skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the commenter meant to literally look stuff up during an interview. A good interview is more of a conversation than an exam. During that conversation it would be perfectly normal, even expected, for the interviewee (or even interviewer!) to say something like "I would need to check the specifics in the documentation" or "I don't know what X is, but let's assume it's Y".

Nobody can possibly hold all the knowledge they'll need in their head at once. A fundamentally important part of any skilled job is being able to adapt, improvise and learn on the job. This is what is being tested, not what you know/don't know.
Definitely not low carb, no. I have a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast 4-6 times a week :) My diet is pretty consistent though. I know how that oatmeal will respond to insulin 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% random quirks I can just deal with by feel & a finger prick to confirm. The thing I'm most strict about is I only allow myself to have about one "bad diabetes meal" per week. So that's like any restaurant food, or doughnuts, or pizza, or whatever. I mostly only eat home made meals, my wife & I both love to cook. But those aren't low carb, just whatever we feel like cooking that week.

I walk about a mile a day, to the bus & back for work and a bit for leisure and to get up from my desk. Otherwise I don't exercise.
It's doubly awkward that this guy apparently doesn't know or underestimate Google's determination to trace employee' access.
Did you just reinvent Node-RED?
Even the IDF uses those numbers. The number is likely much higher as it does not take into account those buried under the rubble - which cannot be reached without proper equipment.
They'd probably take the same stance, that a PhD is useless, since in a hospital you want nursing staff, or medical doctors. PhDs are going to be about as good as JDs (honestly likely even less useful).
Wow great find! This is uncannily familiar, and recalls for me the early, more trusting days of the web where people just downloaded and ran executables from anywhere (people don't do that anymore right?)
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
> What would you do differently

Not knowingly massacre civilians? If they supposedly have 10 million miles of tunnels (or whatever the IDF claims), then the very idea of taking out tunnels is pointless anyway.

Hamas aren't some random terrorists, they are a resistance to occupation with a clear goal - if I was Israel, I would respect international law, remove myself from occupied territories, and recognise an independant Palestinian state. Alongside, I'd be figuring out how to deradicalise my population.

> There exact purposes of the hospital lairs used by Hamas are unclear but they’re indisputably there

No, there is much to dispute! For starters, I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that Hamas have "hospital lairs". Except of course for the preposterous IDF 3D rendering of Al Shifa.
Note that "Google, Amazon, Microsoft, TikTok, and hundreds of other tracking-based online advertising companies rely on IAB Europe’s consent system, which Europe’s data protection authorities have already found to be in violation of the GDPR following our complaint."
Sometimes I wished HN had an "ignore user" button.

Basically everytjing in your wall of text is either wrong or so turned on its head and misunderstood it could as well be wrong.

The key word you don't seem to understand is this: proportinality.
Curiously, there's also the exact inverse happening as well, without contradiction: unless you go for the extreme junior position of straight from university, employers expect a perfect tech stack match. If you haven't worked with exactly the same framework, philosophy and process, you're out. Few other fields have this to a similar degree, outside of commercial aviation where you're either certified for, say, 737 or you're not.

I blame it on the very unspecific headcount demands in software projects: there's never a hard target number "we need ten keyboards to be manned at all times!", life just goes on when you are nominally understaffed. Perhaps slower, perhaps with more crunch, but nobody really knows what difference a hire or two would have actually made. So software development HR keeps throwing out their net, who knows, perhaps tomorrow the perfect candidate applies, and rejects a lot. It's a bit like the pattern of attractive people trapping themselves in an infinite dating treadmill, but with the plot twist that their salary depends on it.
Simplifying API Mocking in Swift with Mockirinha
> Hiring a Chinese national and giving them access to trade secrets

To be fair, this would have been prohibited if we subjected AI to ITAR restrictions. That said, do we know Ding was a Chinese national?
One more step: An AGI must have a theory of its own mind, not just the mind of the person it's talking to. It must be able to "watch itself think", and to think about its own thinking.
I believe their biggest failure in branding is to not put out Raspberry Pi-like small boards for people to experiment. Anyone with a slight interest in computers knows an M3 is a beast and that an i3 is meh. Almost nobody outside Qualcomm knows why a Gen 8 N is better than an 800 and what the difference would be.
Do you mean morally or legally? It's hard to imagine a Google engineer not knowing that sharing trade secrets is something their employer would seriously frown upon, no?
Because the degree doesn't mean you can code, which is sort of the point of this entire thread.
Your comment seems odd. If the vision test is enough to show you can read a sign on the highway, why does that make it a joke?

Are you suggesting that someone shouldn't have a license if their vision is not correctable to 20/20, even if it's good enough for all essential driving tasks?
What demands affect privacy?
LinkedIn profile screenshot:

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1765533899873288642?t=yUGy...
Most positions with comparable salary to software dev involve interviewing with a hiring manager, a VP/director skip level, and usually a ‘behavioral’ interview which is often with an HR person. Take-home problems like doing a competitive analysis or preparing a presentation are common.

The big difference is, for a position in a softer nontechnical role, there aren’t any remotely objective criteria the interview can possibly assess you on - if you hate being tested on your technical skills, consider the alternative: being asked fuzzy ‘tell me about a time when..’ questions, and weird ‘if you were an animal what would you be?’ popquizzes by an amateur psychoanalyst who thinks they can get deep insight into you by watching your body language.
This feels like it could end up being the software equivalent of musicians/artists to do free work "for exposure".

I can see a lot of value in contributing to open source being an alternative way of demonstrating competency. However, I don't think I'd want to see it become the only or primary way.
> the CPP also benefit indirectly because it will make Chinese immigration harder in the US

They also benefit directly as they’re stealing the information.
There's more than two variants that you can be a fan of. I for one find both cases that you describe blurry, and can only stand truly clean, non-rescalable bitmap fonts.
While I apologize for making general claims without a significantly larger sample size, I have tried this on all of my devices and those of family and friends. I only have access to phones running Android and laptops/desktops running Windows, so I cannot say whether macOS/iOS and Linux suffer from the same issue. I'm looking at ~12 devices from various manufacturers that all have similar amounts of clock drift.

All of the devices have network sync enabled, and they sync to accurate time if I manually disable and enable it again. The issue is that they don't sync regularly enough by themselves.
They do... the qassam brigades (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qassam+brigades&atb=v340-1&iax=ima...)

Besides, not sure Israel would allow them to import the uniforms.
that's irrelevant- Snowden thought what he was doing was right
No he’s of Taiwanese descent
Eventually tech leaders will stop hiring Chinese nationals. This keeps happening again and again.
> I stated that there are correlations

The funny part, the reason it's called a paradox, is that the correlation can be fake or can even be reversed. We cannot know either way just from our personal experiences, the selection effects are too strong.

And the anecdote you tell, the part about smart programmers being smart enough to get away with being a little messy, and dumb programmers being obsessed with cleanliness to reduce cognitive load, are exactly the sorts of situations that can cause the paradox.

It's like when you are casually dating a bunch of people and find that the good-looking ones tend to have bad personalities because they are attractive enough that they can get away with it. It is a real correlation from your perspective, but on a global scale the correlation is opposite. Good looking people tend to be more charismatic in real life, we just can't tell while we are on the dating market because the ones who are both good looking and charismatic are out of our league, and as for the ugly/mean ones, we are out of their league.
Institutional reputation has never had much sway with me but what little it did have has pretty much evaporated of late.
The article less about “smart people” and more about “arrogant people”
LLMs On-Device with MediaPipe and TensorFlow Lite
Good time to post this article again: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z4MDDwwnWKnv2ZzdK/the-agi-ra...

China understands there is a real risk of the US gaining an absolute advantage in A[G]I development. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they will use all kinds of 'greyzone methods' to bridge this gap.
https://archive.ph/xbA0V
That mirrors my experience. Recent interviews have been mentally challenging because the other person was poking hard at the limits of my knowledge, but the process itself was easy.

Example question we spent half an hour on: Tell me a decision you made at your last job that you would do differently now. That opened the door to a million roads. Is candidate self-reflective? Can they admit mistakes? Was the mistake a reasonable idea given limited knowledge? How deep can they go with their explanation? Can they explain their work to others?

That was fun because it let me show what I can do, and it would be damn near impossible to bluff one’s way through. It beats the hell outta take-home exercises or “let’s say you’re writing a program to calculate the volume of a lake…”-type coding tests.
If he's not a Chinese national, that makes the discussion much more likely to get me censured when I suggest the obvious corrective remediation.
In general places are hiring but so many people were put into the market at the same time causing a lot of competition presently. A very different dynamic to previous years to be sure.

There’s also a lot of roles that rely on technical skill sets like sales engineering, consulting/services, product management, support, etc. Sometimes broadening your horizons can lead to great things too.

I’d rather have a non-ideal or different role at a great company than what I’d consider ideal at a mediocre one. Remember, once you’re in you can build a reputation and move to other parts of the organization if the role you took isn’t going it for you.
This article reminded me of a recent item on Dutch national news, about an artificial pancreas device for diabetis type 1 sufferers.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/artificial-pancreas-offers-...
Yep, they did. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/united-ai...
All Chinese startups are Communist Party companies, success dictates just *how* tied-in they are.
Big picture - decades of cheaper-is-always-better design and BoM optimizations, and the perception that nobody cares about second-scale accuracy.
An April fools day project from 2012

Some discussion then (incl author in thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3825299
If you buy technology that treats you like a product and has a rape mentality because it's popular and easy, you don't deserve technology.
I abhor any rapes perpetuated against humans of any kind. Why are you deflecting my correction that GP’s “There is zero credible evidence that any rape took place” is wrong?
But it’s much less exclusive and, in my opinion, more just than requiring people to, e.g., go to Stanford.

Also, leetcode is just one way of doing technical interviews. There are others that also do not require going to Stanford.
Yes according to the article
What about Microsoft and Apple? Are they not included in "GAFAM/BigTech feudalist"?
> "By integrating Wolfram Alpha’s extensive knowledge base and robust algorithms into Kagi’s search platform..."

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-wolfram
I only have access to Android devices, so my claim likely won't extend to Apple. In fact, I've been told by a friend that Apple watches do in fact use the GPS signal to sync the clock. But as far as I know, they are the only ones doing that.
> Your own links point out how the Barrington Declaration was bad advice.

Yes, also my personal opinion is that the Great Barrington Declaration is misguided, wrong. And they are the minority opinion. But still, we have to admit that the people behind it are highly credentialed in epidemiology. There are other highly credentialed epidemiologists who hold different views. But there is no strong unified consensus in epidemiology on Covid policy.

Censoring university professors, even if we disagree with them, is still wrong. I guess I wouldn't make a very good libertarian.
Is it really a “nightmare” to have to endure a take home test and 5 hours of interviews for a job that will pay you like $250K/yr to start? Guess what, plenty of people want to do that job, and people aren’t going to hire you just by looking at your resume and having a quick conversation. If you don’t like it, great, less competition for the rest of us.
This reminds me of the time I dated a Japanese gal who said she worked at Footers.
I had an art teacher that had a poster on his wall:

"An education is no substitute for intelligence."

Some of the smartest people that I've ever met, had little to no education.
I teach a code club to 8-10 year olds. They understand functions, and that the main script can call functions, and that functions can call other functions. Conceptually, they struggle with a function being assigned to a variable, passed in as an argument, or being returned from a function.

So far, demonstrating to them what's going on here and why this is useful has eluded me.
Road Trip (MathsJam 2023) [video]
So he was already CEO/CTO of 2 China companies while still working in google. And these information are publicly available right after he registering them. Seems a management disaster of google.
We don't all even have our electric cars and at home quick chargers yet.

The electric utilities have been singing "We need more generation capacity" for a couple decades.
Are "models" and "abstractions" the same thing?

A recent post, `Mental Models: 349 Models Explained...` reminded me of the `Debits and Credits Model`, which works because of the Debit and Credits Formula or Accounting Equation (Assets = Equity + Liabilities). Minor leaks happening here and are usually stuffed into an account--so we don't have to eat lunch at our desks.

The abstraction examples seem similar, but the discussion around leakage is interestingly different. For example @anonymous-panda suggests you sometimes want your abstraction to be leaky: _ "...leaky abstraction would be when you need to still distinguish the error type and TCP wouldn’t let you..."_
I've had an intern uploading code to his G Drive and after talking to him I concluded he was not malicious, just dumb.

That said you can't claim innocence for not knowing some law, plus any half serious company makes you sign cyber security / IP stuff during the hiring process (ofc one is entitled to sign contracts without reading them).
Leap years: What would happen if we didn't have the extra days?
> not sure how customers deciding to stay home rather than fly on a Boeing plane would have zero marginal effect

The people who would do that are small in number and not frequent fliers. They would be summarily replaced by others on the margin due to price alone.

> government can't afford to lose Boeing

We couldn’t afford to lose the auto manufacturers. Didn’t stop us from forcing them into bankruptcy, wiping their shareholders in the process.

When necessary, the U.S. government is incredibly powerful. It’s simply ordinarily restrained in its exercise. The problem is people don’t care about this issue, so an elected prioritising it over what voters do mobilise around is wasting political capital.
> I'm waiting for HDR support

What HDR content would you like to view? I think my screen supports it, but I have long forgotten about that feature — maybe it wasn't even working when I tested it with a MacBook, but I couldn't tell any difference.

"KDE#Plasma 6.0 introduced experimental HDR support for Wayland session: System Settings > Display & Monitor > High Dynamic Range > Enable HDR." according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support
Yes, tfa shows an excerpt from Bob saying they have the facilities to clean and reuse the cartridges.
Our campus job fair was last week and I'm watching very closely as a new batch of seniors get hit by reality.

I feel like the financial engineers are eating the lunches of CS folks whose only skills is to "sling code". These 22 year old finance kids didn't need a CS degree (or at least major) to develop the coding skills necessary to express themselves and every, single one of them is highly competitive. I know one CS guy who is doing well too, but he's an industrial engineering double major. Definitely hearing a lot of moaning from the CS kids that just followed the curriculum and didn't develop some side hustle already.

Point is that we've very quickly hit a point where the market is saturated for people who can only code and nothing else, at least from my observation in the US mountain west region. School projects and even internships don't seem to be cutting it anymore, at least if you're attending a state school I guess.
The Pixsy website pretty clearly gives a California address as a business location. Was this info sent to the CA Bar? If an attorney is really not involved, that could be practicing law without a license.
That’s what she said about you, too. Hey-o!
There's a lot of truth in this, but I struggle with the conclusion of "avoid stupid (destructive) people at all costs."

While I don't doubt this is best for personal satisfaction and sanity, it feels lacking in compassion.

An example: I have teenage children, and they have some friends in school who fit the stupid description from the article (destructive behaviors). They grew up in unstable homes and didn't have good relationships / behaviors to learn from.

My kids recognize their friends' poor decision making, and are sometimes dumbfounded by their behavior. It gives my kids a realistic view into the lives of others. Also, even destructive people aren't destructive all the time (at least at that point cutting ties is the obvious choice).

It would be easier, and perhaps safer, to push my children to not associate with them - is that really the best policy?
> The US vastly benefit from Chinese immigration and most Chinese aren’t spies. However, it’s interesting to notice the damage one person can have, arming our most potent adversary with advanced technology.

How would you quantify all this? I mean I think we're all on the same page about not wanting to reduce people to their race. That's a good sentiment. But do you have data on any of these claims? When you observe that Chinese nationals are uniquely positioned to arm "our most potent adversary with advanced technology", I dont think you can just handwave such damages away.
In fairness to Facebook this is a very well written and fair post.

This is how the DMA should be done.
Which is my point: "JPEG XL" is "too little too late" after JPEG tried to monetize its brand with various other, pretty much failed initiatives:

- JPEG 2000 is popular in the medical imaging space but everywhere else shunned like the patented abomination it is until the patents fizzled out.

- JPEG XR is covered by Microsoft's patents that are supposedly defused under a "covenant not to sue" (but not really).

- JPEG XT builds on JPEG 2000 with all its money-grubbing problems.

- JPEG XS is a pretty particular beast regarding its use cases, but nevermind, there's a patent pool. As such it won't become popular before 2040.

Only with JPEG XL (2017) did they _finally_ acknowledge that they're working on standards that everybody avoids to the best of their abilities due to the licensing situations JPEG optimized for. 20 years for naught.

At that point WebP (whose ancestry makes it explicitly a part of the "avoid the patent mess" movement) was already out for 7 years.
That’s interesting - it works for me accessing app.airplane.dev. Scheduled jobs are still running too. I’m using Google authentication. Today there is a pop up message that everything will be shutdown over the course of the month.
I have been running Wayland with nvidia drivers for ~1.5yrs as my daily driver. I haven't had any issues with lutris (primary means that I use to install games) or with wine underneath.
_Magister Ludi_ (stupid auto-correct)
thats really interesting - where do you live?
China Intensifies Push to 'Delete America' from Its Technology
Incredible that he got pardoned.
Arguably the second culture is also built for leadership. Evidence can't tell you which direction to take a company in, and the person that decides on this direction needs to project confidence in others to instill it in others.
Cries in PAL
To the contrary, they want Gaza for the 500 billion dollar natural gas field which is in it's international waters - this would turn Palestine into another Qatar.

- https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-...

- https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-gives-nod-gaz...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forg...

Follow the money
Abentmindedness is often mistaken for stupidity.

In my area, we have at least two world-ranked labs. We have Nobel Laureates, driving around.

I encounter "stupid" drivers, all the time. I am one, too. I'm no Nobelate, but I'm smarter than the average bear.
I wish Korea would do the same. I've taught in linguistics departments in Japan and Korea, and I've had many arguments over romanization policies.

What is the point of romanization? Who is it for? If it is for the benefit of non-speakers, then the pronunciation assigned to the Latin letters should be predictable based on common usage internationally. If it is for the benefit of native speakers...well, why? Japanese and Korean have perfectly good alphabets. It doesn't benefit Japanese or Koreans to transcribe their language into the Latin alphabet.

Pinyin is a different case. As I understand it, Pinyin was developed in the 1950s as a literacy aid for native Chinese speakers, so developers were free to be creative with the pronunciations of the letters.
This article should decouple 1) capacity to develop AGI versus 2) desire.
I have a theory.

1. Interviews are hard. Hiring is hard.

2. The best hires I've personally been involved in have been personal references, not blind hires.

3. The need of FAANG-class firms to scale, and to churn (rank-and-yank), means they have to hire a LOT -- far more than personal references can supply.

4. But they still don't want to hire duds (except, of course, in the case of the egregious unethical and cruel "hire to fire" brought on b/c of rank-and-yank).

5. So they create a Process -- an Algorithm, if you will! -- and then keep adding steps and attributes and whatnot over time.

6. Eventually this Process resembles any other long-running, poorly-expanded codebase.

And here we are.
Sounds like the thermocline of truth: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...