skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems are (non-exhaustively):

- Many interview coding problems are very unlike what we have had to do in our daily tasks, and very unlike what will be required if we get the job.

- If the company is trying to avoid that problem by making the coding part of the interview working on actual problems they're having, then that means the interviewee is giving the company work for free. (Unless the company pays for it, but that's vanishingly rare.)

- Even if they manage to thread the needle and have the coding part of the interview be relevant to the job, but not actually getting free work out of candidates, it's very hard to make it representative of the environment in which the candidates are used to or will be working. It's time-limited, very high pressure, with unfamiliar tools, often without the ability to consult online sources—or they make it a take-home assignment, and run the risk of having the candidates just get someone else to do it for them.

- Most other types of jobs don't require you to prove your skills. They read your resume, they take it at face value, they check your references, and if it turns out you lied on your resume and got the job, you get fired. ...Or they don't do their due diligence, and end up with terrible employees.
It was still warmer than expected. Look at how prices shot up in advance, before declining when it became clear quite how slowly the stockpiled resources would be consumed.
But if you do get the 749th right - you can live off that reputation for a long time.
This is never enough time to ask clarifying questions, diagram things, and get a good solution out unless it's similar to a problem I've already solved.

Of course not - interviews aren't about assessing actual problem-solving ability (in the face of, you know, actual real problems). But rather your ability to recite stock answers to made-up problems the interviewer found on some website somewhere. That, and your ability to politely tolerate their horrible time management skills, laugh at their jokes -- and feign belief / interest in their product.
Ping the URL in the background, if it returns a 404, iteratively change the least-confident character recognitions to the next best guess until it returns a 200 and then return that to the user. For example if it doesn't know whether a character is "I" or "l", and another character is a "0" or an "O", try all 4 combinations and show the correct one before the user even realizes.

If a piece of an URL looks like a word, factor that into your confidence scores as well, e.g. "somefoo.com/illusion/" is far more likely to be the correct URL, especially for something printed on paper, than "somefoo.com/iIIusion/", "somefoo.com/iIlusion/", or "somefoo.com/ilIusion/"

You don't even to do a full GET request, you can just use HEAD to save on mobile bandwidth.

For URLs that are printed on paper (e.g. at a restaurant table), have the backend do this and cache the correct URLs based on geolocation.
It works on any Pi which has only 1 USB port - except for the power port. So on the various "Model A's" and on the zeros. The reason is, the Pi's SOC actually is natively capable of USB Gadget mode, but only offers 1 USB port, and on the various B models they interpose a hub to offer more ports - but gadget mode stops working due to the hub being in between.

The Pi 4 is an exception - its USB-C power port works in gadget mode too, unlike its normal USB-A ports, which do not, like all other Pis, because of said hub.
There has been a lot of friction between locals and Chinese immigrants lately, especially with the rising cost of living. Public sentiment is quite negative, but the government seems happy importing more wealthy Chinese.
Doesn't that get triggered if you type "after" fast enough?
How to Attract More Customers with Traction
I don't know if you are being cynical or asking a rhetorical question, but let me ask another question out of curiosity: are there any open source, privacy-respecting, non-data laundering, non-cloud-based, non-SaaS offerings which fit your requirements?
Seems like pretty standard gentrification with the "digital nomad" label to give it a cool new spin, and an easy villain to understand and dislike.

"Oblivious middle class hipster types" is the likely caricature - but they are probably quite varied and less clichéd in reality; it presumably takes an element of individuality, imagination and courage to venture out like that, even where the privilege is also there.
I think that's the issue here. People disagree on how useful or not useful it is. It's maybe not ideal, but I don't think it's anywhere near so bad as to be entirely not useful. Strings-are-sequences-of-bytes is worse in my opinion. Python literally used to have that. It was worse.
Suspicious Activity: What Are German Fighter Pilots Doing in China?
As aggregators, just Polygon (polygon.com), The Verge (theverge.com) and Microsiervos (microsiervos.com).

When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.
Yeah that line doesn't lend itself well to marketing campaigns.
In my mind the ‘f’ here stands for ‘f yeah’
> They are extremely loyal to their user base.

Are you sure it's not the other way around? :-(
I would 100% subscribe to this as a daily email link that was custom for my region and interests
It drops a few frames on my iPhone Xs. Even then it feels very responsive; I can be confident that it'll respond to my next touch right away. That makes it much better than most UIs I know, well done! Especially the expand/contract animations feel great.
I would very much like a local code assist tool. Assuming integration with editors is my problem, what's best in class this week if a) I have a respectable GPU; b) I don't, and need CPU-only?
Strange how at the top of that link it shows `Model: Default` but in the actual session it shows `Model: GPT-4`. An OpenAI display bug, I would assume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2k1c7kaijjmpzu/Screenshot%202023-...
I haven't tried it, last scope I used was fairly big and bulky, a floor model on a cart, around 30 years ago. It's amazing how much they've changed.
Ha yeah, I remember that from Cabel Sasser's write up about the story of Audion: https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
For other people totally confused, all these acronyms are for video games
Their economic miracle was created by Henry Kissinger and globalization. Building a fascist regime was not a prerequisite for it, but is for problems that they are facing now.
A product often evolves from something with a very small use-case to something very large. Developers are often critical because they dont consider the resource and time constraints in which a product was originally developed with.
Stockholm syndrome. My father swears by rock hard toffee candy, because that's how they were by the time they reached his local store. Modern iteration that stays soft as intended and melts in mouth is blasphemy according to him.
Right now the definition of consciousness is just the opinion of whomever is talking about it

It’s ineffable and hence not falsifiable

I personally subscribe to panpsychism, so to me, even the device I’m writing this on is conscious

I don’t believe in human exceptionalism, we are not special or significantly different than the rest of stuff in the Universe, that’s just what we want to believe
I want to own a house, without having to take up a loan from the banks. Here me and my girlfriend can have kids and we can all live in the house.

I want that the company I own earns so much money that I can be comfortably confident that my company can pay me a pay check for decades without further reliance on others. This will leave me free to experiment and create things as I see fit.

I want that some of the things I make gain a whole bunch of customers, so that I can hire other people to work on more things.

At the moment my income comes from contracting for another company. I like working for them as well, and want to work for them for the foreseeable future. The other things I mention above are long term goals, and I am building towards those goals.
I need a clear argument for why having a comparatively small number of comparatively rich people come to your small town is actually something people should be deeply worried about. I've heard a lot of chicken little type catastrophizing without a lot of hard, unambiguous data to back it up.

I get that digital nomads might be annoying and boorish: people with 100x as much money as you, who don't speak your language and don't know anything about your culture, and live in a little bubble of luxury right next to where you are just getting by. That would make me mad. I could see rolling your eyes hard. But, are these arguments about them destroying towns and neighborhoods coming from a place of fact, or a place of emotion?
Is it that the shape can be tiled so it doesn't repeat a pattern or can you only tile it like that?
Wow that's fantastic! Very much the product of releasing changes without stopping to think even one step ahead.
> Why is an older doctor so much more valuable than an older developer?

The lower barrier to entry that the developer has?
Ask HN: How hard is it to raise 1M USD?
Hello HN, I'm posing this question as I've been thinking of how to approach fundraising and so on.

I'm thinking of opening my own startup, and one of the biggest barriers I have is finding the company's paid-up capital (1M USD) due to regulatory compliance in the country that I want to bootstrap it.

What kind of stage should I be in to try and raise this amount? I won't be able to deploy the product unless I clear the regulatory hurdle.

What kind of advice/wisdom do you have for me?
The creators of Modelica, Hilding Elmqvist and Martin Otter, work in Julia these days so there's been a boom to the development of acausal modeling tooling in Julia. They built https://github.com/ModiaSim/Modia.jl and then we collaborated with them on some ideas to build ModelingToolkit.jl (https://docs.sciml.ai/ModelingToolkit/dev/). The latest versions and experiments in OpenModelica are now targeting ModelingToolkit as a compilation backend, which gives a pathway for legacy Modelica code to be used with the MTK ecosystem. The OpenModelica community has always been a very small group in comparison to the Dymola compiler team and so the open part of Modelica never really caught on, but we hope to help them piggyback off of our compiler to get it there. We'll have a workshop on this collaboration in Linköping next February if you're interested in the details.
People mention Google Docs a lot in this thread.

There seem to be a server version of LibreOffice, called confusingly LibreOffice Online and Collabora Office (?) somewhat interchangeably; Collabora is the #1 contributor to LibreOffice.

I cannot find a free online demo of that though, so I don't know how good it actually is.

edit: there is also some confusing thing about maximum number of users, and if you want to remove it, you need to rename the server because of trademark? I don't know. Seems confusing

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
I know there is lot of gripe about the display not being 4k, but I personally love 2560x1600 on 16inch monitors.

In Linux I can run this without any fractional scaling at 100% resolution. To account for small text, I can change font size by 1.1 or something similar via gnome-tweaks and similar font size adjustment for apps that don't honor gnome-tweaks setting.

I know this is not ideal if you are coming from Mac, but this IMO leads to much more smoother experience and no blurry text anywhere. The same setting works if I am plugging into 32inch 4k display.
Cool which one of those is libre?
> Twitter is obviously hurting for cash.

Because it has to pay $15B of its own takeover price and Elon scared away advertisers.

I hope somebody paid Elon handsomely for driving Twitter into the ground. Otherwise he doesn’t look very much like a good businessman.
I don’t mind talking about code and in depth tech discussions; what I do mind is getting a calendar invite with 6 weeks of interviews and take home work. I have no issues getting jobs without any interviewing, but sometimes I get these weird things. I hire myself at the current company (and many previous) and I know within 15 minutes if someone is ok or not. Haven’t been wrong so far and the past 25 or so years. But I do have the luxury of only having ever have to pick senior devs; juniors I would not really know how to do.

Interviews that don’t involve code are usually fine but not 6-12 of them. I usually start with (and we do not look for Haskell, ocaml, idris or prolog devs); do you know what Haskell is, what are some of the differences between Haskell, Idris and Ocaml. What’s the difference between prolog and Haskell. If they throw huge ‘i have no idea about any of this’ then I know they are going to be people we cannot use. What do lisp and prolog have in common. You cannot really fake knowing any of these and not having had hands on experience. It takes 15 minutes to filter out people who wouldn’t fit our team. But again: I hire seniors only and we work with very specialised financial software. I do apply for similar jobs where this applies as well and then I get a calendar invite with 12 interviews etc. No thanks.
> for whatever reason

But there's a very specific reason here, and it's easy to avoid.
Without resorting to IQ, I have the same view but with experience.

Inexperienced dev code the first solution they have.

Experienced dev challenge their first solution with one (or more) other solution(s).
Ballot verifiability is not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. A person fills out a ballot, that ballot is [optically] scanned and then automatically parsed a la scantron. Both the ballot and the resultant scan are published side by side.

Optionally, add an ID on each ballot and people can not only look at all 162 million ballots, but even verify that their ballot properly scanned, published, and counted. The only argument against this is that ballot verifiability is a bad thing, because it might enable e.g. vote buying or whatever. Yet somehow people were perfectly fine with there being more than 26,000,000 votes made by mail in 2020 in which such threats are dramatically greater.

The nice thing about this solution is also that there's no 'classified' data. The complete transparency of it all would make any sort of stuffing or vote manipulation effectively impossible, which means there's no need for ultra-sophisticated systems. Plain old 1990s tech of digital scanners and scantron would work just fine. Ballot observers would need to do little more than count the number of people coming into a station and ensure that matches the total number of ballots eventually published by that station.

What's not to prefer about this relative to the status quo?
For a (1970s?) sample of the other direction:

https://diafilmy.su/3646-nyu-york.html

https://diafilmy.su/3665-nyu-york-2.html

(amusingly enough, I'm pretty sure the first picture of the first part is on the other side of the north american continent from New York, but I didn't notice any other obvious howlers)
> consistently working 10-12 hours a day

That shouldn't be something to aspire to.
I read the newsfeed on Pixel (or Android?) that shows up when I keep swiping right on my home screen.

Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to.

I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.
There is a fourth category of hash functions: find similar items.

For English words, this is usually done with soundex / metaphone / doublemetaphone. Fun fact, soundex was developed over 100 years ago to help immigrants find their families in USA even if they didn't know how to spell their last name. Soundex is supported by most DBs.

For images, there are hashes like ahash/phash/dhash/whash/blockmeat/colormoment/colorhas/marrHildreth .

Most popular Audio hash is acoustid. There was also EchoPrint (with two incompatible versions), but once EchoNest was bought out by Spotify the public support and development into echoprint died. Some groups of people tried to keep echoprint alive but I am unaware if it is still used by anyone publicly.
You should be able to do this with a pi 4, since the usb-c power port is also the gadget port. The usb 3.0 ones off the pcie bus on the pi should be completely independent from that and still work (not sure about the 2.0 ports or anything).
> super high income (radiology) jobs

Weren't these replaced by outsourcing imaging reading to third world doctors?
Are there third party modular suppliers? Could I say, replace the keyboard like I can on a desktop?

If not, are they open to that? If I wanted to say, make something more "thinkpad" like for people to swap things out, would they openly support me selling this?
I've heard of the "tech bro" stereotype (and seen it many times first hand), but struggle to recall a "doc bro" or equivalent one. I've also never heard of the term "culture fit" when discussing a potential hire in the medical industry like I do tech, software specifically. I wonder if the majority of the types of people who go into tech are different than the majority that go into medicine.

> It's interesting that places value seniority and experience so much more in medicine vs tech

I don't think the tech world devalues seniority as much as they despise people older than them and not of the same generation(ish).

All big generalities and of course don't fit every situation/company/person.
Lots of companies have research departments and release papers; the people working in these departments have some academic roots at least. The incentives for releasing papers are:

* To raise your profile and reputation generally

* The specific publish or perish incentives in academia

* Because you really think you’ve done something interesting and novel, and want to share it with the world

Only the middle one is removed when going to industry.
A container of Soylent Thincrust, lost earlier during hurricane Harlan, washed up on the shores of Orlando to the delight of the Orange County Non-Denominational Order of Homeless Laborers.
Optum is an extreme example, but it's all of them. The non-profits run the same as the for-profits, and have converged more and more since 2000 or so.
Well that's the difference between "open source" and "free software", no? "Open source", meaning that anyone can see/copy the source code, and "free software" meaning code that is licensed accordingly.

I always thought that "open source" has nothing to do with what's legal and what isn't, it just means that anyone can materially access the code.
> But they all should look like Big Boss then?

Not quite, because they were not all direct clones the way we think of cloning in real life, because in the Metal Gear universe, they could do "selective cloning".

I forgot the details of how exactly they described it (and I haven't played beyond MGS3 yet). But in MGS, Liquid and Solid have a conversation about it, where Liquid insinuates that they took the "best genes" of Big Boss to clone Solid (who actually looks like Big Boss), and used the remaining "weak genes" to clone Liquid. I would bet that this whole explanation is also sprinkled with a bit of nanomachines-related lore in the later games.

Also, their differences in looks could be explained by environmental factors and style choices. I would argue that Solidus looks just like Big Boss and Solid, but aged, more muscular, and with different facial hair.
I'd argue that acausal modeling is much easier for circuit design. And there's quite a bit of research, including surveys of experts, that backs it up as well. I recently put out a video exactly on this topic that summarizes some of the research and shows some examples to this end (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkojUozeC4). Acausal modeling definitely isn't something that is taught in most (American) engineering schools, but once you get the brain flip it pretty clearly can improve productivity, no matter which acausal modeling language is used.
Indeed, Windows has no out-of-the-box office productivity suite. But - at large companies, and most organizations with IT services setting up a machine for you, the default image installed for new users does have it.

For independent individual users, if we could somehow arrange it so that LO were installed by PC builders / laptop vendors - that would increase its user base from ~200M to 2 Billion within a few years. It would trounce MS Office.
If you got on the FANG train around the time they dropped the standards and kept the comp going.

Tech is boom/bust. Ask a grandpa who worked for DEC in the 80s how that worked out for him.
You can install the "Blue Blocker" extension. That will block all Blue checkmark users you are not already following.

Hacky workaround until Twitter gets better or shuts down.
I agree that some of the hiring processes out there are pretty nuts! On the other hand, there are people out there that have a CV that looks good on paper but are incompetent. One of my colleagues used the phrase one year of experience ten times.

I've worked with a few of these folks over the years. No one wanted them on the team and they contributed nothing, but somehow they managed to retain their job. These types were the first ones to go whenever there were staff cuts.

I've come across this interviewing too. We had a guy say "I can't do this.". I said, it's OK if you can solve it...let's just start it and work through it together. It's more important that we see how you approach problems and work through them. "No...I don't think I can."
Not my experience, but then again, I am only one guy with one life so.
Lack of moderation is 10x a worse problem for revenue that offending the blue icons.

Moreover, it seems most of the activists don't want to contemplate that bigotry runs in all directions and saying things about 'men' or 'white people' probably should fall under the same auspices ... which is why even as irresponsible and inconsistent as Musk is, he leans a bit more 'loose' than not which is probably preferable than ideological forms of censorship.

I also feel that as a society, we're going to get used to 'foul language' and that it just doesn't have the resonance it might have had.

Someone spreading fake papers saying 'doctors are trying to kill you with vaccines', with a ton of followers, is actually more problematic than some random dirtbag's side-comment.
Wrll yes. But then SoftBank has his fingers, sorry its Saudi oil money, is basically every single VC funded company that exists. That strategy basicaly guarantees to be part of failure.

But even then Softbank seems to over perform in the failed investment part...
My understanding is that in addition to extra weight and difficulties with cooling, aerospike engines do worst around Mach 1-3. Also, they aren't steerable. They need to either be throttleable to provide attitude control or supplemented with steerable thrusters like Soyuz. Both bring additional weight penalties.

In short, like almost everything in rocketry, the devil is in the details, and a percent of two of performance either way can make or break a design.
Well they're hardly going to find a colo that'll take those machines, so you must mean that they should stop building for them?

They've said before they hardware heterogeneity has been useful in bug hunting, and at worst it can be viewed as a heating expense for the fairly prolific guy.

Does qemu support all those architectures ?
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