skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole system is completely bs, for both sides, to the point that personal referrals become more and more important. But if you don't play the game, someone else will, and you lose out.

Seems to me that "great way to" in this case is sarcastic. It's a "great" way for HR people to solve the problem because it requires zero effort even if its stymies both applicants, and their own efforts to uncover worthy candidates.

In the end, as is the case with so much of our modern world, the root of the problem is some company overselling the capability of their AI-driven product and some executive with no accurate way to gauge the drawbacks saying "wow we can spend $x thousand per year for this service that will save us 3($x) thousand in recruiting payroll. I'm in." In the ATS world, resumes require SEO to be useful for most companies... that is, unless you're giving it to a human being that asked you for it because you already have a rapport with them.
I wonder if this correlates in any way with improvements in mental health support (it's not perfect by a long shot, but it is better)

In my professional life I've been called a genius, and I've been called an asshole. I've never intentionally gone out of my way to be either, but it is what it is. A decade or so of struggling to get my points across without being an asshat about it I discovered I have ADHD.

Job security has always come with the ability to really deep dive into the things everyone else had trouble figuring out. Rejection sensitivity dysphoria seems to have been a likely culprit for the asshat side of things - I spent all this time figuring out the answer, and they aren't listening to me, these people are idiots!

With a bit of medication, a lot of self-help reading, and a healthy dose of cognitive behavioural therapy I'm so much better at interacting with people, and as a bonus I no longer have to bulldoze them into realising my ideas/fixes/etc are the better option (when they are, of course!). I've noticed people are no longer starting off on the defensive with their shields up to full whenever I pipe up now.

Just throwing a thought into the ether. I do acknowledge there's probably a lot of wise old timers retiring out of the system causing the decrease, as well as the points you made, but you'd think there'd be a few more new and upcoming greybeards taking their place.

I'm not saying it is for sure related, just wondering if anyone else can see a similar connection in their experiences?

Not trying to diagnose every bitter genius in a one-shot or anything either, just thinking if there is a correlation to former bitters becoming easier to work with after mental health treatments it feels like it should definitely be explored further. In my anecdotal experience the difference has been absolute night and day, work life is so much easier now.
The universe is not deterministic because it has a constant stream of fundamental randomness (quantum noise) running through it. This is how you end up with the deterministic-random dichotomy.
I recently used a funny workflow involving MusicXML. I wanted to learn a song that I only had sheet music for and not being much of a sightsinger, I had manually input the sheet music into Vocaloid so I could sing along with it (OCR exists but in my experience is in such a sorry state and requires so many manual fix ups that for the moment it's easier to type it in manually. As for enterring the data I have experimented and I'm significantly faster and more accurate with a piano roll than typing note names in musescore).

Now as this song had nonsense lyrics and many repetitions and almost-repetitions, the structure of the song didn't quite pop out to me, so what I did was export a midi from vocaloid that I opened musescore. From musescore I then exported it as MusicXML. I opened that in Notepad++ for the sole purpose of pretty printing the xml to normalize the texual representation and saved it right back. I took that and opened it in a jupyter notebook where I scraped it for <measure> elements with regular expressions and then I searched for repeating ones, that I assembled into repeating segments and sub-segments.

This helped me memorize the song.

What I liked about MusicXML was that it was self-documenting enough that I didn't need to reference documentation and I could find candidates for normalization quite easy (for instance I didn't care about directions of stems or inferred dynamics).

A gotcha is that Musescore 4 has a bug where it doesn't show the "midi import" where you can adjust the duration quantization, this didn't matter to me for this song, but I did bite me once in the past when opening a midi from Vocaloid. Musescore 3 works. Without playing around with that there can be an issue where it infers 16th notes as staccato 8th notes and similar.
Resume tricks like this are nonsense. Are there recruiters who are swayed by things like this? Sure. Do you want to work for those companies? Probably not.

Stop shotgunning your resume to dozens of companies. Research a few companies where you might actually want to work. Do this from time to time even if you aren't looking; don't wait until you are desperate for work. And the most important thing is to actually have something to offer. If you do the bare minimum and accomplish very little, you probably aren't going to trick some great company into hiring you with resume tricks.
Can't forget Project Orion! Just nuke yourself into space!
I'm less worried about the govt surveillance and more so about abusive advertising, though I wonder how much additional insights it will really provide. The amount the data brokers and scientists can infer already is pretty astounding
Windows-as-an-app is coming
https://energycentral.com/c/ec/flying-without-fossil-fuels-n...:

“Mid-flight a Boeing 747 uses around 4 litres of jet fuel per second. Therefore given the energy density of jet fuel, approximately 35 MJ/litre, a Boeing 747 consumes energy at a rate of around 140 MW (million watts).

We can then convert this rate of energy consumption into power density, that is the rate of energy consumption per square metre. Typically this is measured in watts per square metre (W/m2 ). A Boeing 747 is 70 by 65 metres. So the power density over this 70 by 65 metre square is approximately 30,000 W/², and of course the power density over the surface area of the plane will be a few times higher, over 100,000 W/m²”

There may be gains there if electric motors are more efficient than jet engines (are they?), but overall, you’d need a lot more power than solar.

I think that density is attainable, but wouldn’t bet on it being practical except, maybe, for military use, and probably not for planes but for ground use (beaming energy to a base in Iraq may be easier than transporting oil there via trucks driving through a war zone)

For powering planes, I guess you’ll have to give up speed. That drastically decreases power need at level flight (the planes that flew around the world on solar energy were slow for a reason)

You also will have to track the plane withyour energy beam as it moves.
If you're doing business in a country, naturally you need to deal with the regulatory environment of that country. Its surprising to see such explicit american chauvinism when discussing this issue.
One thing that won't work is the "what exactly is the paint" thing. Even if the paint is still made, and the colour code is still valid... the paint won't match it. Paint fades over time. So you might as well just take a chip of it to the paint store for matching, and resign yourself to having to repaint one "surface" (to the nearest corners).

As for hidden "time capsules" - I actually left one of those as a kid in a house that was being built at the time. About 45 years later, with me long moved to another continent, that wall was being modified and they found the note behind the paneling and sent me a photo of it. I hadn't remembered leaving it there.
Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? (Medical QA)
Scaling deep learning for materials discovery
Variety goes into detail on the Apple employee in question…

“A woman who told the teleprompter operator to upload a new speech was overheard identifying herself as an Apple employee.”

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/robert-de-niro-apple-cens...
I don't think that mentality has changed at all. If anything, it's become considerably worse. We'll be experiencing the effects of lots of short-sighted quick-profit decisions being made today for decades. The quantity of discarded electronics because of a "non-replaceable" dead battery comes to mind.
Was bootloading from punch cards possible on System/370 machines?
Having an MP3 to sheet music would be even better, but probably 10x harder to do well.
The other comment mentions dutch- As a dutchie I'm not entirely sure they're correct that "kult" is less negatively charged than "sekte". They both take on negative connotations depending on context- "sekte" is definitely religious, while "kult" isn't necessarily, based on the van Dale dictionary. I'd say "cult" isn't always negative in english either, the term "cult classic" comes to mind.

For that matter, would you use "sect" in english and be confident it would not be seen as pejorative term? I feel it's all context dependent.

I also don't think looking through google translate with a single phrase is the right method to figure this out- for one thing I've heard the european languages are usually heavily based on legislature (eu legislature is published in all eu languages, so an excellent source of translations). In my experience google translate can be stilted and formal, so which implications and connotations a phrase or term has in different languages can definitely be literally "lost in translation".
As for someone looking for a new position, I can give you anecdotal evidence.

A little background: I have 10+ years of professional experience. Polyglot. Experience with extremely small to medium sized companies.

I re-used my previous resume, which did decently well around 2019 when I was looking for a new position, but with updated info for the newest position I had. Applied to a number positions that I was very qualified for -- crickets. This put me in a bad spot mentally, honestly, as it felt like signals that I'm just not "good enough" for fancy "big tech".

I then updated my resume layout to be more parseable (admittedly this is another variable), then signed up for a service that helps ATS-ify my resume. This involved adding numbers to certain line items, reduce repetition, honestly some good feedback in general. Immediate recruiter messages the next day.

I was extremely averse to using a service like this as it just felt "dirty" or was a sign of my personal ethics "giving in" to some sort of system. Honestly, I still kind of feel that way, but this is the game we play now. I know for a fact I've been auto-rejected from a number of roles that I was 100%+ qualified for because of my resume.
An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of novel materials
That is on Tesla’s own insurance program.

https://insideevs.com/news/698182/tesla-insurance-track-day-...

It’s the normal taddle tail addon plugs into your obd2 port other insurances have to reduce your rates if you drive 4am-10pm, less than 85, and don’t hard brake or rates go up.
The kind of things you can use direct SIMD for is a reasonably-different space than array languages; while some things can translate reasonably, APL-likes get much less pretty on operations where elements don't have homogeneous meaning/mapping, e.g.: the base64 conversion of OP. (for reference, I work on https://github.com/dzaima/CBQN, an implementation of BQN, an APL derivative, and we have a DSL for implementing SIMD primitives for it (and sometimes scalar ones too): https://github.com/mlochbaum/Singeli)
Actually the place itself is not controversial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square any more than the National Mall in Washington, DC is controversial. It's what happened there on one day which is suppressed.
Why don’t do both? I do both. Long digital documentation and short one printed on a piece of paper attached to the thing.
Before anyone gets too excited about keyword stuffing with white text and such: supposedly ATS systems detect this and dock you for it, though I've never heard proof either way.
Enjoyed this post. It’s interesting to me that they actually refer to vacuum tubes as little brain cells as well.

It’s not clear to me how far back the computer-as-brain analogy goes, but as far back as 1833 you have Babbage’s difference engine being described as a “thinking machine” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
- google suite

- chatgpt

- midjourney

- vpn

- Adobe 10US$ dollar plan

- kagi

- fastmail

- code pilot
From the author's BareMetal exokernel repository:

> Key features

> [...]

> Physical and virtual hardware support with full virtualization, using x86 hardware virtualization whenever available (it is on most modern x86-64 CPU's). In principle BareMetal should run on any x86-64 hardware platform, even on a physical x86-64 computer, given appropriate drivers. Officially, we develop on QEMU and VirtualBox, which means that you can run BareMetal on both Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple macOS.

There's no indication of specific real-world testing, though.
This is literally the only value add in my mind. When you know it’s not just one simple app. When you know you’ve going to have frontends and backends and server to server tokens and third party and SSO and all the other TLA soup… then it starts to be something where im going “how much time could this save, would this be a good idea”
Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Unfortunately this doesn't line up with reality. "Tricks" like these are needed to get through the nonsensical recruitment/HR obstacle course for many companies.
Just to put that into perspective: a 747 uses 90 MW peak power during takeoff. And that's the useful power it needs as thrust, so the engines produce quite a bit more than that.
In the Netherlands, a lot of schools only communicate with parents via Whatsapp messages. How are they supposed to avoid Meta in this kind of situation?

I've personally never touched a Meta product and absolutely never will (and despite this they probably still have a shadow profile of me), but this isn't a simple or even possible decision for a lot of people here.
When I sell products or services on a marketplace like eBay, Etsy, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Steam, Shopify, Apple Store, Amazon, etc., the marketplace handles the payment and the marketplace takes a cut for themselves.

How is Android any different?
Nginx Tuning HTTPS/TLS for TTFB/Latency
(Aside about Zig, sorry. Although this applies to Go as well, I think?) Urgh I am so keen to switch to Zig but their attitude towards having vector operators just completely kills the viability for me as a graphics programmer.

I've asked in their Discord, Andrew Kelley himself passed on commenting (I know his stance, every C++ dev wants their fav feature), but the reality remains that it's just infeasible to do with a DSL so it's just the wrong language for writing graphics code.
Chaos is just an arbitrary level of complexity on a deterministic/random system. It doesn't come into play here because a chaotic system is still just a stack of deterministic/random micro actions.

I can write a computer program that produces a chaotic output. However, nowhere in the computer or program will you find any free will.
> I wish Rust would switch to mimalloc or the latest tcmalloc (not the one in gperftools).

That's nonsensical. Rust uses the system allocators for reliability, compatibility, binary bloat, maintenance burden, ..., not because they're good (they were not when Rust switched away from jemalloc, and they aren't now).

If you want to use mimalloc in your rust programs, you can just set it as global allocator same as jemalloc, that takes all of three lines: https://github.com/purpleprotocol/mimalloc_rust#usage

If you want the rust compiler to link against mimilloc rather than jemalloc, feel free to test it out and open an issue, but maybe take a gander at the previous attempt: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/103944 which died for the exact same reason the the one before that (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/92249) did: unacceptable regression of max-rss.
That would mostly be summers during the daytime.[1] The diversions vary by season and time of day.

[1] https://www.niagarafallstourism.com/blog/do-they-shut-off-th...
I'd say I'm a big fan of Gilliam's look/style and "Brazil" definitely epitomizes that. I didn't see it until sometime in the last decade, so it's hard to imagine that it was ever a comedy really, though Bob Hoskin's performance was certainly amusing and memorable.

Upon reflection, "12 Monkeys" is another movie that was thought-provoking but will probably not get another play-through from me (well done Gilliam?). Perhaps as you suggest, reality has just become a bit too much and I'll just put "The Sound of Music" on on repeat from here on out, or whatever the cinematic equivalent of paintings of boats and pretty landscapes may be.
Can you configure Roundcube to store them outside the webroot?
Thank you for following up on this. This code we should be sending to the BBC SDL author and asking them to look at improving their own GetPixel code.

Every bit (pun intended) helps.
Unfortunately it's an 8000 year experiment with no control group that can only detect large or acute effects. We don't know if regular exposure to potatoes slightly decreases IQ or increases risk of cancer or any other effects. (And, in fact, potatoes grilled over a fire are suspected to be carcinogenic.)

With leaded gas, the problem was also these small, long term effects that had never been established despite lead being used for thousands of years.
Look at it from the other perspective.

You're looking for a new senior developer, starting in the next few weeks. That means with your 4 rounds of interviews, you want to start the first round within the next week or 2. Your engineers have capacity to do the 4 rounds for ~10 applicants in that time.

You receive 1000 applications.

You don't have time to read every resume and start calling people in the next few days, so you build a tool to automate it. The tool parses text from PDFs, tries to categorise it into "experience", "projects", "location", so you can exclude people with <4 years of experience and not in your country, and find those whose projects showed skills you're looking for.

The tool correctly parses 500 of the resumes, and finds 50 who match your experience, location and skill requirements. Now you manually read those 50 properly, and reach out to the ones who stand out.

That tool is the ATS. You don't care about the 500 who couldn't be parsed, or whether some of the 470 were parsed incorrectly. It's not a test of the user's ability to follow rules. It's just a necessity to get hiring done in a reasonable time frame.
Interesting that a copyright holder seems to have moderately successfully controlled the distribution of their material. Not that it will last, though.
Well let's not overdo it. Right now if you search the Brother knowledge base to troubleshoot something you'll be surprised to see that the questions are there, but each and every answer says "the page you requested was removed". It works as long it works but in the end, it's the same garbage company.
Mail delivery trucks have the steering wheel on the right side so that the driver doesn't have to get out in order to reach the mailbox. When using normal cars, they're modifying the routes slightly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying 20th century media organizations weren't ruthlessly profit-oriented, but they certainly weren't as single-minded about it as the FAANG companies who are now moving to control the media. Actual news and broadcasting companies maintained at least some claim to journalistic integrity. FAANG never has.
The way we have been ranking/sorting people to give them "better" jobs with more responsibility and better pay is completely broken, open to cheating/abuse/gaming.
The result is that we promoted a large cohort of people with little to no merit. Now since it was all fake in the first place they cannot contribute meaningfully and the ones who could have are laughing their ass doing things for themselves instead of a meritless system.
This is just like before most revolutions where somehow a group of people found a way to enslave the others to extract most of the value they produce while doing nothing of value themselves and even worse have behaviors/ideas/domination fetish that makes everything works less efficiently than it should...
Dell Inks $150M Hardware Deal with AI Startup Imbue
the first key insight here is that brakes can generate much more friction against the wheel than the tire can against any surface you're driving on. this makes the tires the limiting factor for stopping distance, not the brakes. the only exceptions to this rule are very old (like pre-1980s) cars, cars that desperately need new brake pads, and brakes that have overheated from heavy use on a track or riding them down a long hill.

the second key insight is that tires generate the most friction when they are allowed to slip only a small amount. different surfaces have different optimal slip amounts, but you never want to lock up the wheels completely.

gravel does make a difference here. abs is typically tuned for optimal performance on pavement, so it's at least theoretically possible for a skilled human driver to outperform older abs implementations on gravel. the average driver panic stopping is very unlikely to beat abs though. being a lower traction surface, it's also much easier to lock up the wheels on gravel. there's no reason to use the ebrake and especially not to force the transmission into park unless you know for a fact that the main brake pads are failing.

I'm sorry to completely beat you over the head with this explanation, but what you describe is extremely unsafe and I really hope no one reads that and tries it themselves in an emergency. the emergency stop SOP for any abs-equipped car is 1) fully depress the brake pedal, 2) focus on steering the car away from the immediate hazard or at least in a relatively straight line.
Clicking the readme takes you to the repo
Gossamer Albatross: Flight of Imagination (1979) [video]