skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree but this article, so the subject of this whole thread, is trying to argue that you should care and that this is important. Isn't it fair for the comments to discuss why they disagree with that?

I agree that it's a pattern that happens a lot on unrelated threads, and it sucks, but this one in particular is an exception since the entire OP is about trying to make us care.
BeyondTrust Discovers Breach of Okta Support Unit
Yeah I mean technically GPT 3 was already out for a while and looked impressive, but it was still only accesible to like 10 people and it was difficult to tell if it fell flat outside prearranged demo examples.

In fact given what we know now, it likely wasn't nearly as good as it looked. So was hard to say at that point if this whole language model thing will pan out or become yet another useless learning approach that's unfeasible to apply to anything.
"Successfully fired my entire team over several weeks"
Immigration is not what is killing standards of living. Do you have any proof of discrimination against Americans in H1B heavy companies? I am pretty skeptical given the lottery nature of HB1 and the number of racist politicians who would love to amplify this narrative if even with dubious evidence of such discrimination
Not sure what countries or places you mean, but I lived in Spain for 13 years near Valencia and have never seen this at a meal. Maybe in sushi, doesn't count imo.
As a holder of work permit in Europe reading about H1B is bizarre. For me to get a work permit it took company founders to write a motivational letter (tldr, we work in tech, we need this dude), put an indication of salary being above certain fixed threshold (something something above median salary, revised yearly) and it was done in a few weeks. No lottery, no quotas, I can change employers whatever amount of times I want, I didn’t have to show academic credentials or answer binary tree interview questions from border agents.

Why is US so complicated for no reason? It’s not like it even makes a difference in the end, it’s just needless friction .
A passion-project that’s been productized just becomes a regular software project to anyone else besides the original creator - no-one is suggesting we take garage-projects and ship-it immediately.

It’s kinda like how Microsoft handled easter-eggs in the 1990s (before they were banned completely around ~2003), where the egg is just another engineering feature-project, with a spec-doc, a dev timeline, a test plan, and accountability - even if the end-feature is designed to be hidden.
I know, I agree. Maybe the media and scientists set expectations too high? Vaccine == Immune? Not sure.
While that can obviously happen, here are a few more thoughts

1. Most grad students are also Indians, and the OPT (->STEM) -> H1B is a common path to employment based visas. And US universities are not unreasonably favoring Indians.

2. A lot of Indians are stuck in H1B status, because of the discriminatory and racist country cap. People stuck in H1B for 10+ years as of now, and potentially multi-decades wait in the future, while other countries get green card right away.

3. India does have many good schools, a focus on engineering, a huge population, and not so many good local opportunities.

And at the end of it all, instead of blaming all Indians (do I represent my country when I attempt to immigrate, or am I an individual trying to not live in that damn country?), maybe USA should actually value high skill labor. Handing off a high skilled labor visa by lottery is a joke, instead it should be called a high-luck visa.
Caliber (snare drum emoji)
Which sounds to me like an unfortunate betrayal of the company for personal profit. But I don't know all the details.

I'd be surprised if the employees were in it for the guiding mission of "build an artist-centric and fan-centric platform, putting middleman profits after great experiences, until the day I get tired and cash out."
There isn't really a special protection if you install a extension in developer mode.

More the opposite because you have to totally trust the source.

Web stores search for certain malware patterns and get at leat some.
> If the glasses were comfortable enough to not disturb sleep

To that end, maybe a goggles setup with separate lenses, with comfy elastic bands rather than a rigid glasses frame. That might require some ingenuity... I notice the frames are pretty thick, suggesting there's some electronics (or more likely, batteries) inside.
This is so self-centered it is borderline ignorance. First, people on H1B already have to prove they are being paid above the average market. They can't hire a senior engineer for 50k a year for example.

Second, not all industry has high profit margins like software. Places like biotech or semiconductor can't afford 250K for a single worker, no matter how senior they are except in special circumstances. And these fields are just as critical and important as coding. In fact, one may argue that healthcare and chipmaking capacity are more critical to the country than someone writing the next iteration of Microsoft Word.

Third, if H1B is given based purely on salary, then company won't bother with H1B anymore. Imagine what happen if suddenly half the company on market no longer care about having a H1B program. Some politician will start trying to abolish it all together. Xenophobia and "they took our high paying jobs" and "those snobs foreigners get paid how much while American get paid how much?" are easy to sell.

Just a terrible hot take. Try to think broader than just your situation.
The quest for finding Hapax Legomena on the Internet suffers from a similar problem, only worse. If you find one, announcing its existence destroys it. See: quizzaciously.
I take your point. I meant it in the context of an earlier poster - if not the title topic, itself - who drew a line between ketamine_as_medication and ketamine_for_fun, and implied that that recreational drugs as a form of depression therapy were merely a way to have 'a fun trip', and not of any real benefit.

However, insofar as fun is synonymous with happiness, which is antonymous with depression, every cure for depression involves the end goal of fun - one way or another. Pharmaceutically / chemically, emotionally, socially, intellectually, spiritually, you-name-it.

Therefore, regarding this topic, I was positing that, where usage of recreational drugs as a novel cure for depression is concerned, the fun is the curative. But I can see how my generalisation could be interpreted as minimalising, if viewed as a pithy solution precluding all nuance - which it was not intended as!
yeah, forgot to mention. I'm looking into "workforce identity cloud", and apparently Microsoft's offer is very hard to pass, if an organisation uses/requires to use MS Office.
The real answer?

Because non-tech companies pay lobbyists, too.
By having a brittle system held up by "norms" that were simply ignored.
BeyondTrust Discovers Breach of Okta Support Unit

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/okta-support-unit-bre...
That Solarwinds is still in business and also had another security breach recently should tell you everything you need to know about the real impact of these things in the long term.
Okta's stock may be down but it will go back up once collective amnesia sets in.

What would be more interesting is figuring out how you could claim some kind of injury as an Okta customer due to this incident...
The recent microsoft key compromise was significantly worse than this: https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...
All of these enforced back-to-office measures are to ensure middle-management has something to do and to try and prevent the crash of commercial real estate values, change my mind.
I can only make an educated guess, that a dude in Uralvagonzavod (tank production) makes ~600$ a month. So the spending can’t be compared to US directly.
> I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I am simply agreeing with your deft analysis that millions of deaths around the world had exactly zero negative effect on technological advancement in any field.

If you think there's a substantive argument to be made here, then using this boorish tone, that most passing readers can probably detect in seconds, is bizarrely self-discrediting.

If your dead set on going down this path, my advice would be that maybe some sort of super-genius could impress and bamboozle HN with this kind of writing style, but that's hardly possible at a lower competence.
The IRS does not. You can pay the IRS via the web, for instance.
After a decade in this industry, I'm still not entirely sure what managers actually do.
In the island of Java?
This seems like a good use case for Cap'n Proto.
I guess that's a great thought experiment and would be interesting, but given the current stranglehold that corporate special interests have in washington I have my doubts about anything like that ever happening in our life times.
You can't do that because recursion is a feature, not a bug. It lets you do really cool things, such as:

type MultiDimArray<T> = T[] | MultiDimArray<T>[];

type LinkedList<T> = {
value: T,
next: LinkedList<T> | null,
};

type Json = string | number | null | Json[] | { [k: string]: Json };
Weird the article is about why we have an ammo shortage and plans to remedy that and my joke was that the ammo shortage is because I’ve stockpiled all of it in my bunker
This maps with my experience. I have one child with pre-ACA and one child with post-ACA non-marketplace plans. The post-ACA is expensive and not good, the pre-ACA is okay, but essentially neck and neck with the post-ACA on price.

The pre-existing condition coverage part is really important for us.

The problem with all health insurance is the opacity of actual costs. 80/20, deductible, out-of-pocket, these things are not trivial and they wander all over the place. Add to that the seemingly random prices charged by healthcare providers, which are even less understandable as "adjustments" are made.

Nobody has any idea what anything costs. Healthcare providers throw out a number, see how much they get back, and call that the price. It's absolutely insane. The only way you can get this level of brokenness is to combine government, big corporations, and a powerful middleman lobby and let them figure out how to run things.

All this nonsense to avoid "socialized medicine."
I have full control over my light, and I read from my Kindle all the time.

Reading by reflected light from an eInk screen is far more comfortable, at least for me.
That’s precisely the idea, and they don’t even need to be cheaper. You can’t put a price on controlling other people’s lives, and even if the ship sinks what matters is that the ones in charge did it all their way (or the highway).
In most places, running the model isn't actually the real problem for security, its keeping the training set secure.

More over, accidentally leaking the dataset through crafted prompts.

Its great to see some level of verifiability of hardware, which is an improvement.
9/17/90

The string 91790 occurs at position 66638. The string 66638 occurs at position 29666.

I'm two levels deep, and the reoccurrence of 666 has me worried.
In anything related to Communism there is a huge difference between what various things are claimed to be and what they really are.

A very large number of words used by Communists have other true meanings than their traditional meanings.

A Communist society is not a class-less society, but is a society where there is a class of privileged people, who have functions in the hierarchy of the Communist party and who exploit the remainder of the population, who are reduced to a state extremely similar to the serfdom of the peasants in feudalism, i.e. it is forbidden for them to own many kinds of things and they frequently are forced to live wherever the privileged communists decide for them and not in the places they would like, and also frequently they may be forced to have jobs decided for them by the privileged class, instead of having the jobs they would like.

This is how Communism has been implemented in Russia, and then in all countries influenced by Russia. Any other kind of Communism is just a fantasy.
Then there’s no difference in outcome between the options you’ve described. Nobody’s forcing you to live here, you have given consent.
I believe you could use a sub tree mutation observer instead of polling.
Unemployment is at historic lows.
You’d think. Who’s got the keys? The system admins.
> I want to downvote your comment, but it's really X and their engineering team I want to downvote.

The issues you mentioned were not engineering problems. They are all Product Manager diktats. Screwing over the timeline of non-authenticated users is a business requirement, and one which Elon Musk's Twitter decided to change recently.
I have worked at multiple FAANGs. Organizations at both Facebook and Amazon end up hiring and promoting the same group of people immigrating from the same country. Teams of 50+ consolidate around ethnic background. Its completely absurd for anyone to argue this isnt going on
The problem is that business profit is tied to its growth, Apple or General Motors, just to name 2, could make a profit indefinitely but if the stocks don’t go up it’s a loss hence the need to implement new measures that would signify growth, Apple could for example argue that tying parts to devices increase the chances of higher sales or GM that by having to program every single bolt or nut increases genuine part sales.
America still has an outstanding amount of industrial capacity. That's not patriotic bluster, because I'm saying that as a European. There's a two-horse race between China and America to be the global industrial powerhouse and nobody else is even remotely close. The scale, sophistication and adaptability of American manufacturing still boggles the mind. Whether you believe it or not, America is still the same country that furnished the allies with Sherman tanks and Liberty ships.

America could start an Operation Warp Speed for 155mm shells and Stinger missiles, but there isn't yet the political will to do it. The DoD are still deeply entrenched in their leaden bureaucracy, they're still doing procurement in their usual way, their processes are still oriented around providing pork barrel jobs in key constituencies.

America isn't at war, but if it wants to remain a global superpower in an increasingly volatile world, it needs to adopt a wartime mindset when it comes to industrial strategy. You have the steel mills, you have the forging presses, you have the CNC lathes, but you don't have the sense of urgency to actually use them. That doesn't require legislation or a fundamental restructuring of the economy, it just requires a bit of creative thinking about procurement. With the stroke of a pen, your president could set the wheels in motion to rapidly replenish your arsenal and resume your role as the armoury of the free world.

For the sake of Ukraine, for the sake of Israel, for the sake of all of us, write to your representatives.
To bring this conversation full-circle, we also watched those two shows for weeknight dinners, except for the one night a week that TNG was on.
Is it true that Amazon doesn't specify which three days? I've seen a lot of companies where individual teams or departments pick the days, but I think most people would agree that just everyone coming in whenever they'd feel like would be silly.
Sometimes I wonder if Okta’s 5% layoff in 2023Q1 can leave security holes. The savings from layoffs is certainly not worth a stock plunge.

Edit: Headline needs to desensetionalaze a bit. -11.57% isn’t too bad.
Wow. I clicked on this link thinking "what more can you say about hex grids that we don't already know?" But the author(s) of this guide proved me wrong. While hex grids are fairly straight-forward, I greatly appreciate the effort taken in this deep dive.

And check out the other posts on this site. Good stuff.
I'd like to see a public (or at least anonymized) accounting of how many FTX customers lost how much money. And I'm not talking about losses denominated in magical unicorn bucks converted to USD with the highest exchange rate ever traded. I want to know how much cold hard USD was actually "lost," meaning it was deposited into FTX and eventually became inaccessible, either due to exchanging it for crypto holdings that tanked, or because the funds simply couldn't be withdrawn. If we can identify the actual amount of inflowing USD, then the next question naturally becomes ... where did it go? Whereas the current obfuscation with mixing of peak altcoin valuations and actual dollars makes it impossible to understand the true scale of loss.

As it stands, I remain unconvinced that FTX was not a wash trading front for a money laundering operation run by an intelligence agency that is now throwing SBF under the bus as part of the larger plan to blow it all up so it's too messy for anyone to investigate. Just keep screaming fraud as loudly as possible so nobody dares question the premise.

There were a lot of red flags with FTX. It popped up out of nowhere. SBF was a relative unknown amongst his peergroup, eg MIT'14 Bitcoiners. I guess that's because he came from the econ side? I'm not MIT, but I am '14 and I was more involved than your average person with cryptocurrency back then. The first I ever heard of SBF was when he was put in front of congress in ~2019 and labeled the CEO of a massive crypto exchange I'd never heard of. Call me crazy but that set off alarm bells for me at the time, and I'm not sure it ever added up.

But by far the weirdest red flag about FTX was the dearth of Reddit posts from people asking how to get their money back when it finally crashed. There were hardly any subscribers to the FTX subreddit (~5k), and there was only a tiny trickle of posts from real users looking for refunds. Maybe this is attributable to FTX having more sophisticated "investors" (?) than other crypto scams, but the 5k subscribers made it a clear outlier.
Compare the Reddit activity (both volume and sentiment) around any remotely similar crypto crash and the difference is stark. Where are all the victims?
AI Analysis of Biotech Startups
This take ignores that software evolves to be ever more bloated as well. With ever more hardware to throw at issues, software didn’t have enough evolutionary pressure to remain or become efficient. I argue that’s beginning to show.

Look at what our software actually does and the actual resources used in doing so. Compare that to the theoretical minimum required. That ratio has been growing steadily. In the 80s, when your systems were simple and things were Assembly or C, not much efficiency was lost. Nowadays, enormous efficiency is wasted on telemetry, security measures (AV, Spectre etc. mitigations), programming in the name of being cross platform (Electron, …), indirection (APIs calling APIS ad infinitum), …
He mentions that some contracts will take five years to deliver. This seems bad to me but maybe it's not.
> [Apple] had concerns about the subject matter Stewart planned for three shows during the upcoming season

> [Stewart] grew increasingly frustrated that the company was pushing back on the show's guest list and show subjects, he told staff

I had a lot of respect and admiration for Jon Stewart before this.

Now I have even more.
Unemployment at historic lows, cost of living at all time highs. Something isnt adding up
well paper has the best "auto" ambient light adjustment. I don't tweak my phone screen to me room lamp every time I read something on it.
ARM 1 was designed to be a low-power CPU, because they wanted to be able to use a cheap plastic package. Famously, they forgot to wire the first sample to its power supply, but it was still able to run of the power leakage from its other pins. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-par...
European laws are not universal laws. This is like arguing that European corporations violate human rights by not enforcing the 2nd amendment. Which the US considers to be an unalienable right. That would be absurd, just like trying to claim that some particular right you have in Europe is suddenly universal and a "human right".

I'm glad that organizations don't try to cater to every single law in every country. But it's weird that this urge to force their own laws on the entire world seems so prevalent amongst Europeans.
And a separate federal crime if messed with. Impersonating the IRS over USPS has to be one of the fastest ways to end up with two federal agencies after you…
> wonder if there are any employees who have a remote work provision in their contract.

EDIT: I'm getting severely downvoted, so I'll try to add some context: Amazon is a big company with corporate counsel. I guarantee their corporate counsel reviewed offer letters and employment agreements that guaranteed working locations or restricted their own ability to change working locations. Avoiding language in offer letters that guarantees things is a basic principal of writing offer letters and employment agreements (Example: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/how... )

A remote work provision in a contract would require some sort of consequence for breaking that provision: For example, "Amazon agrees to pay 12 months of compensation if employee is required to relocate in the future". I guarantee you that corporate counsel wouldn't let this happen for the average Amazon employee, or else we'd be hearing a lot more about Amazon breaking contracts.

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Employees generally don't have contracts that work like that. The company can change things like where and how you work.

Contractors have contracts (obviously), but employees don't have contracts that guarantee things like remote work in most places. This is why employers can lay people off, change their job title, alter their pay, etc.

Even if you are hired remote at a company and remote is listed in your offer letter, an offer letter is not a contract. The employer can change the nature of the job.

It's analogous to being relocated: The company has changed the location of the job. You can come to the new location or you can leave the job, but you can't force the employer to let you work where you want.

For Amazon specifically: I know a couple people who work remotely for Amazon still with no word about RTO. They were hired remote and continue to work remote.
Government isn’t efficient. Because it’s not government, it’s people with civil service protection. And it’s consultants with zero accountability.
Because the right to be forgotten is idiotic. Humanity has a right to accurate history even if it's embarrassing to certain individuals. Information archiving is a matter of preservation and continuity of understanding that can live for millennia if we do it right.
What security tools would have prevented this type of session hijacking attack? Cyberark EPM? Hashicorp Vault/Boundary?
On the one hand, it doesn't sound like this was any sort of accident.

OTOH, why the [bleep] would China be doing Russia's dirty work in the Baltic? Beijing is definitely the senior partner in that relationship, not Moscow.
> Let's say we distribute Bezos money to everyone. That's 24 Dollars per person. It would change nothing. Nada.

Ah, but that’s not at all true. All of us plebes have to pay taxes that Bezos and other billionaires are managing to escape.
Hehe. Mostly boomer and ultra rich wealth jumped. Affordability index has been dropping for decades.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FIXHAI