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ABN AMRO | Amsterdam, Netherlands | AI Developer | HYBRID | Full Time | Python

We're looking for experienced people who want to help with our GenAI program. Roles range from project management to engineering to data roles, although there is less hard data science where LLMs are involved.

We’re part of Strategy & Innovation and we work on new products and new technology roll-outs across the bank. The GenAI roll-out is one of our primary responsibilities.

We’re looking for people with a few years of work experience. This may also be in a different field, entrepreneurship or for example consulting. If you’d be comfortable taking 1-2 juniors under your wing you’re in the right ballpark.

Please note that we're not sponsoring visa's for applicants outside of the EU.

Mention HN when reaching out. My email is in my profile.
Even if they're not colluding, they are acting in a antisocial manner in that they're maximizing profit and not occupancy.

If they were a utility, this would resemble selling all your water to las Vegas because they could pay the most and not selling to anyone else even if las vegas' usage drops.

Sidelining things to artificially create scarcity is bad for everyone.
It's not a big deal. They're easy to disable and easier to just ignore. It just doesn't matter in the way that you want me to panic over.
Also, as we have recently seen, a larger than normal inflation rate apparently gives corporations PR cover for raising profit margins across the board.
Are there any that actually stay cheap, though? Any time I've bought one they've cranked the price after a year.
The Python console spits out usable but verbose code as you work, and I guess the macro recorder interfaces with that -- then you can tidy it up.

But it's not as elegant an abstraction.
I got so pissed when they threatened legal action as a way to "entice" me to upgrade my individual subscription into a team license that I quit it 6 months early. Now at a new company I jumped at the chance to cancel a 90-seat annual contract and we have not had any complaints from the department.
"unified the language". I think you mean script, rather than language, given the plurality of those extant even today.
It isn't. I can without any sarcasm disable all of that in about a minute or two, and for the most part see no reason to do so in the first place (the worst bit is probably sponsored links on new tabs but that's also the easiest to remove). Acting like this invalidates the existence of the whole browser is what makes no sense to me.

Also Windows configuration is terrible.
Note that this statement about Americans’ preferences is not based on any measurement of Americans’ preferences, but is just the opinion of the president of a federal bank.
>'wear a mask around everyone at all times'.

That was never the message.

Inside your own home with your own family? No, nobody suggested that anyone must wear a mask in that situation.

Out in public, indoors, during high transmission times? Yes, absolutely wear a mask in that situation, every single time.

This is common sense stuff, but people fail at common sense quite often these days.
Or you could just stop electing Republicans for awhile.
Honestly. Someone walks into a bank with a gun and takes the money, it's Bank robbery.

Why would them using false identities be any different? Why is it MY problem that someone else stole from a bank? If they wear a mask with my face on it during a physical robbery, does that mean I'm liable?
If someone asks me to walk in a straight line unassisted by navigational aids, I'd probably end up walking in a medium-sized circle of (optimistically) a few kilometers' diameter.

For everything beyond that, I'd need a compass or GPS and map, and then... I'd ask them to clarify if they meant a rhumb line, great circle line, or something else :)
Funny, in german it is "Gaspedal" and "Benzin". (And gas means gas/air in german, but I never made the connection. With cars, "gas" means "speed")
Your question is very broad. I don't know if you are asking about classic paper Molecular Structure for Nucleic Acid(1953) or you want to read classic proof of Vinogradov's theorem. By definition, whoever gets the Nobel prize, put out classic paper and it doesn't mean that people who didn't get the Nobel prize, didn't put out classic papers.
we're trended towards being able to monetize attention and popularity in the last couple years.

memestocks are just a manifestation of this. you buy because you have faith in x. you sell because you lost faith.
this is an alien way of looking at the world to me
Perhaps also last week's https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/27/cps-in-hoot .
There's also [devbox](https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox).

Tried a lot of them, and after a while I found the nix the package manager on non NixOS requires too many workarounds. Things don't just work. For example, installing alacritty requires an OpenGL wrapper. Neovim can't find libraries to build some plugins. Basically, anything GUI had issues.

In the end, `cargo install`, `go install` and download a release archive from github are simpler to script for most of the tools I use.
The reason you report is to make the call if he should have had that level of trust in the first place.
the writing has been on the wall for a long time (as the post mentions too). I'm cynical so I think to some extent it's related to the fact that writing a browser from scratch has been able to attract significant funding, whereas the operating system has earned a lot of nerd goodwill and small donations but would have a really hard time commercially justifying itself. I think it's a shame because it's a far cooler project, but of course it's not up to me to dictate how others spend their time.
Attacking Android Binder: Analysis and Exploitation of CVE-2023-20938
Yeah, seems like there's a majority at the top of the ladder who want to pretend all this stuff is naive meanderings of capitalism and not a concerted effort to pull up the latter of prosocialism that worked for many decades until black people got equal rights.
I bought a Anbernic RG35XX, put garlicOS on it and called it a day. Great pocket device.
I was in a Slack dedicated to interviewing for a while. People reported their experience back.

Lot of people claimed they got "Leetcode Hards" after failing an interview, but none of them could ever point to the actual question they failed, or even remember it!

I'm sure some interviewers somewhere like to mix LC Hards into the interview loop, but it doesn't appear to be as common as internet comments make it sound.
> All these people were senior and employed in big firms.

Which big firms?

I find it curious that a BigCo on one's résumé brings cachet, because BigCos are able to hide incompetence, even at the executive level, to a vastly greater extent than a small company. If you find someone who for example has around a decade of experience at a company of around ten people, it's going to be almost impossible for that person to have done nothing of value.

> These kinds of candidates outnumbered the obviously anxious candidates by maybe 10 to 1.

Anxiousness is not necessarily obvious. My stomach could be churning and my mind racing, but a stranger probably wouldn't be able to tell.
Serenity still has Ladybird as it is right now. So I assume that will become the baseline for "Browser" in SerenityOS going forward, and be developed independently. Whatever the browser in SerenityOS will end up looking like though, I doubt it will see much development. The kinds of people interested in working on browsers will just work on Ladybird.

Someone will probably once again port Ladybird to SerenityOS in the future. It won't be part of the main system, but users would be free to install it.
I read it after your caveat was added, but I didn't find it intentionally misleading, from the very strong response (which is doing what it accuses the post of doing by claiming it reads 'travel due east') I get the feeling someone may be a bit peeved they didn't 'get it's and instead thought the answer would be some embassy that happens to be directly east of Seattle.
I have a similar success (and failure mode) with my setup. The Apple TV remote powers on the box and the Nakamichi soundbar and Sony TV respond immediately. If I bring my Sony Blu-ray player to the party, I need to hunt down the soundbar and maybe TV remote because at least one device will get out of sync or won't set it's input correctly. Even when I luck out and everything does work, the next time I want to watch the Apple TV again I'm probably going to need to reset the soundbar input manually.

It's just enough of a pain point that I will look to see if I can stream a movie I already own on Blu-ray just to avoid the hassle of getting off the couch to load a disc and fiddle with remotes.

Yes, that is a very first world problem.
The "standard" probation period is 90 days. Outside of the modern silicon valley bubble, lots of companies hire with a probation period. Inside the bubble, the equivalent is contract-to-hire. But I really wish companies would just go back to the old days of probation.

My current job was contract-to-hire. Officially an 18 month period, but they converted me to employee after 3 months.

How it helps the candidate is exactly the same as how it helps the company: The interview process was a half hour phone screen, a 1-2 hour onsite with two people from the team, and a half hour followup call with the hiring manager who hadn't been able to join the onsite.

You know those week-long all-day interview processes many of us hate? Not necessary at all if the company is willing to give people a try and just move on if it doesn't work out.

You know how companies complain that they can't find good hires because their ridiculous interview process filters out the good ones and keeps the great ones from even applying? Having a sane short interview with probationary hire costs way less productive time and gets people onboard fast. And if someone doesn't work out, you can have another candidate take their place next week. It doesn't need to take months.
Calling Falun Gong christian is weird
this was a big reason why Korean alphabet was invented because the literacy was so poor for the reasons you mentioned.

Lot of terms/loanwords from Chinese language can be found in all neighbouring countries but you'd have to be part of the artistocracy to get the schooling.

Japan still uses it but North Korea banned it out of the gate. South Korea slowly phased out use of traditional chinese characters. It was common to see Chinese characters up until late 00s but definitely used a lot more sparingly.
Thanks luke! Super appreciate it. Company website was the first priority, but I've also started on a blog component for it as well. Using bullet.so/notion.so and really enjoying how easy it is to build everything.
Besides other replies, for the take-homes, unlike an hour-long interview, you are often expected to spend 8+ hours, several evenings, the whole weekend...
Some people may be moving away from us-east, but new datacenters are going up. That wouldn't happen unless someone thinks there's growth ahead.

As for "not actual tech talent," I don't agree. There's talent from Richmond to Baltimore. But something is missing, which was the point of my original post in this thread... a mindset shift could be impactful.

For the tech titans, it's not a complete list, but I used it as a shortcut. There are companies on there you may have overlooked (Rocket Money, Optoro, Alarm.com)

Maryland has companies across edtech, health tech, bio/pharma, hospitality, and cyber (not enumerating since many aren't household names, though Marriott is).

NoVa has regional/global HQs for Amazon, Capital One, CustomInk, E-Trade, Google, Iridium (and several other satellite companies), Mars (the candy people), Microsoft, Nestle, Rolls-Royce, USA Today (and Gannett), and Volkswagen.

DC itself is largely focused on gov and gov-adjacent companies, but the community is rebuilding. There are still people pushing tech forward here.

I'm not affiliated with either but DC Tech has a meetup Wednesday, and TEDXMidAtlantic happens Saturday. Sounds like you might not live here anymore but, if you're at either, I'd love to say hi and continue the conversation.
I think the causes are misunderstood, people understand inflation less than the general concept behind a recession? So naturally inflation seems bad because it’s less understood and it makes prices of nearly everything go up.
Some people have to learn things the hard way.
Not just scientists, but everyone!

My partner recently went a bit nuts writing an article with the help of GPT4. She was very proud of how productive she'd been until I asked if she'd actually searched for the papers GPT4 had referred to.

Of course, many of the referred to papers didn't exist...
> Unfortunately, most scientific fields have succumbed to AI hype, leading to a suspension of common sense. For example, a line of research in political science claimed to predict the onset of civil war with an accuracy2 of well over 90%, a number that should sound facially impossible. (It turned out to be leakage, which is what got us interested in this whole line of research.)

This coupled with people acting on its predictions is a kind of self fulfilling prophecy.

which is to ask, are AI safety folks building models of this pattern? :)
0.087 W/m^2. Compare to 340 W/m^2 insolation.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget#Earth'...
I know you think you're cool with this, but Stability AI was an early access H100 partner, so they likely had to migrate away from nvidia to do this.
I understand not being able to deliver any real value, but I don't understand how a new hire can wreak havoc in an org, unless the org itself is already quite dysfunctional.
Ask HN: Way to do authentication for my use case
Hey guys,

I'm trying to come up with a secure and reliable authentication solution for the project I'm working on.

I consists of a React Web SPA and a Flutter mobile app, using ASP.NET Core as a REST API-only backend. I'm not sure how to tackle the problem of authenticating my users to both clients. A user can login using same account on both apps.

I have some requirements that have to be met and some problems:

* I don't to use an external identity provider like Auth0 or Firebase. I want to store user credentials in my own database. I have no problem with writing some password-hashing code myself.
* Native login: I don't want to open a browser window in my mobile app or redirect to another page in SPA, so I don't use OAuth
* Use cookies for the web app and Header-Authorization for the mobile app? It is considered insecure using `localStorage` for authentication tokens in SPAs
* Session management: I tend to use Server-Side-Sessions that are stored in the database. Users in the mobile app stay logged in infinitely, users in the web app should be logged out after 30 days of inactivity.
* How to pass the session ID to the mobile app if we can't use cookies the same way as in the Web app? Should we transmit it in the body JSON? Should the API check for a authentication token in both locations (Cookie and Header)
* Session rotation: When someone signs in, the server-side session token is generated and stored in the database, until it expires or the user logs out. Do I need some kind of rotation for this token?

What would you recommend? Do you have any examples for this use case or any libraries that I might use?

Thanks a lot!
Wow I came into this article angry, idk if their book title accurately conveys the sober, expert analysis it contains! In case anyone else is curious why they’re talking about “leakage” in the first place instead of the existing term “model bias”, here’s the paper they cite in the “compelling evidence” paper that started these two’s saga with the snake oil salesmen: https://www.cs.umb.edu/~ding/history/470_670_fall_2011/paper...

Crux passage:

> Our focus here is on leakage, which is a specific form of illegitimacy that is an intrinsic property of the observational inputs of a model. This form of illegitimacy remains partly abstract, but could be further defined as follows: Let u be some random variable. We say a second random variable v is u-legitimate if v is observable to the client for the purpose of inferring u. In this case we write v € legit{u}.

> A fully concrete meaning of legitimacy is built-in to any specific inference problem. The trivial legitimacy rule, going back to the first example of leakage given in Section 1, is that the target itself must never be used for inference:

> (1) y !€ legit{y}

So ultimately this all about bad experimental discipline re: training and test data, in an abstract way? I’ve been staring at this paper for way too long trying to figure out what exactly each “target” is and how it leaks, but I hope that engineering-translation is close
In a better world we would require someone to provide a piece of identification in person, and rather than blindly copying said identification the only information that is stored is who showed what identification, where, when, and to whom. Signed by all relevant parties.

Instead you've got governments requiring a mere copy of the document as proof, because fuck logic.

Or in the case of the U.S. such a document may very well not exist, because I'm pretty sure SSNs aren't remotely designed to be checked for authenticity.
I'm always amazed that Zoom was unable to secure a legendary win in tech given the circumstances they've benefitted from, particularly from the pandemic. Seems like they should be years ahead of their competition, and yet, they fumble around with stuff like this instead of trying to actually revolutionize tele-presence.
What you’re describing absolutely does not exist if you have any of the current religions.

Look at the abortion debate. One side is about the rights of the woman and the other side is about the rights of the fetus. When people see the fetus as a baby, it suddenly becomes murder. There isn’t much nuance there for a compromise.
It shouldn't be opt-either. It should be treated as radioactive waste that you don't want anywhere near you, your family, not in cold storage, not even in a mine in the Yucca mountains.
> Is the battery replaceable if it fails?

It's replaceable but I hadn't thought that far ahead regarding end-users doing it. The caveats are:

1. I made a special tool to avoid scuffing the aluminum when removing the backplate:

https://toaster.llc/blog/rainproofing

Search for "Backplate Removal"

2. The backplate needs to be re-sealed (with standard RTV sealant).

3. The PCB uses a Molex Pico-EZmate connector. (It could be transferred from the old battery to the new battery, or I could sell pre-made batteries if there was interest.)
That's fine it isn't really designed for me and I'm a software engineer so if I want something bad enough I can try my hand at making it.
I'm sure you didn't mean to imply this, but Grothendieck definitely used his new structures to prove some hard theorems.
People must not use AI as an oracle, but rather as a tool.

I think this is even better
I always wondered how far technology can go without advanced metallurgy. Clearly steam engines require good metallurgy, but the spinning jenny and the flying shuttle don't, do they? How much would those advances have changed the Roman world?
Ignoring that a “stroke of the pen” is a dictatorial solution almost by definition…

Considering Medicare/Medicaid are currently approaching $1T annually to serve less than 20% of the population how dues your stroke of the pen plan pay for the increase when everyone is enrolled?

Hospitals are forced to accept Medicare, but in many cases this is at a loss, subsidized by private charges elsewhere. So you’ll need to find out how to shore up that cost, too.

These types of naive solutions assume everyone else is very very stupid or very very corrupt (or else why didn’t such a simple solution get implemented already?)
It's not that the language exists, it's that GNOME's is so bad that they have to write about it.

E.g. there was never any need for Apple to talk about their "design language."
They will have to cut rates, because they can’t keep paying the high interest on the government’s debt[0][1]. There’s no political will to raise taxes and cut government spending (one or the other may happen, but not both)[2]. Keeping rates high on the government’s debt may increase inflation[3].

It’s also part of the Fed’s mandate to maintain employment[4].

Between these factors, it’s more likely rates will be cut.

EDIT: Sources

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

1. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59014

2. This is part of the conjecture that MMT makes, but never pans out in real life. See http://www.thomaspalley.com/docs/articles/macro_theory/mmt_r...

3. https://www.lynalden.com/inflation-vs-interest-rates/

4. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100715/break...
I remember GTK themes used to break every couple releases. Is that not an API break?
Do the employers then pay for Medicare?
Same, I've joined a number of orgs that seem to fit well with what I was looking for, but even the answers to my (rather pointed) questions during the interview and offer negotiation turned out to be outright lies that caused both of us to suffer a ton of wasted time and effort. TBYB would save a bunch of time, but so would people dropping the bullshit acts.
I'm not entirely certain that's a good explanation.

For most of history, literacy isn't exactly common. I'm not finding easily accessible any estimates of literacy rates for early (say, Qin dynasty) China, but numbers for medieval Europe suggest something like 10-30% for relatively broad definitions of literacy, which seem to be commensurate for estimates for Qing dynasty China. Especially if you look at the period at which Chinese characters essentially ossify into their modern form, it's not clear to me that there's a wide diversity of topolects that it has to approximate, almost certainly nothing to the degree of modern Chinese.

For another thing, mediating among linguistic diversity is something that all of our other scripts have had to do. Cuneiform was used to write the administrative languages of different language families (Semitic languages like Akkadian, Indo-European like Persian, and who-knows-what-language-family-these-are like Elamite), and yet it was a syllabary. Even Chinese script itself starts devolving into a syllabary when Japanese adapts it.

The reason I think Chinese resisted becoming a syllabary was because Chinese was poorly suited for such a transition: my understanding is that words in Chinese are largely monosyllabic and involve a decently high degree of homophones. Furthermore, reconstructions of Old Chinese also suggest a relatively complex phonotactic structure, which means a syllabary that largely covers a CV-syllable scheme is hard to adapt. In other words, Chinese may have been a rare language in that conversion from a logography to a syllabary would not have dramatically reduced the amount of characters one would have had to have learned. (Note also that the reduction of a syllabary to an alphabet, abjad, or abugida happened effectively twice, with Phoenician (or some ancestor) and Korean Hangul).
> I studied Chinese for 2 years in University and hitchhiked mainland China in 2019.

You owe us at least one fun story from mainland China in 2019.
I'm really happy to see more work on package managers in this space. I used Nix for a little bit, but I shared the frustration expressed by other commenters on the language itself. I have found my zen on GNU Guix, but more options are better :)