skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in other words, it's a way to wag the dog and deflect attention.

Lauren Bobert gets up in front of the country during a conspiracy theory session and says dumb shit, and the news runs with it.

meanwhile Trump is actively plotting to shoe-horn foreign assets into intelligence roles, fire most generals, and generally enact revenge -- Bobo is just a distracting to make sure that happens with less optics.
No, there are other ways, especially as AI coding assistants become more capable and developers can be more productive if they are able to leverage them.

One approach that I've encountered (with a YC company) is that the first interview was actually a code review. One of the founders asked me to review some SQL DDL, some backend API endpoints. The DDL was missing some indices that were needed for the queries. It was using an integer ID field. The API endpoints were missing input validation, error handling, etc.

I thought this was a GREAT way to start an interview that tested for depth of experience and platform/language knowledge.

This actually inspired me to build https://coderev.app because the tooling for this felt like it would be clumsy for both the interviewer and it was certainly for me as the interviewee.

But a lot of times, seeing a candidate's portfolio -- if they have one -- is probably even more insightful than any coding exercise. When I've been on the hiring side, one of my favorite things to do is to look through a candidate's GH and ask them questions about projects they've done, why they chose specific technologies, etc.
i think we need to come to terms with the reality of coding challenges in the interview process. i know i hate them personally, and dread having to interview again because i'll need to open leet code and remember how to do stupid shit like DFS on a graph, or manipulating linked lists. at the same time, a job opening for a SWE is opening soon in our company and we'll have to somehow filter people, and the job market is such that we'll get MANY applicants, most of them probably wrong for the job. i will probably end up giving them coding challenges (not necessarily leetcode, but some coding challenge for sure), because i need a way to grasp their problem solving and coding skills. i don't know a better way to do it in a condensed time frame of a 1 hour zoom call.
Create a folder with the less important/useful feeds and read them in your spare time, after a certain number of days, auto mark all of as read.
Because you don't own it, you licence it. That's the whole issue with digital distribution.

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/internet-services/itunes/uk/t...

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me too. but like all the more scifi Matrix projects, the core team does not have the funds to work on it, so it's stuck in favour of foundational work. Others are welcome to pick it up and contribute it, or apply funding to the core team to let us work on it again: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/01/2024-roadmap-and-fundraiser/
"Area Satirists Acknowledge Death Of Irony; Diversify Into Creatine Supplements"
No unfortunately not at the moment
Exactly. Who wants to sit in their apartment/house? Among rotting cartons? No! Go out into the world! Enjoy the city! Now you have a reason to visit that neighborhood you've never been to. Take a little walk to get there: Enjoy your time and your health! I will understand if you're at the office working late. Otherwise? He who is tired enough to use a delivery service is tired of life.
It’s lucrative if your bar is 6 figures.

No engineer that makes 7 figures calls themselves a ruby developer with the exception of DHH.
> build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours

It depends on what kind of functionality we're talking about, but this kind of task is exactly what people at my current startup have been assigned at times. It is absolutely possible to build a CRUD web app with reactive UI using modern tools in a few hours.

> This is like asking a Ruby developer to debug PHP as a test of flexibility

Again it depends on what the debugging task is. At every startup I've worked at, it's expected that an engineer is able to jump into a task that they know very little about. Granted it becomes less reasonable the more niche the task, but PHP and Ruby are not particularly far apart in skillsets in the grand scheme of things. I would expect any web engineer to be able to do this.

> Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas

I agree with this. And, hiring should also focus on technical ability which does include working through difficult and unknown problems by oneself.
You're the one imposing an additional criterion, that OpenAI must have chosen the highest setting on a chess engine, and demanding that this additional criterion be used to explain the facts.

I agree with GP that if a 'fine tuning' of GPT 3.5 came out the gate playing at top Stockfish level, people would have been extremely suspicious of that. So in my accounting of the unknowns here, the fact that it doesn't play at the top level provides no additional information with which to resolve the question.
Companies want to track me. I want companies to track me.

So what's the source of the friction if not law itself or its direct consequences?

I think other parties try to force me to care when I don't by introducing all that friction.

There's a talk about DNT. What's the reason no browser has "Please do track me and do whatever you wish with the data you manage to gather."?

I think it would be quite popular. So it's probably prevented by the law itself.
Physicians generally have to recertify every 10 years, so yes they kind of do.
Is it enough for FPV flying a drone?
Yep.
Mine is #FFFDFB.
I'll leave visualizing the result as an exercise for the reader.
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

> This is like asking a Ruby developer to debug PHP as a test of flexibility

> If the job requires specific tech skills, test those skills

Sounds like someone failed a coding challenge.

In all seriousness, you need to understand that companies rarely implement their hiring practices for the sake of it. It is usually the best their collective minds could come up with. Telling them to get rid of it without attempting to understand what problem they're trying to solve and without offering alternatives, is, to say the least, not a productive use of anyone's time.

I find in software development we try to reinvent the wheel all too often instead of borrowing practices from other professions. Let's have a look at what civil engineers have to go through to get hired at half the salary of a software dev, and let's incorporate that into our practice. That will make everyone a happy trooper !
Perhaps if it doesn't have enough data to explain but it has enough to go "on gut"
Jitsi Meet ( https://meet.jit.si ) has been doing this job for me for a few years and I'm pretty happy with it. Easy to self-host too.
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

Yesterday! Working on a large project means there’s always some issue with a dark corner no one has looked at recently and because there’s no team to support, I get to go and bug hunt.
I am eternally grateful to Dr. Kurtz for his work on BASIC. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that BASIC was my first foray into programming as a young teen, and it sparked my love for programming. RIP
Requiring a huge time investment like that will filter out a lot of the non-desperate folks…probably exactly the folks they don’t want to filter out!

Also do they really want to set the tone that “I expect you to intuit what I want and I won’t tell you directly”? Sounds like an awful place to work, right out of the gate.
This kind of event be pretty nasty - 4 fishermen were killed by a Royal Navy submarine in 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Antares
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

Right the fuck now. That's what happen when you get saddled with whatever monstrosity the last coder(s) who quit commited or had to maintain themselves.

And then you get the joys of trying to frankenstein some modern js "component" developed like only React exists on some vanilla / jquery front. Also a personal rant for those modern js script kiddies: forms action attributes exist and work.
Yeah. And never mind debugging that codebase. How about being on call for that codebase in production.
It’s not insane for companies to filter candidates. More people want to be highly paid software engineers than positions available.

The insane thing would be to expect someone to take you at your word for 150k*, when hiring managers know that 50-70% of people with your resume fail to write a nested for loop.
What’s preventing Bluesky from eventually getting all the same trolls and being just as toxic?
My weight has fluctuated all my life, to my consternation. I do feel the health differences.

Something that helps me is body shaming. (Making a serious point here.) I have a sense of humor about life’s challenges and get a motivation boost from comments by strangers or familiars.

I personally value the motivation aid, as motivation is often hard to manufacture. I find comments & judgements hilarious, as long as they reflect reality, and have no practical impact.

I don’t judge my worth on my weight, but on my unstoppable optimism that yes, once again for the nth time, I am confident in my power to solve that problem, when time & circumstances allow. And until then? I am working on something else, worthy of progress.

At a particularly poor time in my body composition state, I initiated a turnaround by telling a friend I had really enjoyed being fat for the last several years, but thought it might be nice to be skinny for a change. His laughter played into my making a real commitment, that I followed through on.

Our brains are idiosyncratic things.

I think an instinct/habit to consciously hold two or more orthogonal and opposite viewpoints about all serious things, keeps our world views and option awareness nimble.

I have minority friends (of various blends) who are completely insensitive to mild discrimination most of the time. Just expect a fraction of people can’t get past pointless categorization and judgements. They either ignore it, to the point of looking right past it, or laugh or smile politely but pointedly in a way that draws attention to infractions in a way that disarms. People are often surprised by being called out, but not being shamed, discounted, or their immediate purpose side tracked in any way.

Humor and a thick skin go a long way in life to protect our mental & social health.

[Absolutely not making light of shaming or belittling anyone. We are not born with all the armor we need. But it is useful to know that our reactions to smaller expressions of rudeness can take positive forms, even provide opportunities to give unconfrontational feedback. They don’t have to undermine us.

The best victories are achieved by finding a stance that lets us master conflicts we encounter without need for concern or motion.]
Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
> eating significantly less than everyone

I wouldn't focus on that, food intake relative to others will be misleading.

Have you tried a food journal? For a week, take a picture of __everything__ you eat or drink. Go back and review it at the end of the week, a month would be better.

If you review it and think "yes, this is a reasonable amount of food" you now have a months worth of data to shop around to a doctor who can help you. If you have the opposite reaction, now you have a baseline to work against.

As an aside, do you drink a lot of soda?
> Dropping these absurd assignments and focusing on what really counts ...

These assignments are so much closer to a simulation of doing the actual job than the industry standard LC interview. The only thing closer is work trial which has the significant problem of requiring candidates to not currently have a job.
It’s similar to dominant/dominate and should’ve/should of.

People these days…
It's true. I knew a person who got stopped by customs on an international flight because they thought no person could conceivably have 12 cans of hair spray in their luggage for innocent purposes (she did- for creating the massive 80s hair).
That was so weird…

“We are building virtual reality”

Wow cool, tell me more

“Here’s a webpage that reads like a prospectus”

But what about the glasses?

“Want to see our cap table?”
I had a very bad experience at a company that did not conduct any coding tests; there were just 2 or 3 interviews, and that was it.

The issues began when we started working together in a Data Engineering team. Most of our stack was based on Hadoop, Kubernetes, Ruby, Python, and several other technologies that required a basic understanding of cloud computing.

However, since we had such a wide range of work experiences and backgrounds, I often found myself not doing the work I was hired for but instead covering for others. I ended up doing a lot of "glue work" to compensate for the fact that some colleagues couldn’t even handle basic tasks, such as Python CLI packaging using Docker or inspecting jobs in Hadoop. After some time, I decided to leave—not because I thought I was special, but because I was fed up with spending 80% of my time providing support for people who were hired at the same level or even higher than me.

I recognize that the company had very poor hiring practices, but some form of basic technical testing is necessary.
I was hoping for the famous Napoleon losing troops map to and from Russia.

Still a good read though, just a focus on today's trends rather than the timeless pieces...
By definition, you say? By what definition?

I don’t see why something would need to be entirely coherent to be useful. If you have a program which, when given a statement, assigns a value between 0 and 1, to be interpreted as if it were a probability of the statement being true, it needn’t define an entirely coherent probability distribution.
> people shouldn't be downvoting you just for asking the question

I didn't downvote. But if you're asking a question, ask it. Don't phrase it as a statement while pretending it's a question. And if you're making a statement, substantiate it. Ending a question with a period is borderline intellectually dishonest.
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

This is pretty much my day job. OP is spoiled if they think this is an uncommon situation.
You can’t just say “no you” every time you’re criticized for something.
That’s how we do it too. Take home test that’s actually based what we do. We even time cap it like our day to day tasks are.
Detecting a 0.005% regression means detecting that a 20s task now takes 20.001s.

It's not even easy to reliably detect such a small performance regression on a single thread on a single machine.

I suppose in theory having multiple machines could actually improve the situation, by letting them average out the noise? But on the other hand, it's not like you have identically distributed samples to work with - workloads have variance over time and space, so there's extra noise that isn't uniform across machines.

Color me a little skeptical, but it's super cool if actually true.
No, because the fact that a neurosurgeon with 15 years of experience is not in jail means they know what they're doing. Not the case for devs unfortunately.
I randomly chose *> to search for on Google. It does pretty well, and yes, the top result is StackOverflow.

https://www.google.com/search?q=*%3E&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZzeB...*
Trump is committed to making America healthy again.
Just because other people are worse, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do better.
You don't need a fancy service for this. Every phone operator supports it out of the box.
This happens when companies have too many applicants. It isn't the best way to evaluate candidates, but it is a cheap and easy way to do it and resumes aren't enough.

It's common for candidates who have an internal referral to skip all these steps, because the referral establishes a base line of credibility.
Yes, but that correction doesn't reach everyone. Again thus, "speech has consequences"
You can count me among those that are suspicious that this is a frog-boiling step, but it doesn't appear to me that STF money went to this, from https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/python-package-index#what-ar...

Maybe there is a case to be made for STF to fund making Codeberg (a German-headquartered organization) one of the PyPI trusted hosts. If Codeberg were supported, that would go a long way to addressing fears. And conversely, if Codeberg can't meet PyPI's bar, that suggests complete commercial capture.
Most of my development experience is in C/C++ and Python.

Know what I'd do if the interviewer asked me to debug PHP? Pretty much return the question:

"I've never used PHP. Are there logging macros/functions defined somewhere? Where do I see the output? syslog maybe? Is there a debugger of some sort I can use? How do I run each `piece` of code in isolation?"

(I am assuming the job listing did not explicitly mention PHP experience. If it did, both myself and the recruiter would absolutely deserve to fail me for this interview).
There's no need to be shooting for 7 figures. Get a life
In the case of medicine and law, that's because the government restricts who is legally allowed to work in those professions
Many of the best cell phone sensors are off-the-shelf Sony sensors that individuals can buy in reasonable quality. The “magic” of cell phone cameras is the combination of these decent sensors, a lot of processing (that you don’t want), and really amazing lenses (that, in a microscope application, you’re replacing with your own — better to go microscope optics to focal plane than microscope optics to cell phone optics to focal plane). Certainly at the hobbiest level cell phone cameras are amazing, but I suspect even “advanced hobbiest” or whatever would prefer the same sensor in a C mount.
Isn't the average for software developers in the US ~100k(before taxes)?

Assuming that high earners are offsetting that to the higher end, most people aren't making 6 figures, and the bar isn't which language they're programming in.
AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years
Does the gatekeeping reliably ensure quality, or just filter down the quantity of doctors?
I think you a missed a 0 there.

$100 is insultingly low for a 4 hour assignment.
I’m skeptical it changes much. You don’t need different platforms to have echo chambers, a given platform can support more than one.

I don’t experience twitter as a right wing app at all, for example
Dunno, all my "normal" engineering job interviews just revolved around my previous work, going through big picture design problems, and specific things related to the job.

Didn't have to solve PDE's on the whiteboard, or regurgitate integral transformations.
> laws alone don't have any consequences

That's a very weird claim about something that the whole purpose of is to have at least some consequences.
Definitely: They do try to avoid breaking their own first-party apps. Now third-party apps...
It is a risk factor, but it is not 1:1. Lots of people have obstructive sleep apnea that are not obese. Sleep apnea can also contribute to weight gain.
PTC wins FDA approval for first brain-delivered gene therapy Kebilidi
Apology for bad English. Where were you when Irony die? I was at home, reading the Onion, when Tetrahedron call: Irony is kil. No.
The library was rebuilt with American aid. If you walk around the building today you will see all the plaques of contributing institutions embedded in the walls.

In August of 1914, during World War I,
Leuven was looted by German troops. In
the night of the 25th to 26th of August,
they set fire to a large part of the city,
effectively destroying about half of
it. The Germans set fire to the 14th
century University Hall and its library
wing. The University library burned,
and with it about 300,000 books, about
1000
incunabula and a huge collection of
manuscripts, including the University’s
founding bull from 1425.

The Germans had aimed to punish
Leuven after alleging the presence of
snipers in the city. They claimed that
the sacking of Leuven was a fair reprisal.
Their ‘punisment’ of Leuven destroyed
more than 1000 buildings and cost more
than 200 lives.

When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, soon after the restoration of
Leuven’s new library, Belgium found itself neutral once again.

After the retreat of the British and
with German forces entering the city, on the 17th of May 1940 the new University
library was set aflame after an artillery barrage. Molten glass from the above
floors flowed into the cellars, past the steel doors, and destroyed the collections.
The entire building was gutted.
Not even twelve years after its opening, the new University library was reduced
to rubble and its collections were ravaged once more. The occupying forces
accused the British of having set the library ablaze on purpose to allow them to
later blame the Germans. No access to the ruin or objective investigations were
allowed. Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda minister, paid the ruined library
a visit to push the German version of events. At the Nuremberg tribunal it was
found that the library burned after German artillery had struck it.
Only 21,000 of the original 900,000 pieces in the library collection were left.
Hundreds of manuscripts (including some that had survived the 1914 fire) and
everything from before 1501 was destroyed.

https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/research/america-europefund/aef...
TL;DR?

Why is it easier to identify actual ghost jobs now? Not like it’s anything new to post a job without an immediate need. People been posting for unicorns, or in high turn over jobs some places have job posts every few months.
How many developers are out there making $1,000,000/year? Not in the hopes of hitting it big someday off of equity, but actual annual payoff?

How many companies are out there paying $1,000,000/year for devs?

How many devs who can command that kind salary are going to put up with bullshit coding challenges?
If each vote is insignificant, why bother counting them at all? C’mon. The votes matter. Every one of the million of votes for the winner matters just as much as the vote for the loser. You are influencing the outcome exactly as much as every other person in line. Individually? Negligible. But in aggregate, that’s an election.
Even before the dawn of the LSP era, Emacs was pretty great with ctags.
> "Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth"

How is a coding challenge not problem solving?

Collaboration can be part of coding challenges.

How in the heck do you plan to measure growth in a hiring process?
And why is that? Do you not agree that time is our most valuable asset?