skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't pass the screening interview is due to a few issues.

1) You are applying to a role you don't meet the minimum requirements for.

2) Didn't take the time to research about the company, salary and benefits, the product/service and the team you'll be working with.

3) Unrealistic expectations about compensation and benefits, which you should have researched above.

The rest is just having a casual conversation with another human being, so if you have communication skills that's another issue you need to resolve.
> These things are a matter of writing a correct prompt.

No, they aren't.

ChatGPT doesn't know things. It's just a very fancy predictive text engine. For any given prompt, it will provide a response that is engineered to sound authoritative, regardless of whether any information is correct.

It will summon case law out of the aether when prompted by a lawyer; it will conjure paper titles and author names from thin air when prompted by a researcher; it will certainly generate semantically meaningless code very often. It's absolutely ludicrous to assert that you just need a "better prompt" to counteract these kinds of responses because this is not a bug — it's literally just how it works.
> Personally I find this astonishingly foolish of the people who train exclusively on these tools instead of first principles and primitives.

That's an elitist perspective that doesn't include the average worker making a living by knowing their tools and not much else.
In decreasing order:

- English (the ChatGPT/LLM programming language)
- ML family
- SQL (queries and DDL only - DSL)
- Algol family (Algol 60/68, Pascal, Ada)
- Logo

NoSyntax is the best syntax?

- TCL/Tk
- Forth
- Lisp family

...

ETOOMANYSIGILS:
- Perl / Ruby / Elixir

ETOOMATHLIKE:
- Prolog / Datalog / Erlang

ETOOVERBOSE:
- PHP / Java / C#

ETOOANCIENT
- SQL (Stored Procedures and Triggers)

The worst:
- various assembly languages
- LaTeX
- APL family
- Brainf*ck
> Better they learn responsible use than have it imposed.

Good that schools do not have to learn responsible use, or unlearn irresponsible use, by just banning it whole sale.

You have the rest of their waking hours to do so (or not do so) as a parent.
Speak for yourself. I’d take immortality without thinking twice.
And just how do you capture teachers breaking the law at school? I've seen teachers hitting kids with metre long wooden rules around ankles, a teacher throwing a kid into some music stands and reportedly out of a window, and much more. Seeing is believing but authority figures in all walks of life abuse their positions because they are only human!
The fact that we have long articles like this on how to game interviews and then interviewers become keen and it becomes a stupid meta back and forth game of cat and mouse. Meanwhile us normal non-career ladder psychopaths want to talk and be treated like regular people.

Every time I’ve been asked about a conflict I’ve had and how I resolved it, I die a little bit inside.
Ask HN: What is your dream death?
In some societies through history the ideal death was that of a powerful warrior in battle. In others - that of an old monk in a solitary cave. In our society the most prominent pop idea of a good death seems to be that of dying as a very old person, in the hospital, surrounded by friends and family.

But I'm not sure that's how all of us would actually like to go. Personally I'd quite like to die alone on a remote mountain trail. What is your dream death?
Well, yes, but Maine and Vermont are also in the bottom ten states in terms of population. Surely there is not such a big difference in economic activity when you look at it per capita?
> It power most of the HMI systems in cars, except some newer ones, which are based on Android Auto and very view exceptions based on Windows Embedded/Auto.

My Ford has had both. As a 2015 model it shipped with MyFordTouch which ran on whatever Microsoft was calling the automotive branch of Windows CE at the time (AutoPC?) with a UI built in Adobe Flash.

2016 and newer models got a QNX-based platform with a HTML5 UI under the name SYNC 3, and the newer SYNC 4 variants are derived from that.

I upgraded my car with parts from a 2016 model a few years ago because Sync 3 could do Android Auto and CarPlay where MyFordTouch could not.
I find myself doing this (and feeling stupid doing so) with my Amazon Echo Dots. They seem to understand very little, so I simplify and reduce like crazy. Nevertheless, lots of searches/commands go wrong.

Good example probably: I've tried to play music from German rap artist "Disarstar" which is pronounced like "disaster". I did not get Alexa to play music from this artist from Spotify, it only searched for "disaster" and played music it found... Not a good experience.
OpenAI has already disabled Browse with Bing in ChatGPT
Whoa this comment dunked and I don't even have an idea why - does HN actually oppose so heavily the idea of an employer establishing their own rules in the workplace, and communicating openly about those rules? And people having thus the possibility to vote with their feet right from the start?
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Finding smart, driven and nice(!!!) people is a priority to us which is why we move fast in the recruiting process :)

Tech stack: Typescript, GraphQL, Apollo, React, vite, TailwindUI, Python (type annotated), FastAPI, Strawberry, Kafka, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions CI/CD, MS Azure, k8s
Oh it's a totally unrealistic fantasy. I just like to dream.
The problem is that "people who don't want to pay to outsource things" isn't a lucrative market of providers of outsource services..
I use it every week, sometimes every day.

Like, just start the dam thing and it works.
People living longer makes the world worse.

Maybe there’s an economic system that would not do this, but currently most people’s lives are not improved with increased longevity across the board.

It’s one of the reasons I left my job in pharma. The constant circle jerk about making the world better + comparative low pay when so few could afford a condo on their own salary. Whose lives are we making better? Certainly not the lives of the people I see every day.
If it's shared, it's not a salt.

The term of art in that case is 'pepper'.
I spent a few years as an okta engineer implementing MFA. Sometimes they buy you an MFA device, but most companies just degrade their security by letting you use phone mfa (even using your work desk phone for mfa).

This, of course, is not the fault/problem of the people who refuse to install mfa on their personal device. Good for them.
Note that while CentOS Stream is continuously integrated (in a way that may not be suitable for production), each patch is still thoroughly tested, using roughly the same testing procedure as RHEL. So it's a mischaracterization to call it a beta test, but it's nevertheless not a production-grade stable platform for most purposes. It's a rather weird middle ground to be in, not one that I can think of any parallels for.
Which country was that in?
James Lindsay has been writing/publishing on the subject of Marxism being a Gnostic religion for quite a while now for those interested in this subject. Here's a summary of what he says on the subject in The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 108 [1]:

Marxism is not a philosophy. Neither are its derivatives, like “Wokeness” (Woke Marxism). These are a strain within a broader category of cult religious movements that pose as economics, sociology, and politics. The broad name for these Esoteric cult religions is “Gnosticism,” but that’s a confusing label for a number of reasons. The first of these reasons is that “gnosticism” as a term, either as a descriptive or proper noun, means several things at once, which requires clarification. Another is that as economic, social, and political movements, they don’t look at all like the pre-modern spiritualist and mystical movements that go by those names. In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay clarifies the term “gnosticism” and unmasks what amounts to a huge “New Age” movement in the Middle Ages as the source of a thread of Gnostic cult belief that has shaped every facet of the West for at least the last three hundred years. He also explains how the shift from the Middle Ages to the Modern period included a shift in the Gnostic project, out of overt spiritualism and into exactly those society-building realms of economics, sociology, and politics. Join him to gain a completely new understanding of these dangerous movements and how they’re relevant to our lives today.

While Lindsay has a bit of a tendency to stick the label 'Marxism' on things which do not seem to be all that Marxist - probably because he has been steeped in all things Marxist for so long now that the 'if all you have is a hammer...´ quote starts to apply - I do think he (or rather 'they' as Lindsay did not come up with this idea himself, he got these ideas from others who went before him) is mostly right in calling Marxism and most of its spin-offs cult religious movements (with or without the 'Gnostic' label).

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/2023/02/gnosticism-in-the-modern-w...
> game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job

Same model. Most actors stay poor and barely make it. You just only know the most successful ones, which is a tiny minority of the acting pool.
Choosing children's mental health and focus on school work over allowing big biz to unload their addictive products upon us. Seems to be the good thing to do.
Why do that have a good search that's not part of the main site?
just educate your children to have values. they will tell the truth. how do you think mankind did it before the phone.
They’ve been selling the Bz4x for about a year now which is basically an electric RAV4
There seems to be an issue with keys such as !"£$%%^&*():{} with this emulator, I can't even type in D: to change drive as the colon does not get sent. It might be that I am on an UK keyboard? Otherwise, it works very well, if a bit slowly.
< I can just hear investors asking "why the ever-loving * are you making it so easy for others to clone your biggest product?"

It is telling that no one in the meeting could actually answer that: "We still face formidable competition, and we do not believe our moat will hold for more than 12-18 months before whatever replaces us in the market emerges and begins rapidly eroding market share, resulting in dwindling profits and share prices. By allowing an unofficial free-tier -- a clone, as you say -- of our enterprise product, we keep developers from rapidly switching to Debian and it's derivatives. Once that happens, the hosting and enterprise data center markets will collapse irretrievably leaving us with only legacy customers who will leave, one server age-out at a time."
I’m rather disturbed by the discompassion society has towards people without smartphones. Be it menus at restaurants, banking apps (as you mention), or even map availability. We just assume everyone is connected all the time and that phones never break or have issues. I feel crazy, because my phone is constantly misbehaving.
This is interesting move of yours.

HN disables answers after some period of time, which appears to be a couple of weeks.

I think Twitter won't go in a couple of weeks. I also think that in case of Twitter not going anywhere in a year or so, we won't be able to call your call, due to HN comments disabled.

What do you propose to resolve that?

Regarding the core of your proposal, these who use Twitter and these who use Instagram, are different people. Twitter is primarily text based, Instagram is primarily picture and video based.

My prediction is that there will not be huge (dozens of percents) outflow from Twitter to Threads. I also think that there won't be noticeable (dozens of percents) use of Threads by Instagram users.

Instagram is already a social network of people with needs different from social network like Twitter.
I haven't noticed "still in print" restriction, sorry. I skimmed quickly through names, because I do not expect such a restriction from "greatest of all times" statement. Who cares about that when you are going to a book shelf in order to read some great books?

I will stop being a sexist in context of what book to read for this and that human if I see at least one female philosophist.
Not Just Plagiarism: Investigating Peer Reviews in Online Learning
>redhatisnotlinux.org runs Slackware Linux 7.1, Stronghold 2.3, PHP 4.0.0, and PostgresQL 7.0

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Also, most people use other tools like web-ui to run these models, which don't seem to apply any watermarks.
Assume that someone will always be using the best tools available (some illegally) for the most nefarious purposes.

With that in mind, the moral thing is to use the very best tools available to at least counter those efforts.
Well, that partly answers the second question but what about the other two? As for the second, how does the fact that we seek it and that it is would have to be psychological entail that it exists and that we find it?
Did you realize that it's still ~50% increase in weight?

Though agree that OP need to try it themselves, but still beware that some people with small hands get hurt playing deck due to the weight.
Sure, I just don’t understand why they’re doing it.

In theory they could also train the model to always add a watermark.
everyone has a phone in France even inmates..
There was a huge amount of media propaganda and every diverging opinion was banned. With "conspiracy theories" being the strawman argument.
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Hard. While capitalism may be an established societal practice, accumulation of wealth and power is also the natural state of things. You need an incredibly cohesive society to prevent that, the likes of which humanity has never seen imo.
Read the next sentence after your quote. The point is that you should include code and examples in your prompt (Copilot is so good since it includes the surrounding code and open files in the prompt to understand your specific context), not that you should craft an exceptional "act as rockstar engineer" prompt.
I understood it was wordplay from lapin, the French word for rabbit. The way I remember it is it was a program that took an input of Lisp Assembly Programs (LAP-in). I can't find a source for this, so I may be misremembering parts of it, particularly the expansion of the acronym.
The primary purpose of most businesses is to make money. Sometimes they are even legally obligated to pursue the best financial outcomes for their shareholders.

There are alternatives of course, like non-profits and B-corps, but those are outliers.
That's a straw man. I'm not insisting there's anything magical or spiritual or metaphysically special about consciousness. I am merely insisting that consciousness is a particularly complex recursive metaprocess that is utterly absent from what GPT is doing. Not that it couldn't theoretically be replicated by a very large and complex neural network model. Just that it is abundantly clear that the sort of thing GPT is doing and the sort of thing we do are simply not the same. It does not have meaning or intentionality and it does not have consciousness. You just need to spend a little time actually looking at the utter drivel that it produces when you ask it things or tell it to output things to realize that not only is it highly formulaic, but it does not have any underlying understanding of the concepts or principles or facts or intention of what it is doing, it is merely producing an assemblage of words that it has been trained to deem fairly convincing.

The stochastic parrot model that GPT follows is not even remotely a convincing theory of consciousness, whatsoever, and it has certainly not let us reproduce consciousness. I can hardly even believe you are saying that it has. That's like saying traditional computer game graphics rendering prior to raytracing becoming mainstream is a "compelling theory" of how physical light actually works because some game looks almost photo realistic. In this analogy, I'm the one that's pointing out that what physical light does in the real world is extremely different from what traditional computer game graphics does and even if you can get it to be superficially close it will never be as powerful as the real thing, and to do that we would need a much more computationally expensive ray tracing model. I'm not saying there's anything inherently unique about human brains or that you can't model Consciousness with the computer I'm saying we haven't gotten there yet.
Rabbit was the first. I read somewhere that this was a kind of pun on the MacLisp LAPIN function. LAPIN assembled LAP code, Lisp Assembly Program (the penultimate stage of compilation), and 'lapin' is French for rabbit.
As an individual, I'd welcome no advertisements everywhere. I think ads were abused long enough. It's just a leech on the human life.
It never worked very well and would regularly hang/fail. The WebPilot plugin, however, continues to work pretty reliably.
> I'm still looking for major outlets to set up their own servers and be able to follow name@newsorg.com accounts for their staff.

I've already seen one: https://social.heise.de/
The first one is iffy.... probably depends on a country too. If you take a panoramic shot of the beach, and someone is randomly topless.. sure. If you take a telephoto lens and single them out, it's questionable, and in many countries, illegal. Same as with walking vs following someone, even in public... the intent is different, so is the legality.
What would that buy you? You train until you push your loss under a certain threshold, then check the external criteria and if they don't hold you train again? Your external criteria would essentially become another part of your loss function, but the whole training would become vastly more inefficient.

I'm saying that we shouldn't expect the models to come up with things we didn't train them to come up with.
>Otherwise no government program could take race into consideration

Can you give an example of a government program that takes race into consideration other than Affirmative Action programs?
It's not pathetic. EEE has been shown time and time again (MS, Google, etc.). Also, Meta is a company known for dubious practices and anti-competitive behavior. So why trust them?
while sandy
> is already struggling under the pressure of an aging population

Wouldn’t making them healthier increase their economic output at the same time it’d decrease their cost to the healthcare system?
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Aren't carbon offsets (credits) a result of laws being passed by countries?
Sourcegraph CEO here. Sourcegraph is now 2 separate products: code search and Cody (our code AI). Cody remains open source (Apache 2) in the client/cody* directories in the repository, and we're extracting that to a separate 100% OSS repository soon.

Our licensing principle remains to charge companies while making tools for individual devs open source. Very few individual devs (or companies) used the limited-feature open-source variant of code search, so we decided to remove it. Usage of Sourcegraph code search was even more skewed toward our official non-OSS build than in other similar situations like Google Chrome vs. Chromium or VS Code vs. VSCodium. Maintaining 2 variants was a burden on our engineering team that had very little benefit for anyone.

You can see more explanation at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu.... The change was announced in the changelog and in a PR (all of our development occurs in public), and we will have a blog post this week after we separate our big monorepo into 2 repos as planned: the 100% OSS repo for Cody and the non-OSS repo for code search.

You can still use Sourcegraph code search for free on public code at https://sourcegraph.com and on our self-hosted free tier on private code (which means individual devs can still run Sourcegraph code search 100% for free). Customers are not affected at all.
I confess to hoping this was a compiler for rabbit schemes, but no such luck. Those things are everywhere around me (near Chicago, IL) and it would have been insightful to do some reverse-engineering. Alas, their schemes shall remain mysterious.
I like the writing on this article a lot more than I thought I would, some of the advice is sound - but the big caveat is most of this has nothing to do with a first round interview. What the author describes here are pieces that will come up in a typical interview process somewhere, but probably not a first round.

First round to me is typically a “bozo filter” - screen out individuals who are clearly unqualified or who are an obvious bad fit.

Any decent dev should get past round 1 without significant prep.
I guess we have to accept that this perspective will be at the bottom of such threads.

But this is the conclusion I’ve come to as well. I used to fear death, now I fear wasting my life.

The more I learn about the natural world, the more I can see that death is a gift, a mechanism for renewal as well as for protecting things which have existed for millions of years.

Nothing I have in my brain is that special, compared to what the collective of life has created. I’m happy to give up living and become a more background part of what comes next. It’s an honor. And I hope I can honor it.

It’s very interesting to read this thread though and remember that so many people see death as a simple black line that might just as well be evaded as understood.
I actually think cs.github.com is now the same as github.com/search. It was in beta for awhile but they recently started redirecting it.
> I applaud the focus. I am just not sure that the mode is the best way to do that.

I'm not pitting it against BoL Statistics metrics. I use it to better communicate how the largest swath of the public experiences the economy.
> as banking, public transportation, restaurants, and all other parts of life increasingly assume you carry a smartphone

People have not worked through the wide ranging implications of this "assumption", given who builds and controls everything about those devices.
It was originally the call center software that Amazon Retail used. It was ported to become an AWS service. For text to speech it uses Lex - the AWS version of Alexa. For other integrations you have it call a Lambda.

It’s the standard type of software you use when calling into a call center with a mixture of automated help and operators.

Like I said above, if you know your specialty well, it’s not hard to map your expertise to AWS services. It took me two years from never opening the AWS console but having literally decades of software development/architecture experience to working at AWS in consulting. I worked at a 60 person startup before.

I’m more challenging the notion that all any of the cloud providers offer is a bunch of VMs and the surrounding networking infrastructure.