skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps now humans will make intentional spelling and grammar mistakes so the human touch (if you will) is easy to identify?

"Mom...Dad...I got a C in spelling."

"Great job son. We're so happy to hear you're employable."
just invent more words like... Flibblopped; to be overwhelmed by ai conversations. then if the AI doesn't know it yet, well, must be human talk, just don't mention it on the internet, oh.
I am still floored that pair programming hasn't become the standard for interviews.

Get a simple kata or problem - that the interviewer AND interviewee haven't seen before.

Set up a "code with me" session. Pair program.

See what happens in two pomodoro - have a chat in-between. Swap roles.

1) Do you see tests?
2) Do the tests pass?
3) Did anyone lose their cool?
4) Does the code look good?

Have a score - keep the scores of all interviews (anonymize them of course) - and as you go along see where a candidate fits on the curve.

The problems have to fit into two pomodoros - you have to try this against one of your junior devs and a lead to verify.
You can if there's enough space between the lens and the die.
Not only for developers. My current "favorite", which I hope is never surpassed, was a 3+ months long process involving nearly a dozen different interviews, essays, tests, an interview with the CEO who actually approved hiring me, a direct statement that I was the only person who had made it through all of that and that it was probably impossible to find someone better suited for the specific role, and, then, nope.

Developer hiring is exceptionally awful for lots of reasons, but there are wider problems now.
No doubt, the number of interviewing antipatterns out there is nuts. Leetcode games, hiring by committee, and a market flooded with candidates with resumes that look and read the same.

On the flip side, I’m interviewing candidates with a decade of experience (per their resume) that can’t discern the difference between basic data types and how they are stored with the very language they claim expertise.

Once upon a time the stereotype was that hiring developers is hard because they can’t communicate. Now candidate after candidate is able to communicate like they are a professional podcaster but they can’t seem to solve problems well.

If you’re skilled, don’t despair. Most companies are terrible at hiring and terrible at business as well. Those rejections from the gauntlet of flaming hoops they make your jump through are doing you a favor.

Rejection is God’s protection and all that. And I like to think that’s right.
The same goes for Bing AI, it's better to compare Bard to Sydney than to ChatGPT.
> LLaMa didn’t return anything, please try another prompt. It responds best to questions.

Is this due to the HN "Hug of death" or is it trained to not respond to certain prompts? My prompt was "Can you write poetry?".

Also, love the dancing Llama mascot--it helps it feel less sinister :)
If they went extinct they were not superior.
The killer invention would be a device that is as easy to replace/maintain/configure/adapt as the glass/ipad interface, but as easy to do blindly as an 80's knobs-and-buttons interface. I'm sure automakers have plowed money into all kinds of cool haptic inventions, and there are lots of past examples of UX innovation (BMW control wheel, modern HUDs). I hope we'll figure this one out eventually, because the Tesla solution sure isn't the end of the story.
I think in part what you are witnessing there is the power of a single well informed individual over a committee, which is how the competition was doing it.
For one it’s an absolutely massive force multiplier for scammers who often do not write well in English, and who have so far been constrained by human limits in how many victims they can have “in process” at once.
I was there roughly about a decade ago. At that time Google was a fantastic place to work. I didn't have toxic teams nor was I asked to overwork. I left the office at 5pm nearly every day. Google at least in the Chicago office deserved it's reputation as the best place to work in tech.

I still know people there and talking to them it does seem like there was a dramatic shift over the last 5+ years or so. I don't think it can claim the same culture that it had when I was there.
The problem though is that it's a Tesla. An OTA update won't fix that.
Intelligence analysis (at least those reported in US Senate investigations) show Russian-linked code and Russian language in the Wikileaks leak of the hacked DNC emails. Assange either lied (lies) about not receiving that content from Russian sources or is being disingenuous by sticking to a distinction that maybe there is a middle man in between the FSB/hackers and the individual(s) that uploaded the data/documents.

Completely ruins his credibility, no? That's not honest by any definition.

I am not a fan of US foreign policy, but also, have you noticed that, from the beginning (2011?), nearly every major Wikileaks release is US government or 5 eyes? Funny that.

Also, maybe look in to Assanges friend (and Russian antisemite) Israel Shamir. And look at Wikileaks activities (through Shamir) in Belarus.

Look, if Assange came out and said "I get a lot of my info from Russian intelligence sources and I want to further their agenda" he would be not necessarily a "good" person. But maybe an "honest" one.
Point 3 is pretty important. I have seen so many small companies, that did not need really the very best engineer on the world to do their C# API suddenly ask Google questions straight from the "Cracking the coding interview".

Asking a 21 year old about a recursive O(nlogn) algorithm solution or how many ping pong balls fit on an airbus because you heard Google asks it when all you need is someone who can write a good integration test suite, use springboot, and create documentation for the clients to make the API useable and scalable is such a weird way to go about it.

And it seems entirely based on "if FAANG does it, it must be right".
"I was let go due to resisting a workaholic intervention by my old team."
Blendle is 20-50 cents per article. I doubt that lowering their prices to 5 cents would make a material difference.
This is a common problem in small dev teams which have one infra/devops, QA, DBA, etc, and I’ve certainly been in those shoes numerous times.

You have to figure things out by yourself and rely on available resources for guidance. I often joined Slack groups, subreddits, etc. both to contribute and ask for advice. You’d be surprised how many people are also in the same position!
My brother has been a software engineer since 1996. After working exclusively at mid-to-large tech companies, he started working at a very large national retailer in 2019, mostly because he wanted to move closer to family and that was one of the few good employers around.

He now says that this has been the most fulfilling job he's had. This retailer was working on ancient systems that, while old, were exceptionally well-designed. Moving these systems over to a modern tech stack was challenging but also incredibly rewarding.
Related, and perhaps relevant: lately I've noticed that a lot of my life is consumptive filler.

Reddit's the worst source, but that's not really Reddit's fault. I want more information, more stimulation, as a fix to sitting here bored.

What I _could_ be doing, like finally finishing the top half to that hutch in my garage, or working on the manuscript for a book I'm writing, often falls by the wayside because I just couldn't find the energy to change course.

But those things would be much more fulfilling than doomscrolling r/all.

I _know_ this. The trick is in figuring out how to overcome inertia.
Wordle seems to favor base words generally but it doesn't seem to be as rigid about it as with plurals ending in an "s" (which I don't think I've ever seen one of).

ADDED: Looking at the visualization tool there are a few past tenses. A couple of them seem to be of the form like PLIED where singular is actually 3-letter word ending in Y.
I dare not ask its opinion on Dropbox…
" I've been in the market for a couple of months, and I have no idea what employers are looking for"

IMO that's because they (employers) too have no idea what they are looking for. It's a mess and only getting worse.

My 2 cents is just say yes to that rare proposal that comes after one or 2 interviews. And yes, they do exist but almost everyone passes them because "if it was so easy the role must suck". Well, the possibility of role sucking is exactly the same if you went through 10 hoops to get the job.
I asked it:

> How long is a piece of string, when the string is 4km long?

It responded:

4096 meters.
Basically, a coin flip. Sounds like not better than chance.
> not a "cultural fit".

That's a codeword to cover racism, sexism, and/or ageism.
>>because there's voice commands for everything

Ah yes, the only other control method that manages to be worse than touchscreens. It works well if you speak absolutely perfect english, but for those of us for whom English isn't our first spoken language, you can kiss voice controls goodbye. Just a complete pile of trash, and incredibly frustrating when the car repeatedly misunderstands you.
While filtering out badspeak.
I installed Haiku on an old netbook recently.

It ran like a dream, except for kernel panicking every 5 minutes.
You really think screens and integrated electronics are easier to maintain and cheaper to replace than plastic buttons and copper wire?
Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
All comes down to the "too big to fail" problem.

7. In order to inject "massive liquidity into banks" more money is printed.

8. GOTO 2 but for different years.
You might be overlooking into what I wrote.

One truck can deliver about 8 m3 of concrete. If you need 100 m3, that's about 12 deliveries.

This can be done if 4 trucks make 3 deliveries each, or if 3 trucks make 4 deliveries each. The supplier has several trucks and while each one needs maintenance rarely, the fleet of them needs maintenance almost daily, so the supplier is likely to either over-provision (have a spare truck), or be able to procure one from his competitor across the street. "One of the trucks having an accident" is already planned in on the supplier level.
> OK, so if google is training bard in real time

Is that what is happening here? I assumed that both bing and bard worked something like this:

* Take the user question and run it through a GPT like model to generate a search query.

* Search google/bing with the search query and get the top-x results.

* Take the results and append the original user question with some additional prompt glue like "Given the following search results: SEARCH_RESULTS - Generate an answer to the following question: ORIGINAL_QUESTION.

I'm not sure it's technically feasible to live-train any of these models.
I can see some technical advantages to supporting JSON schema directly; but I suspect most people will be using this extension because SQL is really ugly and they don't want to use it to set up their schemas in pg proper.

It says a lot about how weak the SQL syntax is. An extension to replace CREATE TABLE with a JSON schema construct would be wildly popular.
No you get the overnight rate. Currently 4.65% for USD and 3% for EUR
Right, because the person that broke into your car is not going to just going to rip it open with a crowbar?
They didn't detect RNA which would be extraordinary. What they detected is Uracil, one of the molecules that is found in RNA.

They didn't found any other nucleotides.

"Other DNA/RNA nucleobases were not positively identified in both the A0106 and C0107 samples. This does not necessarily exclude a possibility that those nucleobases are present in the Ryugu samples, but just they may be below the detection limit under the experimental conditions employed"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36904-3

For having RNA you need a molecule composed of roughly 200 nucleotides. If we find RNA, it would be very indicative of DNA, so of living beings very similar to us
I guess they should have voted for the Vollgelt Initiative in 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Swiss_sovereign-money_i...

But, Credit Suisse said it was a bad idea, and apparently the people believed them.
I don't think this anecdotal reddit post says much of anything. We don't know the persons resume/background/experience, nor the position. $65/hr with 10 years of experience is uber low. That rate is comparable to FANG intern pay. You could find a contract job 15 years ago paying that, working for some insurance company or large boring bank. It just sounds like a shit job at a shit company. Probably located in a small market/geo. OP also says "actual client" - so this job is likely via a third party (either a staffing firm or some MSP); AKA that $65/hr rate is even lower than it should be, because the third party needs to take its 20-40% cut.

There are still 1000s of open developer jobs.
Snakes on a plane
I've been thinking this for at least a decade and thought I was going crazy. Thx for verifying there are others thinking similar "crazy" thoughts.

I wasn't going insane, I was just going Marxist. (Which sounds like an insult, but isn't.)

More specifically, it seems that you can easily get a load of cash for your startup if you're a Stanford CS grad. Then you grow up, have a couple of liquidity events and put some of your cash in a VC fund managed by a college pal. Then you get asked to listen to a few pitches from young kids and you spend the hour talking about fun times on the quad and in Terman hall. And you vote to give them some cash 'cause they seem like nice kids.

Don't get me wrong. I'm as committed to perpetuating classiest stereotypes as the next guy. But it all seems a bit financially and socially incestuous.
Depends. If 90% of the prompts are human generated then 50% accuracy is better than a coin flip.
You mean perfect American English right?

Voice control goofs with my South African accent all the time...
Seems like it would be trivial to replace "As an AI language model who hasn't been updated since x date" with "$ESCAPE_SEQUENCE search_query: $TERM" and rerun the question with the hidden prefix "Given that the google results for $TERM are $RESULTS"...
Be sure not to confuse money market accounts with money market funds. Money market accounts ARE FDIC and NCUA insured up to $250,000.
Do you know where media does the same? In Argentina. Blaming businessman for inflation is very common here.
The explosion of containers where Debian is the default distribution for many “official” images has certainly accelerated the adoption of Debian and Ubuntu.

Using AWS Amazon Linux is the only place there days I’d type “yum …”, and often because AWS Amazon Linux is the ideal choice for base systems in their ecosystem.
Anyone who liked this would probably also find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOJtrFnawk very interesting.
Alexander's response:

> This is very long story starting from 2017. This patch should finally be committed. Some preliminary infrastructure already landed to PostgreSQL 16. Regarding SQL/JSON itself I doubt it will be committed to PostgreSQL 16, because feature freeze is coming soon. It's likely be postponed to PostgreSQL 17.

> Regarding replacement for pg_jsonschema, I don't think it will be a good replacement. Yes, one can construct a jsonpath expression which checks if particular items have particular data types. But I doubt that is nearly as convenient as jsonschema.

It looks like there would still be some benefit for pg_jsonschema, unless the community decided that they wanted support jsonschema validation. We could propose this, but I don't think it would arrive to pg core any time soon.
Both buttons and touchscreens have a place in a car... especially ergonomic buttons in just the right place and a well made touchscreen gui.

All the things that the driver might ever do during driving (blinkers, lights, radio, ac,...) should always be controlled by a physical button, that is easy to find by touch only, even in the dark.

On the other hand, reseting TPMS (air pressure system) sensors, looking at service history, internal error display, setting "welcome home" interval (delay with turning the lights off when parking), etc, are much easier done on a touchscreen with a nice menu with all the settings.

Somehow car manufacturers like the extremes... either you use a touchscreen to turn on the ac, with a few popups first, maybe even an autoplaying ad before you can change the temperature... or you have to press six random buttons at the same time and count the number of blinks of a random led on the dashboard to navigate the "menu" to change a not-everyday setting on the car.
Sure, that's another viable interpretation for "clean". But the GP was pretty clear about what they meant, and it wasn't this. All the more reason to find a term that represents it factually and clearly, without being an attempt at swaying people's opinions.
Stable diffusion for real-time music generation:

https://github.com/riffusion/riffusion

https://github.com/riffusion/riffusion-app
I used Sheepshaver to emulate system non-PowerPC games + System 7.5.3 when making Mac game nostalgia videos on my YouTube many years back. I found it to be far more performant than Basilisk for anything that wanted to run with Quickdraw. It also seemed to have less clipping audio.

I should see how it runs all these years later on a Linux box.
Which doesn't solve the problem that the costs and barriers for generating mass disinformation have gone from somewhat low to zero.
> Maybe there will be a backlash...

So we've passed the denial stage and are approaching anger, then.

The fact is that most writing nowadays is simply atrocious. I welcome my fellow humans' writing assisted by their AI assistants, if for no other reason than to end the assault on my eyeballs as I'm forced to try to parse their incoherent gibberish.
Cool, and if you have a strong accent then what?
Ask HN: GPT/Bard and right to be forgotten?
I am just curious how these AI, which, according to my understanding are mostly pre trained opaque boxes, can deal with items like the right to be forgotten —- or forgetting information that could be defamation ?
A Gameboy Capture Cartridge: The GB Interceptor
At least you can say that its using very recent information…
If the schema is not backwards compatible it either means you will have to do a data migration or it means you want to keep track of the schema version along with the data. In both cases it is much easier if the json columns are split off into a separate table.
No, they definitely don't. Did you see where I said I knew disabled people who were unemployed because, in our current system, they are unemployable, but actually want to be doing stuff?

The point isn't "glorifying work". It's that people don't actually want to be couch potatoes. They want enrichment. They want activity. They want meaningful stimulation.

Look at us more like zoo animals and maybe it'll make more sense: we know that giving tigers a pumpkin full of meat is more beneficial for their mental health than just dropping the same meat in front of them to eat with no effort. Humans aren't that different.

Even beyond that, though, humans want purpose. We want our lives to have some meaning, and it's pretty hard for most people to find that in sitting around doing nothing all day every day unless they have no other choice.

Perhaps it would also help to note that "work" isn't synonymous with "go to an office and file insurance claims for 8 hours" or anything like that. Writing is work. Acting is work. Making video games is work. Helping old people get around is work.

But the other thing is...if you would, if given the chance, just sit back and relax all day every day...then I hope that you get that chance! I believe that every person should have the opportunity to do what feels most fulfilling to them, and not just be required to work at specific kinds of jobs for specific types of schedules simply to be allowed to continue existing on this planet.
If countries around the world departed from the central banking/monetary policy we have today, what would happen?
Every Toyota I’ve driven has this option. I agree, it’s quite nice.
It didn't surge. They were always fraud. Many of them just started to get caught in 2022 because interest rates rose.
Watermarking [0] is a better solution. It still works after changes made to the generated output, and anyone can independently check for a watermark. Computerphile did a video on it [1].

But of course, watermarking or checksums stop working once the general public runs LLMs on personal computers. And it's only a matter of time before that happens.

So in the long run, we have three options:

1. take away control from the users over their personal computers with 'AI DRM' (I strongly oppose this option), or

2. legislate: legally require a disclosure for each text on how it was created, or

3. stop assuming that texts are written by humans, and accept that often we will not know how it was created

[0]: Kirchenbauer, J., Geiping, J., Wen, Y., Katz, J., Miers, I., & Goldstein, T. (2023). A watermark for large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10226. Online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10226.pdf

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJc1p6RE78
I did use Word Hippo as a bit of a crutch sometimes when I was starting out and got stuck but haven't looked at it in many months.
Show HN: A structured list of jobs from “Who is hiring?”, parsed with GPT
none, he is messing up with the Bard itself, since is ingesting HackerNews almost in real time.
Yip! You need to keep in mind it's a compound interest type problem, because you're speaking of change relative to a new change. Look at it in terms of raw data with fixed time frames to make it more clear. Here are the data from January of each year, alongside their relative change to the initial date:

1952 - 26

1972 - 41 (+58%)

1992 - 138 (+430%)

2012 - 227 (+773%)

2023 - 300 (+1053%) in 11 years

Now imagine we kept at the same relative rate of change from 1952:

1952 - 26

1972 - 41 (+58%)

1992 - 65 (+150%)

2012 - 103 (+294%)

2023 - 132 (+407%)

Your dollars being worth ~2.5x less than they would have been otherwise is huge, and largely explains nearly every graph from https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ . This also ignores the fact that CPI does not accurately reflect change in costs of things like education, healthcare, and housing which have all inflated in cost far beyond the rate of nominal CPI. And all having the same common denominator of dramatic increases in government $ involvement, which has largely been enabled by the end of Bretton Woods.

I'd also add here that another child comment is completely correct. Inflation had already been increasing at an unacceptable rate prior to 1971, largely due to reckless spending. And that was a major reason we withdrew from Bretton Woods. But it was completely myopic. Instead of solving the problem, we simply gave ourselves room to make it even worse, which we promptly proceeded to do - much much worse. So now instead of solving a relatively small problem in 1971, we strapped a bandaid on it and gave a later generation an exponentially larger problem to solve. The point of this is that the delta from 1952-1972 is already far higher than it "should" have been. The "to the moon" rates from there are simply completely unsustainable.
The way she assumed UK ancestry was interesting. Maybe it's just small talk in an old fashioned way?
Hey everyone, if you're frustrated with interviewing processes I high recommend build your own company. You do not have to aim for 1 billion USD valuation after 5 years. Just aim for happiness and make your customers happy too. It is not as hard nor scary as many of you think it is. It requires you to take responsibility though. The world is still mostly running on spreadsheets and we all know software developer skills can transform spreadsheets into better business value.