skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in that article seems to indicate a perpetual guarantee of employment.
wtf is a "Peep" or a "Veep", you can't just co-op preexisting slang like that!
> They’ve already been trained on orders of magnitude more text than a human being ever sees or hears in their entire life, without approaching human intelligence

Actually ChatGPT has an IQ of ~83, so that is quite close to average human intelligence.

Furthermore, it was trained only on digital text, arguably that would be it's only "sensory organ". It had no other senses with which to correlate terms and concepts it inferred from text, and look how amazing it is just from that.

As the other poster said, multimodal training is the next step and people are not going to be prepared for it.
Canonical makes infrastructure that I (and a significant slice of the world economy) depend on. If they want to significantly bias their application pool to people who are willing to tolerate that question, then I'm a bit concerned that I've invested years and years building on a decaying foundation, and now I have to investigate.
Recruiters are not technical interviewers. They're testing your communication skills, if anything at all.
Because all valid JS code is also valid TS code (considering implicit any). Or, put another way, the set of all valid JS programs is a subset of all valid TS programs.
they are still very prevalent in seattle. not as much of an issue so long as ppl stick to empty sidewalks and bike lanes
It has never actually broken (or at least, no one has reported that if it did). But also it's an open source project, we provide the exe's best effort, if it's important you can compile it yourself. I have zero interest in using Windows even for one second if I can help it.
The relevant TS feature is called template literal types:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/template-lite...
Except by the original train of thought "everyone is laying off bad developers" so if you accept this (IMO flawed) premise you're going to be in a worse position after you get through this gigantic process.
"I got kicked out of English for insubordination"

oh, and the blogger gave a smarta* answer to a free-form text question?

Yep, insubordination is still there. I'd pass on this candidate too.
In my preferred IDE (IntelliJ) you can enable rendered documentation view which will take the source code comments and render them through some kind of limited HTML renderer.

I much prefer that to switching to Markdown. Markdown is great for plain text but it's not great for this type of content imo.
it's a single step if you don't have applecare and applecare just makes it harder, because you need to cancel it.
it's just a two button process with big fat red buttons and you need to enter you password.
Lina Khan may have written great papers but she isn't fit for the job. She harbors a hate for big tech and cannot be impartial in her dealings.

See her recent attempt to prevent Meta from acquiring Within. There is no sane, level-headed case that could possibly paint this acquisition as an antitrust violation. Even most legal experts will agree that Lina Khan's case is a stretch at best.

It's clear that this case is simply motivated by a hatred for Meta more than anything rational, and such decision making can harm the emergence of nascent technology such as AR/VR.
There's a difference between starting a discussion around a topic you find unprincipled and "crying".

With your logic we should never question anything or anyone because positing our own truth is irrelevant.
easy: you add "We only hire rock stars" to your job postings.
So when the tribe votes a ton of its members off the island, that us-vs-them facade really falls away.
Yeah, agreed with the other comment. Recruiters wouldn't be able to do 1.a of your suggestion, let alone 2, 3.
I think a lot of questions that are of the more generic- or incompetent-seeming-HR sort only exist to test for compliance and for bullshit tolerance. Plus for the kind of socialization that means you understand you're supposed to both pretend to take them seriously and use acceptable corporation-friendly answers to everything (even if they're lies).
Already found something quicker I would buy using this than the standard google results, thanks so much! Love how it blends in seamlessly with my searches too.
All 5 points are just different facets of the belief in predestination - that we are ultimately incapable of changing our moral standing, our fate, that only God can do that for us. In practice it means that there are an elect few who are capable of good (and in my educational experience, are tasked with "building the kingdom of God", aka running things) and everyone else deserves what is coming to them even if they could incidentally do good by the accident of common grace. There really isn't any incentive to not treat everyone not in your church as garbage and deserving of punishment. The only difference is now there isn't, for any one believer, a good reason to even try to listen to the pleas and arguments of someone outside your belief structure, because you're both under total depravity, but you feel, and are assured by those who believe the same as you, that you have God's blessing and are incapable of losing it.

Obviously not everyone believes all of it to the same extent, and they may have a softer padding between these beliefs and how they act within the real world, but based on my experience (30+ years of living in small Calvinist communities) most people who take the title Calvinist, and even most who rather take the label Reformed (because Calvinism has earned its bad name) do believe this to a fair extent.
"The developer does not collect any data from this app."

very good.
true, it's a vast decentralized system skimming off your purchases.
I would not say it was made up, though.

Google engaged im negotiations to buy the patents.

And the software was presented in kioto in 1994, way before anyone else.
Smart pointer alone do not prevent race-condition.
So racing thread accessing the same memory without lock would still corrupt the heap!
I have chickens roaming wild outside my office window, and I assure you that meetings are not much fun with "BOK BOK BOK..." resonating constantly through the mic. They are so f-ing loud.
How much visual, auditory, and sensory data have they been trained on? What "pain" have they experienced? There are a lot of input vectors that haven't been factored in yet, and a lot of external integration points that haven't been explored.
Every time he opens his mouth, I understand why he so completely misunderstood the PRISM slides he leaked. The future of money isn't going to be based on a system that requires 7 billion people to set up a lightning channel at a throughput of 3 transactions per second, unless this future of money is ~100 years from now.

It's utterly naïve to expect that cross-border payments will remain unregulated on these networks, given how straightforward it is to regulate.
Oh no, there's a default web browser on Android? Jeez, that's seriously abusive. I am sure that consumers hate that.
The truth of the matter is there are plenty of children coerced into false confessions, and there are plenty of freely-going CEO rapists and scammers.

There's very little about people who are imprisoned that justify depriving them of being able to communicate with people who aren't imprisoned. For one, how will they communicate if they are being raped, physically abused, or medically neglected by the prison?
“By moderating salary demand, we could see vacancies come down” – Fed
> But we're supposed to buy proprietary client software?

And that's where your disconnect comes in. You might value any proprietary products worthless, but clearly much more people don't see it that way. We have proprietary RSS readers and they get many users, there are many users of Apple products even when open-source OSes and desktops are available.

If this is a must-have, then your comments make sense. Until then, I think that let the users decide if they want it. You apparently don't, but are other people feeling the same way?
Great app. My review: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/ivory-mastodon-app-review/
The common thread in the comments here deals with separating content from styling. I dealt with the same issue when I was applying to jobs and tweaked the `yaml-resume` project to suit my needs. [1] It lets you specify the content in a yaml file which then generated an html page that can be printed (sample output linked). [2]

[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/resume

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IGC6KN2SkF4behZUOlOlWnbaMpH...
If a company were to ask about my star sign, then I know that their idea of what is relevant is not grounded in reality and will avoid employment with them.

Someone asking me about my strengths in high school, which was decades ago, then that tells me they are looking for young people. (And from the link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678 you can see they don't care about my grad school experience, which was much more formative to my career path.)

In the US, age discrimination for employment for people 40 years or older is illegal. As the author of the linked-to essay correctly points out, these questions comes across like trying to discriminate on the basis of age without outright saying it.

Which trespasses on a special form of government monopoly that it can enforce.
To my understanding...

Astro is tries to rely on SSR as much as possible with MPA approach, so the client have to render as little JS as possible.

Qwiks goal is to be instant for every device, it does this by delaying the download & execution of JS so much it can. Qwik also partially renders the content in its state on the server, then sends it over to the client to do the rest.
Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]
I can understand why some people want something physical/tangible while testing or playing in their hobby environment. I'm still a fan of virtualization - passmark scores for an RPi4 (entire SOC/quad core) are 21 times less than a per-single-core comparison in a 14-core 15-13600k (as a point of reference, my current system) and while am running 64GB RAM, can easily upgrade to 128GB or more on a single DDR4 node.

Hard to see to an advantage given obvious limitations, although it may make it more fun to work within latency and memory constrictions, I guess.
Feels like the implication is that they favor people who positively respond to certain types of incentives, such as fighting for job titles.
100% this.

I picked up a HP 705 G4 mini on backmarket for $80 shipped the other day to run Home Assistant and some other small local containers. 500gb ram, Ryzen 5 2400GE, 8gb ddr4 w/ a valid windows license.

Sure it's not as small or silent, but there's no way to beat the prices of these few-years old enterprise mini-pc's
You literally just have a conversation about the tech. People's true skills shake themselves out in an in-depth conversation about a technology that the interviewer is familiar with.

The problem is, this initial funnels are just recruiters. They're technologically clueless. They're just putting words on paper and finding people that say those words with the right number of experience attached.
I am looking at the script I used to run foobar2000 in wine, it basically overwrote fontconfig envvars like

export FONTCONFIG_FILE="$HOME/wine-fontconfig/fonts.conf"
export FONTCONFIG_PATH="$HOME/wine-fontconfig"

where fonts.conf is something like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0">
<its:translateRule translate="no" selector="/fontconfig/*[not(self::description)]"/>
</its:rules>
<dir>~/wine-fontconfig/TTF</dir>
<include ignore_missing="yes">~/wine-fontconfig/conf.d</include>
<cachedir>~/wine-fontconfig/font-cache</cachedir>
</fontconfig>

and there's just one TTF font I want to use in the TTF folder. Then there are a bunch of references to systemwide fonts in the user.reg and system.reg registry files that I deleted manually, but I forget the exact keys - you can search for 'font' to find them. I also entered registry keys to redirect system fonts to the TTF I had provided, I think using [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontSubstitutes] or maybe [1]. If you're running CLI tools this might not be needed.

If you ever launch wine in that prefix without these environment variables, it will rescan the system fonts and populate the registry again and that seems to slow down future launches.

Another thing that made a difference that I just remembered is opening winecfg 'Libraries' tab and adding an entry to set 'winemenubuilder.exe' and 'winebus.sys' to disabled. I am not sure what the consequences of the latter are but it didn't seem to break anything for my use case. There might be other inessential libraries you can disable here if they seem slow in WINE_DEBUG output, I also have winehid.sys disabled here but I can't remember if it made much difference.

[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Font_Replacements
I think the part that most "worker" people reading this are missing, is that with mature markets you get someone that is vaguely, a little bit, experienced and on your side, to give feedback over time.

The last "team" you want setting every question, and expectation, and results.. is the adversarial side that is trying to get the most out of all candidates with the least trouble to themselves..
Asking AP clerk candidates how they did in physics in high school is a waste of their time as well.
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
Writing a spec thorough enough for AI to generate code that verifiably meets in and solves your problem means you're still programming, but specs instead of systems.
I’ve never met anyone who has used PayPal in the UK. Why would you need to?
Curious to hear your thoughts on this? [0] It's a post from Eric Huang - he's a chef based out of NYC and recently wrote about why his restaurant has decided to accept tips (while acknowledging that it's a bad system). It's a long read, but his point about more established hospitality groups/restaurateurs trying and failing to adopt a non-tipping model resonated with me.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/CnozdBwu0pM/
> Why do recruiters have such trouble with such a simple task like gauging a candidate's real skills?

Firstly because that's not their job, and secondly because recruiters aren't just there to hire for developers and they aren't going to be subject matter experts enough to judge between good answers to questions like that and bullshit.
They refer to employees as "Dutonians". Barf.
> is doing undifferentiated work the best use of your very limited engineering resources?

I see this sentiment often, however it's one of the best ways to get profitable business ideas. I start making something, and if in the course of doing so, I find a problem that I can solve (which is not related to the primary product), I turn around and start selling my undifferentiated work as its own product.
this is great. I recently created a markdown -> pandoc resume process I really enjoy. not as much flexibility or control as LaTeX buts a lot easier.

https://github.com/ubernaut/resume
The recruiting industrial complex seems to thrive on creating original obstacles with no consequences for how arbitrary they are. I suspect they benefit from the more work they create.
I had one like that for 10th grade algebra. Basically failed the class , and the teacher was always mad at me. After I got he highest score in my county on some standardized math test and was given some award, the principal looked at my grades and saw I had a C- and had a conference with the teacher and myself where I found out he was giving me a different test than everyone else.
Not that I agree with it, but maybe they ask those kinds of questions because they want people who will just answer the damn questions, rather than argue with them over it.

> High School: I got kicked out of AP English for insubordination in high school.

...is this evidence that the filter is bad, or evidence that the filter is working?
4 carriers is not enough if you need this to be reliable. That’s a long trip across an ocean on a route that gets some bad weather.
English prescriptivists are even more ironic-er. If they'd of bothered to take even an undergraduate level course in linguistics, they'd understand how wasteful a pastime "grammar nazi" is.
Once astro support in webstorm is complete it will be to me the perfect static site fx
> Could we end up having AI quality trend downwards due to AI ingesting its own old outputs and reinforcing bad habits? I think it's a particular risk for text generation.

I just had my eyes opened reading that, because humans also do exactly that, inadvertently.
If it's an assistant that you constantly have to double check their work, then they would get fired ASAP.

That's the problem with Copilot. If I'm not familiar with the API calls then I'm still going to have to dig into the docs. I could run it and it might "work", but that doesn't guarantee that it's correct. There are a whole lot of things in the C API that work but are not correct, such as the gets() function. If I have to do such legwork then it's just as easy to write the code myself.

The utility of AI is proportional to the trust one has in it. Trust is easy to lose and hard to regain. It will take just a few AI mishaps to ruin a product or even an entire industry.
As the data set size increases, the average frequency of non-trivial most frequent patterns will go down, and the tail will get much larger. Thus if you had a 1% cutoff, the percentage of the data set hitting this cutoff goes down as the data set size goes up. Take a look at pareto distributions with high alpha to understand the statistics of it.

Of course, this is only true if new data is distinct from old data. If you just copied your data set 10x and pretended it was a 10x larger data set, it would behave like you expect.
>I’m curious what your reaction would be if he got a 40% pay increase.

It would be equally performative. This is morality theater. I'd only question his judgment about public relations.

I do understand the reasoning for this adjustment of his salary. I'm simply saying I wish it was not necessary. It's sad.
They work in tandem.

The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. In some consumer protection matters, the FTC appears with, or supports, the U.S. Department of Justice.

Biden's FTC appointments are redefining FTC perspective on anti-trust, and DOJ is following suit.
Yes, indeed there are some extra nuances that should not be automatically dismissed.

> A language model can't reasonably be expected to understand an expectation of usability or fitness for purpose in a context the user didn't specify.

I agree, but I think we’re at the same time expecting the LM to “understand” a lot more
Except for the cost of commuting, which for many people outweighs the minor costs of internet access and a desk.

Or the cost of housing in the big city, if you try to avoid the long commute.

And if you want to meet people, you can do that where ever you happen to live, without relying on your workplace to set up the meetings. Go to a restaurant and talk to people. Take your dog for a walk in the park, and talk to the other people doing the same thing. Talk to people at your church. I think you’ll find that you don’t need to work in the same office as someone in order to talk to them.
Unless this attracts the desperate who wouldn't apply without these filters, the compensation necessary to secure the winner will be unaffected or might even go up as the smaller pool of applicants will have Canonical over a barrel.

More likely they do this because they have so many applications coming in that having to pay more to a lesser worker is worth more than having to hire many more HR staff to process all the applications. The hope is that it will scare off most people, and if that fails a machine can filter on these values. It could be any arbitrary value – race, religion, random number – but courts have effectively ruled that any filtering mechanism that isn't directly related to the job or school could face severe legal consequences, so this keeps the lawyers happy.
Of course! These "Windows programs" must indeed be Win32 DLLs provided by Wine. Thanks.
> Could we end up having AI quality trend downwards due to AI ingesting its own old outputs and reinforcing bad habits?

No, because models are already trained like that. Datasets for large models are too vast for a human to even know what's inside, let alone label them manually. So instead they are processed (labeled, cropped, etc) by other models, with humans overseeing and tweaking the process. Often it's a chain with several models training each other, bootstrapped from whatever manual data you have, and curated by humans in key points of the process.

So it's actually the opposite - the hybrid bootstrapping approach that combines human curation and ML labeling of bulk low-quality data typically delivers far better results than training on a small but 100% manual dataset.
Frequent not. But judicial deference to prosecutors is, and offering/acceptance of plea bargains with terrible terms is as well. And prosecutors bring bullshit cases all the time, for a variety of reasons. I have first hand experience of this as a (luckily, successful) defendant.
Usually refreshing a couple of times works for me (even just waiting a few seconds between each attempt)
yep asking something like thats an instant hard no from me.
Having used many different tools to create presentations, including sozi, and jessyink (svg to presentation tools using inkscape), Markdown tools (reveal, sli.dev, reveal via org mode) and power point, I actually find that using Markdown tools typically leads to less text in slides (I know this is counterintuitive). You essentially often end up with a single statement/single image type slides that one often sees in "inspirational" type presentation (e.g. Ted talks.

There in also lies an issue with Markdown presentations, more complex layouts (e.g. a side by side comparison) often require tweaking css/html and are more inconsistent. Unfortunately I find it very hard to avoid layouts like these for deeply technical content.
Ok, I've squeezed an 'almost' in the title above. I suppose that's not strictly accurate either but I don't want to spoil the OP's sentiment too much.
Pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech – and more dangerous
> That doesn't work with Open Source.

If you pay for a support contract, you too can yell at someone to get something to happen. It's not related to open source but to whether you're paying money for the service.
I suspect that you are overconfident and will get fooled by someone who knows the culture well and isn’t so great at coding.
My GitHub and Markdown and pandoc resume process
tried Astro recently and really, really love the DX and docs - so well executed
Sure, "half the country supports some combination of [list of bad and counterproductive reforms]." Consider it edited!

The reality is that some people view prison as a punitive system, and others do not. These people can agree or disagree on specific reforms but fundamentally it's very hard to see eye-to-eye because they are operating toward totally different goals.
Having proven conclusively that no job at this company could possibly be worth the desperately painful application process, we now just need to eliminate 100mil more companies one by one...
I think Datadog is getting all the pieces in place to checkmate Pagerduty. They've been steadily building out their Service Catalog feature with fields for on call contact info for teams responsible for services. Once they have all that in place, they just need to wire something up to a dialer/SMS/push notifications, set up a scheduling tool, and they can start consuming Pagerduty's lunch.
banking still using COBOL in their backend.