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Technologies: Python, Spark, SQL, Javascript, APIs
Résumé/CV: https://guillem.lefait.fr/cv-glefait-en.pdf
Email: guillem@hey.com

Data dev/manager with strong interests in cybersec, willing to find a position in a team working to stop the bad guys with the right data.
I've made my peace with The Peter Principle. People can surprise you and can "rise to the occasion" — or in the case of employment, rise to the difficulties of the tasks or jobs you give them.

Not everyone can, but to deny someone that opportunity is perhaps ... cruel?

So we err on over-promotion — realizing our mistake only when it is too late. And I'm fine with that.
Doesn't the article forgot to mention that TPM allow to do trusted boot and remote attestation ? It sounds like to me that could very well be used to make software DRM more efficient (by making sure you run a DRM friendly OS for example)
So if I understand correctly, this should be comparable to what Tailscale is doing?
Yup - short for SAlly BIlly ANdy Zildjian
>...when I see them I recognize to just close the window and forget about whatever it was I was looking for there

This is the way.
Safety Filters make LLMs defective tools
Started prepping/interviewing in Oct after reading this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581

Secured interviews with Facebook, Databricks, Snowflake, and Stripe (3 referrals, 1 recruiter reach out).

Bombed the FB phone screen due to nerves/first interview of the cycle. Completed the remaining three loops by December, and got offers from Databricks and Snowflake (Stripe went on two week holiday break and hasn’t gotten back to me yet).

Accepted the Databricks offer!

Happy to talk about practice/process (within the limits of the interview NDAs)!
I watched the whole thing so you don't have to:

1. A DOTS reader looks sort of like an external DVD/tape/floppy drive

2. Data is recoverable not via just a DOTS reader, but with a normal camera/microscope if need be. Imagine a mixture of QR codes and logos, like a business card might have.

3. Instructions on reading DOTS data and building an actual DOTS reader can be "drawn" on the medium itself in a human interpretable form (see: Voyager record)

4. DOTS media is essentially a piece of durable metal that takes precise and dense impressions from a laser, which makes it mostly immune to things like EMP blasts, chemicals, extreme temperatures, etc

5. No price is listed, but the media block shown was 1.2TB
So does this misleadingly-named private think-tank have any actual data or math to support this idea that forcing federal workers to commute would truly reduce government spending?

It sounds like the duo are blithely declaring it because they want the US government to (inefficiently, corruptly) pick a policy that makes it easier for them to push the same ideas at private companies they are invested in.

Plus there's a profound lack of moral suasion here. I mean, this is coming from ultra-privileged people with private jets, chauffeurs to drive them, multiple homes with home-offices, and probably an abysmal metric of "max workdays making the same commute in 2024".
Calling out something that seems obvious to me, but is not visible ITT:

This is Facebook doing their main MO, which is to reproduce social products that are exhibiting hockey-stick growth. They are looking at character.ai et al.
I'm not going to argue these are good tests, if you asked a coworker these questions they'd look at you weird, but what surprised me is how well you can encode a sentence never written down before, put it through base64 encoding, and then ask an llm to decode it. And the good models can do this surprisingly well.
Okay. Do that globally. And solve the ddos problem as you’re on it. If you add transparent tls termination, edge, caching, dns… maybe I’ll have a look!

I had a guy like that working with me. Blocked every possible tracker, disabled javascript, used some niche browser, proton mail, and then complains that google doesn’t allow him to sign in. I get it, privacy and what not. But the guy was an outlier.

Some random blogs, product pages aren’t gov, most likely have no way to opt-in for gov eID (maybe they aren’t based in the EU), and they only care that their service is available fast globally and that they get ddos protection for free (plus some other convenience features).
I was about to comment this so instead I'll comment that Aldi (Trader Joes) and Lidl also arose out of a familial dispute over whether or not to sell alcohol.
> Without secure boot (backed by TPM), I can boot a small USB device that has LEDs on it to indicate to me that the target system has been infected to send me a copy of the target's password, after I already imaged the disk (or when I have another team member steal it or take it by force later).

Which is the same thing that happens with secure boot, because they just steal the whole device and leave you one that looks the same to enter your password into so it will send it to them.

Meanwhile if you're using tamper-evident materials then you don't need secure boot, because then they can't undetectably remove the cover to get physical access to remove your UEFI password or image the machine.
If they don't think you're suspicious they don't make you do the captchas, and as others have mentioned you can always outsource it to captcha farms. There are also AI models which do a fairly decent amount, and since most captchas let you repeat attempts with new patterns you can have a pretty high error rate to get past them. Then there's the ADA, which requires accessibility- many captchas have an audio component as a backup and those are easy to interpret by models.
You're in the wrong thread; this is "who is hiring", and it looks like you're asking to be hired. Try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575535
> Feels like the kind of thing companies sign up to so they can get some PR

Telling when they quit then and get bad PR.
Thanks for the list!
It seems that unfortunately copyright applies to databases in EU.
So the consultants were told by an LLM that they sold a tool which they actually didn't? Was this chatgpt or something custom?
Iterated log coding
I found it fascinating recently (last few years) to try, myself, to consider and challenge that axiom/assumption.

Analogy: though I've always been an atheist, the cultural conditioning is so strong, that in my 20's it took me a LOT of conscious effort to consider the notion that "Religion should not be treated specially" (when it comes to e.g. tax breaks, protection, freedom of speech, etc).

On this too then, I've been strongly conditioned that "company's only prerogative is and should be shareholder value", that it took me a lot of effort to consider it critically, but... it's just a sentence, a statement. It's no more true than we desire it to be.

Or to put it another way - if company's ONLY priority is shareholder value, over consumer interest, employee well-being, external impact, and long term picture... the system is as broken as the more aggressive amongst us have banged the drums it to be.
Try this one: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1874354745709904147

After some anti-robot juggling, the tweet thread should appear.
If about ~30% of people are experiencing the same problem, I'd say ignoring the "personal responsibility" part of the equation is valid. At some point of progress, we did something wrong, but not a single country can figure out what that wrong thing was, and how we can revert it.

Frankly, I think these opinion-lite pieces come from the problem how we have moved on from having unified culture and trend setters. Everyone has so many options, possible hobbies, interests and etc. to explore that conventionalism is frowned upon. Even if individualism has been promoted in North America for the past century, there was still things most people agreed on. We just don't have that over here anymore. And nowadays, almost nowhere. Committing to something or someone results in bigger opportunity losses than ever before, so ever chasing the dopamine rush from trying new things is more acceptable than ever.

I don't even know if it's right or wrong. I'm morally conflicted when I think about it. Same as having multiple kids, these topics will only come up more and more as literally every country is diving further into plummeting fertility rates.
So the idea is to ban the practice for smaller players without the scale to eat the costs?

No thanks, an outright ban is necessary. This will not prevent manufacturers from doing business no matter how they may whine about it, and frankly if this does somehow kill their business it should
How do you propose a company like Honey should make a profit without deception and scams?

Their product is supposedly: install a FREE extension and you get discount codes applied for you at retailers when you check out.

It turns out they were able to be profitable by making themselves the affiliate every time you purchase something, but that's scammy because it's stealing from others who actually generated the referral.

But what other non-scammy business model could they have? There's basically no business model for what they're trying to offer that makes sense other than end-users paying for it.
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If Microsoft made it and distributed it, the only thing you can be sure of is that it will work out for Microsoft.

I am not curious what Bing says about Microsoft's ethics.
I don't even really bother anymore. It's such a giant fraud and time-suck.

We all know that society is propped up by people going to work and doing nothing much of value. But now the do-nothingness pervades even the recruiting stage. It's such an empty faff. WTF are they doing? Why bother? I guess automation makes it cost-free to churn out bullshit job posts and waste our time endlessly; there's no human cost to the perpetrators.

It really does make you wonder about the collapse of our society.
Yeah, totally get it. I know some of my family members use their calendars for tasks like those, but personally, I just use Notepad or the Notes app on my phone. For me, I often use the calendar to write down more work-related tasks, like 'start essay on the risks of obesity' or other essays I need to work on. Or maybe tasks like 'prepare for presentation' or 'need to revise for test on biology create notes'.

The main reason I suggested creating tasks that might need help generating content is based on my own experience with ChatGPT. I mostly used it for summaries, idea generation, coding help, and brainstorming ideas. I know some people also use it for casual conversations, but my focus was on those more practical use cases.

To make this process easier, I’ve added a dropdown menu when setting up events, which includes prompts for things like summaries, brainstorming, and learning help. However, in the actual dropdown, there are more than three options, as having just three can be limiting. You can select one of these prompts, and based on your event title and optional description, the AI will generate content tailored specifically to your task.

If you have any more questions please ask!
A "tax" like this is essentially equivalent to a fine, and a fine is a price

Also, companies can just price the additional cost in, blame the government for the price increase, and mislead consumers about the tradeoff being made. A ban is harder to do that about
>I use a heavily customized Firefox config on Linux.

This is probably the cause, especially if you're doing stuff like spoofing user agent. It's not cloudflare "cracking down on privacy" or whatever either. Unmodified tor browser passes turnstile challenges just fine.
That's my point: people here link the replication crisis to "not sharing the code", which is ridiculous. If you just click on a button to run the code written by the other team, you haven't replicated anything. If you review the code, you have replicated "a little bit" but it is still not as good as if you would have recreated the algorithm from scratch independently.

It's very strange to pretend that sharing the code will help the replication crisis, while the replication crisis is about INDEPENDENT REPLICATION, where the experience is redone in an independent way. Sometimes even with a totally perpendicular setup. The closer the setup, the weaker is the replication.

It feels like it's watching the finger who point at the moon: not understanding that replication does not mean "re-running the experiment and reaching the same numbers"

> noone is evil, everyone is following their incentives and trying to keep their jobs and secure funding

Sharing the code has nothing to do with the incentives. I will not loose my funding if I share the code. What you are adding on top of that, is that the scientist is dishonest and does not share because they have cheated in order to get the funding. But this is the part that does not make sense: unless they are already established enough to have enough aura to be believed without proofs, they will lose their funding because the funding is coming from peer committee that will notice that the facts don't match the conclusions.

I'm sure there are people who down-play the fraud in the scientific domain. But pretending that fraud is a good strategy for someone's career and that it is why people will fraud so massively that sharing the code is rare, this is just ignorance of the reality.

I'm sure some people fraud and don't want to share their code. But how do you explain why so many scientists don't share their code? Is that because the whole community is so riddled with cheaters? Including cheaters that happens to present conclusions that keep being proven correct when reproduced? Because yes, there are experiments that have been reproduced and confirmed and yet the code, at the time, was not shared. How do you explain that if the main reason to not share the code is to hide cheating?
I think you could read a CD-ROM with a microscope, in theory.
it is price discrimination. How to sell the same GPU hardware at different prices based on consumer's wallet:

1. cheaper price for gamers only for games

2. maximum price for crypto/AI bros
> it was about 9 more posts before I saw a post from a person I actually know.

At least for me, it's because the people I care about have long ago stopped posting, and those who are useful to keep as friends post garbage, so they've long ago been muted.

I wish there were more posts from groups I follow instead of nonsense from groups they recommend.
Spot on.

Closely tracking things you can not control may provide a sense of control to some.

Or the other way round: Crunching enough data and building reasonable predictions based on that takes away the element of surprise, and the element of surprise for some translates to anxiety.

For me the only things that scare me are in the "I have no data on that" category.
I decided on the Kingsmith Walkingpad A1 Pro.

I chose that one because it folds together when stored, goes to a decent speed (at the max I can have a brisk walk), my stride fits in it (I'm 194cm tall) and it can carry my weight (~90kg).
this nevertheless happens all the time. i have an old linkedin account i haven't logged into in years and can't be bothered to dig up the credentials so one of my e-mails gets stupid "network updates". one must log in to disable these and navigate to some obscure settings page in one of the most heinously overcrowded UIs on the web.

so i just flagged it all as spam and hoped it hurts their deliverability a little.
You are chasing the wrong goals
Rendering Polarized Light
The suggestion you should have to bend over backwards for shitty software like cloudflare is bad enough; but if you were going to surely creating a new browser profile is far easily than spinning up a debain docker image, updating it and the installing Firefox and the running it?
A (very) mildly interesting tidbit...

I used to do IT for a vendor that injection-molded low durometer plastic washers for Zildjian. They placed a single large PO annually.

99% of the population would identify these as 'rubber' washers. Nope, they're polyurethane.
> Every time ChatGPT gives you a sketch recommendation, ask for downsides.

It's sort of the right lesson (double-check) but also not (you are checking the same stochastic source). This is like asking an assistant to find out what AWS tech to use by reading the internet, and then ask the same person to do the same thing again. It's better than asking once for sure, but the solution should be to actually check the source info (in this case, the AWS documentation).

But the more important lesson here is that, it should be a bare minimum requirement that if you want to deploy something new into prod, you should read its documentation and _know_ what it does.

Regardless of whether you are asking LLM or a real person or some forum's post, you don't just follow an advice without understanding it. This is a scary deployment tactic.
Which was highly successful, allowed for more productivity (the human species, like others, has performance gains when in comfortable and safe environments not befouled by exaggerated social animosities and fake niceties), aided those in marginalized (GSM, disabled) communities to complete work at the same level of interaction with others, and showed that most in-the-office activities are useless and hurts workers emotionally/physically.

The problem for them? They can't spy on and control your employees, which is what they want. They don't want their workers to have freedom, they want them to be slaves both in mentality and time, the most valuable aspects of our limited lives. This, with the added benefit, that anyone who doesn't "tow-the-line" will quit, reducing severance packages, etc. It's a harassment tactic to not pay out and force others to quit.

Perhaps those two should be required to be in a single office, all day, every day. Oh - that's right! They won't because it's a fucking nightmare and a waste of time, they are both paranoid messes and want to ensure they can track everything and everyone at all times. Must be great to be at the top to stifle the bottom.

tl;dr: They just want to spy on and control their employees, they know that remote working is highly effective, as they and their executive teams all do it, they just don't want others to have what used to be 'their special executive privilege'.
Reverse chronological means the feeds get flooded by high-velocity posters and low-volume posters are buried.
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> This sort of thing has sucked the air from anyone actually doing useful meaningful things

Do you really expect real movement on climate change now?
"Time capsule" of objects found in 15th century cesspit
Fakespot is not infallible but a useful addition to any Amazon research process.

They try to hide it from the front page (a bit of a dark pattern) but you don't need to download the plugin to use it, just visit https://www.fakespot.com/analyzer
My local TV station's website refuses to allow my to view their page and instead presents an a modal that cannot be blocked accusing me of using an ad blocker. The funny thing is that only happens on a mobile device using the default browser with no extensions. When I visit the same site on my laptop with uBO, the site is viewable with no blocking modals.

Sometimes you miss what you were aiming for I guess
They presented at HotChips 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_R0S6piLA0&t=2114s

There, one of the things they mentioned was that they were hoping that RISC-V in general, and their cores in particular, becomes a platform for academic research. That way, cutting-edge things are shared in the open and the industry benefits globally.

The optimistic view of this is that it's hoping for a better future for all. The cynical view is that open source is much harder to sanction/export control. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
A version of the full history is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company

It's not easy to summarize. I really recommend reading the whole thing.

> The company was founded in Constantinople in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian metalsmith and alchemist.

...

> After the death of Avedis, the business, and the secret for producing the metal, was handed down to several generations of male heirs.

...

> In 1850, Avedis II built a 25-foot schooner, in order to sail cymbals produced in Constantinople to trade exhibitions such as the Great Exhibition in London, and to supply musicians in Europe.

...

> Haroutune II's son Avedis III had left Armenia for the United States in 1909, and settled in Boston, where he established a family and a confectionary business. In 1927, he received a letter from his uncle Aram, informing him that he was to become heir to the family business, and Aram came to the US.

...

> Avedis III sought out jazz drummers like Gene Krupa to understand their needs.
Someone had a similar thought and that’s why Soultone exists.
Isn't RISC-V FOSS to begin with?
Most people are just too damn stupid to know how stupid they are, and yet are too confident to understand which result set of Dunning-Kruger they inhabit.

Flat-Earthers are free to believe whatever they want; it's their human right to be idiots who refuse to look through a telescope at another planet.

"There's a sucker born every minute." --P. T. Barnum (perhaps)
Interesting, I hadn't heard about that. But this knowledge is obscure by design I suppose.
You may be correct that companies should focus on profit, shareholder value. If true then we should want to destroy companies since our planet may depend on it.
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Cloudflare turnstile isn't even a captcha. The user just has to tick a box. Behind the scenes there's a javascript challenge to make sure you're vaguely a browser and not some script a bazillion requests per minute.