skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>by human connection and familiarity (the one true way for anything in life)

Every job I've had since grad school was through personal connections. (And luck.)

I suspect the state of SWE (and adjacent roles) for the past decade+ leads to a lot of SWEs believing that sending out a few applications will result in a great offer in a week.

I'm not sure how much AI has to do with making spray and pray less effective or enabling various cheating in interviews--presumably leading at some point to only allowing in-person interviews after an initial screen--but it probably decreases the time spent on the initial filter and you start relying more on heuristics like where they went to school.
Prior to the pandemic, in-person interviews were the norm at big tech, but they never really went back to them afterward.

I wonder if this could be the beginning of the end for purely remote interviewing; seems like in-person interviews would be less likely to be gamed in this way.
> I'm not sure everyone has this ability, but whenever I've written/recorded music, I almost literally hear it before I even try to create it or play it.

I absolutely hear music in my head but my sense of harmony is underdeveloped compared to my ability to suss out melodies. A few years ago I had a dream that ended rather cinematically with a 1979-era jazz fusion song that sounded like Alan Holdsworth sitting in with Weather Report. I can work out the bassline and top voice of the keyboards but immediately struggled with everything in between when I went to transcribe it. I learned (and subsequently forgot half of) second species counterpoint in high school theory class but it doesn't seem to help when it comes to the outside voicings that this type of music requires. Rhythms have always been kinda rough for me as well given the amount of time I've spent experimentally dotting quarter notes in Guitar Pro. I am, however, easily able to learn more diatonic popular music like rock and pop punk without consulting transcriptions barring any super-wide intervallic leaps.

I'm a barely-competent "musician" (heavy air quotes) as it is so I'd have to imagine that most mid-level musicians have what you're talking about.
You know what I mean, no need to play lawyer, leading the witness.
There's not really a larger point. You asked for a clarification from the comment upchain (which by the way, was not me), and I explained the reasoning that may have it come up. It was a small aside, but the comment's main point was gender-agnostic: it's easier to pursue low paying passions when you have a safety net. Be it a spouse, parents, or a small loan of a million dollars.

You asked "who cares", and I answered "women" because sadly, yes. Financial status is a bigger barrier for men dating women than women dating men, which may affect why women feel less pressure to pursue a non-profitable passion when in a relationship. It's an answer that invites more and more questions, but I don't necessarily want to turn this into a modern dating thread.
I pretty heartily disagree here. There's no such thing as a surplus of money (except in the sense that a government can print too much of it and cause inflation). There's an allocation you don't like. I don't care about the allocation as much as I care that how we got to the allocation was as coercion free as possible. That means government spending should more closely reflect the preferences of the tax payer so government coercion is as close to only coercing free loaders into not free loading as possible. This also means market power abuses from businesses and labor need to be mitigated. We should probably be much more actively breaking up large corps and making anticompetitive business practices much more per se illegal. We are much closer to this now than we have ever been in the past, with the exception of post WW2 to roughly 1970 where we were much better at enforcing antitrust, we basically just need to drift back in the direction antitrust in the 1960's and make a whole bunch of dark pattern and other anticompetitive business practices illegal and we would be great.

This surplus of money idea you keep mentioning is just wrong. The rich primarily have shares in businesses and other non cash assets. They often have these because they founded businesses that make our lives better and I have no problem with them having that wealth because we are in a repeated game here and those guys showed promise in the first round, I'd rather they have the money to do angel investing, etc in future rounds to generate the next round of good business ideas to make our lives better. I have a lot of problem with these companies getting big and anticompetitive and I have outlined how to deal with that above (it's not by confiscating wealth).

Also this happening globally would be a disaster. You want many small to medium size governments all trying different stuff so that when one government inevitably screws things up you have options. You don't want a monopoly in government either.
Mostly because it is pretty easy to use AI to cheat and if you aren’t leveraging new tools, you are falling behind.

You should be using AI for interviews, AI for cover letters, bots to mass spam every remote job on LinkedIn (most of the jobs I have “applied” for in the past few weeks aren’t even dev jobs, but an application costs nothing so better safe than sorry), and all manner of other tools to play this game.
Yes the cloud sync and the marketplace are great , with some reservations on licensing and ownership.

The device itself is neglected, underpowered, unresponsive, unreliable , sluggish with a terrible UI.

Decompose the concept.
It’s a fun coincidence that this is named “Glider”, since a fair number of glider (sailplane) pilots use e-ink displays (rooted kobo/kindle readers usually) due to great sunlight readability, commonly running something like XCSoar: https://www.xcsoar.org/hardware/
Both is unethical and criminal at the same time. Only because someone was accused of a crime, that doesn‘t give you the right to steal from their dead bodies like this
What about NDAs? Are those not enforceable too?
I get the premise , but part of me asks : Well, the candidate was able to come up with an answer, why does it matter how they did it?

Presumably these questions are rooted in some kind of developer reality, they're asked to gauge technical expertise and suitability.. what's the real difference between someone with a magic box that gives them the right answers versus someone who can derive the answers themselves if the questions suitably emulate real life scenarios?

why should a company care about 'natural' problem solvers aside from the context of IP ownership and so on?

It sounds like it really just turns application questions into a voight-kampf test for no real good reason when the real point is to ascertain whether or not a candidate can get the job done.

I think this kind of stuff is just a gut reaction from a humanity that realizes that it's not the cleverness of the interview questions that are the problem, it's that machine tools are now at near human levels in the majority of mundane stuff a developer does every day -- the reactions are born from a panicked realization that it no longer makes sense to employ the lower end of the developer skill spectrum.
I think these barriers are designed to protect against much smaller ships.

For big ships, the ship is expected to have sufficient redundant systems and assisting tugs to not crash.
For folks without responsibilities like kids, aging parents, etc. I really don’t think startups are very “risky”.

What’s the worst that happens? It doesn’t work out and after five years you go get a job in boring corp corp with an incredible skillset and vast life experience.

You’ve sacrificed some income perhaps, but so what? People make choices like that all the time. Your working career could easily be 40 or 45 years, 5 is not that much and it’s not like you went bankrupt. Your skillset might even mean you more than make up for lost time.

I don’t understand the talk of “risk” unless you’re Elon Musk betting the farm on your businesses and facing bankruptcy.

Work in your spare time until you have something Angel worthy, then get a modest salary to get to the next level and on you go. Or just bootstrap.

Is it easy? No, it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Is it risky? Not so much.

So why do Canadians and Brits see it as a risky thing to do? I think they don’t. What they see is _uncertainty_ - where will I be in six months? What if it doesn’t work out? What if I fail and people judge me? They don’t like uncertainty. That is conservative with a small c. Probably it’s a cultural artefact rather than anything remotely rational. The problem is you end up in an equilibrium where the society is conservative (“what you wanna do wasting your time with that”) so the ambitious people just leave and go to somewhere like (parts of) the US where people want to change things, make things, improve the world. And the conservative society gets more conservative until it is ossified.

Startups carry high uncertainty but not high risk.
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know it. What about NDAs?
I think this comment is peak Hackernews… dripping with sarcasm and minimizing a significant engineering accomplishment
gpt-4 is at least as good as i am at code reviews, so i don't think this solves the problem this post is about
I did (as an interviewer) a lot of interviews last year, and I was always pretty explicit about allowing the candidate to use “whatever tools you'd use in real life, including copilot and ChatGPT”. This has two big advantages:

- if someone not using them is less performant than someone using them, I should definitely hire the later, because mastering the use of these tools is an important skill, like knowing your key bindings or using a proper IDE and debugger.

- it forces you to design the interview in a way that isn't trivially solved by an AI, and challenges the actual skills of the interviewees. Of course it means the interview cannot be given to brainless hiring managers or HR, but must be handled by software team leaders/managers themselves, or at least senior developers.
It's much harder living without strong moral virtue.
This is such an arrogant pile of bullshit. I’ve seen very obvious colors on many different occasions in the northern part of the lower 48, up in southern Canada, and in Alaska.
Given that he went radio silent since the voting out Altman fiasco exactly 6 months ago, it's clearly due to that.
Wouldn’t a prospective tenant ask about parking, and if there isn’t enough, look elsewhere? Or find a commercial lot to park?
But the kids these days think someone else's computer is their computer, and just whine and roll over instead of punking out and DIYing it.
Times have changed.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research
anyone else who might be curious about what "proxy data" actually is, can find more information here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/what-are-proxy-data
As far as intelligence agencies go, the treasury department is massively underrated.
Sure business can fire the drones, but institutional know how goes away with the top talent.
Simplifying Join Syntax
Not who you were replying to, but freedom of movement is a fundamental human right.
Google is a publisher?

So I can sue them if, for example, I read about how to do something dangerous and hurt myself? Or libel?

Interesting.
Need to know that the dev knows when the AI is wrong.
"if you finetune on your own data (eg internal wiki) does it then retain the near-perfect recall"

No, that's one of the primary reasons for RAG.
that's good maybe I should give it another review. It seemed like a neglected part of the OS
possibly in some cases companies think it is better to employ programmers (or managers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.) than prompt engineers
On performance, it depends a bit.

If you're running a stateful firewall, those generally don't evaluate firewall rules for established states, and most of your traffic is to established states, so no big deal.

If you're not running a stateful firewall, it's not totally unreasonable to skip the firewall for tcp packets with ACK and not SYN, so again no big deal on those. But http/3 is udp, so no shortcuts there.

Afaik, most firewalls have a lookup table available, you'd want to use that, rather than 2 million rules. On FreeBSD, ipfw and pf have lookup tables, ipf calls them pools, but it looks like the same thing. A lookup table for IP addresses is pretty fast, even with 2M entries.
There's no people who deny travel reimbursements that use Saudi gas.. Does that mean we all need to fly to Saudi Arabia to plan future businesses and garrison death squads in our houses?

I think there's a difference between doing the minimum that is not a disadvantage and making a relationship with an ethical discount country your competitive advantage.
Greens are the more common colors, reds and blues occur in higher energy solar storms.

And yes, they can be as green to the naked eye in that AI video. I've seen aurora shows that fill the entire night sky from horizon to horizon, way more impressive than that AI video with my own eyes.
What was the crime? Negligent manufacturing?
It doesn't suck as hard as lack of imagination and using better tools.
Whose "normal"?
Glasses for working at a computer. The same as reading glasses. The word is directly translated from the common name for it in my native language.
It's true, iPadOS does have ludicrous limitations. I cannot tell whether that's out of sheer incompetence or the greed for subsequent monetization opportunities.
That... is exactly what Google is doing with AI. Or trying to do anyway.
"I don't know why you would feel the need to publicly cast aspersions on actual experts"

You new here? /s
I browsed the linked book/article above a bit, and it's a really close analogy to how physics is presented.

That includes how it uses Group Theory (especially Lie Algebra) to describe symmetries, and to use that to explain why convolutional networks work as well as they do for problems like vision.

The notation (down to what latin and greek letters are used) makes it obvious that this was taken directly from Quantum Mechanics.
Proton Mail hands data to police again – is it still safe for activists?
Making a Postgres query 1k times faster
Virality and Reality
Didn't need all that research. Musk was friends with Larry Page, as Google was leading AI research they were bound to have conversations about the smartest researchers in the team.

Also, you underestimate Elon Musk if you think he's not capable of researching specialists in the fields he is interested in, I believe many people are hellbent on attributing all his successes to dumb luck rather than any sort of competence.
A more direct solution would be to curate a list of mistakes made by the AI and see if the dev can correct them.
MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered
Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey
No... A good number of folks will even go so far as to say that "all we do" is token prediction too. It's worth noting -- OpenAI founder Elon Musk claims in a lawsuit that the company has achieved AGI. Make of that what you will, but certainly there are many people on this site who believe in the general potential of LLMs.
You are reading things too literally.
High-Quality Software Engineering (2007)
> My television and cellphone still have microphones without kill switches.

If you have a "smart TV" and you have given it an internet connection, you probably should reconsider that.
I don't like code reviews. If need be I might try to bs my way (paychecks come quicker than permission to fire) into a coding job and those would be a showstopper.
This is horrible abusive behaviour people like you are the reason we can't have nice things.
That makes zero sense, governments invest in education to improve their own country, not to train other countries work forces. If you read anything about Canada ever you will also know they have a bunch of policies to try and stop the brain drain and to recruit tech workers from abroad.
Perhaps that's exactly why he might go there: to change it for a reason (a new company path long term, or just upcoming potential regulations etc.)

I don't believe it either, but in case it happened, it might make some sense that way.
It's also usually possible to trigger the green light by using the button that is at the crosswalk (inteded to be used by pedestrians when they need to cross).
I mean “work around the fact it doesn't work with DASH”

Also, MPEG-DASH is the typical bloated design-by-committee standard, that have twenty ways to do the same thing and that makes it very hard to implement fully. It's PDF or SVG all over again.

(I uses to work on an implementation of a DASH web player that had much better coverage of the standard that the reference implementation back in 2015, and I can tell you it was a PITA)

HLS, while a bit primitive in a few annoying way (inclusing the fact that it mandated, at the time, the use of MPEG-2 TS), is at least a pragmatic standard that is reasonably implementable. (Even though HLS.js being really good compared to the DASH alternative makes it less likely that you'd need to do it by yourself).
> Can’t the program just accidentally stash the linear type in some list and forget about it?

No, because the type of the list elements would have to be that linear type (and that linear type is not a subtype of any normal type, not even an "Any" type if you have one). So you can only put linear-typed values into a list type that obeys the rules of linear typing (so e.g. you might be able to split the list into head and tail, but you can't just drop n elements from it - and of course the type of the list itself will be linear, or maybe polymorphic in the linearness of its element type), and if you want to implement a more general-purpose list implementation you won't be able to add linear-typed values to that list.
In that case, the sum is around 50% in world market.
You asked about “taxes went up”. There were (as is frequently the case) both tax increases and decreases in both years. How would you assess whether, overall, “taxes went up” or not other than by the economy-wide effective tax rate?
I've never had this problem when searching for an exact model number. You can find a couple of sites that have the manual in the first results; the only trick is finding the one with the least number of ads/lowest sketchiness.
Using the average electricity produced is not the way to plan power production. I’m sure you’re aware that there are peak usage patterns as well as “wind droughts” resulting in situations where the power generated isn’t enough. You have to look at the worst case scenario and ideally plan for that.
Does anyone know of a reliable and cheap CO2 monitor (other data about air quality is not needed) for a music room that will be kept almost tight closed with potentially more than 1 person playing music? I need to know when levels will rise above normal so that we can stop and take a pause to exchange air. I've done some research and found complains about fake products coming from the usual suspects, some of which use alcohol sensors disguised as CO2 ones, which of course don't work.
I've taken DIY into consideration, then again discovered they sell fake parts too, like some MH-Z19 modules found on Ali* and elsewhere.
Twice a year sets are a thing of a past. Now they pump sets every 2 months.
I am rather impressed that every crew member tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

I was under the impression that 2 month voyages across the ocean could get rather dull and personal stashes of all kinds of substances were common.
This is a pretty in-depth list of steps! I’m amazed!

Yet, it makes me feel like the situation is not changing that much on Linux for laptops: most of this should be more automated IMO.

An apple silicon MacBook Pro is quite a bit more expensive, but all of that has mostly been done for you and mostly “just work”, and there is value in that.
> but it doesn't logically follow that similar housing couldn't have been built without the parking rules change, just that it's cheaper to build without it.

Yes, you can build anything with an infinite budget. In practice, budgets aren't infinite and increasing costs means fewer projects will get built.
It is the reason you can’t have nice things. I have nice things. If I stay ahead of the scamming curve, I will always have nice things.

And that’s the problem. My action, your collective bill. Tragedy of the commons is very much an unsolved problem and the winning play has consistently been to destroy the commons through max exploitation.
Information is often imperfect especially during a quick buying/renting process. A buyer could easily figure they'll use the private spot for one car and they can always use on-street permit parking for the second car even though there are a bunch of houses that depend on that parking for their vehicle.

(Or whatever scenario--don't get hung up on the details of that specific one. The general concern is that new construction may lean on a shared resource to keep its own costs down.)
How to fix bugs in 24 hours or less
Hugging Face style web page
I wonder if there is any open source / template app in the style of hugging face? Where one could use it as a nice interface to the repository (for non tech people), display model cards (README.md), and similar.
no he actually said " i pooped my pants "
Still waiting to ship, six months after announcement.
Hey I didn't know Nvidias sales boss hung out on hacker news
OpenAI doesn’t need marketing because everybody knows who’s the best. Same reason that if I asked you what’s the best violin you would say Stradivari, even though you’ve never seen an ad for one.

OpenAI could call their model the “[poo emoji] 5000” for all the difference it would make.
10B is going to old mates mates.

No new startups are getting it.

It's also like pulling teeth trying to explain to people that if we don't offer compensation commensurate with what they get in the US people will just leave for the US.

There is some form of brain damage where even people who know how to code assume that because you can get a crud developer for $80k a year you should get an AI researcher for $150,000. It's nearly double after all.
> 2-3x the money.

That's if you're stuck in tech support. When you start doing actual ground breaking work it starts at x10 and goes up significantly.
Jan Leike has said he's leaving too https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1790603862132596961
>Presumably these questions are rooted in some kind of developer reality

Have you ever taken one of these interviews? One of the primary criticisms of the practice is how disconnected they are from the realities of the job itself, requiring studying specifically for the interview process to actually pass.
Meta's next for him? There's lots of money being poured into their AI division and there's lots of compute & being able to do any kind of research he might want.
Actually yes, I want a blob of quantized floats to be my slave. I definitely don’t want it to be my policeman or philosopher!
The Most Important Planning Document Costs Nothing to Draft
Another weakness in traffic signalling devices that is actually under active exploitation is that you can just take a vehicle and spin donuts in the middle of the intersection.