skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear since you replied to my comment, coding demonstrations are almost never a part of my interview process. That's not the part I was complaining about. Once I have narrowed down the potential applicants to a few, I do 15-30m interviews where we talk about things on their resume (e.g. "how did you solve X problem at Y job?") or list of skills (e.g. "how would you do task A with tech B?"), and their reason for applying. So far, I've only needed to have one round of interviews like that, because I usually get that one candidate that is best suited for the job.

The part I was complaining about is narrowing down the pool in the first place, the pre-screening, the part you mention:

> Why can't employers look at the plethora of code-related stuff with my name attacked to it that's out there on the Internet [...]

You wish (and I wish). The answer is because everything that can be gamed will eventually be. Each time I'm hiring it gets worse. Examples:

- GitHub profiles are still a decent filtering system, but people have learned how to game that with hello world-esque repositories in the area of interest. So you have to take a really close look at the actual content of the repositories themselves. Sometimes they have complicated file structures, lots of files, commits etc., then you have to actually look at the code and find it's just a "baby's first app" copied from some tutorial on how to game GitHub repos for the interview. They also plaster their GitHub bio with all these stickers and icons and programming languages copied from some templates on how to make your GitHub look attractive.

- Resumes are getting to be worse, a certain class of people say they worked for 5 different Fortune 500 companies, thankfully they all use the same template so you can filter them out. Others just keep lying over and over or embellishing their experience so hard it's basically a lie. If you're trained at it, you can filter them out because you notice patterns, similarities etc. but if you're hiring for something that you don't have experience in then it's getting harder and harder to distinguish. Sadly it's caused me to automatically assuming someone from certain countries are BSing it if their resume sets off my BS meter in any way.

- I used to use Discord communities related to something I was hiring for with a #jobs channel (for example, Flutter), but those "gamers" have figured that out too, and now when you post there, you get a bunch of BS applicants. You can sometimes tell because they don't really bother setting a profile pic or anything for their Discord, so you know they probably just joined to game the system.

All in all, when the application process is over, I am ending up feeling more and more irritated at the amount of time I have wasted filtering and filtering and filtering.
Programming is creating a program.
Coding is writing a code.

These two often overlaps but they doesnt have to.
Article now has confirmation at bottom
They do operate reliably in the same environment; what you're talking about is operating in ideal environments.

When we're talking ideals, it shouldn't come as a surprise that two fundamentally different things desire two fundamentally different ideal environments.
No it clearly isn't.

You can't sue OpenAI for giving you really bad advice because they're not a law firm.

Also in the UK, for example, lawyers can't hide behind a limited liability company, they have to have skin in the game.

i.e. you can sue them personally for negligent advice and in theory they could loose everything they own (barring tools of the trade and bedding).

You can't do that to anyone that works at OpenAI Incorporated just because their language predictor convinced you of something that wasn't true.

Even if they were based in the country you could only sue the corporation.
My experience is sort of in-between on both sides. That is, there's some submission process people go through, but connections of some sort definitely draw attention to some applicants more than others. Sometimes someone is brought in with no obvious connections, but sometimes someone is basically brought in sidestepping the open process too. Usually it's a bit of both, leaning towards connections of some kind. Sometimes the interviewers or interviewees aren't aware of the connection, although usually one of them is.
Interesting. Great that you want to take full responsibility for your work. There is always two sides to a coin though. Strange to me that you scapegoat yourself that hard. Reminds me of the story, where someones error cost the compny millions. He gets called in his superiors office. He says something about resignation. His boss responds: "What? We just invested millions in your education". Every error we still have to make, is a treasure waiting to be dug up IMHO.
Google: "We are too fucking useless or lazy to make file count not an issue since we already limit you by space."
It gave you exactly what you asked for.

Be like complaining that someone used “foo” as a function name instead of looking up the exact function call you wanted.

Ask a vague question get a vague answer, seems reasonable.
If I truly loved your vision or product or something or believed in it, I probably would start my own competition. If I want to invest in it why not go all in.

But I don't. So it is a transaction and you are one in hundreds of options I have over years. And you should also treat it like that.
Speak for yourself, I find it great. Much better than the alternatives like pip or nuget. And the ecosystem has endless amount of solutions ready.
Is that a feature specific to Rust? Can you please share any references to their official docs citing this?
I always like the Odin Project way of teaching - you start with setting up virtual machines, install IDE, learn git before you get to write your first line of code.
Remarks on ”Chat Control”
Ohhhhh, reverse UNO cards are tight!
Here's a hysplit for the date of the disaster

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/113wyj3/hy...

Looks like the plume didn't blow west much, which probably mitigates agricultural impact significantly, good point!
C++ was probably compiled without optimizations. In a compiled binary there won't even be any calculations done - see for yourself https://godbolt.org/z/Mhhzhdr7c
Anybody tried using APL to maximize token context in ChatGPT?
That's what they are doing - via an article in a reputable news organization!
Ohh it supports controllers decently too. Almost as comfortable as keyboard and mouse. Once you've used keyboard and mouse, you'll find it a little slow to toggle through characters and their abilities using right and left buttons ... But you'll quickly get the muscle memory and start worrying more about the strategy than the controls. The trackpad can be used to move the camera around.

There maybe some community provided controller layouts to improve shortcuts.. but i haven't explored them yet.

Plus i really like the game so if there were any little annoyances i probably didn't notice them ..
I didn't see any cult like exuberance. I used to hire and the "cover letter" criteria I had was basically looking for some hint they were deliberately applying for this job because it interested them. That's what I get from the OP. It's not about looking for someone who's pretending they've found their life's passion. It's about preferring people who (hopefully honestly) indicate this would be something they'd want to do because of some fit between them and the job. That's not a burdensome, not cultish requirement.

As an aside, I saw a cool job not long ago where they wanted your application email to have the subject line "$demonym reporting for duty", where $demonym is the cutesy name, like metamate that employees were supposed to call themselves. That is cultish, and puts me off applying way more than being asked for an sentence on why I'm a fit for the job.
Have a few scoops of vanilla and think a little on it.
McDonalds is my favorite answer to the popularity argument. Popularity is a data point to factor, but it's only one and it's meaning and value are entirely context dependant. Basically means nothing by itself.
Excellent. Tell me, were the walls of that meeting room rubber? Did your audience seem... restrained?
That's a fair retort, especially on HN. But I hope we agree an early stage startup is a very very particular organization that is looking for partners, not employees, because the efforts of each has a compounding impact on the capital gains of all.

So while it might be true for GP's company, it's not true for the vast number of available jobs. If you are not in the cap table (or have only unfavorable terms), then by definition you are something the company has bought on the market and that's exactly how the company is thinking about you - else the ownership situation would reflect it. It's a business, not a social club, you either own the capital or you are the capital. Expecting anything else in exchange for you unique snowflakiness is self-delusional and the road to abject bitterness, as many ex a googler and twitterer found out.
The CDC's handling of COVID was also just a complete and utter joke.

Frankly, one big reason why COVID was so bad in the US was because of how terribly the CDC fucked up testing.

They banned every test that wasn't their flawed one.

NPR did a good article on how massive the fuck up was - https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-official...
Late to the party here so unlikely anyone sees this comment. But the double take for me was seeing the article end with "if this sounds interesting to you, come join us!"
Toyota themselves have started offering upgrades of older models to support CarPlay or Android Auto. Costs about $200.
> The Asian ancestry includes components associated with Persia and India, with 80–90% of the Asian DNA originating from Persian men.
It's a feature of optimizing compilers for decades. OP just didn't compile the C++ code with optimizations enabled.
It’s not like there’s a gun to anyone’s head forcing them to use Python. The ecosystem (library, framework, IDEs) is what draws people to use it.

If there was a superior alternative that covers the breadth of the Python ecosystem I’m pretty sure no one would have any scruples in using it. A programming language and its syntax is the least interesting or complex part when it comes to solving problems. Just rattling off some amazing libraries I've used over the last few years:

https://scikit-image.org - Image processing

https://imgaug.readthedocs.io - Image augmentation

https://scikit-learn.org/stable - ML

https://pymoo.org - Multi objective optimization

https://simpy.readthedocs.io/ - Discrete event simulation

https://lifelines.readthedocs.io - Survival analysis

https://bambinos.github.io/bambi - Bayesian modeling

https://unit8co.github.io/darts/ - Time series forecasting

https://abydos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/abydos.distance.html - Basically any string distance metric you can think of

The list just goes on and on.. oh yeah, some Deep Learning libraries too, which some people find useful.
Never heard that term. Who calls themselves a "hard" engineer?
I don’t like to do it, but I like to sync my projects folder and google drive does not offer me an “exclude folders named node_modules” option
Programmer here, who worked as a freelance technical interviewer for the automotive industry in Germany.

I did many interviews, and stopped to read the CVs after a while. I tried to find a pattern between the CV and the candidate's programming skills, but found none. Nothing.
On a tangent and out of curiosity, which filesystems are great at working with a gazillion of tiny files?
Selling the poison and the cure.

Why look for a market when you can make one?

Nice move!
> I switched to Ubuntu 22.10, and now every 30 minutes I get a crash. I bought a new Microphone that kinda works, but not really.
I worked with a guy that put all of our Rails apps in his Dropbox
Not every engineer is product focused. I am myself am, but I understand that many engineers (including great ones) just like solving hard technical problems in a stack they like, the product itself is an afterthought.

By presupposing some ideal type of candidate and using that as a main signal, I think you're blundering and missing out on good candidates. I see that with a lot of startups that have more ego than they ought to.

>Why should I read your CV when you didn't bother skimming through my landing page, docs, or open source repository. What's the purpose of sending a CV when I have to do all the hard work?

How are you doing all the hard work, and aren't you getting paid to do that work—so what do you care? The candidates have a lot more to lose, it's much easier to skim through a CV than try to grok your homepage, repo, docs etc., and perhaps the more experienced engineers know the cost-benefit analysis of wasting their time going through arbitrary hoops after being burned many times before.
I actually kind of know marcan, but sorry, this is just too much of a low hanging fruit to let it just pass by.

*Ahem*

Complaining about people not reading the article and then denying those people the ability to read the article is 300% concentrated irony. Holy shit.

(I'm assuming the motivations behind the redirect are what marcan is complaining about. marcan's complaint by itself is valid, of course. People only reading headlines is nothing new.)
But how does that even work? Even if you know someone at the company, at some point you have to apply online, to get into the real HR pipeline.

I occasionally have people I used to work with ask me for help getting a job. I usually encourage them and give them some interview pointers, but ultimately I have to say “Here is the link to the posting, go apply and good luck!”

I am just employee number 52214. I don’t have an HR button I can push that says “fast track this swell guy!”
Seems it creates an "iris code" from the iris scan. Then they want to develop some new hash function to hash the iris code to get an iris hash.

This iris hash should then be stored in some decentralised database like a blockchain or something.

https://worldcoin.org/blog/developers/privacy-deep-dive
If I'm paying for storage, then I don't want to give a fuck about stupid shit like this.
>XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all

Any source? Can't find anything.
True for many things - doctors are now a lot more hesitant to remove the appendix for example. (it serves as a buffer for your gut flora iirc)
Elon spoke about this in the Twitter earnings call https://www.youtube.com/live/6bgCqskBmtk?feature=share

Anonymous Twitter sources have zero credibility since a good portion of the employees still want to oust Elon.
Did you update your macbook? Any MacOS install 10.15 and later can't run 32-bit apps, which half life is.

Anyways, get a copy of bootcamp and black mesa, then enjoy half life in all of its updated source 2 glory
Surprisingly, this doesn’t seem to be true for most of the split system ductless heat pumps (aka “reverse cycle air conditioners), I’ve seen.

The smallest ones are almost the most efficient ones in the range.

I’m not sure why this is, and whether it generalises to house-size ducted systems, but it’s pretty striking nonetheless because it’s the exact opposite of most heat related systems I can think of.
A better analogy would be "If it’s generally accepted that the world is flat, we shouldn't assume its round because one student was unable to measure the curvature."
Wait ... that was not a joke? And they actually removed it from the repo about 4 hours later? That doesn't look good.
Author here, and agreed. For different reasons, though - I think that when you've picked someone out of 400 applications, both you and they feel like they got "lucky", as opposed to being the handpicked winner of at least a couple hundred mostly-qualified applicants.

I contrast this most heavily with, say, someone the company has done cold outreach to get in touch with; like, yeah, there's a reason you did the cold outreach, they probably look like a good fit. But more importantly the power dynamic is different - the employer had to go to the applicant and ask for their attention. The applicant feels like something the employer might "lose" if they don't play their hand right, as opposed to someone who should feel honored to take the lower-mid of the payrange.
No. I don’t understand the love people have for molesting the word “irony”.

That was a meta-comment about what 99/100 threads about “why is Europe poor” or “why do schoolchildren have to practice mass shooting drills” are about (i.e. classic Europe/America culture war fodder); people talking about their precious FAANG jobs and how they couldn’t mine data for 200K annually in their native Moldova. Well, sure, people are dying of preventable disease but, y’know why are they making such bad choices? People should just apply themselves (like me) and learn to code.

Then of course people disagree with them. But the locus of the conversation is still about the upward mobility opportunities of tech nerds.

Then out of those thousands of comments there are “other side of the tracks” observations (I mean stats) about how those who didn’t apply themselves are doing.
What's wild about it? Plants shrink when drying up and that collapses tiny cavities in their stems. It's only surprising that this sound can be detected so easily.
July 7th, 2022: The day I understood SBF was a true supervillain
Not entirely true. They used to sit in Saint Petersburg AFAIK, and it used to be all-Russian team at the beginning. The Czech address had been (not sure about now) just a virtual HQ.
Isn't there some healthy middle ground? I find some domains more interesting than others, I prefer some technical aspects over others. Some projects make more sense to me, or at least make me feel better.

Not enough to start my own company, but enough that the options leaning towards those will have the nod. You can be engaged without dedicating your life to it.
I don't think pushing a good engineer to also take on management work is such a bad idea. I've actually had quite a lot of success with that system.

The much worse idea is to promote BAD engineers to full time management positions, which seems to be the way most sub par and mediocre companies do it right now.
It all depends on your definition of AGI as this term seems to be used with wildly different meanings. Before I can agree on any statement about AGI, I need to know what it is I'm being asked to agree / disagree on.

Fwiw though, using this kind of mashup approach of gluing lots of things together, I suspect you'll get something that appears to match at least some people's definition of AGI.
Not fair to compare Drive with s3. Completely different products. The Google equivalent of s3 is GCS.
I wrote a wardialer around 1984 or 1985 and would let it run overnight and weekends. Later, I’d investigate all the other modems it found.
But let's also be honest: startup founders aren't hiring "their chums" out of some unethical sense of helping their friends who don't deserve it, they're hiring people they know and who they have good reason to believe are going to help them succeed. The fact that their chums tend to be people who look like them and think like them is an unfortunate side effect of this, but the idea of getting candidates via networking is not fundamentally wrong when the goal is finding people you think are going to contribute. Personal experience with a candidate is a very strong bit of signal in an otherwise very flawed process.
Okay Mr. periodless.

Could have fooled me since we’re apparently just talking statistics, not relaying personal experiences.
Heat pump's coefficient of performance is more like 3 to 5.
Oh how quickly we forget.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

March 24, 2020

Even as the coronavirus spreads across the United States — shutting down businesses, sporting events and schools — the CDC’s advice around masking remains unequivocal: Healthy people who do not work in the healthcare sector and are not taking care of an infected person at home do not need to wear masks.
It is a crazy world when digging up PGP's web of trust model seems like a simpler safer solution, but here we are.
I stopped posting because I realised I might get caught in some spam filter, but I think I'll now look some more, there are so many random tidbits you can find in a company's code, it really reflects a company's culture and journey sometimes.
Very true.

Still, I feel that people who do know better have a moral obligation to set this straight.
My take on this is that if your religion doesn’t make you do anything you’d be ashamed of if there was no God then there is no harm. Sometimes the rights and rituals help provide context for important life events regardless of any faith you might lack.
Not as hyperbolic as the GAI true believers.
At least we can conclude: Dark humor is for those who both feel and think
hello rclone and gcs! almost as good.
Gizmodo, LifeHacker, and The Consumerist used to be my daily reading back when they were high quality sites 15+ years ago.

Thanks for posting this to HN, because I'm bookmarking LH and willing to give it another go.
I totally disagree. If John Brown is a US citizen, works for a major tech company, etc. I feel more comfortable than if it's some anime avatar, location unknown, etc. Risk is a gradient and security at enterprise scale is a huge challenge. This helps move in the right direction. It would be better (of course) to review every line of every package, but what’s the timeline on a typical org achieving that?
Don’t know about Sweden but the Netherlands does not have a “big violent gang problem”.

It has a problem with a few small and very violent gangs that occasionally gun down people in broad daylight, in the middle of the street, completely disregarding the safety of the people around them, which is bad but nothing like the gang problems in the US or Latin America.
Fully agree. The test would be better if all parameters are/were the same. Same set of data written (why put different GB on each SSD) and same testing periods. Nevertheless it’s an interesting little experiment :-)
Ah but LLM.int8 (eg. as in huggingface transformers) isn't actually int8, it's a mixed precision encoding scheme that is nominally eight bits per parameter. This means custom cuda kernels etc, these kernels could be improved but without hardware support its always going to be slow.

Straight int8 quantization generally does not work for post training quantization of transformers. The distribution of weights includes a significant amount of outlier values that seem to be important to model performance. Apparently quantization aware training can improve things significantly but I haven't seen any developments for llama yet.

Interestingly on the 4 bit front, NVIDIA has chosen to remove int4 support from the next gen Hopper series. I'm not sure folks realize the industry has already moved on. FP8 feels like a bit of a hack, but I like it!
This is an amazing explanation, but I sense that it will become dated in some years, like, it will describe how computing worked in the old times, when people actually coded by hand.

Because,

> Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.

LLMs will change all of this. Maybe in some decades we will see programming environments that don't require people to understand the solution in order to create a program. For example, it may be possible for people to create spellcheckers without understanding the rules of spelling.

Unfortunately this will create a whole new class of bugs due to AIs hallucinating code, and I'm afraid that the average software quality will take a hit.
Here is a talk the engineers gave on the orb scanning system including a hardware breakdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA2ttYtUbF8&ab_channel=ETHGl...

This whole thing gives me the heeby jebies...
Actually, turning cheek and looking away is the opposite of what such parts of society need.
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