skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to extrapolate to the whole market, but I can provide my personal experience. I was laid off, and my unemployment benefits have stopped, so finding a job is a bit more desperate for me than it has been in the past.

Now I’m dealing with algorithms technical interviews, but they don’t mesh well with my style of problem solving at all. I like to quietly think on a problem by myself first. If it’s an exceptionally difficult problem, I’ll probably take a walk or the answer might come to me in the shower. If I’m working with someone else, a more collaborative process where we’re both trying to solve the problem and bouncing ideas back-and-fort is my style. Solving the problem in 30 minutes in front of a judge under the context of needing to land a job as soon as possible doesn’t properly test my abilities as a software engineer at all.

Yesterday, I was asked a leetcode hard in an interview from some no name start up. I answered how to theoretically solve it out loud with the interviewer but ran out of time implementing it. I got the impression the interviewer thought I was unprepared and a clueless engineer. I was rejected 15 minutes after the interview.

Overall, I’m not encountering interviews that actually let me display my competency. The interviews seem to all be tailored for a specific type of problem solver (fast in high-pressure test-taking environments) while eliminating every other type of person. I think it’s easy for the interviewer to lose context on the nerves the candidate might be experiencing.

The accounting industry doesn’t do this. If someone has a CPA license, companies trust that credential. If someone doesn’t have a CPA but has experience in Big 4 public accounting, companies trust that experience. If someone lacks those signals, companies may ask more technical questions. But they start from a basis of trust based on clear signals.

Unlike my accounting background where my past experience was based on trust, I have open source projects that can actually be reviewed. Some reviewers have gone through them yet still want to perform an algorithmic interview. Most have not. I feel that the vast majority of interviewers don’t really know how to interview in a more holistic manner.
That is a big ask when one could instead be productive using VSCode which has fantastic LSP support and use emacs or vim keybindings in that IDE for editing without having to retrain muscle memory.
Anybody writing a game should be writing in a game engine. There are too many things you want in a game that just come "free" from an engine that you will spend years writing by hand.

GC can work or not when writing a game engine. However everybody who writes a significant graphical game engine in a GC language learns how to fight the garbage collector - at the very least delaying GC until between frames. Often they treat the game like safety critical: preallocate all buffers so that there is no garbage in the first place (or perhaps minimal garbage). Without garbage collection might technically use more CPU cycles, but in general they are spread out more over time and so more consistent.
Government regulation of toxic waste dumping negatively impacts profit margins. We have the data to prove this, very frustrating situation.
Let's split the difference and start talking about the "jihad on drugs"
If you just look at women and not men then it could be possible. Among the competitive female gamers the top spots with most overall money winnings are all trans, you have to go down a few spots to find a born female. Of course there are hundreds of men with similar winnings as those trans women, but point is that among extreme successes there can actually be way more trans women than other women.
Carbon black is why the black nylon zip ties have a reputation for aging better all the other colors (like for like, not comparing a $20/100 hipster zip tie to a $2/100 cheap one).
What's exactly stops adversary from taking over Voyager as I'm pretty sure they didn't had E2EE at the time of its craft
question since you obviously know the topic!

a cast iron or "stainless" steel pan will get some gruff from cooking since its nonstick. It regularly goes to the dishwasher, some stuff won't get cleaned. Mostly oil burn stains it seems ("stainless" hardly!) .

Is that completely safe/expected ?

We obviously diddn't get that with the nonstick pans. We got rid of that stuff for a reason, now i'm not sure what is worse: nonstick pan surface OR hard-stuck burnt oil on a stainless steel pan. Thoughts?
You appear to be working on the assumption that 100% of the population's income goes to the UK exchequer
Unless I misread this paper, their argument is entirely hypothetical. Meaning that the LLM is still a black box and they can only hypothesise what is going internally by viewing the output(s) and guessing at what it would take to get there.

There's nothing wrong with a hypothesis or that process, but it means we still don't know whether models are doing this or not.
Instant AI-suggested code edits in JetBrains IDEs
Today we're launching Auto Apply - a feature that lets you instantly edit code through chat. No more switching between windows or manual copying! Just tell CodeGPT what you want to change, and it'll prepare the updates for you to accept or reject.

This will make your coding workflow much smoother. Instead of reading suggestions and implementing them yourself, you can now focus on reviewing and approving changes while CodeGPT handles the heavy lifting.
So basically "X" has pivoted: they can't make money by selling something customers want to buy, so they'll spread misinformation with the goal of reducing Elon's tax bill instead.
That's your fault for not using npm ci
In October 2020, astronomers reported a significant unexpected increase in density in the space beyond the Solar System as detected by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes. According to the researchers, this implies that "the density gradient is a large-scale feature of the VLISM (very local interstellar medium) in the general direction of the heliospheric nose".[89][90]

In May 2021, NASA reported on the continuous measurement, for the first time, of the density of material in interstellar space and, as well, the detection of interstellar sounds for the first time.[91]
If you get an answer outside of what you expected, reevaluate your approach, fix your study and redo it all, probably with a new set of participants.

If you can't do science, don't call it science.
Will we ever achieve near-light speed travel and catch up to these guys? Or do we first reach the point where we can upload our consciousnesses into machines (bio or silicon) such that speed no longer matters as much?

Off topic a little, but I feel that Heinlein-esque generation ships or frozen embryo payloads carrying biology and all that bio requires are not the future of human expansion. I think it’s long-lived mechs carrying encodings of human neural pathways, with maybe just enough biology to generate randomness. (Could we make hearty fungi function as synapses?)
I would like to see safer herbicides, I doubt we will ever get away from them.
And the rest of the Wiki:
>While the use of Roundup Ready crops has increased the usage of herbicides measured in pounds applied per acre,[9] it has also changed the herbicide use profile away from atrazine, metribuzin, and alachlor[citation needed] which are more likely to be present in run off water.[citation needed]

So Roundup usage has increased but other herbicide usage decreased:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine
Banned in EU, may cause cancer, causes Birth Defects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metribuzin
No info on Wiki about toxicity, only groundwater contamination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alachlor
Banned in EU, no current products in US. Multiple Organ damage + Cancer

So should we go back to using more of stuff that we know is very bad or use the less bad stuff until we get even better less bad?

No herbicide is risking crop failure and starvation.
Yup. Plus the interactions you'd expect for instance in terms of matching style of voice in a normal discussion are missing. That being said it still sounds pretty impressive.
Thank you for the additional information. I should be more careful when wading into legal topics. I read section 1033 and I am not sure I agree that the final rule is destined to failure but I am definitely not a lawyer.
There's a nice video here of a complete BASIC boot sequence - entering boot code, loading BASIC, then loading a BASIC program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk

As far as any program was concerned the TTY was just a serial port, and it couldn't tell the whether data coming in was from keyboard or paper tape reader.
This is interesting. When we talk about interstellar travel in the far future, this may be another issue to consider. The handover of knowledge will have to happen over at least a few generations.
It will end up being a software application whose development and upkeep sprints/projects will be measured in multiple years instead of weeks.
Lottie Player NPM package compromised
I have used a Samsung 43” 4k smart monitor with my mac mini for sometime as a replacement to multiple screens and it was a productive experience. However, I had to stop in 2-3 months as my eyes would get dry and itchy at the end of the day. Using such a large screen at such a short distance isn’t great for the eyes I think.
"completely closed OS" is not accurate. apple releases a surprising amount of source code.

https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
lol

After decades of Apple, people still believe them.
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I'd imagine trying to build a radio transmitter powerful enough to transmit that deep into space would raise a few eyebrows before you even get the chance to send anything to the satellite.

That and having to guess what commands to send to the probe
21,000 laborers killed working on Saudi Vision 2030
large application codebase - consistent - have you worked in the field? I feel like usually there are 3 or 4 patterns from different people/teams at different points in time that spearheaded a particular ideology about how things "should" be done.
I think reasonable people can disagree on this. Fruit of the poisoned tree doctrines eliminate bad incentives for law enforcement to commit crimes in their investigations. But when doctrines such as this cause the guilty to go free, it erodes public confidence in the rule of law. Like many things, its a tradeoff - and the legal system is a process of discovery and adaptation, not some simplistic set of unchangeable rules. Justice for one must always be upheld. I think this ruling is pretty good at threading the line here.
Yeah, go ahead and lay off another 25% of development staff and see how well AI coders perform.:))
Consider centrifugal force. In a non-rotating reference frame, it doesn't exist. In a rotating reference frame, it does, that is, it shows up as a term in the equation of motion.

You wouldn't expect to find quantums of centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference, and no quantums of centrifugal force in a non-rotating frame of reference. They're both describing the same situation; either quantums exist in both frames, or they exist in neither.

So either gravity really exists as a force, or it doesn't. If it does, then I would expect gravitons, and expect them in all frames of reference. If it doesn't, then I would expect no gravitons in any frame of reference.

Except... If I understand correctly, static electric and magnetic fields are not carried by photons - they just sit there. It's only changing E/M fields that are carried by photons. So maybe only changing gravitational fields are carried by gravitons, and the static fields are just curved space-time?
Is there a RSS feed for this? I can’t find it unfortunately
Apple music has 100 million subscribers. That's a small fraction of music listeners
Not to mention that chain of thought is computationally very expensive. Prohibitively expensive for sure to be served free like previous generation of Web 2.0 products.

Seems like repeated promoting can't juice AGI out of token probabilities.

Retrospectively, if you can pin point one paper that led to the bust and pop of the AI bubble, this would be it.
How do people still not know how to use npm ci in 2024, then complain about their JS app 'breaking'.
It's usually wildly uneconomical to serve such large models yourself unless you're serving a massive amount of users that you can saturate your hardware. Thus most people will opt for hosted models, and most of the big ones will collect your data for future AI training in exchange for a discounted or free service.
The transmitter software built back then was so close to bare metal that it practically could be called hardware.

Stuff today has been so hilariously abstracted on such thick layers of complexity pressed into neat "simple" blocks that it's almost miraculous anything works day-to-day.
as a consumer, i never could have guessed
The author needs to get over themselves, it just means "cool" perhaps with an air of ironic intellectualism.
I'll add one: is nylon plastic?
To complete the other comment: the MuscleMemory is updated through learning, so a more complete example would be:

function muscleAction(Vec3d target, Vec3d environment, MuscleMemory memory) -> {actions: MuscleActivation[], result: Vec3d}

After executing the muscleAction function, through "practice", the MuscleMemory will be updated.

function updateMuscleMemory(Vec3d target, Vec3d environment, MuscleMemory memory, MuscleActivation[] actions, Vec3d result) {
memory.update(target, environment, actions, result);
}

Sort-of like backpropagation.
It was pointed out that in American English we overuse "war". I pointed out a language that overuses a different word. I imagine most languages have a bunch of phrases involving an overused word. My point was that this phenomenon isn't unique to American English.

Your response is that English also overuses another word. I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
> neutrinos have mass and this in itself is a problem because the Higgs mechanism doesn't provide mass to them ...

The Higgs mechanism doesn't provide all mass, even of the things that it provides mass for. They each have a "bare" mass, that is, a mass without any Higgs interactions. They just have a much greater mass because of the Higgs interaction. (And maybe that's why neutrinos have so little mass...)
> Modern Pyrex ... Old Pyrex

Most conveniently differentiated by the branding on the product.

All caps "PYREX" is the classic (high quality) borosilicate stuff.

Titlecased "Pyrex" is the modern ordinary glass stuff.
> These LLMs seem so smart.

Yes, they do *seem* smart. My experience with a wide variety of LLM-based tools is that they are the industrialization of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Wow, I love good, original programming jokes like these, even the ideas of the jokes. I used to browse r/ProgrammerHumor frequently, but it is too repetitive -- mostly recycled memes and there is anything new.

This is one that I really liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/l5gg3t/thi...
I haven't experienced this with JPEGs but wouldn't be surprised, as I have experienced it with MP3s. Newer decoders can't play some of my MP3s made with older encoders.
So, Google is examining billion of files from their customers, and reporting said customers to the police automatically, on the basis of a hash match?
If I have documents in a locked briefcase in a hotel room, does the police get to read and copy them with the hotel operator's permission while I am in the shower? Assume that the locked briefcase is not particularly tamper proof. Anyone with decent lock picking skills can open one.
If you were to respect things like lights and lanes in NYC you would never get anywhere. I believe the city is generally pretty safe when it comes to pedestrians. Usually deaths are late at night from truck drivers going way too fast in the outer boroughs.

This doesn't indicate cities but shows by state and NY is very low compared to others. The worst thing is deaths are up in the country and the "light truck" seems to be a leading factor: https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians24
Why would they pay retail for the car once it’s past the prototype stage.

They’d just make their own like zoox.
because it's nothing something that ever surfaces in the first page of google when searching "how to use npm" and it's never discussed in any youtube videos or bootcamp programs. it's only ever something 'found' when dredging through stackoverflow when searching for error messages.
Weird for Netlify to mistake trademark law for copyright law.
lol in person can’t be done 24 hours a day? This person has only worked bland desk jobs, I see
A gambling app that --like all-- takes from the poor and gives to the rich. Sarcasm, or bitter misantropy, I suppose.
I make spoons and spatulas from various hardwood, one of me favorites being Mexican cocobolo. They hold up exceedingly welland despite reports of it containing irritants, neither myself or those I've made them for have any problems - I believe it's pretty much only the dust that tranfers the irritant.

Most of my utensils do not float. I finish them with a homemade or food grade beeswax. The act of cooking alters the new look, but they acquire their own, slightly less perfect, but reasonable finish.

I'll be making some katalox spoon/spats soon... another glorious wood, but not quite as remarkable as a good piece of cocobolo, which can be really special.

Anyway, my work with these utensils started for the precise purpose of avoiding plastic.
Nice. I think it would probably be more effective propaganda to say the "jihad on Christmas" than the "war on Christmas".
Reminds me of the sci-fi trope where the first humans are sent off into deep space to reach a new habitable planet. And when they arrive it's already full of cities and life because their original ship was much slower than the high tech ships that came later, beating them by decades to the new planet.
Interesting. What would be the use case for these? Audio editors?
I had not made that connection and find that incredibly useful. Thank you for pointing that out.
The Fun's in the Fight
This website is a gem.

From the FAQ:
Where does my money go?

Your purchase is supporting Life-Positive projects that increase life among HLV individuals across the United States. These projects include massage, sauna, and vital fluid transfer.
Other taking a picture of where we live it is studying the boundary of our solar system (heliopause).

We can't know what value of the readings will have in the future of the science being studying. The studies will end in 2025 when it won't be able to power any instrument.
The newest Excel is really fine on many points to be fair. Startup performance is not the priority, but it's fine on a good machine.

It's true that software in general have grown in complexity.
Some software pull giant trees of dependencies, because they can.
As teams grow and time passes, mistakes are made...
1. Know your primary design goals. These should be extremely few, as in MVP.

2. Write a parser.

3. Write an interpreter. Do not bother with a compiler yet. Writing an interpreter is a challenge and your final proof of MVP.

4. Refactor and optimize your prior logic.

5. Write documentation. Write with extreme empathy because if the level of effort remains too high nobody will look at this. Identify current issues and shortcomings. Identify next steps.

6. Socialize the work product.

7. Now, write a compiler.

---

I have thought about writing a ridiculously scaled down minimal JavaScript like language with TypeScript like type annotations and named procedures.
Just to echo this comment. I don't put my wood cutting boards in the dishwasher because they dry out and crack. Wood utensils have been fine in the dishwasher. They seem much less prone to cracking than cutting boards and, when they do crack, I just throw them out and replace them with cheap new ones. I see wood utensils as a wear-item.
The cited ruling answers your question

The court ruled that at the time, when the State Police opened the file, they had no reason to believe that a warrant was required. While the search was later ruled unconstitutional, no court had ruled it was unconstitutional *at the time of the search*. One of the cornerstones of American jurisprudence is that you cannot go back in time and overrule decisions based on contemporary jurisprudence.

From the opinion: 'the exception can also apply where officers “committed a
constitutional violation” by acting without a warrant under circumstances
that “they did not reasonably know, at the time, [were] unconstitutional.”'

If you're interested, the discussion of a good faith exemption (and why fruit of the poison tree doesn't apply here) begins at page 40 of the doc.
Exactly, and my point is critism of those tradeoffs by shining light on some of their "cosmical scale"(the word is fair) costs... somehow completely ignored in this articles of this type... how convenient...

People are not equal in experience and knowledge, and it is very important to ring a different bell here to give them a significant other perspective which will impact their own choices... those very choices which other people will have to suffer if it happens they code critical open source software...
Running prompts against images, PDFs, audio and video with Google Gemini
Most likely he didn’t come up with the theorem. He lead a cult, whose followers attributed their achievements to him and it is alleged that he himself had little interest in mathematics. I don’t know about music specifically, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the story was similar there. His core competency was religion.
For me, that color scheme is green on black. :-)
It has worked well in my prototypes. There is a reason a GC.Collect method is exposed for use.
For that, I would look at early calculus/pre-calc, I think, examining infinite series and their properties and equivalencies.

There's certain forms like that that have well known values that they converge to as you continue adding terms into infinity. Sometimes that convergence is only possible if your domain is limited, eg. [0,1].
Back in the day Mono had surprisingly good WinForms support on Gtk. It was never going to win awards for pretty and could never hit true compatibility with P/Invoke calls to esoteric Win32 APIs, but it was good enough to run any simple WinForms app you wanted to write for it and ran some of the "popular" ones just fine. (That old Mono WinForms support was recently donated to Wine, which seems like a good home for it.)

.NET has moved to being directly cross-platform today and is great at server/console app cross-platform now, but its support for cross-platform UI is still relatively nascent. The official effort is called MAUI, has mostly but not exclusively focused on mobile, and it is being developed in the open (as open source does) and leaves a lot to be desired, including by its relatively slow pace compared to how fast the server/console app cross-platform stuff moves. The Linux desktop support, specifically, seems constantly in need of open source contributors that it can't find.

You'll see a bunch of mentions of third-party options Avalonia and Uno Platform doing very well in that space, though, so there is interesting competition, at least.
For that, your best bet is https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/
I feel like GPT-4o would ace that. If you look at the questions in this benchmark they are stuff that 99% of people won't know, although at least they would know that they don't know the answer.
A lot of people think that Monokai Pro is just one of the countless remixes of Monokai. In a sense that's true, but they're often surprised I've also created the original Monokai. I see Monokai Pro as the better balanced and feature-enhanced version of the original.
> The transmitter software built back then was so close to bare metal that it practically could be called hardware.

Fun fact: we call this "firmware" and it still exists today!