skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what its worth, modern recruiting pipelines should be able to automate a good chunk of resume filtering for you if that's what your org values. Being able to only grab applicants that have `Go` listed in their resume, for example, or those who claim to have a degree. That should make a dent in the manual effort. Nevermind that you would still need to review whatever output the "test" is giving you.

I agree with part of what the OP said:

> My take on interviews is that the company must eventually spend as much time as the hired developer in the process

In my opinion, making applicants take a test is creating asymmetrical busy work just so the job-poster can feel that they've selected the "best" candidates (whatever that means). If you legitimately have enough great applicants that you cannot possibly hope to interview them all, then just roll a dice!
Many of them might be on their second or third layoff by 50.
This is silly to assume we can reach something so sophisticated before we even able to define what is it that we're trying to achieve exactly.

Am I only one seeing the naked king here?
NZ also. Used to work in social security, posting jobs with us used to be sufficient to say "we tried to hire locally, but no dice".

So we'd get positions like "Chef for Asian restaurant, must known how to cook food Sichuan style and must be fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, $10ph"

(At the time, minimum wage was $9ph)

You weren't getting a chef for $10 ph, you're not even getting a cook.

And definitely no-one who is fluent in your desired languages.

Ditto the golf coach required, some golf certification required, fluent in Japanese and Mandarin, $10 p/h.
I have a friend who works for a major aircraft mfg (that may have suicided a whistleblower) who's seen this kind of activity for the better part of a decade over and over. Currently going through a relatively credit migrate everything to the cloud effort.
What this really does is prove the commoditization of the generic SFDC approach to "CRM", where it's horizontal and empty. It's price pressure for force.com, hence their push on "AI" and add-ons, to protect 30bn in revenue.

HubSpot is easier to defend as you get far more OOTB business functionality, rather than a generic, un-opinionated toolbox.

Attacking SFDC via your route is like attacking Excel with a barebones table entry form. Why would a company switch? How do you get your first paying customer and retain them?

/been doing CRM for 20+ years, good luck lads!
This reminds me of when I finally understood why returning 0 from a function named main made sense.
2015: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...

2020: (Whitmer kidnapping plot) https://archive.is/Met7X

2023: (Humzah Mashkoor) https://thehill.com/video/fbi-agents-groomed-autistic-16-yr-...

2023: (Mateo Ventura) https://archive.is/hb9Im#selection-627.47-627.60
Hitchiners Guide to the Universe predicted this.

Earth gets bulldozed make the onramp, naturally.
I think of all the options for “carrots” and “sticks” that companies are offering for RTO, I like this one the best.
That whole extended ZIRP thing wasn’t great for interest on savings.
This looks really exciting - will definitely check it out.

Until now I've been using jq with up [0] for interactive queries, but I don't find myself liking up's UX much (especially for long queries or non-ASCII data) so I'm keen on looking for a replacement.

[0]: https://github.com/akavel/up
We're like a couple years away from having the tech to just give all autonomous electric vehicles the leftmost lane on the interstates from 10pm-6am, then raise the speed limit to 90 or 100 mph. Let trucking companies drive these vehicles a few feet apart from each other for aerodynamics. If you could book a sleeper taxi in New York and be in Chicago in the morning, or San Francisco to Seattle, for cheaper than a flight, without destroying the environment, would you do it?
> triple rate of reductions

That’s such a confusing way to say it
We really appreciate your time and effort in applying for $Position. We've decided not to move forward with your candidacy at this time. Feel free to apply for other open positions at $site.
> A 65% cost reduction via tripling the payload would require that costs not increase, no?

I think it's a cost reduction vs. shipping that 2x (or 3x) cargo using 2 (or 3) conventional planes, not somehow making it cheaper than a single plane with its normal amount of cargo (or a magic plane with 2x the capacity).

> Are these huge cargo gliders free to purchase/operate/maintain?

No, but they're presumably cheaper in those metrics than running a conventional plane. If it costs $50k to run a single conventional plane, but you can tack on one of these towed gliders and it only costs $15k more, that's cheaper than running 2 conventional planes at $100k.

> And hauling them around puts zero additional load on the engines of the air freighter that's towing them, to increase maintenance or fuel costs?

Certainly this will add a cost, but if the towed glider has essentially zero fuel cost, presumably you still come out ahead. And presumably the glider will have lower maintenance costs, since it lacks engines and presumably other stuff a powered, crewed conventional cargo plane would need.

Totally agree with you on the skepticism around safety and reliability, though.
Just add a few more gliders and it'll be a sky train.
This is roughly equivalent to flying if the car is ICE
> 9 major startups began there

which?
How do Casgevy and Lyfgenia[1] avoid these dangerous mistakes? Is it something that can be generalized to other therapies, or does it need to be recreated for each "edit" that we want to turn into a therapy?

1. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
Hokusai's rare Mt. Fuji collection sold for $3.6M. at N.Y. auction
Anyone less technical or unfamiliar, here's a decent visual explanation of how FPGAs are constructed.[0]

Generally, there are 5 types of resources:

1. Clocking and clock distribution

2. Interconnect and bus logic

3. Sequential logic (state)

4. Combinational logic (functions)

5. Specialized blocks that implement complex functions

It's the responsibility of the EDA toolchain to simulate and validate that an FPGA "program" will satisfy timing requirements. As the article mentions, it is sometimes possible to violate these constraints purposely when undefined or nondeterministic behavior is desired.

Notes:

0. (PDF) https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eecs151/sp20/files/lec5-FPGA...
Who would trust microsoft to not shoehorn in some telemetry, or worse?
Sure, but most people don't know that. So they chuck them out with the rest of the dog-eared teddy bears.
I kind of think that is the case with Jobot. I don't think I've ever communicated or talked to an actual person.
Best way to avoid war is to have the border be open ocean.

Having a railroad bridge with russia is inviting problems
In my testing it seems good at function calling including nested ones even when compared to GPT4 , since OpenAI function definition does not allow to specify return value name and its type . With ollama it’s quantized and can run on laptop GPU. While there are other ones like Functionary and fireworks.ai function calling on hugging face , they are not quantized so could not test them.
Someone speak the quiet part out loud.
True threats are a distinct category that may sometimes overlap with hate speech. But those statements are illegal because they threaten immanent lawless action, not because they're hateful.
I work on a project where the web app takes 30mb before it fully renders, makes 500 requests, 10 seconds before interactivity. No one cares. No one bats an eye. Pages don't follow web semantics (ctrl/middle click to open in a new tab? no we'll do some javascript instead). Plus a bunch of other stuff no one bothers with.

It's a huge mess. You _can_ make beautiful, simple, elegant and useful things with web tech, but the number of people who care enough to do so are so so few.

Making good stuff doesn't matter anymore.
You absolutely can just use HTML. You're writing this on HN that just uses HTML and is one of the more responsive websites on mobile connections.

You can't make as rich an interavtive experience as you can with JS, but you never could.
Wanting to read PG articles while working was one of the reasons I started up a project called WebToSpeech[0]. It's not a startup, it's more just a project I created so I could listen to articles while working. I thought about making it a startup, hence the dicky landing page, but didn't have time.

It's not open to sign ups or anything (blocked in Supabase), so this isn't really trying to be a marketing exercise, the idea about joy projects just resonated with me.

If you want to listen to the generated audio (really it just custom parses a web page and sends it off to azure), I've uploaded it to a public Cloudflare R2 bucket[1]. It's not perfect, I haven't fully configured the SSML to treat quotes correct, and I'm adding weird breaks in between normal text and anchors, but... it's a project :).

[0] https://www.webtospeech.app/

[1] https://publicmedia.webtospeech.app/b3dc8034-c2f4-4835-afe8-...
Work in the radio group of an industrial electronics company. Arcane magic, unexplained gremlins, and qualitative standard recipes that happen to work are par for the course.
What legislative changes do you think would significantly reduce the number of, or mitigate the impact of, data breaches?
This is odd, because, if anything, the Boeing 737 Max has been migrating off the cloud.
Thank you for bothering to get into that with them so I didn't have to respond to that absurdity ... ironically I think they are just trying to be offended for the sake of it, I'm surprised they didn't have a pop at the UK knife laws whilst they were posting
Young Mutant Mercenary Viper
There are specialty agencies for engineers like aerotek.com that will help with international placements. I'm unaffiliated with the firm, but they were legitimate at one time.

Note your PE ticket is regional, and will constrain where you can be employed in such roles. Fine if you drop anchor in a city works-yard or utility, but not really a lot of vertical movement in such roles.

Journeyman/Journey-person certification is usually quicker, and with a practical factory background will keep you busy.

Note in some regions the requirements for either cert path can vary a lot.

Best of luck =)
I guess the problem is that "you might be able to do anything you set your mind to" is less catchy ...
You might check the urban dictionary for such questions.
Goodhart’s Law at work. Probably no coincidence that “No child left behind” coincided with an increase in secular homeschooling.
10% before or after taxes? I'm in Canada, so the difference is enormous.
In other news, the CA Legislature wrote a bill in 2022 that would allow all the private utilities to essentially destroy the rooftop solar industry by gouging the consumer directly and essentially make your electric bill an income tax [1]. The way it's worded, none of the exported energy from a solar install will offset any of the connection costs (only the lowered rates).

Meanwhile, PG&E gets to keep paying its investors before its victims.
California can't get past its corruption, and people wonder why we can't meet our climate goals.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/comments/12hobyp/california_a...
Understand this is targetted at financial planning for startups/SMBs, but I'm curious as to if it could be adapted to work for personal financial planning (retirement wealth projections, modelling market downturns)?
Curious if that's a use case you considered or a path the product may go down in the future
> Would that not depend upon how the website works?

They're suing, among others, 4chan which is the same as HN in that regard and the judge let the lawsuit go forward.

So whatever might later be litigated, we can see from this that the plaintiffs currently have a "defective product" theory that HN would also fit if only there were some murderer willing to claim that they were somehow radicalized by HN.
What would that be?

Not doubting you, just can't think of collateral damage.
struct and few functions and you get there. Look at zig's std lib. "String" type is also IMO anti-pattern https://mortoray.com/the-string-type-is-broken/

People often complain about null terminated "strings" in C, but I don't really see them as a problem. It rarely is performance bottleneck, and when it is you can opt for your own "string type". There is also bstring that's compatible with these strings but prepend header to the data which contains the length. That said I wish C had language level slicing.
I've been looking for something like this! Does it optimize the prompt template for LangChain only or is there a way I can get it to generate a raw system prompt that I can pass to the OpenAI API directly?
The covid vaccines weren't crispr. Keep trying soldier.
I have to agree. I don't mean to disrespect the existing app, it looks really good and well-polished, but... as someone new to the MacOS ecosystem, $150 feels highly pricey. It's as costly as a Windows / Office license!

At the same time, there are apps like Mindkit [0], which seem to do similar things as this, but with more features, but which cost 3000 JPY(20 USD) lifetime.

Personally, the only time I can justify 150 USD for a purchase of an app is when it has as many features or is as impactful as Word/Excel/Powerpoint combined.

No disrespect to the people who made it, good luck with the app!

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindkit-keep-things-organized/...
Lol this was the plot of the matrix.

The version that was paradise was rejected for being too perfect.

They had to model a version during a time of strife so people wouldn't question it.
It can also really vary a lot based on job type. Software development is a pretty small niche in terms of total US jobs, doesn't mean that a lot of devs are currently looking.

Most of the jobs I've been applying to have hundreds of applicants. It's been rough to say the least. Since January, I've had a couple times where I'm in the final few and an offer at a startup that didn't get the funding they needed.

I'm getting relatively anxious and far more open to most things at this point. A 1/3 pay cut is rough, but I need a job.
Coworker once got a 25W @ 400 MHz radio burn of their hand by accidentally setting a transmitter to high power with a small whip antenna connected and grasping it without thinking about it.
Does this means that in order to productionize this into a drug, one would need to basically engineer a biological virus?
The intent is to provide employees with a sense of pride and accomplishment for surviving the selection process.
Meta shows off Threads fediverse integration
mRNA vaccines are about getting mRNA into just a few non-specific cells which then instructs the cell to produce Corona Virus Spike Protein. This gets identified by the immune system which then makes antibodies targeting the spike protein.

So the mRNA only needs to get taken up by a few cells to produce an immune response.

The HIV CRISPR-Cas technique needs to target several orders of magnitude more cells in the body, and is performing a far more complicated procedure than simple transcription like with an mRNA vaccine.
I was doing legit music downloads and streams for the major labels in late 1999/early 2000 and I was using some sort of paid IP database to determine which of the 34 countries we covered the user was connecting from, so I could pay the right royalties.

Was the market really that small for IP geolocation 25 years ago? I don't remember it being a problem to source the data...
> as a small rant, I am getting tired of the whiplash between "it's harder than ever to find a job" and "the economy has recovered and unemployement is record lows".

If you're in tech (as most of us are here) it can be pretty tough to find a job right now unless you have mad AI skillz. But in other sectors it's generally pretty easy to find a job right now. So both can be true depending on what sector you're in.
> Unfortunately that nerdy thing ended up being selling ads really efficient, but that's another story.

The irony is that both the thing and its side effects were anticipated very early on.

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. ... It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media, we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

(The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, 1998)
> those 10% are probably on their payroll

Good thing the rest of us don't take Alan Turing seriously either, especially when there is money to be made.
If you're happy for your gliders to travel at 100 mph instead of 500 mph, you can glide almost fuel free, making use of thermals and winds most of the way.

However, the finances for such a business are hard to make work since, while you save on fuel, your very expensive aircraft does fewer flights per year.

The only way to make it work would be very cheap airframes, probably without humans aboard (meaning factors of safety and maintenance costs can be dropped).

But developing new airframes is awfully hard.
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Don’t underestimate that mindset either. It is want set people apart in most cases. Determination can go a long way than IQ or other resources.
Rust guys - look this beautiful performant CLI tool that will make you more productive

JS guys - look at my new JS framework that you can use to do 15th rewrite of your website

I wonder how come communities evolve in this way.
Also, usually the problem I encounter is that people need all that money to live "middle class" level, and the expenses are all upfront.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. They could pass onto the 50K wedding and repeated very expensive holidays.
This looks like a lay off
That this is widespread is a blanket indictment of America's executive and managerial classes. Maybe start laying them off.
It's remarkable that this works, and it's equally remarkable that the authors succeeded using a (deliberately) naive approach with the fMRI data. I was just teaching the visual system to students over the last few weeks: cognitive neuroscience/neuropsychology can tell us a lot about what brain systems should be involved here. It's such a tempting research domain to dive into using a more sophisticated approach, but then again, maybe the authors' simpler data-driven method is a strength.
GP didn’t actually mention what kind of business (B2B or B2C, tech or another sector) — the description was broad enough to encompass my IP licensing business, which is about as tech-focused as it gets.
> My aunt started showing symptoms of Alzheimer's. My grandfather passed from it. Is there any thing to do in order to prevent or delay the disease?

Similar to ASCVD it takes decades to manifest and lots of the traditionally healthy lifestyle activities help delay or prevent it (diet, sleep, exercise). Unfortunately once someone is showing symptoms it's very late in the game.
> Don't try to guess whether gene editing or LLMs or rockets will turn out to be the most valuable technology to know about. No one can predict that. Just work on whatever interests you the most.

This optimizes for Paul's outcomes not for the individual outcomes.
As you get older it becomes harder to start a business, simply because of financial concerns.

As a just-graduated poor student I was used to living on practically nothing. By 40 I had a mortgage, kids, wife etc. The penalty-for-failure at that age is substantial.

When I stopped getting a salary in my 20s my wife was earning so we just lived on her salary. That lasted a few years until the new business found its niche.

So, how to start a business later in life? Slowly and carefully. First do it as a side hustle. Night's and weekends. (Which is good to see if you still gave the energy for that.)

Price things "as if its full time". If you're selling ceramics on Saturdays figure out what your daily sales need to be and price accordingly. If you're teaching piano ditto.

Side hustles also let you experiment with marketing. See if the market will bear more than just a Saturday here or there.

When you can, take a paid vacation from your day job, and see how busy you are (and what income) from the eide hustle. Figure out if you enjoyed that more than the day job.

Save every penny from the dide hustle. You'll want at least 6 months of cash before you make the leap. 3 months to get income back up, 3 to look for a new job if it fails.

It's harder to start a new thing in your 40s. But it's also more likely to succeed, IF you plan and execute right.
CLEAN? LOL.
No, that was a gimmick, it actually turned most people off the first time they saw it, along with the name and the clown color letters. It was the quality of the search results using pagerank being way ahead of the best curated alternatives. Then the quirky UX suddenly became a great brand for a product that Just Worked. For their first 5-10 years they hardly put a foot wrong, everything they did was something nobody had ever seen before.
I often advocate this position! The Union Pacific is surprisingly affordable and after you gain a controlling interest it's not as if you've just torched $80 billion, because you bought a valuable asset.

For the state of California to do a hostile takeover of the UPRR, spin off an operating company for the train part, and retain the rights of way while adjusting the attitudes of the executives, would save a large amount of money just by simplifying the High Speed Rail project. It would be well worth it and we can afford it.
> But when there are those early memories, they are short, strong, and associated with fear.

Yep, although I'd expand that to any strong emotion. I have early memories of embarrassing moments and times when I had a lot of fun also.

But the first thing I can still remember was definitely fear, as it was of me drowning, at age... I want to say 3, but I'm not sure exactly when it was anymore, maybe it was 4. We were on vacation visiting my grandparents in another state, and were in their pool. I was to stay against the side 'cleaning the pool' by using a scrub brush and rubbing it on the ledge of the pool, and apparently at one point I didn't stick to the ledge, because I remember going under and swallowing some water and my parents noticing and coming to my rescue. I ate cheese and crackers at their table afterwards. He also had a golf cart and I remember driving that up and down the block.

That's pretty much it for that young. Next thing after that is while I was in pre-school, and I only remember a few things from that time.

And for anything earlier than like, high school, I don't have a lot more than just a few images I can mentally pull up of any given memory, and the knowledge of what happened on a kind of basic level (anything too detailed is pretty much gone now).

And if there are pictures that helps a lot. I can remember a few details not present in the pictures, but without the pictures I doubt I'd remember that happening at all.
I think it was on HN, a blog/story about a guy that walked around the world a number of times — over the course of a decade or so.

I recall the extreme isolation, boredom allowed him, in time, to go completely back to his earliest childhood in his memories.

Maybe someone remembers that article.
No, that only makes you well-off.

You get filthy rich by capturing as much of the market as possible by whatever means necessary and killing off competition - including user lock-in, artificial bundling, using successful past products to subsidize non-profitable new ones just to screw competitors etc.