skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally love working with most legacy systems. It is so satisfying learning all that weirdness and peering into the minds of the original authors to then hopefully get to clean it up and make it better. But of course a handful are just horrible.
What really needs to happen is that we need to hire fast and fire fast.

Stop it with the 7 rounds of interviews. Assume after some discussion and basic verification that the person isn’t lying about past experience. Hire the first candidate that passes your bar instead of interviewing and ranking 20 candidates.

If it turns out that you have hired every tech employers worst nightmare, a person with great experience who can talk everyone into believing they know what they’re doing but can’t code their way out of a paper bag, fire them.

Trust me, it’s faster,
takes less manpower than 7 rounds of interviews with 20 candidates, and in my experience produces better results.
Could be possible if the device has soldered on ram or the ram is located on the soc. Haven't actually checked out the code.
Isn't that what meetups are for?

In my admittedly limited experience going to meetups, I found that it was a good place to chat with people without major pressure of moving forward. And the cocktail party esque vibe of the meetups I have been to further enhance that idea?
When this subject comes up I always think that the equality sign is loaded. It can mean, definition, equality, identity, and proportionality. How come this state of the equality sign is not mentioned in the paper?
... where I've worked before:

sorry, but my managers were to stupid for even MS excel. I hope, i will never ever again meet such people. If it ever happens though, I will leave the next day. You cant imagine what a struggle it is - even more of a struggle, when the premise is "manage up" and not "team up".

The best part: Don't even understand what security is and means, but being really proud to announce taking part in security workshop for software architects. They don't even work in that area. The company did not even engage in any kind of code writing. The only code I've written there was large, nested formulas into the excel. And then, you have one, your manager - who is proud to take part in a security workshop???? ... They didn't even understand what that means. I suddenly lost all of my respect the second I read that in a mail conversation.

The same for the AI Workshop, where one university wanted to discuss how they want to manage chatgpt usage with minors and home assignments. You can't believe it - "I take AI seriously" was the fastest answer I've ever heard.

That will stay this way. But, its up to me now :) My plan is to build their processes around AI and by this put them out of business where it hurts the most. Its too easy, if you've worked there for 14 years and being the only one who have done everything from A to Z. Being "the actual company" ...

So my plan is to utilize LLM and some image interpretation techniques. It is a highly technical thing. I can overview the business and what is happening there and I can tell, it will put some people out of work. If I really do this.
By now, just trying to come up with a way of self-financing. Then to get my co-workers out of my ex-employers claws (they also can use my self-financing methods) and then we'll start with that :)

so, of course it will affect society and workplace.
> Even if 90% of the punishment ends up distributed across the richest 7% of Americans, I’m not sure what that would do to discourage corporate misconduct. A doctor with $10 million of stock in her accounts still has no individual say in what those companies do.

That doctor has many things they can do:

1. Make and vote on shareholder proposals.

2. Refuse to own stock in any company that does not take sufficient action to "discourage corporate misconduct."

3. Etc.

And if a policy like mine were ever implemented, it's not like rugged individuals would only be able to take rugged individual action. The legal risk would reduce returns, and sophisticated mutual fund managers would have incentive to choose stocks that don't have those risks or vote their fund shares to make corporate policy changes to eliminate them.
Was just going to post this myself! Exactly the kind of trivia I like to idle my time with :)
coding interviews do not attract the best of the best
Worse things have happened. Union Carbide still exists. And they literally killed 16000 people in India and injured hundreds of thousands more out of negligence.

We need all new laws and enforcement against these companies, that can retroactively “pierce the veil” and go after the individuals and their assets. It’s not enough that just the company (which is just a legally established entity) goes away. Consequences are what deter future crimes.
Thanks! I'm actually planning on introducing a pseudonym for myself for this project, as it is my first major project that I plan to make available to the public, and something about the name "uejfiweun" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, haha. But I hope you see and enjoy it when it releases!
Whose performance? You think they cut the lowest 15% of performer or that the management was weak?
Maybe if you're inventing a new compiler that hasn't existed before, but if all you're doing is yet another a CRUD app for a newly undiscovered niche, then it doesn't have to generalize beyond what already exists. The fact that it's nondeterministic is irrelevant, I can write the same function a bunch of different ways just by choosing different names for variables, does that stop the code from working?
It just changes the game so that people who learn to play it win even more because most people never bother learning.

For dating (tinder especially), good photos are important. Many people, and men especially, do not have good photos of them. None of my male friends even take photos, and if they do, they are not flattering or of them wearing nice clothes that make them look attractive. Nor would some of them be attractive because they are overweight and not in shape or dress like middle schoolers

And that's just looks.

Interviewing is the same. People who play the game (networking, leetcode, etc) win by getting the high salary jobs, and everyone else has to fight for the scraps
Teens have been so accustomed to immediate gratification and short form content they don't possess the willpower to focus on something truly difficult. You can't watch a few shorts and bust out a 4k demo over the weekend the same way you can "make minecraft in 24 hours".
I'm assuming by "AI" you mean the new crop of LLMs here. At my company, we've been using various forms of "AI", including deep learning systems, for many years in our products and are continuing to do so.

The devs here have tried out the new LLM stuff, as well as things like copilot, but to my knowledge nobody has incorporated them into their workflows because they've found no advantage to doing so.
I'd suggest Cory Doctorow's "ensh*ttification" might encompass the sentiment you're looking for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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Yep. Even taking SpaceX off the table, we could have built a lunar program based on existing launchers like the Atlas and Delta class of rockets, using smaller modules docked in orbit, and orbital refueling.

Instead we have a giant rocket that costs billions per launch whose only purpose is to launch Orion to the moon in one shot, and it can't even deliver Orion to a conventional lunar orbit.
If they have...

1) You could have provided a link to two, yes?

2) The Media - and its scientist (?) pundits - would ease up on the "this is absolutely 100% human-made" narrative.

3) People who have suggested that maybe it's not "absolutely 100% human-made" would not be ridiculed, marginalized, canceled, etc.

So if you can help out with any of these, it would be appreciated, sincerely.

p.s. And per the article, the climate data that was being used prior, was incomplete, unreliable, and too small a sample size. And yet how many leaders and scientists have been basing big stroke ideas on that? We can't demand The Science, and then cherry pick bullshit because it perpetuates a narrative. Or can we??
“Algorithms from Platforms will always filter out content that people don't want to see.”

I wish this were the case, but algos seem to prioritize engagement at the expense of experience. I wish they’d give us more granular control instead of an algo black box secret sauce. I’m increasingly so exhausted that I end up not exploring new context at all.
Joe is pretty WordStar like, and also includes jstar which I think is more or less a preset to be WordStarrier.

I've been using it for most of my programming since ~ 1995.
None of these come close to the performance of reinforced concrete in highly dense urban areas. They could be used in non supporting walls sure. I live in a statically outstanding building (very important where I live) that is over 50 years old and my apartment has the highest energy efficiency rating possible. The latter is not due directly to use of reinforced concrete but architectural design enabled by it
Yeah, the risk appetite was much higher. Those are good reminders on Apollo 1/6/8, but the problems didn't stop there. The first 5 landing missions all had huge problems that nearly killed everyone, too. Only the last 2 landings were sort of OK.

Apollo 1: burned all astronauts alive

...

Apollo 10: POGO oscillations on launch (Saturn V still trying to tear itself apart), LEM tumbling

Apollo 11: Computer kept crashing all the way down to the moon (it controlled the engines)

Apollo 12: Brownout in the command module during launch, "Set SCE to Aux"

Apollo 13: Oxygen tank fire. So rough they made a movie.

Apollo 14: Shorted abort button almost killed everyone

Apollo 15: Parachute failure

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We have no shortage of people who would be willing to put their life on the line, but we do have a shortage of the political urgency/unity to tolerate actual problems. Just look at people dig into Elon Musk every time he explodes a prototype with his own money and nobody on board, and realize that accelerating a human program creates 10x the political sniping opportunity.
Yeah when you have way more applicants than you can possibly look at, the usual strategy is to just randomly sample 10% to review, and throw away the remaining 90% of resumes without even looking at them. This makes intuitive sense, as you do not want to hire unlucky people.

This sounds like a joke, and it is. But this is actually what happens in practice (with less rigorous random disposal).
> 1. It's not about some rule that limits the number of visits, it's about that you can't physically do it, because an appointment for urologist made today will get you an appointment on october. Because the queues are so long, people make appointments even if they don't need it, and then don't show up. This makes queues even longer.

This was also my experience with the private health care system as well.

Alot has to do with the lack of specialists in certain fields. This is not an easy problem to fix because there are only so many residency slots available, and its hard to increase them. The best you can do is poach from other countries.
They are in the transportation market serving transportation needs for a transportation-seeking customer base. How they accomplish that is obviously interesting, but their attempts to move laterally haven’t been amazing from what I can tell (though I don’t follow them closely).

They are structured and run like a tech company but imo they don’t produce a tech product.
Actually it was my experience with Tcl back at our 2000's startup, continuously porting modules from Tcl down into C, that formed my opinion that languages without either JIT or AOT on their reference implementation, as mostly suitable for scripting and teaching purposes.
This matches my experience. The company I’m at spent money on decent developers to get a project stood up and running, but will only hire cheap remote developers for the crud enhancement work that’s needed now. It makes sense until something important breaks or some thing new needs to be stood up. I’m not quite sure what to make of it.

I sort of see a parallel in the job market although it might be a stretch. Most of the work is easy to outsource/go cheap on, but a small core is incredibly important to get right. It’s not obvious when a job posting is looking for one or the other.
Yes, all "Push" based advertising is harmful.
> What we need is much better whistleblower programs. Programs where people are paid out $MM and witness protection if there are lose level of risks.

If you need this, your culture is beyond lost and your management team will sabotage it to ensure they maintain autocratic control.

> Enron, Theranons, Volkswagon... Boeing

Every one of these companies either was or had become quite autocratic and bureaucratic.

> hard to know what lengths people will go to when the stakes are high enough.

It's pretty easy to see it in action, and all it takes to beat it is a call from the CEO or someone above the manager of an employee that seems to be holding back in a meeting or in a email. "Fran, you seemed to be holding back. You are the kind of person that I count on to let me know what is really happening. Why were you holding back?" usually results in "My boss will fire me if I tell anyone"... And what comes after this is exactly what the CEO needs to know.
This is the same for any creative process. Any painter could describe how they’re reasoning about a composition and what-not. But ultimately each individual needs to digest technique and make it their own.

Writeups like this are great though because it can at least share the tools used and give folks some place to start.
That was my thesis at my current company, and people REALLY love our interview process. I don't understand why so many companies put so little work into something that is so important and will go on to set the tone for the rest of the person's time at the company.

https://blog.readme.com/designing-a-candidate-focused-interv...
These 'forever chemicals' are slowly regulated/banned across in many countries. Is anyone aware of some kind of map/data on the subject?
Ok, what is problem with matching then, if for +30yo, phd graduate in AI in medical imaging being unemployed for 2 years. Nearly impossible to get a job in big tech.
Why? So all the workers who had nothing to do with this decision can be unemployed the next day? All you'll achieve is a cascade of negative effects and a hit to GDP

It's much better to go after the individuals responsible for it
> there are too many applicants who can't do the job but apply anyway. So the company needs some way to filter,

If we take that as a given, and I don't disagree with you, what happens? The hiring pipeline becomes optimized to prevent unqualified people from getting through the process. It's focused on reducing false positives: hiring the wrong person. As a side effect, it eliminates more people who might be hired before they get far. In other words, the number of false negatives is not controlled.

In short, the way the filter works is broken. Good candidates never get to the offer stage. They are incorrectly filtered out by a process optimized for filtering, not discovering.
I agree wholeheartedly. It’s not something a large enterprise can do, but for my own home and multiple small business needs I purchased a good number of Samsung 960/970 Pro NVMe drives when they came out with the TLC 980 Pro.

I’m still rocking some older Optanes and scavenge them from retired builds. They’ll last longer than a new 990 Pro.
A huge part of the problem is that it's very hard to prove and evaluate developer competency.
Yes, but that's not really the point. The point was simply to point out how you can potentially trigger havoc with current LLMs. A lot of time people do damage to systems just because they can, there doesn't need to be a good reason to do so.
> Structural unemployment is usually high when there's a rapid change in demand for skills, as of course there is in tech. It results in crazy high salaries too. People with machine learning experience are getting 7-figure offers, while people with jQuery experience can't find jobs.

Another cause of structural unemployment is workforces aging into retirement, and again there's stacks of money to be made filling this gap.

This applies to Cobol developers. There are a ton of "too big to fail or rewrite" applications written in Cobol, particularly in finance. The people who wrote them are retiring. Finance is generally a great industry to have your hand in the pockets of anyway. A friend of mine has been doing this since shortly after he graduated college in 2010. He was able to start freelancing a lot earlier than I was, and his billing rate in 2012 was something like $125/hour (only slightly less than my current billing rate). Last time I talked to him he was billing $300/hour and had a 7 month backlog of work. I'm not good at keeping up with people, so we haven't talked in a few years, but it would not surprise me if he's billing $350/hour now.

I've largely prioritized time/freedom over stability/money in recent years, but if I ever had a kid and needed stability/money again, I'd be transitioning toward that.
In fairness, workforce strategy changes should be decoupled from financial performance except in extreme cases. Making money is not a reason to keep people you don't need, nor is losing money a reason to cut people as long as you can still afford them.
Why does github use an octocat as its logo? It's unrelated to software development
I agree with you, for what it's worth. I think some of the "easy" leetcode questions are probably a decent filter, they're often contrived enough to force you t handle an edge case or two but simple enough that they should be solvable within a few minutes - they're a step above fizz buzz.

They filter for a few super important qualities - can you solve a simple problem, follow some basic instructions, write somewhat comprehensible code. But most importantly, if you get stuck, how do you react. If your response is to lash out and blame the questions or the interview, that's a huge red flag that you're going to react like that when challenged in the work place. I wish I wasn't speaking from experience.
This is a bit of an oversimplification. I am probably on the more sensitive end of the spectrum when it comes to poison ivy/oak but I have gotten rashes that are legitimately debilitating (i.e. typing was very painful). This was also after washing with dish soap post-exposure. I've since switched to Tecnu and it seems to work better but, unfortunately, is ridiculously expensive.
>Chinese room, considered as a whole, does understand what it does. The fact that the man inside of it does not is simply irrelevant

Searle does address this point even in the original paper. That argument doesn't hold water because you can imagine taking the whole room and putting it in your head and then you still don't understand Chinese. Or put differently if you're a Mandarin speaker and we two sit in a room and I use you to secretly translate, you understand the meaning of what is being said, I don't and it doesn't mean anything to say we "as a system do".

The point is that even though we can "as a system" behave as if we speak Mandarin, there's a difference between you and me. You understand what you're talking about, and I just hear gibberish. Searle is a die-hard materialist by the way, nothing of that violates materialism. What he isn't is a functionalist. What he is teasing out in the thought experiment is that a system that produces the same output as nother system does not need to be equivalent on the inside.
> Berlin famously casted a gender neutral voice for public transport announcements.

The person in question is transsexual. You're saying that regular men and women aren't neutral but transsexuals are?

> Computers better not have genders imo

This doesn't make any sense. Gender is an intrinsic part of many languages which cannot be ripped out. It's impossible to talk in some languages without picking a way of speaking which is either masculine or feminine.
Out of those quality candidates that apply:

Some will find a job before they finish you interview process.

Some will change their mind.

Some will have a change on personal circumstances.

Some (many?) will ask for more than you can offer.

To hire one good person, you usually need many to apply.
The latest fad appears to be forcing all candidates to be vetted by an external recruiter, even if they are already known to people inside the company. Apparently, this is for reasons of "fairness", but it's yet another segment of an increasingly long pipeline full of holes that drop out candidates somewhat randomly rather than based on the actual required attributes to perform the job effectively. The HR filter was already bad enough but now having a recruiter filter before the HR filter just means even more random rejections of candidates who could have filled the role successfully.
> You have to be lucky (including knowing someone, ie networking)

I don't think it's right to consider networking/knowing someone to be luck, exactly. Networking is a skill and a tool, and has consistently been presented as that for my entire career. As a result, I go out of my way to try to make those connections. I go in to the office, I have lunch and drinks with coworkers, I say Hi to people I recognize from chat at large meetings, I make friendly conversations on chat and email. When someone I have made a connection like that with leaves, I say goodbye and pass them my personal email address. It is difficult, I'm not an outgoing person and I have to make conscious effort to start those connections. But it has paid off, I've received several job pings over the years, and when I was ready to move on from a job recently I took up one of those pings on the offer. It wasn't luck, it was a skill and resource I specifically put work in to cultivate over years.

Cold-applying is the absolute hardest route to getting hired. A big part of your career is doing what you can to make that your last resort when job hunting.
Addictive gambling like applications and loot boxes in gaming cause some people to kill themselves.
Do you seriously not find this hilarious?

https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch/raw/main/ima...
Haha—sorry, I didn’t mean to shit on TCL. It’s got no pretension of pretending to be something it’s not.
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It's significantly easier to find a job if you know hiring managers. It's not a gimme, but it will put you ahead of hundreds of applicants.
I don't understand why these companies even do these analyses . It has been proven over and over again that they are pointless, whatever the outcomes, the results are going to be ignored in the name of profits. I think that these companies should be obliged to subsidise independent, reviewable and verifiable research, for example from Universities or government run labs.

I get, secrecy, and I am OK if some details, for example about production and formulas, may be made available only under NDAs, but that's as much as that. The rest, especially health effects, should be under public scrutiny.
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Thanks. I think my project is a genuinely useful tool, I've already used it (in a far more basic form) to make a pretty major decision in my life. I hope the functionality of the project speaks for itself. But I definitely don't want to be in a situation where nobody sees it due to poorly chosen posting time :P
Google launched a new "Web" filter
Yup, and once you find whatever that system was good at, leverage that as much as possible, it's not that bad.

You also get a feel for the history of various things too.

I work with a big old Coldfusion system at times. Server side rendering was a thing in the past too ;)