skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interviewing is important. That said, I've worked at small companies (4 people) and large ones (30K+ people), and in my experience the overwhelming majority of candidates can be screened effectively by going through their resume with them and asking them simple questions, like:

1. What was the problem you were trying to solve? Why did you solve it this way?

2. If you were the decision maker, why did you choose this technology stack?

3. I see you have a lot of Python/Java/... experience. What do you like and dislike about about Python/Java/...?

No need to get into your hobbies and how you would invert a binary tree. Generally, neither of those are relevant questions.

Unless you're at FAANG and there is a line of amazingly qualified candidates out the door and around the corner, the above will effectively screen for competent software developers, assuming the interviewer is technically competent.
Reminds me of Marooned in realtime, where near the end of civilisation, individuals have the firepower of entire nation states of the past.
Video is probably the future of all media. People under 30 don’t read all that much, for better or worse.

Being good on camera is probably going to be a general useful life skill, in the way reading and writing are/were.
There is some scientific publishing outside the standard format, sometimes corresponding to a conventional paper. To pick one I liked recently, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lqiang/rectflow/html/intro.html is nicer looking than the corresponding arXiv paper and has some animated figures that help visualize the process.
My wife and I had this exact same sort of situation and now we're both logged into each other's accounts. We never have trouble finding our phones now but it does introduce other problems. Such as not knowing if some sort of security alert is being generated by my spouse and now we have to communicate about it.
And now I thought I'd try it with my device. It's on my work wifi and on mobile data. "Play a sound" works. But it still insists "Can't reach device" and won't tell me where it is. What am I missing? "Find my device" is toggled on in the settings.
While I think there is far to go in development terms, and I wouldn't recommend buying it either, my experiences on 12.3.3 are not identical to this at all.

Looks like the free trial cars are currently split across v12.3.2.1/12.3.3 depending on OS update.
samsung have this.
According to this article you use Google's "Find My Device" app to find tags, not the manufacturer's app. Google's app needs to support UWB tags and display appropriate direction finding UI. Like Apple's has for years.
ESLint v9.0
Indeed, I remember saying "astronaut" at about age 10 to shut my grandmother up. I didn't want to be an astronaut. In fact I resented the question, because it seemed to have a subtext of "get your ass in gear and think about work". Hence I chose something implausible.

I kind of wanted to try to make games, though. And now here I am, many years later, kind of trying to make games! Mission accomplished.
Developer.zoom.us has been down for hours
Again, no idea about osx, but if you have any project with lots of deps, it’s going to take time to download.

A well crafted image may add an extra 500MBs on top of that. By no means minimal, but not really that bad. (Assuming you have no base images like python or Ubuntu already on your system)

And idk what you mean by “happy path” for docker.
Every dockerfile is a snowflake.
It’s not a framework like rails.

If you have a good understanding of the tool you shouldn’t have any trouble.
I'd still have one too, but certain circumstances forced me to get something else. The home button iPhones are better.
Isn't that the noprocast option?
I’m middle aged and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
Hexediting games to bypass or neutralize copy protection helped me become a programmer (on top of copying code from magazines and books onto a Timex Sinclair and ZX81).

I remember the first game: BattleTech Crescent Hawk Inception. IIRC the copy protection involved typing words from pages in the manual, and I "defeated" it by changing every word to the same string.

I actually owned the game, I just didn't want to get out the paper every time I wanted to play.
Yeah, this seems like such an incredibly obvious oversight. Like... I know how it goes with fuzzy requirements, but who didn't nail down the acceptance criteria that the user should be able to trigger Find My Phone without 2FA.
Okay lets say I'm like the other commenters, read it, and still don't know. How can I check in with you again on what the superpowers are?
Isn't that factorial, and much more costly than quadratic?
Me, more or less. I knew in 4th grade wanted to be a scientist. And I went on to get a few chemistry degrees. Currently work in the pharmaceutical industry.
Such "pure" colors are foundational mental categories, or anchors, so that's only natural they should be the easiest - it makes working with colors more accessible

But they should all be easy, and your suggestion fails at multiple points as I've explained above, not only for red, so the I'm puzzled why you insist it should be that hard and want a proof of the opposite
I've encountered some merge methods that don't involve training, but they haven't proven very effective.

Integrating multiple large language models (LLMs) efficiently and training a mixture of experts without starting from scratch appears to be a significant advancement. Training in this context could lead to a more effective merge, and the Mixture of Experts (MOE) approach seems promising, for logical reasoning of selecting the best expert per token and throughput.
> you really don’t understand anything inside it except at the most superficial level

This is true, but:

- the name of the operator is typically a word that you can easily search for in the documentation or on the web, or with "jump to definition" in your editor, if it's something locally defined in the source tree.

- you usually understand the shape of what is inside it. You know what parts of the program you are looking at are arguments to that mysterious operator and which are not. If asked which expression is the third argument of that operator, you can easily find it and know where it begins and ends.
Fluorine gas seems safer by comparison
Analyzing UX and UI decisions in classic racing games
Faraday bags are fairly inexpensive.

I use these with my car key fobs because my neighbors teenagers discovered key fob amplification attacks.
A bit of a tangent, but I think the dishes they are using here were once part of Onyx, a rather large communication interception system [0].

It got famous in 2006 when it intercepted proof of CIA black sites (mentioned in the Wikipedia article as well). Until then, the Swiss public didn't really know the scope of the system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system)
> Lots of decision's, made no sense in software development.

But we must have process and governance in place. Let us set a meeting to discuss.
Brazilian constitution, chapter 5, article 220, paragraph 2:

"Any and all censorship of a political, ideological or artistic nature is prohibited."

https://normas.leg.br/api/binario/e4a41982-7e50-4627-a65c-0d...
When I was 17 I had a job at Software Etc (a forerunner of Gamestop), and person checking out asked if I had any kids. I was kind of bewildered and said "I think I'm a little young for that" and she sort of shakes her finger in front of me, "oh no you're not honey"

I've been thinking about that ever since, marking various dates in my life where I could take this theoretical kid out for a beer, etc. If my child's child had made a similar… um… life decision… I could be a great-grandfather in two years.
Pretty much. I wanted to be a software developer, although I think I specifically wanted to work on games (I've mostly done web dev, buh.) I also wanted to retire at 30, which didn't happen.
If you want a better deal you'll need to play chicken with the retention department. In the course of canceling service with Cox a couple days ago, they went from $140/month for unlimited 500 Mbps service (download, only <15 Mbps upload) to $60/month before they gave up.
This is very cool. Checking it out! Thanks!
This would be great. It's odd to me that we in the US get the worst of both worlds: despite at-will employment laws and almost no employment contracts, it's difficult to get hired because companies are so afraid of bad hires, and companies don't exercise their right to fire people who don't work out.

We hire like it's hard to fire people!
AirTags only come in a single size and shape that only makes sense for larger container objects. Tile makes a flat credit-card sized variant that you can slide in your wallet, and the adapters required to put an AirTag on a keychain is pretty ridiculous in comparison to the tiny variants you can get from Tile with a built-in hole for this purpose.

(Also: AFAIK the "large"--not really, in comparison to the AirTag + adapter, lol--Tile Pro variants have a noticeably longer range than AirTags.) Honestly, the only thing, to me, missing from Tile is the direction arrow finder, which is certainly useful, and yet... the speakers on the Tile are much much better so it just doesn't matter so much?

(BTW: it is extremely stupid that that arrow only works in two directions. I waste so much time following the arrow only to realize I need to go upstairs -- I live in a two story apartment with a bedroom and an office above my kitchen and living room: it isn't larger than my friends's apartments, but it is really nice having two floors -- that I am only doing because the sound isn't loud enough on AirTags.)

Frankly, the whole argument for AirTags being inherently better is merely that they have a "bigger network", but for most of my objects I am not scavenging around town looking for then, nor am I ever going to be chasing some thief around the city in my car looking to steal it back, hoping to catch up to them before they disable or throw out the tracker... that vigilante justice idea associated with this product category is just a crazy pipe dream.

Instead, I am pretty much always just trying to figure out which pair of pants I left my wallet in today, or on which shelf I left my keys: I would actually be much happier with a purely local product that only responded to encrypted pings from my personal phone and only even did that when I actively ask it to (as despite using both Tile and AirTags for years now the "you left your item behind" notifications have only happened before I myself noticed once or twice in a way which was helpful... it just doesn't ping often enough, with either product, to be maximally useful).

And looking at the replies to this, I have learned AirTags are actually missing what is to me a glorious feature of Tile: that I can push a button on my keys and find my phone in reverse. I hadn't noticed this lack before as I am only using AirTags in large objects I don't keep on my person (which makes their notifications really annoying as the UI fails to eat old ones even when I walk back to my object... this seems very fixable), but I don't want to have to buy an Apple Watch just to have a way to find my phone :/.
This doesn't seem to address my question, though? That is, agreed it is not a technical issue, but it is a security one?

As you stated, if you are ok with your secrets being unencrypted, then sharing is totally possible. But this seems to walk headlong into having to trust everyone that you share the unencrypted secret with?
No, the AirTag ecosystem and Google Find My ecosystem are still separate things. Google and Apple did cooperate to standardize stalker detection though, so your iPhone will alert you if you have an unknown Google tag following you, or vice versa if your Android phone notices an unknown AirTag.
Tech bros looove to reinvent train over and over again. Let's make self driving, which does not work with other participant, so let's put it on special roads, with special signage and nobody else is allowed to enter such roads. Whoops, train again.
Plenty of exceptions to that – broadly speaking, oligopolies, but generally anywhere with low competition like the only convenience store in a locality, rural broadband, etc.

There is no perfect competition, supply doesn't perfectly meet demand, and incentives aren't always perfectly aligned ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In any case, government services change through policy and, thus, indirectly, through the electorate. But a) it lags, b) is not the only issue the electorate care about, c) the supply of money is not infinite, d) the supply of labour is not fungible and e) in this specific case, policy on immigration is generally driven by people not immigrating, so the incentives are not aligned.
qt is a good fit for writing native linux apps. I've tried both and qt is much nicer to work with (in my opinion)
If you hide the tag in a way that it can’t be removed (locked to the bike etc) then what option does the thief have? They might actually decide not to steal the item!
This advice has nothing to do with progress updates. This is advice on how to do marketing spin to influence people on some topic.
Not really, since most people who want to be a YouTuber probably don't want to be the owner/operator of a laundromat. The desire to be a YouTuber is probably wrapped up in the desire to 1) be famous-ish, or at least well known within a community, and 2) To make money doing the things you already like to do - ie a person who likes to play video games might want to be a video game youtuber.
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I have a deep background in computational biology/chemistry with extensive coding experience especially around Neural Networks. My background in academia and recent work has set me to be very comfortable in working with old, outdated, poorly documented software and massaging it to work in current workflows. I also have strong experience developing new projects and software.
Gossip piece really, no substance or evidence to back any claims made in the title. Mostly just quotes from the cyber truck owners forum.

I'm sure there is some truth to some it.
Massive failure by Silicon Valley to have given us Juicero, but failed to have invented the battlecow.
it has to be kept secret, because otherwise people might complain

- if it gets so hot that people start dying on mass, the leaders of that country are going to start dumping aerosol into the atmosphere and nothing short of war is going to stop them
Fake Scam Driving?
I always hear job interviews are useless but do people really stand by that? If you had an interviewee with a bad interview and one with a good interview, you would feel confident hiring the one with the bad interview? If someone refused to interview, would you hire them because of their refusal like the article recommends? I don't know a single real life person that would consider this a good idea. This seems like a strange virtue signaling if people are going on the internet saying things and then doing the opposite.
I would down vote this if I could.
What are you trying to accomplish with this? This feels terrible with a touchpad and it doesn't feel right at all. Maybe the problem is I never had an iPod.
Lack of integrity kills everything. This is one "resource" you start with, that you can only lose. There is no gain. Some people lost it all before they can understand what integrity is.
I did it twice. A decade as a working musician, then as I got older, pivoted back to "plan A" in IT.
Let me qualify my question: how do I disable this completely without otherwise losing network connectivity or other features?

i.e. how do I opt out of tracking other people and being tracked myself, i.e. without explicit consent?
As someone who owns about eight of them, I don't see how you could love Tile. They have a ridiculous profit margin and the company likes to engage in asshole practices like making it so getting a notification when you lose connection with a tile is a fucking monthly subscription. Companies that charge for things which cost them literally zero dollars deserve to burn to the ground.
If you look at the history of American city design, you'll find that it's not free market demand that has brought us to this point, but pretty heavy lobbying and more from the automotive industry (which also has seeded this idea that public transit is inherently inferior). Elon Musk is also guilty of this by seeding the hyperloop idea in order to try and stop efforts around high speed rail. Public transit really works when it's done well, and benefits everybody. If we actually design and invest in it well, it will be used.
Does it acept normal, mobile and youtu.be links?
You could compare to one of the weird ones like the wooting, which has slightly higher actuation than usual switches?
I remember the passkey topic coming up a lot a couple of years ago, my problems with them were the same as detailed in the article. I said I wouldn't use them until I could have a cross platform open source free version. Luckily keepassxc now supports them. I'll adopt way further down the line though.
And in US employment is at-will, no? What exactly is the risk for a company? Rogue employee stealing IP? Any employee can do that already. Can't fire a low performer? We just saw more 300k people in the industry let go in 2022/2023/2024. And at-will, trial period already exist.

If anything the risk is for the employee. But if companies stop trying to be Google and stick to their actual level of prestige, employees wouldn't have to do a multi week/month interviewing marathon just to get a foot in the door, and it balances out, easy to get your foot in another door.

I don't know if it's cargo culting, ego, or what, but non of the hiring practices so many companies carry out make sense. Pick top 10 resumes, spend 2h interviewing each, offer 3 month trial or at-will hire/fire your top pick. Saved you 50-100k in recruiter costs.
Texas uses robot vacuum cleaners. Not a lot of rain. Definitely a sweet spot for them.

Anyway. I'd guess they'd do better to lay them on the ground next to those dishes, than the expense of climbing up there and fastening them to that massively expensive superstructure. Not to mention the danger to life and limb, climbing around up there.

Generally speaking it's just a mistake to mount solar panels in some difficult-to-reach expensive place.

Optimal: A large flat space near the existing grid, with generous road access and clearance. On cheap land and cheap supports. Where it can be serviced, not too far from the service center.

Those dishes fail on half of those metrics.
isn't SQL already a way to query your DP with natural language?
Because it's politically possible, just like it wasn't at other times. Move on. Nothing to see here.
I like how your examples become progressively more comprehensive. What was your thinking going into this? How did you design this library? i think you wanted something this beautiful and perfect to exist, am i right? Or is it also an exercise to develop your own understanding? I wouldn't know where to begin with C gens/coroutines. Probably I would just fallback on kernel/sys calls to suspend and hack from there: yay my function is stopped; yay my code has been called again. Are you using setjmp/longjmp?
I'd really like to see some production web sites that use htmx.
This made me think about the excellent "things I won't work with" series by Derek Lowe.

https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...

He didn't write write an article about pentaborane, he left this one to Max Gergel https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/max-gergel-s-memoi...
The Tragedy of Indian Point
I actually think this is helping the product market. This will set a minimal standard of quality for something to get paid. Otherwise the near future will involve the use of AI to automate the creation of thousands of garbage songs that each get streamed a few times.
What's the "egress" footprint you mention? I hadn't come across the word in this context before.
Nice!
We have a lot of LORA finetunned experts on huggingface, most of them are finetunned on Mistral.

Any plans of supporting LoRA experts too ?

Since lora layers are thin, it would make the forward pass way more efficient in terms of memory and latency.
True, though as wages continue to remain flat in the face of rising costs, I think you'll see a heightened interest in not being held to owning or leasing a car.

The US had a vigorous middle class when the Interstate Highway System was implemented. A family of four could own a home in the suburbs on one income, and it was fine to spend 15 minutes driving from said suburban home to the office. None of that is true any longer.
Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014)
Sure, but for our cortex not to be able to learn language without becoming specialized for it, while a transformer can, implies that a transformer is a more powerful prediction engine than our cortex, which seems unlikely.

If you look at the cortex as a whole, what seems most striking is how uniform it is - same basic architecture of six layers of neurons with a specific pattern of inter-layer connectivity. It seems nature has come up with a universal prediction architecture. Maybe Wernicke's areas is fine-tuned for language, but to characterize it as a specialized "language organ" seems a bit of a stretch. Let's note too that language is only a million years old, while the cortex itself is 100's of millions, yet has this mostly uniform architecture that evidentially works just as well for vision as hearing, etc, etc.

So, sure, the ability of the ridiculously simple transformer architecture to learn language (and many other prediction tasks you throw at it), doesn't PROVE that the brain didn't have to evolve a highly specialized way to do it, but it certainly seems highly suggestive of it.

Since we now have an existence proof that a very simple architecture, not specialized for language, can learn language, it seems the onus is now on Chompsky to put some meat on the bones of his claim (without evidence) that the general cortical architecture is incapable of this without a high degree of specialization.
Interesting point,

A quick google suggests both possibilities that solar and nuclear are each cheaper depending on how big of a picture you're looking. (Capital, construction, storage for solar cause nuclear can run at night, storage for 25000 years for the waste etc).

Still, if moving a lot of (potential) heat energy from point to point is the goal, Uranium still seems to be the move compared to so many tankers of LNG -- just to burn it. Nuclear plants put off a ton of waste heat energy, and it can be at a very high temperature too (if designed and desired).
Not sure what the point is here? My point is that OP is not afraid of new tech per-se, but instead doesn't like where it is now and finds it dangerous.

I'm sure in time the technology will evolve and there won't be a new car on the road that wouldn't support FSD - just like it did with "horseless carriages". It will take some more time though and not all companies will be equally advanced. From what I've heard (from other sources too) I wouldn't want to be driven by a Tesla FSD at the moment.

> * horseless carriages won't avoid running into things whereas horses can see and instinctively won't run into a wall

Off topic, but interesting - if you think about it, we actually already had mostly-FSD in the 1890s. It just ate a whole lot of grass.
Again, one step better than that is to just put them nearby, at ground level. Safer, cheaper. And probably, don't go up there into the mountains at all, but put them near the grid in some convenient place. All improvements over climbing up on dishes in the mountains.
Friendly fluorine and its positively sociable cousin hydrofluoric acid, the lifes of the party compared to pentaborane.

It's like it's asking to be banned.