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I've interviewed lots of developers and recommended 'hire' to about 15 people in the last several years and not once did we get it wrong.

All it takes is a short problem to solve at home, which can be easily googled and one hour architecture interview, where we discuss the technical architecture of a hypothetical 'real world' service.

It takes about 20 minutes to determine if the candidate has the experience with the technologies listed in the resume.
Little experience is not necessarily a show stopper.

True that the language we hire for (Clojure) filters out a lot of people ahead of time, but knowing the language is not exactly what I look for..

What I look for is 'passion' - does the candidate love programming and can the candidate articulate technical issues with ease.

The other question I try to answer - will the candidate enjoy working in our team and will we enjoy working with him/her.

Smart people will shine in a certain way, even if they bomb specific questions - they have an opinion, they try, they ask the right questions.

I'd be sad if we missed on some of the people in our team because of automated (inhuman) puzzle interviews.

We're not looking for a problem solving machine, we're looking for a partner to create something great together, someone who shares our passion for hacking and someone who we'd love to work with.

I share TFA's opinion that leetcode-style interviews are not the way to go and I hope the industry comes back around and focuses on the human side more.
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>that concepts being related to other concepts to various degree is all that there is

This is the view that Fodor termed "inferential role semantics". https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-ernest-lepore/WhyM...
As someone who's interviewed there and received offer (though for internship), for entry positions, internships + their lowest level of engineer (don't recall the name), I can confidently tell you they mainly use leetcode with some Amazon principle questions too
Many scientists, including generational geniuses like Freeman Dyson have had mixed feelings about CO2 and its effect on climate. I will almost certainly take their opinions on it over an activist environmental lawyer.

Review the concept of mimetic theory and understand that the majority holding an opinion doesn't guarantee it being even remotely true.
Geothermal engineering. We can slow down the planet for our data centres too! :D
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Show HN: I built a free feature flag/toggle app with no NPM package needed
I tend to use feature flags a lot at work but never in my personal projects as the free options seem limited and overkill for the small apps I build. I really liked how LaunchDarkly worked but couldn't find anything free that was simple and just worked with no strings. I decided to build one myself. It's simple and just exposes an API for your app to hit with your own secret key. Would love to know what you all think!
yeah classic FAANG bs from consultancy leaders who can not solve 1 leetcode problem and don't @ me with they don't need to because they can't make business decisions either even with fancy economy degrees and then layoff half the staff. If your CEO was not a techie the company is doomed anyway. So FAANG pushes leetcoding and everyone does it now, I just learned the 100 most common for interviews by heart and dabbled into 1000 leetcode problem. Absolutely only need to put in work and has 0 skill tbh it reminds me when I had vocabulary tests in school for other languages, just learn it by heart and score high mark. No skill of the daily business life involved at all. Landed a job that way.
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
Yes, I absolutely buy the argument that doing things the optimal way will make a difference at scale.

When some method is being called, or some data structure is being used, trillions or quadrillions of times (all the users of facebook/tiktok/etc. clicking on something / using a feature) - even small optimizations can add up quickly, which can obviously mean more compute or storage.

But I do not believe that you will find a single point of failure for those cases. In fact, no single person should be able to create such failures. And at companies that operate at such scale, there are many, many safety measures put up - not to mention the continuous performance analysis and reviews.
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What about resources needed to make the machine?
Looking forward to it. My GPU isn't, but I will just wait longer for the results.

I hope there will be consumer cards that offer a bit of memory. Nvidia probably keeps memory limited here for strategic reasons and that sucks.
Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
Hey HN!

Is there a tool where I can filter by hiring activity e.g. hiring first UXResearcher or Designer, among other properties, to send more targeted emails?

My co-founder and I just launched our v1, are Pre-PMF, and are looking for ways to send more targeted emails, at high volume.

We're building a tool that would be great for teams hiring their first UX Researchers.

It seems most CRMs have the user ingest their own data, or the prices quickly get steep.

Many thanks!
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Do you have a link to a description of your setup? I assume there are some quirks on the way and getting this done requires some substantial work. A submission on that would be very interesting, at least to me.
You're quoting yourself. It's hard to understand which quotes are yours or not.
Yeah, the Netherlands got 1,800 of those..
Agner Fog's optimization manuals https://agner.org/optimize/ are x64 oriented but are a very valuable resource for C++ and assembly programming.
That's exactly true.

LC tests typically copy problems from the university the interviewer graduated from. College programs differ, so this is really a case of what you were introduced to.

There's a fairly popular online LC test company in my corner of the world which was formed by graduates and lecturers from a certain university and they started out by just giving the problems from the curriculum. Result was heavy bias in favour of students and alumni of that university.
The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
> no _recorded_ homicides
> If your complaint is that a normal person wouldn’t have the time to study these things in detail, why would a company want to hire someone who has external obligations?

External obligations like full time employment and a family?
Maybe tiny solar panel + capacitor, like 1980/90s calculators had, then it could run "forever" - digital Millennium Camera.
It could also be that a subset of origin servers that the requests being routed to were misconfigured.
Google used to ask people to write code in a Google doc. No tools allowed.

Facebook to this day disables intellisense in their coderpad interviews.

It's fucked up.
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Haha it's a lot easier than people imagine - if you have no dependents, leave your stuff in storage or with your mum and get on a plane with some clothes, a laptop and £15k income or savings per year. Personally I bring climbing gear too. 500 quid a month gets you an epic condo in SE Asia with 500Mbps symmetric (I'm talking city centre with rooftop infinity pool). Visas can be complicated but it's far easier here than Europe. They only managed to destroy our freedom of movement in Europe, not the rest of the world.
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Yeah, from my knowledge of Hindi and a few other Indo-European languages I can't think of any other word with the ganj- root/sound either. Another example (probably still closer etymologically) would be Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stoned.
I remember creating some webserver at work years ago, and I saw a router querying it. I warned the company admin.

Also, my wifi firmware occasionally crashes and needs to be restarted.

I don't work in cyber security or on anything sensitive, but if I was told I'm under surveillance by some government or some criminal, I would not be surprised.
No, I meant what I said.

Well, I guess you could deal with the TLS warnings instead.

But I prefer to install the CA cert so that the TLS connections are seen as valid.
Important. Before reading this, and in the light of ongoing H5N1 events in Twxas, at home we started drinking bottle milk from the normal supermarket shelf (before we were drinking it from the COLD shelf). So the way I understand it, is that now we should trust the milk from the cold shelf? Implicit trust is given to industrial processing, fir which I never heard of any experiment, just mentioning I hope the regulator does a perfect job.
Dead on with https://spacejam.com/1996:

"Wow, where do I even start with this interstellar eyesore? If the '90s threw up on a webpage, this would be it. The clashing colors, with bright red text on a black starry background, is an instant migraine in the making. It’s like someone asked, “How can we make this as visually offensive as possible?” and then went above and beyond the call of duty. And don't even get me started on the layout—it’s an exploding piñata of random links and outdated images that scream, "We gave up halfway through!" Navigating this cosmic catastrophe feels like trying to piece together a puzzle that was designed to be unsolvable. Those garish icons are an assault on the senses and seem to be floating around without rhyme or reason. This train wreck of a website is a nostalgic trip straight into the worst parts of early internet design—a testament to everything that should stay buried in the past. Congratulations, you’ve successfully turned Space Jam into Space Junk."
I found that to be a really interesting and insightful read.
Joel Spolsky has an old post on this. Apparently, clicking in a window on the Mac brings that _process_ into the foreground, but not necessarily that window. If process A is in the foreground with window 1, and process B has windows 2 and 3 with 2 in front of 3, so the current window stacking order is 1,2,3 then the effect of clicking in window 3 is in fact to bring window 2 forwards, so the window stacking order is now 2,3,1.

Widgets, toolbars and other floating things that are separate windows as far as the window manager is concerned can also affect this. For example, GIMP or other programs that have palettes need to enforce that "the palette is always in front of the main window", which I imagine is handled differently on the Mac to other OSes.
Leetcode test would be fine, if they were formalized with automated scoring and nobody giving you hints/silent treatment. Unfortunately, proponents of "normal" interview process will tell you that it's necessary to observe engineer working on a problem to know how good they are.

Maybe they are right. After all, I'm not an expert on the matter of recruitment.
But from my experience, I felt far better when the process was not "personal", even if I didn't get accepted in the end.
What were those fbi redacted things? Were those backdoors?
Actually the answer is 'right now'. The Psyche spacecraft is actively using a laser to provide data on it's way to the Psyche asteroid.
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It’s sounding like AMDs high-end mobile processors will probably do what you want mid-to-late next year. Look up “Strix Halo” (not Strix Point, that’s this year).

They’re reportedly going for a 256 bit memory interface, and a way bigger GPU than what’s normal for integrated graphics.
>It rivals images from spacecraft in Earth orbit - as in Hubble or Webb. (emphasis mine)

It seems like this critical detail was left out of the headline.
I did this for a while back when freenom existed. Then, I moved and learned that I was exceptionally lucky to have working loopback NAT in my previous house, and would have to split off a local.<domain> entry for clients on the internal network. No idea why most ISPs don't have routers that work like that.

I haven't bothered doing DNS auth to get certs since I started using paid domains.
> "Everything is a tradeoff"

But sometimes things we're trading off are less relevant and so the equilibrium changes e.g. losing weigh is hard, because humans evolved in low-calorie environment and being able to stock fat was important.
I'm maybe more cynical, I believe that these types of interviews don't filter out less smart people, but filter out people who don't object to the processes of Big Tech. I think they mainly serve to pass through people who aren't going to question the system, and won't speak up when during their day to day trenches they're implementing ethically bankrupt software. Intelligence has nothing to do with it, it's about ensuring the capitalism machine keeps going without any revolt.
More affordable even after the 100% tariff?
Could they use the high-res orbiter photos, and the lower-but-still-really-good ground-based photos and use some sort of AI algo to enhance the ground-based ones?

The idea being that they have high-res reference photos that are a one-shot deal but can take regular earth-based ones auto-enhance them from now on.

It could then show changes over time in high res?

I'm showing my limitations here, obviously, but I know what I mean... it makes sense in my head :)
Show HN: Locating you according to your German dialect
Hi HN im one of the authors of this article. The location algorithm is based on data from a dialect quiz conducted by the "Tages-Anzeiger" newspaper in cooperation with "Der Spiegel" in 2015. More than 800,000 people from more than 23,000 towns and villages took part and told us which words are used in their region. For the map published here, the calculation compares your answers with those of the 844,140 people surveyed and shows which participants have the highest agreement. The bluer the coloring of a location, the higher the level of agreement with the respondents from that location.
This is seems like a huge vulnerability, are there any legal repercussion that happens in those situations?
In my experience, good developers have some algorithmic skills, this is a correlation, not necessarily causation. That is, they are not good because they know algorithms, but when you are a developer, you necessarily work with algorithms, even when your job rarely requires you to write them. If you don't know, it means you may not understand what you are working with or even worse, be unwilling to. Programming is a field where being willing to learn is important, as things move fast (at least on the surface) and every job is different.

So I think it kind of work as a filter. It is not perfect, other signals are needed, in particular, as the article says, the interview format may be a problem, but recruiters need something to test. And algorithms have the advantage of being relevant to the job (unlike logic puzzles), hard to bullshit (unlike experience), fair (unlike personal situation), and not too time consuming (unlike assignments).
Why bother with more layers? The inability of the conventional transformer to not have recurrent layers is mostly a weakness. The final layers of an LLM do very little (except the last) and most of the time just let the token pass through from the layer that actually determined it. A recurrent architecture could dynamically perform as many passes as it needs to produce the next token. This would result in a speedup for easy tokens and a slowdown for hard tokens compared to the fixed "you must go through all layers regardless" architecture of classical LLMs.
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The !Kung[1] are both extremely egalitarian and work about 15 hours per week[2].

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Yes exactly. All things being equal, I’d rather higher someone who’s going to dedicate his entire life to the soul crushing work he will be assigned.
it's a good measure of whether they will sacrifice their home life and spend unpaid time doing extra work for you.
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Anything RF is deep wizarding lore, a world filled with wonders unexplainable to laypeople.

The effect is well known, and the reason why if you open up your average phone, there will always be a ton of shielding around components. All the high speed buses can and do create lots of side emissions... so in order to allow a phone to function with its extremely tiny bunch of antennae in direct proximity to the chips, all components get shielded from each other.

In desktops and even most laptops however, the high-speed (and thus high-frequency) chips and their clock traces are very far away from the wifi/bt antennae, so for a long time manufacturers could get away with not shielding anything, just taking care about ground planes, trace length and impedance matching and spacing. Nowadays, with buses getting ever faster and faster (to the point where analog design criteria take over priority), I think we'll start seeing shielding rather sooner than later, and we're already seeing CAMM modules getting implemented in devices for the same purpose.

Side note: that's also why you're not supposed to operate a computer's parts without a case at all or with a partially open cases. The case itself acts like a faraday cage.
It's worse than that, the US doesn't even use Imperial units, which was only introduced after US independence..

They use their own unique set of units that are different to both Imperial and Metric.
I think this isn't surprising. The fundamentals of the making of electric cars are obvious: they should become cheaper. Currently their price is dominated by battery costs and the costs of ramping up the production, but both are destined to come down.

But overlaid on this natural "flow" are turbulences. Demand varies, at each new generation which is cheaper and better, demand usually takes a huge step up. Which temporarily lets prices stay constant or even raise for a bit. High prices cause large production increases which eventually will over saturate the market and force prices down which of course increases demand again.

But in the end happens, what has been predicted for 10 years, that electric cars become cheaper than cars with combustion engines.
> The above response contained the physical addresses of several FBI field offices who were Cox business customers.

That's literally just FBI's customer account at Cox.
I don't need the qualia of gamma rays to understand gamma rays, nor to be understood in turn when I say that "I understand gamma rays".

Conversely, I can (and do) have qualia that I do not understand.

The concept of qualia is, I think, pre-paradigmatic — we know of our own, but can't turn that experience into a testable phenomena in the world outside our heads. We don't have any way to know if any given AI does or doesn't have it, nor how that might change as the models go from text to multimodal, or if we give them (real or simulated) embodiment.
Why do y’all think the attacker was replying all of his requests? Could they be probing for unintentionally exposed endpoints themselves?
One way is to find something you want to make that has schematics available and then hack on it. For audio stuff https://sound-au.com has lots to start from. Use jlcpcb or similar and you can get small boards made for $1 each plus shipping
my approach is always to pick an idea for a project that I care about and go full autistic not-invented-here in implementing it. i never finish such things, nothing I'd show/publish, but by the time I'm sick of it, I've learnt a huge amount.
It’s down for me here in Japan (17:50 local time), too—web interface, Mac app, and iOS app.
agreed, lets hope they dont bloody sue him into the ground for "hacking"

Its stuff like this that company's should REWARD people for finding.
Lots of reasons, but RISC vs CISC has little to do with it.

Apple have access to the newest and best fabbing processes from TSMC. That alone can put a chip a generation ahead in terms of efficiency. Intel foundries have been struggling for years and AMD only get TSMC's scraps a few years later.

Increasing clock speed is the easiest way to increase performance, but power increases quadratically with clock speed so it's very inefficient. Apple clock their processors pretty low and instead focused on increasing instructions-per-clock, which is generally more efficient but requires more die area. As an example, a lot of noise was made about the M1's 8-wide decoder, twice as wide as contemporary x86 chips, which is an important bottleneck for IPC.

Increasing instructions-per-clock requires much bigger CPU cores, and the dies Apple use for their SoCs are famously enormous. While other chip manufacturers are very conscious of performance/$, Apple's vertical integration gives them wider margins and their customers are much less sensitive to value. So Apple can afford to spend a lot more on bigger chips that are on par in performance but have much greater efficiency.
Most interview processes I've been through (many, 15 year veteran) involve both the leetcode crap and at least one fit/culture/soft skills round.
Costa Rica is a bit like that. They have no military but they do have an armed law enforcement agency which maintains internal security and guards the borders. This has been stable since 1948. In fact, Costa Rica has been more stable than many other countries in Central and South America where the militaries are often a breeding ground for coups and civil wars.
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We're tackling challenges like integrating video ads, fortifying against scraping, enhancing response times, and optimizing the click-through rate for our recommender engine.

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That kind of out of the box thinking is where I think the industry should go. But would it scale to the Google's of the world? Probably not. They'll continue filtering people through the sieve that is the leet-code style interview.
> all those steps in Firefox actually aren't that bad, and actually stay unchecked

Not really, they keep adding new checkboxes that are of course checked by default.
The problem with GDP per capita is that it encourages marginal work. Let's say you can do all you need in four hours. Then you spend another 36 hours on some bullshit of marginal value because hey, GDP got higher. GDP per manhour would discourage such low value work. If it's necessary its price will rise until it gets worth doing.
> for full effect: say slowly, in one sighing breath, emphasising each word more than the previous, and take a deep disappointed breath after

I tried that and saying the last word made me exhale enough to force me to immediately take a disappointed-sounding breath, so I guess it works as designed?
Good to know. I was going of a sibling comment with a link to their Github repo, in which Cosmic is described as a Gnome skin.
How do you cheat at live coding?