skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The C code is different, doing a bit more than the JavaScript, Python and Go versions:

int main() {
long array[10000];
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 100000; j++) {
array[i] = array[i] + j + i; // on that page
array[i] = array[i] + j; // what it should be
}
}
}

I suspect/guess they added that to avoid the case where the C compiler is too smart, and forgot to make the other programs do the same thing.

Also: what do they do to prevent the C compiler from removing that entire bit of code? If they don’t read the resulting data, it may well do that.
Alternate hypothesis that I don't think was covered: the words in the text are COOPERATE-BOT but they don't have much to do with the actions of those who affiliate with the text.
Interesting! I like the idea of choice, but as a hiring manager it makes my problem harder. How do you compare the results from different choices equitably? I find trying to compare candidates fairly to be quite difficult, even when they have the exact same interview.

Last time I did a coding interview for real, I had the choice of any programming language, and could choose between 3 different problems to solve. I liked that quite a bit, and was offered the job. Being able to choose Python, instead of, say, C++ in a time-bound interview almost feels like cheating.
This is a wonderful project. Many thanks to Jan for sharing it.

Separately, regarding dementia, it is both less and more complicated than many commenters suggest.

From UCSF Neuroscience’s excellent Memory and Aging Center resources:

“Dementia is a general term for any disease that causes a change in memory and/or thinking skills that is severe enough to impair a person’s daily functioning… There are many different types of dementia… Most types of dementia cause a gradual worsening of symptoms over the course of years due to progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain caused by the underlying disease process…” [0]

Even more briefly: dementia is an umbrella term, many diseases can cause dementia, and those diseases may or may not be progressive.

0: https://memory.ucsf.edu/what-dementia
Part of the problem with pancreatic cancer is detection. Most people (like my dad) are only catching it when it is stage 3 or stage 4 and you're already way on the wrong side of the odds. If you catch pancreatic cancer as stage 1 or stage 2 in most cases the odds are basically 50/50.
For safety, you do not want it to stop the sub. You want the sub to tear right through it or else the sub is going to take your boat with it, and what if the sub decides to dive?
This is not about me, not about forums, and again off topic...

It is about your conduct making unsubstantiated claims orthogonal to observable facts. Then (still) trying to change the subject when asked for proof.

It is how we both learn if observations are erroneous, and someone is blinded by their idealism. How about 3 examples, that would be twice as easy right... lol...

In time... you may understand kid. Best of luck =3
aye. i have a business relationship with these people, let me know how to communicate with you ahead of time so I can whitelist or clear that.
Because people need power in Wisconsin and even there solar is cheaper than fossil fuels. Also snow isn't a big deal for solar. Clouds are the problem.
And the most notable part of that:

> Most of gpt-4's losses were due to illegal moves

3.5-turbo-instruct definitely has some better chess skills.
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Given how fickle Trump is, and the fact that he is already talking shit about Elon ... it seems too soon to predict a massive success.

Heck, even the S&P 500 has already taken back all the gains from the post-election spaz. I don't think the economic prospects for Elon or anyone else look assured at this point.
You don't have to be deaf to learn sign language!
One of the many ways modern operating systems help you
I've turned down a number of jobs in the last few years because of unrealistic interview requirements.

One asked for a 20+ page personality assessment (perhaps completing that _was_ the test?). The other asked for an interesting technical challenge which I was happy to do -- for fun -- and then followed up with a request to write a basic web service which was... unexpectedly simplistic for the level of role I was applying for.

I pointed out a number of my public, solely maintained repos on Github illustrating exactly the same sort of thing they were looking for and turned down the followup assignment, but we decided it wasn't a good mutual fit.
Perhaps. I as a fish user thought “oh, like `string replace`”
interesting

> GoAccess is written in C

I assumed it would be written in Golang from the name.
This is what major advertisers now want to support with their ad dollars. [https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/] It's good for business.
Almost the same cost. It seems the frames and connections are decisive. Let alone mounting system. ( Ref: Just recently priced 20kw options.)
Owner of residential solar in snowy state and snow isn't even worth expending the effort to clear off. It doesn't block as much light as you'd think, and if there's enough light to generate power the panels will heat themselves up and the snow will slide off.
She spends almost all of her time on Facebook, and I'm just guessing her feed changed eventually.

I remember her being convinced that the parents weren't reacting like she'd expect a grieving parent to. She was deep in Sandy Hook Truther groups.

I wish I could say it was arguments and logic and reasoning, or the pain being borne by the community around her. But I think she just believes everything she sees on Facebook, and Facebook stopped showing her Sandy Hook Truther stuff.
I (/s) like (/s) the elitism in his post.

They're too expensive? No they're not.

Range anxiety? Go buy a car who's cheapest model is $70k.

Also not covered, Musk-hate.
The Spam sketch from Monty Python comes to mind.
good thought, depends on the battlefield environment?
Can you please not post shallow dismissals of other people's work? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's important, when people share something they've made on HN, that they don't run into this sort of bilious internet putdown.

Edit - these are other examples of the same thing (i.e. the thing we don't want in HN threads, and which we'd appreciate if you'd not do any more of):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810426

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224056
A career surrounded by sociopathic bobbleheads. What a gratifying life for a high IQ person!
So do we stop keeping people awake after concussion now?
Calculus has changed a lot since 1700. Newton and Leibniz didn't have formal definitions of limits (or alternatively, something like non-standard analysis) readily available.

In terms of content, probably not much has changed in at least the last 50 years, though. Typesetting has definitely improved (old maths texts from before TeX are a bit hard to read), but I'll agree that a text from, say, the 90s is probably just as adequate as one printed today.
Absolutely.

Docker is a step or two away from packaging installers for the masses.
It's great and clearly the community appreciates it! I'll put Show HN in the title since that's the convention for sharing one's projects on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).

Btw, do you want to include some text giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it? that's also the convention. If you post it in a reply to this comment, I'll move your text to the top of the thread.
> but the trustee is playing games

Not really. Trustee’s obligation is to the creditors. Some of the creditors agreed to release their claims if it went to a third party. That has monetary value.
And that uncertainty you feel is the reason why AI slop is so dangerous.
According to the specification,

DNT: 0 = Yes, track me.

DNT: 1 = No, do not track me.

> I'm not even sure with it set to 0 that you can assume that intent.

That's the problem. Someone not paying attention might inadvertently set DNT: 0, which is why the law is written the way it is. But at the same time we have techies who knowingly and carefully set such values and want the service to acknowledge it, contrary to the law. Hence the contention.
Title of this article is total b.s (although so was flagging this on HN).

However, the tool it mentions is pretty cool and frankly I'm surprised it even works considering Twitter shut down APIs a while back. I just tried it out and it helped me connect with over 200 folks on Bluesky that I'd been following on Twitter that I didn't know had migrated. Pretty handy... while it lasts.
Yes, and they should also be able to understand when the system that creates those smart but speculative bets is creating deadweight loss, and identify that as a problem.

BTW, I have personally made this bet in the past (though I didn't put 3 to 4 months into it...) and it was indeed an excellent bet to make. But benefitting from a system does not preclude identifying problems with it.
I raised a specific thing that didn't feel right based on my reading of history and even offered a potential explanation for it. That's not shitting, that's “discussing”.
Is there any URL that lists what's new in v3.4.0 and v3.4.1?

The DDD website ( https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ ) points to the source tar.gz and the full manual, but nothing that says "What's New" in recent versions.
> No home study grind on puzzle problems is a substitute for years of practical experience, which is what most teams actually hope for in their higher-level engineers.

Perhaps.

I had 9 years of practical experience myself before going through that grind (leetcode + system design) some years ago. It is no substitute, but you don't come out of it the same engineer. You read, write and understand code differently.

Also, I have to admit that with the new perspective, there's a reason why I'd probably hire the newbie who's done this over the experienced engineer who hasn't (and maybe continues to dismiss it). The two gaps are not equivalent. In my experience the newbie will probably cover many of the necessary bases on the job fairly quickly with mentorship. I can also appreciate that 9 years of practical experience didn't help me cover DS&A or system design. I doubt that any kind of mentorship would've helped me either. Learning this stuff is a grind, plain and simple.

A newbie will also make mistakes that I can understand. I can see them pick a heap, or a linked list because it's the algorithmic sound choice for the problem. Then I can point out that for the specific use case, an array might not be as efficient, but it's a good trade-off to simplify the code. They will understand this. But an engineer that indiscriminately reaches for arrays and hash for any situation is a different story. Exponential inner loops for big searches, huge recursive calls. Those things show up in code written by experienced coders IRL. You click on a button and wait 5 seconds for the response.

I'm not sure who's faking it until they make it, but based on my own experience, I'd say that perhaps I successfully faked it for 9 years.
Roughly speaking https://globalsolaratlas.info/detail?c=45.346354,-92.69989,9... .

It has a predicted 5.5GWh (7.4% capacity factor) in December versus 14.7GWh in July (20% capacity factor) and an annual capacity factor of around 15%. This is still a good deal better than in Northern Europe where 10% is more typical.
Just to throw in another data point, I've seen Overman used several times. Some people like to keep the native German word, some prefer the translation.
He'd have to do it without telling us to earn the moniker Dr Strangelove wouldn't he?
Pancreatic cancer is something that has such a low success in treatment, it makes sense why humans would just try whatever.

I think its hard to judge folks in this situation. Most of us aren't faced with Pancreatic cancer to know what it does to the psyche.
I purposefully did not state my feelings on the matter.
> Not sure how long this person has been out of school, but students are notoriously cheap.

If you aren't in the US, you wouldn't know, but law students aren't your standard student, and they aren't notoriously cheap. My law school had an overpriced café in the basement that targeted only students, and it was packed with us every day. We're paying for an education well in excess of $100,000 in tuition alone.

My journal kept our office stocked with tons of treats, just like a dot com startup. We were on the top floor of the building, had a good view, had lots of privacy and quiet, a ton of floor space, couches, a TV, etc.

My journal charged $60/yr and had a circulation of around 1500.

I can't remember what the printing cost was, but that's $90,000 in revenue and zero labor costs. Law students do this work for free because it's the second best thing you can have on your job applications aside from graduating at the top of the class.

So yeah, law students could afford a few subscriptions. :)
Correct, it's different in a mobile browser too, the system prompt tells it to be brief/succinct. I always switch to desktop mode when using it on my phone.
Well, I’d rather we invest in infrastructure that can benefit all of us rather than just ferrying the bourgeoisie around. If they see this as “suffering,” then maybe they can just move to Texas?
We need open-source project for archive every networks using mapping
Not really, it’s one variable amongst many. If the general population also has poor diet, we can assume the BMI is not because everyone has an exemplary physique
I think the bigger one is how does a signing person communicate in a situation where their hands are otherwise occupied and they can't stop using their hands for the other task?

If you need to communicate while operating a vehicle sign language seem to put you at a disadvantage for example.
What Is Your Dream for Mozilla? Survey
Nope. Both 'p's in prompt are pronounced. The second one has no vocalization but it is there.

English is full of these consonant encounters and they are an easy way to tell if someone is not fluent.
People who say not to do something as an interview stage should propose an alternative.

Otherwise it's "well yes it's not great but it's better that not doing it"

Applicants underestimate the cost of a bad hire.
Latin America has its own problems with or without American intervention. Venezuela elected Hugo Chavez all by itself and he destroyed the country. I am for a very lax immigration system but one that does have some form of accountability and enforcement the status quo is untenable.
>In California we pay a lot more for transmission than generation. Is that true in most places ?

I can't speak for anywhere else, but had my bill handy and it's 2/3 delivery/transmission and 1/3 electricity here in NYC.
We tell candidates they will likely never have to do work that is similar to what we give them in coding challenges.

Do it anyway.

And if they don’t want to do it, we don’t want them.
I want to meet a fractional user.
One of the main questions I ask in interviews is basically "we have a data pipeline with goal X and constraints A, B, and C. How would you design it?" Depending on how they do, we'll discuss various tradeoffs, other possible goals/constraints, and so on.

This is based on a real system I designed and have been maintaining for ~5 years, and is also very similar to other systems I've run at previous jobs.

About half the candidates complain that it's not a realistic question.
That's how it is in Factorio as well!
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Even if we buy that leetcode is good in general, what about for the increasingly more dominant variant, the ML/AI engineer?

How can we even ban them using LLMs in their "ML-leetcode" problem when the problem is on LLM tokenization or something?

Like, if I lose a candidate because they're experts at using cursor + claude to do their coding (i.e. they solve it by writing 3 prompts and filling in 2 errors which are easily spotted in a total of 10 minutes), despite them having NeurIPS caliber publications and open source code, did I filter out a fake grifter, or did I filter a top tier candidate?

I just don't buy that leetcode style problems make any sense for anyone whose doing anything involving LLMs, and like it or not, increasingly large amounts of the cushy 500K/yr FAANG+ jobs will involve LLMs going forward.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. That article appears to be about a women who is now in a wheel chair due to nerve damage caused by a b12 deficiency which supports my comment that one of the most concerning risks of nitrous use is b12 deficiency.
> ~90-95% of candidates chose the takehome test

I was expecting "3. submit a code sample" to be the overwhelming winner here - did anybody choose that? Seems like a no-brainer, since it's already done...
I initial thought it was a weird coincidence that both him and Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer. But then I checked and the lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer for a man is like 1:50, which is sort of insane:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/pancreatic-cancer/about/...
That's surprising to me, as the school I went to had reps from the big legal research/writing services with offices on campus, we got free training in using them, and the idea was we'd be hooked on those very expensive services when we were out in the real world!
…no…
I now know why I require so much sugar and sweets: I am a wood frog preparing for hibernation!
I used to work at an edtech startup that was bought by Chegg. They let us write some code for 2 years, never knew exactly what to do with us (the managers they assigned us clearly had no knowledge of the problem domain) and then basically killed it off. Shortly afterwards, they bought a competitor.

It was apparent that the strategy was just "corner the market and buy up all the competition". Making students learn things was never the focus.
troff (1972) and eqn (1974) also existed. I don't know if they were influenced by PUB. SCRIPT (1968)[1] had macros but it's unclear whether they were present at the beginning or added later. RUNOFF (ancestor of troff) doesn't appear to have had macros. I've heard that Forth documentation was produced using a formatter written in Forth, that let the user switch between documet text and Forth code, but idk the dates or specific for this.

Anyway I'm sure PUB was influential but the idea of markup languages with macros certainly wasn't unique to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)
You may remember these details from the GP comment and my own:

> L6/staff

> higher-level engineers

Traditionally, one would work up to senior roles over the course of one's career, often by pursuing internal opportunities to learn and exercise new skills within one's current role before applying for new roles that rely on those now-practiced skills.

Placing into senior roles because you did well at Stanford, spent a couple years writing CRUD apps, and then grinded puzzles for a couple months is inevitably something that happens when the industry needs to fill more senior roles than there are engineers with suitable experience, but it's not a healthy phenomenon and definitely shouldn't be treated as the norm.
Many of them are high-effort from the company doing the hiring, which is an optimisation factor people forget.
Yeah. In general I was impressed with Stripe's interview process. It was still the usual miserable day-long gauntlet, but with some thoughtful decisions mixed in, IMO. (This was 2022, FWIW.)

I'm pretty sure the thing they had me debug was a real bug they had hit in an open source dependency. It seemed like they had hit the bug, taken a snapshot of the code at that version, and written a test to exercise it. (And presumably then they fixed it, separately.) So it felt a lot like bugs I run into in the wild, but with some of the hard debugging work out of the way (getting it to the point of an easy repro in a unit test) in order to time-box it. I really thrived in this interview. It may be the only interview I've ever done where I felt like I was just using my actual skills like I would during the work day.
Yes that's already started being suggested. Had to update my first aid certificate recently and as of a few years ago the Red Cross now recommends allowing the person to sleep if possible. But they should be woken up and checked on every 4 hours or so.

https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/resources/learn-first-...
No, they don't. They capture underlying patterns in training data and use them to generate text that fits the context.
It's against the rules to attack other users like you've done in this thread, and particularly not ok to do it in a Show HN.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code hasn't changed.

While I also appreciate tools that don't send data, I don't like the normalization of teaching people to paste (potentially) private data into a browser while blindly trusting that it's not being offloaded to some server somewhere.
I've never worked at a company with a public repo. I never understood this. I have a life outside of work
This isn't prompt engineering, it's grammar-constrained decoding. It literally cannot respond with anything but tokens that fulfill the grammar.
A Homebrew install option will help this take off on Macs. https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter/issues/6
There is a large democratic majority that supports border enforcement including deportation. Shouldn't the policy conform to the majority.
"If you solve the task well 10/10 per our requirements, you get a small incentive for putting in the work $1,000 regardless of whether you join us at the end."

This is pretty vague. What happens if someone spends hours on the task, does a good job, but you don't like it and ghost him?
Google searches for term tariff spike after Donald Trump elected as president
Yes, that's literally what the interviewers are asking for. Congratulations.