skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, this isn't clear to me. Are the interviewees citizens? So you're interviewing citizens to prove that there aren't any who can fill your jobs but even when they clearly could fill the job you don't hire them? Seems like the requirement of proving "there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job" is going to be near impossible for the government to enforce
Stop Complaining, Talk to Your Manager
Oh yeah that's all we need is whatever tech org having even more unearned and unaccountable authority in our lives.

I'll fully cosign that liberal democracy has a LOT of issues but sweet fuck if we hand over our government to more fucking algorithms I'm becoming a terrorist.
When you're condescending and make bad faith arguments, people will find you frustrating. I'm not sure why you want to emulate your grandparents by dismissing younger people's creativity just like they did to you. Open your mind a bit and try not to become the people you hated.

Edit: Festivals have never been the beating heart of the techno scene my friend. I'm sorry to break it to you. And again, I've been to good festivals which do play this stuff - you clearly don't know where to go and you're taking it out on my generation when its on YOU.
Just tell everyone you are an "AI Developer" or "AI Engineer" and get more money and do little to no work.
CoLD SToRAGE released a new edition of the Wipeout soundtrack; vinyl still available, plenty of remixes onboard.

https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/album/wipeout-the-zero-grav...
Justice, both poetic and civil. Bravo to The Onion.
I don’t disagree that it’ll change a lot of things in society.

But that isn’t the claim being made, which is that some sort of AI god is being constructed which will develop entirely without the influence of how real human beings actually act. This to me is basically just sci-fi, and it’s frankly kind of embarrassing that it’s taken so seriously.
Mirror: https://archive.is/3GEAJ
netflix already doesnt work for me on firefox. not sure why.
You have to prove you tried interviewing and couldn’t find anyone to replace them. My company isn’t a super popular employer so we don’t get the best candidates. This might be a bigger problem at Google, Meta, etc
Wow, the rare double penalty. Loss of 5 yards for stooping to a Christmas song for worst song of all time debate, loss of an additional 20 yards for going with a post-Beatles McCartney track. This may be internet bullshit, but by god we have rules.

> (Don't believe me? Listen for yourself: https://youtu.be/94Ye-3C1FC8)

This may not be a felony, but it should be. Have you no shame, sir? A child could accidentally click on that link.
> What if instead of publicly blaming an OSS product, you try to get a support contract with some of the engineers behind it? If your company is too cheap for that, maybe a PR would have been nice?

Yeah, no. That's not how security research works.

If I disclose a security issue to you, it doesn't matter if you're a multinational trillion dollar corporation or a hobbyist in Nebraska, the onus is on you to fix it. Not the security researcher. Their job is done once it's disclosed.

From the timeline:

> 28/03/2024 – First communication sent with all details and a proposed fix.

After that point, any additional help (including a pull request) is going above and beyond.

I run into this attitude you're exhibiting a lot. Where proprietary software has the legal threats, the open source community is plagued by patch entitlement.

Knowledge of a security issue in a project is, in and of itself, a valuable contribution. Expecting a PR devalues this work.
To be fair, the amount of good job applicants from america is also really low.

It's not a great argument, but it's the same with DEI. I literally don't have enough applicants to fill a quota even if 100% of them passed all interviews
This isn't ethical. It shouldn't be legal. But it is. Welcome to America.
The core idea of satire, which is often missed in supposedly satirical works is that you should not only make fun of the thing you don't believe, but you should also explain what you do believe under the cover of pretending to dismiss it.

For example everybody knows Swift's Modest Proposal does not seriously intend that the problems in Ireland ought to be fixed by literally eating children, but if you read it, the proposal also very clearly explains what should be done, in the form of taxation of the wealthy absentee landlords (many of them English) for example - it just couches all these boring but entirely reasonable steps as ludicrous and easily dismissed while insisting that eating babies is a good idea.
I see a lot of ghost job interviews in tech. There are smaller startups, that post the job ad. I had interviewed for the company over and over again, always getting denied for one reason or another.

It is very common for the listing to be for some other position, “Senior Software, Fraud Prevention” or something, then during the interview it will be for their “Platform” team. If you ask about the team it doesn’t exist yet and they are always “slowly building it out”.
Yes same for me on guitar. If I try to play something too slowly or if I really start thinking about what I'm doing it all falls apart.

I think that's when you really know a piece, when you can play it incredibly slowly. Paradoxically it's easy to play quickly and just let your fingers play out their muscle memory, playing something really slowly is the challenge.
It's been on the upswing ever since it was purchased this year. It's time to come back.
> yet
I don't know what "intellectually understand" means in the context of Transformers. My older comment was about the ability of neural nets to learn automata from examples, a standard measure of the learning ability of a machine learning system. I link to a paper below where Transformers and RNNs are compared on their ability to learn automata along the entire Chomsky hierarchy and as other work has also shown, they don't do that well (although there are some surprising surprises).

>> Regarding your linked comment, my takeaway is that the very theoretical task of being able to recognize an infinite language isn't very relevent to the non-formal, intuitive idea of "intelligence"

That depends on who you ask. My view is that automata are relevant to computation and that's why we study them in computer science. If we were biologists, we would study beetles. The question is whether computation , as we understand it on the basis of computer science, has anything to do with intelligence. I think it does, but that it's not the whole shebang. There is a long debate on that in AI and the cognitive sciences and the jury is still out, despite what many of the people working on LLMs seem to believe.
Why do people need to make an announcement. Just leave.
The right to be wrong is important.

The right to deliberately lie in ways that harm people is not a "right" that we want to uphold.
Hence why there are so many h1bs.
This is why many job seekers are perpetually passive/work through recruiters. An in-house recruiter may be there to perpetually screen for purple unicorn candidates that bend the CEO's hiring freeze - a contract recruiter won't work with a firm that can't actually hire.
Alex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.
Awesome stuff thanks, as to kremwork I wasn't aware they'd survived little marias closing - glad to hear some culture is left in the city. Funny to hear of it via HN but hey small world.
I feel this could be a product that would see some success in the retail market.

It solved a personal problem.

Amazing mission behind the tech.

Could solve a myriad of issues for other families. This part is unproven, but that's why it would be cool to see the author release it as a product!

Could start by simply putting up a payment page and making them bespoke as orders start coming in.
A buyer is not always required to select the bid of the highest monetary value; sounds like the Onion had a proposal that was "a reasonable sum of money, and also we help lead a healthy way to find a path to redemption for this website and make it a kinder place than before"
(been an avid reader of your posts over the years. thanks so much for sharing!)

Q: personal guarantee loans/contracts

I know it's common practice for lenders & commercial real estate to make small business owners personally guarantee the loan/contract.

Did you have any of this? And if so, how did you unwind those contract?
> Ignoring the influence Jones has on the public and fully executing the law

What "law" exactly do you think needs to be "executed"? Defamation laws? Were these defamation laws ever argued in court? Did you actually follow the trial?

The court claimed that Alex Jones didn't provide documents, documents that never existed, and defaulted him. The defamation laws were never argued in the court case. This action by the court is deprivation of rights, due process rights, under color of law. The judge is a criminal.

If the courts don't function properly, this creates an extremely dangerous climate.
On this side-topic, Wikipedia has trouble writing e.g. "worst X of all time", because that can't ever be an objective fact... so instead it has articles named "List of X considered the worst" and "List of X notable for negative reception", to which things like "Worst X of all time" redirect:

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

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

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

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

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

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

In each category, it picks criteria like press reviews or user ratings that mark a work for being considered "worst"
Blame wall street speculators.
That's basically true. One recent 'exception' that happened to me is that, shortly after Baldur's Gate 3 was released, the offline installer would give you a different, older version than what you would get if you installed the game through GOG Galaxy, which led to some difficulty and confusion when trying to play with friends.
> I've already passed this threshold, and have instead devoted the maximum of my time to personal ventures.

Same here. After a certain point you are doing yourself a disservice by enduring rejection notices if you actually have the skills you claim to.

The hardest part is having faith in yourself and the possibility of acquiring a customer.
It's so peculiar that the man who thinks few women are willing to "get in the trenches" never sees women really getting into the trenches. It must definitely be because that's just how all women are. And definitely not because most women choose not to work with you or a company that perpetuates that idea.
I hadn't realized how hilarious this is until now
That's cool, but:

> It takes approximately 40 seconds to refresh this display

I think that would rule it out for the purpose of this project - the demo in their introduction video[0] shows that it flashes multiple colors for ages during this long refresh. I imagine that could be very confusing for someone whose short-term memory might not last that long.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluopgSoSWY&t=500s
I sold my house and fucked off to Europe. Hopefully will outlast whatever thing is happening, but I'm not that hopeful, so I'm searching for new passions. I still look for work once in a while and blindly apply to what a carefully crafted search query yields (searching job application sites (not job boards!) + position and/or skills). I decided after 3 months to go for quantity over quality. It hasn't been much more successful, but at least I don't get frustrated spending 2h researching a company, crafting a cover letter and creating a resume to get a refusal the next day.

Any time you'll ask for feedback someone will tell you to do things differently and it will never end. I've been hiring tech folks for 15 years, with 25 years total experience, so I know what I want to see when I look to fill a role, that's how I build my resume. I want it to show at a glance where I've worked and what I did there, no more no less.

If efforts are made and you see a difference, then don't stop. If you see no difference (eg uptick in responses or interviews), as is my case, I've got nothing to say that will help you. Sell your house and fuck off to Europe maybe.
Wait how is that dumb? It's factually correct.
What the fuck?

>Thrown in one of the following cases:

>If the current thread cannot be blocked (for example, because it's the main thread).

I guess that's why it's not so widely used
It's automation not AI
I’ve found the testable hypothesis!
Funny, for sure, but does not explain what they will be doing in reality.
Money doesn't guarantee anything, as seen by the recent issue with Okta. If you're using a centralized auth service and expecting no vulns or exploits, you're going to be severely disappointed. These are the juiciest targets and very complex pieces of software.

I don't see an issue with calling out this Keycloak response time either. It's not inherently negative, just stating facts.
Honest question: what threats did Jones make against them? I understood that he claimed it was a hoax/conspiracy, not that he had made any threats. Not even sure how he could make threats against people he didn't believe were real.
> because IMO, it made THEM look busy / effective.

A KPI in hiring is offers made / accepted. I don't think the HR team gets credit for reviewing applicants and running interviews that don't result in one/both of these.
anecdata - I am Indian and on h1b. Intel hired Accenture folks, they just put more people with no experience, it took more time to train them than doing stuff ourselves.

Another instance, Intel gave tens of millions to do something that few employees could have done in couple of months. Its basically creating two conda environments, one with intel optimized software stack & one with default and compare the results for 20 use cases.

Not sure its the case with all the contract companies, but this was my experience.
One reason could be to have faster replacement if someone leaves.

The other is to make it look like they are busy and growing even when not.
It is actually true! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones...
This is willful labor theft and at this scale, a single fake job posting could cause thousands or tens of thousands of hours of wasted labor on the part of job seekers. Multiply the prevailing hourly wage equivalent for that job by the number of applicants and how much time it would have taken them to apply (Workday users, you're doomed!). That's how much money was stolen from the public by the company. Prosecute it like any other theft of that amount. It'll only take a couple of cases like this for every legal department across the country to tell HR and recruiting to stop the practice immediately.
base sudo leaks at.obdev.littlesnitch.networkextension | grep "total leaked bytes"
Password:
Process 310 is not debuggable. Due to security restrictions, leaks can only show or save contents of readonly memory of restricted processes.

Process 310: 314990 leaks for 967643488 total leaked bytes.

Ouch!
Ok so you’re arrogantly practicing English writing now and producing little more than a philosophy that just zigs around to maintain your narrative.

“Debating physics” in academia is little more than reciting preferred symbolic logic. The map is not the terrain; to borrow from Feynman again, who says in his lectures it’s not good to get hung up on such stuff. So you’re just making this about rhetorical competition, boring gamesmanship. Which like I said, isn’t the point of engineering. Dialectics don’t ship, they keep professors employed though.

Whichever way it’s written, physics still seems to work. So the value of STEM is more about the application than the knowing.
This will than probably change with the new American government and its anti-immigration stance. Less h1b, less ghost jobs.
Stocks don't mirror the general state of the economy, at all, stocks are just another market. Look at how stocks performed during 2020-2021, where economies were struggling because people couldn't work (or in many places not even leave their houses/blocks for months at a time), the stock market follows feeling and confidence and not the economy necessarily.

Can it be a proxy to study the underlying economies? Probably, but it's never the economy.
Faulty Colorsofts have left some Kindle owners without an e-reader
So you are simultaneously screwing over the ones applying to the job, the government, the guy already working for you and yourself? Geez, it must be amazing in your department, a lose-lose-lose-lose
Phenomenal point!
It doesn't strike me as correct that this election was really about the economy.

Yes, inflation isn't great. It causes pain, and I expect people to take that out on a President and their party.

But this isn't the 1970s. The inflation was present but not double-digits. It peaked two years ago, and has been under 4% for over a year. It's close to 2% now. These just aren't throw-the-bums-out numbers.

The alternative has not offered up a cogent answer either. And he is widely reviled. He is a convicted criminal; vast swathes of his cabinet and advisers have spent time in jail. He promotes transparently-false conspiracy theories. Numerous members of his own party endorsed his opponent -- including his own former Vice President.

I just don't think it's as simple as "I hate the price of eggs so we need anybody else." The country just isn't in bad enough shape for that explanation to suffice.

So I think it's bad advice to tell Democrats to over-fit their policies. Something is going to go wrong during their term. But there seems to be an asymmetry: Democrats will be punished for even the slightest misstep, while Republican candidates can literally call for violent rebellion and receive acclimation for it.

Yes, Democrats will continue to have to learn and improve their policies. But it's not going to improve their electoral changes when faced with that asymmetry.

I have no advice for them, other than to wait it out. Much has to do with the particular person who is our next President. It's unclear what the nation, and the party, will look like in four years. I don't believe that the particular kind of fine-tuning that the article calls for is really going to benefit them. It just shifts the question away from why we just elected somebody whose first act will be to pardon himself for crimes.
A similar item on the HN front page: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259 "The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy"
How about ghost jobs? This is a newish phenomena and wonder if it affects other sectors than IT.
Robots are taking over marathons in China
today an onion made me cry a bit
Google is no longer the hot place to be. These blog posts are just soft launches of the engineers new companies. They're googlers, they know you gotta repeat yourself over and over to get mind share going :)
That's where the ghosting comes in. If you're always ghosting, then you always have recent people to get back to, not months old.

The pipeline isn't a lossless FIFO queue, in other words. People go in one end and are dropped out the other. In between are the recents you can call if a spot actually opens up.
…because if you grant them the green card they will up and get a new job? The incentives here are so screwed up for everyone, it effectively codifies a caste system of immigrant workers.
It makes everyone look busy. It helps calibrate interviewers so that the company remembers how to hire people. It maintains the illusion of growth.

The last point is important, historically startups/teams faced the risk of exodus once hiring stopped. As an employee, hiring is one of the few signals you have on the health of an opaque business.
they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning

He seems surprised. I guess losing a multi-year court case, being fined $1,500,000,000.00 by a jury, and going through bankruptcy court wasn't enough of a warning?
I'm not defending the whole toolchain - I agree Xcode is probably the worst thing in the landscape of mature languages. I just think the infamous exponential-compile-time issue, and the "Swift is too complex now" issue, are sometimes overstated. Again, excepting SwiftUI, which is a huge exception, so I'm not exactly writing a glowing review. I just love Swift itself, and most of Apple's APIs.
My dude. He was ranting for years to an audience of people self-selecting as susceptible to propaganda about how a specific group of normal ass people was assisting the Government in dismantling their second amendment rights.

Like no he didn't literally say "go torment them" but come the fuck on. The connection between the events here isn't 1/10th as complicated as most of Alex's actual theories, it's literally just a line.
I once applied for a job that precisely matched my qualifications. It was crazy - the job description could have been written by someone looking at my CV.

I didn't even get an interview. Likely no one did.

It wasn't a ghost job, though. It was a position created for a someone they wanted to hire. Being a public institution, they were required to advertise positions. That didn't mean that they actually wanted any of the candidates who applied.
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The precedent would otherwise be that it is ok ignoring and debasing the US Justice system.
For me, "I want a hippopotamus for christmas" is even worse.
I wonder how many of them are caused by internal political struggles. When you have a lot middle management they spend a fair amount of time on resource allocation, both current and future employees. So it’s a constant fight to obtain and maintain headcount.

Hiring pipelines can be longer than the planning cycle. So you may have 3 open headcount one week, and then lose it the next because some other Big Initiative should get it instead. Or the head count flip flops between local and overseas hires. Or the level they are hiring for changes. Each time this changes, new positions are posted.

Basically companies don’t know what roles they hiring for long enough to get candidates through the process.