skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ghosting is a legitimate way to deal with job candidates, as it is with potential romantic partners. The reason why is because crazies don't handle rejection very well, and you don't want to incur their wrath, both from a safety and a
liability standpoint.
I now describe python as enjoyable for the author and miserable for the user.

If you give the tiniest of Fs for your user, do not write your thing in python.
Integrating Skips and Bitvectors for List Intersection [pdf]
Indeed. An article on “perfectionism” really needs to grapple with “good, fast, cheap: pick two”.
If you're broadcasting at higher powers (to send over longer distances) there are risks from high RF exposure and electrical hazards. The HAM radio license exams focus on these safety issues quite a bit.
> If you sharp the one it’s a different scale starting in a different place.

It depends on what's the function. If you want to use the tritone-substituted G7 to modulate to the sharp fourth, you'd write it C#7 and resolve it to F# (or F#-).
This is just the "engineers are ADHD children and need an adult (manager) to keep them on task" schtick.

Give the engineers clear requirements and let them interact with the stakeholders. Get rid of the intermediaries and knowledge brokers.
Why is Halloween candy a good metric for this? Seems like in general you could justify any type of spending to compare it to something considered entertainment or leisure. Maybe we should compare it to total NBA league revenue at $10B?[0] Or to entertainment as a whole?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/193467/total-league-reve...
Sure but the compute difference between decades isn't as dramatic as decrypting vs not decrypting Bitcoin.
Jordan says that a high volume of changes early in their career was a waste. Maybe for the team, but I would argue the experience gained from many low impact changes was probably better in the long run. It’s better to overshoot and dial back than be lacking, especially early on in a career.
"Love seeing these creative ideas using LLMs to solve existing problems" - yeah, since web wasn't improve as semantic web, I have to use LLM to traverse, understand and collect the web data.
the comment in the response about using stars going nova between the present and the travelled-from time was probably the best answer, but it requires accepting the paradox of the possibility of time travel while still ruling out faster than light travel- as you could get the key earlier than the set date by travelling light years toward where the stars were sampled from.

If you are protecting the secret from non-time travelers, you're probably fine, but if you are protecting it from other time travellers, your compute or proof of work has to be more expensive than their time-travel propulsion energy units.

We have this same problem with device attestation, where if the key exists in the same "universe" (hardware substrate) as the ciphertext, you're effectively fighting time travellers because they can run, re-run, use side channels, insert a breakpoint anywhere along the way. The current solutions are in the domains of physical tamper proofing, "white box" cryptography and other obfuscation schemes, and ultimately fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

FHE would be the necessary solution against time travellers in this case because no matter where in time they were, they would have to be present at the instant the compute operation completes- and then you're into a race condition against Planck time to see who can grab the result of the computation first when it finishes. (assuming they can't infer or predict the result earlier than the completion of the FHE computation, that earlier decryption rounds don't reduce the time it takes to brute force the rest of it in a parallel stopped-timeline, and that Planck time still means anything in a universe where time isn't unidirectional and scalar)

Writing wise, there would have to be a hitch in their time travel scheme where to work it needed randomness and a lack of precision for some important quantum uncertainty reason, and the race to be present for the FHE decryption before the time travellers resolved their precision problem would drive the plot.

don't be discouraged though, a cursory reading of scientific discovery shows that impossible is mostly a convention, and cryptography historically reduces to a gentleman's agreement.
There are indeed many things about the US system that treat foreigners as shit with respect to visa access. But none of that is about giving fewer constitutional rights to foreigners who are physically inside the US.

Visas only control the permission to travel to the US and to apply for admission at a port of entry, and all visa applications and decisions happen while the people taking the action are outside the US. (Visas are only formally applied for at the visa interview, which is never conducted in the US, and visa denials are also issued by the relevant US embassy or consulate abroad and not by the Washington-based part of the State Department.)

The continued legality of anyone’s status within the US following a legal entry does not depend on their visa remaining valid or unexpired. Even if their visa is revoked while they are in the US, that itself only affects future entries, although other actions might of course be taken by the government in parallel.

Importantly, the right to be allowed to enter or remain in the US is one of the constitutional rights that only exists for citizens, no different from most countries. I did say that those few rights which are inherent to citizenship don’t apply to foreigners inside the US. Again, I know of no country in the world which gives foreigners a right to enter and remain, except for conditional rights for specific nationalities like with EU freedom of movement.

Here are two examples of how foreigners have more (and approximately full) rights while inside the US:

Foreigners in the US have far more due process rights if the federal government starts a factually or legally unjustified removal proceeding against them than if a visa officer abroad makes factual or legal errors when denying a visa. The former scenario can often be challenged in administrative, quasi-judicial, or actual judicial proceedings; the latter case has no remedy except to persuade the State Department to change its mind.

If the US government sniffs the communications of two foreigners located within the US, they need a warrant under the same conditions as they would if the foreigners were citizens, unlike the case of purely external communications where the US government is only so constrained if they know a citizen is involved.

And so on.
One Question Saved Ferrari from a Deepfake Scam
"Perfect is the enemy of shipped" is one of my favourite aphorisms.
Breakthrough in Quantum Computing with On-Chip Microwave Generator
A grossly over-simplified argument for SMT that resonated with me was that it could keep a precious ALU busy while a thread stalls on a cache miss.

I gather in the early days the LPDDR used on laptops was slower too and since cores were scarce so this was more valuable there. Lately, though, we often have more cores than we can scale with and the value is harder to appreciate. We even avoid scheduling work on a shared with an important thread to avoid cache-contention because we know the single-threaded performance will be the bottleneck.

A while back I was testing Efficient/Performance cores and SMT cores for MT rendering with DirectX 12; on my i7-12700K I found no benefit to either: just using P-cores took about the same time to render a complex scene as P+SMT and P+E+SMT. It's not always a wash, though: on the Xbox Series X we found the same test marginally faster when we scheduled work for SMT too.
I should look this up but I’m lazy.

I’m familiar with MPI in Fortran/C, and IIRC they had some MPI C++ primitives a that never really got a ton of traction (that’s just the informal impression I got skimming their docs, though).

How’s MPI in C++ boost work? MPI communicates big dumb arrays best I think, so maybe they did all the plumbing work for translating Boost objects into big dumb arrays, communicating those, and then reconstructing them on the other side?
I worked in telecoms, no erlang found. Perhaps we were too modern ?
Yeah thats the original point but I think he means aside from that, the order itself also drops a suggestion to the judge as to the nature of the case before hearing it.

The order itself might be injecting a subconscious bias to the judge.
Another way to phrase is

“Modern medical highway robbery sucks 24% of our medical expenses from just 1% of the people”
These are banks, I’m referring to sovereign debt. As a nation state, when you issue sovereign debt, that is a promise to repay that debt in the future. Who will be paying that debt back? Workers generating output that will be taxed in some way, with taxes servicing and retiring future debt obligations. What will there be less of in the future? Workers (structural demographics, total fertility rate rapidly declining globally, etc). The collateral (future worker aggregate productivity) doesn’t exist at the forward curve with the promises to repay in the future, therefore the debt should be rated as higher risk and less likely to be paid back. This would force interest rates higher on issued debt (more risk demands higher yields), but whether the market has an appetite for debt issued with more realistic fundamental expectations remains to be seen.
What do you think a more appropriate funding level should be?

Not to say that we shouldn't fund more, but Alzheimer's (as a single disease) receives some of the highest funding levels from the NIH. Looking at https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/ (categories are non-exclusive btw), Alzheimer's is 'outranked' by like... cancer (all of cancer at 8 billion 2024 vs 3.8), all of infectious diseases (8 billion again), and all of 'rare diseases' (6.8 billion). All of women's health, and mental health also get ~4.5 billion of funding.
Social Security is going to end up being yet another one of those ladders that the Boomers pull up once they're done benefiting from it. Just like low home prices and cheap college tuition.
It’s the actual raw magnetic field changes encoded in the platter.

It matters because lots of floppy setups had “anti copying” setups which played tricks on readers, or where degradation over time means the peaks and valleys of 1/0 can become less pronounced.

Thus getting at the core flux can help with retrieval and fixing
Given that everything is a carcinogen if you read such studies, but most of it is nowhere important enough to worry about, I'm not sure...
I wouldn't call 10e-4 cm "almost big enough to see". It's a "visible in optical microscopes" size, what yes, is very surprising.

(And yes, except for the fat that they don't interact with light.)
I can't help but feel that is pushing another SEO turtle on the stack. There's always another rung of SEO bottom-feeder trying to steal your thunder, I feel like.
I ran into one of these at a sears store not that many years ago. Was running Novell or something on a big coax token-ring network of some kind. This was decades into tcp/ip and the internet. It was running a pentium pro badge, so I assume it was ancient networking tech even when it was spun up, probably as a replacement for a dead netware server.

It was still running their tire shop.

I carefully closed the door and closed the ticket as “won’t do”. No way I was shutting that off to install a new UPS rack lol.
Speaking as someone who is currently hiring, you have to go through a vast number of resumes from completely unqualified people via sites like LinkedIn. Too easy for people to just push the button to apply on the off chance. Working with a good recruiter is better since they do some of that filtering for you.

Once you have some candidates, most of them are exaggerating various aspects of their experience. The only way to figure this out is to talk to them, so interviews are necessary.

First is just a quick screening call to see if they have any idea what they're talking about. If they pass that, you need more of a deep dive with an SME. This takes time from your talented SMEs (they have a job to do!) so you only want to pass them actually possible candidates.

After that (depending on role) the company may want interviews with senior management, and HR usually want to weigh in on one too.

After all that, it still does not produce reliable results, although I suspect they would be even worse without them.

Open to other ideas on how to do this effectively.
Hmm… what are your thoughts on receiving AI-generated conversation starters for different contacts (based on info you’ve given) via email or something?
Who says surgeons or pilots don't have the same problem?
There's this star called R Scuti:

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

* The light from it is variable,

* This variation is continuous, not a rare event,

* It's 4,000 light years away, so the butterfly effect is irrelevant because the light is already on its way,

* It's chaotic and unpredictable.

Basically a reliable stream of random data. I guess the only problem is that you need to know what observations of its light levels were, throughout the 80s, if the records even exist.

Edit: "The AAVSO International Database currently contains over 110,000 observations of this erratic star spanning nearly a century of activity." There you go, that should provide a thousand measurements to base a key on in any given year.
Hmm I agree with these criticisms tbh, I’m trying to create a tool that makes the responses more human like but still learning.
Remember, this isn’t really a moral judgement. It’s a “we get way too many chargebacks on these categories to make it worth it” judgement.

Maybe we could see a thing where to purchase something in those categories, you have to call them and verify your identity, and that you’re buying this thing, and that you aren’t allowed to submit a chargeback.

But probably the volume isn’t worth it.
Not working yet, but I'm trying to make a K-like language targeting CPU+GPU (mostly for machine learning): https://github.com/hoosierEE/element

At this point it's just a parser and a dream, so don't expect much.
Did anyone ever take ABP up on her suggestion they should brand her as a foreign agent?

(Но что такое рыцарь без любви / И что такое рыцарь без удачи?)

Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку
Красавице и кубку счастливому клинку

[is it just me, or do GEYK's Musketeers sound fairly close to advocating "Be excellent to each other and party on"?]
What do you think of using it to just keep contacts warm?
An optimist might see the combination of plentiful non-fossil fuel energy, AI, and advanced robotics as a potential pathway to a ludicrous economic boom. Although it is certainly not a given.
To build on this, factoids in general are not copyrightable. This was the linchpin of a pretty famous lawsuit that a writer of a popular trivia book, Fred Worth, brought against Trivial Pursuit since many of the questions from the first edition were directly derived from factoids in his book "The Trivia Encyclopedia".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trivia_Encyclopedia
Considering Alzheimer is worse then all the other on the list I would say it should be the largest by a huge margin. Maybe 20 billion?
Last week half of civilization came to a grinding halt because of the crappy engineering practices of a single company. I don't know if now is the right time to complain about perfectionism in IT.
I think you're getting unfairly downvoted so I'll try to answer your questions. I've had an interest in radio since I was a kid but have only had my license for about the past decade. The fact that you can have a box full of electronics send information to another box full of electronics _around the world_ without any wires in between still kinda blows my mind.

Ham radio is a great hobby. But like all hobbies, you get out of it what you put into it. "Old dudes being boring" for sure are a staple of the ham radio community, but if you come into it with prejudice, you probably won't have the experience you want or make many friends.

What are grumpy old men famous for? That's right, loudly complaining about things other people do and say. So when I see an HN or Reddit thread about ham radio complaining about all the old farts on the air, my mind melts from the overload of irony.

That aside, I don't think I would count on ham radio for subverting censorship but I guess it depends on what you mean. Laws vary by country but in the US and in most countries, you cannot broadcast to the general public, play music, encrypt your transmissions, or use ham radio frequencies for any business purpose.

A ham radio license is permission from your country's government to get on the air for the sake of playing with radio waves and communicating with other hams locally or around the globe without any further agenda. Bouncing signals off the moon is still a fair technical challenge but it has and can be done. But we also bounce signals off the Earth's ionosphere (in the HF bands) and through satellite repeaters, both of which are far easier.

I recommend looking into it and seeing where it takes you. There are plenty of resources online that will help you get started.
Olympiad Counterstrike (probably) won't be a thing but it should. The cheating scandal that'll follow would be fun to follow too...
For the avoidance of doubt it’s also better if you “clean room reverse” things that are common knowledge because in the process of doing so you can make a bunch of superior posts about how you are uniquely the only person smart enough to do it this way. It makes you look really cool to nerds on the internet and as a bonus parallel construction is a lot easier to do.
I remember delaying my upgrade to Catalina because I worried that iTunes.app would disappear. It was completely underrated. I was so happy to find out that Music.app is pretty much the same app and the migration was easy.
>Also if I go drinking with someone I don't know well, the risk of their becoming violent is quite high

In what kind of society or social circles is this true? Here it's common to socialize and meet strangers over a drink or two, and the risks of their becoming violent is near zero.
The magnetic variations on the diskette are called flux in this context.
I'd love to read an alt history of what would have happened if Harald invaded a few weeks later, and William a few weeks earlier, and Godwinson was able to dispatch the Normans before having to deal with the Vikings.
every time I see notifications in Slack / Telegram it makes me depressed. Text messengers were not designed for this. If you get the "something is wrong" alert it becomes part of history, it won't re-alert you if it's still present. And if you have more than one type of alert it will be lost in history

I guess alerts to messengers are OK as long it's only a couple manually created ones, and there should be a graphical dashboard to learn the rest of problems
Rendering is one of the scenarios which was either same or slower with SMT since the beginning. This is because rendering is already math heavy, and your FPU is always active, esp. dividers (which is always the most expensive operation for processors).

SMT shines while waiting for I/O or doing some simple integer stuff. If both your threads can saturate the FPU, SMT is generally slower because of the extra tagging added to the data inside the CPU to note what belongs where.
Perfectionism or just anxiety?
People who complain about perfectionism typically don't provide the proper software requirements.
Engineers with decent social skills tend to get promoted into roles where they're managing stakeholder relationships.
Hugo (static site generator) has some great templates, I’m using one right now for my new blog. In the JavaScript ecosystem 11ty and Astro both have solid communities and a bunch of free portfolio templates

You don’t need anything unique or special, just a basic layout that wouldn’t be distractingly bad
P.S. Well hello, did not know you guys hang around here
Nice to see the article is back!
Is there anyway to see if it’s the topic of the article at play?
Skimming the article I don't see this information: what's the false positive rate?

The article says that the blood test (if positive) is followed up with a scan to confirm the diagnosis, but if there were to be a lot of false positives that wouldn't be so simple.

EDIT: okay, reading the original paper, appears the false positive and false negative rates are pretty much equal.
Go does something similar and ponylang is basically compiled Erlang.
> 30 fps is commonly acceptable

Interesting to hear that, consumer market has been well past 30 fps for years, to my knowledge. For example:

- Phones are widely at 120 fps as of a couple years ago.

- Gamers have been targeting 240 fps for years and years, since 2018?

- On the low end, ex. Steam Deck requires you manually opt-in if you're happy with less than 60.

I'm curious for some groups you're aware of that commonly accept 30. (note: not a trick question, ex. we know movies are 24 fps, and professional 3D renderers are happy with not-real-time, but we're thinking about 3D rendering for games)
> The word "criminal" has always been an overbroad term that conflates several different levels of harm without nuance

"Criminal" is not about harm by the convict but about successful prosecution.
There are so many known systemd-resolved bugs [1][2] that I can't tell which one was breaking both of my simple Ubuntu desktop machines. Systemd-resolved sets itself up as the sole DNS resolver and then randomly reports it can't reach any DNS servers.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/18kh1r5/im_shocked_t...
In that case, there is no point in the time travel at all. If you do not already live in a universe where a future Oracle gave technological secrets to elevate humanity, you know the plan fails.
The confirm-email and login links sent by email seem to redirect to http://localhost:5173 which might work on your machine but won't work for anyone else.
Web apps have ways to track users, but users have ways to mitigate this via adblockers and privacy features in their browser. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ exists to help users check their own browser fingerprint.

Full apps on the other hand have many more ways to fingerprint users which aren’t as well known, such as “your free storage, your current volume level (to 3 decimal points) and even your battery level (to 15 decimal points)”. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/23/iphone-...)

Is one conclusively better than the other? I’m not sure, but web tracking and fingerprinting is still much more studied and users have more countermeasures, including using a different device where the user has more control.
I'm pretty sure it's doing nothing. It doesn't have a monitor so presumably it has a network cable?

It's decades old, so it's a file server? Let's say it's circa 2000, that means it has tiny hard drives that have been spinning for 25 years. And probably a 10mb network connection? With a 25 year old OS?

Sure. Maybe its running Linux from 2001, and the OS is still alive. But without any attention thr disk is long since full of log files. Early 2000s, means this has a few megs (not gigs) of ram, probably less than a couple gigs of disk space, a pentium cpu.

I know it's possible for a machine to be useful and unattended for decades. But in a local library? Frankly I'd just pull the plug.
I vehemently disagree...

The thing that's killing productivity is the pushing out of half baked garbage.

There's simply no solid foundation to build upon.

OK short game but horrible long game.
I remember a friend in college telling me a story like this once: some walled off room with wires running in it was opened up and they found an old sever running behind it. No idea what it was doing. This was in 2001.