skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The labour market is tightening – and it's getting harder to find a job.

as a small rant, I am getting tired of the whiplash between "it's harder than ever to find a job" and "the economy has recovered and unemployement is record lows". This is normally easily explainable but these seem to both be bipartisan points from my browsing on the topic. So I am simply perplexed.
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On topic: Ghost jobs are such a weird concept in this day and age. As we see here, it is extremely easy to get hundreds, thousands of resumes within days of a job posting, so why pretend to keep resumes on record to call people on later? The latest I've been contacted about such a role was some 5 months later, and that was due to a referral randomly pinging the company for a tangential job. Otherwise, anything that hasn't responded within a month may as well be cast to the void.

The most common lip service seems to be what you expect:

>Half the respondents reported they keep job listings open indefinitely because they "always open to new people". More than one in three respondents said they kept the listings active to build a pool of applicants in case of turnover – not because a role needs to be filled in a timely manner.

Exactly my point. But maybe it's just me. Has anyone ever had a >1 month response from a company that has experienced turnover?

> More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing. A similar share said the job listings are made to motivate employees, while 34% said the jobs are posted to placate overworked staff who may be hoping for additional help to be brought on.

Well, these seem to be the more brutally honest answers. Fraud is probably too strong a word, but this does feel like exploitive behavior that should be reigned in.
Isn't that how those Fortezza crypto cards worked? The chips leave the factory unclassified, then the NSA loads their classified Suite A algorithms onto them?
Buying the debt is different than paying off the debt. I see so many comments here assuming that to buy the company totally (or to have total control over a company), one should pay off all debts of the company. It is simply not true. I feel this whole concept of "Enterprise Value" does not really correlate any meaningful value.
Reminds me of N. David Mermin's famous saying that perhaps the greatest contribution of String theorists to science was creation of arXiv :-)
This[1] contains an explanation of his proof format. More generally many of the later monographs from that archive have interesting proofs. Also the book Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics is chock full of proofs.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...
In grad school I knew a guy who was reeeeally into the idea of building benches out of reused plastic and cob. The basic design was plastic bottles stuffed with plastic bags acting as bricks, which are then cemented together with cob.

Cleaning the bottles and bags was incredibly difficult, even at the scale needed for a single bench. Just a massive amount of effort... The difficulty was that any residual bacteria would multiply and off-gas, eventually causing structural problems.

Likewise, I expect the biggest problem for a home-LEGO-recycler would be dealing with the many random impurities in the input stream.
As someone who doesn't work in the frontend much, what tools are you talking about?
It looks like there are no responses from Google yet.
I had applied for one job via linked in a few years back and it was entirely a scam to do data collection. They kept asking for more and more info about me. I stopped responding when they wanted to run a credit check and asked me to email them my social security number.
A stopped clock is right twice a day. A broken clock could potentially never be right, like if it's perpetually 10 minutes behind.
25 years old and still constantly misused by tech companies to assume my language preferences while traveling even though my browser explicitly communicates my language and locale preferences. Spotify and Google are particularly notorious offenders.
Obviously it would not be contractually impossible to allow streaming. The contracts would just not require IP based fencing/allow for global distribution, or e.g. use the billing account's jurisdiction, which is a more reasonable solution anyway.
I actually used to be an org-mode user, so I strongly agree with this sentiment!

But I really wanted more native features like shared lists, attachments, and a mobile app, which is why I built Godspeed. But Godspeed is heavily influenced by Emacs in a bunch of ways.
About fat accumulation and decades of chronic inflammation in the brain being huge factors for Alzheimer's.
It's pretty simple to build a chatbot using OpenAI
This is insane. You can use OpenAI's API to tokenise a large text, do a vector search and generate a formal answer using it's chat completion API.

It's in the following 2 links on the OpenAI website:

- https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/question_answering_usin...
- https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/embedding_wikipedia_art...

I trained a chatbot on the Godfather script for example and asked Open AI to give the exact response to a dialogue in the film. I'll open-source that too pretty soon if you guys are interested.
It was useful at the time though. Both network and disk were substantially slower at the time. And servers had far fewer cores. So which server stored the data could make your processing faster. And you’d have less risk for IO contention within the same chassis.

Fast forward a few years and compute servers can have hundreds of cores and the network is significantly faster.

I think it was a “good enough” design for the time and those assumptions. And batch processing. Now? I think there are different assumptions to be made.

(And I think there is a good argument that by the time Hadoop/HDFS had stabilized the assumptions had already shifted)
I would get a synology NAS.

For offsite, I would use restic to S3 or backblaze.
They already do this at certain Checkers locations. Order with voice recognition.
Thank you for correcting my misconception. I thought it classified them as common carriers.
Very fun. I particularly like the FOSS TRNG in 100 LEs. It's great that I can get open source HDL and compile it on any hardware supported by yosys.
There is a simple text-based import! If you copy a list of tasks with some kind of leading bullet character, like a `-`, and then hit ⌘+Shift+V in Godspeed, Godspeed will create tasks from the text on your clipboard. It'll even respect indentation and strip off the bullet characters.

I'm also happy to do a custom, one-off import if you can get me any kind of machine readable file.
Strongly disagree on your mold idea. LEGO’s stringent quality control is one of the things that makes it great. My childhood legos are all at my parents house, and my kids love to play with them when we visit. They still work perfectly 30 years later.

That level of quality is impossible with your local library mold idea. It would inevitably churn out low quality bricks due to (1) bad inputs and (2) molds not being replaced regularly for wear and tear, which would be accelerated due to (1).

You can’t just throw whatever plastic trash you have into a machine and expect it to produce good or even useable bricks.
These have to be spy satellites. GPS is just a timing signal, in space. Technology we had 40 years ago. There is no way you need $100M to build this and have special government authorization to collect the debris.
Stardew Valley is one of the few games that works for a range of kids from 4-40yrs old. There is something slow, something exciting, something requiring coordination, something allowing you to be creative, something that tells a story, etc...

Everyone's needs are met at whatever speed they are at.

I have no idea why Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, and all of the similar console games made their games 1 player. That's the whole point of a console (to play with people).

Warning, the switch only supports 2 player. Xbox works fine, but using a PC gives you access to all the mods. I recommend the PC/Steam version + 4 xbox controllers running on whatever weak media center you have.
You guys use your real name?
Try looking at things from my angle: A few errors in an image can be not much of a big deal (with modern tools, the mistakes are within human margin of error on average), but errors in delivery of textual data such as facts, dates or code can be far more severe and subtle. There are ways to work around or reduce the shortcomings of image generation, and the quirks you mention have drop-in solutions for local installs, but you can't quite fix wrong facts in text automatically, or the context going off-rails. It can be much harder to catch than a hand missing a finger, too.

It's also worth mentioning you can run a heavily customized Stable Diffusion setup at home with fairly modest hardware with satisfactory results if you know what you are doing, but anything you can run at home for LLMs in the same hardware is dog slow and actually kind of terrible.
HomeRoom (YC W22) Is Hiring
Forcing myself out of the house, even if I'm still just scrolling HN and youtube, not doing it at home encouraged me to get back into networking, getting into networking helped me connect with people, connecting with people made me feel more hopeful. As cliche as it is, getting moving really helps, go for a super long walk, really really breath deeply right into your belly and just walk with purpose (the purpose of just walking), I also just do some weird silly dancing around my kitchen to music (I'd kinda forgotten that can be quite fun). However for me, the most helpful by a mile was psilocybin. That whole "this too shall pass" thing is a real thing. Sending you good luck!
This Was Village Life in Britain 3k Years Ago
>The Malicious Communications Act covers sending anything else with the intent of causing "distress or anxiety".

So sending a photo of a steak to a vegan would get you 5 years in prison? I'm glad I don't live in the UK and I'm glad they left the EU so their idiotic laws won't poison EU laws.
I’m opposed to economic systems where people will make decisions based on a massive power imbalance and fear of destitution

We have more than enough resources for that to be true, it’s a matter of will and reckoning how the deck is stacked structurally to actively fight anything that reduces the power of the luxury class
Do you have an RSS or Atom feed so I can subscribe and be notified when Rig is available.

Anyways, I’m looking forward to more options in this space. The current pattern of rebuilding everything from scratch every time in a non deterministic way is the gross reality of GitHub Actions and Dockerfiles. It would be great to have more people working on a more cacheable build system.

That said, I wonder what Rug can do about IDE integration. Specifically several IDEs (visual studio and Xcode come to mind) need their own project file format to be able to understand how to interpret source code. One approach that Buck did is to generate those files. But it is always a source of friction when trying to get an IDE to integrate smoothly with an additional build system.
Interesting that UK statutes don't define "sexual image". Most statutes here in the US do, just for clarity.

Our definition of intent is the same, though. "Knows or reasonably should have known".
I made another comment about exactly that, but was addressing the concern that asan doesn't make code safe.
> I believe it will not happen until we have a firm definition and understanding of what intelligence is.

It's quite possible that A(G)I systems will be built that outperform humans at various tasks, before our (full) understanding of "how?", catches up.

More likely: the list of tasks that AI systems can do better than humans, keeps growing. Yesterday it was playing chess, today it's 'playing' with language, tomorrow it serves as your (mental) sidekick, does your shopping, or advances arts & science.

I'm convinced we'll home in on a better grasp of what "general intelligence" is (in essence). How it emerges from neural nets or biological brains. And that things like personality, skills, moods, memories, creativity, etc etc are ultimately the result of structure, scale, the way a brain (biological or artificial) is connected to its environment, and learning.

Yes, this may remove some of the 'magic' that makes us humans. Or: highten our appreciation of the marvel that (biological) brains are.
I'm curious how this is better than (or even significantly different to) Todoist [1], a well-established cross platform application which also supports natural language task creation [2] and a keyboard-driven workflow [3].

[1]: https://todoist.com/
[2]: https://todoist.com/features
[3]: https://todoist.com/help/articles/use-keyboard-shortcuts-in-...
Dietary restriction of isoleucine increases healthspan and lifespan of mice
Oh no

Anyway
My firm belief is that there's no moral objection here by the companies involved. They just want to avoid being cut off by credit card processors because porn, and are cowardly enough to act like doing so is somehow protecting users.
Beautiful! I love pen plotters, and the AxiDraw is a great piece of kit
Calling something a website isn't descriptive enough, plenty of websites get shutdown so being a website alone isn't enough to qualify as protected speech.

4chan and Facebook both are already filtering out Child Porn, they may need to add other categories... or not it's an ongoing question.

More abstractly I think we can agree a phone network or ISP is a less active participant in what specifically gets said than a recommendation engine. So an websites internal recommendation engine will ultimately get its own kinds of regulations eventually just like search engines etc.
Article title: "Embedding Wikipedia articles for search". HN guidelines[0] prefer the original title: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I realize this is possibly the least salient part of the article, but who on earth uses the term "banter" for unsolicited dick pics?
The fact that this is possible is so bizarre to me. Impressive work.
US spy sats cost an order of magnitude more. Like a billion. And you don't spy from 22000km. That's a GNSS orbit. You do that from low earth orbit. It makes no sense being 40x as far away than you need to, needing that much more magnification (if optical) or signal strength (if EM espionage)

I'm pretty sure this is just Galileo. Yeah it's just timing but Galileo has high accuracy and does SAR reception too. And it's government so the price goes up :)

Also, the EU as an entity does not have a military or espionage agency. If someone does that in Europe it's coming from a country, not the whole EU.
We also found a lot of cases where caching ends up being actually slower than doing the operation. The 100% solution would probably be to use a SQL db the way diskcache does it, but this is easier to use for us.
One thing they do on the big sets is give you extras of the small stuff. Like if you need 10 of a 1x1 tile of a certain color, maybe they give you 11, or even 12.
If you consider Go to be "dead on arrival", I don't know what world you're living in.
X-Ray Inspection in the Semiconductor Industry
It's not necessarily a good choice for cloud, where the DBA-level responsibilities are handled for you, and the per-hour premium doesn't buy you much. SQL Azure is really only a fit for applications/expertise already tied to SQL Server, not something that would be a first choice for greenfield work.

However, assuming a non-cloud environment (on-prem), SQL Server Standard on a powerful server can go a very long way for about $7-10K in one-time licensing cost. This also buys you product support, which doesn't exist for free for PG.
https://archive.is/QJNCH
Neat. I've worked on some similar projects in the past

I have previously ported w2c2 to Plan 9 here: https://github.com/euclaise/w2c9

It ran basic Rust code fine.

I later managed to run C++ code without wasm, by (partially) porting musl and doing some linker hacking here: https://sr.ht/~euclaise/cross9/
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757330
I think the more tools you have, the harder it gets. I see some of these productivity guys, like Ali Abdaal, on YouTube and their systems look like a nightmare, with 8 different apps depending on the type of data.

The easier I make it on myself the better.

At work, after trying seemingly everything, I think I hit my stride with Obsidian. I have a plugin to show a calendar that works with the daily notes. I setup a template for that with a todo heading and a notes heading. I treat that kind of like a bullet journal. Each day I move over the stuff that wasn’t finished from the last day. The notes section is to give me a scratch pad for stuff that I only need that day. Other notes go to their own page to easily find later (with none of that zettlekasten nonsense). If I have a lot in my mind at the end of the day, especially on a Friday or before vacation, I’ll fill out the daily note for the day I plan to be back in the office, so I can remember where I left off. I can also open up a future daily note to add an item if I need to follow up on something on a certain day. For normal meetings I use Outlook, because I have to.

At home, the above system doesn’t work so well, because I have a lot less going on. I don’t need something that requires daily interaction like that. I have been writing up some ideas for an app I plan to write that will hopefully solve this problem for me. Time will tell how that plays out. In the meantime I’m using Apple Reminders and Calendar in a pretty basic form.
We already have that swarm. Considering most chipsets can receive 4 or 5 GNSS networks with up to 3 bands. That's a lot of signals.
Can confirm, my local Checkers has a voice assistant for orders. Typically only a single person working the kitchen and register.
"Physicists are like lemons, you squeeze them dry then toss them away."

--- Carlo Rubbia

Started my Ph.D. in particle physics about the same year as the "first superstring revolution". Left the field post-PhD not due to any great foresight, but due to boredom.

With the benefit of hindsight, I was lucky to have done so. As it turned out I was on the tail end of the "Golden Age" of particle physics.

Woit is spot on. Find it remarkable that "string theory" and its various mutations still dominates the field after 4 decades of not being able to make testable predictions.

One almost feels sorry for the current generation of "the best and the brightest" theorists who have devoted most, if not all, of their careers to supersymmetry and string theory. Their predecessors built the Standard Model [SM], whereas their work has not lead to anything.

There are still open questions in the SM: neutrino mass, CP violation [a parametrization], QCD confinement [a Millennium Prize awaits], nature of the Higgs boson phase transition, why three generations, etc.

Someone one asked me, surprised, why I would leave the field that "investigates the fundament forces of nature".

My reply, "It reads better than it lives."
You can argue that the cyberflashing law is a bit too broad and the punishment a bit too harsh. I might agree if we're talking about one adult sending sexy photos to another adult without asking first. In that case it might just be bad manners worthy of a slap on the wrist. But here's what this guy did, and in his case the punishment totally fits the crime:

> Hawkes borrowed his father’s phone, saying he needed to call the probation office, went in another room and sent photos by WhatsApp to a woman and by iMessage to a 15-year-old girl, who began crying.
The assertion is that change in environmental conditions allowed for migration:

They then pointed out that evidence in past research showed hominin habitation all across Eurasia started approximately 900,000 years ago, which coincides with the onset of the first Pleistocene ice age. As the ice age began, ocean levels would have dropped, allowing hominins an easier route from Africa.

Another assertion is that habitability had declined to the point where humans had almost become extinct:

Two recently published analyses make cases for severe bottlenecking of human populations occurring in the late Early Pleistocene, one case at about 0.9 Mya based on a genomic analysis of modern human populations and the low number of hominin sites of this age in Africa and the other at about 1.1 Mya based on an age inventory of sites of hominin presence in Eurasia.

A further assertion is that decline in habitability was specificly due to aridity:

We suggest that the best available data are consistent with the Galerian hypothesis expanded from Europe to Eurasia as a major migration pulse of fauna including hominins in the late Early Pleistocene as a consequence of the opening of land routes from Africa facilitated by a large sea level drop associated with the first major ice age of the Pleistocene and concurrent with widespread aridity across Africa that occurred during marine isotope stage 22 at ~0.9 Mya

It's your assertion that:

> a decline in habitability of where the hominids were living was not an effect that can be pointed to as a cause of migration.

and I can see no reason why you would make this claim.
LEGO is mostly ABS so its mechanical properties are a LOT better than the cheap stuff used for bottles.
Maestro – A Framework for Claude Opus to Orchestrate Subagents
Link to tweet announcement: https://x.com/skirano/status/1770221447606104154?s=46&t=oSKy...
Hrmmmmm the controls for the first 2 graphs appear to be the same and they're called out for it [0].

But it could very well be that they're supposed to be the same? Authors may just need to better highlight why the same control is allowed to be use for comparing 2 different result sets.

[0] https://pubpeer.com/publications/59F515775D10D854ABB7F4B31D4...
>But can mills easily move?

Yes, that's their whole thing: moving when the air blows.
Memories from when you were a baby might not be gone
I guess at least this is better than hanging on to people you don’t want in a team so they can be laid off when the demand comes in to avoid being forced to give up the people you do want.
Summary: how to write a PostgreSQL proxy with Python
> "I don't have anything positive to say about EA"

He needed to have his team laid off by EA to come to this realization? I've known EA was a horrible company for many, many years and I don't even play modern games. This should not have been a surprise.

What's next? Will he be astonished that Comcast is a crappy internet provider with lousy customer service?
> lets you put your thumb on the scale and bring in who you want. Also 2022 through June, Google was desperate to hire, this would have been justified as an awesome referral, and what's a friend, anyway?

Ok, I guess you're saying a manager brought in his friend, who was already hired by google (or passed HC), but they didn't get them hired at Google, right?

>#1 said they dealt with less after kissing their VP's wife at an off-site

Lol please tell me this is an official story I can find somewhere???

Anyway, I've heard Google is extremely slow with firing folks, even ones who are abusive. But I do see people get fired, though usually after many years of a pattern.

Sorry you had to deal with all that.
It is inconsistent.

It locked my account as well, but then, many years later, sent me a magic link to sign in --I ignored it for a very long time, but then one day I needed to get some info and tried the link and it worked. So, yeah, that company, it's very inconsistent.
Don't we in Europe have our own space rockets?
Java has had the ability to run a single code file directly by running `java <path-to-file.java>` since Java 11 - https://openjdk.org/jeps/330. And it's had a Java REPL since Java 9.