skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just check out who the key project maintainers are, and then look at who they're employed by. You'll probably recognize the companies.

If you don't have schema cache reloading enabled (i.e. you're running it in prod), you can linearly scale postgrest instances pretty much infinitely without impact to the db. Each new instance just costs you a handful of connections and a small amount of memory.
Why bother with this style of interview where the candidate is under extreme time pressure and isn’t allowed to use any of the research tools they would normally use in their job? What is this controlling for?

It barely made sense when these were conducted in person, and it’s completely inane over video meeting.

Instead of grilling people, talk to them. Give them meaningful take-home exercises that you can discuss together during the interview. If they can explain the decisions they made and discuss alternatives and trade-offs, that’s a much better indicator of job performance than pretending to invent a leetcode party trick algorithm in 10 minutes.
When LeetCode and HackerRacnk shut down, the industry will be a much better place.
Uhm. Sorry to bother you with something totally off-topic.

I have an almost lifelong itch, which I couldn't successfully scratch so far.

It's about the meaning of this surename: Κούβελας

Usually it is transcribed in English as Kouvelas, in German as Kouwelas, and in French it can be Couvelas, and AFAIK it is pronounced something like Koo-well-as(s) in Greek.

Does it have any 'speaking'/describing meaning, like Miller, Carpenter, Fisher, Baker and so on, or is it something like 'from a place called this', maybe distorted over generations?

I only get nothing from sites like this https://forebears.io/surnames/kouvelas , and the few people with Greek heritage I knew couldn't tell me either, so far.

Can/would you, If it doesn't bother you?
> I'm sure that's true.

I accidentally an important word there. It should be "I'm not sure that's true." It's an English expression that's a bit understated: it means "I'm confident that this is wrong".

You can't always argue from "what feels natural" - that's prone to mere familiarity (1), and someone else who is more used to the other way will have the opposite "feel". It's subjective, and not universal.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
People gathered and did the propaganda stuff themselves, here's an export of one of many private chats where they coordinated https://the5star.github.io/cgarad/messages.html
Is it possible the election itself was also "influenced" in a more direct manner? (Where the psywar aspect would serve merely to legitimize the result, rather than create it.)
Could you tell us a bit more about your experience?
Based on my reading of many controversial threads around elections, politics and the Russo-Ukrainian war, the entire internet, including HN is infiltrated either by Russian agents or their useful idiots.

The more likely reality which is confirmed by votes to anti-establishment candidates is that many people in Europe and the US don’t like the political direction, no matter how much it’s presented as moral and democratic.
https://archive.is/wNb4b
Developers' goal is to become better developers.
It’s basic human psychology
It has existed for years:

Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10560

airoboros: using large language models to fine-tune large language models
https://github.com/jondurbin/airoboros
Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs
I'm not sure I understand the question fully, but yes, I am a big fan of the diff/review/patch-style tools like git for offline editing, and that is exactly why I call them out in the final paragraphs. The reason I don't agree that it's completely closed-book solved is because I think the git diff UI is not appropriate for most people whoa re not developers.
There was, if one of the partners violates the agreement , he is at war with the others.
> you'd hope that some percentage of those pairs are just cannon fodder for the usual mutagenic sources. (energy, viruses, being a European king, etc)

Inbreeding is a problem of not enough mutation, not a problem of too much.
Homeschooled kids are overfitted to their training data (parents).
I think it’s more detached from reality to think actions (especially monstrous ones like denying care to sick people) would be consequence free.
To accept the strawman rebuttal I have to be able to figure out what differentiates your actual position from the strawman, which I can't. You implicitly claim that the Chinese government should be able to do to US citizens everything that the US government can do to US citizens. To which two counter-examples were provided.
You should read them again. They do go into some detail, and they find the following facts:

- CG's campaign was well organized, on Telegram, by many dedicated people (at least some of which are Romanians, such as those identified but blacked out in the MAI report); at least some of these people have a history of extremist and pro-Russian views, but the documents make no mention of any direct Russian connection

- the campaign used large numbers of fake or dormant Tik Tok accounts, and accessed these from many IPs

- Romanian influencers were paid to promote pro-CG messages, and they mislabeled much of the paid promotion videos; some Romanian corporations that funded this are identified but blacked out in the MAI report

- Russia led its own disinformation campaigns in various ways, unrelated to CG's campaign (the SIE report documents various Russian activities, not a single one mentioning CG or any other candidate or party or group of parties)

- the SRI documents mention some data breaches and published passwords; the STS documents vehemently deny that any cyber actor made any successful attack on the core electoral infrastructure

- the shape of the campaign, from content to infrastructure (mass numbers of dormant Tik Tok accounts being resurrected, coordination over Telegram, etc) is veryalmost identical to known Russian campaigns in Ukraine and Moldova

- there is exactly one, non-specific, claim that "a state actor" coordinated with the CG campaign; here it is quoted in full, from the second SRI document:

> the activity of the accounts was coordinated by a state actor who would have used an alternative communication channel to "roll" messages unto the platform

That is the only specific claim that some state actor, and Russia is not mentioned here despite being mentioned in many other places in these documents. So again, only a suspicion of direct Russian interference in the campaign.

And, while these documents suggest those services have more detailed proof of many of the suspicious activities they represent, the Court has not seen any of that proof: they have only seen these documents, as mentioned in their motivation, which constituted hearsay.
For reference: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/fr...
I love the cognitive dissonance at play here

I think this comes down to a very simple question: Is one open to entertain the notion that well crafted messages targeted through algorithmic platforms can drive people to change behavior.

As an ex Facebook person let me offer this thought:

Either advertisement works or it doesn’t. Looking at my past paychecks and stock price of all tech advertisment giants, I have my opinion.

I think it’s preposterous to think that political choices / votes somehow are in a different category for people than all the other things advertisements are run for.

If medical ads work (why would we regulate them) to “manipulate” or convince people to act or spend against their own self best interest, then why would political ones not work.

And in many countries political ads are allowed and are regulated and have massive ad spend. We shouldn’t spend and regulate now if we didn’t think they’d work, would we.

And the debate is not new. I was at FB for Cambridge analytics and saw the damage mitigation first hand - along with the weird conclusions that no harm was done.

Which is the same we see every time a big tech company announces they banned foreign adversaries running influence campaigns and found no evidence they had any impact.

So we have Schroedingers ad product here - highly effective when the ads are official, as measurable via the ads manager, but totally hapless and ineffective when it’s not run by an allowed source.

Romania is a great one minute past midnight wake up call for western democracies to resolve this cognitive dissonance and get off their high horse of humans being selectively able to resist an industry that has mastered manipulation through scientific a/b testing for decades.

Resolving that doesn’t mean getting rid of the notion of free will … one merely need to remember that people’s ability to make decisions is constrained by the data available to them and their ability to make sense of that data.

And time spent on platform and activity - active or passive collection of data - is the constraining factor there. The channels of information are changing and passive absorption is vastly outpacing active informing at a pace most politicians do not comprehend.

The latest ofcom report in the UK shows a 25% increase (1h) of time spent on phones - the vast majority of which is either video social media platforms - in one year!

Maybe 2016 the effect wasn’t strong enough yet. But it’s 9 years of a/b testing down the road, a rise of aggressive engagement video platforms and political podcast influencers and a pandemic later and in the last year alone we’ve seen a massive change in engagement patterns and where people get their data to sensemake reality from.
I mean storing data in your https://localfirstweb.dev . Sqlite allows that so you can work fully in our client (browser/mobile) without internet potentially and then later sync (rqlite, pouchdb, etc for instance). If I get to do 'everything' with postgres, I need that too, so I was wondering if it exists.
What happens if you stop following the contracts? I bet military stuff.
Here's your funds, simple people https://the5star.github.io/cgarad/messages.html
can you compile and run smth like gcc in your OS?
You should use views as the layer in between. They'll let you version your API and make changes without breaking things.
Gong back about 20 years we had to introduce a "pre-screening" interview for infosec roles because of the calbire of candidates we were getting through.

They'd made it through the HR "sift" by having the right words on their CVs but we found that a huge majority of these candidates didn't know even entry-level basics.

There was initially a "quick fire" round where we did some real basic definitions - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, risk, etc, etc.

Even back then candidates would hit us with the:

"Hmm, great question"

/tap tap tap tap

[Wikipedia definition of confidentiality]
> It's in the same category as energy-generating sidewalks.

I met a guy who did one of those. Huge scam artist vibes, but people absolutely threw greenwashing money at him and could not stop writing articles.

Obviously no concrete numbers in his flashy "decks" because they were all completely terrible and made no practical sense if you actually did the numbers (watt-minutes per day if I recall).
He was clearly known by election day, otherwise they wouldn't have voted for him.

That the establishment and traditional media didn't know him doesn't mean that he was unknown.
Since interview process is also flawed in many ways luck based, if you cheat and moderately capable, you can totally stay there and even go up in ranks.
What's suspicious about this trail of money? Check out the bank transfers https://the5star.github.io/cgarad/messages.html
I wonder if there's some type of generational amnesia where the subjective definition of what constitutes fast gets slower and slower with time, where communicating ones frustration with slow software is met with comments about how software is not actually slow.
What options are available for the on-site?
Go Iterators
It sounds like you want sympathy but it just shows that some people just don't understand the power dynamics of an interview.

I believe live coding is a scourge and we should get rid of it altogether.

Get a tiny open ended project, which requires more design/architecture skills than actually finishing the solution. You do it at your own time and shouldn't take more than 1-2h. You submit it and provide your mental process in writing.

We then hop on a call and we can dicuss it further, talking about possible issues and what to do to get it released if a requirement changed last minute.

If you can do that, come across amicable, knowledgeable and experienced enough given the seniority of the role, and feel like you are not reading from an hidden ai window then you pass.

"Exciting casts" are absolutely worthless in real life, everyone has to balance shipping vs code artistry.
I think Tesla has probably missed the boat on the semi, at least in Europe.

Scania has already delivered plenty of heavy goods EVs here in Norway. Delivery companies like the Post office, DHL, ASKO are investing heavily in large EVs but most of that is going to either Swedish Scania. Chinese SAIC is also selling well for urban delivery vehicles.

Scania sell electric articulated lorries with gross trailer weight up to 75 tonne. The range at 64 tonne is 375 km.
https://www.scania.com/no/no/home/products/trucks/battery-el...
Not sure, If he has option OP can ask his parents to help or live with them. Having zero balance in account is not a very good situation to be in.
Just in case this repo isn't a joke and some job seekers are seriously thinking of this tactic...

Companies already know about cheat methods like this and candidates still have to demonstrate skills in-person on a whiteboard in a 2nd round of tech interviews.

A high-paying FAANG job isn't going to hire candidates based on just one remote Zoom tech interview.

That still may not deter some folks and they'll try to continue to find some cheating technique to use in front of the whiteboard. In that case, some creativity is going to be required. E.g. : https://www.google.com/search?q=chess+cheating+anal+beads

The issue is that "chess board moves" is very low bandwidth and can be efficiently encoded into pseudo-quasi- Morse Code vibration schemes. However, if you're asked to "invert a binary tree" or any other open-ended random puzzles, it's more difficult to compress a secret 2-way high-bandwidth communication with ChatGPT into a hidden butt plug. (But then again, if a candidate is actually able to fool people with hidden ChatGPT hacks in a face-to-face interview, maybe FAANG should hire them based on that alone.)

Keep on the lookout for a github repo with ChatGPT butt-plug communication.
Hi Jake! Long time no chat! I hope everything is going well. Yep, those are exactly the kinds of cases we seek to give people more control over. It's like you read my mind. :)
Anyone experienced with postgres full text search?

I want to get something simple setup but couldn't get it to work.

I want to match substrings like "/r/chatgpt" (sub reddits) in url links, but couldn't get it to match.

Tried a few types of queries like phrase, plain, default, simple, english. All have some weird issues, either not matching special characters, or not matching substrings (partial match). Also I'm somewhat limited on the syntax side by what can be done with drizzle ORM.
LLM Prompt Engineering
Hey everyone, I've been following the incredible energy around AI here for a while now, and I'm reaching out because I believe my unique skillset could be a valuable asset to many companies in this space. My background is a bit unconventional: for years before ChatGPT and the current AI boom, I worked as an academic tutor, but with a very specific focus – mastering the art of the prompt. I helped students dissect complex assignment instructions, craft effective responses, and ultimately achieve outstanding results. You could say I was doing human-powered prompt engineering long before it became a buzzword. The emergence of tools like ChatGPT felt truly serendipitous, as my years of experience had already provided me with a deep, intuitive understanding of prompt generation, optimization, contextual understanding, and result analysis. I've essentially been doing manually what many companies are now striving to automate, and I understand the "black box" of prompt engineering because, in a way, I was the black box.

I have a proven track record of guiding individuals to achieve desired outcomes through effective prompting, and I'm happy to share specific, anonymized examples in DMs. My experience has given me an intuitive grasp of how language models respond to different inputs, gained through years of real-world experimentation. Now, I'm passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI and eager to contribute to a cutting-edge team. I'm particularly drawn to companies focused on fine-tuning large language models, developing innovative applications for generative AI, improving the user experience of AI-powered tools, or building the next generation of prompt engineering platforms. I'm looking for a role where I can leverage my skills to make a real impact, whether it's a full-time position, an advisory role, or even project-based collaborations. If your company is pushing the limits of AI and you think there might be a good fit, please feel free to DM me or drop a comment below. Let's explore how we can optimize the future together!
People rarely get fired solely due to technical incompetence, in my experience.

Technical competence happens to be much easier to test for than most of the other factors, and it can compensate to some degree for e.g. bad interpersonal skills. This is indeed part of why tech is such an autism-friendly field. But I've only seen a few people get let go for being great team players, excellent requirements analysts, etc., but just totally unable to code - for better or worse.

(More common is they get shifted to a role which better aligns with their "true" skillset. Why didn't they get this role in the first place? Again: Hard to test for.)
Thanks for the feedback! You're right, many gymbros prefer following ready-made programs without much customization. While MorphoFit currently targets a niche audience who wants to truly personalize their training based on their morphology, I'm actually planning to introduce morphology-based training plans in the future if there's enough interest.

The current focus is on helping people understand their body structure and exercise selection, but creating full routines that take into account individual body types is definitely on my roadmap.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out and provide your thoughts!
Seems like people down-voted you for this "outrageous" opinion, but I agree. The people that do all the important work in our society (nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, customer support, etc.) should get the highest income.
>The problem here is the message clearly resonated and people voted for him.

Indeed, that's what a lot of the middle upper class urban Romanians with corporate jobs don't understand, that a lot of the people, especially the older less educated ultra conservative ones, resonated with him and his message so they voted for him.

TikTok didn't hypnotize and mind control them to vote for him, they stil had free will, they just like his message the most. Sure his message was full of lies and pandering but that's every single politician.

Do we discard the democratic process because someone undesirable by the educated middle upper class won by majority? Then what's the point of democracy? You keep repeating elections till your preferred candidate wins?
> For starters, the US is a free economy and the China is a centrally planned one.

USSR was a centrally planned economy, China is not. Do you mean subsidies (like the IRA and CHIPS Act in the US) for certain industries, which act as guidance to local governments and state banks? Is that what you call "centrally planned"?

> can China deliver on long term expectations for its economy? Do the trends support the argument that it will become a leading developed economy? I don't think they do. If they don't, then is it an issue with the current economy plan that can be solved with a better plan or is it a systemic issue that can't be solved in the near to medium term?

That's your opinion that they can't, and it's your right to have one. There were people 10 years ago saying exactly what you’re saying now. Time showed they were wrong.

Here is a famous article: https://hbr.org/2014/03/why-china-cant-innovate

And here we are 10 years later:

https://itif.org/publications/2024/09/16/china-is-rapidly-be...

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/...

> China is growing slower than historically and slower than forecasts which were it at 5%. Look at this chart and tell me if it points a rosy picture or a problematic one:

Oh come on, 4.8% vs. 5%? As for the chart, it's the most incredible growth in the history of mankind. No country has achieved something like this. It's fully natural for it to decline in percentage terms, especially when another major power is implementing legislation to curb that growth, forcing capital outflows, imposing technology embargoes, etc.

> China is in dire straits and I don't expect it to recover before the crisis gets worse.

Time will tell. What I can say is that over the last 20 centuries, in 18 of them, China was the cultural and technological center of the world. So from China’s perspective, what they are doing now is just returning to their natural state. In comparison, the US is only 2 centuries old. Every human organization, whether a company or state, will sooner or later be surpassed by another human creation, there are no exceptions to this rule in all of human history. We have had many empires throughout our history. The Roman Empire was even greater at its peak than the US is now, and there were also the British Empire, the Spanish Empire, etc. Where are they now? Everything is cyclical. All of these empires lasted a few centuries and started to decline after around 200-250 years, much like the US now.

> I'm arguing there's no rivalry.

Come on, there is obvious rivalry. Just listen to US political elites and look at their actions—legislation. It's all about geopolitics and global influence to secure their own interests.
looking at the despair at https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions i am completely certain people are not above cheating

even if its not an app, everything is so cheap and small now, 1mm camera and microphone, and very tiny ear piece (invisible with longer hair), or even earless headphones, realtime whisper turbo and groq llama3.3 can absolutely pass most interviews and answer most questions

even without the tech, i am sure people are now cheating on face to face interviews as well

i worked at fairly big company, and did maybe 500 interviews, i never knew how the candidate would look in advance, so i dont see why cant someone else shows up to the interview, pass it and then the real person shows up for the job
One of the few things that I hate more than popular 'technical interview' methods is... lying.