skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Yes, it's fundamentally unfair to those interviewees who don't cheat. And the process is broken. However, the conclusion this person reaches - we must conduct these broken interviews in person so the cheaters can't cheat - is the wrong one.

Correct! Making a harder-to-cheat "closed-book-test" isn't the answer.

A better answer would be to make it "open-book" — allow and expect interviewees to have their full libraries and reference sites open and ready to go. This is actually how they will be doing their work (we hope!). Then judge on efficient lookups AND insightful comments on how to build upon the found knowledge.

Or, based on the above sample recognize that the process is really totally broken, that almost anyone coming in will work out well (the cheaters clearly lacked the skill or confidence of OP, yet did fine in the actual job), and either fix the criteria (obviously difficult based on the last decade of HN discussions on the hiring sh^tshows), or just cut wasting resources on extensive interviews and take the first N applicants and be done with it.
robots.txt is for all crawlers, so there's no need for another file? robots.txt supports comments using # and ideally has a link to the site map, which would tell any robot crawler where the important bits live on the site.

Putting a good comment at the top of robots.txt would be just as good as any other solution, given it could serve as a type of prompt template for processing the data on the site it represents.
> Robots.txt has failed as a system, if it hadn't we wouldn't have captchas or Cloudflare.

That depends what you expect from it. For the purpose of limiting crawlers, at least the major search engines respect it.
That's pretty funny, I always associate the weirdly grey iOS look with cheapness. Probably has to do with how all the crappy apps and websites try to copy iOS for some reason. I guess it's all a matter of what you're used to.
fwiw Seagate also experimented with this for hard drives, it was pretty neat--ethernet-connected KV-addressed hard drives. I don't think it made it to an actual shipped product, but it did make it to "partner field testing phase".
Hell, consider all the technology that was developed before science really got going.
Your added point fits in with the initial red flag for me - before I saw pfraze's (excellent) post here - that the vast majority of what I've read advocating for ATProto says very clearly: "Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol.".

Account portability is in no way incompatible with ActivityPub. It's not built into the spec., but it's also not forbidden / prevented by the spec. in any way. From ActivityPub's perspective it's an implementation detail.

Would it be nice if it was built into the spec: yes. Does that justify throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

I was hoping pfraze would offer some better reasoning, but while the post above is a great read for the technically curious, its very "in the weeds" so doesn't really address the important high-level questions. Textbook "technologists just want to technologise" vibes: engineers love reinventing things because working out problems for yourself is the fun part, even if many people have come together to collaborate on solving those problems before.
That's a major problem. Parents love to take their kids to a movie. But today, you have to make the choice "go to a movie with the kids, or pay the power bill."

It's kind of a no-brainer to just pick up a Scooby-Doo DVD or whatever for $5.99 from the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Popcorn is cheap to make at home.

I understand the theaters' problem, but it's their problem. I've got my own.
I'm a senior engineer and I moved to Latam (on my own, not for work). Unless you are prepared to give up a lot I don't see why anyone would consider this.

What's the incentive? Unless you are looking for an adventure there is no reason to give up your stable standard of living. Also take into consideration that all of Latam, even Mexico and Chile which are the most developed countries are much more dangerous. Education of your kids is worse. Pollution is worse. Political stability isn't guaranteed. Healthcare isn't the best.

I'm also not too sure about the cost of living argument. I'm originally from Europe where both rent and food are more affordable than here (talking about supermarkets, not restaurants where staff is underpaid).
I'm not convinced the boat isn't coming, or hasn't already arrived back to port. Lots of great talent in Mexico, and I'm not referring to call center jobs. I'm talking about first class engineers.
At least Github's status reporting is accurate and generally truthful. At my current job, engineers are totally allergic to reporting incidents, especially to the public status page, since doing so would put you in the spotlight of upper management and make you a prime candidate for a negative performance review in the next cycle. Happens time and time again. The result? Things break, no one takes responsibility, and customers complain while we lie and tell them everything's fine. Shrug.
I loved my first experience at an early-ish start (I was engineer 4), and it made me confident that I could create a working product with the knowledge I currently had.

My biggest negative on the engineering side was that we were almost always encouraged to neglect good, testable architecture in favor of faster releases. This lead to more production breakages and confusion about what is affected by what changes.

Since then, I've realized just how critical testing is to a system, and that it's not a "nice to have", it's a must, especially as your team doubles in size again and again.

I had a technical founder who didn't lead the engineering team always say "we need more tests" (unit specifically), while not allowing us to refactoring our codebase to actually make it testable (most of the API code was just regular PHP scripts that could span 1k+ lines of business logic, untested).

That's another thing: your technical founder of head of the engineering isn't always going to be the smartest person ever. I had that idea in my head that of course they'd be an incredible engineer since they're the one in charge, but that isn't always the case. There's nothing wrong with that either, because hopefully they're a strong leader and that matters more for their position.

I do want to say though, I've worked at other earlier stage startups that have much more attention put into design decisions and testing and it is much more my speed. I can't fathom not having an automated test suite that tests the majority of my codebase automatically to catch the little stuff that bites you later on.
So this is why MSFT has a higher credit rating than the US government.
I see the attraction in that but for me the math works out to a net negative with the detractors I listed above and below. But on a walking path in the park listening to a podcast or the birds would be a completely different situation. It's just that on topic here I don't find the theater experience fun anymore, and I don't think I'm alone on this one.
Yes it's good enough to quit your job. But to quit the rat race for good? Probably not. Your consulting firm indicates you have to work. What if you get seriously sick, that suggests your consulting income will go to $0. FU money means you never have to work again for a lifetime. Let's assuming your consulting firm is passive, so you have hired folks, you own the firm. You don't have to do anything, but collect income. It's still risky. Whatever you consult on might not be relevant in a decade in which case you must work to pivot or income goes to $0. Good luck, you will figure it out. Think through it.
Reading some of the comments in this thread I'm surprised. It seems that a substantial number of people think one of the following: a.) cheating on interviews is ok, because interviews don't reflect the actual job b.) this is acceptable because the promotion process is distinct from the interview process or c.) that the cheaters clearly are skilled after all because of all their success, as evidenced by being promoted, so it's ok.

I think that's more or less how I would summarize the sympathetic comments in here, but if I missed something or if I'm being unfair then let me know.

I for one think this kind of stuff is pretty shameful, and I don't see how the world can function if everyone were to think and act like that. The scariest thing for me is how all that's really changed since university, which was full of cheaters, is how much easier it's become, and I don't just mean in engineering. I mean in every facet of life we're basically awash in never before seen capacity to benefit from dishonesty.

I guess the silver lining is there will probably be incredible opportunity down the road to combat this, but nonetheless it's a little sad that it isn't inherent to the discipline of technology itself anymore. Like, there was a time where this kind of personality type would just go get an MBA, but Computer Science and Engineering were considered too hard to really be worth the effort. Obviously I don't mean to say that there were zero grifters, but on the whole the only people who pursued these disciplines were true, dyed in the wool nerds who simply thought making stuff was cool.

As a passing thought I've noticed that there's also sort of like a fierce loyalty to defending LLM's in the forums, often by people who display a certain amount of ignorance as to how they work. I wonder if there's a similar dynamic there as to the people who are justifying the cheaters in the comments?
Er why are you conflating “being open” with “being part of the Fediverse”? The Fediverse has no monopoly on that notion, and in fact shaming folks for not wanting to integrate with it is the opposite of open. It’s like saying “BSDs pretend to be open, but they’re not even trying to be compatible with Linux”.
Congressman George Santos Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering and More
No more hard drives will be sold after 2028
StarChat by HuggingFace – coding assistant trained to chat
What about the N number of NaN values that are treated the same, but are physically different values?
AI tools are absolutely useless once you get past any initial stage in a software development cycle

They just can't comprehend what needs to be done even if all that's required are 2 lines of code

However, we keep seeing posts from people who don't know html or how to create a chrome extension paternalizing on how we can be much more productive with AI tools. Last I heard a CEO was demanding dev increased productivity or firing some devs because he daw a Youtube video on how easy it is to create a website now
Review of on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
> A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging George Anthony Devolder Santos, better known as “George Santos,” a United States Congressman representing the Third District of New York, with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
I think even if the percentage uptime is less on a self hosted one, at least you get more control over when to upgrade systems (perhaps in the evenings / weekends) with less impact to the devs.
Do you have a proof that it does?
Wild guess: Are you working at Sendgrid?
AI tools are absolutely useless once you get past any initial stage in a software development cycle

They just can't comprehend what needs to be done even if all that's required are 2 lines of code

However, we keep seeing posts from people who don't know html or how to create a chrome extension paternalizing about how we can be much more productive with AI tools. Last I heard a CEO was demanding dev increased productivity or firing some devs because he saw a Youtube video about how easy it is to create a website now

The only usefulness I see is in AI replacing SO. Once SO dries we'll have neither
Innovative Submarine Drone Is Ukraine’s New Weapon Against Russian Navy
It's almost like every company is its own little authoritarian regime. Hmmmmm, maybe Karl Marx was onto something...
You can. I can't think of the appropriate term though. Hopefully someone else chimes in here with a link.
I agree Damon, a lot more nuance that needs to be looked into here
I saw this presented at CHI, and I think it's a ingenious and elegant sensory illusion that could make jumping in certain VR games actually feel immersive with haptic feedback and the ability to more closely match the height the avatar jumps to the perceived sense of physically jumping. Very neat. Of course, the funny thing is humans don't jump in real life anywhere near as much as they do in video games, and this has seemingly affected VR with few having purpose-built jumping mechanics (and many just using a button press instead), so maybe things like this closes the gap somewhat and make it something explored more in design.

On another note, there was another presentation by what I believe was the same research group, which was haptic feedback on the hands without covering the palm or underside of the fingers (and non-invasively). That was a particularly interesting, as the XR possibilities actually open up when you don't have bulky gloves covering that highly sensitive region (palm, finger tips, etc), and instead only have electrodes on the back of the hand, meaning you can overlap the sensations without damping by gloves. And this is not just for VR stuff (though they showed things like climbing in VR), but with AR/XR utility too! Need to do precise soldering work? This would let you have the full physical feedback, and then overlay it with helpful haptic feedback so you get nudged towards the right area and then don't stray (so you don't accidentally knock something off, perhaps). So this would be actually useful XR without any headset. Given the bulky setups that existing approaches use, I found it surprising this wasn't covered in the article, especially as part of a "here's other stuff the research group is working on for VR/XR" shortlist.
Was going to say the same. My mind was fairly blown when I realized that light only travels approx 4 inches in a clock cycle.

Then again, every time my computer pauses for multiple seconds, me knowing how many billions of clocks cycles I’m waiting for doesn’t help my already challenged patience… haha.
(1937) didn't fit in the title, which I thought was worth preserving in its entirety.
The US Government has never defaulted on its debt under the current (~50 year old) global financial system.

It HAS defaulted when transitioning off the gold/silver standard, when the world moved off Breton Woods, and during the Civil War.

I’d note that each of those defaults were related to the total collapse of the existing rules for national/global finance.

So ultimately, these defaults do bolster the case for the “never defaulted” folks: a default could literally bring an end to the current global financial system.

Edit: corrected 75->50 year old system
Reading the title I thought you meant the opposite.

Aka, an ai.txt file that disallow ai to train or use your data similar to robots.txt (but for cases when you still want to be crawled, just not extrapolated)
I'm trying to (as a hobby-programmer / itsec(compliance :|) / admin / devops guy)
https://github.com/idncsk/canvas (early early alpha stage)

The biggest benefit for me is I can ask it design and programming-pattern questions for my particular use-case(given A, should I split some methods of A into a separate module, should I implement B as a facade of C or maybe implement some observer pattern instead etc)

One strange thing I noticed is the degradation of "quality" of the answers some time after a new version gets released, but that may as well be just my internal drift for expectations
You probably want rxpy, a port of the reactivex extensions from many other languages to python: https://rxpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I remember some guy on Twitter (a prominent programmer) openly admitting that he and other folks cheated on interviews by simply going to them (or paying someone), and then share the questions around. I think it highlighted the incredible privilege that some people have when looking for a job.
Yeah the parent isn't fundamentally wrong, just misusing a term.

"Wedge Issues" would the political science nerd terminology, e.g. abortion, guns, or trans rights, which serve as a lever to push political action.
Of course it isn’t facts. But it more closely aligns with what we know of human history and nature than the belief that humans will ever be at peace with one another.
TLV encoding. It can be a pain to implement correctly.
And this is what you might say while you're learning. As you gain more experience, you realize that there's a wide range of solutions with some spectrum of a fit to your situation. A given solution may fall down in certain cases. What I love you Stack Overflow, is the context which comes with it. You get replies on a given proposed solution which point out where the solution may fail.
I disagree w him about that. For a podcast search app I think ChatGPT could do every easy part of that just as well, and without any rate limit. I’d use ChatGPT for the most part unless you need to switch.
Neither does Texas
Assuming it actually happens, how different is it from a ton of other things? Hpw many rote sysadmin or paralegal tasks of 20 years ago still need basically a warm body to do them?
I don't think they can. I believe they just add filtering in the data pipeline before & after the generation. Think about how they currently filter out "bad things"

user input ---> | prompt filter | GPT | output filter | --> sanitized output
With a decent amount of images and videos this can easily be 100+GB. Even if it's a fraction of that, not something I want to sync down to my device.
I lol’ed at the Paper Stack Overflow error.
The US defaulting isn't really the most interesting topic at this point - scenarios where it honours its debts became implausible a while ago. It'd be much more interesting to get an honest insight into the views of the Chinese & Japanese leadership (two countries with the largest US dollar holdings) on what they think they are getting out of this.

The numbers are obvious - someone isn't going to be getting much in the way of real repayments. It isn't quite clear who yet where the hammer will hit (my guess is #1 pensioners, #2 foreigners). What do the foreigners think is going to happen? Did they actually buy the outrageous line that the path to prosperity was feeding goods into the US consumer for paper? It seems a tough sell that anyone in a foreign government believed that.
With the Microsoft acquisition, GitHub went from maybe overly slowly evolving and totally reliable to constantly changing and constantly broken. I swear at least a couple times a week their webhooks fall so far behind these days it breaks our internal workflows.

I’d like to get off Mr. Microsoft’s Wild Ride and go back to the much simpler and more reliable GitHub of yesteryear.
It probably isn't good enough. But it's hard for the audience to tell.

"Any questions?"

"How are we going to scale the data storage?"

"Oh, we're confident that the data will all fit in a single SQLite instance."

"Great."

It's only six months later, when it turns out it won't, and there's a lot of stress and panicked re-working, that the lack of preparation will be obvious. And by then, everyone will have forgotten the presentation.
> It's not a system that we should copy for preventing the use of content in training AI

I don't see the OP saying anything about "ai.txt" being for that? They're advocating it as a way that AIs could use fewer tokens to understand what a site is about.

(Which I also don't think is a good idea, since we already have lots of ways of including structured metadata in pages, but the main problem is not that crawlers would ignore it.)
I’m really looking forward to IntelliJ support
Check out the new StarChat model by hugging face, might be useful for your project
Ha, I’ve never read Marx myself but that’s a great viewpoint. And it’s on my list.
The implication being that after 2 years the immediate risk of death the insurance company wants to protect itself against did not come to pass, so the policy holder should not have the risk of losing their policy to a post mortem determination of fraud from the insurer despite believing they were insured.

Taken back to the fraud in interviews, you could make the same argument that after some time working on the job and not gettimg fired, the risk of getting someone not actually qualified did not come to pass, so its more useful to look at the employees current performance than their original fraudulent interview.
Yikes.

You talking about Ireland, UK, Europe or ... globally?
It's weird to me that all the complaints about @proto being NIH focus on ActivityPub when if anything it's closer to an evolution of secure scuttlebutt. The two are so fundamentally different I do not understand the complaints.
How would it fare with a system like Darcs/Pijul where rebasing and cherry picking aren't problematic ?

https://initialcommit.com/blog/pijul-version-control-system#...
Anything exciting besides the fact that Google doesn’t seem to be able to even release a decent UI/UX website in 2023?
Relevant video from Veritasium on cosmic rays flipping bits and causing chaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
That's not even close to the main issue. The issue is he is spreading false stories involving far right-wing conspiracies, in this case involving neo-nazis
> “The 'account portability' piece is bullshit! The way 'account portability' works is by having two separate keys, one for signing and one as a 'recovery' key. You're supposed to be able to use the 'recovery' key to rewrite history if your account gets hacked or some shit.

WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT AS SERVER ADMINS!!! MASTODON HAS THIS ALREADY!!“

I’m sorry, but how can you take someone seriously who makes comments this absurd.

This reads like jealousy.
Honestly, the post-iOS 7 look looks much, much cheaper. I've always wondered how Johnny Ive got away with icons that look like they were designed in 5 minutes with GIMP. Everything is just a disgusting gradient weirdly cut off by the squircle like a "Download now" scam ad on a shady late 2000s piracy website. Not to speak of the icons that have zero consistency. They don't have the same margins, elements, styles, degree of complexity or anything in common really. It looks like they've been jumbled together from 4 different free svg icon packs. What the hell is that "Health" icon? Have you seen the abomination that is the settings icon?
That's fine. They didn't want it on linux-distros anyway!
Desiccation may also be used to deal with uneven ripening. Edible beans in particular are notorious for that problem. Harvest is generally in late summer, so weather isn't typically a problem, but by the time the late bloom is ready to harvest the early bloom may have already spoiled.
From an SLA uptime perspective, it’s also worth considering that you don’t have a whole team working to fix your self-hosted Gitlab server when it goes down. So one outage overnight of your self-hosted server could be more downtime than more frequent, shorter GitHub outages.
For more history, perhaps see "A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbMBdGPoHM

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Kirk_McKusick

In the article the classic The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System is mentioned:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5767.The_Design_and_Impl...

See also the more recent The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112388.The_Design_and_Im...