skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I've personally ever been as disillusioned with technology more than with the recent rapid adoption of AI.

I think AI is massively negative on the environment via increased energy consumption to train large LLMs, on creative endeavors via the auto-generated art, etc. on labor via automation of jobs through AI agents, or the degradation of the job market, on public communication via the proliferation of fake videos/news, on personal relationships via AI significant others, on child development through easier cheating, etc, etc.

I get that there's a certain inevitability about technology. I also feel - and this could be a terrible analogy - that might have been what it was like to develop nuclear weapons. Better to develop and harness the technology for yourself if your competition is doing so too. That's the world and the market that we've constructed and it's rational to take advantage where you can.

I certainly don't pretend to stand on any moral high ground about what I would do if given the opportunity to cash out from AI skills if I had them.

But it all makes me very sad. I think I'll go read a book.
right, I don't see how this could be useful. Maybe if it could report how often people get ghosted? But that's going to have self selection bias
even then it would only pause.
Here, I found a more comprehensive list https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/company-list
According to your link, this board doesn't have built-in PoE, but requires an "optional hat". It links to a "currently unavailable" listing on Amazon, without any price info.

However, I agree that if it costs as much as a RPI, it looks really great.
Fails to mention and factor in the high energy and hence cost to produce aluminium in the first place.
Facts about hardware are not copyrightable
You can also buy cars that don’t need an immediate debugging
Well you wouldn't necessarily expect to see lowered lifespans, as much as increased heart attacks and strokes(both caused by blood clots). Maybe lifespan would be lowered as an average, but that might be hard to separate from other trends
that's not throughput
xkcd had something about heatmaps: https://xkcd.com/1138/
Yes, much like credit card benefits and cashback, if you don't take advantage of it, you're effectively subsidising those who do. (In fact, if someone ypu buy from starts offering it and you disagree with it, you should switch to using it, since this will oncrease their fees on existing revenue and maybe make them consider it not worthwhile.)
Yes, perhaps, but I think the timing (the hype around Roam Research), their profile (local, privacy, no lock-in) and getting a specific user group early were important factors as well
They didn't get very far with anything more realistic. A lot of the plans and policies were caused by the development of the war. Hitler himself was not an economist. His background was art and military. His hobby was city architecture and military strategy...

A large scale area in Eastern Europe was dreamed about (-> upto 1933) and in 1939 the war started with the attack on Poland to realize this war for Lebensraum, where the Germans then would be the elite race and the others were slaves (or dead). This east european region would provide food, energy, raw materials, ... There were ideas about what this large "Reich" would be like. But that was not close to be realized, given that Germany was deeper in war with every day, on two sides, 1941 onwards: in the east in the Soviet Union and against a US lead war in the west. Germany was busy fighting the war.

43/44 some German economist were beginning design an economy in more detail for a time after a war. But it then became clear that it was after a lost war (with the Nazis no longer in power) and that this time probably was not far away, with then the war being lost in 1945.
The US right now is caught between two entirely delusional mental models, with massive amounts of manipulation being used by both.

The everything is terrible and we’re being attacked/losing model, and the everything is great and we’re winning model.

The incumbent group benefits from the ‘everything is great’ model because incumbents generally always lose when the economy is in the crapper.

And because this has turned into an existential fight between these two delusional world views, anyone trying to notice the actual reality gets attacked/gaslit/etc.

Notably, also the opposite world view - if allowed to win - will definitely eat everything it touches and destroy damn near everything.

It’s imperative we get our heads out of our asses and actually deal with the real world here before we get drug off the cliff.
or the concatenation of the lottery numbers for day A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H

A bit disappointed by the article: the top upvoted answers there are literally a repetition of what ChatGPT says to do :|
To be fair, there's not as much effort spent on them than, say, Linux desktops, because they will never be suitable as daily driver for the vast majority of people unless full Android compatibility is achieved m.
That's probably crackable with enough effort though. A huge effort, but it might be practical for a team of governments if they knew the person was a time traveler.
it started as a joke about boeing doors falling off and was quite funny. unfortunately i don't have time write a paper for each person who clicks the generate button so this will have to do.
It is weird to me to have so many people complain about inflation and have so many people say that our deficits won't cause inflation. We have been hiding inflation for so long and it finally hit us. Unfortunately I haven't met a politician yet that will actually try to balance the budget. It is a bunch of spend more and cut taxes that win elections.
>Both are required to get us out of this mess.

Disagree on multiple counts.

First - you don't need both - if you cut Social Security and Medicaid altogether, and use the surplus to start paying down debt, that solves 100% of the deficit and starts chipping away at the debt, while this would actually reduce taxes rather than raising them. I'm not asserting that the political will exists to do this (it doesn't), but the idea that you can't balance the budget without raising taxes is obviously false - taxes are nonzero, but you could reduce spending to zero.

Second - you don't actually need either - if you hyperinflate the currency, the value of the existing debt becomes negligible. To wit, I fundamentally agree with the message of the remainder of your post.
In my experience the Scandinavian countries fly flags for any reason or no reason at all. Birthday? Flags. Christmas? Flags. Wedding? Anniversary? Flags. Friend visiting from out of town? Flags. They are use for any celebration.
>Are they basically creating two price tags: for those who do and don’t really care enough?

There's a term for that: price discrimination.
OK, we've tacked 'design' on the end of the title above.
Perhaps I’m not plugged into etiquette but isn’t "ghosting" normal and standard procedure? I remember the first time I wasn’t "ghosted" (it was a FAANG) and I was totally shocked and was afraid the recruiter was going to get reprimanded.

That said, in retrospect perhaps it would be nice if fewer employers "ghosted" former prospective employees.
These are interesting results and make a strong case for AMD over Qualcomm, especially in battery life:

ASUS S16 (Qualcomm): 13h 39m
Apple MacBook Pro (M3): 12h 35m
ASUS S16 (AMD): 11h 10m
ASUS S15 (Intel): 9h 15m

Cinebench Multicore:

ASUS S16 (Qualcomm): 1,138
ASUS S16 (AMD): 997
Apple MacBook Pro (M3): 716

Cinebench Single core:

Apple MacBook Pro (M3): 141
ASUS S16 (AMD): 113
ASUS S16 (Qualcomm): 108
You're talking about a secure hardware element to ensure that the algorithm can't be exfiltrated and the dates brute forced against it. If you have a secure element that knows what time it really is, so you can't lie to it, just have it withhold the key until the specified date.
Project at Marfino (under "auspices" of KPSS), or project (in conjunction with ER) to cleanse the бессмертная русская душа?

(swimming in ice water and jumping over fires are said to be good for the soul, at least when properly timed, but I can't think of any equivalent atmospheric or chthonic rituals, and of course the chinese have a fifth element, so maybe we ought to be craving the strength and certainty of steel?)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApvM0RxcxPg

[EDIT re publication: A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists. — TWA]
Why not use a private key based on a bunch of lottery draws that happened just before the date?
You're not wrong, but I don't know if we should have been celebrating it if the quality of fake paper generators had been improved a lot since 2005.
That would be a much less common occurrence. It might make sense to take it "medicinally" as needed, but most people probably aren't getting cut that often. For the general population the risk of heart attack and stroke are probably more relevant
When I interviewed folks at a big tech company, I'd tell them after the interview if my review was going to be largely favorable and why. Definitely gave them feedback on what to improve and how to improve it.

Getting ghosted sucks. As being told why you didn't make it.
SCIgen papers are the results of lots of manual rules:

https://github.com/strib/scigen/blob/master/scirules.in

It's an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

I am not sure what drives fakepaper.app but the output didn't seem to have as much variety.
There are indeed commercial cli tools. One example I came across is sourceguardian[1], which is a command line tool to "protect" your PHP source code by encrypting it. This way you can put it on a server that is not controlled by yourself without risking rip-offs.

However, it does not only contain a cli tool but also a free PHP module to load these encrypted PHP files as well as other tools.

The licensing is pretty hard to get around, it uses a hardware id registered via online server, so you can't easily use the software on a device without having it properly licensed. Protecting your work will be a high amount of monetizing it.

1: https://www.sourceguardian.com/
Show HN: Computer Display Prices
Inspired by the reaction to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425706, I made another price-sorting website, this time for computer monitors on Amazon. Figured out a way to filter for better-quality results; let me know what you think! Any critiques/ideas welcome :)
Good question. Its difficult to answer because without EDR solutions, I think there would probably be more motivation to make it such that the compromise of a single endpoint couldn't ransomware your whole company. Aka real "zero trust" architecture rather than the buzzword.

But I've heard the other side of the story from sysadmins that say this is wishful thinking and that it would take enormous amounts of effort to achieve that.

I think if you are a small company or a new company with a disproportionate amount of technically skilled employees and without a lot of legacy active directory and shared drive stuff going on, it's probably a net positive not to have an EDR and to properly secure everything instead. That isn't most companies though.

So I guess my answer to your question is "I don't know" and sysadmins seem to be in major disagreement about this, with Windows focused admins tending to be more favorable to EDR (for easily explainable reasons) and Linux folks being especially opposed.

Given Linux admins tend to have less interaction with the lowest common denominator end user, I'm actually tending towards believing the Windows admins have a point that a lot of us on HackerNews maybe don't have the experience to understand.

I realize your question was about Crowdstrike in particular, but I think it's a question that might apply to EDR software in general.
Interpreting decimal strings into floats (part 1)
PayPal won't even allow me to pay for most stuff since I moved to another country - they don't support the option for humans moving to another location in the world. So... many things.

Also, PayPal regularly block transactions for incorrectly detected "fraud". Visa/MC never did.
This will end up biased by the largest employers. Kind of like crime maps--they make it seems like there's an extraordinary amount of crime concentrated in urban areas, but that is due (in part) because that's where a lot of people live. A small company might ghost 90% of applicants and have a low count of ghostings, whereas a large employer might ghost 2% of applicants and have a very large count of ghostings.

This website could be improved by recoding employers who did not ghost applicants.
You've misunderstood. The effect is measurable immediately (guilty or not guilty) and the size of the effect (65% to 0%) is enormous.
It was funny. It will be funny again. It just wasn’t -that- funny - this- time.
The Missing Noise: On Musicians in ML Audio Research
Useless list. This will be the 57th priority in the list of things that one would be worried when looking for a job.

i) If you are unemployed, you really don't have a choice.

ii) If you are talented and sought after, trust me you won't be ghosted.

Ghosting could be just one HR person or an orgs incompetency. To project that to your career prospects in that said company is completely irrational.

Not to mention without doing real statistical analysis, like total ghosts / total interviews by month.

Or how about gaming this list itself?

This list is for naive, populists who think that this matters.
Omg, Latvian spelling is just butchering what otherwise would have been a pronounceable name Eugene Kazanin.
All labor is skilled labor. Sometimes the required skill is dealing with unpleasant members of the public who believe them to be lessers, all while keeping a smile on their face.
I believe his point was this is labeled "straightforward" while being a highly technical subfield of programming, itself a rare profession, that few people could create.

Sounds a little dismissive.
yeah it was made to do 2-3 pages with a table / other element. i just picked that length as a good length for comedic effect. its llms so like it does things like that
Ha Ha, all maps are population maps
I check the Purism Reddit from time to time and see people still waiting on devices and with horrible delivery times.

I know a lot of free software purists. I don’t know anyone who actually has a Librem 5.
The title is a little misleading. They raised $6 million from SignalFire (who also invested in Grammarly) for 5% of the company [1]. As SignalFire retains that shareholding, they are not less independent (nor more) than that have been in the past couple of years. They are just not looking for more investment and so are more "independent-minded".

I used SpaCy quite expensively pre-2020. It still has a lot of great uses, and more predictable than LLM models. But now many NLP tasks that seemed near impossible, or required a lot of expensive annotated training data (which their product Prodigy is used for) can now be coded in very little time with LLMs.

[1] https://explosion.ai/blog/weve-sold-5-percent-of-explosion
I don't think this is a particular good definition. It would preclude emergent behavior in deterministic systems. You have to weaken the predictability somewhat. Maybe: if the system is more than "sum of it parts with perturbations on top".
Example: An atomic system, the mass of the atom is close to the mass of the nucleus + the mass of the electrons. The fact that it's a bound system adds only a small perturbation on the total mass.

On the other hand: For quark systems, the total mass seems completely unrelated to the mass of the constituents. A pion is 2 quarks, 139 MeV. A proton has three, same type of quarks. Mass 938 MeV. The mass is emergent, from the interactions of the quarks and gluons. It's not predictable easily from the constituents.

Nevertheless, we can put QCD on the lattice and brute force it.

It is not clear to me if this is fundamental. I.e. if there are systems where you can't predict the behavior short of a full simulation. I suspect that there is a fundamental statement about nature here, similar to computability arguments. But I also think there are still a lot of techniques to develop to get closer.
I suppose novas are less likely to be affected by the time travler's bufferfly effect.
Generally you used to be able to count on at least a short polite rejection note if you've done at least a phone screen.
Nah, I was more envisioning something like a multiplayer game where each player has spells they can learn by doing certain joystick/mouse/vr controller movements (or whatever), and both those movements and the spells themselves are uniquely randomized as much as they can be. You’d need to discover what you can do, and at least with a group of friends those spells would be pretty unique to you, along with which ones are easier or harder to do.

It probably wouldn’t be balanced but it’d be fun.
Of course not, just Google-approved malware, right?
i can open source it if people want but its llms under the hood
I'm pretty sure it's far from #1 (consider "Story of Mel", "You and Your Research", and many others), but I don't have that list or even know how to create such a list, as it's perturbed by variations in both titles and URLs.
The point, as I see it, is that the combination of skills demonstrated in the article is pretty rare. Most users of the (game) technology take certain things for granted, but they are not trivial, and the number of people who can do these things well is not a few million but possibly a few hundred. And most of these few don't make indie games. Hence the complaints about things not being ideal are, well, not very useful.at best.

Big companies that can afford it overcome this via specialization. An artist who does concept art and general animation may have zero skills writing shaders, etc, thus the rare one-man-show combination of skills is not required.
Normal or standard aren't the right way to describe this kind of behavior.

Common? Yes. Professional? No. Courteous? Not at all.

The companies that get away with unprofessional or uncourteous behavior are typically the ones with lots of power in the job markets they operate in. That doesn't make this behavior acceptable any more than wage theft is, but it also doesn't notably harm these companies given the plentiful supply of candidates who are forced to put up with such behavior.
That’s not recidivism, which is the return to committing crimes after release. This is a punishment for bad behavior while inside the jail. It’s a method of behavioral control in real time. I doubt that anyone who gets out of jail is using the argument of, “maybe I’ll have to eat Nutraloaf if I go back to jail” as a factor in choosing to commit or not commit further crimes.
Given that third-party Android OSes are missing features that many people consider essential (like anything that requires passing SafetyNet), I don't believe these OSes are a general solution, applicable to the masses, even if installation were dead-simple and reliable.

I ran CyanogenMod for years, and every app I ran and every feature I used on the stock Android OS worked properly on CM. I loved it. But these days that's just not the case on Lineage or Graphene or Calyx or any of the others.

So I think for many people, it doesn't matter. "Google Android", "Samsung Android", etc. are the only realistic options, so they are just "Android" to them.
Both are tools where the point is to prevent poverty.

Compulsory and universal participation are the methods used to achieve this goal.
For the win.
Most times I've applied anywhere they will at least send you a generic letter of rejection.
But it's only interesting if it's recorded as a percentage of applicants, which this is not (and realistically can't be, because people don't go out of their way to report neutral or positive experiences on sites like this).
So true. Another example: I would say I murder less than 1% of the people I meet, but do I meet a lot of people compared to the average person? Let's say we tallied up the total number of people I murdered this year and it came out to, I dunno, something in the neighborhood of 4. We can say it's no more than 4 just for argument's sake. That's 4 murders out of hundreds. Is that supposed to be bad?
People also get yoked in prison so there must be enough calories and protein available in the meals to allow for that sort of muscle building and maintenance.
This sounds oddly similar to soylent. Not gross, but no joy in it whatsoever.
Standard procedure? Maybe. Common? Definitely.

Normal? Absolutely not. It signals loud and wide that your time is not worth even a reply from the recruiter/HR and you are being treated as a disposable piece of crap. You can imagine how they would treat you if you actually got hired.

There is zero excuse for wasting the candidate's time like this. Even less today with all the "AI" automation the recruiting companies & HR uses - writing a form rejection e-mail is literally a one click affair.
I thought it was for a second too, but I do believe it was written in earnest.
Vercel: Using the Python Runtime with Serverless Functions
Yes, networks can be important. Since the one I got after an on-campus interview in grad school, every job I've had has been directly through people I knew.

I don't know how to quantify the time spent. It was mostly organic through people I had worked with in some capacity.
if you look at the linkedin history, the main 2 maintainers left around 6 months before they archived it.
I realize this isn't exactly an earth shattering, but for the new grad applicants I think that's an understandable reaction to the way that job postings are written. Even when every listing isn't asking for the moon for an entry level positions, most job postings list so many desired skills that no one could actually be qualified.
Yes, and no, assuming secure hardware element is not possible. An encrypted log file can be made that keeps track of time. If a leap is detected than the program will shred the data. The user can be warned of this and decide not to risk brute force.
Hams are the quintessential "know just enough to be dangerous" people.

Don't get me wrong, I've come across a lot of wonderful, truly smart hams; but I've also witnessed many hams who really never should have gotten half-smart.

Hams are amateur electricians, hilarity /will/ ensue and it won't all be funny.
> just throwing out punishments willy-nilly because they want a snack

That's not the claim.

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/science-behind-be...
First, it should be mentioned that many (most?) viruses don't cause a problem for humans.

Second, many of them are "bacteriophages", that is, they prey on bacteria, including bacteria that can make us sick. So, by 2124 we may understand which viruses are beneficial, similar to how we are beginning to understand which bacteria are beneficial (hence "probiotic" food).

Third, by 2124 we might be able to design viruses to achieve a given affect, either on ourselves or on an enemy.

Fourth, some viruses survive by inserting themselves into the host DNA, normally remaining there as non-coding DNA but some of them able to reactivate in certain circumstances. This means viruses might be harder to eliminate, but also that they might be used as a means of improving our DNA in some way.

Just a few thoughts; I am not a geneticist.
>ii) If you are talented and sought after, trust me you won't be ghosted.

That assumes your talent actually gets through the automated HR filter after the recruiter has handed your over and collected their commission ...
The US has the world reserve currency thing making it easier to borrow although I think that is a bit overrated. It is also the world leader in a lot of the most important industries especially tech and AI which should help things.