skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're in a golden age of computer gaming right now. I remember what it was like when I was young: paying $30+ per game (many of which were flash-game quality, and I only learned how good the game was after I bought it), or endlessly scouring the internet for something free. Nowadays I can pay $5 on Steam, GoG, etc. for a game that will engross me for 100+ hours
This is the future. Every unemployed person will have an AI scanning all the job listings. They can send off 5k applications a day. Conversely, every open position will receive 100k applications, almost all of which will have fictional resumés and perfectly tailored cover letters. These will be fed into the company AI, which unavoidably has to make hiring decisions.

The actual hire will be someone the hiring manager knows from college.
what terminal are you using???
Hmm the radiator that is keeping my legs warm would disagree with you, but I'm not a physicist so I will simple shut myself up :)
Tooting or Elephant & Castle? Even the new design of E&C is terrible last time I looked, as ambiguous and confusing with little time to get into the right place
There's too little context to give meaningful advice here.

What stage is your business? Pre-rev, rev, profitable? What business are you in? What part of the world are you located? Are you looking too go remote, hybrid or Co located?

Really you need an advisor if I take these questions at face value.

If you have funds to be able to hire a team (esp cyber security), then you've likely raised money or made money. If you've raised money your investors should be able to deeply help you. If you've made money, I feel like you would know what you need more than anyone here and you should just interview for your biggest problem you can't solve yourself.
> 2. Are there non-US countries, European ones - Germany, France, etc., that offer relocation support?

No, but many larger companies in EU offer VISA sponsorship.

> If so, where can I find them?

LinkedIn, local job boards, ...
Yeah, for the first time I had to send more than 3 applications this year.

I guess it’s time to bring me to the farm
I don't mean this unkindly, but I am always so baffled when I see how common this take is. I mean, sure, say this about string theory (the field I was trained in): fine. I don't agree, but I see the point.

But dark matter? You think we wanted this "weird particle or something very like it that we persistently can't find" situation? No! The reason that the overwhelming majority of cosmologists and astrophysicists pretty solidly believe that dark matter exists (after a whole lot of skepticism when it was first proposed) is that there is very strong evidence for it from at least three radically different sets of experimental data. [Patterns in how galaxies rotate (the original), gravitational lensing to locate and quantify mass in galaxy clusters (including cluster collisions like the "Bullet Cluster"), and the overall history of cosmological evolution.] And not only do all three lines of evidence indicate "dark matter exists", but as I understand it, they all independently indicate a consistent amount of dark matter (relative to the observable ordinary matter).

People have tried to come up with modified theories that eliminate the need for dark matter for years and years (once they gave up suggesting the observations themselves might be faulty): it would be so much more satisfying, especially in light of our continued failure to find any sort of "stuff" that the dark matter might be made of. But as I understand it, every modification of basic theory that's so far been proposed to give a different explanation of one of those pieces of evidence has had nothing at all to say about the other two. And while maybe you could come up with a different theory modification to account for each line of evidence separately, at that point the coincidence starts to seem far less plausible even than "particle we can't find". ("Our otherwise solidly established theories are wrong in three very specific but unrelated ways, each tuned to match the effects we'd see from the exact same amount of dark matter.")

And yet somehow, the notion has taken root among a whole bunch of non-experts that this is all somehow a conspiracy or a group delusion or a stubborn self-interested refusal to consider other answers. I'll never pretend that science is perfect or immune to groupthink! But for goodness sake, aim that skepticism in some direction where the observational evidence is less overwhelming. (And before you just pick another field to go after, maybe first think carefully about what factors led you to disagree with the experts on this one where it really, really wasn't justified.)
Their response will just be to ignore the order, they don’t care what judges say. NYPD has been revolting against any oversight for years.
Man there is some real hubris there for James A. Lindsay...
Are you aware that Labour want to "toughen" the Online Safety Bill?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...

A snap General Election would make our situation worse, not better.

We need to ensure the opposition parties (all of them, not just Labour), understand our concerns about weakening encryption.
One small way this might affect some of us: there is a Danish Navy officer called Anders Puck Nielsen, who is an expert on Russia. He works for Military Intelligence and teaches at the Military College. He also has a very good YouTube channel explaining what’s happening in Ukraine.

I’m hoping this won’t discourage him from giving what is fantastic context.
First steam turbines were made in ancient Rome. Took us almost 2000 years to commercialize them :)
Angela Collier did a nice video on YT debunking this, about why dark matter is not a theory, but rather a name for a discrepancy in observations. So it's not a social construct, the discrepancy is real.
Don't you mean the `cc` crate? `gcc` is its terribly-outdated predecessor.
It's about the trend lines.

Population continues to grow. Energy per capita in the developing economies continues to increase.

Whereas in the developed economies energy per capita is decreasing, it's still much higher than in developing economies.

The only way thru this is adding more renewable energy capacity faster, for everyone, everywhere. A lot more. Fast enough to both replace fossil fuels and keep up with demand.
Danish exceptionalism. You've read it here first.
Works on mobile! Just need to click the link 3 times

Edit: never mind, it loads the custom gpt, the desc and capabilities, but errors with Not found after every message
So more Thorn 'experts' than anyone else. Very cool, very honest /s

(as usual I don't expect journalists to pick up on this)
I wish that more inner city housing was high rise apartment buildings in the UK.

When I first moved here it was super weird to see "okay in London there are small flats, because it's the big city, they don't build up because they complain it ruins the aesthetic/NIMBY/Grenfell tower fears".

So I go out to a small town here for the first time. Large green fields surrounding this town, plenty of space. It's STILL ALL SMALL FLATS!

I think the core issue is that there's such a long history here, everyone already owned all the land a long time ago. Getting a small slice enough for a flat is the most people can do.

My friend grew up in London in a flat, went to inner city schools and coming from beautiful green NZ I just couldn't imagine what that must be like. His flat all surrounded by concrete and endless streets flat up against flat with no space in between. His schools all built up in the same way, often with a school field "down the road".

I think in the UK it's too late to remedy, but outside of cities houses need more space. Inside cities they need to start building modern high rises.
Yeah I love rust’s todo!() macro for this. Not only does it throw an error, but it also typechecks in any context. Normally a function needs to actually return whatever it says it will return. But throw a todo!() in there, and you don’t need to return anything at all. (I assume there’s some type magic going on behind the scenes. Whatever it is, I love it.)

But generally I agree that it’s overly persnickety to complain about empty functions. My use case for them is that sometimes you need to pass a function as an argument and the function may be null - to indicate you don’t want to do any work. It’s often cleaner to use an empty function as a default value rather than add null checks everywhere.

I don’t use eslint at all because of defaults like this. Having my coding style negged by a tool feels awful. I hate gofmt. I ran it once and it deleted a bunch of empty lines in my code that I had put in on purpose to aid readability. And wow, that pissed me right off! I just know I’ll hate a lot of eslint’s rules just as much. 30 years of coding experience gives you opinions. Kids these days don’t even know how to use the ternary operator properly.
Ideally, for first 1-3 hires you hire someone to do the job (most of which) you can do yourself. That way you buy speed, not capability.

If you really need the second person to do something critical that you cannot do yourself consider a cofounder, not an employee. My 2c.
It’s a very Anglo-Saxon objection, they are not mandatory in any of the Five Eyes countries unlike the majority of Western countries. Something to do with preventing government overreach.
>If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth

Is growth really what we should care about though? Would you prefer to live in a poor society that's growing rapidly, or a rich society that's stagnating? In terms of your quality of life (medical, food, housing, education, etc.) you're going to have a better time in the stagnant-but-rich society.

The American economy is actually doing super well right now btw: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/great-news-about-american-weal...
The quote is a pithy formulation of Blotto game theory, or "front
analysis" [0] which I've taught in cybersecurity for some years now as
an introductory concept alongside Dolev-Yeo [1]. It is obliquely
connected to the "attackers advantage" (here as a business concept
[2]) and "terrorists always win in the end".

As the number of fronts to defend grows, in space or time, the
uncertainty of how to allocate resources against novel attacks becomes
overwhelming, as does the burden of hyper-vigilance. The enemy can
afford to sleep and wait.

Security is an essentially conservative project. One is defending
existing resources, rights, powers... against an opportunistic
insurgent. Security of democracy (as Franklin said, "if you can keep
it") against tyrants (who are simply "terrorists" in waiting) is no
different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_game

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolev%E2%80%93Yao_model

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413841-the-attacker-s-...
So you just like to rant, I see.
> On Apple platforms or on Windows, you could look at the crash logs captured by the operating system’s built-in crash reporter, but on Linux that’s typically all you had to go on.

On modern linux distros, simply typing `coredumpctl debug` puts you right into gdb with the core dump loaded. If debuginfod is set up (not sure what the defaults look like there across distros), it will even automatically download debug symbols for all libraries loaded at the time of the crash.
Underlined, and has an on-hover color change!
> Writer can elect to use AI when performing writing services, if Company consents and provided writer follows applicable company policies. Company cannot require writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services.

Seems like a loophole: a company could increase the workload to the point GPT tools are needed and claim a writer is not performing (when compared to a writer that does use GPT).
I built a DSL for a Visual Novel game I am making, by using ANTLR for parsing and then executing it using C#.

Are there generic frameworks for implementing static analysis that exists out there ?

I did a rudimentary version of it with some simple checks, but I have troubles wrapping my head about checking conditional branches and stuff like this.
I love how the only two omegle.com links on hackernews are one from opening in 2009 and one from closing in 2023
Ironically, Thatcher was in fact lucky every time and they never ended up being lucky at all.
I was referring particularly to my parent's point about adding parentheses to remove ambiguity. That prettier oftentimes removes parentheses that I explicitly want. So rather than risk that, I remove the ambiguity by moving one of the comparisons off into a named variable.
I have this intuition, that we (people), even the really bright ones, are really bad at predicting emerging properties of systems.

This phenomenon might be seen almost everywhere, but I find it that using cellural automata (Game of Life anybody?) and abstract board games with limited rules is the easiest way to show people that they are actually really not that far from children if it comes to imagining consequences of few rules interacting with each other on scale greater than 10-20 moves ahead.

Go board game is my favourite example - few almost self explaining rules and if you show this to someone that did not play it before and he will be lost for days or weeks at a time (if it comes to predicting consequences of two players laying stones according to those few simple rules).

And then, after they learn anything about this game, change one rule (allow for two moves in a turn for example) and see how they are lost again...

It's almost like in the quote from Feynman (this is more a paraphrase because I do not remember correct phrasing, only the general idea) - "People do not understand what it really takes to know anything".
That is survivorship bias though. Maybe you had like 5 opportunities and got three jobs. If they hadn't worked out, finding the 6th would be way harder.

For those pigeons where there are no holes, it instead seems impossible.
I'm not sure how one could "remove the mathematics part" without removing the philosophy as well. The two aren't divided by hard boundaries and were particularly close during early 20th century work on the foundations of mathematics. Poincare, Cantor, Gödel, Tarski, Bernays, Hermann Weyl, and Hans Hahn all published philosophical work, just to name a few; even those who weren't themselves philosophers were at least involved with philosophy, e.g. Hilbert with the Berlin Circle. There are plenty of modern examples of crossover as well, such as Kripke, Putnam, Jaakko Hintikka, Saunders Mac Lane, George Boolos...
It is worth noting that it is now confirmed by both Finnsen and Hjort that the case is about the US run, Danish facilitated, signals espionage operation directed primarily towards Sweden and Germany (kabelsamarbejdet).
What do you mean by skin colour sensitive? Did the service favour a person with specific skin colour or did it purposely exclude people with a specific skin colour?
See also the earlier discussion on (then still) secret list of experts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189790
I met my wife because she saw on facebook a screenshot someone has taken from a tweet I did about a terrorist attack. (Charlie Hebdo 2015- Paris).

This encouraged her to read my blog then to get in touch, etc…

So meeting my wife happened because:

1. There was a terrorist attack
2. I tweeted about it
3. The tweet became popular
4. A random someone took the time to screenshot it to share it on Facebook
5. That random screenshot managed to get through my future wife timeline.

To this day, when I look at my son, I wonder how odds were that he exists.

(I told the story in French here for those really curious: https://ploum.net/comment-les-reseaux-sociaux-ont-transforme... )
I have no idea either since:

"you’ll need to install and run a new build (links below), and register for a new account with a phone number (you can use the same one you’re using in Production)."
I am done with people. I wear a Cleanspace Halo and hate the world for making me do so. Everyone is free to cough on me, ain't gonna do much.

As an aside: even pre covid I was eagerly waiting for a (somewhat) affordable exoskeleton. I am going to have the best Darth Vader cosplay ever.
I have no idea what you're talking about, or how it relates to countries spying on one another.
Minimum wage where I live is 830€/month. Fuel is taxed at about 60% (mostly with environmental excuses from the state).

Electricity is at an all-time high because we spend a huge amount of money making it "green". People can't even heat their houses in the winter. It's literally 13C inside right now at my parents house.

Meanwhile, France is deemed "un-green" because union-level climate policies mark cheap nuclear power as not "green", while Germany is burning biomass and expensive natural gas, therefore is tagged "green".

Union-level climate policies completely at fault here, and so are many government policies that are just an excuse to extract more taxes under the righteousness of "fighting climate change".

I don't know who is getting rich and achieving a better life out of this, but it's certainly not the European common citizen.
indeed I know (I had a longish term gig working on an "applicant survey SaaS app"). Measures and counter-measures :-)
That's a tough problem, regardless how you approach it.

The best thing is to know a lot of people and just happen to know somebody who can help you. The second best is to scour the internet and your network for people who are good at what they are doing. Trying to hire your first person on a job board is probably the worst thing you can do.

Rather than start with a position, start with the person and figure out how they can help you given their skills and personality.

This is not the time to standardise your positions, you have to make best use of the flexibility that startup setting provides and use that flexibility for your advantage.

You will have to give them a lot of freedom anyway.

Don't hire people who can't deal with ambiguity and/or need a good precise description of what they are supposed to do. Most of the work is defining what you are supposed to do so you will be getting very little value out of them if you have to provide all of the direction.

If you are starting with a vision and try to force somebody into that vision then you are already fighting an uphill battle.
That's probably the whole point of the exercise. :-)

How will you be able to discern a charlatan from a good fit to your company, if what they're supposed to be at at is totally alien to you?!

Go to the library, ask around, google. Even if you completely fail at marketing, you've learned something about the skills you're missing. Which your company is missing.
The only reason you need a flash duration that short is if you really want to freeze something that is moving very quickly. You don't need the shutter duration to be that short as well, unless you also want to exclude light that hasn't been produced by your flash.
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Wonder if there is an index to measure the power of government. If there is, would love to see its evolution over time.
It’s even easier in the metric system, where a 500 kcal (daily) deficit should roughly amount to a 500 g (weekly) weight loss.

And AFAIK this is calculated based on body fat actually corresponding to around 7.7 kcal per gram, not 9 (that is for food).
If I remember correctly, "some reason" being horrible performance.
In some selected benchmarks, without taking into consideration typical graphical workstation software used in the industry, those folks that pay for Mac Pros and actually use the slots.
My opinion, I am not an expert by any means, I have only read the bitcoin whitepaper and written some very trivial blockchains to further my own understanding:

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are impressive novel technology, they suit how they are used and work as a fungible token/currency. The underlying tech is impressive, like cryptography, and cannot (backdoors excepted) be broken for its intended purpose. Smart people who understand it recognized the potential and validity of the technology, and so it grew organically and became the phenomenon it is today. There is no technical gotcha, scams are another topic.

The general public's exposure was much more surface level and occurred after the tech had grown organically among technical folks. Now you pay with your CC on a familiar looking website, to buy something everyone says has value. It seems normal, and although you don't understand the underlying tech, you trust it is valuable. Lots of people get rich, lots of people lose money, but BTC remains valuable and the market remains. My elderly mother who is not technically literate is asking me how to invest.

After that, the general public has been conditioned to expect blockchain adjacent tech to be legitimate, they are feeling like they missed the gold rush but there is a new gold rush! NFTs! This time we skip the organic growth of a novel technology, adopted by smart people who understand the underlying tech. Now it is inorganic growth exploiting the crypto hype and pushed by hustlers. There is a legitimate use case for artists but that isn't what is driving the new mania.

This time there are massive technical gotchas (you have a link to a .jpg hosted on a server or servers, you don't own the copyright to anything). People find this out after the hype and massive adoption, if BTC never worked for its purpose it wouldn't have grown organically. NFTs have skipped that. There are torrents with every NFT pulled from these servers to highlight the lack of ownership, of technical control, I can't torrent your Bitcoins but I can download your stoned apes.

This is a long opinion, but it's why I think you see people find out after the fact just how flaky NFTs are.
Some would say the Royal Family itself is a shield for the activities of pedophiles.

Are we allowed to say that now?
After reading his statement go and watch the psychopathic BBC reporter going to his house shouting "why don't you want to protect children". Then his decision will be easy to understand. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
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>Market is not that bad. It's totally ok.

Not in my experience(got hired recently). Market is really bad right now, those layoffs have left a helluva impact
> Assuming that I don't know anything about or have zero experience in the skill-sets I am hiring for, how does one start?

You start by doing the tasks you need done yourself. When you learn what is needed and can't manage it yourself anymore then you know what to ask and hire for.
They wrote new games for it, there was no need to emulate NES.
The Rotherham failings were not so much because of the "wrong type" of perpetrators, but the wrong type of victims. Sexual assault and rape have pretty miserable conviction rates at the best of times, and victims experience substantial misogyny. In the case of Rotherham, most of the victims were young girls who were in the local authority "care" system, many of whom were known to the police already. So the police reacted to their complaints with the old "of course you were raped, you shouldn't have been there / doing that".

(Think about it: do you know the names or faces of any of the Rotherham victims? Are they doing the campaigning? Or is it people using them to grind an axe which has little to do with the actual crimes?)

What is the actual reason for not giving Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, a person with no UK criminal convictions, the rights of any other resident? Are we saying that local authorities should screen people for political views before offering them housing as they are statutorily required to?