skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On other side principal is being rolled over very regularly. If this process fails, it will all fall down. Likely it will be printed to existence, but then inflation hits and taking money and moving it to any other assets make lot more sense. Even if that is harder to use.
can you? couldn't the candidate just use ocr to feed the code to gpt-4?
I've interviewed people who were employed in senior developer positions in fairly large companies who could not write code. I don't mean they wrote bad code, I mean that I could not find a way of promoting them to plexplain even basic programming concepts or write a single line of code.

They're not near the developers you want to hire. But they are better at what should be done than some people who have developer jobs.
Often asserted by people who sound very confident.

I have a Gmail account that I use only for purchases. A majority of the mail there is about me spending money. A highly valuable consumer, you'd think?

A far as I can tell, nothing about that account has been passed to any third party, for money or for free.
Everything is interconnected. People who commute to work need a car. If parking is unavailable, then commuters cannot live there. If workers can't live there, then property taxes are lower and less money enters the local economy. You can't apriori say what impact these parking policies have.
> That makes zero sense, governments invest in education to improve their own country

The idea is precisely that not having SV types around _improves_ the country, i.e. makes it closer to the preferences of Canadians.

And yes, having a foreign tech worker doing 9-to-5 in a large legacy company for thoroughly average salaries is very different from having a SV-style startup culture. There is very little process in Canada to make life difficult for the former style of company, and plenty of process to make operations difficult for the latter.

If not having SV folk improves Canada for Canadians, and hqving SV folks improves America for Americans, then this is just mutually beneficial trade. Efforts to try and stop brain drain still makes sense: it's even better if you can convince the citizens you trained to engage in the economic activity you actually want instead of economic activity that you find undesirable, but if you're unable to convince most of them, letting them go is still better than having them stay and engage in their undesirable behavior anyway.

Compare: if a large minority of Icelanders wanted to work for the Baby (which Iceland doesn't have), theb stopping the brain drain (convincing them to work in the Merchant Fleet) is the best outcome, but funneling them out (training them in merchant navigation and watching them join the Danish Navy) would still be preferable to them engaging in their desired behavior anyway (form their own pirate gang preying on the very Merchant Fleet you're trying to advantage).
If they interview for someone able to solve leetcode hards on the spot, that's what they will get.

I hope for them that they they don't focus on this (j/k, we already know that some do).
Why would you want to? The people in low density like it that way, and the people in high density like it that way. It's a good thing that it's hard to change the city from under them!

Leave the density alone and let people move to whichever they like better.

Just be extra cautious about the medium density cities.
> What was the crime? Negligent manufacturing?

Fraud related relating to the 737 Max, plus subsequent violations of a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement (that agreement was why they hadn’t yet been prosecuted for the fraud), and the violations of the non-prosecution agreement also may have included subsequent fraud about matters which contributed to the recent door incidents.
Resignations lead to more resignations....unless mgmt. can get on top of it and remedy it quickly, which rarely happens. I've seen it happen way too many times working 25 years in tech.
Unless you become extremely prolific, blacklists work on matching some kind of resume info like a name or more likely an email or phone number.

Those can be rotated. I specifically use a different email every job search wave just due to the tremendous volume so I would just need a new phone number and to use my middle name or something.

But you are right, this is a risk.
As long as it doesn't leave your palet with a taste of the gel, the point is to enjoy the taste of these drinks without the effects of alcohol. Not everybody drink alcohol for the alteration effects and the non-alcohol versions of most beverages is so shitty you don't really want them.

My mother for example hate the feeling of being intoxicated, even a little. So she only drink one glass on occasions and barely finishes it. She would definitely enjoy it more if she could have different wines over the course of a meal. It would also be useful if you want to enjoy the taste of some drinks with alcohol but you need to drive or you are in an on-call schedule.
> I think this is one of the rare cases where I'd prefer if the kernel had a "magic" setting...

All this stuff should be automatic. The problem is that it can take a few round trips to discover what the application is doing. This comes up with "slow start", where you need some time to discover what's going on. In a world of short-lived HTTP connections, self-adjusting algorithms don't have time to self-adjust before exit.

A delayed ACK is a bet. You're betting that the other end is going to respond with useful data before the delayed ACK timer runs out. If it does, you won the bet. If it doesn't, you lost. Nothing checks whether you're on a losing streak. But it takes a few round trips to make that decision.

When I was working on this, the object was to get from appallingly bad to acceptable performance without too much complexity. Today, people crank up things like HTTP/3 to get a few percent more performance at the cost of greatly increased complexity.
>unless they have some really good smoking gun evidence

They need witnesses. Like the ones who suddenly die a lot.
You should not be allowed to graduate from a software engineering program without taking a course on ethics.
Honestly I wish I learned more biology in college instead of cruising through a CS degree for a generic software engineering career. Now that I’ve gained more interest in bio, the doors have closed.
X is tiny compared to Apple/Meta/Google, both in engineering size and in "fingerprint" in people's life.

Also engineering wise, currently every tweet is followed by a reply "my nudes in profile" and X seems unable to detect it as trivial spam, I doubt they have the chops to compete in this arena, especially after the mass layoffs they experienced.
That is huge news for the platform. Wow Firebase has had loads of announcements today seemingly.

As someone building primarily on Firebase in my spare time this is awesome. I use it as the backend and storage for my supercharged chrome extensions.

I think Firestore is okay for simple use cases such as payments and auth, but you definitely need SQL for heavy business logic
Ask HN: A room to stay in SF with other founders and build my startup
HI HN, I'm Yoeven, the Founder and CEO of JigsawStack.com and I'm heading to SF for 3 months to meet exciting startups and grow JigsawStack.

It’s my first time in the US and I'm looking to find an affordable room to stay where the action is happening in SF. I’m hoping to find a space to stay at before I get there and an alternative to Airbnb, the prices seem pretty steep there.

JigsawStack is a API as services allowing devs to ship their product 10x faster and cheaper.

JigsawStack site: https://jigsawstack.com

I like the idea of exchanging help, I'm a full stack dev and have experience in building web app and mobile apps. If you have an idea that you want to build an MVP or a small tool, I can build it in exchange for a place to stay for 3 months. This is just an idea but ofc the typical approach, I'm happy just to pay rent and make friends :)

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Not really. Near me that added meters so you pay for parking in front of the commercial areas. So people just drive up the block and park in the resedential areas which have no meters.

Paying for parking only works in places where you park temporarily and then move elsewhere, you can't exactly add meters in front of people's homes, unless, I suppose every house had off street parking?

I guess that's one way to have a city. Something similar is done by making overnight street parking illegal - I've seen that a lot, and then yes, the free market will make sure every house has its own parking area.

It's hard on visitors though.

Parking minimums are actually the least bad option from all of those.
Elon also claims that Tesla has solved full self driving, has announced robotaxis, while the SEC is investigating him for "inappropriate forward-looking statements".
This is very strange. I've been working with an AI assistant called Astra since GPT-3 came out. I told it to name itself, and the name it chose was Astra. Now this?
A plane takes a LOT more energy than a bird, yet both fly, one of them a lot faster.
Can anyone confirm the premise of the article? Are interviews actually harder?

And if so, maybe it’s because a lot of companies are “hiring” but not really. They’ll hire a senior for a junior position but otherwise just keep waiting for the “right fit”.
Yup. When I was doing a lot of engineering interviews I often used to give candidates a choice. Either a standard type of interview or if they had any public code (eg on their github) we could review together. It was a pleasant experience and gave really great signal.
In eastern europe a lot of kids before 2000 used to drink raw fresh cow milk and are completely fine.

I am not sure what is different, either new viruses, or american cows are different, or certain people did not develop immunity to certain bacteria in their childhood.

And I certainly understand why there are people in the USA who like raw milk. Pasterized milk in states taste like an insult.
Next thing home owners are selfish. Next thing existing is selfish. You people have a problem. Go out in nature. Breathe! Stop hating on other people
MMLU-Pro: Advanced edition of MMLU & new Leaderboard
> 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.

Cost is a very real and important constraint. You can't just throw more money at a problem if the problem is that you cannot profitably provide a good at a price that is affordable. You cannot change the price the market will bear, but you can cut your costs by lobbying your city government to cut parking minimums.
Google I/O 2024 tried too hard to prove Google is good at AI
Strong disagree, I’ve never seen people work less than my time there.
Only point: Why can't this not be made with php? This would be great to run on a cheap webhosting
If every house needs two spots - on off street, one on street right in front of the house, all is well.

Then someone says "Why should I pay for a parking spot or a garage? I'll just park on-street by my neighbor!"

That only works if a couple people do it. Once too many do it you have unhappy residents - they paid for their off-street spot but the other guy didn't!
Thanks for the recommendation! :)
Measuring soft skills and knowing how to hire the people who have them when your organization needs them is a different problem imo. Obviously there are problems with giving guys with decades of experience graph theory problems when the problems you want to solve are more abstract and organizational.
Note that the headline is a question and the article doesn't describe how he was found.

I'd guess that it was as a result of tracing and following the money from information retrieved after the LockBit infrastructure was compromised earlier in the year:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/20/uk-and-fb...
You can do point 2 alone, skipping the nonsense of point 1. Please respect the time of the people that are interviewing and don't push your "innovative" ideas about interviewing on them. You are interviewing, not doing experiments.
Isn’t spoofed SSID an old attack? I couldn’t figure what’s new here.
Solar storms can create havoc with technology
The poem by the Hungary Parasite reminded me of the 1960 J.G. Ballard short story, "Chronopolis".
Living in northern Sweden I see the northern lights multiple times a year. I have never seen them pale or otherwise not colorful. Green and reds always. That is to my naked eye. Photographs do look more saturated, but the difference isn't as large as this comment thread make it out to be.
A real image not, but a digital image built up from pixels certainly is band limited. A sharp edge will require contributions from components across the whole spectrum that can be supported on a matrix the size of the image, the highest of which is actually called the Nyquist frequency
I'm okay with watching the majority of action movies, but I distinctly remember watching this fight scene in a Bourne movie and not having a clue what was going on. The constant camera changes, short shot length, and shaky cam, just confused the hell out of me.

https://youtu.be/uLt7lXDCHQ0?si=JnVMjmu0WgN5Jr5e&t=70
I was hoping I'm not alone, I had mixed signals reading the article. OP talks about how the interviews are harder in 2024 and says candidates are using AI to crack impossible time bound programming tasks and instead recommend companies to do the interview online. Somewhere something is disconnected
A summary of how it was created and leaderboard screenshot (by an author I presume):

https://twitter.com/WenhuChen/status/1790597967319007564

Part of the tweet: "We found that GPT-4o (71%) actually improves GPT-4-turbo (62%) by 9%! On the original MMLU, the improvement is only around 2%."
“Before I answer, let me scroll through the entire pull request to make sure all the code has been made visible.”
Nice, that's great! People who compose complex, lengthy pieces always impress me. It's such a cool skill, and there's something so transcendental about it, somehow.
There are countries where the business culture makes you unemployable and almost impossible for you to get a loan for the rest of your live if you have ever failed a business (bad enough). Many countries aren't as open to failure as the US.
Even if you take the entire metro, growth since the 1960s has been anemic. 300k growth since 1960, and it actually shrunk in 2021 according to your chart. Again, there are much better places to make money building housing, supplies and know how are limited.
Also the impact could be more immediate if you need the principal. As now your debt is worth lot less if you sell it. See the last years bank failures...
We are all so majorly f*d.

The general public does not know nor understand this limitation. At the same time OpenAI is selling this a a tutor for your kids. Next it will be used to test those same kids.

Who is going to prevent this from being used to pick military targets (EU law has an exemption for military of course) or make surgery decisions?
I agree. It's annoying for closed source apps but they generally have the resources to deal with it anyway. E.g. with Questa I can just unzip it and run it. No trouble.

It's disproportionately annoying for open source projects who don't want to waste their time dealing with this.
Okay, now you absolutely must explain how you are employing high temperature superconductors at a party. :) I want to go to some of your parties! I have heard of the ice cream. I must try that perhaps some day...
> And yes, having a foreign tech worker doing 9-to-5 in a large legacy company for thoroughly average salaries is very different from having a SV-style startup culture

Immigrants coming into countries start companies at a disproportionate rate compared to natives.

Other than unquantifiable statements about what "Canadians want" everything you mentioned so far to justify this idea of "canada doesnt care if tech graduates leave" is falsifiable by data.
If the enshittification of the Internet by the proliferation of AI results in the destruction of the awful pop quiz style coding interviews then at least it will have had some value.
That's a bit of an odd response. I just spent the weekend in Yosemite (I took Amtrak). I live in Sacramento, by the river.

Car ownership is objectively, measurably bad. Are you pretending it's not?

https://www.strongsactown.org/2024/03/17/suburbs-drive-sacra...
Negligent homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who, through criminal negligence, allows another person to die. Some jurisdictions require "gross negligence" or enhance the degree of the crime where there is "recklessness".
Sometimes I dream about a Rust-like programming language with optional garbage collection similar to Swift that runs in three stages: The first one is an idempotent interpreter so heavily sandboxed that it can only read the source code and output only diagnostics and the second stage: a more static programming language. Meta-programming!

This would allow simplifying the second stage massively because it is generated code and won't need ergonomy. This programming language would parse the sprintf format string exactly as if the compiled program would do it at runtime. When I read the article I thought to myself, aha, dependent types, could it be that it is similar to a user-provided program that computes the types?

I have to disclaim that designing programming languages is not my expertise. I am only an amateur.

These two stages avoid the complexity of Rust compile-time handling. Instead of hard coding things like lifetimes, generics, const generics, return position impl trait in trait (RPITIT), async fn in trait (AFIT), and so on, have a first stage standard library handling all these things.

And the third stage? A sandboxed interpreter with the same or similar syntax as the rest of the thing. I think this would be useful as glue code or just for tiny throw-away scripts. All these three stages would profit from a common base, so they should be provided together.

Makes sense?
Yep I agree I think its coming to an end unless some good and reliable counter cheating tools are developed.
I think you're actually pointing towards a bigger issue here, which is that chatgpt can help poor candidates get over the interview process and into your org despite not knowing what they're doing. There's also a deeper commentary where we discuss how the industry is completely unwilling to train eager people and how training costs are largely absorbed by the candidate before they start working.
How can it be that some seniors cannot write code and have worked at some large companies? It seems so weird but I have hard similar stuff before
They hired a third party to make the case, and we know nothing about that party except that they were lawyers. It is entirely possible, since this happened very early in the LLM game, that they didn’t realize how the tech worked, and fed it enough of their own article for the model to piece it back together. OpenAI talks about the challenge of overfitting, and how they work to avoid it.
> It diminishes human value/creativity and will be owned and controlled by the wealthiest people

"When you go to an art gallery, you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires" - Banksy
> I think it’ll be difficult to prove in court. To actually be found guilty they’ll need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the executives knew there was problems

No, they won’t. For one thing, the charges aren’t personal charges against the executives, so they don’t have to prove that executives, specifically, knew anything.

The basis of the 737 Max charges that were put on hold because of the deferred prosecution agreement that DoJ has now determined that Boeing violated are addressed by DoJ here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...
How does alternating with water alleviate the carcinogenicity (and other health-related issues) of alcohol?

Perhaps this gel can help? Perhaps trials will show long term health benefits.

Also, please don't conflate addiction with a lack of discipline or restraint.
Bah, fair enough.

I think the thrust of my argument is true though. We could have gone 10 or 20 years back instead (C64 is downright ancient).
> If your argument depends on selecting expensive rather than cheap versions of a technology,

It doesn't. It depends on available versions of a technology. Not "approaching" versions of a technology.

> Read it again. The limits it discusses are on hydro generation, not hydro storage.

That turns out not to be the case. Try reading it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> The gas generators would not run in baseload mode;

That is EXACTLY the point. You need to overbuild enormous amounts of very expensive infrastructure triply-redundantly and then have it sit around idly most of the time.

So all of this highly expensive triply-redundant and massively overbuilt infrastructure has to be financed by subsidies, as it can't be paid for by producing electricity. As it isn't actually producing any electricity most of the time.

To quote the study again: "...which challenges the economic sanity of 100% intermittent renewable targets."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

> about 1/20th the capital cost of a nuclear plant per unit power

Yeah, not even close.

Anyway, I think we've reached the limit of what can be accomplished by discussion.
Essentially it is: avoid all dependencies, and if you take them on, like platform libs strip them down to only what you use
> 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?

I might be able to pass the bar / medical exams with ChatGPT 4. And even if not, I will be able to with ChatGPT 5/6 etc. I have no knowledge at all of medicine or law would you want me as your doctor/lawyer?
How about COO - Close Object Obligation? And you could sound like a pigeon saying "coo" during talks explaining it.
> Further investigation revealed that Syrian nationals had each agreed to sell one of their own kidneys to two of the Israeli nationals, ages 68 and 28, for kidney transplants in Adana.
> Can anyone confirm the premise of the article? Are interviews actually harder?

No interviewing is absolutely not harder (from the perspective of the hiring company). Have been interviewing candidates or hiring manager for 25+ years at this point. It's always been hard to run a good interview process or do a good interview [1] and hard to hire good candidates no matter how good the process (because good people are rare and always in demand). It doesn't appear to me to be harder to interview now than it used to be.

If anything it's a bit easier than during the dotcom bubble for example but for different reasons. Now I get fewer candidates in total but more candidates who are at or close to the skill bar, so discernment is harder but the consequences of making a suboptimal choice are not quite as extreme (because a lot of candidates are pretty close to each other), whereas then I would be spammed with a deluge of candidates the vast majority of which were totally hopeless and extremely few of which were competent at all so the temptation to lower the bar was extremely high.

[1] ie the task is a challenging one. It requires difficult tradeoffs, and time, skill and practise and application on the part of the interviewer. There is no one-size-fits all method which works for all roles, candidates and organizations. Interview processes tend also to degrade over time so any time when you think it's going well is a local maximum and it will slide from there and you'll need to rethink, change it up etc in a month or two.
If you're building Rust, check out cargo zigbuild (yes, zigbuild) which lets you target old glibc.