skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done over 800 interviews, and I call bullshit on this.

I've spent 30min talking to candidates about their projects, experience, tech they used, choices made, etc. and been super excited and positive about them.

Then I ask them to find the intersection of two lists in better than O(n^2) and they completely fail to write functional code in their preferred language in the next 30 minutes. This isn't even "leetcode" level of challenge.

If I'm hiring you to be a professional software engineer for 6 figures income to spend 8-10 hours a day designing, writing, and debugging code, you need to be able to write code.

The disparity between the conversation and the coding performance can be significant, and both need to be evaluated.

If there's a better way to evaluate if someone can write code, I'm open to try it. But take home tests, portfolios, pair-programming, "a day in the life", etc. all have their problems and disadvantage different groups.
I would contend for any job that is not high paying, individuals cannot save enough to cover longer than expected age in retirement, but could cover the average.
The big open ocean is great for IR when weather conditions are clear. But clouds and moisture in general degrade IR imagery pretty quickly.

Also, saturation attacks are expensive. Hypersonic missiles will be very expensive; even Tomahawks are far north of $1m per war shot. Same with the DF-21 type ASBMs. These are very expensive weapons, and while a CVN battlegroup is a juicy target, you'll need a lot to conduct a saturation attack.

In the end, I think that ASBMs/Hypersonics etc will dwindle in time as a threat as DE weapons become common. Right now the biggest issue in defending the airspace around a carrier is magazine depth. But DE overcomes this, especially with nuclear powered vessels.

In the long run, what the USN needs to worry about is the PLAN developing good submarine capabilities. We've let our ASW defenses wither, and reconstituting them will take decades.
Yes, good UI will cut down on 99% of customer interactions. We built a chatbot that companies can use by integrating with their e-commerce. The overwhelming majority of customers ask "where is my package?"

Why is that? Can't they just check the tracking number? That's a question I had until i tested a few dozen e-commerce solutions and most of them have buried their tracking number under several confusing menus. And even when you get the tracking number, carriers each have confusing ways to track packages.
Fake news. Show us some proof. Can’t trust words anymore
As I said in another reply to you, the subject of discussion here is statistics and modelling, and it is very relevant because so many restrictions and new laws have been justified using modelled outcomes.

>as if the virus doesn't even exist in your mind

I suppose you'd go on to say I've "done my own research on Facebook", I'm an anti-vaxxer, etc etc. The virus is real. Our response has been vastly overblown and will continue to have have disproportionally massive side-effects (in my opinion). Those side-effects will mostly hurt others I care about (as I have described in all of my comments). Strange that complaining at all about the effects of restrictions, even when it is mostly about others or wide-reaching societal problems, makes me "selfish" or "privileged".
Am I missing something? All of the OP’s listed software depend on JavaScript. How is that “JS-free”?
Seizing funds without explanation or restitution is a well known use case for cryptocurrencies at this point.
Hey everyone! I'm currently building a minimalist, privacy-focused LinkedIn alternative for software engineers:

- Only connections can message you

- Find your next role on your terms: specify your criteria, no recruiter spam, vetted jobs.

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What are your thoughts? Would this be valuable to the community?
There is always a risk of attempted out-of-context cancellation for people who attempt to discuss the quirks of philosophy, law, or policy regarding taboo subjects.

I learned last night that Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has articles about him on Vice that are narrowly focused on some of his weighing in on the Epstein case.

While I cannot defend what RMS may have said just as I cannot defend what Schrodinger may have done, I still wish to highlight the absolute toxicity of taboo topics.

On the one hand:
These sorts of things become the narrow fixation of moral crusaders who pursue their cause to the extremes.

On the other hand:
Outsiders weighing in can be caught in the crossfire and find themselves cancelled by the crusade if they start asking questions or trying to discuss the wider meta of, "What defines this rule? Is it not possible that they are innocent? Does this rule help society? What of false positives?"

... As a result, outsiders know to avoid discussing the moral crusade or the rule for fear of being on the recieving end of the legacy destroying mob's righteous wrath.

We all self censor and avoid asking critical questions to improve our understandings of these events. We live in an age where the devil's advocate as well as the devil are both put on trial.
The license doesn't say 100 full-time employee positions throughout the year. It says anyone who's been an employee or contractor during any part of the year. Did I pay someone $200 for an hour of consulting? That counts. Did I have an unpaid intern for 120 hours of work? That counts. Did I hire a bunch of work done somewhere else in the world for $5 an hour? Each of those people count. Did I pay a receptionist to man an office 20 hours a week at minimum wage? That counts.
Compared to just go scanning devices at random?

I'd guess scanning them yourself would be easier and faster, so if you want to invade some system, it's not adding anything for you.
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At the end of the day the impact and perceived quality of your research correlates to how peer reviewed it is, and how reproducible it is. Everything necessary to reproduce your research should be published, including the code. However, if you publish cleaned up versions of your code, that isn't the code you used to do your research.

I suggest publishing the code as is on something such as Github, Gitlab, etc. I suspect you have ideas on how you can improve the code, perhaps there's even a way of improving your research methodology by doing so, enabling new insights with further research. If you did a follow up experiment with improved analysis enabled by your improved code, then that's another paper, and another (more cleaned up) version of the code to push to the repository.

The above is all supposition though, as I don't know your field. If deep learning then the above seems more likely. If your field is geology, then improvements in the software might not enable better insights.
I know, and I can provide similar quality reference from Microsoft own samples if you wish.
Because the U.S. financial system, and access to it is a very powerful tool in terms of international diplomacy, and a crucial source of evidence/intelligence for law enforcement.

Trivial abilities to move money around and an inability to lock out financial endpoints would completely neuter it's utility as sanctioning measure.
If the locks are sufficiently armoured, thieves will simply defeat hinges or latches, or go straight through the sides of boxes.

Weakest point of entry.
History is filled with people having an idea, thinking it is not worth pursuing, then watching someone else actually do something with that idea instead, followed by the first person downplaying the idea altogether.
TL;DR YES!!!

Frankly any paper which can't offer the basics of reproducibility is adding to the current problems across many fields.

Real-World data may restricted by copyright so be careful if this applies. If it does consider publishing with some MC data demonstrating how things are supposed to work. (You did verify your code behaviour didn't you?)

Don't clean and organise code for publishing. It is a tool, it is not 100% perfect, but it is supposed to work.
Unfortunately after years in the field sometimes the correct response to nit-picking is "I don't care".

This is the trap between "writing code that was intended to give an answer" and "code that was intended to be re-used by others".
Scientists often write code that fits into the former and this code should be published (in-case of mistakes and in the interests of reproducibility). But this code should never be taken to be of the quality that it should be built on by others unless this was the express intent. People who mistake it for that haven't understood the point of the work the author is engaging in.

With regard to what license, I tend to use DWTFYWWI, or just GPL, but frankly you can pick some wonderfully closed thing if you think your code might revolutionise something which in principle stops commercial entities ripping it off directly.
> The raids are also interesting because you don't see the same flamboyance we saw from eastern European carders after their raids. Wheres the pet tiger? And the foreign sports cars?

The article mentions:

"Authorities said they seized more than 426 million rubles, $600,000, and €500,000 in cash, along with cryptocurrency wallets, computers, and 20 expensive cars."

I doubt they were all lower-level personnel
I can only speak for myself but I find using a smartphone upright one-handed for longer than a few minutes uncomfortable because of the bizarre positions it forces my fingers and palms into. It's a flat, slate-like object and our hands are designed to grip round things that protrude into our palms. I also need to keep my thumb free to use the touchscreen and my hands are on the smaller side so I end up balancing it on a protruding pinky and contorting the inside back edge of my hand. It's no problem for me to use two hands or hold it in a screen-up orientation but holding it in front of me for more than a minute isn't fun (despite having decent dexterity and grip strength from deadlifting, typing, playing instruments, etc).
> This sounds like you're describing an evil AI rather than a bunch of humans.

And yet... it is entirely consistent with the way the music industry has been acting for over 20 years, since the popularity of Napster.
In addition, REvil and some other crews have targeted some Chinese companies. China has a different relationship with Russia compared to the US and Russia. China grumbling can probably get more results. Adding that to the reasons in the article means that certain ransomware gangs have become too toxic right now and need to be reined back in.
The End of the “Sick Day”
Lol ok - so you got nothing. A shame I was interested in reading. Thanks for clarifying.
It seems that there is a soft renewal phase here, that's refreshing for the mostly woops-you-forgot subscription world
A Robocar Specialist Gives Tesla ‘Full Self-Drive’ an ‘F’
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/
Yes...but the bar to entry here is also a major factor. Doctors and lawyers in part have already been vetted by lots of crap before even qualifying for an interview.

How much of the content on the MCAT is "useful" for a doctor's daily work? I would argue that the majority of it is moot. In the same vein, the LSAT has a lot of "useless" logic puzzles that aren't applicable to their daily work as a lawyer. Fact of the matter is, we're lucky in tech to have this system that ANYONE can study for "useless" shit, doesn't matter your background, what college you went to, etc. If you get the interview and nail it, you're in.
Green hydrogen is produced thanks to electricity produced by renewables (wind, solar...) when it is useless (not immediately consumed). It's a "use it or lose it" situation: using it, even at a loss, seems sound.

Many applications (transportation, industry...) can use it as such, without any way from hydrogen to electricity, and more and more probably will.

There are surprising new ways (offering an impressive efficiency), such as:
https://www.slb.com/newsroom/press-release/2021/pr-2021-1118...

At a glance: https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-el...

In-depth take: https://assets.siemens-energy.com/siemens/assets/api/uuid:53...
Why does everyone think youtube owes them something? Yall gotta stop using that service.
But he was god… could she really be in the position to refuse? It’s like Monica and Bill Clinton… a poor intern with a powerful president! That is why it is usually forbidden for a person in power to hit on an underling!
Just to add - Putin defers action on the other neighbors rather than ignores. He'd be happy to weaken them internally or via disinfo campaigns.

Bigger fish to fry at the moment in his USSR2.0 drive.
I can't even imagine what Richard Stallman thinks about this.

I would have loved to be a part of the conversation. While I'm sure there are at least 100s or 1,000 of open source projects that would be classified as critical, by any set of requirements, I'm really curious how the real silent killer, transitive dependencies, would be handled.

Modern development is all about grabbing someone else's package, that has grabbed these other folks packages... and as one would expect , there is a recursive nightmare of dependencies, 100s or more, per package.

I'm not one of the folks that believes government can't do anything right. However, I fear the open source community would be quite split over support an FOSS application that the government is openly connected with.
I disagree that this is a requirement. It is a strong nice to have, but even if the code isn't maintained or runnable on other systems it is incredibly valuable as a reference when reading through ambiguous sections in a paper to go look at what the author was trying to do.

Will it take some work to reproduce the results with broken code? Sure, but its better to have the code than not. Cleaning it up might be the straw that prevents that code from getting released at all.
That was what I was paying homage to.
I thought they would be allowed to keep the JSON. /s
Oof I never really realized that the Christian god is canonically a rapist
When a bank places a hold on a transaction or account for compliance review, the law state that those funds are to be held in an interest-bearing escrow account to be returned to the owner when the hold is lifted.

It’s illegal for PayPal to treat held funds as an overnight loan— that’s a gross misunderstanding of what is going on.
A worker should be able to exchange skill for a task that needs to be done. Work is a good thing. In the best possible case, work is a safe, useful, purposeful behaviour that benefits the employer, the workers, and society.

> it made humans be much much less social, which is the main cause of inequalities

Freedom from prejudice is a fine principle -- I fully support modern law. But people are not all "equal", they have different abilities. And some people hold wealth and information for the purpose of control. It goes without saying that corruption, cronyism, propaganda and violence are social anti-patterns.

A just, accountable, fair, transparent system ("JAFTS") will pay people for the value of their work and skill. There will be useful work to do, and training to do the work.

An intelligent social system will invest in people and reward good work.

A compassionate social system will also care for all people's well-being. It is a smart investment.

History tells us not to expect that a dictatorship, oligarchy, or mob rule will achieve sufficient cultural enlightenment. So we fight these tendencies with democracy, education, and workers' rights.

Unless of course the socio-economic structure is unenlightened or stumbling towards something worse. In a dictatorship or oligarchy, either the power structure wins or the people revolt. History also tells us that people have enough sense to fight for food and shelter.

In a democracy, people must want to protect the principles of democratic society.
This would basically preclude anybody from interviewing at the FANGs. I believe they have all adopted the Google style leetcode college level trivia questions, completely divorced from the realities of the job. Their processes are so tightly controlled and the duties of the job so far removed from the interview process that I can't imagine what would happen even if you successfully navigated to a job offer.

"Oh congratulations, you made it! You won't see any of the people you interviewed with ever again. You'll be placed on 1 of 3 teams that do things we've never spoken to you about. I'm sure you are going to love it here!"
North Korea hackers stole $400m of cryptocurrency in 2021
Oh man, the music's playing in my head now. That's some real nostalgia right there.
> even SPAs are trivial to scrape today

How? (I'm asking about the case where there is no API.)
Also, even unique viewers (that works to be determined by unique screens or IPs) don't mean unique people.
Maybe their network effect monopoly means that they are essentially a public service and maybe our basic concepts of free speech should apply to all public services.

I am obviously not talking about our current legal framework, but proposing the idea that the concepts and reason for free speech are meaningful enough to transcend that framework.
In the past I've chosen to publish key algorithms. Publishing your entire code base can become a substantial demand for your support. As an open source project supported by one person, that can be very demanding.

So identify what's most critical or novel about your work and publish that.
There is some ongoing Rust adoption on Azure and IoT, but I doubt WinDev C++/COM bastion will ever allow anything else, given how they manage to keep it going over the years.
Is 1.08 hectares enough for a sustainable grain farm? I would imagine those smaller ones are for vegetables but I could be wrong...
When GPT3 was opened up so that anyone could create an account, I was excited to try it. I was quickly disappointed. Its ability to chat was quickly shown to be pretty terrible -- it could mostly make reasonable-sounding English sentences, but it was like talking to someone who was maybe a bit drunk and not really listening. I can't imagine using it as an interface for a customer to interact with product support.

The whole thing just made me a bit sad. I really was so excited. Nothing it could do was very impressive, even aside from holding a conversation. The most impressive thing I've seen is Copilot, but even that's been next to useless from a practical perspective.
Which people? Since when? Could there be a pattern?
First, 10 commits to an open source project is not "dedication". It feels like table stakes if we want a meritocratic process. Second, where do people get the time to work on leetcode problems? Replace that with open source contributions and/or open blog posts. I do agree that it would probably lead to a glut but that makes the interviewer's job incredibly easy if a commit is BS or not.

It seems you are asking for a miracle: an interview that properly assesses the candidate's job readiness without time involvement. How much time do people spend preparing for interviews and then have to do it again the next time they want to interview? At least with this system, you have a history that is reusable.
There are studies that already do this and show that regardless of your socioeconomic background you college improves lifetime earnings. Check out my post history for the link.
The general solution to intermediacy is excess production. If you assume EV’s win, the batteries needed for that dwarf what you need for a Wind/PV/hydro grid.
Why is there always someone eager to demonstrate a weirdly expansive knowledge of ages of consent?
Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story
I have more trouble blaming them for that - many of these games are abandoned by their developers, and Android is a viciously moving target for development. I'm sure there are some cases where the Humble version is stale compared to the Play Store version, of course, but those are the exception to the rule.

Android itself is mostly to blame for this pain.
I bring up "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" because its also on the same fantasy scale as Shang Chi and other Marvel films. The feats are fully superhuman, and super-physical. Physics just don't work like that.

> Marvel’s best raw martial arts fights were probably on the likes of Daredevil (Netflix), Winter Soldier, and the Falcon Series.

That's called "Street Level" superheroes. There are superpowers, but they're much toned down. Its a different genre.
This case has implications across the board for CISOs that have to deal with incidents like this. I believe this case also dealt with a payout for a "bug bounty".
I see this opinion come up on HN frequently. You are not the intended target for a chatbot. You're right; for most tech-savvy users, the ideal interaction would be through a well designed UI. However, there's a significant portion of society that is not familiar with UIs and just wants to "speak to a person" and describe the issue they're trying to deal with. Chatbots are the closest thing we have to an automated version of that.
The scale of this storage is tied to variability ('intermittency'), and at least a way to reduce it is known: spread out the production units.

Case in point: wind in Europe
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...
(Not saying you are wrong, I'm trying to clear up my misconceptions) I didn't realize that phonemes were perceptually distinct units of sound, in the same way graphemes are visually distinct units. (yes there is the whole "some speakers recognize different sounds in their brain as the same" wrinkle).

What would the term be for units of sound which are perceptually distinct regardless of listener's perspective? E.g. [p] and [pʰ] are non-phonemic in English but are in Korean, and you can tell them apart with a spectrogram. Or is that just not a distinction linguists make?
Sure, but you can search for local optima, and then there’s all the environment specific factors, solvation, finite temperature, that sort of thing. Really you want the local energy landscape so you can understand dynamics and stability. (It’s not really my field)

My main point is, AlphaFold isn’t displacing any general theory that predicts structure from sequence. It’s displacing other machine learning systems, which are mostly displacing just getting/making the protein and doing the X-ray crystallography (where you really do have a straightforward geometry optimization problem)

Again not my field so maybe I think about it a bit weird
Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think, but it could be
I don't write C++ for work and I've written very little ever, but it seems like C++ and PHP (which I do write daily) have a similar trend. They get shit for being old and bad, but people haven't seen the myriad of new features, safety, and solid ecosystem.