skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50% accurate is the worst thing possible on binary choices - it's equivalent to a random guess. If you are 25% accurate, inverting your answer makes you 75% accurate.
Btw, when I say "an active member of the Austin startup community" - I mean that seriously.

Not only did he teach a class on startups at the University of Texas but regularly came to a coffee meetup for years, attended Startup Weekend demo time, came to Techstars Demo Day, and was generally present. I even got to do the Twilio 5 Minute Demo for one of his classes (circa 2012).

It was always cool to have someone who shaped our industry just hanging out and chatting with people.
I heard of https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust a while back, probably via HN. It looks interesting and actively maintained, but I didn’t get a chance to play with it. There are many other libraries listed on GitHub awesome lists such as this one: https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-music-production#libraries
I interviewed a bazillion times last year. What most places are looking for is a replaceable commodity they don’t have to train. If you want to be employable against that focus only upon what’s currently trendy/popular. If want to appear as a rockstar in that context spend about an hour each with up to 30 different popular tools. The goal here is do not differentiate yourself, but just be extremely proficient in the most common technical requirements building a CRUD tool with the flavor of the moment.

I held out for something better.
No, your personal preference is not part of the context. Unfortunately, too many programmers think that way.

If you don't like using abstractions, but if you like instead to make everything explicit, that is of course your prerogative.
But denying that there is a right abstraction will just keep you from finding it. It doesn't change the fact that there often is one.

Going after the right abstraction takes time, and it might be just too expensive in your context, or your context may actually make abstraction infeasible. So in my opinion, it is all about trying to get into a position where experimenting with abstractions becomes cheap and economical. In principle, we should be in a much better position today in that respect than, say, 30 years ago.
Thank you, I like your reply. Would that the internet served up more of that.
maybe put the bit it said in quotes? I didn't read closely enough myself the first time, it took your subsequent comments to make me realize what you'd done
I'm not a lawyer but if a successful company was built off chatgpt's output and without having a contract in place. I could see the totally morale megaCorp's trying to legally take an ownership stake.

Even recently US copywrite office have asked you too list any parts built with AI as we don't have the laws in place to cover this:

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
I wonder if this supports the RNA World life origin hypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world , because Uracil doesn't occur in DNA.
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It takes 30 minutes of moderate effort to find this information, but really few people bother to do it. Our real problem is our inability to look at the landscape and synthesize a response, either individually or collectively.

We know social media is toxic to us, but we keep using it. We know our governments are corrupt, but we accept them anyway. We know AI will radically change society soon, but we keep acting like it won't.

We don't do anything because the walled gardens we're in don't tell us to, and we're currently quite comfortable, though increasingly concerned with that weird cloud coming towards us on the horizon. So we live in cognitive dissonance: constantly trying to "address the problem", then give up thinking maybe it's fine after all, and letting it happen for one more day.

The combination of addiction and visceral disbelief - we know the reality intellectually, but don't accept it - is ruining people's lives, and has neutered an entire generation (or multiple?).

We don't know how to act, how to coordinate, or even how to control ourselves. Instead, we find comfort in relying on dysfunctional systems that tell us "it's okay, don't worry about it". What would have spurred reform or revolution in a healthy population, instead falls flat. Eventually we'll each, individually, have to face the consequences of this dysfunction. Do you really want to risk your family's future on your present mental handicap?

Big Tech created the walled gardens, but we entrapped ourselves by willingly stepping into them. We happily gave our privacy away to Google, because we liked the convenience. Now we're cattle, and so we're being treated as such.

The only solution is to escape the reach of Big Tech and re-learn how to make sense of the world and be autonomous, then start working together to build new systems. See initiatives like:

- The authors of the memo: https://techoversight.org/

- The Consilience Project: https://consilienceproject.org/

- Metacrisis DAO: https://www.metacrisisdao.com/

- Center for Humane Technology: https://www.humanetech.com/

I'm not saying these initiatives are effective, but the fact that they exist is evidence that people are trying to address these problems.
Echoing a comment from that thread, IT does have a huge superiority complex. I feel these long interview processes are related to the hiring managers’ need to feel superior due to feelings of inadequacy. Perhaps because huge sums of cheap money has allowed many departments which produce very little to exist for a long time, so they look for meaning and value in the hiring process
Cool front end arts of local-first: storage, sync, conflicts
The competition pool is huge but also the number of jobs. I'm not sure he would have it easier if he specialized in some esoteric think Erlang. Yes he would compete against less people but also have barely any openings to apply to.
Yes, that's the question. It may seem obvious that it would be the latter, but Raiders of the Lost Ark is nearly 42 years old at this point. Today do you think more people have seen Citizen Kane (1941) or Bambi (1942) as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?

Granted, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn't as popular, and not everyone who has seen one IASIP episode will have seen them all, but the target audience is similar.
There's this virtual tech confrence taking place at the end of March called CTO-Con 2023. It has a diverse panel of sepakers, mainly engineering leaders and tech innovators from companies such as PayPal, GitLab, Salesforce, Etsy, HackerRank, Product Hunt, CarGurus, Flipkart, and more. Looks like a good confrence with lots to learn from the panelists. Here's the link if you want to resgiter since it's totally free to attend. Link: https://bit.ly/3ZiQR8d
A lot of people have an issue with learning how to code, there is no guideline or structure. They are provided with all the lectures and courses all at once and it can be very overwhelming.

At LearnCode, we offer users different plans of which the default is 1 lecture per day.

The user gets to receive 1 lecture a day and there is an assignment for each lecture.

The total number of lectures is 250 which covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, JQuery, AJAX, Apache Cordova, Node-Webkit, Hosting and there is an Outro series.

All graduates of the program are awarded a certificate and there is a leaderboard to match and grade your progress in respect to other students.

A student can always ask a direct question of which would be definitely answered on the platform.

There is already a graduate from the platform who is now working at a top-level tech company in Africa.
Me: What day is it?

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information or the ability to perceive the current date or time. Can I assist you with anything else?

Me: What is the current date?

ChatGPT: The current date is 22nd March 2023.
Myself personally it's a 36 or 40 minute one way walk to two grocery stores by me. No sidewalks 90%. I'm not sure the big busy intersection even has ped cross walk buttons. <5 min drive, never any traffic. Own a house and decent land, not on top of neighbors. Just can't imagine why people would want to live in a city like that but it sounds like the place is in transition from rural like I am to full on city from too many people there.
Probably the big 5 personality matrix/dimensions. It's based on statistics to cluster personality questions and answers that tend to cluster together. The acronym most used to remember those dimensions is OCEAN.

Openness - how easily you are willing to accept new ideas

Conscientiousness - how careful and how hard working you are

Extraversion - how quickly you are to engage with the outside world

Agreeableness - how quickly you are to agree versus disagree

Neuroticism - easily experienced negative emotions

Most people aren't a point on the spectrums, they have a range. For example a lawyer might be very disagreeable at work when talking with opposing counsel, but very agreeable when dealing with their children.
Credite Suisse's problems predate the interest rate issues by years.
I was at a 10-hour one-day interview once. It was kind of nice, but also, crazy?
That’s correct. Perhaps I should add some documentation around this. Untrusted user input needs to be sanitized before using it in the page.
But how do you know to invert your answer? You're assuming you know you're wrong.
My feeling is: Who cares?

What matters is if the text is factual. Humans without AI can lie and mislead as well.

If ChatGPT and other tools help humans write nice, easy to read text from prompts, more power to them.

Except for professors trying to grade assignments, the average person should not care.

I think this mostly affects a certain educated person who gate-keeps around writing skill and is upset that the unwashed masses can now write like them.
>> I’ve been using it for the past week to “inform” me how to do various tasks, transform my local data and generally combine new concepts in unique and sometimes funny ways. It has taught me, it has saved me time, and it has inspired me. You have to put at least a little effort into coaxing it. All that said, yes.. it is still basically autocomplete, but also useful sometimes.

> There is literally nothing concrete I can reply to in your fluff. Maybe your experience really means something & is real. But there's no case made for or against that. You haven't made any case for yourself. There's no clear correlating examples. You've crowed up a belief, without support or cause.

> So far I'm not sure which if any of these systems even can look at your code. What have you seen that can?

I think the replier has been quite concrete, and I think it would be quite clear what they are referring to if you have given these tools an earnest try. Nevertheless, let me give what I've been using them for:

I've used copilot to autocomplete boilerplate.

I've used ChatGPT to start brainstorming gift ideas, to look for documentation, to look for suggestions for study resources, and to get (always incorrect here and there) code examples of usages of public code libraries. In all these cases I can also get somewhere with some focused thought and research, but AI helps me do it faster with less brainpower. Then one's work is lightened just like how an unreliable student or intern can lighten a workload. This is what I suppose the replier means by autocomplete, where the discovery (which can be hard) as well as easy work is done mostly right for you by the AI.

Actually, in my experience, these tools are better as assistants and as smart rubber ducks than in helping to produce good code, where IDE tools still feel superior.
Bretton-Woods is history. Since the Nixon Shock, the USD isn't the global reserve currency anymore. It's still influential, but only because of the giant domestic market in the USA and its status as the only global superpower.
Because it wouldn't be as directional as a big dish. The relative size of the dish vs wavelength plays a factor here. If you make a dish thats the size of the wavelength it wouldn't even work as a dish, it would receive the signal from all angles. This is also why high gain antennas for higher frequencies can be much smaller than for e.g long waves.
Could be. That means feedinng it the data from NICE in a prompt rather than relying on the data being in training set. That will intuitively increase the reliability of the answer (I have to look into it a bit more).

On one hand if you already have the NICE data at hand, you already have your answer. There won't be a need for a search enginge or a chat bot other than to perhaps, summerize the data (which is valuable on its own). On the other hand, if you don't have the NICE data at hand, the correctness of the response relies on the accuracy of the search method in order to feed the correct page to LLM. This is an issue additional to LLMs accuracy.

At first it might seem like an easy problem to solve but when one wants to engineer a solution to a nice streamlined product, it's more challenging; unsurprisingly.
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My answer would be no and never, respectively. I mean, Ok, that video has been played 2.5 million times, but according to Wikipedia, 77 million people watched the first Indiana Jones movie in the cinema alone, never mind TV, DVD, Blu Ray, streaming etc.

The good thing about Indiana Jones is that, because it's set in the past, it doesn't look as dated as an 1981 movie that actually played in 1981 looks. Ok, you can probably guess that it's old if you compare the way Harrison Ford looked then to the way he looks now, but other than that...
I thought TikTok was a threat because it's used to broadcast pro-China and anti-American propaganda. As far as I know, none of the other US tech giants are doing that.
I meant even within the world of being a full stack dev, having an "angle" on your experience or resume. Full stack dev with lots of experience in Pandas. Heavy database optimization background, etc etc. Nothing quite as esoteric as Erlang, but I think in a pool that big you need to find something to stand out a bit.
Squaredle [1] accepts many obscure words as bonus words that don’t count toward the canonical maximum word score but do serve as a tiebreaker for the leaderboard.

[1] https://squaredle.app/
I'm sure it was worth making breaking changes to make Kubernetes more "inclusive"... whatever that means. As if Kubernetes ever excluded anybody, or "master" referred to slavery in any way.
There's also fairly cheap trailers that you can attach to any bike, and they work quite well.
Fair enough. It might work as follows:

I generate some text using ChatGPT.

ChatGPT sends HaveIBeenGenerated a checksum.

I publish a press release using the text verbatim.

Someone pastes my press release into HaveIBeenGenerated.
As of today you can download LLaMa/Alpaca and run it offline on commodity hardware (if you don't mind having someone else do the quantisation for you) - the cat's out of the bag with this one
What’s your timeline? As it happens, we’re also working on a Python hosting solution with a generous free tier.
Of course not. How many people do you think died or were injured in the Kishtim accident?
We need to update Marx. "Social media is opium for the masses".

All hail the techno priests.
> RNA compound and vitamin B3 found in samples from near-Earth asteroid

They can start mining asteroids for vitamins. /s
Might have been part of the test, interviewer wanted to see how you deal with uncertainty.
From this I concluded the best starting word is FEAST. Each column has a high likelihood of being correct. And damn if I didn’t get today’s Wordle on the second guess with this strategy. Anecdotal data FTW!
This has been my go-to source for reviews and user opinions on cameras for 20 years. This really sucks. I hope they find some other site where they can at least continue the forums.
I wonder why personality tests are not illegal? This is essentially screening for neurodivergent people and facilitation of discrimination based on disabilities.
> Some people are losing their deposits and some are not

No one has lost their deposits yet: I can't tell whether you are inaccurately describing the status quo, or making a prediction?
Rant aside, I think there is an argument to be made that 2.5gbps switches "should" be cheaper now that 2.5gbps NICs have become fairly commonplace in the mainstream market.

Case in point, I have a few recent-purchase machines with 2.5gbps networking but no 2.5gbps switch to connect them to because I personally can't justify their cost yet.

I suppose I could bond two 1gbps ports together, or something, but I like to think I have other yaks to shave right now.
A great example is this https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1636923058370891778

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I love those tests. Any company that administers them automatically fails.
I agree with him, but here's what you can personally do: use more healthy online services! Like Mastodon (and other ActivityPub or FOSS nets), well moderated spaces (e.g. /r/askhistorians), etc.. Social networks that don't value your time, your mental health, your growth and wellbeing should not be successful!

It's clear by now we need some kind of collective action against socially and individually bad services like addictive games and social networks. I'm not sure if that's just information campaign or even improving incentive structures to help prioritize user wellbeing along with profit for companies. Why don't shareholder track the social good a given company is doing? And the environmental good as well?
It's sad though to think of what fraction of people out there on the web are unable to jury-rig their network to block the toxins.
> Has Ubuntu taken the crown from CentOS as the default OS for most use cases?

Considering CentOS is dead, I hope something takes its place, I don't care if it's RHEL or Ubuntu. People need to get themselves off CentOS already.
I think it's super dependent.

The place I'm currently at is hiring a principle engineer. I've performed a few tech interviews so far. We just started the process less than a month ago.

We have (2) interviews. The first is more of a soft skill analysis (casual conversation) that the engineering manager does and the second is a tech interview. Each are 1 hour long and are usually scheduled on different days. There's no algorithms, whiteboarding, puzzles, take home tests or desktop sharing. We just video chat about a range of tech topics for an hour and ~20% of the time is left to ask us questions.

In the past I've mentioned that if I were ever in a position to hire someone I think it's possible to accurately identify someone's skill sets with a casual conversation and I still believe that[0]. No matter how good of a speaker you are you can't BS your way through certain kinds of practical tech questions. You either know them and can explain them in detail or you can't. There's a million little things to pick up on through out the conversation which weigh in on being a hire or not-hire in the end.

[0]: There's exception of course, my specific case applies to fairly standard web apps (something comparable to GitHub or Shopify in scope). Exceptions would be hardcore low level programming.
IMO, the rates are very bad after a lot of layoffs from big companies and a few big bank collapses. The interview processes frustrated me before. It's not good (mentally and physically too) for you if you get frustrated. So, forget all the failed interviews and move on.
It seems you have not kept up with .NET development. Web Forms have been obsolete since many years by now.
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There’s a larger story about consolidation on the web and longstanding franchises getting folded into others are going dark.

The economics of cameras have changed but I fear that the market for independent reviews has cratered and made it much more difficult get honest unbiased information.

I checked: I’ve been active on DPreview for 19 years.
It's not me calling Go users idiots: it's one of the Go designers!

“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language, but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”

-- Rob Pike
HN comment of the year winner right here! Makes you wonder how many other laws are built on nothing.

If there's one thing I leaned doing a Ph.D. is if you dig deep enough, you find many foundational laws of nature rely on some necessary assumption that, if proven incorrect, would topple the whole thing
For me this is not answerable question because it is lacking context. If it was not possible to go to the next question, it would be where I would end the interview.
Agreed. Which is why I booked a flight to Salt Lake when I learned about it. Several years ago I passed on seeing Neil Armstrong speak at NASA/Ames. A few months later he died and I never got to see him in person. I learned my lesson and seldom pass up an opportunity to listen to smart people riff on topics which interest them.
Complicated issue, you also want a diverse, balanced team with different personalities.
The multiple rounds, take home test + online examination, followed by 3 interviews etc nonsense has been a part of tech interviews for the past few years. Perhaps more people are exposed to it now because they haven't been seriously job hunting until the recent bloodbath of layoffs, but it's certainly not a new thing. I think there's many reasons:

1. There's a lot of risk aversion in corporate culture these days, the cost of a bad hire can be very high and nobody wants to be held responsible. By having multiple rounds - which in turn requires a lot of people involved - responsibility is diluted so if there's a bad hire you can blame the process rather than one manager.

2. It's an endurance test. Someone who can power their way through round after round of interviews, home projects, online tests and so on shows good "work ethic" or at least a genuine interest in the job.

3. Cargo-culting FAANG. If Google or Meta do this, then we should too (even though we're a tiny startup). It's a bit like picking microservices or Kubernetes: there's good use cases, but for a lot of projects they are overkill.

4. Concern about discrimination: companies are scared of showing bias (whether against or for certain ethnic groups, genders etc) and a formal process should in theory be meritocratic than the old days of "let's just have a quick chat and hire based on gut feeling".

There's good reasons here, but it's probably gone to extremes, particularly for positions at smaller companies with corresponding smaller salaries and benefits.
Yes, and with negligible deaths or injuries.

And if you would like to dispute my claim of negligible deaths or injuries, please tell me what percentage of a whole is considered negligible for you? 1%? 0.1%? I'd like to use that information to tailor my reply to your response.
By the time my family got a home computer it was a 120 Mhz Pentium system, but I spent basically all of elementary, middle and high school using m68k and PPC macs at school. During the pandemic i picked up two m68k Macs and 2 PPC Macs to satisfy my nostalgia. I enjoy playing with old tech, but theres nothing wrong if you don't! Different strokes and all that.
The US actually has to lie about the real reason to ban TikTok because if they told the truth the WTO would be on their ass.

It's naked unabashed protectionism.
The parent poster said "money market funds".

Money market accounts are protected by FDIC: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/is-a-money-market-a...

> Yes. Like other deposit accounts, money market accounts are insured by the FDIC and NCUA up to $250,000 for each account holder.

You're protected by something either way.