skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do exactly that right now - just stop working. You don't have to. Nobody ever had to. Would the overall productive output of humanity for goods that matter drop significantly if you opt-out? Probably not at all.

The problem, though, is, a job secures your place in the goods distribution scheme, and the scheme in general rewards certain behaviours that lead to (sometimes outsized) gains for the broader society. So what's the new scheme is going to be?

It's not just wealth redistribution. It's keeping people busy. It's suppressing antisocial behaviour on massive scale. It's rewarding polite social interactions - and even basic hygiene. Recall the second half of the first COVID year, and how rapidly a good chunk of population degraded into absolute slobbery.

Surprisingly, it's a much easier question for China than it is for US. Privately owned AI is about as smart as privately owned nuclear weapons.
I guess when I say “innovation” I’m not talking about advancements in science or incremental improvements to existing solutions, but using those advancements to solve real problems for people.

It feels like tech lost the plot. (This was most apparent during the NFT craze)

We advance technology for the sake of it, assuming that solutions will be found using this new technology.

There’s no focus on people anymore, just technology in the hopes that one will be a jackpot.

> AI is probably a big deal depending upon how you define it although I'm more cautious than many here are.

I think we’re on the same page here and it illustrates my point.

Innovation still happens, ofc. I think AlphaFold is a major innovation, for example.

I just feel like it’s no longer the focus of the industry at large
The traditional tech interview was always designed to optimize for reliably finding someone who was willing to do what they were told even if it feels like busywork. As a rule someone who has the time and the motivation to brush up on an essentially useless skill in order to pass your job interview will likely fit nicely as a cog in your machine.

AI doesn't just change the interviewing game by making it easy to cheat on these interviews, it should be changing your hiring strategy altogether. If you're still thinking in terms of optimizing for cogs, you're missing the boat—unless you're hiring for a very short term gig what you need now is someone with high creative potential and great teamwork skills.

And as far as I know there is no reliable template interview for recognizing someone who's good at thinking outside the box and who understands people. You just have to talk to them: talk about their past projects, their past teams, how they learn, how they collaborate. And then you have to get good at understanding what kinds of answers you need for the specific role you're trying to fill, which will likely be different from role to role.

The days of the interchangeable cog are over, and with them easy answers for interviewing.
Is it possible your conversation partner had looked up fountain pens recently?
Technically it's one step removed from doxxing, but I'll take your point.
Lithium-based batteries supply chain challenges
You'd be looking for a "TLS / ECH downgrade attack", and... while a brief googling isn't finding anything saying explicitly "yea" or "nah", it sounds like it should generally be prevented. E.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Encrypted_Client_Hello mentions explicit bypasses are possible with enterprise proxies (which generally require client-side certificate authorities which are an explicit opt-in to allowing a third party to decrypt your traffic). And it's a TLS 1.3 extension, and TLS 1.3 -> 1.2 downgrades are intentionally prevented as part of 1.3's design...

... and even if it wasn't, ECH works by reading public keys from DNS, so the domain owner has claimed "you can send ECH" and it's pretty easy to know "therefore you shouldn't downgrade if you are capable, it's probably an attacker". Though unencrypted DNS renders this all a bit moot of course.

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tl;dr, with the caveat that IANAWebSecuritySpecialist and I haven't found anything I'd call actually conclusive yet:

I believe "no". Unless you are setting up client-side CAs, at which point you can MITM everything so it hardly matters.
Maybe it's a new closed-closed principle. A class should be closed to modification and extension, F U.
There's still plenty of engineers that can't code their way out of a paper bag
I used to dabble in the sleep space since my circadian rhythm is shot anyway.

But the self reporting aspects of the “data” always made me suspicious. People in certain phases of sleep dep, hypoxia, or a number of other debilitating events don’t know they’re experiencing symptoms until someone else tells them they are. That’s why you’re trained to look for signs in others.

So I am sorry but I don’t trust you if you tell me you feel great on four hours of sleep a day. Let’s do a task or a test and see if you can brain or you’re just euphoric.
The thought stream is part of the charm. It's very educative and helps a lot with prompting.
As the article mentions, Caffeine's approach is to monitor the workload and adapt to these phase changes. This stress test [1] demonstrates shifting back and forth between LRU and MRU request patterns, and the cache reconfiguring itself to maximize the hit rate. Unfortunately most policies are not adaptive or do it poorly.

Thankfully most workloads are a relatively consistent pattern, so it is an atypical worry. The algorithm designers usually have a target scenario, like cdn or database, so they generally skip reporting the low performing workloads. That may work for a research paper, but when providing a library we cannot know what our users workloads are nor should we expect engineers to invest in selecting the optimal algorithm. Caffeine's adaptivity removes this burden and broaden its applicability, and other language ecosystems have been slowly adopting similar ideas in their caching libraries.

[1] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Efficiency#adapti...
Since Binder is a kernel feature, how do they get it to work?
Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo
Right, but I don't see any reason why that must be the case. It's not a fundamental limitation.
Yep, can confirm that emoji flags are evil. We had same problem. Windows users reported missing flags and few google searches away we found out that emoji flags are not supported.
...in spite of.
Just a heads up, your reading comprehension kinda sucks.
I have my own router, but use the ISP's modem. The modem is also able to act as a wired router and Wi-Fi router, but I set it to "bridge mode" to disable the wired NAT so that I could use my own router instead. (When they replaced the modem, I did tell them to enable bridge mode, and they did that, so that is not a problem.)
US electorate must find out. You can only negotiate with rational people. Retaliatory tariffs are mandatory, at a minimum.
Yeah, so adding a local storage would be a step 1? Or would you prefer to use the standard google/facebook/etc instead?

Sounds cool! I like those ideas. I hope it works for people. As explained to me the TBR feature would be the best, so I will definitely try to use it :)
The Battle for Better Air
Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Discount
<< find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone. (this is usually successful, but can backfire badly -- CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans)

Honestly, kudos. The rules should apply to the ones foisting this system upon us as well. This is probably the only way to make anyone in power reconsider current setup.

<< As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd.

And people laughed at Red Reddington when he said he had no email.
I don't understand why an interviewer would ban the use of AI if they are allowed to use AI in the role.

The interview is a chance to see how a candidate performs in a work like environment. Let them use the tools they will use on the job and see how well they can perform.

Even for verbal interviews, if they are using ChatGPT on the side and can manage the conversation satisfactorily then more power to them.
It's exactly backwards, YouTube favours short videos and frequent uploads. People doing long videos do it purely out of passion.

The claim that most videos nowadays are hitting the one hour mark is trivially false.
That's a very naive take. Posix is not the holy scripture. And have you heard of this OS called "Windows"? It's pretty popular.
> "I don't know what talking about "Infinity * 0" means in an informal sense means"

I'm not a rationalist, I'm only using their language to make the mapping to their ideology simpler. A comet striking earth would be "infinitely bad". The chance of that happening is, as far as I'm concerned, zero (its not zero, but I round it down.) If you multiply the infinitely bad outcome by the zero percent chance of it happening, you result is that you shouldn't waste your time and emotional resources worrying about it.

Normal people don't phrase this kind of reasoning with math terminology as rationalists do, but that terminology isn't where the rationalists go wrong. Where the rationalists go wrong isn't the multiplication, it's the failure to ignore very unlikely outcomes as normal people would. They think themselves too rational to ignore the possibility of unlikely things, but ironically it is normal people who don't spend their time dwelling on extremely unlikely bullshit have a more rational approach to life.

The rationalists spend hours discussing scenarios like "What if a super AI manipulates people into engineering a super virus that wipes out humanity? Its technically possible; there's no law of physics which prevents this!", to which a normal person would respond by wondering if these people are on drugs, why would they spend so much time worrying about something which isn't going to happen?
Answer: they don't leak classified info, they leak restricted info that's effectively public domain.

Because both sound bad, there's benefits to all involved to do a little bait and switch there.

Notably, reputable publications don't play along.

This sounds disagreeable, but it's the boring truth. Some sourcing:

- "declassified information can still be considered “restricted,” and thus violates the game’s rules, [the game developer] said. In fact, the restricted manuals are available for purchase on legitimate websites."

[via Task and Purpose: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-military-sensitive-info-w...] [via Task and Purpose in another PR round: https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/war-thunder-challenger-2-...]

The UK Defence Journal is the worst offender, they're not reputable, but rather a bog-standard republisher that reliably finds a way to publish a headline on this every 6 months.

They cleverly don't assert anything themselves, but rather quote comments that are confused about classification. (i.e. compare to 2nd Task and Purpose link. same incident: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-tank-specs-leaked...)

They've also started using AI to write it up for them.

c.f. comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490191, the latest round of virality
We went through something similar in the 1960s with the Whiz Kids, young college graduates from the RAND corporation with no experience in government or the military. 'But you have to obey us because we're so much smarter than you.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(Department_of_Defen...
> almost everybody praises scroll to zoom in map applications

In what sense is that true?
Okay? Then you disprove their claims and their bad sources. If they don't want to understand that, there's nothing to do. They are not a reasonable audience to debate with logos at that point.

Them denying nature's truth doesn't allieve them from nature's forces.
The end goal is annexation. Canada has natural resources and Trump wants them. He's creating a crisis he can use as justification for invasion.
Projects are personal projects, or at least projects in which you did a distinguishable effort.

They don't have to be public to the whole world, you can have links that are only in your resume.

But if they're on GitHub, they have to be public, since there aren't unlisted repositories.
There are plenty of use cases for this type of manufacturing.While the surface quality is rough, it will print directly onto high finished sections
and then create impossible to machine or cast geometries. Unfortunately parts are likely to be heavy as well as rough, so its not going to be much use in airospace.....at least for flying parts, but for wild wierd and wonderfull jigs, to then build production parts on, it could be the cats meow.
Sather was a very interesting example of a language that is very much "OO is the way" design, but which cleanly separates composition and inheritance:

https://www.gnu.org/software/sather/docs-1.2/tutorial/inclus...

https://www.gnu.org/software/sather/docs-1.2/tutorial/abstra...
I don't agree.

The point of my comment was not whether free will exists or not – it was whether choices exist or not.

I haven't read Salopsky's book myself, but I don't believe it argues that choices don't exist, only that they aren't free. And the comment to which you are replying wasn't expressing any stance on the question of whether our choices are "free" or not, only distinguishing it from the separate question of whether they exist at all.

That said, the impression I've gathered of his book – e.g. the review in The Atlantic by Kieran Setiya (a professor of philosophy at MIT) – doesn't impress me – Sapolsky largely ignores the philosophical literature on the topic, despite its essentially philosophical nature. "Free will" is more fundamentally a question of philosophy than neuroscience, because a big part of the debate is how the phrase "free will" should even be defined – and that kind of definitional question is one in which neuroscientists have no special competence, but for philosophers it is their bread and butter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Setiya
If that's your standard you'll quickly find you can't say much about anything.

For example, you can't say humans have 5 fingers on each hand, polydactyly (had to google that one) has a higher prevalence than 0.001
You're expected to install a kernel that has the module, or build it yourself. I use linux-zen which ships binder out of the box.
It's possible that what we can express with the Common Lisp Object System is a generalization that isn't OOP. It goes beyond OOP and includes it.

I.e. OOP is a style of programm organization (readily realizable under CLOS) where we associate operations with the leftmost argument and its type.
Can you cite case law around where some one misrepresented their capabilities in a job interview and were criminally prosecuted? Like what criminal statute specifically was charged? You won’t find it, because at worst this would fall under a contract dispute and hence civil law. Screeching “fraud is a crime” hysterically serves no one.
> at some point with AI advances this will essentially become impossible.

In-person interviews, second round comes with a plane ticket. This used to be the norm.
A very simple problem, you have a table of house sales. For each house (identified by an ID), you want to find the sale date that had the lowest price.

You'd think that you should be able to sort by the house ID, then by the sale price, then group by the house ID, and select the sale _date_ from the first row of each group.

Something like: `select s.house_id, first(s.date) from sale s order by s.house_id, s.price asc group by s.house_id`. But this is impossible, because there's no `first` function in SQL.

But nope, you need DB-specific extensions for that.
Actually this could prove very useful for a resistance movement. Take them down with with their own medicine.
I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. But I think one exception is when they promote products which are bad.

Tobacco ads are already banned - gambling should 100% be a banned ad category. So should mobile apps that are basically gambling in disguise.
That sounds like bad engineering.

Having all kinds of flags makes system prone to misconfigurations.

As amount grows you get flags depending on other flags etc.

Gets insane rather quickly. Unless someone purges flags relentlessly.
To give a much undeserved BOTD: I don't think he'll be approved because people really believe nor even trust RFO Jr. He will be approve to upkeep the status quo. A status quo to appeal to their voter base or to appeal to Trump or something like that.

Almost nothing on the RFO appointment is rooted in facts.
In Java, all method dispatch is virtual (dynamic), but in C#, methods being virtual is an opt-in, so intercepting and mocking such calls requires a lot more effort.

It's still possible, mind you. TypeMock has been offering this exact ability for C# for many years now. But the free TDD frameworks generally didn't have this.
DSLReports Down / Gone?
There is an open source alternative that might be even better: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-locator#locator-aria-s....
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> It seems as if you're trying to explicitly instruct a top-down parser.

My mistake, that didn't even occur to me! I only ever use parser combinators so I just read grammars as if they were the code, and vice-versa.

e.g. you could implement the grammar on the upper line as the code on the lower line:

S -> F | F + S
s = f <|> (f >> char '+' >> s)

The two grammars you posted both 'look good' just by eyeballing them, neither needs 'fixing' (per the article title). They have identical precedence and identical don't-recurse-infinitely properties.
But this estimate is for "free learning"?
I'm guessing you're either missing or deliberately excluding the HUGE push by Youtube for "Youtube Shorts". Personally, I vastly prefer long (20+ minute) videos. However short videos are good for quick DIY / tutorials when I'm unable to find a written equivalent.
Maybe I'm just from a culture that doesn't give much shit about honorifics. Or my tone is mocking.

Disclaimer: I don't know Elon Musk, other than news articles, and geniunely don't care about him one way or the other.
Nope. Kept them coming!
I believe you can disable it clicking on the gear.
This is a non-standard extension, and it also doesn't allow the selection of the _first_ element in a group. Even if the group is actually ordered.
I used to type fast enough that it never felt like it was a limiting factor. Then on a couple of occasions I got shooting pains down the back of my right hand and I couldn't type for several days. Because of that I looked into alternate keyboard layouts and that rabbit-hole led me to developing a keyboard layout that was easier to transition to than Colemak/Tarmak that performs about as well.

What I found trying to learn my new layout is that I don't type enough in a given day as a software developer, so had to practice regularly on typing sites. I quickly got back up to around 70 wpm which was slower than I was typing before but it was far more comfortable and I rarely find I need to type faster. I'm generally limited by how fast I think.

This is very much the same as when I'm playing StarCraft 2, I can go over 140 APM but that tends to be spamming keys with automatic rather than situationally appropriate actions--with better plans and thinking I can be more effective at 100 APM.
dogs in usa are 3x more dangerous than lightning.

dogs are 689x less dangerous than traffic accidents.

it's important to spread safety effort proportional to the risk - both on a personal level and a nationwide level.
> So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway.

How old are your kids and do they know you are doing this? There surely is a difference between a 5- and a 15-year old. But if they are not at all aware they are constantly being watched like that, man that's some serious breach of trust. This full-on surveillance could damage your kids for life.

I'm so glad this kind of tech hardly existed when I was a kid 30 years ago.
I made a well-received native iOS/macOS app for mining Japanese web and ebook content (Mokuro manga up next) into Anki or my own companion flashcard app: https://reader.manabi.io

I'm now working on flashcard auto-reviews while reading, so that if you read words/kanji that you have cards for, it'll automatically mark those cards as reviewed rather than ask you to recall them shortly after you just had to recall during your reading.

I hope this helps people replace more SRS time with actual reading (or listening)
Also you can view flagged posts if you're looking at the /active list instead of the main page: https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Yeah I don't know about this specific situation, but as someone who is on the job market, is a good developer, but can come off as a little odd sometimes, I often wonder how often I roll a natural 1 on my Cha check and get perceived as an AI imposter.
I'm assuming you're using your Bilt card when this happens.
Your Bilt agreement stipulates how itemized transaction data (level 3 in payment terms, with level 2 being "enriched" with subtotals/tax and merchant information- which is what you typically see with your normal bank)

Card networks (Mastercard, VISA) have different fee structures that incentivize more detailed information like level 3 for lower processing fees for merchants - here's more details on levels https://na-gateway.mastercard.com/api/documentation/integrat...

https://support.biltrewards.com/hc/en-us/articles/5536526023...

Perhaps more interesting in your case is that if you had your card issues in or before 2022, it's likely with Evolve bank which was breached - https://medium.com/@HackLaddy/when-your-bank-doxxes-you-9152...
Blairs government deregulated gambling to a large extent, hoping for some tax back from large casinos in theory at least.
But I can order it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911873
Oh, Banana Co...
https://archive.is/URjfk
This is very cool. Can someone help me understand the behind the scenes, what’s their strategy? Their motivations? Are they targeting specific industries or nations for a reason?
Buddy of mine recently got a position with the help of custom built model that was listening on the call and printed answers on another screen. The arms race is here and frankly, given that a lot of people are already using it at work, there is no way to stop it short of minute upon minute supervision and even biggest micromanagers won't be able to deal with it.

Honestly, if I could trust that companies won't try to evaluate my conversation through 20 different ridiculous filters, I would probably argue that my buddy is out of line.. As it stands, however, he is merely leveling out the playing field. But, just life with WFH, management class does not like that imposition one bit.
DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests
I've noticed this too, it's becoming somewhat infamous that modern YouTube videos are all these 1+ hour long 'video essays' on topics which could easily be replaced with 2-3 page articles to be read in half the time.

While back in the day a long video essay was usually borne out of necessity and thus information-dense and high-quality—not unlike a documentary, actually—it feels like length itself is an objective for a lot of newer videos.

I suspect many subconsciously think "if my video is 2+ hours long, then clearly it's high-quality and well-researched", regardless of the actual density of information.

And don't even get me started on content creators that use AI-generated sludge because they don't have enough relevant visuals for the runtime of the video. Like dude, just make the video shorter.