skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original motive was that enough batteries for a truck were expensive, and if you did a radical redesign with a folded exoskeleton and didn't paint it you could radically reduce weight and cost, making an EV truck possible. They were also developing a next generation battery to make this feasible.

A lot of time time passed. 3rd party batteries got cheaper/better. Tesla abandoned the exoskeleton idea and failed to hit its battery targets.

So now they're putting a lot of effort into building a funny looking truck that is all form and no function while traditional truck makers are just jamming a lot of batteries into a standard truck and achieving something better on many dimensions.
I agree, and I think it's worth pointing out. A younger me would have misunderstood complex technical work for business / success. Do it to scratch your own itch, but not for fame/money/fortune. Also worth noting the decision to focus on it is an excellent example of this: do what feels right, rest falls into place.
Yeah games company interviews can be hilarious.

I had an interview for a company in the south of England a long time ago. The first half went okay, then in the second half the whiteboard came out, and I was asked to "implement C++ object oriented method dispatch in C" with a chunky marker pen. I mean, it's not exactly a rocket science question, but it's not easy either (on a whiteboard, with a chunky pen), and in the end it just felt like it was some weird hazing rather than any test of my actual software development or programming ability.

I stayed in the interview, went home, never heard from them again. I ended up getting a job at a different studio that had a slightly saner technical interview, and after I started there, I heard the first place had gone bankrupt! Sometimes you just dodge bullets...
What you're tired of solving algorithmic riddles that have very little to do with what you've been doing the last decade, all this under pressure with a shared screen in front of two bored interviewers? I don't understand how you can get tired of it its so much fun!
I'd actually ask under what conditions leaving it exactly as-is is the right decision.

If they give a compelling enough set of answers, I'd just skip the rest of the exercise and be done.

After learning how to do anything, the next 20 years is about learning when not doing anything is the right move.
TikTok fails 'disinformation test' before EU vote, study shows
> You can make money ethically even as a company.

That's what I'm talking about, there is very not that much successful companies making money ethically. At one point or another they seems to make a decision that will trade ethics for money.

> Trusting companies was a no-no in the first place.

I meant "trusting" a company like Cloudflare to host my code/being my CDN.

Or for example when you take a flight with a Boeing plane, you're somewhat trusting the company that your plane will not lose a door...
Learn to program not prompt language models
> vector gfx is a programmatic/imperative representation of image generation, while raster is a data structure/declarative representation of images.

This seems a bit off to me.

Aside from oddities such as Postscript, most vector formats are canonical examples of declarative code. The distinction is more about what is being represented rather than how it is represented.
Every modern workflow orchestrator does those things you quote, and more. You make it sound like they're innovations when they're table stakes. Why wouldn't you just use Flyte or Kubeflow?

Also, the fact that they say that the alternative is "raw Spark" tells me either that they're confused, or not very good at explaining. Spark is used to execute tasks in a pipeline, not to orchestrate it.
In Germany one of the more popular modem/router/wifi devices among ISPs is FritzBox. You can also buy these devices yourself, which gives you both: you're using your own hardware instead of renting, and you benefit from long support thanks to aligning incentives from their big customers.
It isn’t quite as developed as the Bessemer process, but they were producing steel with a precursor, using a cold blast:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_th...
I didn't realize "gobshite" is supposed to be rare, but I guess all the British shows I've seen are to blame. Thinking about it, I probably couldn't name a single person in real life that I've heard say that word.
Just because some interviewers are bad, it doesn’t mean that it’s an inherent property of interviews.
I don’t think anyone is saying in a traditional SWE role data structures and algorithms aren’t useful things to have some me amount of mastery about (higher levels required for higher levels of seniority maybe)… but it’s just hilarious and also sad that we’ve, as an industry, not been able to move away from these logic puzzles disguised as programming tasks that ostensibly should mimic a typical task but serve only to filter out groups of people.

Of course I don’t know the replacement I just know I loathe doing these things and would rather learn more about what the day to day would be like, what’s the team like, the manager, the growth potential, etc. I am all proving my skills but can I do so in an environment that is more congruent with my actual work?
It's popular because anyone can create their own community with just a few clicks, and it's all paid for by friendly venture capitalists :]
There is no grand conspiracy. People try to develop what they feel is a fair interview with good signals. It simply turns out that many people are not good at that and have biases that they may not even be aware of. Tackle on some cargo culting and "best practices" and you have your typical broken process.

For those wondering what the alternative is to leetcode: a work sample test. Take a real problem your team solved recently, distill it down to remove internal-specific knowledge, and give candidates 3x the time to solve it compared to what it takes an internal dev to solve. Bonus points for having a rubric guide the scoring.
They're making the interconnect themselves. But that very much sounds like I'm coping on their behalf. TSMC for all the logic and IO though.
I am good at leetcode interviews. So are a lot of people reading this. For the most part, this is for the same reason: at some point we sat down and practiced until we were good at them. It’s a useful skill to have and I recommend to people on job searches that they learn it.

Would I recommend it if there weren’t so many leetcode interviews out there? No, I wouldn’t. It’s not a useful skill for actual programming; it won’t make you smarter. It will, however, establish that you have a lifestyle that affords you the kind of free time to devote to it.

So yeah, I’ll happily jump through these hoops. Honestly, I’m the personality type that finds it fun. But it’s a lousy way to assess my abilities as a dev.
> Workflow orchestration is a mature category, as evidenced by the length of this list (...)

Or could it be an evidence that the existing tools all have their flaws and any reasonably sized organization will hit these flaws pretty early, so many orgs come to the conclusion that the best approach is to just roll their own that fits their case relatively well?
an optimizing Lua or Lisp compiler
In this case I had completely missed the bad smell, so I appreciate the comment cause it prompted me to look up the whole situation. yikes. I was already planning on moving to another fork soon since I wasn't using most of floorp's power features, so this just expedited that.

Also from your language it sounds like you're a Waterfox dev? If so thanks for all your hard work on open source software! I haven't tried waterfox in years, I will definitely give it a go after uninstalling floorp.
> I've tried everything and I've had the best results by talking, digging into the details.

That's always the second interview I do: "tell me about your favorite project", then asking questions about details, possible alternatives and pros/cons, fundamental limitations, anticipated issues, real production issues, etc etc, going as deep as possible. This works really well and filters out people who do leetcode but don't pay attention to details in their work or have no real experience (if you're looking for one).

However, the couple of times I hired people who nailed this part but failed the coding, they also failed at coding at work. So both interviews are necessary in my opinion.
Could anyone provide an example of what Leetcode problems are too hard or unrealistic for hiring/interviewing purposes?
Proceed to highload.fun. Read the resources in the highload.fun wiki.
What unique position does this browser have? in the nicest way, truly nobody cares, both are pet projects
They have planned ahead. There is enough capacity to run the data centers. Electricity is just more expensive.
Click is a nice option too. Slightly less magic than docopt, though docopt is great for quick hacks.
> Did you consider writing your app using the Web Serial API? If you did, why did you decide to go the native route?

I went the native route mainly because I love native software, particularly native Mac software. I never quite enjoy using web apps, but I certainly understand the appeal.

Until I get the ordering system taking international addresses, send me an email (support@toaster.llc) with your address and I can send a Stripe invoice.
TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
>I imagine the people grinding LC are harder working/more innovative than people who watched TV instead.

I suspect the original author of the article that spawned this comment thread prepared for the interview somewhat rather than watching TV instead - and still got sickened of the LT style interview.
> Here we're talking about banning smartphones, rather than making the social media companies responsible for their various harms.

If you want to prevent minors from accessing certain content you need to check their age, thus to enforce real-life ID check, which users nor platforms want.

(And fortunately since I am all for, not against, an anonymous web)
At work best practice is to use a real domain you have control of both internally and externally.
> Can you memorize “War and Peace in one sitting - neither can an LLM, unless you weaken it to "well I meant input that fits in context", not memorize

> precisely recall things from it on demand - "precisely" is load-bearing here, and the question at hand. (no, LLMs don't have perfect or precise recall, even from in-context material, and it's not particularly close)

> translate Farsi into Hawaiian and then speak it - 0 models, is this supposed to be a gpt-4o reference? What does this have to do with "perfect recall?" Let's pretend it does. Are you claiming that gpt-4o has a 100% success rate translating Farsi to Hawaiian?

> Can you give instant, and nearly always correct to almost any textbook question - sobs in just spent 4 days benchmarking. For the record, best non-RAG I have is gpt-4o at 86% on MedQA and LegalBench. With RAG, 93%. RAG gpt-4o just barely scrapes by my cofounders USMLE scores. It's excellent. But it's not superhuman.

> All of that is recall - no, translation is not recall
> Murray, who previously led The Wall Street Journal, will replace Buzbee as executive editor through the presidential election, at which point, Robert Winnett, a veteran of the UK’s Telegraph Media Group.

I don't know the individuals but given the CV outlined, and the concerns about diversity, I wonder if they ended up with fascist apologists because they only looked at white men for the role, or did they end up with white men because they only looks at fascist apologists?
It depends what the parameters for rivalry are .. a ground-based telescope can take multiple photo's, perhaps even thousands, at very low cost - although the resolution may not be comparable, this doesn't discount the value of the data to the scientists who are obtaining it at a far greater reduction of cost and effort than those who rely on space-based instruments. Remember, we don't have a permanent instrument stationed at Io - these spacecraft are doing fly-by's and thus have a limited window of opportunity.

So, while the resolution may be great eye-candy, the consistency of the data over time is vastly different. "Higher resolution" does not always mean "better science", especially if its a one-shot compared to thousands of data-samples...
All that, and no mention of wazzock, probably my favourite mild insult and relatively unheard it would appear (it was was quite popular in parts of the UK's north in the 80s & early 90s but I don't think it travelled internationally and has since largely fallen back out of use even here). It works particularly well with the common extension "great steaming" as a phrase of exasperation: "you great steaming wazzock" (for full effect: say slowly, in one sighing breath, emphasising each word more than the previous, and take a deep disappointed breath after).
Make it a tar archive with some common RAW photo format?

cat /dev/sda > raws.tar
That is not just true dude.
I don't buy the analysis on 1). Leetcode interviews restrict the pool of SWEs. You have a lot of SWEs who fail to qualify any more, but the few that do are more coveted and get to command higher wages
Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable
You and I probably have quite a different meaning of balance, although I am indeed not sure what there is to balance. Freedom and security? What do you mean by this? There is a false perception that this is big tech vs the EU, but instead it is big tech and the EU against you.

This is not an issue where there can be much of a compromise. My chats are private and not to be surveilled by a central authority. This isn't a policy that faces the challenges of new technology, this is something that should have stayed in the last century.

The internet did raze down quite a few borders and despite some risks, it is very much worth it to keep it in this form.

If the EU wanted to be constructive in strengthening and protecting users, it would have created legislation that big tech cannot screen user content with impunity. Instead it now forces them to do so and report "wrongdoings" to something that isn't even a real police force.
Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20
> something horrible based on timezones, or phone number validation

What? Do you have something against zip codes and email addresses?

I like to ask something to do with strings - English sentences. I tell them it's intractable in the time we have and that I really want to see how they whitebox-test the code they write, so take ~10m timebox to write the code, then write some tests - at least one test that finds a bug.
Natural keys are fine ... provided your company issues them and controls them completely, and will always do so, law of physics. Otherwise, not so much.
Same goes with solar/wind - batteries are not there yet and we don't know when they will be here. Nuclear is predictable.
> I would probably have a huge mortgage sitting in rainy ol Blighty

Feeling a bit triggered by this - but also curious how you escaped :)
What exactly about Leetcode interviews can you Google, except the actual solution to the actual question (which you can probably Google for non-leetcode interview questions too)?

I always thought that while Leetcode interviews are problematic because they don't represent most of the work you're going to do, they're much better than interviews where you're expected to namedrop specific API functions or design patterns.
> Was this website crafted under a rock in the 90s and accidentally released into the modern web? The layout is a chaotic blend of hideous simplicity and sleep-inducing banality. Navigation feels like an archaeological dig for anything remotely interesting—but there isn’t anything worth finding. The site boasts all the charisma of a wet paper bag and reads like the personal diary of someone lonely enough to confuse the internet with their therapist. For a software engineer, your web design skills are grotesquely primitive; my eyeballs started yawning halfway through. Did the Design Fairy forget to visit you when you were crafting this bland, lifeless piece of web purgatory? If this is what "tickles your curiosity," then may your curiosity rest in peace. And don’t even get me started on the aesthetic that’s so basic it practically begs for a mercy redesign. Bravo, you've made the consummate digital antidote to interest.

Well, fair enough with regard to optics, needlessly below the belt regarding content.
The Fall of AI/ML/Data Scientist Role
I disagree with this. I can solve the majority of leetcode hard problems in under an hour despite not having seen them before and I'm far from the smartest person I've met.
If you haven't seen it, there's Chihayafuru [0] which is an anime with the japanese card game, karuta (which comes from the portuguese "carta" for "card").

[0] https://myanimelist.net/anime/10800/Chihayafuru
Show HN: Tired of spending hours to stand out So I built this to automate it
Hey HN! My name is Thomas, I'm from New Zealand and I have a background in making cool python automation stuff.

To summarize what I build, it is a GPT-4o-powered web scraping service which connects to the APIs of Hacker News (by far the easiest to work with), Product Hunt and BetaList.

You input an idea and it tries to find some relevant competitors across those sites.

I encourage users to dig deeper and do more of their own research on their potential competitors and not just stop at the AI-generated list.

But so far my apps were limited to the terminal. So go easy on my html skills (I'm joking please feel free to give feedback).

More platforms will be added in the future, so stay tuned !!

There is an automatic 30% off at the moment if you're interested :)

In any case, have a great day ! Cheers everyone, thank you for your time.

Thomas
Ireland dealt with this problem in sledgehammer-fashion back in 2015. Every house gets a unique postal code that resolves to a set of co-ordinates.

Somewhat useful for couriers, since a large number of houses are neither numbered or named, but the post office will know who lives where. I say somewhat, because they will often not use it when it's given.
BM25+Embedding and Embedding+BM25 is exactly the same and shows the commutative relation whether you start from keyword search or semantic search.

For my tests, I used Ada-002. As data I used small news articles and no chunking and no preprocessing. The query for the articles is embedded directly.

Of course, improvements can be done for both approaches. That should just exemplify, what you might expect with hybrid search.
They say they have lots of benchmarks running for it, so it might be a good idea to add a similar benchmark directly to be able to track it?

By the way, I like your blog's style! Even the html of an article is clean and readable.
What does it mean to be a Horizon Europe project coordinator?
Excess mortality across the Western World since the Covid pandemic
Exactly, The mere fact he is posting is showing clear intent to manipulate the market.
The most important aspect would be the functioning economy. Crime rate drops with higher income.

>homogeneous people

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/06/in-ethno-nationa...

> In numerous cases of apparently ethno-nationalist conflict, the deepest hatreds are manifested between people who—to most outward appearances—exhibit very few significant distinctions. It is one of the great contradictions of civilization and one of the great sources of its discontents, and Sigmund Freud even found a term for it: “the narcissism of the small difference.” As he wrote, “It is precisely the minor differences in people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of hostility between them.”

It's just a part of the human condition, sadly, to hate others based on the smallest of differences. And you will always find a difference, even among the most homogeneous of societies - be it the color of your hair, the pigment of your skin, your accent... it follows then that a homogenous society is not a solution; rather, fostering awareness and understanding around discrimination is the way forward.
https://archive.ph/1kHs2
Why Intel instead of AMD? Just curious.
My biggest concern about Leetcode is that it’s not actually that relevent to the day to day job of being a software engineer and has more to do with being a computer scientist which is an adjacent but different set of skills.

I’ve worked mainly on scientific software which requires a mix of domain knowledge and programming skills. I doubt many people who I’ve worked with would pass leetcode without spending a lot of time studying, because they primarily come from Physics/Engineering backgrounds, but that doesn’t mean that they are not good software engineers, that the software they’re writing is not performant, or that they can’t offer anything valuable.
Interactive Diagrams for Complex Systems
> 2. Are you smart (i.e a person who doesn't do any leetcode but knows the fundamentals and can sythesize past knowledge well enough to answer a new question)

I'm sorry but it's incredible hubris to think you'll come up with say Dijkstra's algorithm during the interview from the first principles. The only reason you can do it is you studied it before.
I've also used FizzBuzz at several companies, and the insane amount of people it filters out continues to boggle my mind.
That's a very unfair take. The examples you list are of a completely different nature.

> gouvernement.fr info.gouv.fr

These are the same website. gouvernement.fr is a legacy URL that redirects to info.gouv.fr. Why did you include both?

> ameli.fr

As I'm sure you know, in France, social security is not administered by the government directly but by the social partners. They're in charge of managing ameli.fr, not the government. Go there, you won't find any logo from any ministry. Why did you include it? With this and the previous example, I cannot shake the feeling that you're on a mission to denigrate with little regard to the facts.

> vie-publique.fr santepubliquefrance.fr

These websites are basically blogs about respectively the institutions of the republic and about public health.

> service-public.fr

General informational website. For most sensitive procedures, you're redirected to a .gouv.fr website. Yes, it could have had a .gouv.fr URL, that's true.

> impots.gouv.fr

Yep, that's the tax website. You can notice it's official thanks to gouv.fr, like all website where you do actual online procedures.
> Just people going out into the world not knowing anything except what they carry in their brain and what is immediately around them.

Ever seen a kid or young teenager interacting with a phone? It's not that they spend the day on Wikipedia searching for infinite knowledge, rather they mechanically swipe the next tiktok video or do the same on youtube. That thing is like a slug attached to your brain, draining all attention.
> Kids rarely get much time to even talk to each other in grade school.

This is not true, at least in our school. They interacted quite a lot. It is not like they would had 7 hours straight of learning and nothing else, there was quite a lot of literally dedicated playtime where teachers done only general supervision.
Interviews are incredibly noisy signals. It is far easier for someone to blag about their AWS experience than for someone to bluster through an unseen leetcode problem.
Your sentence is a refreshing (for these days) example use of their term in a normative, rather than political and/or pejorative sense.

Marxism is really a consequence of the Victorian era, despite Marx and Engles being German. It is the fruit of not just the economic system of the mid-late 19th century but its social values as well. It makes no sense for the prior period of early industrialization.

Also Britain’s political emphasis of commercial activity predates significant industrialization — just look at the enclosure laws and Corn Laws, and compare them to the contemporary extractive view towards commerce in France.