skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen #1 many times (in non-interview settings).

- It's definitely possible to hold a tech job for 12-18 months without writing any working code and changing jobs that often isn't that big of a red flag. Also, people lie about their experience.

- The pool of people applying for a job has a very low intersection with the pool of people currently working at a job. In that intersection there is a very high subset of people who believe they may lose their job soon. Therefore the people applying to a job is largely people who either are not currently working, or will shortly be out of work. See also[1]

1: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/thank-you-for-writing-su...
I think there were a lot of historical contingencies involved. The nature of the language itself (small vs large alphabet, etc) is probably one of the least important.

There was an interesting BBC article a while back about the decline of German usage in science: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29543708 They put it down to anti-German sentiment during WWI (not WWII as I would have assumed!)

It’s pretty easy to imagine an alternative world where German was the common international language of science and became the basis of most programming languages too.
Ladybird had a unique position of having been developed from scratch. That had brought a fresh set of eyes to an ancient tech called Web. Leveraging OSS would diminish that aspect, IMHO. What’s your vision Andreas? What are you trying to do with Ladybird as it’s no longer a hobby but a more serious project now?
Eh, it’s “hard” for the U.S. to switch from customary to metric units because nobody really cares enough to do so. The forces causing language standardization (in many countries, not just China) are much more powerful.
Ohhh so you think people are actively keeping tabs on what they give and then what they receive in return in the context of their social interactions?

That’s really interesting that you think that, because to me that would suggest that you think if you provide a friend something like a drink, you expect you should get something in return.

Also, do they do it twice? How do you know? Have you constructed a concept of how the social interaction happened in your mind and made some assumptions?
Motte and bailey, and the comments here show it. Half of people arguing "reasonable whiteboard tests rule out candidates who cannot code" and the other half arguing "but leet code!" which is a different goal-post.

But this stems from the article's thesis itself being unclear: both positions are superimposed in TFA, so it's no wonder half the readers came away with one goal post, and half the other.

Motte: Leet-code interviews requiring memorization of problems unlikely to ever be actually encountered during one's career are bad.

Bailey: "[All] Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence" and the entire "How (Most) Interviews Should Be Conducted" which implicitly rules out any whiteboard/coding questions by not including it.

To the author, if they're here: which position are you actually arguing?

I agree with the motte, as one might guess. If it's truly is the bailey, why should a Senior SWE not be able to implement min()? (… like, realistically, in their sleep?) Perhaps I'm returning false negative in 1/10,000 people, but I'll take that for the true negatives of "cannot, apparently, implement min()". "min()" has pass rates of like 50% in my interviews.

The problem with the suggested interview style is that it does not yield reliable information. People bullshit, people lie. People exaggerate their contributions to something. Worse, the people who you probably do want to hire are going to be modest and honest as to their role.

I'll also add that "whiteboard coding" should ideally not be literal. I really want the candidate to have a good IDE / dev env to work in. I am often hamstrung by what HR/the corp. is willing to provide; if all I've got is a whiteboard, I'm sorry. Everyone being remote should have made this easier, but I still encounter many candidates who struggle to bring an IDE of their choosing in a language they're most comfortable with, to the VC, with advanced notice. (And this is generally a nudge towards "no hire"…)
This is the crux of the issue. The ever evolving police apparatus would never give up such a thing. The people who write the laws and their spook handlers want to increase data collection, if anything.

Does anyone else feel like we are slipping into a Dark Mirror episode? I fear that nothing will be sacred soon.
I think executing code makes things too strict, and can lock up/shut people down, since forgetting a library function name means you're completely stuck, which causes a feedback loop of nervous. Interviews are high stress. Absolute precision, required to run code, is not a good fit for high stress, in my opinion. You'll filter people that haven't don't a lot of interviews more than anything.

I keep the problem relatively simple. I tell them that they can use whatever language, don't worry about silly typos, or exact syntax, and if you forget a library name just make one up. It's trivial to see if someone can code without executing the code.

If I notice obvious problems, I'll describe the incorrect behavior, like if there's an infinite loop: "I see a problem. When you run the code, you see that it never ends".
> Why should it be unexpected to not code when applying to a software development job?

Software developer hiring is very different from most other hiring, but it seems that many software developers don't even realize how eccentric they are, because they've never been outside their own industry.
Unemployment can be rough on the savings too.
Large vehicles are hard to park and can't fit tight spaces? Who would have thunk... These monstrosities are a horrendous trend. Not only we are building cities that are completely unwalkable, but now they are also filled with tanks driving at high speeds.
Huh? home.com is a really simple easy to remember domain, that's a good reason isn't it?
BTW, it's free.
Impossible to follow if you are thinking Euclidean geometry, but a great circle is a straight line in spherical geometry. The earth isn't a sphere, but it is much closer to one than it is a plane.
Sure, that's exactly what I mean... They're putting it they're to "defend" against what they themselves are putting there.

Their own justification almost entirely is based on "what if" someone is doing exactly what they are trying to do. It's not even particularly subtle, even if you dress it up as debris removal. Which makes no sense in itself.
We use search that way, don’t see why AI trained on similar content wouldn’t be just variable in terms of reliability.
Dang I haven't mustered the courage to watch Dave's critique yet!

I wrote/tested Photon Transfer (the companion app) on macOS 10.15 (Intel), so it should work on that and above. If not it's a bug that I need to fix!
They're increasingly becoming UX hostile.

Also, what's up with the random "welcome to your new device, lets set everything up". Seen that about 4 times already on my current W11 install.
I have to admit the Anbernics are a tempting option, especially imagining just dumping every GB, GBC, and GBA game on to have in my pocket. But I can't help but think feels a little... soulless, in comparison to a dedicated machine. Not to mention, there's a certain satisfaction I get from playing on my few remaining original cartridges.
Man i remember the days when it was the dream to have a single farm in the desert big enough to power whole countries.

Is it because China did it, or because Elon is mentioned in the article that i have to spit on the achievement?
It really isn't, at least with the author's clarification that the arrow isn't the path. It might sound like it if you misread the instructions as 'travel due east' as the parent comment did.
For people who like to learn about new stuff, it feeds their addition. IMO the main takeaway from those videos is "Science is cool". The trap is thinking you know something, when in reality you don't. If one watches them already knowing the subject, then I guess its an interesting way to spend your time.
you’re right. I guess what I meant to say is that there’s only so many ways we can bang our head against the same wall. The wall being a flat screen. We’d probably have new solutions once we transition to a spatial interface.
> Probably why I also prefer hard scifi - it must follow the known rules of physics, or at least have plausible extensions.

Well, if you're going to put in plausible extensions instead of following the rules then "i'm not interested in such lazy writing" as you stated. In any fictional story telling, there's going to be some creative licensing involved to tell the story. Hell, even in biopics and "based on true" there's a lot of creative license just to make the story interesting. Following the rules of known physics just limits the imagination to make for bland stories.

> I liked GoT a lot as it was driven by human decisions and foibles. But it slowly devolved into convenient magic absurdities, like resurrecting dead people, and I lost interest.

From the very off of the show, the resurrecting dead people was involved in the story. If it wasn't, "the night is dark and full of terrors" and "winter is coming" would be pointless. Just because the dead coming back was timed to happen with the story is just part of it.

I mean, next, you'll tell me that Zombieland or Shaun of the Dead were pointless since they were resurrected dead people too.

I think you've moved into the comic book guy territory of "worst book/movie/comic ever" type of meme
Sadly it's not even just references, LLMs still hallucinate or at least misrepresent even the most basic of facts. That and the stereotypical GPT-verbage makes it impossible to use for writing anything significant.
> Wages are set by supply and demand, same as anything else.

This is true for a one-time negotiation, but over time high productivity is necessary to sustain the high wages, or else the market will cease to clear. (that is, the workers will get laid off or the business will close)
Scientists confirm that pasteurisation effectively inactivates influenza viruses
How about just jail time for owners, executives, and management of companies/organizations who collect and store this information to begin with? That's what we do for Peeping Toms outside people's windows. I don't see why something more creepy, more invasive, more permanent, and more harmful should be treated less seriously.
Look on the bright side, at least I don't need a PSN account to use it (yet).
The great thing about Tesla is they let you drive their car basically wherever you want during test drive. I was interested in the model X, so I took it to my garage and discovered it couldn’t properly open the wing doors due to pretty low ceiling and relatively narrow spots. So I passed. But that was a pretty basic consideration. Can’t blame Tesla here really.
Isn't that fanfic?
Those well-established frameworks in statistics and decision theory are unfortunately mostly irrelevant in complex medical cases like this. There is no reliable source of truth to index against. We often don't have a reliable scientific basis for taking the result of a particular quantitative test and calculating the probability that a patient has (or doesn't have) a particular condition. Estimates of selectivity and sensitivity for particular tests are often wildly off. And when there are multiple tests involved we often don't know the correlation coefficients. Even the definitions of particular conditions are often somewhat arbitrary and not particularly biologically relevant.

Software developers often have this unrealistic fantasy about how things ought to work in medicine and biology. They reality is far messier.
> will have to cut rates, because they can’t keep paying the high interest on the government’s debt

Not how the Fed works. (And given recent deficits, the Congress isn’t worried.)

> Keeping rates high on the government’s debt may increase inflation

Nope. This is Erdoganomics.

The multiplier effect from credit contraction more than outweighs the new money of marginally-higher rates.

> it’s more likely rates will be cut

This has been Silicon Valley’s hot take since rates rose. Like yes, eventually they’ll have to come down. (There isn’t much room for them to go up.) But the Fed is far from constrained.
You may not have one right now, but what does a role one level down from "Senior" look like?
Coffeezilla (a youtuber that investigates scams) mentioned $150 million in his video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688
> I hope that by the time I die, I can become that good at SOMETHING in my life.

In my mid 30s now, i've transitioned to still having this goal, but instead of it being status or career or money or skill oriented, it's about how i interface with the world. my goal in life is to be kind to myself and others, to lessen suffering for myself and others, and to continuously work on my life in ways that help me attain this goal.

this works really well for me as someone with some historically pretty bad anxiety, self esteem, and ADHD issues. it doesn't require intense focus and study and sitting still for hours. it just requires being introspective, being willing to push through mental discomfort, and swallowing my ego. it also makes the world around me feel like a better place.

of course i'm not perfect at this - my biggest issue is still occasionally being less than perfectly kind when anonymously commenting on the internet sometimes. but i'm working on it :)
I have found there is another OpenCascade-based JS CAD -- RepliCAD -- which is significantly more developed.

https://replicad.xyz

And it's even embeddable, which is super-cool:

https://sample-app.replicad.xyz
Bandcamp's homepage says $194 million of sales in the last year. There's every style you can imagine on there.
> Both options are independent of file system case-sensitivity.

In Windows world it works everywhere, in any win32 program - file open dialogs, et al. Here you have to have it built in to every tool. (and windows doesn't do it at the filesystem layer)
You never did. There was never a widget that knew that "No" was in the middle on Windows and on the far left (but spelled differently) on macOS. I have no idea if/how Qt does it.

If you need to ask a question, GTK does provide both GtkMessageDialog (deprecated) and GtkAlertDialog (new). But they will look "off" on some platforms due to not respecting the native design language.

If you need a more complex dialog box, you don't need GtkDialog which was just a convenience over other APIs but, with over 25 years of hindsight, wasn't as good as it seemed to be.
This is very good feedback. We are just getting off the ground and on/off-boarding is still a bit of work for us.

Right now, we are trying to attract people who are a mix of wanting to kick the tires on a new product, as well as take compute for longer term.

I did mention in the pricing section that we can store your data locally, as part of the advertised pricing. This is our effort to recognize your use case.

I also understand that you want to optimize and don't want to pay for something that you're not using. We will eventually get to that point, but honestly just not there yet.

Think also from our end, we have these GPUs and if you're not using them... then who is? We've put out the capex/opex to make these available to you at any time, so the only way to be efficient on our side is to do a week long block right now.

Regardless, if you want to reach out to me directly, please do so. Maybe there is a middle ground we can both work from. Happy to consider all options and getting in early with us will always have first mover advantages.
Inflation feels disconnected from daily choices and even regulation to such a high degree t feels engineered to do so. Of course the commoners with no say in its implementation would reject it.
Today, June 3, Googles war begun
He could park it on a street or move.
I thought the whole premise of Dark Mirror was that we are slipping into a Dark Mirror episode.
I think I mostly agree with this
I don’t think they have any legal basis just because he put a screenshot of his account, twice, plus an Uno card. That is it… that is outrageous if they censor him for that. Extremely unfair to retail traders.
I'm pretty sure it's actually a hatred of a decrease in real purchasing power, and... why would anyone not hate that?

Personally I'd rather not get a raise at 2% inflation than a 3% raise at 6% inflation, and I don't think that's unreasonably irrational?
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I don't use sleep at all. I always shutdown my laptop and restart when I need it again.

It's probably an historical thing for me, dating back to the days when RAM was a high drain on battery life while sleeping, such that anything more than a day of sleep meant that the battery drained completely, the RAM then became unpowered and lost all data anyway.

If my laptop takes a mere 15 seconds to start up, why bother to use sleep at all? It's all really boiling down to personal choice.

Another point to ponder is that a laptop is really a secondary machine. Using a laptop as a main-machine is a constrictive compromise.

The main machine is still a desktop with a large 'plenty of display at readable size' amount of viewable real-estate. It's also running 24/7, has a huge amount of file storage, and acts as a personal internet server for files or whatever.
Myers-Briggs is pseudoscience. I would not base anything substantial off of it, you might as well use TeenVogue personality quizzes since they're just as effective (shorter too).

I will say learning to interview is a skill like any other, I have no doubt the person you replied to was not born into the world understanding the nuances of technical questions and what heuristics to use to determine validity. Just like yourself.
The worst is having random people questioning your expertise because of what ChatGPT told them.
Some Linux distros offer a similar (though far less memorably named) "xdg-open".

It doesn't do any of the other really handy things the MacOS "open" command can do, like "open -f" slurping stdin into a fresh instance of your default text editor.
Japanese still uses Chinese characters for native vocabulary that is not derived from Chinese at all.
Driver download:

https://intersystems-community.github.io/iris-driver-distrib...

Example connection strings:

https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook...

Instructions for starting a container:

https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook...
The best signal was had by hanging my phone from the ceiling. Since the phone itself was connected to the cafe Wifi, I couldn't use wifi to connect to the phone. So I shared the phone's (cafe wifi) internet over Bluetooth. (I didn't know that was a thing until I tried it!)

(I think I was able to connect to that with another phone and set up a wifi hotspot for all my devices... but it's been a while!)
I think I meant more fusional inflections. 们, 了, 着, 的, etc, don't affect the pronunciation of the root morpheme.
Sure! Checking the invoice, I paid $2205 (including anodizing and shipping) to make 125 enclosures (which includes 125x enclosures, backplates, and buttons).

So that works out to $18 per unit. This is my first time doing something like this so I have no idea if that's a good deal or not.
A person is assigned work, and they need to be able to do it, without being a deadweight on their peers. At the very best, you're just dumping a SWE salary's worth of dollars into a ghost. I've never worked anywhere that didn't have plenty of work, and so that's an eng we could have had, but effectively did not.

IME these people talk a lot of talk, but they don't deliver contributions. Like the simplest script could take a quarter? I don't endorse code metrics, but, e.g., 1 PR / quarter (of really simple stuff), unless that PR is blowing my socks off or had some complex amount of research or some reason behind it, is underperforming.

You expect negative returns for a new employee like the first 6–12 months. This is well after that, where it's clear that they're not putting in the effort to understand the systems around them, or they lack fundamental skills (like experience writing actual code), or more often, both.
Maybe it's me, but I'm not sure someone who interprets coding interview as "hazing" can make an authoritative judgment on other people's skills and motivations.
Now the “goat towers” in “
Goat Simulator 3” make more sense.
That’s not what httpx does.
Just to be clear, Chromium Legacy and Supermium aren't outdated, that's what makes them great. They work on outdated operating systems, but they track up-to-date Chromium.
That assumes reading a book is the sole source of information. While it's true that books are a treasure trove of information, someone that scours the Internet all day long for bits of information and reads zero books would be an uncounted infovore in that statistic.
"Since ordering the vehicle, Raddon's living circumstances have changed, he told Business Insider. He said that he and his wife separated and he's since moved into a new apartment complex, and his new Cybertruck doesn't fit comfortably in its parking space."

On top of the fact that the owner couldn't have known the above, I'd say one can blame Tesla: for their abusive contracts and bad customer service.
Yeah echoing this. Everything about the design is technically immaculate (color contrasts & usage, consistent styling, and a satisfying visual variety), but it has that super important element that most product pages lack: a cohesive narrative. Not, like, a literal narrative (though the motorcycle story sounds intense!), more like… being introduced to a friend’s friend for the first time. I guess I’d give credit for this effect to my internal questions coming up in the same order as they were answered by the page!

As a fellow solo-webdev/“founder”/layabout, OP I’d love to hear your comments on design and how you got to this point, if you find the time and interest. The camera itself looks sleek as hell and I’d love to hear about the physical design too, but that’s much less my bailiwick lol
EDN Query Language
one of my favorite pieces of advice i read a couple months ago and have been trying really hard to implement: don't engage in online discussions that you don't want to see, even if it's to disprove someone else's bad takes. one's engagement with these conversations is why they perpetuate.
How would that work, do you think?
What's being described does look like a strict improvement over the current state. But Gnome has been burning user and developer trust for more than a decade (both with Gnome 3 and the mismanagement of GTK), so maybe people don't actually trust the description? "It must actually be some attempt to fuck over the the ecosystem again, I just don't see how yet".

If things have changed, then that's great! Trust will start to get rebuilt. But it doesn't happen instantly after one announcement.
There are lots of strongly pro-Russian politicians and members of the media in the United States too. If Putin is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to the far right in Europe, why in the world would anyone believe the same isn't happening in the United States?