skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What Do Recruiters Do?
I'm unemployed yet again (2023 has just been a spectacular year for me), and so I'm once again in the process of spamming my resume to a million companies and deal with recruiters.

My luck hasn't been great, and it ended up making me wonder what recruiters actually do. It seems like all they do is hit the "fwd" button on an email client, but surely they must do more, right?
I remember this guy on Comedy Central growing up. I never knew he died in 2005. Sucks.
Unedited: 2017 Workplace Abuse by Gaslighting at Guy Carpenter
Strict tables were added with 3.37.0, does that help? https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

One issue I've run into while using strict tables is that since sqlite does not (yet?) have a dedicated type for timestamps, a driver like github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 use the typename in the schema to determine when a column can be converted to a native time datatype. But STRICT tables only allow 6 specific typenames: INT, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB, ANY
There's those types of boxes everywhere! Whether it's chinatown[1], a garage[2], or a secured area in Maralago.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-classified-documents-hous...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/12/additional-document...

But it seems a bit too off-topic for this thread, dunnit?
In this article: people rediscovering the concept of a blogroll.
Is there any harm in taking antibiotics if you have a viral infection? Does an antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria spawn out of nowhere just from taking antibiotics in the absence of a bacterial infection? I thought the problem was not finishing a prescribed course of antibiotics when there is an active bacterial infection?
I prefer to write on paper :^)
I don't think it's just "neon lights and robots" that make it cyberpunk. It's the combination of high tech and lowlife, the grungy city streets, the street food, the rain, and the urban East Asian elements.

All of these elements are strong signifiers of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
You can get bits and pieces very reliably - like the instructions for the web and DALLE interfaces.
None of those test cases have anything to do with actual safety. LLMs haven't shot anyone yet.
I don't think it is a great strategy, and I think there is a reason it is used by desperate groups. It has a low chance of direct success, but that doesn't mean it is hopeless. Futhermore, there other lots of other utilitarian uses, besides actually "winning a conflict", eg attention, sympathy, reactionism.

Not to dive too deep into current events, but support for Palestinians, Gaza, and Hamas is probably at historic all time high right now. opposition is also at an all time time, but sometimes you might care more about one factor than the net balance.
I had the opposite experience. My daughter had multiple signs down by 7 months.
Related, though not much there:

Double-checking Dawkins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6954947 - Dec 2013 (1 comment)

Double-checking Dawkins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85247 - Dec 2007 (1 comment)
The first thought that came to mind for me was how in some Chinese internet culture, eating watermelon represents watching an event for entertainment without much investment even to the detriment of others. Apparently it’s being used for solidarity with Palestine though.
> What's up with programmers and their urge to ignore the rich history of any given subject

Isn’t that just what science, mathematics and rationalism in general has always done? Traditional cuisine to food science, farming to agricultural science, religion to physics etc.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and big advances occasionally come from an outside perspective exploring a field. If a writer came up with a new idea for writing code, I think many people on this site would give it a fair crack of the whip, especially given the history of cross-pollination between linguistics and programming.

I’m more disturbed by your need to rip someone’s work apart for no reason other than it doesn’t line up with your personal philosophy of how writers ought to work. You’ve not graced us with any constructive criticism, just an angry manifesto for why the author is wrong to publish his idea. I put it to you that if you don’t find this idea personally useful, and have nothing useful to add, maybe it’s not aimed at you and you can just skip over to the next article.
What if it wasn’t about you dying? What if it was to make the world better?

What amount of suffering in the world would cause you to even consider the option of eating less meat? Is it something you’re willing to contemplate? Not just animal suffering either. Think of the complicated web of problems that come out of people eating too much meat. The antibiotic use discussed in this thread. The methane byproduct discussed in countless others. The inhumane conditions of most butchers (for workers! Let’s forget the animals still).

It’s okay if none of that bothers you. We’re only human. I’m a former vegan, I’ve likely considered it all more than strictly necessary. I don’t think anyone _has_ to be anything. But for what it’s worth it _could_ be about more than an individual’s health.
That's exactly how I used to do it- categorized links with descriptions.

Once that takes off, we can scrape bookmarks list and descriptions. We assign webpages with lots of incoming links as more interesting (bonus if it's updated often). A "page ranking" so to speak. Then everyone can discover pages based on simple searches.

Has anyone else thought of this?
No. It’s illegal to fix a sanctioned boxing match. Both in the sense of being against the rules of the entity putting on the match, and in the sense of violating the law.

Wrestling is a different beast but boxing is heavily regulated in the US
AutoCAD is a great example of menu bar explosion. You have tens of thousands of potential buttons if you loaded up everything.

Button spam ends where CLIs begin. When something truly becomes that complicated, it's time to embrace text commands.
Just to be fair, a big reason Nuscale went to the Idaho site is it'd streamline approval.
So "Chemistry, the central science" did not convince you?
Actually, what it's attempting to do is prevent antibiotic being used as growth promoters. If they were only used on animals that are sick it would not be a problem. As it is, it's a serious problem as the sibling comment points out.

But, the net effect is what you say. What other solutions are there? Tax them so other uses aren't economic, perhaps?
I dont know what you mean. These are things that people actually believe, often the majority of them.
Nobody in a position of power is interested in teaching that to the masses. We are lucky if we can teach our own kids to think on their own.
> Everything is physics when you get down to the fundamentals.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/

TLDR: Math is not. :-)
> military occupation and hegemonic vassalisation

Not true. In a military occupation, the occupier gets resources from the occupied net/net. Not the other way around.

If not for the US, most of Europe would be speaking German or Russian.

A divided Europe ruined the world with two world wars and global colonialism. Imagine what would happen if Nazi Germany had survived. The terrors of colonial Belgium would pale in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploita...
well depends on how you interpret, could take '0' to mean 'stay where you are' or you could mean it 'go west' or whatever. but yes.
The letter goes on to describe America as an evil place that permits homosexuality, usury, and gambling. "Hate us for our freedom" is putting a spin on it, but it's not without basis in the text.
The universe is likely infinite. The part we can observe is finite, and growing smaller.

Outside of our observable universe is probably just more universe. We're stuck in a bubble within that universe due to the speed of light and cosmic expansion. The expansion of the universe is accelerating and that expansion continually pushes more of the universe outside of our local bubble. Relative to our reference point, some parts of the universe are moving away faster than the speed of light.

Supposing you had some sort of mechanism to travel across the entire universe, when you get to what we on Earth would see as the 'edge' of the observable universe, you could see past the boundary to another section of the universe as big as this one. If you could communicate back to earth, you'd effectively increase the size of our observable universe by half.

But while we're still trapped by the speed of light, we can never see beyond the edge of the universe. An edge which grows closer and closer, faster and faster with every passing second.

No matter how big your sensor is, you can't detect photons that don't exist. Once an object passes beyond the boundary of our observable universe, it effectively ceases to exist for us. No photon from that object will ever reach us again.
It’s an interesting line of thought, but I don’t think it really works as stated. Even if Meta thinks trump has a 10% chance of winning, it makes sense to cozy up to him in ambiguous and deniable ways.
5th Element and Cyberpunk 2077 too
> Kinda like those old conservative couples I see in the South where the man is ostensibly the story teller and head of household. But if you listen long enough you notice his wife is whispering nearly every detail of importance to help him maintain coherence.

You've never actually seen this happen because it doesn't happen. This is not how real people interact, it's how the caricatures in your head interact.
Especially the opening scene with flying cars in the back.
Companies like Cargill (the biggest) that manage food supply chains across the world are deeply intertwined with governments and food production businesses, with a level of seriousness only matched by how quiet they aim to be.

Maintaining food security, availability and price stability involves handling the complexities of weather, farming businesses, a global network of every kind of transport service, technology, politics and finance, and comes before military security.

Any change in practice that hampers food production will face an uphill battle, given the significant downsides to any food instability or price expansion.
Remove non-humans. “First animals to do so.” Wait… that’s not correct, because humans are animals and they name each other. You’ve created a false dichotomy.
GMO crops are not sterile because terminator technology was never commercialized. However there maybe contractual agreements that many prevent replanting. Also many farmers choose not to replant seeds because the next generation may of plants may not be uniform in desired characteristics. I think the situation is worse for the seeds of hybrid plants.
That phrasing disappoints me too such that i never bother reading further, as i then expect more sloppy thought.
> it is actually true that they are aligned against a secular international order with associated freedom of religion, among many other freedoms

Yes—there was at that time, and there remains to this day, a strong criticism of the US in that part of the world that it is a “decadent” society—which is really another way of saying that there are many freedoms that people avail themselves of that they disagree with.
Well Texas has more people traveling on roads like Farm to Market roads which very frequently two lanes, no median or other barrier separating two cars traveling in opposing directions, each at 70-80mph. There are often large pickup trucks on these roads too, which doesn't help at all. Australia is 11 times bigger than Texas yet has 86% of the population. Assuming he's in Victoria, which is the state that most closely matches 3x the size of Texas, there would be 2 million people in an area the size of Texas. From what I can see, the drunk driving rate is similar; There's a lot more for drunk people to hit in Texas. Most of their speed limits on the highway are, according to Wikipedia, between 50-70mph.In Texas, 75mph is common between major cities, and even on those aforementioned farm-to-market roads which are everywhere. 80 is posted in 10 counties in west Texas, and we've got an 85mph signed road southeast of Austin. I got passed by a cop going about 100. I was going about 100, to be clear.
> Global foundations I believe isn’t making the investment past 16nm.

GlobalFoundries' Fab 1 can do 1 nm, and its Fab 8 is capable of doing 14 nm:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GlobalFoundries&o...
I don't see why. It's on the SQLite4 Home page: https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
The OP's link is to the first subpage, The Design of SQLite4. If you're putting it there, you might as well put it on every page.
NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go
MS has offered FPGAs for years. AFAIK they aren't generally using them themselves, although I'd be interested to read otherwise.
If life is an emergent property of physics then it's replicable which means it's not spiritual.
> But junior programmers or students reading dogmatic-like wise-sounding rules may produce worse code to strictly follow these kind of advices.

Yes.

I for one am happy such articles exist. Thus one articulated something I've run into quite a few times without being able to fully articulate the issues. It seems like a nice mental model to have in my back pocket.

That said, I appreciate comments like your because I hope the dogmatic junior dev comes across it and hopefully becomes a little more nuanced.
that would be funny if true, had never made the connection.
> This could be bad, but frankly a technical error or code that you can google is a lot less bad than a generic "oopsy whoopsy something broke".

Technical language where it's appropriate is fine. For errors, it's easy enough to show a friendly error message at the top with more technical details underneath if it could be useful.

Actually, I forgot about double-clicking which was everywhere on Windows. People would be confused about if single or double-click would do something different and when to do which.
Frequent antibiotics use is associated with a small increase in the lifetime risk of various cancers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721461/
I'm starting to think there needs to be a "born post 9/11' disclaimer, as I believe living through that period, while remaining acutely aware of what happened in the Middle East during that period, is where the nuance originates
> what icons we could use in the future

All icons will depict a smartphone. At least for the short remaining period until you just tell the AI what you want.
Business Registries from Around the World
If your chair got as many updates as Firefox than it would be broken just as much.
> I'm curious how you would argue against that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/77517/what-is...
Careful, this is prime flame-war material.

systemd is an init system plus various other tools/infrastructure for managing a system.
A similar example of this is OpenAI's API calls which don't do response validation when you do function calling. Essentially, validating the response against the given function(s) is left to the user, leading to various implementations that just make the code noisy.

As an alternative, OpenAI could just make sure the true function call is run (first, validate that the response is a JSON, then make sure it's a valid JSON against the provided JSON schema) in n tries, after which the API raises an error or returns None.
This gives me a little hope for the future.
> The field of philosophy is already ripe with ideas from hundreds of years ago that an artificial intelligence can use against people in debates of free will, self-determination and the nature of existence. This isn’t the battle to pick.

Uh, wouldn't that apply equally to any other topic that has been argued extensively before, and to any tenable position on those topics? Like, I can make ChatGPT argue against your LLM sentience apologist-bot just as easily.
Same arguments can be made about terrorism. I'd argue that war was not the only choice in many instances it was used, just like terrorism wasn't the only choice. That may not be a popular opinion for either side.

War is reactionary and somehow hasn't stopped terrorism despite its blunt usage. And terrorism hasn't stopped bombs from falling yet either.
Notes on energy and intelligence becoming cheaper
What nuance needs to be added to blowing up hospitals?
> I thought Apple was moving towards being a full-stack company. Where all the hardware and software is developed in-house. If anyone has the resources, it is apple.

Having a modern chip fab binds an insane amount of capital, and makes you much more vulnerable in case of market turbulences. This is exactly a reason why there exist people who like to claim that Intel should spin off their fabs.
Azure networking has been FPGA-based for years.
vendor agnostic doesn't exist
In response

- Code requires creativity
- In that sense it's art
- If code is art... Are LLMs a medium?
- Van Gogh's critics said:
- Thelonius Monk's critics said:
- Edgar Allen Poe's critics said:

> "What's up with artists and their urge to ignore the rich history of any given subject"

Maybe they weren't ignoring it, but building on it.

Or maybe they wanted to tear down the altars, like Dada.

Everybody's a critic.

Edit: formatting
Is this true even if there is no betting/gambling/etc. on the match?
Yeah no one really cares about this for large models. Iteration speed matters, and no one is waiting 50 times as long to train a LLM.

Intel has always published the "training per dollar" because no one else competes.

Even for fine tuning you are almost always better off getting smaller GPU cloud instances.
I like to spend as much time as I can with my wife and kids. When we vacation we get to spend lots of time away from home (7+ weeks sometimes).

When they are in school I study (Korean these days) or build stuff for the fun of it. I'm not really social or anything. I simply like being home and doing the same things that got me FIRE'd to begin with.

I don't have any friction with random people, but I have felt some... resentment/spite/jealousy from friends. I don't know the cause or origins of it.

I noticed them speaking to me less and eventually they stopped messaging me at all. If I messaged them they would respond but would never hold a conversation. I tried for a while and then let them go.

I've had another friend I lost touch with suddenly "reconnect" with me post-FIRE only because he wanted to leverage my network/clout/whatever. So, yeah... I've had to deal with that too.
I'm not convinced the Wayland approach is actually better. It "feels" to have a lot more latency on my (admittedly somewhat old) laptop, which is somewhat disappointing since "better performance" was supposed to be one of the reasons for Wayland in the first place.

"Render as quickly as possible (even if imperfect)" is also a viable strategy. Some people seem to really hate it, but I've never even noticed it, much less been bothered by it. I certainly prefer the reduced latency. I'm probably not that special. It very much seems like a trade-off thing, rather than "this is the one true correct way"-thing.

Of course, it would be better if Xorg would support both, but that also applies to Wayland.
They picked 2009 because its the minima in the very graph you posted.
Looks like it is for open source only anyway.

Plus many things have the opportunity to slurp up your code: package managers, build tools, linters, Github (well...) etc.
VERY interesting read, thank you for that.

It’s worth noting several people’s answers state something to the effect of “quantum computing might be able to do it” and indeed I don’t expect an i9 or a ThreadRipper to ever defeat AES-256.
Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF
You positively asserted that they can only fine unencrypted traffic. You positively asserted that by definition, encrypted traffic could not be decoded to assign fines. By the logic of your comment, the FCC must decode the encrypted broadcasts to assign fines, which is false. They don't care what the broadcast contained. It violated RF restrictions. It gets fined if detected.

If you believe your comment implies anything else, you're going to have to explain your argument in more words than "it clearly does not imply that" because if it clearly implied what you claim, we wouldn't be arguing about what it "actually" means.
https://www.pbs.org/video/how-much-of-the-universe-can-human... does a good job explaining the theoretical limits of how much universe humans will be able to observe.

Based on today a knowledge of the universe, even if humans colonize the entire universe, you would eventually lose contact with humans in certain areas and therefore their knowledge.

I felt like humans were doomed after watching it, despite the vast scales discussed.
You don't see how one is shorthand for the other?
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin: Remote work makes it easier to fire people
Microsoft investigating Windows activation issues after closing a key loophole
Yup. Started as project catapult: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat...
Interestingly, the whaling industry had been similar to the way venture capital works today. Tom Nicholas talks about this in his book, "VC: An American History" [0].

[0]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/10/01/today-ventur...
Disconnecting from the Internet to avoid filtering isn’t exactly a hack.
I kind of meant "we" as "intelligent life" capable of astronomical science.

We have no idea how rare the universe is because we can't compare it to anything. We can compare terrestrial species to all of the other terrestrial species we know of. This shows that some evolutionary trajectories and forms appear to be more or less frequent outcomes.
>you don't get less depressed from drinking coffee

Not significantly enough to call it an antidepressant, but meta-analysis shows caffeine lowers risk of depression.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26518745/
>On large teams, it's about leveraging expertise and building consensus.

Is it though? This is touted fairly often, but rarely often does it actually make effective teams or organizations.

It does make for great career advancement though! Which unfortunately being great at advancing your career doesn't make you a great engineering manager.
We taught both our kids to sign.

My favourite moment was in March, my daughter was about to turn 2 and wasn't speaking yet.

I asked her if she would like to hear some music.

She made the sign for dog.

I searched youtube for some songs about dogs and she shook her head.

She made the sign for tree.

I was like "dog, tree", she nodded. Hmmm...

I was searching for "dog tree music" when one of the pictures that came up was a christmas tree.

She pointed to that excitedly!

I was like "dog christmas tree music" ... it took me a second to realise that she wanted to listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack that I had had playing off YouTube at Christmas 3 months previously!

I put that on again and we danced around to it.

I thought that was totally wild! It was the first time I remember her communicating a really sophisticated preference other than just wanting to eat/drink/help etc.
> I wonder how many airports in the world are at such significant risk of "lava flow" and other catastrophic natural disasters

It looks like Kilauea lava flows in the 1880s came within a mile or two of the site of Hilo International Airport. Lava flows earlier this year were heading in that direction.

It also appears as though the airport was hit by tsunamis in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Non-Wordpress?" Otherwise that's just an arbitrary cut-off. If you want to convey something, you need to state it in English. "Pre-Wordpress" is another possibility.
Colocate to what? Lol.
Here’s Where Your Catalytic Converter Ended Up