skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my experience receiving the questions beforehand is not super likely. Getting other interviewers’ questions beforehand /as another interviewer in the loop/ is already like pulling teeth.
There was a stat on this released by BMW recently - something stupid like 90%(!!!!) of all owners of new BMWs don't keep them longer than 3 years. So in a way, if you were running BMW engineering division.....yeah, why make them last any longer than that. Clearly the people who actually make you money by buying new cars don't give a crap about longevity - Plastic oil pans it is.
> UX heuristics that are two plus decades old

All the UX rules I know of would encourage keeping the physical knobs and switches instead of replacing them with touchscreens.

Maybe I missed a memo in the 2000s?
Related to high-cost and EVs, I've noticed this phenomenon of automakers hyping EVs with low announced starting prices, but initially only selling the expensive, high-end versions of the car, then eventually (maybe) releasing the cheaper version much later. I first noticed this with Tesla, then Rivian and Lucid followed suit, which isn't terribly surprising. But now Chevy is doing that with the Blazer EV: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44723787/2024-chevy-blaze...

I don't know if they really just can't conceive of how much these things are going to cost to make ahead of time, or if they're just trying to grab headlines with attractive pricing or whatever, but it's annoying.

I mean, cars have always been expensive to build, but I don't really remember say, the new Civic coming out and Honda being like "yeah, we're only going to build Touring trims at first, then EXs when the demand drops, and finally maybe a couple of years from now we'll build you an LX model".
Did they reduce the cost of everything that it was baked into? Did EC2 instances get cheaper?
there needs to be at least 3 groups, with the third assigned to both. Otherwise you know one is better than the other, but not if both are good/better

Ideally we would have a 4th: control that we do nothing with - but this is not ethical so we can't. Where you can do this ethically you should do it.
What a great story. Love that
Honestly, it's a real shame that it took so long for that reversal, because Far Side comics already had an almost perfect vibe for joining the early rise of internet meme culture, with the postmodernist elements they had in common. Hopefully for Larson things haven't moved on too far that he's totally missed that boat, because his comics absolutely deserve wider recognition among internet culture.
Thank you - so you want the most efficient small input tokens for the max output tokens, or at least the best answer with the smallest amount of tokens used - but enough headroom it wont lose context and start down the hallucination path?
XD may be good to use from a UX engineer perspective, but from a web developer perspective, it's not so great.

I occasionally get XD files from designers that I then have to cut up / develop for in HTML/CSS/JS, and XD does not do this well. Figma on the other hand, seems like it is designed really well with considerations for both designers (creating the designs) and developers (turning the designs into a product / project) alike.
Game mods! Modding is how your humble commenter got his start 15 years ago, with http://sthurlow.com/python/ and a copy of Civ IV that could use some tweaks.
Sega still makes these neat things: https://www.segatoys.space/en/public/flux.html
Ask your boss for a leave of absence. You'll have the security of returning to your job, but will also have the time to dedicate to your new project. You say you can't support not having a job, but if push came to shove, could you not work for 3 months and support your family if you cut down on expenses? If you are a dev at a-list startups as you said, you could probably pick up a contract here or there.
The judge granted a motion to dismiss (ruling [1]). There were two major issues:

1. The judge ruled Disney lacked standing to because it failed to show injury, particularly regarding the Florida Commerce Department; and

2. The judge also ruled that a binding precedent from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals says that an otherwise constitutional law cannot be challenged on First Amendment grounds. This was news to me. If you're interested the case is In re: Mike Hubbard, No. 13-10281 (11th Cir. 2015) [2].

Disney has indicated they will appeal. I'm intersted to see how this goes because Florida's actions were clearly retaliatory.

I find (2) particularly interesting because the legislation was clearly retaliatory

[1]: https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dismissal-O...

[2]: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/1...
The article is very light on sources to justify this claim.
I don't think so, TFA says it's an early version of an old model that's already been distributed openly. ;)
Yess, that's it - you can confirm it's "official" by browsing for it in the GPT directory, screenshot here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/dc9757fc8f8382414677badfefc43...
Assuming you're using VC. It's not the only way to start a business.
You could quite simply legislate permissible compensation structures to make sure that long-term sustainability (however you want to define that) is incentivized. I.e. mandate that above a certain threshold, c-suite and board compensation is tied to long-term performance of the company.

Another (perhaps more drastic) approach would be to force shareholders to hold their shares for a minimum period of time, or institute a mechanism that distributes losses across the shareholders of the last X years. That would incentivize long-term investment strategies over short-term rent-seeking.

Or you use taxes. In Germany (where I live) we have a speculation tax on property, for example: If you (as a private individual) sell a property less than 10 years after you have acquired it, any profit from that sale is taxed as income. After the 10-year cut-off you don't have to tax it at all.
If I did the calculations right this puts starlink at roughly .32% of all internet traffic per second.
Without a dedicated bar exam, we have little to vet hires against. Everyone is a senior engineer, until they're not.

I think the next evolution of technical interviews will be hands-off, talking through problems where the criteria changes on the fly, to prevent typing while talking.
Kayaks vs. Canoes (2010)
Porkosaurus, Soup Nazi, Sphinxie, Sodium Chloride, Abdominable Snowman, Baconator and both Yeti and Godzilla. And Yogazilla which is a "First Discovery".

Found myself: Thomas the locomotive
That is a good thing you want the model to process language, knowledge is a side effect of how it gets there. If you rely on training knowledge it's going to be hard to know when you pass the boundary into hallucinations, what you want instead is a model that can pretend reasoning while supporting tools inject knowledge from the world into the context as it iterate toward an answer
You're missing the big one: How do you prevent it from being used for tracking? You'd be forcing every website to collect the thing that allows them to correlate all of your activity across websites. They already try to do this. Individuals can mitigate it by using browsers that try to resist fingerprinting or using separate devices for different activities. Now the government wants to de facto prohibit users from protecting themselves against that?
I’ve wondered how much of the appeal of LLMs is for humans to BS other humans.
Government already has all information about you, they put on your passport when they print it for you. Zero knowledge proofs allow you to generate attestation about some facts (ie that you are above 21 years) where 3rd party can verify it, where proof itself doesn’t reveal your identity or any other information - just the fact that you’re passing this check is revealed.
Good time for Sega to bring it back
Mistral reminds me of the good old days of pre-2015 when I thought that tech companies were cool.
I've been testing Android's dictation stuff while speaking quietly and it works better than I expected. (That is, the mistakes it makes seem to be the same if I were to talk louder; some common repeating misunderstandings, some things where it's thrown off by my accent.) Having the mic close by makes recording a quiet voice much more tractable than hearing it in conversation, we humans tend to stand further apart and mics are better than ears by now.

Not that I'd be advocating this for library study halls!
Also Little Alchemy!
Reproducibility becomes an important criterion for models though.

For normal programs, it is quite easy to decompile an unoptimized binary. Even decompiling an optimized will lead to source code. To make this harder, an obfuscator has to be used.

A model is different because it relies on its weight, which are quite a bit more difficult to inspect. Way harder than even obfuscated source code. It is magnitudes harder to make statements about which information it might divulge upon careful questioning, or evaluate its biases, if the training data is not available.
Hot take: Tesla would be better off without Musk dragging them down at this point.
With the software professional industries really care about (like InDesign) instead of messing with it they instead took approach of never changing it to not upset anyone. And instead of paying 1200usd one time people accepted paying 60usd month rent. I know places that still use CS6 and InDesign CS6 vs the current one is almost indistinguishable software. There are maybe 5 minor new features that anybody cares about in the current one. It's insane that in those 10 years somebody payed adobe over 7k. Users should revolt.
It sounds fair. Just make sure to not involve lawyers.
Site not loading, maybe thats for the best.

However, I don't think anybody believes this claim.
Very few adults learn a new language to a high level. It can be done, but most get to the level of ordering a beer and call it good if they get alcohol.

If you don't need to use the language except for a one week tour (where you are still mostly with people who speak your language) this is good enough. However if you are suddenly without ability to communicate you probably can't suddenly learn fast enough to combat decline.
People are allowed to use Google in an interview, why not ChatGPT..? If you interview with a company that won’t let you use the tools you would use in your day job, it’s not somewhere worth working.
Crash tests indicate guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles
He is fabulously wealthy and his private stash is... Macallan 18?! It seems no amount of money can substitute nonexistent personality and improve poor taste...
You prefer Neil deGrasse Tyson to Minecraft for your kids?
I think everyone agrees that Tan's speech is protected by the First Amendment. As is strong criticism of his speech. No one is proposing Tan should be fined or thrown in jail or have his rights curtailed by the government.

It is not normal and should not be normal for major political donors to make public death threats to local officials in the city where they live, even as a joke. It's toxic and corrosive to society and politics, and makes him seem unhinged. Tan is rightly getting excoriated, and he deserves scorn from his own political allies for significantly damaging their common causes.

Tan keeps complaining about SF politics being frustrating, but in my opinion, as someone who supports a significant portion of his policy platform, local politics would be improved if Tan would just move somewhere else or shut up and keep his money to himself and leave political discussions to the grown ups.
More accurately: rates are being cut because the economy is a whole lot weaker than the 'official' figures show.

The US is caught in a vicious circle: inflation is very high and needs high interest rates to combat that. But high interest rates mean that the US needs to find more than a trillion dollars a year for interest payments to debt-holders. And the US doesn't have a trillion dollars to spare, so needs to borrow the cash that is used to pay off that interest. And that means the national debt grows by far more than a trillion dollars per year. Rinse and repeat.

Like it or not. The US is in a financial death-spiral, and has been since the late 1980s.
42M GB really had me scratching my head.
I haven't much had this problem with Debian Stable.

For awhile, there would be a thing with people using, say, JS libraries, and they'd want to Stack Overflow copy&paste something. But the more reckless of those people just ended up bypassing Debian with NPM or some other language-specific package manager. And less-reckless people can decide when they can just use Debian or have to pull select bits of software some other way.
I agree but I think the mistake is to think this only affects public companies. Private investors also want ROI and this means they'll be more likely to push for a profitable "exit" than let the company just be sustainable and reasonably profitable forever.
I was drinking coffee when I saw "Early vegetarians returning from the kill". But not for long.
1996 Deep Blue beats Gary Kasparov: "And humans are just chess engines. In both cases intelligence appears to be just an interesting side effect"
Tesla has the valuation of a tech company. Traditional automakers have the valuation of heavy industries.

Traditional automaker execs want Big Tech valuations. So they've loaded up their products with tech, in areas they have no track record of delivering, and often without any customer demand. Starting with EVs.

Result: overpriced cars that are substantially less reliable.

This sloppy delivery will further separate the wheat from the chaff in this space. We already see a narrative from certain automakers that EVs aren't competitive. They should be more specific: their EVs aren't competitive.
One of my buddies bought himself a BMW and it was the best favor he's done for me. Listening to his tales woes makes me not mind when my Honda needs an expensive repair because it's still way cheaper and less hassle than anything he needs done. And worse, the parts can only be gotten by a dealership, which he isn't, so he can't wrench on the thing himself, even after finding a copy of the manuals online. I guess there's ebay but all of that is just so much extra work that none of us have time for. I wanna cool car, but the upkeep is too painful.
Good question. I think this should answer your questions

https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009603/

Speaking of detecting cancer indirectly, it is actually the fact that sometimes you can detect tumors (early) because their DNA or RNA products reach the blood or other bodily fluids (cfDNA/cfRNA for "circulating free"). It is a big and a recent thing - for many cancer types e.g. lung there was basically no easy way to test. Biopsies are very invasive obviously....
HAhahaha! Your program crashed?! What a weird mix of pride and embarrasment that must've been! I can feel it in my bones.
Those ideas are not convincing. Consider the glibc bug from yesterday. If I understood it correctly, there is an integer overflow causing a heap overflow. The integer overflow was unsigned wraparound - so fully defined behavior. So no, we do not want latent bugs remain latent. We want UB sanitizers and checkers and fix all this crap.
> People often say things just to express themselves rather than for any planned and considered reason.

Sure, but you don't have to express yourself on twitter... you do that when you want to communicate something to all your followers.

> ...The gains are extremely low and this could cost him his job.

That's true of the tweet by itself. If sober reason was going to hold him back there would be no tweet at all.
I completely agree that randomized intervention studies have enormous value when compared to observational studies.

In this example, it would be particularly hard to establish a causative relationship that said "hearing aids inhibit dementia" or "hearing loss causes dementia" if instead all you had was a population, some of whom used hearing aids, and some of whom had varying levels of hearing abilities, and some of whom developed dementia. In all the noise, you'd be very fortunate to find that a control group of people with undiagnosed (how would you ever measure that!) hearing loss who failed to get hearing aids had cognitive decline in excess of that experienced by those who did get hearing aids. Here, instead, the intervention is "the coin flip said you're in the hearing aid group/you're in the health education group."

Of course, the murky ethical issue here is that this randomized intervention resulted in some people having poorer hearing, perhaps permanently (use it or lose it!) and some people having more rapid cognitive decline. This randomized intervention directly caused real suffering. Nearly 125 people in the heart-health group with increased risk of dementia onset were assigned to a study that just received health education. For at least three years, they had reduced hearing and a reduced ability to communicate, and after three years, they had significantly greater cognitive decline.

Caution is good, but in general I have no problem personally with the 'shut up and multiply' application of ethics in this case. There are 8 billion people all getting old, and more being born every day who will eventually get older. It's very important as a species to know that hearing aids slow cognitive decline, and if that meant that 119 people were placed at a slightly increased medical risk, 119 divided by 8 billion is a pretty small number, and 7.999999881 billion who are now more likely to get hearing aids and have slower cognitive decline is a lot of positive utility. But it wasn't me or my mom who can no longer hear and who is suffering from dementia, and some will draw a hard line and say that you can't perform studies that will put even a small number of people at increased risk.

We should be careful to evaluate merit and limit harm, but we should perform more randomized intervention studies.
The car we all want comes from a school of product design that respects both the machine it's building and the user of that machine. Specifically, it respects that user's time, money, taste, judgment, autonomy, and capability. I can't think of any mainstream consumer brands that practice this school of product design - and I hope there isn't something irreparably structural at play right now that would prevent such a brand from emerging.
> They'll change the questions. No chance in hell leetcoding is going away.

I'd take that bet. Leetcoding is something that GPT 4 is very good at doing -- and it does it faster than any engineer can type, let alone think.
My favorite was Lotus Flower + Mud = Buddha
Any child exploitation is unacceptable. However, I have no idea about the current scale of the problem. The article would benefit from providing current data on how big of an issue this is. Does anyone have data to indicate the current size and trends of online child exploitation?
AP Physics C is also one of the more heavily curved exams, where a 55-60% is a 5.
i have a really annoying habit of constantly double-clicking to highlight whatever i'm reading or looking at.

i've actually been called out for it in a systems design interview, under the presumption i was copying my notes into another window, but was glad they called me out so that i could explain myself
My apologies; I misinterpreted your original position.
Is this the Jolly Roger restored build or a build of X-treme I haven’t heard of yet?
> can just ask for relevant projects or commits on GitHub of a major open source project and that eliminates the 90% of candidates in the pool

Not everyone spends their free time contributing (to major nonetheless) to open source projects. There are a lot of great engineers that have enough work on their desks with their day job and there are also plenty of idiots in open source.

Asking for relevant projects or asking for GitHub profiles to gauge relevant projects yourself is what people were already doing years ago and it wasn't a great hiring strategy. Turns out judging a software engineers skills is extremely hard.
What's the story on this? I have at least one site that sounds like it might be in danger if that's true.
I may be missing something, but name resolution has been touted as one of the more legitimate and sensible uses for blockchain for a very long time. Could you clarify what your issues with it in IPFS context are?
Don't forget about Meta
Now, I'm certain that this article is about frustration at self-improvement/fitness buzz-feed "listicles" and the author may have had a passing glance about Deming's Management Cycle and connected these two ideas. Good for him, it's this kind of creative thinking that I want to talk about.

Though there are several reasons to agree and disagree with the author, the thing that's been left out of the comments so far is that: making connections between ideas is absolutely essential. It's not that I strictly need to know the things I know, but the ability to draw on a variety of mental resources from a variety of fields is what makes me useful and exceptional at my job.
Given that the author readily admits to only having interned at a major company once and is now looking to start their own business is the big giveaway that they lack the life experience to be able to apricate the difference between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This is not shocking, most young folks are eager to rise up in the world and are sick of school, but, if I could give some unsolicited advice: keep learning. When you stop moving, you'll notice that the world stops moving around you too.
It's the ability to draw connections between unrelated ideas that makes creativity and innovation possible. If you only have a few ideas in your head, then you are absolutely impairing your ability to think. Similarly, if you become too fixated on, well, anything... than you're going to miss the big picture. Outsourcing your mind to Teh Internets reduces your mind to only that which can be google'd, and even if that's acceptable to you than you still have to know what to put into that search-box.
I have redecorated with my morning beverage on many occasions myself.
A Defer Statement for C++11
It's click-bait. It also felt ChatGPT written somewhat.

The only article I could find that even remotely presented "AI job loss" was this one from last year: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/chatgpt-ai-automation-jo...
The Rally Fighter by Local Motors would be right up your alley!
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Something by, say, Stephen Walt. Or autobiographies.

The trouble with nonfiction is that the really informative stuff tends to be radical or dry or otherwise challenging to read, which makes it unpopular compared to the vibes-based stuff that will end up on Obama's and Gates' annual lists.