It's an appeal to the attention economy. "All of human cooking compressed into 2 MB" is(mentally) palatable relative to "Navigating the Emergent Geometry of Food Ingredient Embeddings".

Getting you to click is the ultimate goal.

The latter alternative might get even more clicks on HN.

Should be downvoted/flagged and buried.

This is the final phase of solving discrete logarithm problems where our goal is to convert a big integer into a product of small prime numbers over our factor base. Information is scant about the process so in the spirit of "name-and-conquer", this phase is also called the Reduction Step, the Descent Phase or Individual Logarithm Collection phase of solving a DLP.

The Gauss Sieve is a pretty neat algo for generating (lots of) short vectors from a lattice basis.

It's super useful when LLL and BKZ fail to generate a specific short vector that you know exists within your lattice.

Lol. Isn't this like being a contractor?

Yes, but your performance review is way more dramatic. Being a PIP-boy for life is not funny, but when they know and you know, it gets something of a comedic element.

This paper introduces the Galbraith&Ruprai modification to the Gaudry-Schost collision finding algorithm for solving discrete logarithm problems in an interval in (1.36√N) field operations.

This is the first C job I've encountered in the "Who's Hiring" thread.

I applied with my C transpiler sideproject and my substack samples that show programmers how to turn math papers into C code.

Crying in GMT+3

Even if your analysis was correct (you're hyper-focusing on the AI stuff), "Lots of big services are like this." is not an excuse.

OP says he's been using Github for 18 years, but he's only leaving now. I think this is enough evidence things have gotten worse.

The junior hiring collapse is all so bizarre. I graduated recently and my career prospects are jarringly limited.

I thought I'd go back for a Masters/PhD but then Trump mercurially defunded lots of STEM grad programs. Ngl, I found myself stuck. Zero job openings, zero PhD program openings. It's all so frustrating.

Odd anecdote. I completed high school in 2017 and my home country demanded us use mathematical tables, not calculators, to find logs and sines for our version of SAT math.

I got my highest-paying numerical programming contract (in the US) just because I knew (from high school math table experience) how to use LUTs to calculate a lot of useful stuff i.e quarter squares.

Modernization is great and all. However, it's disappointing to know lots of new programmers are oblivious of the fundamentals.