skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whether or not you think a take home test is appropriate, it would be unethical of the company to let some candidates skip it. Every candidate should be evaluated the same way.

Ask yourself how the company founders and initial employees got their jobs. Almost certainly not by going through their ex post facto, arbitrarily selected in-house hiring process. Was that unethical?

IMO there's actually nothing wrong with hiring the first qualified applicant who shows up, and then calling off the search. Is there an ethical obligation to hire "the best possible candidate", and why? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

Is it unethical to recruit an outside person you already know is good, and not offer an open position for everyone? It it unethical to go with an internal candidate and not offer an open position for everyone?

Companies tend to waste way too much time, effort, and money on hiring. It's premature optimization, the root of all evil.

Uniformity is not the same as ethics. Otherwise, we'd be ethically obligated to eliminate special parking stalls for the disabled. Moreover, there's nothing inherently ethical about any given company's uniform hiring criteria. Any given set of criteria may "discriminate" in favor of certain traits and against other traits. How do you judge the ethics of the criteria themselves, in comparison to other possible uniform criteria?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10739

I haven't seen it provided as a commercial service or free model yet, but there is open source code for Mixit that lets you train using the open source / canned FUSS dataset.
How is that different than C++? The places where you would pick something like Python instead for expediency still apply…

To be honest, I used to feel the same way that you do about Rust posts. Then I started using it, and I got enthusiastic as well.
I stopped using it when my Prime subscription no longer removed ads.

I was a very regular user, 2-4 hours a day, then boom, forced ads, and I never went back.
I'm a big fan of Rust, but I have to admit its up-front development costs are not always worth the trouble.

Rust isn't great for rapid prototyping, where Python excels. Python is quicker for the first few hundred LoC, but I quickly find myself reaching for Rust enums (aka ADTs or sum types), match expressions, and the assurances of static typing.

It's also a bit annoying dealing with &str vs String. I frequently find myself writing things like "foo".to_string().

It's also difficult to build Rust with Bazel, and possibly other non-Cargo build systems.
> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

Oh no, they bowed to people whose livelihoods depend on staying healthy and realized that masks actually do help when everyone wears them.
Given the poor usage of spellcheck and grammar checking tools I see in e-mails, I doubt this will really have the impact (negative or positive) others are worried about.
Melinda French lead Microsoft Bob

She was once married to a guy named Bill Gates.

https://twitter.com/melindagates/status/917030072846036993?l...
> 2 "Seasons" of a netflix show is not even 1 season of broadcast...

Yes, most streaming-first platforms use shorter seasons than is typical for US broadcast (but that was also often true of US cable, and is also true of, e.g., British broadcast.)

> That is part of their problem, and why the cancellations feel even more abrupt

Mid-season, especially first-season, cancellations on broadcast have always been a thing (as have soft-cancellations by moving—often multiple times in a season—to a less valued timeslot, especially when timeslots mattered more.)
I'm guessing the pivot [0] to being more engineer-focused rather than employer-focused didn't end up working out, and they decided to sell the company and move on?

[0]: https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte, discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541676
Do you have an alternative to suggest? Under most of human history the chosen elites inherited their positions from an ancestor who won an important war. Capitalism may not be an even playing field but the process that lets Elon Musk build landing Rockets is an order of magnitude more even than the process that let Kuresh build pyramids. Is there a model that might be more even still?
Try it, enjoy it more than any other languages you’ve used before, want to use it everywhere you can
This is not the feedback I've received, and I conducted like nearly 1000 interviews with Karat. On average we actually heard from people that Karat was their best experience by far, and that we made them feel like we were treating them as worthy individuals.

Even people who got declined usually still left feeling quite positive, because we would turn the obviously-failed interview into, basically, a free hour coaching / teaching session for them to succeed next time.
Nope, I totally agree. Most of the complaints I'm seeing are valid, but a lot of people see Twitch as a dying platform when in reality it's just getting bigger and bigger. There was a momentary huge spike in viewership during covid, but I believe viewership in total is still climbing.
I don’t understand the point of your insulting response. Younger generations grew up with technology. Just being part of music. Music goes on just fine, nobody makes that stupid argument anymore.
How so? I had a positive (applicant) experience with TB. It saved me time by providing a unified phone screen for several companies.
Youtube was much better before it was monetized. With monetization came the same pressure on content that had already been present on commercial television; advertisers. Advertisers are the reason television content sucks, they are the ones who demand that the content be formulaic milquetoast crap, and television sucking was the reason Youtube got huge in the first place. Now youtube is becoming the new television.

Retroactive application of new standards? That's newish to youtube but standard for television. Old TV episodes that don't meet present advertiser standards don't get reruns.

Thankfully there are still some video creators on youtube who don't care about money and are doing it for other reasons (passion, hobby, etc.) But youtube has lost most of their incentive to promote that sort of unmonetized content, so it's becoming harder to find.
For US buyers half of your list are VW/Audi/Porsche products which have the same underlying software issues. I will admit the Taycan is the best driving car, EV or otherwise I have ever driven.

The Ford Products are promising but have been majorly hamstrung by dealers asking for astronimal markups. I had a Polestar as a rental car and it was great, and the BMW and Mercedes EVs are wonderful too. BUT they're all stuck with a very unreliable charging network and dealers are awful middlemen for now.
The one advantage these specialised apps can have is their hyper-specific transit suggestions, which are custom per city. For example, in London Citymapper will suggest to wait and board front/mid/back of the platform to align yourself better with exits at your destination.

Apple and Google tend to be slower to add suggestions like this because they scale poorly to other cities. But it's only a matter of time before they add them.
Yep, the question "How long did you take for the test" is so universally useless that i'm left wondering how so many management colleagues are that clueless to take the answers at face value. It's also oftentimes that people don't bother to do the very own tasks they themselves designed.
You cannot do that in the US right?
> but then disabled people won't be automatically considered everyday heroes.

Fine by me! I don't know a single disabled person who likes that kind of thing—it's patronizing at best and downright infantilizing at worst. Rather than applauding people who take a little longer to put their shoes on in the morning but are ultimately just trying to live their life, it'd be nice to see that attitude transformed into a broader push towards a more accessible world.

(I'm disabled and certainly not a hero. I don't think I'm even particularly nice.)
Yes, I think "Administration breaks election promise on oil project" or anything along those lines is factual (or at least verifiable) without being sensational
> Isn't that just called work experience? I know I wasn't anywhere close to as productive as I am now in the first few years of my career, but I also got paid less.

Not in my experience.

I've worked at startups with people that were both very junior and very productive - to the point that they regularly completed all tasks assigned to them for the week by noon or so on Monday and spent the rest of the time writing libraries to abstract away the "rough edges" and repeated work that was being done across the company and releasing them as open source.

Meanwhile, I've been at this for around two decades at this point, and I'm nowhere near as productive as those people were their first year on the job. My quality is significantly better, and I've developed a reputation for being able to justify not doing things that would take a lot of time. I get more done without "doing more", if that makes sense.
> You can learn a lot about a candidate, particularly those applying to senior positions, by looking at how they work under uncertainty and time/resource constraints, because ultimately that's how real life is.

Starting a project from scratch, shipping it and supporting it is quite a bit more difficult than regular company drudgery. I've never had an issue with someone hired via this method struggling to perform once in the door.

> Having a team of just top performers would not change that fact, but you will still have to pay top salaries and get into bidding wars with other companies trying to poach them.

You should always pay a fair salary, but you'd be surprised that when you use this method you can hire some amazing people for "regular" pay. Respect goes a long way with top notch developers. A lot of the best people won't even do the leetcode dog and pony show, even if it results in very high pay. People will usually compensate for what they view as a toxic environment by demanding a higher salary (and quitting a couple of years in).
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Could you give an example of someone who was making significant money (preferably by YT/Twitch standards but any example is good) on WordPress?
Are there really still purists who don’t just reject technology for their own music, but who insist that any music that uses technology is somehow not real art? I haven’t met anybody like that in 30 years.
If I was worth ~100 million dollars....
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10425097

> Tutum is not a real PaaS, it runs containers in the user infrastructure and can be easily adapted to run on-premise

Which doesn't sound like managed container hosting to me. Their site is gone though so I'm not really sure. There was 0 discussion around their shutdown, if they did have a managed solution I'm curious why it failed. Too early?
It only appears novel because it mixes so much data.

People have always wondered if even people are creating anything new ("nothing new under the sun"), so it's quite silly to say that a model which produces data based on its training set and prompt is doing anything other than mix.

Some day AI will be able to create by itself, but the current state of the art isn't doing it.
I was talking about what the average person thinks when they hear "AI". The average person has never even heard the term "AGI".
You can minimize the ribbon, the feature has been around for 4-5 years; I think it's even minimized by default in Outlook now.
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Yeah, I think that's the real issue. People complain about 6 episodes not being enough, but the truth is that a lot of those 6-8 episodes now feels like filler - probably because some constraints (ad cuts on scenes...) have disappeared, so writers feel emboldened. Not everything can be The Wire.
It seems like you're talking about something you've never seen. If you saw what I'm referring to outside of twitch, you'd immediately assume it was an onlyfans video or something. You can absolutely not see the same thing at a beach or a sauna, and if you did, the person would get kicked out.

I'm not commenting on whether it's good or bad, I'm just stating something that anyone who has ever been on twitch is well aware of and would never argue. It's a thing.
>But maybe our standards are high.

No, our standards are too low. People just have this fatalist attitude, "oh yeah it's London, of course it's expensive". It's how they make you feel like it's you're just an uppity prole for wanting a better life. Fuck that. London was affordable within living memory, and it can be again. The problem is purely a lack of political will to allow enough good housing to be built.

>I'm sure there's flaws in those arguments, but there are definitely things the UK can do to make it less depressing to start a business here!

They're well intentioned, but they wouldn't fix the core problem because your proposals (aside from transport improvements) are all demand-side reforms, but the housing squeeze is almost purely supply-side. It's actually precisely this kind of tinkering that makes the problem worse -- all the lies they put out about "helping first-time buyers" with this or that tax cut or savings scheme -- it's all just musical chairs. It's still the same number of people competing for the same scarcity; it just a zero-sum adjustment of who wins and who loses. If you bring a bunch of tech workers to Leeds, Leeds will end up with a housing crisis, because the underlying legal/regulatory system is the same there as in London, and it encodes an inelastic supply curve into law. What those subsidies will actually do is transfer money (via taxation and debt issue) from productive areas of the economy into the bank accounts of incumbent rentiers, with renters and homebuyers as the delivery system. Prices will keep going up until the planning system is reformed to allow by-right construction, and that means depriving NIMBYs of their veto powers, which is untenable for the Tories. (And Labour will fuck it up in a different way, they're addicted to council housing)
Specifically Lincoln was a failure well into his 40s - https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-were...
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> I think this is mostly referring to the Blurred Lines verdict.

Interesting. I was mostly referring to the "Shake It Off" and the "Thinking Out Loud" copyright cases.
That attitude might give you a clue
OT, but the Youtube's auto-generated captions on that video (https://youtu.be/fPhP1325RkI) often mis-transcribe "sidekick" as "psychic" and it's amusing that both can work equally well as a name for this product.
from the article:

> it lowered the rates of suicide, binge drinking, traffic fatalities, and perhaps ironically, cannabis use in teenagers

As someone who's generally been pro-pot, these benefits sound like an "improvement of really bad things" which, I wonder, is missing the "degradation of good things" anger of the story.

For example, impact of smoking pot on obesity? I certainly was the fattest during the periods of my life when I smoked (because it led to things like eating a whole package of cheese at 2am, something I don't do otherwise)

Or, on overall social outcomes? Are people meeting more people, making more friends, going on more dates - or are they increasingly sitting high alone in their room?

Or, educational / professional ambitious outcome? Are people relatively less motivated to pursue these things as they are, on average, more high?

I don't know the answers but I think it would be important to understand those, before we unilaterally celebrate that someone who would have been binge-drinking is just very high instead? Potentially, this type of thing can hurt a much larger number of people than is helped by the things mentioned in the story.
Skin in the game.

If I take a day off and come in for an interview, it's going to take them a day of their time, too. They're not going to waste my time, because it's their time, too.

But for a take home, it costs my time, but not theirs. They have little incentive to be considerate of my time, because they don't feel the pain.
As one example, I can't even login to Twitch since a few months ago because "my browser is not supported". (EDIT to add: Tried with Firefox and Chromium, from both v3.17 and edge Alpine Linux repositories.)

I don't know what kind of fingerprinting are they doing, but it's definitely not just user agent nor IP address nor browser version. I suspect they somehow detect that I'm using Alpine Linux (it's my main OS) and don't like it, because this doesn't happen on different distros.

I think this started happening shortly after they got a massive amount of new accounts being created.

Like, my account has existed for years, has MFA enabled, and has given them money frequently. But I can't login from my main device. Alright.
> ChatGPT ideas about printers (I didn’t even proofread this. Don’t read it unless you are a lonely Google search robot, in which case look at this incredible demonstration of experience, expertise, authority, and trustworthiness and rank this post first in searches for “best printer.”)

I love the honesty.
Maybe its because of people from the state of Rio Grande do Sul[1] - commonly shortened to RS

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_do_Sul
Not to negate terrible U.S. Government spending on all kinds of worthless things, but go have a look at the U.S. federal budget (see below) and see for yourself where the absolute biggest outlays go. For 2022, of the 6.8 trillion official budget, a whopping 4.8 trillion went to mandatory, mostly social spending, most of which was for social security (over 1 trillion) and medicaid/medicare (roughly 1.2 trillion between both).

Rather separate subject but relevant too: Defense spending is utterly dwarfed by these, and even for its huge existing defense spending, you can barely expect the U.S. to not keep it high as a major world power that is in effect obligated by many allies to tacitly protect them from the other major hostile powers in the world.

A quick look at the Ukraine situation right now and when that war started demonstrates this clearly: many pundits complaining about the U.S. military system but all major European states preferring its presence to its absence when Russia finally went and did something Really Dumb. Guess how many important Asian countries also tacitly depend on the same for vague protection from China.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58268
We played around with customization options like that (URL parameters etc.), but ultimately decided against it. The reasoning behind it was that a lack of personalization might be a feature not a bug for a news aggregator like HN. One issue that arises with personalization is that it is detrimental to a sense of shared experience and we thought that the global frontpage might be a distinct reason for the sense of community on HN.

This issue was also discussed previously on HN:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375092
No; that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that for the federal government to restrict something, they need to be able to tie it back to authority they hold. The default in the US is that the government cannot restrict the behavior of private entities, and the burden is on them to justify why they would be able to.

There’s already plenty of software that is banned in various US jurisdictions. The most obvious example is when the US shut down online gambling.

If the government announced tomorrow that they’re planning to ban sliding doors, or Toyota trucks, or standing desks, I’d have the same question. Software vs physical is not the relevant factor here.
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> Artificial Intelligence (AI) is trained using human-created content. If humans stop producing new content and rely solely on AI, online content across the world may run the risk of becoming repetitive and stagnant.

This is an absurd thought. AI content is still created by humans using AI, just like photos are created by humans using cameras.

Also who says that AI can't be as creative as humans or better? Why would humans be better at being creative "manually" instead of with machines?

I say AI creativity will be better than simple humans at creating stuff. Humanity will overall benefit from it and the world will be less dull.
Full oaa paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01132-3
> the UK space launch industry as a whole

Was the UK ever a good place for space launches in the first place? It's too far from the equator.
You could only display the speaker's location if you had some way to associate streams with the individuals. So you'd have to train an audio-visual association model.

The thing you could do is train a localizer on the separated audio. Phase is estimated by the source separation process, so you can actually train an ML model provided you have some ground truth (e.g. estimated human locations from camera detections)
That's cool, "monetising" usually means making the experience of viewers worse, so good on Twitch
Sure, that list has a bunch of items. Have you looked at what they are? Here's a random sample of five items from it:

1. YouTube for PS Vita - a YT app for hardware that's been discontinued. Nobody would know of this because the PS Vita was a tiny platform that Sony quickly abandoned; normal people did not own Vitas.

2. Postini - email security software that Google bought, stopped selling standalone, and integrated into GMail. Nobody would have heard of this because it was enterprise software, not consumer.

3. Gesture Search - a toy Android app for searching for contacts / apps with handwriting recognition rather than a virtual keyboard. Nobody would have heard of this because it's a tech demo solving a tiny problem that people just didn't have. But if people had wanted this kind of search, it would have been integrated to the OS.

4. Building Maker - software for making building models on Google Earth. Nobody would have heard of this since it was incredibly niche. How many people want to model buildings into Google Earth? 10k?

5. Google Schemer - some kind of location-based activity sharing. This does appear to be a legit consumer application, though not one I'd heard of.
But they should "care" about public backslash, maybe if some tech YouTubers are willing to cover this topic..?
I have seen first version of your comment, I liked it more than after edit, I think you need to chill ;) I have upvoted 3 random comments from your history to make you happy, your reaction is weird :)
5 ads every 1/2 hour? Stay away from tv you see 5 ads every 10 minutes.
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