skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've observed orgs go from diverse to turn largely Indian or Chinese based upon who does the hiring, the only group that doesn't seem to do this is Americans of all ethnicities (Chinese american, indian american, white american etc). White americans seem like the ones having the least legal recourse. When these leaders move they pull these buddies into their new companies, and they often form cliques that operate using their groups culture and protect each other over company interests.
Maybe they look better in motion since they're stills from videos, but those AI faces the article shows look terrible. They look rubbery and give me an uncanny valley feeling.
You will face much harder decisions in your business. Are you going to ask several investors whether to hire an assistant, or rent an office, as well?
100% -- many of these acquisitions don't start through the front door.
I will tell you unless you have a really specialized skillset that I’m looking for (full stack developer is not specialized), if I reply at all to unsolicited message, I’m just going to tell you to go through the standard ATS funnel.

Of course if we worked together before and you impressed me, I’ll go through the standard internal referral process.
> Monogamy / rules about adultery are for stopping the spread of STDs.

And preventing unwanted pregnancies, and partly to stop a few men from monopolising all the women.
You are telling me it’s a huge excel sheet with all my cloud resources (some colored red) in?
> Like Wordpress, the best way to use Mastodon is to pay a company to run it for you.

Right. And no one self-hosts Wordpress. Ok.
Seems like dogequest site is down now.
>>Everything ICE and CBP did was lawful.

That may be true but it's a pretty much a low bar....why the detention for 2 weeks? Why was she not allowed to fly home? Is cruelty the point?
Hah, well, hate to break it to you, but ripgrep never writes files, only reads them. So its `-r/--replace` option only controls ripgrep's output, but doesn't actually replace data inside a file.
What is healthier to consume raw and what is healthier to cook with (consume cooked/oxidated)?
Given that particular strike was against in part automation it was that they wanted their port to become less competitive and eventually be destroyed by ports employing automation and not even jobs left for their kids to fix or engineer the machines.
If he wanted to do those things with the consent of the people, he could have run for public office. Buying his way in changes things significantly.
Update I got yesterday. We are seeing error rates lower than anyone else has made public yet. Still nothing about an actual working computer.
Most people dislike Trump, Musk, and Vance. Musk is by far the least liked of the three.

People in the country very much dislike the status-quo, hence the dislike of the Democratic Party and voters going for ape-shit change over Biden.

I sincerely doubt working people will see their lives improves this term and change their mind on Trump; there wasn't a liberal shift to the right and we'll likely see a major reaction of everyone going to the left when they realize dismantling everything hurt everyone.
Was going to jump in to say this. We interviewed Jeff Vander Stoep about this a couple months ago; it was pretty interesting: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/10/15/a-little...

It's always better to get new memory-safe code in to replace old memory-unsafe code, when you can, but the prioritization here is a little more complex.
yes, realnames depends on out-of-band harrassment being illegal and suppressed.

but it also means responsibility, which acts in the opposite direction.

a realnames policy doesn't preclude also offering pseudonyms for sensitive cases.

to me, it seems like the real issue is sockpuppetry - basically a Sybil attack on authenticity/reputation/responsibility.
You mean last year, according to this source (2017) https://youtu.be/tdUX3ypDVwI?t=2305
One can use this techniques to optimize the multiplier inside the FP FMA unit. However this cannot be used to multiply two floating point numbers as FP arithmetic is not associative.
Apple made the mistake of building a product that is too good. No one can even compete on their level, so they have to be brought down to everyone else's standards.
Plex Pass is going up in price – and now you'll need it for remote playback
> I'm not sure how they manage to enforce that, even with Europe's generally strong ideas around copyright and moral ownership and such.

Copyright holders use Google's reverse image search to find anyone who posts such photos to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and then file civil damage claims.
>There was a ERG for literally every single race except White people. "Just join one of the others" was what they told me.

Imagine moving to say, Switzerland, to work for a massive corporation. 90% of the employees are Swiss. The other 10% come from a smattering of other countries from around the world. To help those employees acclimate to a new culture and find support, the company sponsors country-based ERGs.

Of course, there is no Swiss ERG, as it's the "default", because the entire company is essentially a Swiss ERG. But, the company encourages its Swiss employees to join the others as a show of support and cultural exchange.

If you had attended one of those groups, you might have found yourself feeling extraordinarily welcome, and even learned a few things about your fellow employees.

>A few of these people were totally inept technically at their job and I saw them convert into better jobs. It must have been nice.

If "totally inept" people are being promoted with any frequency, then that's a problem for any company. I think we have all seen this occasionally but, in my experience, it has very little to do with race (or other identity) and more to do with the Peter Principle and the fact that hiring and HR management is notoriously hard to get right.

I'm not suggesting anything about the earnestness of your observations, but you should be aware that assuming every non-white person you see at a company is the beneficiary of preferential treatment is a bit of a canard. And the idea that a disproportionate number of those are inept is yet another.

As such, whimsical people might draw rather nasty conclusions from your statements, that are other than what you intended.
Yes, the weird truth is that donating a small percentage of your salary to a charity like this is a lot easier than trying to be vegetarian/vegan while still being about as effective.

That site says ~$25 per month, which is not a lot for engineer salaries. Or $50/month if you want to make up for your past choices too.

FWIW I've donated a lot to The Humane League and Giving What We Can's Animal Welfare Fund.
Trust me, it gets weirder
Because nothing terrifies corporate executives more than a loosely organized group of scattered workers with no legal standing, no collective bargaining rights, and no strike protections. Truly, the next great labor revolution will be built on the unshakable foundation of good vibes and a mailing list. In practice, I don’t think things will be that easy.
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Ask your team. This is not a decision that will make or break your company... just pick whatever the team likes. After all, they will be using it, not your VCs or other founders.
The one constant in my career has been mongoDB -- specifically, projects to replace it with a relational database after a deployment had failed to deliver any of the expected benefits, and introduced unforeseen downsides that had become untenable. Mongo has literally never come up in any context for me where it wasn't either already, or eventually, slated for retirement.

I absolutely don't doubt a document store including mongo is an ideal solution for certain specific applications. I just haven't come across one yet personally. For me personally, I would use Postgres for most things and JSONB columns for document-like things until I found a reason to change.
The belay test and the modern American climbing gym
Really useful. Using it to advise brands about influencer rates.
Yes, unions at video game studios are bound to save so many lives.

In other words your comment is hyperbolic and does not apply to the topic at hand.
I think the section “Atmospheric refraction and the solar limb” near the end of the article addresses this.
It doesn't hurt to be brib...incentivizing the F1000 CISOs (not my words, see article) : https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc

"The first sales come from the loyal CISOs who work with the fund. Although it may be considered "small money", the jumps between the first stages of fundraising are the most difficult. “Until a ‘regular’ startup company reaches sales of $2-10 million it grinds itself to a pulp, but with Gili Ra'anan, this happens in the first year of sales. He creates a mechanism that is difficult to compete against because his companies immediately jump to a valuation of $100-200 million, raise more money, and then also have more resources to compete later,” a partner in an Israeli venture capital fund tells Calcalist. “With a seemingly small purchase of $100,000-$200,000, a CISO increases a startup's value by dozens of times.”"

...

"I recruited a new CISO for a financial organization that I managed out of a desire to refresh the cyber defense system. I gave him a free hand because I trusted him and I see this position as a position of trust. Six months later, I noticed that, surprisingly, almost all of the new logos that the CISO introduced were portfolio companies of Cyberstarts [Of which Wiz is their most notable]," describes a former senior executive at a large financial institution in the U.S. "It's not that these were necessarily bad solutions, but that some of them were a very low priority for us or solved problems that were not particularly urgent. After I confronted the CISO on the subject, he admitted that he is on the list of advisers of Cyberstarts and receives a percentage of the funds from them. Shortly after this, he left the company and immediately upon the appointment of a new CISO, I asked him to inform me if he was contacted by Cyberstarts. Within a few weeks, he had already received an email from them with a description of their kind of 'loyalty program' that details exactly what he will receive the more he works with the fund."
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
Why is it that people who are not even affected by this cry the loudest? I, an EU citizen, love that we are standing up to the big corporations like this. GO EU!
The Trinitron will blur itself at 1600x1200. The problem is the legions of low PPI 1080p LCDs in business settings.
Plex Pass subscription pirce increase:

Yearly price $40, changed to $70

Lifetime price $120 to $250
Not to weigh against Wolfram one last time, but he's (finally?) renamed Mathematica just "Wolfram". Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is beyond me.
200 billion was spent in 2024 by the US, broadly, on research in general.
I think we need to mandate that publicly funded research be open, doesn't get gamed by politics, clout chasing, or other flawed incentives, and we need to deliberately establish replication protocols. We should be establishing fundamental scientific data with rigorous and thorough standards, but people end up doing sloppy, incoherent, politicized papers that are published on behalf of a person or idea or pre-existing conclusion.

If you did the basic research, then mandated 10 replications for each novel outcome (or whatever, some sort of structured process needs to be created), and then put up replication grants to fund it, you'd filter out the noise. The NIH and Congress and other government entities should have some number of yearly slots for replication grants, so that should the public or some agency have an interest in validating the findings of a paper, they can direct their representatives to pursue it, and so forth.

We have an enormous amount of money, an amazing system of research labs and universities and private corporations in the US, we just need a reliable and intentional system to use those things to best effect.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

That gives me some ideas to try myself.
Did you just
NASA has a whole streaming service. Not sure of the legal status but I thought everything made by the US government was public domain?

https://plus.nasa.gov/
Fighter Factory Studio and just make a few characters to figure out the quirks. The elecbyte documentation is ok for the basics, and then there are a few tutorials on MUGENGuild and MFFA as well. I agree, and I have the dataset to make a GenAI project out of this. Maybe I will do it someday!
> AWS or Azure is going to shut down services they rely on

If we give the benefit of the doubt to a quick internet search, e.g. AWS: S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline, and CodeCommit.

All closed to new business, closure pending for existing customers.

I'm sure if you read the small print, neither AWS or Azure make you any promises about the longevity of their services.

Infact, if you believe in the cloud mantra, then you should treat all cloud services as a commodity that can undergo substancial changes or removal at any time.
Musk's donations to political parties is public (leaving aside SuperPAC and other funding being hidden).

He has NEVER donated more to the Democrats than the Republicans. Like most billionaires he donates to both parties. Historically, he donates ten times more to the Republicans and the Democrats.

Nothing about Musk has ever seemed "liberal". Just convenient. He smokes weed on shows, but if you work for one of his companies you'll be fired if you don't piss clean. Anti-taxes. Anti-regulation/oversight.

How has he ever been democrat-leaning in any meaningful way?
>If they had simply booted her back across the border

They can't. And this is entirely her fault for trying to enter through Mexico. Telling them she will return to Canada isn't helpful because what are they supposed to do? Tell her ok, go get an Uber to the Airport and just let her go? Mexico would not issue her a VISA either so her only option is US or Mexican Detention. When the agent said "You aren't a criminal" is when she saw that Mexico had denied her re-entry and she was flagged for detention.

Now, I mean, personally I think it would be fine to just let her go because who really cares, but the point of rules/laws/procedures is for them to be followed.

Why did she go to Mexico first? Because she was denied entry in Canada and thought there would be less scrutiny at the Southern Border for Canadians. She was correct, because it worked the first time when she would have likely been denied at the Canadian border for her second crossing, but her initial denial flagged her.

I feel for her, and the situation sucks, but she 100% knows she's trying to game the system, and that's not even bringing up the issues of her self-sponsored TN visa which is dubious.
That's called "twilight". In the section "Atmospheric refraction and the solar limb" there's a modified sunrise equation with a variable "a" and text suggesting a correction of 50 minutes of arc there.

If you replace 50 minutes with:
- 6 degrees, you get the times of "civil twilight" (roughly speaking, when you don't need light outside). At 60 degrees north at midsummer the minimum altitude of the sun will be about -6.5 degrees so almost all of the nominal night is civil twilight.
- 12 degrees is "nautical twilight" (horizon clearly visible)
- 18 degrees is "astronomical twilight" (sky is dark enough for all astronomical observations).

(It's possible that those are defined as 6 degrees + 50 minutes, etc.)
That seems like a reason to flag the comments, not the article.
Back in the day, the internet was an escape from the TV.

It allowed access to information, alternative views (real ones not insane made up ones), no ads, and an escape from having to hear a dominant narrative.

Now the internet has become the new TV. A lot of younger people I see are shunning it.

That makes my old hacker heart smile.
hyped != viable
So, sniper, any arguments? Now you look as if I denounced a vile perspective and some responded with a vile action.
I'm not sure what you're saying is inconsistent with parent's comment: you're both talking about different points in time in humanity's history – the snark seems unwarranted.
Lost? It has never been easier to do research or start a research project. What has changed is the inclination to read. Reading was a refuge for some - and probably fiction graphic novels, computer games, doom scrolling are now the comparable refuge. So basic, cursory research has lost one population.

Did that population do all that much in-depth research. Some sure. Not all that much.

So there was perhaps an anomaly in research for a short while and we are now back to deeper research belonging again to the people who enjoy the rabbit hole and the full fledged projects. And for us, research has never been easier.
Someplace in there was: (in no particular order)
The Apple I
The Commodore Vic-20
The Ohio Scientific Superboard series
The Exidy Sorcerer
The SWTPC 6800/1
The SWTPC 6800/2
The SWTPC 6809
The Heathkit H8
The Heathkit H11
The TLF Corporation 6100
The Digital Group (several systems)
Mini Micro Mart (many systems)
Kaypro
Rainbow
Radio Shack TRS-80
The HP-85 (Hewlett-Packard)
The Byte 8
The Kim-1
I guess I have two questions:

- do you think it is so hard to track people by their other behavior? that is, do pseudonyms actually work?

- isn't harrassment by realnamed actors a failure of the (out-of-band) legal system?
Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
New carbon-negative material could make concrete and cement more sustainable
try being a billionaire and you'll note "being liked" becomes a vastly heavier lift
Not exactly; even after the sun is fully below the horizon there's some light. See the interactive graph - the times aren't long enough for twilight. But you can use a larger value of "a" in the equation above it to make that change.
And it's not just "sunset + X minutes" where X would be a constant. In the winter this X is much shorter than in the summer.

For me X is then a "travelling" value which in the winter is at 1/3 between sunset (0°) and civil dusk (-6°), and in the summer it goes up to 2/3. Calculated as the moment when the blinds go down.

I'm using https://astral.readthedocs.io for this.
Though mitigations on this are that the QR codes in BLE authentication are inside browser/OS dialogs, not a part of the webpages. Obviously a web page can still put a lot of work into pretending to be browser/OS dialogs, but there are some mitigations in place of "does this look like the right prompt for this style of login?" already. Also, obviously some of that is a training problem of "don't just scan random QR codes, look for the ones specifically framed in browser dialogs" and given how hard it can be in general to train people to be skeptical of random QR codes there will always be human failures in that space.

One of the tricks is going to be avoiding Bluetooth logins in the long run. Microsoft has mentioned interest in finding better ways to better flow keys cross-platform. Also, BLE logins should be rare in general if handled well (BLE login once and only once on a different platform to add a key for that platform directly to the site) and we shouldn't be training users to expect "login via QR code" as the "norm". (Of course, yes, that's also a training situation with a lot of human failure modes.)
Though most academic disciplines have a strong "not invented here" bias. It makes you ignore anything outside your citation bubble or from different fields with somewhat different conventions and terms. Even if the other guys are academics as well.
We were Fauna users for several years and invested a lot of time working with it and around it. The time travel capability was one of the stand out features for us in addition to FQL which opened some interesting capabilities. That being said for various reasons we had to transition away from it and did so by creating a FQL compatible solution on top of Postgres. It is implemented in JavaScript/TypeScript and runs in Postgres through the plv8 extension. Is this something that would be interesting to other current users?
Somewhat possible but not particularly plausible.

Japanese is a SOV language, so the verb generally goes at the end. You couldn't move that all the way to the front. The "subject" can be implicit and Japanese also distinguishes between the overall topic, marked with 'wa', and the actual subject (i.e., the agent that does something).

There's a fairly neutral order for many other parts of the sentence components. You can shuffle them around a bit, but it ends up changing the emphasis. As a rough analogy, you normally put size adjectives before colours: "I caught the big red balloon." Inverting this either sounds wrong or puts emphasis on the other adjective: "I caught the red big balloon" suggests that "big balloons" are a distinct category known to the speaker.
Sadly I think he’s probably right. If you’re tech-savvy it can sometimes be easy to forget that a lot of people aren’t, and IMO Mastodon is probably too complicated for the average person.

My mother is 80 years old and she is the least tech-savvy person I know. I have learned a lot about designing software just by watching her struggle to use her various devices.
...and search. That was amazing.
Yes. We will work with you to help you, does not mean it is not going to be disruptive.

Changing database technology is hard. Moving off from cloud to self serviced option is also hard.
I do not think it takes a decade-long longitudinal study to conclude that seed oils are not mercury or thalidomide.
Congress controls the budget, it really is that simple.

If I believe USAID is full of waste, fraud, and abuse, I’m free to express that at the ballot box where I vote for a congressperson who wishes to vote on the next budget accordingly.

The executive has many dimensions of freedom with regard to federal agencies. “Existence of” and “funding of” are not among those dimensions of freedom.
That’s great. For you. Most businesses don’t have the ability or desire to build every single security tool they use in-house or use open source for everything. So they buy commercial tools. Which are audited by third parties to give the companies that use the commercial tools some idea of how their data will be used.

If google wants to maintain those audit findings, which they’ll need to do to keep most of their customers, that’s going to limit the kind of data collection they can do. Unless, of course, you want to propose a new conspiracy theory (which I guess would be par for the course in this thread) that Google is going to lie to their auditors to get at that sweet, sweet data (most of which they already have for their GCP customers and don’t need to buy Wiz to obtain.)
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I mean that seems pretty reasonable? I find your philosophy a little disappointing, but you do you. But it is reasonable. I think you ignored this part of my comment:

> To be clear, I mean this somewhat narrowly. Namely
>
>> I’m too old and too lazy
>
> I totally get that.
Good gawd that's a nightmare system. Election by mood based polling.

So if a person's poll numbers drop below some threshold, they are automatically recalled? Do you then set a minimum amount of time to keep the polling below that threshold. 0s? 24hrs? 1 week? You've now also limited the number of eligible voters to those with cards that work in ATMs, so people with some form of wealth which is probably in line with how the framers intended
I don't, but I expect a powerful person to have the foresight to have not just Yes men around them and listen to advice/voices that give them counter points to what they want to blurb out before they blurb it out.
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