skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where the D&D multiple axes (plural of axis, not plural of axe, though D&D has those as well) of alignment comes in handy. Evil can be orderly, systematic. An evil society could be well functioning, with evil law and evil order.
Seems instant to me and when I checked in the Firefox debugger the network calls are taking between 30ms to 50ms to respond.
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I send money to 'the third world' a lot and it's extremely easy without having to resort to crypto nonsense. Hearing these implausible points repeated every time this question comes up just seems desperate now.
It’s for these weird edge cases that I love macOS’ new Startup Items menu. It includes a list of everything that starts at boot, and everything running in the background that’s not the OS or Apple. I had been waiting for a feature like that all my life. Sure, put a weird little service hidden somewhere as a login item, but tell me so.

I can now turn off Microsoft’s license validator !
How is anybody here fascist or a fascist apologist? That's an extreme accusation.
For the record I believe it to be immoral to manipulate humanity in this way. And I also believe it might be bad for bussiness.

I was just trying to explain to the guy above what I think the guy above that meant.
Really? There's so much stuff for Microsoft's own benefit you can't turn off at all with modern windows, telemetry being the big one. Also setting up Windows 11 without an online account requires jumping through a lot of hoops. This is about the level of consent violation I expect from them. Disappointing but not surprising.
It took Dijkstra an hour to come up with the Dijkstra algorithm. Why would you expect me to do better?
> this is costing us 100s of thousands of dollars

That depends very much on your world view. If you get the job, it would imply you've just cost a lot of other people $100ks. That simply can't be true, because there's a small number of such jobs.

The only way this can possibly hold is if you hold that only the "best" candidate should get the job, and by "best" you mean: the one that gets most of the leetcode questions right. But then there's no us.

Edit: I'm not in favor of leetcode interviews, and I do understand that there's a bias in interviews (which won't go away when you drop the leetcode).
Here is the chronologically laid out resources i'll recommend.

Start with this
- https://bottomupcs.com/

Then do this
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhy9gU5W1fvUND_5mdpbN...

and finally this
https://diveintosystems.org/book/introduction.html
Ask HN: Do you still obfuscate email addresses online?
Do the residents of HN still practice email obfuscation? Is this still a recommended practice? Do the spammers out there still bother scraping email addresses online?

I've been raw dogging email addresses online for well over a decade to no negative effect. The only unsolicited emails that actually come through are ones by people telling me that I should obfuscate my email address, which is a humorous irony.

If I hosted my own email server I'd probably be more concerned with this, but as is the BigCo™ spam filters have been amazingly effective across my domains, and I like to think my heroic unobscured email address helps train the system for everyone else. False positives aren't a problem, and it is incredibly rare that actual spam gets through.

And just as a gut feeling backed by some adhoc tests with new domains and accounts, I suspect that spam lists are populated mostly with email addresses that people voluntarily share with services, then resold. Scraping just doesn't seem to be it anymore.
Is it destroyed? does matter some how disappear or is it just it transformed from one form to another?

Why did consciousness arise from matter at all, does it disappear or is it transformed.

If you only limit yourself to what you can see then existence is rather dull and seemingly mechanically. Every time we look we see little more, and so is there really anything to suggest there is not more beyond what we can or will ever see.
Electronic transport goes quantum at room temperature
From Intel's perspective, I doubt that's true, when taking into consideration the constant stream of side channel vulnerabilities they were needing to deal with.
Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Opinion [pdf]
Nope that doesn’t necessarily follow.
Unencrypted? Seriously?

Honestly speechless
Porsche 911 Hybrid vs. Chevy Corvette E-Ray: Electrified Sports Cars Compared
I live in a third world country and nobody uses crypto to send money. The existing remittance system works fine.

Crypto's claim in this area is that could be cheaper than remittances in the traditional banking system. But remittance fees using traditional banking are already only 1.5% so we're not talking about saving massive amounts of money in most circumstances.

Which is probably why virtually nobody has switched to it for remittances.
What are the current cons of SNN?
1) That's a valid moral use IMHO but not necessarily a legal use case

2) Have you actually done it? There are many services that do this for cheap and fast. Your relatives don't have to open a crypto trading account and use banking to convert the money back into a currency they can use to purchase stuff, they can simply take cash from a chain store, the post office or a local bank branch.

3) When the local currency goes through hyperinflation people store their money in USD, EUR or GOLD. Putting money into crypto is an extra step that don't have to be there doesn't add any value because needs to go through a digital channel like a bank and when shits the fan banks can be PIA. Your local Change office in the mall or the guy at the street who sells and buys USD/EUR/GOLD tend to be more reliable.
>because a false negative is low cost (maybe you spend 50% longer interviewing candidates)

this would make sense if they filled these positions in 2,3 weeks tops. But that's the insane part; I hear of interviews going on for 6-7 stages now, lasting almost 6-10 weeks. At that point I feel you are no longer avoiding false positives, but simply hiring the most desperate programmers willing to jump the hoops. The best candidates will get an offer mid interview at that rate.

>But just don't! It's fine! just move on,

I've been "just moving on" for some 9 months now. There's only so much morale in a tank, no matter how BS you know the whole process is. I just wanna move on in life, not be bogged down on how many permutations you can color an N x M grid with.
> This doesn’t sound like one of those stories.

Even if this turns out to be one of the stories where the defendants are actually wrongdoers, those laws are still resulting in "countless stories of small businesspeople suddenly being locked out of their bank accounts because their transaction patterns looked suspicious." Which isn't worth it, because the wrongdoers can still be prosecuted for their underlying crimes without having that.

> source?

You're asking for a source for a logical argument. It's fairly straightforward: If other countries (e.g. BRIC) have to worry that the US can shut off their money, they're going to build and support alternatives to US dollars to mitigate the threat, which weakens the dollar.
> Frankly he could have just sold the vulnerability to the highest bidder

Why? Ethics aside, is everything money?
> their effectiveness is basically zero

I think discussing this under an example of an AML prosecution is silly. AML does work, it just has a lot of collateral privacy loss. Whether that level of privacy is worth the economic destruction of an all-fraud economy is another thing.
The UK's 12% is fairly typical, and a similar percentage funds (mostly better) systems in many Western European countries.

Singapore has an excellent system costing about half the proportion of GDP.
Proposal: Terraform Plan -light
yeah but they say in the paper that isn't very accurate, they suggest a specifically fine-tuned model for it, not just prompting it for a score?
Same. I know this is unfair but it made me subconsciously write off the framework. OP, this is purely marketing feedback but try to make the button fast. Love the direction you're taking, good luck!
Intel Brings a Big Fork to a Server CPU Knife Fight
Study: When and how likely an app developer will become rich?
In my experience self validation performance and confidence ratings are both poor. I think the problem is that these sorts of formats just aren’t that common in the training data. What does help is to as a series of structured questions pertaining to quality and to aggregate those, but it’s still often not that helpful.
So under the hood this relies on Cloudflare, if I understand it? Is it making calls to a CF API in the cloud, or running locally?

That part isn't clear to me.
I think this is the case: when you run your pipelines at scale you want to standardize and simplify some repeatable aspects to lower the cost of managing them. You may also want to be orthogonal to orchestrator engines (or triggering engines) and avoid getting too opinionated and inflexible in the future. So this framework is exploring some sweet spot between raw spark pipelines and low code etl engines.
Nix does not solve the problem of "running things in a chroot." It solves the problem of having to reliably and consistently build software in a repeatable, reproducible, programmable way, up-to and including all the fundamental system components, and it offers thousands and thousands of packages in order to make that usable for typical modern workflows. To a first approximation, this problem is about 10,000 times harder to solve than just "using chroot."

It's like the difference between building a single building and building an entire city, in terms of scale and total effort. That's why it's taken Nix nearly 20 years to get where it is.

> We sometimes use the more modern approaches, because we feel lazy sometimes.

No, we often use them because they are actually materially better. And Nix is vastly better than all the prior attempts at this problem. If you didn't have those problems or don't think you did, that's fine. But it's got nothing to do with "laziness" whatever that means. It's got everything to do with the results. And the results are ultimately quite good.
The "Tescreal" Bungle
Which of the other violations would have as a consequence recording of everything you do?
Hard to guess, if someone doesn’t use many different setups they might just not be familiar with arandr.
> Then over time these grinders get high enough up they start becoming interviewers themselves and they don't understand that they're even supposed to screen for talent, they conduct the interview like a memory test since to them that's what it was.

It follows that better leetcode scoring is a good indicator of who can be replaced with LLM.
Imagine what Franz Kafka could do with the Software Engineer interview process. It practically writes itself.
Crypto isn't the answer to this. "Use literally any other currency, of which crypto is merely one among many" is the answer.

Argentines adopted the US Dollar, not any cryptocurrency, to solve their problems.
"domain experts" are often totally wrong and there is nothing new about this.

When our state of knowledge of the world changes , "domain experts" have the most to lose and our state of knowledge of the world is constantly changing.

Most domains also don't have the exactness of a programming language so are exposed to the same human processes as displayed in a middle school popularity contest.

The whole concept of the "domain expert" is really a modern superstition. An especially powerful superstition because it is the superstition of those who believe themselves beyond superstition.
The challenge is the confidence scores can often be confabulations themselves.
Ask HN: Avoid/Prove CI works in a PR without running it?
When developing in a repository, it's common to have jobs like Github's Actions triggered to check everything in the PR (build, tests, coverage, etc.).

Teams often try to speed up that process. Yet, the developer usually run some of that locally, and the job runs those steps again when the PR is created.

I am wondering if there could be a way to _prove_ that you've run a series of step locally so that the CI job can bypass those steps?

I thought that maybe a cryptographic string could be generated only by running a build, commit this, and this string could be verified without having to run the build again (easy to check, hard to generate).

(maybe something like a private key + commit hash + signature generated only by running the build, and the server checks the signature validity. Or maybe something from the blockchain?)
It's weird to me because I haven't had a single person ask me Leetcode questions, and I never opened Leetcode once in my life. And yet I interviewed plenty and got job offers aplenty. Who asks these questions? I'm I somehow simply self-selecting out of these types of companies via some proxy feature I'm unaware of? Or maybe they stop asking these questions when you're more senior and not fresh out of school anymore?
Probably because the benchmark is not using all cores so the cores hit the cache more often.
Repost. And project is not updated in last 5+ years
No, that's an entirely reasonable response to such a feature being in development.
You can't just refuse to participate, especially if you're the one who started the whole conversation. At some point you say "this is what i have and it's better than before."
https://archive.is/zRxeF

The article doesn't mention another big factor: leasing. Due to how the tax credit works and also due to high residuals leasing an EV is a lot cheaper than buying or leasing an ICE vehicle in many cases. There are several EV's that can be leased for under $200/month, like the bz4x or the Kona.

I don't like leases, but if I was getting a new car now I'd probably lease. I have no idea what the resale price of an EV is going to be in 3-5 years, so if the dealership or manufacturer is willing to take that risk it might be worth it.

P.S. My $200/month doesn't include the down payment. The right way to compare is to amortize that down payment over the lease payments to get a fair comparison. But even doing that there are 2 under $250/month and 5 under $300/month: https://electrek.co/2024/05/28/five-evs-that-lease-for-under... And one of those 5 is the very highly reviewed Ioniq 6.
Makes sense. I guess that’s why some python libs use it under the hood
Microsoft's complete lack of any security consciousness is genuinely scary. They control so much of the world's personal and enterprise computing it's not even funny.

A random selection of serious security incidents from Azure:

just from Wiz from the past 2-3 years, and of course they aren't the only ones:

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v...

of course Microsoft AI researchers sucking at security: https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-acciden...

Nice overview from Corey Quinn that predates some of those but things were already horrifically bad: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures-terrible-security-...

Oh and there's also this, them selling your usage patterns to partners (hopefully they've stopped): https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1359769481539506180

Oh and another one where they bungled the response: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1536868170815795200

I find it impossible to believe that Azure as a whole organisation takes security seriously. There might be individuals that do, but definitely nobody with decision making power. Half of the above described exploits are trivial and should have never passed any sort of competent review process.
Excellent background on knowledge calibration from Anthropic:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

"Calibration" in a knowledge context means having estimated_p(correct) ~ p(correct), and it turns out that LLMs are reasonably good at this. Also a core reason why LLM-as-a-judge works so well: quality evaluation is vastly easier than generation.
Same situation as this guy, muscle memory for the german keyboard has prevented me from ever really getting into vim, because I would have to learn the US layout first
Maxar's HD Global Imagery Basemap
The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida cities defenseless against hurricanes
Totally depends on your latency to the server and server response time. Please don’t throw away two decades of client side advancements and do this for state changes that should be entirely local, people with higher latency will hate your guts. Use alpine or something like that if you don’t want to go full react/vue/svelte/solid/etc. It’s utterly terrifying that I now see this pattern evangelized every day.

As an aside, I hate websites/apps sending HTML fragments like it’s 2005 because it’s much harder to pull data or automate things that way. But that’s usually considered an upside for developers who want to combat scraping. In practice it’s hardly a road bump for devoted scrapers, and actually increases server load for the same amount of data pulled, but it’s still considered a win by many.
If you are a home end user just pirate it, iso is available everywhere and you can activate it with MAS

https://archive.org/details/Windows11LTSC
None of those things require crypto. They are essentially solved problems.

The UK banking system has had chip&pin for 20+ years, has had (Europe-wide?) instant payments for at least a decade.

Banking numbers in the UK are push not pull, you cannot take someone else's money just because you have their bank number. *

Payments require CVV (and have done for almost 30 years) and often additional 2fa verification through an app for larger payments. "Card not present" transactions are particular guarded against.

The regularatory framework is such that the banks must absorb the cost of fraud, unless they can demonstrate the customer has been particular negligent. The average banking customer in the UK does not live in fear of "identity theft", and does not own "identity insurance" or similar protection packages, the legal framework provides protection.

Solving the problem for international transfers simply requires greater international cooperation, not a different technical solution. It is a particular shame of Brexit that the UK has lost it's ability to lead in this area, because Europe generally has had a similar transformation over the past 20 years.

Expanding that banking cooperation to bring in more trusted countries would further reduce the cost of international remittance.

Someone trying to sell a technical solution to a social problem ought to always be treated with extra skepticism.

* Some pedant will point out direct debits, but that is only available to trusted providers, and is backed up by the Direct Debit Guarentee, so the risk won't fall to the customer if things do go wrong.
No need to even get that far away from western countries. For example: insult the royal family of Spain and you might be doing something illegal. There are plenty of western countries where freedom of speech is limited too: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-countries-where-ins...
https://archive.ph/Yc0va
"Dark side" is a misnomer if anyone doesn't know this. The Moon is tide-locked to Earth which means the same side always faces us, but it's not tide-locked to the Sun. The dark side gets plenty of sunlight.

A lot of folks don't realize how unusual Luna is. The Earth has a gigantic satellite relative to its own size, and this might be part of what makes our planet so habitable. It does a number of things: tides, climate stability, and catching or deflecting extinction-level-event objects that would otherwise hit Earth. Earth would almost certainly still be a habitable planet without it but maybe not as stable.
> Also, what the hell are y'all doing on your computers that is so freaky anyway?

My password manager has a "reveal" button, for scenarios in which I have to (for example) type an iCloud password into a kid's device.

I'd rather dislike having an unencrypted OCR copy of that password sitting around.
The key point for me is - what does the company value? Don't forget that you are interviewing the company too.

Does this company value grinding at solved problems, rather than actually solving new and interesting ones? That's a dead end. I'd rather talk about how I spent my time building real stuff in prod. That's generally how I respond to leet code challenges, pointing out the existing libraries and tools that already do it and discussing their tradeoffs. Pretty good way to find out they're looking for an actual engineer or a code monkey.
It's really not that rational unless you want someone only familiar with being the top code monkey.

In all my years of sw dev the number of times that would have helped vs being able to communicate and manage expectations across a swath of people is like 1:1000.
Both sides of the moon are dark. With albedo of 0.136, it's one of the darkest things in the solar system.
I actually got a google doc interview where they asked me to code up a hyperparamater optimizer from scratch. I couldn’t believe that they asked me to code in a google doc. I should have stopped the interview right there.
for keyboard based navigation of web pages I use the "vimium"[1] Firefox add-on. I can highlight every single clickable link on the page with a key combo. Above every highlighted link appears letters that I can type and it'll take me to that link. This has advantages over cycling with Tab bc I can look at any clickable element and click it with 2-3 key strokes.

I mention this bc I've yelled into the void before about not being able to navigate webpages consistently until I stumbled on vimium.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
You shouldn't avoid discussing what happened, I'm saying you should avoid making unfounded bad faith accusations.

>We can all see with our own eyes how much GNOME cares about collaboration and interoperability with others. It's zero

I mean, the blog post disproves this entire accusation by listing a bunch of projects they collaborate with. This is what I mean: please be more careful with your words. You're disrespecting yourself and the readers of your comments by making these kind of hyperbolic statements.

>which repeatedly requires every application developer to down tools and do a lot of busy work rewriting perfectly working code when APIs are changed or deleted. No other GUI toolkit causes so much pain and disruption to their userbase

GTK isn't the first or only project to deprecate and remove APIs, Qt does is it in every new version too. And you don't have to do this unless you're upgrading to new versions. Some projects are still using forked versions of old Qt and GTK for these reasons. That's totally something you can do.
The way I see it, all the fantasy races ARE humans, just humans with a different emphasis. The ones called "humans" are the vanilla people that have average human qualities, and then every other has its own slant on humanity. They all still have recognizably human emotions, desires, social structures, and so on, they are just each a study in some particular area. Maybe you have a race of people who are more spiritual, or a race of people who are more warlike, or hierarchical, or egalitarian, and so on.
Howard Hughes injured in 1946 plane crash (2018)
I bind a bunch of symbols under altgr (right alt) and the qwerty+asdf keys.

Highly recommended.