skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? People who don't use public transit pay for its infrastructure too.
Sohn is FCC. Khan is FTC.
10 Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die
I think canonical gets a bunch of applications so they make the barriers to entry sufficiently annoying so only those who are truly interested will complete the application.

FYI I balked at the same step in the application process.
Has OWC or some other company come up with SSD upgrades for these machines yet? Would adding another chip even increase performance?
Clearly you don't understand..

It affects the morale of your employees, knowing even your execs bear the price of struggle helps with mental health

It's documented and Nintendo applied it countless times during its history, look at the result today

https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-sator...

I laugh at these companies laying off random people instead of cleaning up execs/managers, they treat their workforce like livestock, no wonder they are showing poor results lately
I'm 50. High School was a long time ago. I love Ubuntu, and I love Java (they were looking for people for Enterprise Java tooling), but the inane high school questions were, for me, a strong indicator that "oldies need not apply."

Mr Shuttleworth has said - here - that he's confident this set of questions is picking the right people, so I'm taking him at his word and not wasting my time or theirs.
I 100% agree. What I was trying to communicate was that maps is a "feature" of a bigger platform "phone" and can be a discriminator for consumers on purchase. For example a consumer who uses their phone mostly for its maps and driving directions may choose a phone based on their best "maps" experience.

The reference article was discussing a resurgence in "paper" maps, which have three advantages over "electronic" maps that I am aware of; they work when you are "offline", they have specific details of interest, and they "look good."

My observation was that Apple appears to be investing in a better "map" experience on their phones. This resurgence might influence that investment.

Dismissing that observation based on market share is probably unwise. Why? Because market share is a function of serving customer requirements better than the competition. Market share is a reflection of meeting requirements, and in the absence of external forces will result in the brands with doing the best job of meeting requirements ahead of their competitors.
Biggest US Pay Raises Went to Black Workers, Young People and Low-Wage Earners
Interesting, I've never run into Wine-specific problems on my 1080 as far as I can remember (proprietary drivers). Plenty of other typical Nvidia crap, but nothing Wine. Multiple monitors and everything. Tested on Manjaro and Ubuntu 20.

One thing I remember having issues with at some point is not rebooting after a graphics driver update, causing the running programs that tried to use hardware acceleration to fail to communicate with the GPU. This was especially a problem with the 32 bit version of the driver and programs that I needed to install to get Wine installed (unless I only wanted to run 64 bit executables).

Another issue I've had with Nvidia drivers is that their Wayland support isn't as great as advertised, even with the new drivers. I can't plug in an external screen under Wayland on my laptop, for example, and with just one screen the Wayland compositor messes up the graphics state after a while. Perhaps you're (unknowingly) running Wayland and the compatibility problems come from there?

Either way, I hope you figure it out, seeing games and programs just work on Linux is kind of magical.
Will likely result in some sum of x millions in fines. This will make zero difference in Google's control over search and anything related.
We all seen this movie multiple times and end is always the same..
Why do recruiters have such trouble with such a simple task like gauging a candidate's real skills?

Seriously. Here is how to do it.

I'm looking for a React Developer, I ask the following simple questions:

1. Tell my about your contributions to major projects you have been involved in.
(if they share their work ask more in-depth questions about it)

2. With $givenTechnologyStack, how do you usually solve state management / routing / styling / responsiveness / SEO / performance / security / validation...?

3. Why do you think, concretely, that you can help solve our problem?

Any experienced interviewer will know by the answers if they're dealing with a pretender or the real deal.

Edit: I know recruiters don't have in-depth technical knowledge they should simply forward the few interesting candidates to tech. If you have time for 5 rounds of nonsense you have time for 1 round of quality interviews.
https://archive.ph/9agOK
Was "Google 2 Carrier Taiwan Wargame" too hard to search on?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/taiwan-invasion-war-...

China will likely launch missiles and attempt to destroy Japanese, maybe even Philippine bases to hamper US supply lines. USA will be forced to forward deploy multiple Carriers into the risk zone, and roughly ~2 Carriers are expected to be killed. China probably can weaken the US Navy enough to attempt a landing, but no such landing seems like it'd be successful. US, Taiwan, and China take major losses, but the island likely will remain in Taiwan's control.

> There aren't any US nuclear assets at stake in Ukraine. No flag ships or other sovereign symbols. No body count of US servicemen. That's not a strong analogy.

Funny how you ignore my point and rather focus on the side-comments.

Losing Taiwan is an extinction level event for multiple, major US Industries and service sectors. Period. USA is too economically tied to that island.

Bonus points: a lot of these technology sectors (ex: Servers / AMD EPYC, and AI with NVidia A100 chips) are essential to US strategic level initiatives, like our supercomputer projects, DoD cloud initiatives, and the like. Losing Taiwan would be a direct blow to US Military and weaken us in the decades to come.

Its not "just" an economic problem, it is also a military and strength problem.
Imagine 49 million being a 40% cut in your salary. Poor guy.
I have seen plenty of companies that hand roll their own ops/alerting system, and sure that is a fine strategy if you can put enough resources into it, but that is mostly never the case. Do you host it separately from the rest of your infra? Does it have multi-DC failovers? Does it have a dedicated SRE/on-call team? Do you load test it? Do you test that it can send texts to one of your developers who has bad coverage in the middle of India or Romania or Bali?

The problem usually is, when the rest of your systems are down then this one is likely to be down as well, making it useless. People are paying PagerDuty primarily for their uptime and reliability.
I suppose we have a different perspective (and experience) about what is the snow, and what is the iceberg.

Last time I dealt with this as an engineer, I picked a vendor, procured a quote, discussed how license applies to our usage (which was somewhat of a corner case for the license), and forwarded it to procurement - few days later, we got the exact thing I asked for, on the conditions and for the price I agreed to with the vendor. Were there extra negotiations I'm not aware of done to close that deal? I don't know. If they were, they didn't have any impact I could observe from where I was sitting.
Bitwarden generates good pass phrases though.
Syncthing doesn't support my older Mac devices anymore. I can't get Syncthing to work on Mac OSX Yosemite (10.10.5). And no, the device is not upgradable for a variety of reasons not worth going into.

Any solutions there?
> You can not trust it to be correct or actually do the thing you want, only something that resembles the thing you want.

So, just like people then?
You may be too generous. The slaving mindset lives on, and the goal for private prisons is "how can I make the most money off this captive person". Obscene long-distance rates, pay-per-use computers, and now this proposed mail rule, are all about creating new revenue streams for an extractive business.
This was coming one way or another. AI's threat to Google search is merely icing on the cake.

Google has deserved this for a long time coming. AMP, Chrome, removal of ad blocking, defaulting to Google on Chrome and Android, strong arming of web standards...
Asciidoc core for at least four years now

https://docs.asciidoctor.org/reveal.js-converter/latest/conv...
Like Dropbox I've always felt that PagerDuty was a feature that became a business – hats off to both companies for building a business while being underestimated
I think OP was just pointing out the irony of complaining about high school English questions while making a high school-level English usage mistake (would of vs. would have)
Yep, but there's no need in the client-server architecture anymore then. We've built the current stack based on assumptions about the place computers occupy in our lives. With machine learning models, it could be completely different. If we can train them to behave autonomously, we can make them closer to general-purpose assistants in how we interact with them, rather than adhere to the legacy of DB+backend+interface architecture.
He didn’t like when CommonMark was named “Standard Markdown” or when it was renamed “Common Markdown:”

https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

It also sounds like he ignored an invitation to join the effort to create what became CommonMark.

Since that was as close as anyone came to standardizing, ya it seems reasonable to conclude he’s fine with the ambiguities.
First that 130k km number is wrong, but even ignoring that the average German vehicle is driven twice that.

If you want to cut the average in half, it’s going to take longer than the breakeven point. Meanwhile in 2006 62% of electricity in Germany was produced by fossil fuels, that dropped to 40.9% in 2021.

So even ignoring inaccuracies in the study your thinking of, the breakeven point just keeps falling as both producing and using EV’s keeps releasing less CO2.
That's what everyone keeps telling you until you're locked into 30+ services equaling an additional 20% of each employee's salary, plus the time to educate on and maintain those services.

And then they don't even communicate with one another.
We've been down the AI diagnosis path before and even a purpose-built system failed to live up. I think that GPT, much like Tesla autopilot, is going to spend a very long time ironing out it's "last mile" before anyone will trust it. The tendency for AI to be spectacularly wrong when it fails to grasp context is still pretty prevalent.
It's more likely that they had someone junior write these questions and no one senior ever looked it over. This reflects badly on the HR department at Canonical, it's probably not some conspiracy to find desperate people.
That would be a good argument if people were being hired solely on the basis of their responses to these questions. No one's doing that. These are simply filter questions used to decide who to do initial interviews with and need to be discussed in terms of their false positive/negative failures.

False positive: people can lie with no meaningful way to verify.

False negative: you're increasing the funnel drop rate of your recruiting pipeline while simultaneously selecting against more experienced and non-traditional candidates.

Why would you ask this except for cargo culting?
Tim, despite heading one of the top performing publicly traded companies has taken a pay cut to somewhere between 80th-90th percentile of "their peers". But this does not seem as impressive knowing only 64% of shareholders supported his 2021 compensation (compared to 95% in 2020). Looks like Alpahabet is cutting exec compensation as well.

But hey, I mean as far as gestures go, this at least in line with "taking responsibility" for company performance. Better than not taking one, I suppose.
I keep seeing this sentiment everywhere. I think it's just two continental plates continuing to rub together:

1. Employment is purely transactional. Time is exchanged for money and money-equivalents. Full stop.

2. Your work is an act of self-expression. You derive meaning from your work, take pride in it, and feel a sense of ownership and responsibility in it. The work and its output bears the indelible mark of the mind and hands that crafted it. To try to separate the self from the fruit its hands bore is not only futile, but an act of alienation of human nature.

(I don't know if I'm a Marxist yet, but everything he wrote about alienation makes a lot of sense to me.)

(And I'm not saying 1 and 2 are the only 2 positions to take - I'm just saying they're the two opposing distilled ideas that are butting heads.)

Combine these with the fact that (in the US):

- you have ~no protections against being dismissed.

- there is a tremendous power imbalance between the company (which is a fictitious entity composed of many sub-units, and can just be dissolved or restructured etc) and the employee (which is O(1) human organisms and prone to starvation)

- employment isn't just the simple money and money-equivalents outlined in 1). It's access to affordable, competent healthcare. If I go without health insurance, I do not simply exchange some amortized payment plan for paying per-service. I incur a huge amount of risk if anything major happens to me or my family.

- etc

it's just a recipe for disaster and nobody being happy. We're left in this quagmire of everyone wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Personally, I think we should create a strong social safety net at the government/societal level (guaranteed income/guaranteed basics, healthcare, education, etc) and then make employment the sellsword's dream that companies seem to want it to be (they seem to enjoy being able to fire at-will more than they enjoy employees acting like family, afaict).

Japan seems to have tried out the other extreme (where the company becomes a quasi-government and acts like your paternal-feudal lord) and is now having some problems with it.

Just my analysis and 2c though.
> We're far away from AGI

You literally have no way to make that determination.
It's symbolic. Even though I won't work there any more, at least I'm regarded as a human being in my last minutes in the building. It also gives me a chance to pick up my personal items, say goodbye to my co-workers, and exchange personal emails or phone numbers now that our corporate ones are kaput.
that's not universal, some will slow things down and some may speed things up.
Plenty of folks in Alignment think things could be very soon indeed. Even the median for AI researchers' estimates is ~30 years.
If no other execs are axed for cuts, it's not likely that this exec was either. It's a pleasant narrative for everyone involved, though.
No, Lina Khan is the new chair of the FTC under Biden, Bedoya is the most-recently appointed Commissioner, but not the Chair.
Attempt This Online
> It resulted in a strategy where some teams have hired puffer people with the only purpose to have poor performance ratings assigned to them and let them go when the demand for such inevitably rose for such from HR.

Those people are known as "sacrificial lambs." I ran across the term in a previous position. More than one person specifically included this concept in their planning.
These questions are so silly and miss the point.

I could have been valedictorian, but it doesn't mean anything if I can't work with a team.
I am sorry to tell you, but AI is exceptional for engineering. Just make the AI also generate a proof that its code meets the spec. That's what human engineers should already do, but it was costly, because the tools were not good enough and the engineers not educated enough. AI is going to cut right through that Gordian knot.

This should not be surprising: There is a large intersection between engineering and mathematics. And mathematics is art.
ChatGPT, which might be the biggest thing since smartphones, but also, this self-healing clothing:

https://www.gearpatrol.com/outdoors/a648024/coalatree-whistl...
Ex-Opsgenie here. Sorry it turned out to be that way but I’m saddened by the state as well.
That makes sense sadly. I imagine most people use LR on their desktops though. I can't fit half of my library on one of these SSDs.
> everything it generates can be pretty quickly verified and validated by another machine

It can be verified in a sense that it builds, but that doesn't mean that it actually does what you asked it to do, or that it does it on all valid inputs. The worst bugs to track down are silent logic bugs.
Did the judiciary just wake up from a coma?
This is false, no Russian government official has threatened to use nuclear weapons.
That's a lot of words, all utterly self-serving, for being a self-absorbed prick with a wildly inflated notion of how desirable your interaction is for random-ass strangers. Shove the 24 hour strawman where the sun doesn't shine, we're talking about not being an ass in enclosed spaces solely because you're too delicate to handle even the most basic respiratory PPE for any length of time.
The spaced em dash occupies 10% more space.

The traditional syntax is particularly suited for newspapers who valued typographic density.
You've got to start somewhere. Google might not exercise its powers in ways that obviously hurt consumers the same way the Eggflation debacle is panning out, but I'm sure the second order effects cause us all a world of pain.

Here's hoping the US government turns a new page and starts a new era of anti-trust breakups. Pretty much every industry has been destroyed by monopolies over the past 20-30 years with next to no enforcement.
There's a difference between "worthy of publishing" and "ready for publishing"... the animations are in flip book form right, but here's a big dump to Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yq5ar9moacgilrqxqpjr1/h?dl=0&...

Here's a quick .mov flip-book rendering of the animations in sequence: https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=Di...

The images are in png format and have the prompt and model used in the info section of the file, which you can see if you open the "info" panel on Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=C7...

And here's the song:

distant desert highway

C F
I'm on a distant desert highway
C G
I'm just trying to find my way home
C F
But this world is all empty and I'm alone
C G C
Spare the reptiles, and the truckers, and the neon homes

F C
And the way that you looked at me last night
F C
Is the way that I stare at the sun at that great light
G C
I had a dream you came to me in another land
G C
Where the forests grew over all where we used to stand
F G C
Over the highways, over the deserts, over our hands

I'm on an untimely troubled Tuesday
I don't need to know all the beasts that roam
But this world is all empty and I'm alone
Spare the cones, and pot holes, and the buffalo

And here's a demo recording of the song: https://www.dropbox.com/home/DistantDesertHighway?preview=Di...
They aren't engineers. Even engineers rarely solve problems anywhere near the optimal way, due to a million reasons, ranging from political to technical. How do we expect HR and recruiters to optimally solve hiring, a immensely complex problem?
Apparently Astro is faster.

https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/mpa-vs-spa/#case-studie...
Reminds me of https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 , which a lot of companies still do for irrelevant positions.
Having set types like this and refining them smaller is something I wish Haskell would learn from Typescript, especially the automatic inference side. I wonder if it would help with linear types? Are there any proposals? I know there are type level naturals in the type system, but this is more like wanting to deconstruct existing types like Int or String into subset types.

e.g.,

foo :: Int -> 3::Int | 4::Int

foo 4 = 4

foo _ = 3

bar :: 3::Int | 4::Int -> Bool

bar 4 = True

bar 3 = False

-- (bar 12) is a compiler error, and no need to handle other patterns

baz :: 3::Int | 2::Int -> Bool

bar 3 = True

bar x = False -- Type of x is 2::Int
That's not necessarily true, those people could have gone to work for smaller companies and startups. Those companies also would not have had their resources stretched in a wage bidding war against FAANG and unicorns. Maybe there'd be more companies and more roles to apply for.
Personally, I don't know any awesome engineers who sucked at school. I don't know if any of them would work at Canonical (which has exhausted most of its growth potential by now), though.

Nothing wrong with the question, imho, if you have lots of applicants. I doubt it adversely selects for the job. It drops a lot of legitimately skilled people, but every method does.

For interviewing, it makes sense to budget an amount of time you want to spend on interviews per unit time, an amount of time you're willing to spend per unit hire, and just optimize those metrics. If you're hitting those targets, there's no harm in all sorts of arbitrary selection criteria that don't hit protected categories. They do two things: help you hit the time budgets, and transmit your priorities to candidates.

Personally, I find it hard to be upset about someone else's selection criteria. That's their honest expression of what they care about. It's like people complaining about interview feedback. Why ask if you're going to fight about the answer? It's like that.
Shopify has an initial round with recruiter called "Life Story interview". You basically start from the beginning, talking about your high school experience, what did you like there and what did you study, your childhood hobbies ...
Why? Should a candidate go find their high school certificate to answer an irrelevant question?

I have more respect for someone who credibly says "this specific question isn't worth my time" than someone who meekly does whatever is asked.
Yeah. GPT would have left an API key in the code that looks correct, but doesn't actually work.
> the irony of grossly overcompensated tech workers defending anti-theft side effects.

Who are you to say that these people are grossly overcompensated? Why do you think it's an acceptable implication that because someone is well compensated that they do not have property rights against theft?

It seems to me this is another one of those "here's a thing that makes it harder for people to commit crimes, and criminals and criminal apologists flock to defend crime." threads.
Oh, as a non-gamer I wasn't aware of this but from what you're saying and from looking it up quickly it seems like a real boon for Linux gamers!
it's way easier to tell if someone is bad after you hire them vs. before though.
Is this why Ubuntu gets worse every release?
Also check out https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/ which has a similar non-ORM yet fully typesafe approach.
People are free to finance whatever they want, I don't care, it's just not a "straightforward" example of capitalism when they do.

Spend money to make a thing -> sell that thing for more than it cost to make it. That's not happening here.
Teardown Frame Teardown
Small nit: the suit in TFA is from the DOJ, not the FTC.
Did it! Thank you for the notice.
Agilean
truly interested = truly desperate.
It isn't ad-free, rather it has old school direct ads; what other popular web pages still run ads directly?
Is it just me who finds PD very complicated and not very intuitive to use?
You're right. My mistake was reading the capacity numbers.
I went to High School in the 1980s. I think I did okay in those classes, but I fail to see how something that happened more than 30 years ago would be relevant for hiring purposes in the 2020s.
Because the member states of the EU, and countries in general, want a paper trail. This reduces lost taxes due to underreporting.

As such it would be foolish to allow shops to deincentivise that
>the article that implies that the DOJ is filing this suite in an attempt to get higher courts to revisit that standard.

That is absolutely what they are doing. The FTC has made it very clear they are taking a new approach.