to work or a citizenship) the amount of opportunities available for you skyrockets no matter what country you were from originally. Having those opportunities available for you is what makes one "lucky". Though you still have to work hard to get any benefit out of them.

But if he is still living in Vietnam then he probably did work harder on it then someone who did the same in the west.

Basically luck alone won't get you much (outside of winning the lottery) but neither will only hard work. You need both.
A GPU can produce an image in about 1 second.
FYI: "how the turntables" is a meme
>The United States today rejected yet another offer by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden for trial in a third country if the U.S. presents evidence against bin Laden and stops air attacks.

>"There's no need to discuss it," Bush said. "We know he's guilty. Just turn him over. … There's nothing to negotiate about. They're harboring a terrorist and they need to turn him over."

So essentially the US and the rest of the world razed a country to the ground because they wanted a man so badly that when the country offered to give that man a fair trial before a third neutral country, the US found that offensive and destroyed them?
democracy much?
Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
What's wrong with JIRA? It looks good and does its job well.
If their calendars are full of meetings, how would being in an office change anything?
>Did the likes of musk or bezos add billions of dollars in value to the economy though their own hard work?

If building Amazon, Tesla or spaceX is that easy, where is your company that changed the entire industry? What did you accomplish so far? You may not like the way they comment on social media, but they have tangible results to back up their reputation. Unlike other types of "celebrities", they actually built tangible things that most people would consider good even if they hate the face of the owner (eg. reusable rockets, electric cars, Amazon delivery, AWS, etc.).
This isn't affiliated with Atlassian.
Does Cryptomator also works over sftp? Does it supports concurrent edits to the same vault? Can't find much about it in the docs...
Is it because AI is accessible to you for only two years as of today?
Canada to regulate podcasts
No one banned Threads in the EU.

The way Threads is implemented and is working is illegal in the EU, so Meta decided not to launch it in the EU until they figure out how to circumvent the laws.
Yes, that's the CVE referenced by the Phoronix article and the oss-security post. The researchers coordinated their disclosure with the security teams from the major Linux distros, so packages with the fix should be available for most of them today.
ElementaryOS as I use it daily and saves me tons of time.

Bitwarden. A few private domains and dns hosting at Gandi.net. Tried namesilo but when compared to gandi it is just unusable.

Fastmail does our family email.

Recently got a Spotify family plan replacing our Tidal. And though I love tidal, Spotify has jumped leaps and bounds feature wise.

We paid for Todoist but didn’t use any of the paid features so stopped doing that. Plus Todoist does not show ticked items in a decent way. How do I know what child took out the trash? I don’t.

Minecraft. Four accounts.

Nextcloud, gitlab, Firefox, pihole, pivpn, are the main free software that have a positive impact on family life.
It was all pretty good until "Remember".
I was about to say: the automation of HR and candidate screening has given rise to 'hidden workers' that may be ideal for certain positions but are missed due to candidate pre-screening [0].

[0]: https://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/re...
The 4B Pieces of Paper Keeping Global Trade Afloat
Guess I got what I deserved...
The use of "how the turntables" was likely intentional. See https://digitalcultures.net/slang/pop-culture/how-the-turnta... for reference.
Autodesk as an employer has fallen quite a bit from even a decade ago. Despite the culture of crabs in a bucket playing at empire building Bass' tenure was marked by generally employee friendly policies and a sincere passion behind some of their projects. The same definitely can't be said for the marketing dweebs that took over (and judging by Fusion they've ramped up their anti-customer initiatives too).

The shift towards subscription based bullshit was essentially the start of the effort to oust Bass.
That's really nice and combined with the environment variable solutions suggested by others could remove the need for the override file entirely. Also like the setting of a longer timeout which is suitable for dev.

In theory traefik.me can be set up with HTTPS but I haven't tried it yet.
I’m somewhat conflicted on principled TDD. Often when writing code I find issues with the specifications, sometimes serious enough that interfaces need to be redesigned. Or even more often, problems that were assumed to be simple turn out to be far more complex with lots of edge cases no one thought of when writing user stories, meaning that substantial refactoring has to be done. For the more extreme yet still frequent instances, these situations would mean not only throwing out the code implementation but also the tests. If you write the code first and test after, you throw out 1/4 of the code than you would in TDD (usually tests are several times longer than the implementation in solidity).

Any thoughts on how to manage these risks?
I agree with this. Just getting to talk to a human is a massive effort in the hiring process. Before that it’s create an account on workday, have it automatically fill in the form with a pdf resume but it doesn’t change anything because I still have to go through it and make sure everything is correct, decide if I want to put effort into writing a cover letter, fill in all the manual questionnaires like “why do you want to work for us?” that I’m comfortable with, wait 2+ weeks for the automated rejection email, repeat!

This is also precious coming from an industry that uses automated emails for rejection. Yeah you don’t want to write 80 personalized rejection emails (probably way more) aaaand we don’t want to write 80 (or more) cover letters. I feel that’s pretty fair.

Also isn’t this the industry that uses keywords to automatically detect “good” resumes and skips the resumes that don’t have those keywords?
That's a super weird remap.
I like the UI design of Threads and I’m trying to enjoy the app, but it keeps flooding my feed with desperate, attention-seeking women in suggestive clothing and positions. I never have this problem on X.
Ok, fair enough that you meant the percentage of the population incarcerated was higher, as opposed to the percentage of the population as a whole. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

As per OkayPhysicist's point about what counts as possession and trafficking, many drugs require larger dosages with habitual use and the courts do not take this into account.

on edit: I see Komali did a better job pointing out that lots of traffiking and sales are actually possession.
https://archive.ph/fbt1A
Those power figures make no sense, I'm not sure I get it. How could it run for more minutes than the battery size divided by average power draw would imply?
> Stop getting your mom signed up on awful, unmoderated servers, then.

Ah yes, because it's so easy to figure out which of the thousands of Mastodon servers is not awful and is properly moderated. Or has any guarantees that it will be properly moderated in the future.
Let me guess, someone watched Graham Hancock again :)