skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, the quasi-requirement of having pictures and other personal information on your CV

Picture was a requirement, but that is slowly becoming less popular. Especially in Tech. Leave it off if you don't feel like including a Picture. I stopped including a Picture as well some years ago and it has not harmed (or improved) me yet.

Which other personal information is required? I would expect contact information and Name. Of course also your Work History and Education. Which personal information do you have a problem with?

> the requirement of a reference letter from your previous employer,

Yes, they are required to give you a reference letter when you leave the company. Honestly, I have never been asked to provide said letter to my new employer in the 15 Years I have worked in Germany.

Most times I don't even have one during the hiring process since I am still working there. So, even if asked about a reference letter, I would just reply that I do not have one. Which, again, has not happened to me yet.
Scripts are more difficult to distribute to end users.
That philosophy will often fail if you need to handle payments or advertising or sale, etc. once you reach a certain scale.

Because consumers and advertising partners want to pay in the local currency, using local means of payment, which are often only available with a business bank account available only to locally registered businesses.

And then things like salespeople on the ground who can visit advertisers' offices, go to conventions, etc.

If you want to actually be a viable business in a particular country at a large scale, it often becomes impossible to avoid having to incorporate there and hire people locally, even if your actual product is entirely digital.
This is great! The web is an underrated gaming platform. I think you should generate a random username for the guest user, so new players can start the game immediately.
I went to one little company where they had a unisex bathroom. This was not for gender equality -- it was because they had so few women that they didn't think it worthwhile to build a bathroom for them.
Kleenex tissues have this feature where the last several tissues are of a different color.
> Bolsonaro unlike the Supreme Court, never crossed a red line

Crossing the line and failing is not the same as "never crossing the line".

Anyway, Bolsonaro was quite supportive of that same structure. Because he wanted the money-flow that came with it (previously illegal flow, but since 2021, well, it's up to be seen). Just like Lula, and Dilma, and Temer...
It's the other way around. Any one human will only beat an AI at two or three tasks — the first two being our day job and our mother tongue, the third possibly being our hobby — while the AI will out-perform us at thousands of others tasks.

Only if you count humanity as a whole do we beat an LLM at everything.
Yeah but no. I want to know how to instruct gptbots to spit out actionable code snippets that I can run to have delete stuff. I dont want to pay an Opterly, or join-delete-me a monthly subscription to delete my footprint.

I know their services are valuable, im not against them - I am saying that in the age of GPT-code-slave-bots I'd rather learn the process of figuring out how to tell the AI what I want and I also iteratively learn through the process.

Its wonderful being able to explore ideas so fluidly with the GPTs even though we know/discover their limitations, mal-intent, and other filters/guardrails/alignments and allegiances
I see that articles on the Cosmos website, nominally from the past week, are being attributed to human authors.
I also recommend https://www.learningscientists.org/posters from scientists in the field, which covers additional scientifically-effective approaches that a course designer or more long term approach might take. For example, not only applying Spaced Repetition, Interleaving and Active Recall (all possible through automated spaced repetition apps based on simply input), but elements like Dual coding (related to "Varied practise") - mixing visual and other elements when learning (which requires effort to create them), and elaboration practise (like free recall). To the end of applying these - and other critical elements like focusing on the motivation of the learner and enabling them to understand what they are missing with progress & identified "blindspot" misconceptions (on their own incredibly powerful), I've been developing Revision.ai since before GPT-3, through a Psychology MSc.
Which is impossible to maintain under a Rawlsian viewpoint that prioritizes minorities. Consider the Asian social norm against being overweight and the attendant enforcement mechanisms. It benefits most people for whom social reinforcement can help them maintain a healthy weight. But it’s unpleasant for a minority. Rawlsian thinking tends to oppose such welfare-maximizing policies, by focusing the inquiry on that minority.
Neat, but I prefer my own method:

1. Have two toothpastes (actually two of everything)
2. When one gets used up, remove the checkmark from my shopping list (just a simple checkmark list on my phone in Google notes)
3. When in the store, buy everything that's not checked on the shopping list

Works all the time, except during the CoVID toilet paper crisis, which made me increase my prepper level to 3 of everything.
I’m not sure about that. I think the OpenAI deals the cards here. They have the model and the data. If these media outlets fire creative people there’s nothing they have that OpenAI hasn’t got.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275600
"Use a work journal" (2024-07; 1083 pts)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950584
> combined with them not being a good steward for changes like this[1] left a bad taste in my mouth.

What they did wrong with this PR? It seems eventually they realized the scope was much bigger, requiring changes on both the frontend and backend, and asked potential contributors to reach out if they're interested in contributing that particular feature (saying between the lines that they themselves don't have a use, but they won't reject a PR).

Seems like they didn't need it themselves, and asked the community to contribute it if someone really wanted it, but no one has stepped up since then.
I did. And Hitler was never elected in a position of power. He strong armed the weimar republic to be named in chancellor, and only after that he held some referendum to validate his decision.

Also, when he is named chancellor, it’s been a while since the democratic value of weimar were hurting. Paul Von Hindenburg started as soon as 1930 to govern through executive act, ignoring and/or strong arming the Reichstag. Not really what I would call a healthy democratic government.

Also, Hitler was named as chancellor through a plot of the current weimar government to avoid calling new elections, like the laws said they must.
Are there any plans to make the tool available outside of telegram?
One difference between CDs and US Treasury bonds is that interest on US Treasury bonds/notes/bills is exempt from state income tax. So if you live in a high income tax state, you need to account for taxes when comparing yields.
You might be right. I was surprised LLMs where not phased by the white-space programming, which, I vaguely recall, melted my mind a little when first I encountered it.

On the other hand, LLMs don't really see the white space. They don't see or speak natural language, either. They only see and speak in tokens. A list of numbers. A tokenizer model then converts those numbers to text.

I also assume that assembly would not be strongly represented in the data sets used for training, so that test wouldn't prove much.

Interesting to think about, anyway.
The Brazilian Constitution doesn't even assign to the Judiciary unlimited power. All of it is legally subjected to the Congress.

But it doesn't matter, the power is there anyway.
Or, I dunno, they want to know what the on-call load is like because that tells one a lot about the level of problems in an org (though not so much about the cause.)
Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding Computer Architecture
2. Understanding High-Level Architecture of Production-Ready Apps
3. Understanding the Pillars of System Design
4. Understanding Networking Basics
5. Understanding API Design
6. Understanding Caching and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
7. Understanding Proxy Servers
8. Understanding Databases
There are a few others

p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy

pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
I remember an article years back about this car. Volvo provide all the services free of charge because it's a fantastic PR exercise.

No matter what part this car needs they will always provide.

"Dave the local mechanic" would not be the one servicing it. A Volvo technician would always go to the customer - like Rolls-Royce.
Yeah, gotta keep the programmer on his toes. He needs to embrace non-determinism, and second guess everything.

In case Go developer switches to a different language, we don't want to build bad habits. Map key iteration should be non-deterministically deterministic.
> Tens of thousands of people have had their lives ruined due to torrent use.

That is a tiny fraction of the number of people who did it. There are companies that got destroyed due to lawsuits as well, I wouldn't say lawsuits are less of an issue for companies than people, significant lawsuits are very rare in either case.

> Claiming that there's anything illegal about adblockers is a real stretch

It is legally questionable, I didn't say it was illegal we were talking about questionable actions.
> Brazil doesn't have an equivalent to the U.S. First Amendment, and that's not necessarily a problem.

That's an interesting perspective. The way I read our first amendment, it seems that the rights granted therein are a prerequisite for a free society.

If Brazil's leaders are unwilling to allow a speech platform go uncensored, why not ban X? Should X have to comply with every country's censorship requests? Elon alleged that Moraes requested private user information as well. Should X hand over any and all user data that governments ask for?
I would use my debit card even if it behaved exactly like cash, ie, when the recipient got the money, my only way of getting it back is to sue them or call the police.

Obviously any electronic payment system needs to be secure internally but society lasted a long time and made fine progress when having your wallet stolen meant losing your money.

It would be fine to require a person to charge their debit card with a finite amount rather than have it be funded up to the limit of the supporting account and that would solve the last problem compared to cash.
You know in Europe the card merchants are limited to about 1.3%. And the US could regulate this as well. In Australia you can add the card commission on top of the purchase easily. (Much easier than Stripe for instance).

To save payment fees there are probably easier sections of the payment process to focus on. For instance why do so many merchant banks insist on mandatory FX into 1 currency. This limitation means if I use Stripe I end up paying 9% commissions.
I'm a huge fan of Fastned. They have never failed me. I can rely on their chargers working, and delivering maximum speed.

Ionity is not too far behind, and between the two the coverage is pretty good in Western Europe.
> “Stealing” content that someone else created is universally derided.

All the people using torrents every day do not agree with you.
Isn't the manufacturer obligated to carry parts for a certain amount of time?
I assure you, that no Western right-winger likes the Islamist Erdogan.
> I thought that JavaFX is effectively dead

what would be replacement?..
Yes, collaborators spy on each other.

> This "let's kill 'em all before they kill us" line of reasoning

You made this up, nobody proposed that. On the other hand, failing to acknowledge and address the fact that other people do in fact want to kill you is just plain stupid.

This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandh...

Ghandi's assassin killed him on his third attempt. The prior two attempts failed; the guy was arrested and "released due to Gandhi's own policy of declining to press criminal charges".

There are probably people who think this is some sort of noble act. I am not one of them. The results speak for themselves.
No, Estonia in this example requires people in the USA to not talk about Estonia negatively amongst themselves.
Many years ago I learned from some Japanese TV show that you can use centrifugal force to get the very last bit of toothpaste out of the tube even if you can’t squeeze out any more. Something similar to this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-4MKefJqbc
Hey we are discussing things so I am not about scoring points here ;)

I might write in confrontational tone and I like to write opposing view just for discussion sake.

I do agree market != economy. I think “perceived wisdom they are so informed” is still quite a good statement.
There’s a ton of Vanguard ETFs in Europe that are accumulating.

I believe in the US Vanguard has a retail service too, so you don’t need a broker as the middleman.
Some of the orders were not just to prevent people in Brazil from viewing certain things, but to take down content and ban users globally. The court also wanted Twitter to provide personal information of overseas accounts.
Exactly. If you're a new company and your choice is either spending lots of capital to accept payments by building it from scratch or pay 2.9%+30¢, the decision is obvious. If you value your time at $100/hr and spend forty hours building such a system—never mind maintaining it—you'd have to process over $130,000 in volume (500 transactions at about $260 each) just to break even on fees.

But you probably won't do it in a week, and you'll spend weeks each year maintaining it. I'd make an educated guess that for the vast majority of companies, it would be cheaper to process your first half million on Stripe than it would be to learn how to build a payments processor, build it, run it, and maintain it. You're saving peanuts for the principle of the matter.
> It has always been surprising to me that the original position argument had so much impact when it seems like a very odd starting point to me. But I like probability and statistics, so maybe I'm weird.

It’s not just you. The formulation of Rawls’ question is designed to get people to focus on statistically unlikely scenarios at the expense of probable ones. As an engineer and an Asian I find it incomprehensible that Rawls has so much purchase.
I agree motivation to learn and maintaining interest is key, to effect the learning rate you mention. The enjoyment itself, although a crucifying word to use in discussions when teaching students considered the "best of the best", still matters and predominates over the effectiveness factor for most of the semester for students, at least. Because of just being "told to learn" it.

Basically 70% of the semester most students are not studying 40 hours - they are doing 30 hours of real work, and perhaps only 15 hours effectively. And for good reason: Nothing is bridging or rewarding them in a way that interests/motivates them, for courses where the interest isn't natural.

A bridge to motivate them would be ideal. In 2021 I started using GPT-3 to generate motivational "reasons to learn a concept" cards for my flashcard app, - Revision.ai - which you can read about here in the 3rd item: https://www.revision.ai/articles/20ThingsRevisionAIDoesForBe... - the reason we disabled them was simple: we could never quite time the cards right to help the student when they needed it. When the app is closed, they aren't motivated - they don't see them. Mid study session? Showing such cards (or AI generated examples) interrupted the flow [https://www.instagram.com/p/CVVlIuVg31W/]
We have also tried recommending relevant short/mid length youtube videos for visual/"breaks" from overwhelming learning. That did not boost student success either. I guess it doesn't address that you are still being told to do it, not naturally flowing into learning.

I welcome any technical or conceptual ideas you have to improve this and help increase interest amongst students. We have found that turning lecture slideshows into sets of exercises with clear visuals[https://www.instagram.com/p/C5ByftwiJ00/], breaking content up, and showing progress does motivate students to study more(and in a semi-related dissertation I wrote, possibly reduce Test Anxiety and tension). Please let me know of any ideas you have!
This isn't a gaff he's just entering his older man boss talk stage of life and more open about truths and it's great keep it up Eric you'll have a legendary brand.
They explain that without it, they can't effectively enforce the copyrights on their projects: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html.en

I highly doubt that the FSF, who developed the GPL licenses and values free software above anything else, would change the licensing of their projects like "these companies" do.
Passkeys might provide a decent middle ground here, assuming current UX issues can be improved upon.
The irony is a bit dulled when you consider that Drive is a service that you pay for (beyond the free tier), while YouTube is a service where they pay you to host popular videos.
Their argument for not watching 99% of their output is even stronger. Most of that tripe is overpriced even when pirated. I'm sure that know that global free distribution is doing them some good else this crack down on it even harder.
For an app, get you kicked off the App Store.
Inversions usually happen when the ground is cooling faster than the air above, due to radiative cooling. That results in a layer of warm air sandwiched between cold air above and below.
> In 2022, over 21,000 individuals in Russia were penalized for such “offences”, with 2,307 given administrative detention and the rest heavy fines

> in year ending March 2022, there were 155,841 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/07/russia-20000-...

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-...
> then I have records of several billion years of past existence of life on this planet as proof that is relatively unlikely.

Have you looked at that record?

There literal End Of The World happened 6 times!

Mass extinction events like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Basically everyone died 6 times, and 99% of all spieces that ever existed are extinct. Everything bigger than a squirrel died out multiple times over.

> we haven’t taken a war time footing

This is a fantasy that a chain smoker can quit any time he wants and will really kick the habit once he has motivation, like when the doctor tells him he has stage 4 lunch cancer!

We knew about the problem for 120 years, we had the means too - a fleet of electric busses operated in London in 1901. You are on copium
Incidentally, this is why SMS MFA is so popular with users despite its security vulnerabilities.

Generally, unless you are targeted by someone with a sim swap, it is good enough. Most people won't be targeted, but do have a good chance of something going wrong that makes them lose their MFA key.
I admire Glenn, he did a great job reporting on Snowden revelations and the Vaza-Jato scandal in Brazil. I believe his stand is principled, but he appears to have the shortcoming of often trying to apply concepts from the US legal and institutional framework to places where it simply doesn't apply, like trying to fit square pegs to round holes. This sent him into a wild goose chase in this case.
If you're using the functional options pattern, and you're trying to == or type-assert one of the options, you're the one doing something abnormal.

Maybe it makes sense in the broader context of what you're trying to do, but then I'd say that the functional options pattern isn't the right fit in the first place.

Also, "side effect" in computer science has a pretty straightforward definition, and equality comparisons are not side effects.
It's probably just a cultural difference between (broadly) the US, Europe, and Asia. In the US it's increasingly uncommon to buy things with cash or cash-equivalents (Venmo, Zelle, etc.), especially high-value items.

Basically we have very few consumer protection laws compared to the EU, and it's very much a "buyer beware" culture here. If you get screwed by a merchant, most of the time it's just too bad for you, unless the merchant has a good return policy (most big box stores do, most small places don't). We don't have the regulatory protections that EU has.

So credit cards have sprung up to offer not just buy on borrowed money, but also purchase protections that live outside the legal/regulatory frameworks. When you buy something with a credit card, you get charged interest by the bank and the merchant also pays a fee. Some tiny part of those fees get pooled into these protection (and other) services that the card offers its members.

For example, depending on your credit card, some will automatically extend the warranty of things you buy by another year or two. Or price protection is that if the thing you buy goes on sale within 30 days and you find it for a cheaper price, the credit card provider (not the merchant) will issue you a partial refund. The chargeback system is often used for disputing issues (maybe you bought something from an overseas vendor who never delivered and never bothered to answer your emails, or maybe they lied about their return, or maybe provided some terrible product). You file a claim with the credit card company, not the government or the merchant, and the card issuer will mediate on your behalf. If the amount is low enough, they'll often just refund you without a full investigation (it's not worth their time). But it also serves as a sort of review & punishment system for merchants... those who get too high a volume of chargebacks will incur higher fees or be blocked altogether by the credit card issuers, meaning merchants are incentivized to fix customer issues.

Merchants not accepting credit cards here do exist, but they're relatively rare, because so much of the population uses credit cards instead of anything else. Even debit cards (that draw from your bank balance and typically have fewer protections) still have a partnership with Visa or Mastercard to allow you to pay as though it were one of their credit cards (just with a preset balance).

Of course all of this means it sucks for the merchants, but it's way better for the buyers than paying with cash (which leaves you almost always without recourse if anything happens). Our government is so captured and so weak that basically no state or federal agency will be able to help you in most consumer issues. We do have something called the "BBB" (Better Business Bureau), but it's not a government agency, just a fake third party middleman who pretends to do that function (but doesn't actually do anything)... it's basically just an old-fashioned Yelp.

So as a buyer, if you want any protections at all, it's a credit card or nothing.
XEROX STAR 1108 PERSONAL COMPUTER8

does it work? If only I kept my old computers they would have retained their value , and then some . who could have guessed that old computers would be a good investment

Of course the Apple 1 is reallly expensive.

A working Alto would be amazing.
But you’re not the author, and still went with incredulity as your response. My question still stands.
> Also, complied censorship requests are applied per country in Twitter’s case.

Except that time a censorship request made by India was enforced worldwide, which I don't think was ever explained.

https://archive.is/BnUhm
Was easier to use enter + space, rather than a trackpad.
Firefox isn't really making enough in donations to maintain a major piece of web infrastructure. So it gets search revenue from Google, which people complain about (and may not be long term sustainable). So they go make other paid for things looking for revenue, which people complain about.