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Tell HN: The Turing.com hiring platform is complete nonsense
Been spending a bunch of time trying to get on their hiring platform. After a bunch of surveys on soft skills, assessments for selected tech stacks are required to receive job opportunities.

It seems like the assessment tests are written by a machine and/or scraped entirely from questions in online repositories.

As an example, here's a screenshot of one of their nonsense questions for an Android assessment: https://prnt.sc/waKVQjFoETwr

Almost all the questions are like that. I also figured out that a bunch of the questions seem to be copied word for word from online repositories like https://github.com/Ebazhanov/linkedin-skill-assessments-quizzes/blob/main/android/android-quiz.md.

Tried to speak to a person about all the issues which make taking an assessment impossible, and just got more bots.

I'm sure many are looking for jobs, so figured this would save people a bunch of time.
I usually wait until their's Ubiquity prosumer equipment available before even thinking about a wifi upgrade.

As such, I upgraded to wifi6 less than 18months ago, I don't think there's a meaningful reason to assume it will be soon for me to upgrade again.
> I'm reminded of the algorithms used to render planar drawings of proteins, which are similar to knots

Yes, like the PTGL - https://bio.tools/ptgl - or, er, TOPS diagrams. The main relationship to knot diagrams is really the chirality of beta-alpha-beta motifs (the majority of which are right handed).
>and you would buy it anyway because it's a CPU.

This is the part that needs to be emphasized more, that iGPU is practically free because it comes with the CPU we're buying anyway.

It's already hard enough to compete with free, but on top of that dGPUs are asking for Keksimus Maximus monies. The value proposition for gamers, let alone most consumer users, is very strongly favored towards iGPUs.
I have heard it a few times. This really depends on what local lexicons you are exposed to.
> And it even stumbled in its quest to build the US President’s new Air Force One.

Technically of course, Air Force One is a call sign, not an aircraft. The quote is from an FT article which indicates the Boeing bill for retrofitting two custom 747-8s was $3.9B USD, marked down from 5B after Trump called the price "ridiculous". I agree with him.

https://www.ft.com/content/d2bd472b-0e5d-459f-8503-04633aefe...
That comment was immediately downvoted so there isn’t much hope.
Only being able to receive a DM from someone after approving a friend request. Last I checked you have to enable this after installing.

It should be the default setting.
What things do you miss in academia that you didn't find in industry?
> They don't have any screenshots on their site.

The website is WIP. You can find screenshots and videos in the blog.

https://ondsel.com/blog/assembly-wb-prerelease/

https://ondsel.com/blog/floating-input-widgets/

https://ondsel.com/blog/ondsel-made-constraining-sketches-fa...
it takes six months to get hired for many.
You have chunks of the explanation in other responses, let's try to put them together:

Since Obama became president, all legislation basically needs 2/3rds of the senate to pass if it's remotely controversial and every tax change is controversial. There is one exception though: if the bill is of a budgetary nature, and is revenue neutral over 10 years.

Trump really wanted to pass some tax cuts in 2017. But as you'd expect, claiming that a big tax cut is revenue neutral is far more than the senate parlamentarian would believe. So instead, some tax cuts are made temporary, and some tax changes are made that would gain revenue. Then the whole thing appears to be revenue neutral over a decade, because nobody expects that the poison pills at the end will actually be allowed to happen. They tend to come in 6+ years later, as to make sure that all senators and the president might also claim said increases are not their problem.

So the expectation is that a future congress will just undo those tax changes, and push them further into the future, by again making another bill that looks revenue neutral in the long run, but is just kicking the ball down the road.

The congress since the midterms, however, is even less functional than in the Obama or Trump years: So the poison pills that are not supposed to happen are starting to happen. Other cuts that occurred, like the increase of the standard deduction, were also marked as temporary, and could come back if congress doesn't do anything.

So ultimately it's all side-effects of people trying to bypass congressional rules, because otherwise we'd not see anything other than emergency spending bills passing in congress. Changes to legislation that would make this kind of dysfunction stop happening are even harder to pass. Every incentive pushes politicians of all parties to play with fire. This time we got burned.
Roger, thanks for sharing your story. It's admirable you were able to bounce back from a bad experience and have success with a new company.

It looks like the company you were at is still operational too.

Can you give more details about what happened?
What is the investors side of the story?
Do you think looking back it could have gone a different way/what would you have done differently to avoid the suboptimal outcomes? Whether that be negotiating better terms like you did with the latest company or something else tactical.
So it delegates the framework part to the browser?
no, spam users spamming with invites
Show HN: iOS Grocery List App Powered by Whisper and GPT4
Hey,

I'm an iOS engineer who took on the seemingly mad task of creating a new grocery app in this day and age. Yes, there are plenty out there, but I promise there's a method to my madness.

It's born out of a personal need – my wife would rattle off a list of things to buy, and I'd struggle to remember them all. She's not a fan of typing into apps or shared notes, and honestly, neither am I when it's about speed. The epiphany was that all existing grocery apps have an input problem. They're not catering to the way real people communicate about errands. So, I built HoneyDo to solve my own problem, which I suspect might be yours too.

Here's how it works: You or your partner can tell HoneyDo what to buy in a natural, conversational manner. "We need eggs, milk, and don't forget the chocolate cake that's near the entrance." Whisper and GPT4 processes this and voila, a neatly organized list appears on both your phones (synced via iCloud).

Technically speaking, I've crafted a full-stack solution with Swift (it's a native iOS app), and a Node.js-powered backend on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and OpenAI's API.

I'd love to get feedback. Whether it's about the UI/UX, the technical stack, or how the app performs in real-life scenarios, I'm all ears. I'm here to learn and improve, so please, be brutally honest.
I had been happy with Apple for many years but encountered some really terrible experiences lately. There was a systematic problem on Apple’s side (related to the recent increase in iCloud subscription fees) and they cancelled my extra iCloud storage. To be fair they did give me a refund for the extra storage prior but I thought it was related to the pricing changes and didn’t think much of it. Other than that there were no warnings until the extra storage expired and they sent me an email saying the storage is full. I resubscribed immediately but iCloud mail could not send or receive anything for several hours afterwards, except for receiving emails from Apple.

I also have had several instances where iCloud Drive would take forever to sync. The most recent time got so bad (100% cpu usage that persists after killing the process when I added 5KB worth of files) that I stopped using it completely. Tried Microsoft OneDrive instead and it synced at good speeds and gave me no problems.
I used to play WoW on a Llano APU. Plenty of gamers are addicted to something like that and just want a serviceable cheap machine. Pretty sure my current 3070 cost more than the entire computer I was killing Deathwing with.
As someone who initially started my career in academia I've been much happier since leaving. There are opportunities across industrial R&D that are far saner in terms of compensation and while they are slightly more restrictive in terms of what you work on there are still chances to do interesting research.
The Wi-Fi 7 certified program only started a few days ago so nothing is through certification yet. That said Intels adapters up til this point have always been and . They already have driver support in Linux as well.
We currently have 40 million acres of corn dedicated to ethanol production. All our energy needs can be met by 15 million acres of solar panels. The same set of facts that make you sad make me happy.
For the US, the eia has all of this info in a pretty accessible format.

For electricity - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/

For energy - https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/?tbl=T01.03#/?f...
I think some combinations of aircraft and runways leads to landing pilots not having a good view of the end of the runway
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention a feature "Pic to Pick". It's pretty cool; you take a photo of a dish or your fridge's contents, and the app (in this case powered by GPT-4's vision model), identifies the items and suggests them for your list. In my tests it works great.
I have almost 20 years of emails on Gmail, migrating is incredibly difficult and time consuming. So, I just have a forwarder to Gmail and use Mailgun to transform my Gmail into a white labelled email and pay pennies.
The OP was saying:

"I don't get why solar is so popular" based on the fact it doesn't work as well in extreme Northern regions where only a tiny fraction of the world's population lives.

That's sort of like saying I don't get why boats/ships are so popular because they can't drive on land.
Fair question, but there's a pretty direct line.

ZIRP means that huge capital managers (sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, 401k managers, etc.) get very, very little money on the super-safe stuff they like to buy.

They need to make returns somehow, so if a VC is promising them 15% returns, that sounds quite promising compared to T-Bonds that return 1.5%!

But over the last two years, the yield on super-safe investments now looks more like 6, 7, 8, 9%. That makes a high-risk investment like VC much less attractive, by comparison.

If VC is less attractive, less capital flows to their funds; smaller VC funds means much more discerning, stingy startup investment.
> Part of this is because of how available education is, so virtually everyone who’s applying for a tech job comes with some sort of academic education, meaning that they’ve proven their worth to get it.

I interviewed hundreds of people in my career, 95%+ had university degrees, and in my experience, this is a much weaker signal than you make it. Only consistent takeaway I have is people with CS degrees from elite schools are unlikely to be completely terrible, but not much beyond that: the people with these elite degrees didn’t even necessarily pass coding/algorithm interviews, and people with less elite degrees would pass or fail with no additional signal from the degree. I’ve seen many, many people with CS degrees fail at things that I wouldn’t expect someone who passed an intro programming class to fail, things like keeping track of running maximum and an index of element at which the maximum occurs.
Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achieve equivalent results.

The other one aims to strap screens to other people's faces to keep them even longer in a perpetually-online computer bubble of their own choosing, because that's been going great for society so far.
I was just reading up on this. Here is a good article on this: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
> I know completely clueless and incompetent researchers that made an effortless transition to faculty positions at top 10 universities, whereas some great postdocs were stuck forever, burnt out, and left. Ironically, some of said postdocs did the work the others took credit for in order to be promoted.

I've seen this, and it's happened to me. I'm at a much lower ranking uni and we partner with higher ranking unis and I can tell you that I know quite a number of people at top 5 universities that do not know what an expectation value, probability density, or covariance is. They get attached to my papers but I do not get attached to their papers, even if I put in more work than the reverse situation (I can't tell you what some of my coauthors did). I wrote an entire NSF grant, that we won, and my advisor told me I only played a small role. Even if true, that should be a red flag that the system is broken. Why is this so much about politics?

What we're seeing is the meritocracy-metric paradox. Where metrics are literally the biggest killers of any meritocracies. Every metric can be hacked and the more reliance you place upon them, the more they will be. The problem is people think metrics perfectly align with objectives and that this alignment is static throughout time. Neither of those is true and it is baffling to me that people either aren't willing to admit it or are willing to and then just continue as if it didn't. The world is fuzzy and metrics are just guides. I thought the difference between humans and machines was that we could generalize instructions to the intent and not the letter.
it's more expensive, but they are getting closer. 30+ days by ship vs 10 days by rail, insurance, inflation and other risks. It could be just 2x more expensive. For high and mid added value product it doesn't matter much.

I can imagine year 2060 when there is a magnetic rail link between Asia and Europe. Only some commodities like wheat go through Suez.
>If your argument against income is that some people make a lot, so instead make everyone poorer, I find that a weak argument

How did what I say in any way relate with making everyone poorer? You're just assuming what my position is, and also assuming the outcome based on what happened in other random countries, in a completely different setting.

I'm against concentrations of power because the government should not have a competitor when it comes to power. We elect the government, and in a functioning democracy the government's policies are decided on by voters. This in effect ensures only the people get to decide who govern them. There should never be another entity which can out compete a government when it comes to power and influence.

>I'd rather policymakers learn econ and history and learn that things like rent control, or various forms of taxes, have consequences that often hurt those they claim to want to help.

Its a common talking point, but in reality that is just an opinion masquerading as fact. It presumes everything in economics is an inarguable fact. It is not. Humans have been successfully governing themselves under various systems of governance. Anyway, that itself is a 4 hour debate, so I'll just leave it at that. If you want the final word you have it, I won't argue with it ;)
The imitation isn't perfect but its material I could see Carlin doing if he were still with us.
But an individual can't take action without the grid taking action to provide customers with the different pricing rates.
Considering what they charge you for fuel, they make money on that.
The real threat to global security is single-focus energy plans formulated by oligarchs.
As you said, tech has evolved... but on both sides. And your tact is weird, you seem to claim Google has no reason to improve search?? So, you're agreeing with me, that they aren't trying to keep up?

Well, they should have incentives, it's called user retention. And they are so very complacent, it's hilarious. Here we have, one of the most dramatic shifts in search engine technology in decades, as AI iterates crazy fast, and they're sitting on their past achievements, and hoping user stickiness wins.

Look at how fast Firefox went from the dominant browser to barely existent. Things can shift in the blink of an eye.

Today, more than anything, Google needs to be at the top of its game. Bing is fast becoming far far better than Google Search, and they can pull in crazy user numbers if they wish.

Microsoft has a big bag of cash, and could pay Firefox, Apple, and a dozen other competitors when they deem strike time is a go.

Google, comparatively, seems in a decadent daze of debilitating dormant dreams, damned to derlictness.
Weirdly and notably BE200 is not compatible at all with AMD platforms. The system might not even POST, so the issue is not about driver support.
Yo! I tolerate relatively poor performance out of my laptop (a several year old model with a Ryzen and iGPU) while having a fairly kickass home desktop[0]. So chalk me in that group.

[0]Which currently sees me playing a whole bunch of Rule the Waves 3..... poor underutilized 3080.
Solar and batteries are on an expodential path.

The cost is going down so fast it won't make sense to have anything else.

I think that by 2035 most of the transition will be done even if we don't have major new developpement, but if you look at what AI is finding in new materials I think that the next few years are going to be very weird.

Look into Tony Seby, he predicted the current path 10y ago.
Electron allows you can do webdev stuff, so you don't need custom knowledge of anything special. That's the 'superiority'.

Doing UI in Godot means either their pythonish custom language or C# (and via GDExtension technology, C and C++ ).
Good management. But you can buy stickers and stuff
The US charges for resources extracted from federal soil. Specific laws were passed to exempt flared and vented gas from mineral royalties.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ropr.12369

> Most states have maintained methane release exemptions from these taxes through either statute or administrative discretion between 1960 and 2000, although a few have allowed some form of pricing. Two state legislatures have explored applying these taxes to methane releases on multiple occasions since 2000, amid expanded shale era output and growing public concern about climate and air quality impacts. Steadfast production industry opposition, rather than technical feasibility, emerges as the primary factor leading to rejection in these cases. Even when framing releases as a conventional air contaminant or as permanent loss of a nonrenewable natural resource, states largely continue to exempt flared or vented methane from severance taxes.
Knowing the average SV interview loop too well, I can't imagine how many bad (for corporate type work) hires growing that fast brings in. A bunch of leetcode-hard optimized engineers being thrown into an organization that just grew from 200 to 1000 people.

If you are part of that 200 original group, you probably have a paycheck for another 5 years just answering tech debt questions
Only if they let you by giving you a big price discount to charge
A lot of the gaming communities moved to Discord near me. Unfortunately, most of the people offering to run a group only want to run it online, so I'll probably never have a replacement for my old in-person group that COVID killed prematurely.
Of all the wrong answers out there, this one is the most wrong. Man where do I even start with how wrong this is.

Businesses will spend money on in-house and outsourced software development if they have the money. The money generally comes from sales (real or prospective) and/or borrowing. If sales (or leads) are down, or borrowing costs are high, businesses will attempt to control costs by hiring less and/or performing layoffs.

In my business, a year ago it was absolutely raining work. The only reason we didn't grow more than we did is because we literally didn't have the manpower to review the resumes and do the interviews. A year later and the work has pulled back considerably, and we're in cost-control mode until we can make some deals.
Aren’t these companies who historically try and avoid layoffs? To me is them changing their stance.
An organisation is what it does. Not really relevant whether the CO is malicious or incompetent, if the result is the same.
PG logical replication is rock solid. One annoyance is that you can't subscribe to a publication but using a different schema name, say.
Re-visiting this might be a good idea, it's a different set of tools we have available, perhaps there is something out there that can distribute this task and manage reputation.
But can I cut a maze out of solar panels?
It's a bit funny how the 5800x3d was creeping in the 7xxx series during launch.
airbus was made as a very deliberate political project from various european countries to stay competitive in the airline bussiness.

Mind you this happened around the same time many foundations of a lot of european institutions where formed, and airbus is the primary example of a intra-european company in both its bussiness form (being an S.E[0]) aswell as in the way its products get build across different member states.

Airbus has done the thing that the EU aims to do on a political scale, merge many different smaller european entities to stay competitive against both the US and China on the global scale.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea
But... they support "your" platform? It is running stunningly well on Linux. What are you talking about?
Performant implementation of discriminated unions in .NET (unlike any that you would see in JVM) requires modification of both the type system and the runtime to account for non-boxing representation of struct unions as well as unions in which GC references alias value types/structs. This is highly non-trivial and the people who could be working on this are currently busy with other features namely Rust-like traits called explicit and implicit extensions. Don't forget that .NET is worked on by at least 10x smaller community and teams than JVM implementations and yet delivers much better YoY degree of improvement and much nicer user experience (Gradle lol).

In addition, green threads approach is a strictly worse and a more limited solution that only solves thread blocking without unlocking the variety of terse concurrency patterns enabled by the way the tasks are handled in .NET. They also add significant overhead to interop with native code due to thread pinning/stack switching (also applies to Go).
Is it really price gouging, or just embodying the real warmup costs of spinning up a job?
There definitely are, but to be honest, my passion is research at low TRL. Industry is saner, but they necessarily work at a higher TRL because they are not just profit motivated, but need to make profits from your research in 6 months to 3 years.
Relevant for who? Influencers that have to have MacBook because otherwise they cannot show off their “wealth”.

MS was doing relevant stuff for corporations like banks, insurance companies, public services. That is where real money is Apple doesn’t have any of it.
Parking, flat roof, unprofitable argriculture land, there is plenty of space.
I don't think amounts that are on a payment plan would qualify as "bad debt" though - if someone is paying as agreed on a payment plan the debt isn't uncollectible.
Apple just needs to do SOMETHING exciting with AI. Vision Pro looks great, but it's only a small piece of a much larger puzzle. I'm not sure if they're just too big to move at the speed they need to move or if it's something more damning about their internal culture but they need to do something in this space faster than I think most people realize.
WiFi is basically solved for 90% of people.