skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical Leftist dribble from the Guardian. Pretty much any case of giving jobs to poor people is “exploitation”.
I go into the background because I don't want to assume people are familiar with a specific company that hasn't even existed for a year-plus, and because I wanted to emphasize that these were the mistakes made by smart, serious people doing their best. If people who have done this before, people in whom very smart, very incentivized people are willing to place their trust, can make these mistakes, I sure as hell can, and so can you.

I certainly do NOT intend to say "the founders had cool credentials and that's why they were right about everything". The previous poster to whom you're replying has legitimate criticisms, although I don't think they're correct that those were the reasons for Triplebyte's failure (since we did indeed acquire many candidates with considerable skills, and since the public-profiles incident was a consequence of pivoting, which we did because we couldn't solve bigger problems).
re point 1:
whenever i looked at triplebyte, i didn't see a lot of companies/positions that i was interested in so I wouldn't get the benefit of removing the redundancy of interview at each.

maybe they had a bunch of roles i'd like that weren't visible, but that's a mistake -- I need to know it's worth my time to apply.

if you have one or two jobs i like, i'll skip triplebyte and apply directly.
if they had 10+ jobs I liked, it's worth going through them to not do the same interview ten times
It's worth remembering "past performance is not indicative of future results."

Don't reason about the safety of potential future technology from the safety of past technology, generally. That gets you into nonsense like "my highly contagious bio-weapon won't destroy civilization because the axe didn't." You've got to look at the particularly characteristics of the new technology, with a cold and realistic understanding of human nature.
Man, respectfully, sounds like you are doing the dirty immoral work of insurabce companies. AI algos for adding diagnoses to rack up the bill? That is completely disgusting. Wholly unnacceptable and if I ever find out ive been the target of such a scam I will raise holy hell.
Most of the cookbooks I’ve read were relatively straightforward, but those were mostly older books not written in English. That may be just me not reading a lot of recipes in general.

On topic — I would say that this article not being a recipe is important in that case. The story is not something detracting from the main point, it is the point.

Also when I was saying that I’d like to see more of this type of promotional content, I meant that just mentioning you are writing the book on the topic at the end of the article (without even linking to it) is vastly superior to pop-up videos tracking you across websites. I did not mean that the Internet somehow needs even more advertising in it.
> or some other overly-thought-through math that is bogus.

So the mathematically-correct answer would be a minus while "in my opinion" would be a plus?

I think your interview question brings you to your intended answer: the reason why every company makes their own process is because what's good for you would probably get you an instant fail in NASA and would get you labeled as "experience not relevant" in some research settings.
How do we let someone fly hundreds of people through the upper atmosphere with a certificate, but you can't make a login page with javascript without a unique multi-day interview for each distinct company?
I am not saying they don't have salt but it's a kind of popular salt replacement. For Asian cooking soy sauce is used in most of Asian cooking and and nowadays for example they are three type of popular soy sauces, 1) original 2) sweet and 3) salty, but even the original and the sweet one is very much salty. If you cook with soy sauces you need to adjust for the saltiness and do not put much salt, and some cases with salty soy sauce you don't add salt at all since it's already salty enough. I think this what probably happened, in the old days there's no Monosodium glutamate (MSG) for artificial umami flavour and they probably use garum as a kind of convenient hybrid salt and umami flavour (MSG) replacement. Most of the Asian restaurants now apparently are using MSG for better taste but personally I have found it bad for after taste with my nose feel itchy and dry soon afterwards.
> If it has no concrete reasoning, how is this looped revision intended to be more-accurate

It can work if the reasoning (the logic) is part of the world model and is similarly refined.

Then, like in the normal case, you gather a good amount of information than draw your conclusions based on you logic and the "wisdom" built. Were this automated, you would have an automated champion in judgement - doing its best with the imperfect data and function available. Like us, just better.
Yes, this. Of course, there's always a tech interview even if Triplebyte claims to eliminate that, but they DID eliminate the "hello new grad, do you even fizzubzz" step which was great.
Ask not why GAINAX bankrupted, ask how the hell it survived so long.

Memes about GAINAX running out of money to finish series go all the way back to Gunbuster, which was their fourth production, and second under the name GAINAX.

The second production, Daikon IV, survives thanks to piracy because they didn't license them music used :V
The point still stands. If you feel you need immediate answers the moment you have a question, there's a larger issue.

When an employee's in a meeting and not at their desk, what do you do?
Adding to the list:

Puzzmo - collection of daily puzzles, including crossword, really bad chess, and more (https://www.puzzmo.com/)
This is how I mostly do interviews. Get the candidate talking about their previous roles and see how they talk about the problems they've solved and what that reveals about how they see the job.
Ask HN: What non-tech roles are there for swe?
I have been a technical startup founder for 8 years, and for the last two year I have been a solutions architect at a non-tech corporations. I am now looking for a new job and was wondering what other non-tech roles are there for someone with a more technical background?

The solutions architect role was ok in that I got to do more program management stuff in addition to architecting systems. I didn't like being on the sell side though because I found project managers keep cutting budget to win the project.

I am considering trying program management roles. I like interacting with stakeholders. My ultimate goal is engineer management, but I doubt anyone will give a chance in this market. Does anyone have advice what's the next best role that will help reach this goal?
For many roles the interview is as much a cognitive function and socialization test as it is a skills test. You can have exquisitely detailed knowledge of systems internals (skill) but if you have limited working memory (cognitive) then you will struggle to design non-trivial systems software. These are orthogonal dimensions. You might prefer someone with high cognitive aptitude and low skill, since the latter is readily trainable.

Cataloging a list of skills is insufficient information to determine if a person is suited for a role. I don't find it likely that software engineers will be subjecting themselves to a battery of standardize cognitive function tests any time soon.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is such a killer anime, it's honestly one of my top all time favorites even though you can tell it had a small budget.

Even their less popular stuff I dig. I just watched Darling in the Franxx and I'm about to start Kiznaiver.
Ha, never thought I'd see Sharon Zukin referenced on HN.

"Loft Living" is a great book, although it's been a minute since I read it. To quibble on a minor point -- if I remember correctly, a major part of that book was pushing back on the narrative on part of that cycle, that these factory spaces "lay empty".

Something she describes in this book is that these factory spaces were still very much in use by light manufacturers, and that it was the rich real estate interest specifically targetting this area for redevelopment that pushed a narrative that it "lay empty" so that they could more easily get the neighborhood rezoned and push out the manufacturers for more lucrative residential tenants.
Why we never developed a vacant land/land value tax on parked domain names has always been a mystery to me — speculation through domain name squatting (and, to a more extreme degree, cyber-squatting) has always left a bad taste in my mouth.
Brainbase (YC W24) Is Hiring Head of Product
Two things I took away from visiting Pompeii that I did not know from reading books and watch History Channel videos. Like you said, Pompeii was pretty large and it was covered with a lot of pumice and ash. There are a couple of places where the pumice and ash is 30 - 40 feet above the houses and all of that fell within a couple of days.
TX here too. My 16-yo just got his learner's permit and that can't be done online. Many locations don't have available appointments for months. Some, such as in SE Texas, have same day appointments. We ended up driving over an hour away to get a same-week appointment.

Months-long wait times are just obscene.
If I want to separate the real algorithm masters from the rest I’d avoid questions about sorts with total ordering but instead cover algorithms with partial ordering such as topological sort, BSP trees and such which are super-beautiful and I think quite useful but obscure.

Bubble sort is quite interesting from an algorithm analysis perspective (prove it completes, prove it gets the right answer, prove how it scales with N) but I’d almost rather a programmer I work with not know about it from a coding perspective because it increases the chance they code up a bubble sort than use the sort function that comes with the standard library.
there is also the user expereience of feeling like you've been rejected at scale.

you're used to getting rejections from applications you send out, but getting a rejection (or even just being slow at getting an offer) makes it feel like the entire industry has turned you down
One that we have to tread carefully!

I should have clarified - we're not just putting an LLM on the other side of the candidate and letting it drive decisions.

Instead think of things use cases like content generation (we don't have a problem library - we create custom problems/modules for each customer of ours), etc. That's where I think you can improve signal a lot, by setting up a better situation to assess the candidate.
Undefined Behavior - anything from "well, that was harmless" to "your computer restarted because of a problem."
> So the mathematically-correct answer would be a minus while "in my opinion" would be a plus?

My opinion was only that it would be relatively easy to figure out. As far as I know, it is a certainty that sectioning a bubble sort, more or less than CPU cores, is less efficient. 16 threads on an 8 core CPU just means balancing 2 threads on every CPU core, each doing their own sorting and needing eventual merging back together. There's no way that can be more efficient.
"people" as in "some people on HN"? Because I think as broader audience wouldn't necessarily mind or associate those images with scams.
The Gift of My Time with Simon
> He still lives in the world of loyalty to the corporation, and it works with X-gen and above.

That only barely worked when corporations were a little bit loyal to employees. There's not one of those left now.
Delve is indeed a word that I've seen for decades, but never in grade grubbing emails from students until about a year ago. "I would like to delve into why I think my 45% should be a B- ...", etc.

I would imagine that those other words (which seem very common to me) are being used in ways that would seem idiosyncratic to an American English speaker. Like I see tapestry all the time in very flowery language ("The country has a rich tapestry of influences ..."), but I would be amused if I read it being used to describe contents of a backlog at work.

I will disagree strongly with this:

>That words come into or out of favour in some realm like papers on PubMed by itself proves little and isn't particularly demonstrative.

This is ignoring what appears to be an overwhelming effect (an increase of around 1250%) that kicked off with ChatGPT's inception. I don't think you outlined adequate grounds for ignoring this as unrelated, given the timing, the magnitude, and the ready explanation of "delve" being used frequently in countries where the model was trained.
The beans chapter stuck with me too. Just fished out my copy:

> The best instruction I've read for how long to cook beans comes from a collection of recipes called "The Best in American Cooking" by Clementine Paddleford. The book instructs to simmer "until beans have gorged themselves with fat and water and swelled like the fat boy in his prime."
You have "Cannon Street Road" that runs from Wapping up to Whitechapel in east London but I can't think of any others: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.51016/-0.06012&laye...
I still harbor resentment about being brought up in a small village without decent public transport. I can't imagine the intergenerational conflict when people raised in a sulfuric hellscape learn that there is a green earth. What kind of departure from our own cultural norms will be required to keep a Venusian society from tearing itself apart? Something akin to the difference between our society and that of the victorians?
Is exciting to speculate though :)
And following the classic "The Intelligent Investor" book.
Ironically, a drone is becoming increasingly similar to a type of bird. In 100 years, when they might be made of organic material, I would guess it will be normal to call them birds.
There's a lot of "AI Recruiters", etc floating around asking you about a time you failed, etc - we don't like that approach at all.

We're (1) only running technical (coding) assessments, and (2) still letting live evaluators making final hiring decisions
I disagree and think that our media would benefit from more of them, actually!
Personally I've found BetterDisplay to be better than MonitorControl.
I dunno if you can call Darling in the Franxx "less popular". At least in my circles it seems like a hugely popular work. A lot of people like it but I do consider it a bit of a waifu-trash anime, lol. So I didn't think it was as critically good writing as the other stuff I listed.

Kinznaiver is on the less popular side. As is BNA (Brand New Animal). The Tokusatsu community seems to like the SSSS.(Gridman/Dynazenon) anime, but arguably taking the Gridman name makes them more into Tokusatsu than the anime community anyway.
If you go on YouTube shorts (and tiktok presumably) there's a plethora of skilled laborers showing off their craft. Everyone from roofers to septic tank servicers to carpet repair tradesmen are making videos of their profession. It's pretty neat.
I feel like they didn't cover one of the massive losses of confidence in TripleByte, which was when they opened up their database of candidates and did not really warn people ahead of time. I'm struggling to remember all the details, but I feel this happened a few years ago and really pissed off the HN community and a lot of people scrambled to hide the fact they screened with TripleByte. I feel like as an outside user this was the nail in the coffin. The dark patterns just took over.
CA dmv, practically everything can be done online and through the mail; people love to complain about the lines and how everything is slow but I sincerely don't know what they expect: even when I had to go to the office I always made an appointment, got called in within 10 minutes of arriving, handled whatever I needed to handle expeditiously, and was on my way, and had this same experience in various locations. None of this "I stood in line for a zillion hours, in the sun, snowing, both ways..." nonsense.
I remember Triplebyte for saturation advertising and paying off bloggers to write spammy articles with titles like “hiring is broken”. Nothing destroys a brand more effectively than ineffective and annoying advertising.

(I think of the otherwise great milvlogger who does his own product placements for his own caffeinated gum which I get disgusted just thinking about)
I had a small role in helping Jamie port XScreenSaver to Android. It was fun working with someone whose writings I have been reading for thirty years or so, and I learned a lot from him (like the difference between HAVE and USE in C, or how to architect and run a project).

Patches are always welcome! Jamie (and/or other helpers) ported things like X11/Xlib to OpenGL, and then OpenGL to OpenGLES for iOS and Android. Jamie and so forth ported some of X11/Xlib's XFillPolygon to OpenGL - like for Convex shapes, and I did the Nonconvex shapes part, but we still didn't do Complex shapes yet. Lots of stuff like that outstanding (also it is still using GCC and make for the NDK, although Android has moved more towards LLVM/Clang and CMake).

Lots of interesting stuff and the code is open/free. As I said, patches always welcome, especially on the Android (and iOS) front.
I've had the same thought about alarms.

Back in the day I had an alarm clock. I set it to go off at a specific time and it did. The only failure mode was the battery running out.

Then I got a Nokia phone. It worked the same as the alarm clock, but I could even set myself notifications and what not. Worked great!

Then I got an Android phone and sometimes the alarms just wouldn't work.

And now today I'm using another Android phone and I give it about 80-20 odds that the alarm works correctly. Sometimes it doesn't work at all. Sometimes it does a quick alarm for a few seconds and stops. And I don't know why.

Notifications on this are even worse. Sometimes the notifications are so unnoticeable that sitting next to the phone with headphones on will not actually alert me to the notification.

I don't see others ever complain about it so I feel like I'm somehow missing something big but I don't know what. Notifications and alarms on modern phones seem extremely unreliable to me.
One possible advantage I see is it creates a 1:1 correspondence between a website and a file.

If what I care about is the website (and that's usually going to be the case), then there's a single familiar box containing all the messy details. I don't have to see all the files I want to ignore.

That might not be a benefit for you and not having used it, it is only a theoretical benefit in an unlikely future for me.

But just from the title of the post, I had a very clear piccture of the mechanism and it was not obvious why I would want to start with a different mechanism (barring ordinary issues with open source projects).

But that's me and your mileage may vary.
Recruiting is brokered enterprise sales. Realty for human resources. And, like realty, recruiting is 80% shit, 15% good people, 5% crooks.

And, like realty, ripe for disruption in niche markets (like IT). As a buyer, Triplebyte should have gotten me:

1. Access to a larger pool of applications through their network.
2. Better matching between needs/skills through expertise.
3. Higher trust in applicants without initial screening.

As a seller, Triplebyte should have gotten me:

1. An apply once, interview anywhere system.
2. Much higher trust in the interview process.
3. A higher initial starting salary through expertise.

It seems like Triplebyte was too hot for fast growth. Had they decided to grow more slowly (probably with less or limited VC), they likely could have established the expertise necessary to fulfill on some of the requirements for providing the kind of value they needed to offer to become relevant in the industry.
Hammerspoon. It completely transformed the way I interact with macOS. There's nothing else like it.
I think that USA culture at least has certainly gone too far in the direction of "college degree = white collar job = comfortable middle-class lifestyle". From what I understand, the PRC ironically also ended up in a similar situation with a vast oversupply of college graduates.

That said, the article focuses on people who have two jobs (their day job and also social media influencing), so I wonder if this sort of stuff is an overcorrection: romanticization of blue-collar jobs with little discussion of its health risks and working conditions.
I think changing the title to "Not monitoring our ChatGPT calls costed us $10k" would make it stronger.

Adding monitoring is the last thing you think about when pushing out a prototype, and it's easy to forget that a "prototype that no one will probably use" could cost thousands with accidental infinite loops and bugs like these.

Always set your spending limits!
The current system is already gamed and virtually standardized. The only difference that official standardization would present is that applicants would no longer have to go through the Leetcode gauntlet each time they want to switch jobs, which would save a breathtaking amount of time and effort currently occupied by wasteful redundancy in the interview process.

Corporations can use that standard exam/license as a baseline and then focus their interviews on domain-specific questions and the like. The existence of standardization does not negate custom processes.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Despite all our progress we are still the same humans we were 1000 years ago. There will always be people getting rich off of others labor. Eventually the working class gets mad enough to re-balance power for a time until the cycle starts again. For some reason we just accept this as inevitable.
I legit avoid some stuff I should probably go to a doctor about not because of monetary cost but because it’d be five minutes with an old-school country doctor (I’m filling in a trope for illustration’s sake) but it’ll be like three damn hours of my time (or more) with the current medical system, factoring in multiple appointments because family doctors don’t actually do anything but prescribe antibiotics and issue referrals anymore, generate a dozen pieces of mail I have to deal with, et c. And that’s assuming no insurance fuckery that eats a ton of my time making them do what they’re supposed to.

And much of that time will need to be during weekdays during work hours, over multiple week days probably, and with so many unknowns about how much time it’ll actually take. I dunno how people without semi-flexible white collar work situations do anything with the healthcare system at all. I guess they either don’t, or they just have no vacation time left for actual vacation, ever. Especially if they have kids they need to guide through the same time-wasting bullshit.

Interacting with doctors takes me like 45-60 minutes for every five minutes of doctor time, at best. It’s fucking miserable. That’s the actual main benefit of things like telehealth, at least I can get a referral spending only 2-3x as much of my own time’s as the doctor’s, and all I have to do is give up all the benefits of having an actual family doctor who knows my history and also a good chance of just being told to see a GP anyway.
You haven't stated any points or argument in this conversation. You're just here insulting people.
Burning passion?
Every time I work somewhere where developers have no idea how their code actually ends up running on a computer, it results in bad software architecture.
Can you please review the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)?

Criticism is fine but shallow dismissals aren't. If you'd like to explain the point in more detail, that would of course be ok.
> Responsibility never seems to land on them in personal and individual capacity

Somewhat because people don't want to know that the people who lead them are idiots. They'll go so far as to bury their heads in the sand to not hear it.