skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single big corpo knows about it. We just haven’t been able to come up with a better filter for the amount of candidates that are going through the interviews that isn’t extremely subjective.

Small companies that I interviews with had a very simple process (2x talks with upper management, mostly technical talks, also a semi-coding related talk about systems). There are a lot of very well paying (maybe 15-20% less than FAANG) jobs out there, but they’re just that fancy looking.
I am gravely disappointed with all attempts of democratic government.

"People" don't end up deciding, some small elite does instead, usually financial, but sometimes sociopolitical. (media/education/parties) The way Romania handles it is just as bad as more western countries, they just let their dictatorship moves slip up as more obvious. I would give examples about how more western countries are corrupt, but I don't think that's allowed on this site, pretty much making my point for me.
If you want to get a good result, the grammar should be following the expect output from the prompt, especially if you use a small model. Normally I would manually fine-tune the prompt to output the grammar format first, and then apply the grammar in production.
I've been using `Null[T any] struct { V T, Valid bool }` for this, as the pattern comes from database/sql. Works fine.
Four-Hour Family Formation
<https://xkcd.com/743/>
Very true—for a software developer, part-time consulting is probably the quickest path to making some money. It's a lower-risk, but much lower-leverage option than a 0-1 startup. Building a startup has a high risk of going to zero, but if you've chosen the right customer, the potential upside is dramatically higher than any other option.
I don't think that's faking it at all. Being able to research is part of any knowledge based profession.

Faking it is shirking your duties. Most bad medicine doesn't result in obvious harm/cost to a patient or a board complaint. A poorly managed medical practice that runs off support staff and makes patients wait three hours isn't going to threaten a license, and that's faking practice management. A primary care doctor who punts anything beyond the very, very basics to third party vendors or specialists is faking it.

In my major metropolitan area, general practice veterinarians are often absolute crap at doing their (required) medical notes. If you ask them for copies, they'll send you invoices. If you push for real notes, they'll use their 48 hour response window to make something up. They almost always get away with it because during future visits, the vet (whether it's the same person or not) will ask a bunch of questions to (necessarily) fake knowing what was done previously. It's obviously going to affect patient care and cost, and if you look at board complaints that aren't thrown out, the "punishment" is usually because the board saw that the vet has shit for notes. And don't even get me started on vets using AI, which results in hallucinations in the notes -- which I think are notably worse for patient care than just empty notes.

I think that's a good example of even good doctors faking it.
Isn't everybody always gushing about how LLMs are supposed to get better all the time? If that's true then detecting generated fluff will be a moving target and an incessant arms race, just like SEO. There is no escape.
Right. Google already has a solution https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/
Everyone insists on training theirs to look human generated so the horses have left the stable on this
“The median salary in the US is $59k, therefore obviously no-one could possibly live in Manhattan”.

I’d assume that salaries in Prague are higher than in the Czech Republic as a whole.
> He started the company - I’m no Elon fan myself, but that’s the case.

Point out what he did that couldn't be done by Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or Mark Zuckerburg, or in fact that was done by Jeff Bezos with his own company. And I don't mean some ephemeral "well he wanted to!" yeah big fucking deal. I want to convert a DeLorean to an EV powertrain to commute to work. I want to have a garage big enough for 5 cars and a shop. I want to have a sex bot that me and the wife can share. Anyone can fucking want something. What did Elon bring to the table besides wanting it, and money?

Being an investor is not a skill. Paying for things is not a job. Buying stuff or people is not a trade. And I'm sick to death of people buying his and other's PR saying that paying someone else to do cool shit is the same thing as doing cool shit.
Someday I'll write a blog post about it. Feel free to reach out to me, contact info is in my bio. I'll be happy to share anything you'd be interested in.
Current campaign was conducted over TikTok and not over Facebook, isn't it?
I generally agree, though some of those specific risks already exist and some (like license changes) are if anything probably less likely if they mean giving up significant donation money.
Elon got out-Eloned.

I think the bigger tale is how Microsoft is essentially getting swindled here, and Zuckerberg looks like a man of the people somehow.
The most dangerous children's toy just hit the auction block
The ideal purpose of hiring is to find a skilled candidate who will be a good fit and maybe even bring talent and energy to the role. The hiring entity will ideally provide mentoring and training to ensure a successful investment and relationship.

But the catch is... the people doing the hiring must themselves ideally be talented, energetic, skillful mentors who envisage building a positive culture.
Is the option of in-person available to the candidate?, zoom interviews are exhausting
If the goal of an image improvement algorithm is effectively "how would this image have looked IN THE REAL WORLD if it had been taken with a better camera", then training on previous "virtual upscaled images" would be training on the wrong fitness function.
I accept that they will look different but function consistently and in line with the client device - when that can be made as a design decision.
Planes wobble at Heathrow during Storm Darragh
Surface Studio introduction from 2017, still looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VvFlwsWic
How is it more powerful?
I feel like there is a big risk here, which others have already mentioned, but in fact this risk has already been realized w.r.t npm packages.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178258
>This was always the model of capitalistic acquisition. Early industrial revolution was not known for it's blue skies, labor friendly laws and preventing children from working in the mines.

Except for "blue skies", the other things you've listed are the default state of nature. Children worked the moment they were able. Even without a capitalist boss, people worked their asses off during the planting/harvest season under the threat of starvation. The other rest of the year might be more lax, but you're still desperately praying that drought or disease won't wipe away your hard work and leave you starving regardless.
When you go into battle to solve a computational mathematics problem, the problem sometimes doesn't care about these boundaries. E.g., you might think that you're solving a problem in "computer algebra", but a sufficiently fast solution might end up involving numerical linear algebra in surprising ways. (E.g., enumerating elliptic curves over the rational numbers is reduced to exact linear algebra because of a Wiles work on Fermat's last theorem, and often exact linear algebra can be done via clever tricks much more efficiently using floating point matrices, which happen to be insanely fast to work with due to GPU's...). It's thus valuable, at least for research, to have large mathematical software systems that span these boundaries.
This thread like also the parent thread is full of comments which are completely outdated, because there already exist standards for Unicode identifiers and obviously they forbid such cases.

See e.g. RFC 8264. Only a restricted set of characters is permitted in identifiers, mostly letters and digits.

This is enough to write any user name, without allowing "smiley snowman Chinese sign for water" or other such nonsense.
So you're confusing your specific requirements with my generalization of "talent". Depending on your specifics, there might not be a glut of talent in that specific field or expertise, but there's still a surplus of domestic college grads unable to find work in their chosen fields, and companies who refuse to pay domestic graduates what they're worth when they can outsource to contractors, MSPs, or offshore work entirely for less.

My perspective on this issue is that the reason there's an abundance of candidates in any given application pool is because of a mismatch of expectations between employees and employers, even today. Employers have cultivated an environment where candidates must job hop frequently to grow their earnings, because internal advancement has dried up and employers haven't respected loyalty in decades. This results in a plurality of the workforce "always looking for work", because they see no potential in their current role for growth or advancement; in fact, the whole reason they applied to your role is because they wanted that growth or advancement, and now they have it, so it's time to apply elsewhere for the next step up.

I get that this environment totally sucks for both parties, but it's important to note that employers are the only ones who can change the system, since they hold the bulk of the power in individual negotiations. Unfortunately, the current attitude seems to be more of the status quo: more technology to "make it easier to find the best candidates" (thus removing humans from even more of the hiring process), forcing existing workers out (thus increasing the applicant pool), and then bemoaning about their problems on Business News ("too many unqualified applicants") or forums.

Applicants didn't create this mess, and we can't fix it.
I (also?) never new this; thanks.

My old finger memory will still probably put them in, alas.
The point is that even though you’re not chasing material possessions, you’re still probably chasing something.
Sure, but what if the upscaling algorithm misinterpreted a P as an F? Without manual supervision/tagging, there's an inherent risk that this information will have an adverse effect on future models.
Indeed, ingesting generated bluster gives them cancer of the perceptron.
The problem with that is there are also a large number of people who make a large amount of money and still save very little. So we should maybe put more work into figuring out what is the fault of economic structure, and what is the fault of poor decision making. Perhaps define some metric that’s a measure of what percentage of people would be unlikely to be able to do anything other than live paycheck to paycheck to paycheck in their current setup and where they live.
I need to learn more linear to be able to appreciate this! Gonna do some reading.

very fun to have received so many pointers here, hopefully I'll be able to do a follow up blog once I've finally let people find all the good UUIDs
It's often not clear what qualifications for a role really are - I think most of us have accepted roles where we had to learn "required" things on the job. Or where one of the requirements was a joke, liking knowing how to use some random tool or software (internal wiki, expensing system, etc.) that anyone could pick up in 15 minutes. Especially in tech. I've personally gotten jobs in languages I didn't know yet a couple times.

I do agree that for any given job a large chunk of applicants are people who have no business applying (IE barely capable coding themselves out of a paper bag or didn't read the job description), but there's always a long tail of plausible applicants if the job isn't a trash posting.
Offerer sounds more like one who offers something.

How about "Chief Officer Executor"?
However, subsidies always come with requirements for companies to fulfill. While it may sound great that Intel is getting billions of dollars in money to build and operate new fabs in the US, those fabs come with massive operating expenses. Unless Intel finds a whole lot of new product to run through those fabs, and soon, the subsidies could end up putting Intel in an even worse financial hole than it is already.

Intel needs to change its internal culture to get back on a path towards success. I don't know if any CEO is capable of fighting and winning that battle within the span of a few years, and time is running out.

Part of what impresses me about TSMC are some of the anecdotes that have trickled out about how they approach process R&D. TSMC runs experiments 24/7 with each team building on the results of the previous shift. This allows it to iterate much faster than many competitors. It is that kind of dedication and drive that Intel needs to push its leading edge manufacturing capabilities back into world class status, but that isn't the kind of change that can be achieved purely by throwing money at the problem.
Your palette changes pretty significantly over time, especially between childhood and adulthood. Grapefruit may not have changed at all, and you might still find them sweeter at 30 than you did at 8.
Why do smaller models fail to follow? Isn't the objective of constraints that it always provides the right output type?
We’ll never see AGI in its original definition in our lifetimes. It doesn’t take being a rocket…company buying billionaire.

No, because whenever somebody says they've achieved it, someone else -- maybe you -- will say they haven't. The question will never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.

We don't know what intelligence is, or how to measure it objectively, much less how to define "general intelligence." So it's hard to say whether current approaches to AI will get there or not.

I see it as a tool to be used by people, one that may evolve into the most powerful tool we've ever built. I don't find the question of "intelligence" all that interesting.
I sometimes use this as a quick test of software quality. If it can't handle non-ascii characters in 2024, then it will probably be more trouble that it's worth.
This 'state actor' stuff only comes up when it's someone you don't like.

Is Ukraine being influenced by a state actor? Is Israel? Is Taiwan?
I'm gonna predict that in a 10-year trend, the house price inflation will have continued. Unless you could save faster than the bubble, you still wouldn't be getting/keeping a house in 10 years.
The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future
Comparing to index funds is neat. What Flattr.com offered was to set a monthly budget and then not allocate according to an index but according to your preferences (value per flatter = monthly budget divided by number of flatters).

Flattr is no more. But I could see that work out for open source projects: Allocate a fixed monetary amount per unit of time you want to donate. Record "intent to donate" during that period. This could be done via a browser extension or a CLI. At the end of one period, distribute.
Point out what he did that couldn't be done by Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or Mark Zuckerburg, or in fact that was done by Jeff Bezos with his own company.

"If you were going to start Facebook, you'd have started Facebook." - apocryphally credited to Zuckerberg.

You do know that Bezos started his rocket company before SpaceX, right? If he could beat SpaceX, why hasn't he?

As for sex bots, that'll happen soon enough, be patient. At this point there is nothing but a few incremental advances in robotics and material science standing in the way of implementing the bots from Garland's Ex Machina or Spielberg's AI. The software side is basically working now.
Hi! I do not know enough of the relevant math to appreciate what you're doing here (yet); I am going to try to do some reading to understand this better, but if you have any advice on where I should start I will gladly take it.
I can give you an ex-insiders perspective. There tends to be a bit of a divide in the people who drift into staffing these companies. Most are highly intelligent, and at least have an appreciation for the logistics behind the business process. There's going to be a functional piece somewhere sitting in the midst of the datasets, and making the best decisions possible. The dividing line I personally witnessed though was the finance first vs. patient outcome first people. The patient outcome first people tend to congregate in areas like CS, clinical, QA, compliance, etc... They realize it's a complex space, a lot of data to sift through and learn from, but are constantly working to make sure people ultimately get what they need.

The finance first group are sort of the opposite. They're doing everything they can to target Fraud/Waste/Abuse, not necessarily to the exclusion of patient outcome, but the priorities are 100% different. The problem is the output of their analysis tends to turn into inputs for the Prior Auth, formulary management, and claim denial logic, which, lets call that what it is: population scale social engineering to the end of nudging people to save money for the company.

The "surprised pikachus" are probably the finance first/raw number crunchers who have never had a number bite back in their life. The people who are actually concerned with patient outcome already know exactly what's going on, and are completely unsurprised.

It's really Upton Sinclair's wisdom at work: It is hard to get a man to understand that which his salary depends on him not understanding.
I'm not sure BEAD is needed, as the Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded the definition of Universal Service to include high-speed internet. The FCC later set up the Connect America Fund in 2013 to administer this, defining high speed as 10/1 broadband.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service

https://www.fcc.gov/general/connect-america-fund-caf

A friend is served by a rural cooperative telco and has fiber to the home. They were able to get grants from the Connect America Fund to run fiber in their service area, so I think it's been a success. It may be that there are other rural telcos who don't know they can do this, or are just bad at writing grant requests. And BEAD won't help solve that.
Gemini-Exp-1206 tops all the leaderboards
> then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive.

We're called freelance consultants. And we charge a high price for that service.
GPT is insufficient for AGI. It might be part of the solution one day, but it's fundamentally incapable of bridging the gap by itself.

Despite what Altman/OpenAI says in public, I think he knows this too... That's why they dissolved the Superalignment safety team; and dropping the AGI clause just confirms that.

As time goes on, the "AGI is coming" hype machine gets harder to sustain... and their work/company will begin to be valued on the actual value it produces.
I don't think patient results can legallay be shared (in the US) on a reference call with any specifics, and vague statements are no better or worse than a manager describing a dev's performance on projects.

And I'd be kind of surprised if a practice shared billing performance info. That'd be like sharing a tech support person's ticket close rate, but even more sensitive. Maybe at a very high level if HR isn't concerned with defamation claims?
At least in the original post, my reading was not that they couldn’t find work, but that they had quit to go do startup stuff.

The (tech) job market is definitely not great at the moment, but I do think people are overstressing how bad it is a bit, and in any case these things are cyclical. I started a CS degree in 2003, just after the dot-com crash, and finished in 2007, just heading into the financial crisis. Both of those kind of cratered the job market for a bit, but it recovered.
One thing that doesn't factor into this argument is the professional nature of the hit — how he managed the gun, the silencer, the messages on the bullets, the getaway, and the precise reconnaissance that allowed him to know exactly where his target would be at that exact moment.

That doesn't align with the characteristics of a typical personal vendetta.
Reading tea leaves, they seem to be headed down the corporate path so view everything through that lens and how to maximize profit
Author here — yeah, so my goal with 200% was to make the code as comprehensible as possible. My actual glassy header does something quite similar to what you’re suggesting, but that also raises the bar quite a bit for how much CSS you need to know in order to understand this post.

I like making things like this copy/pasteable, rather than NPM-installable, so that more experienced developers can make tweaks like the one you suggest.
New? It is the same crowd as 2017. I mean they dropped the McCains, Cheneys, and Paul Ryan.

But the rest are still there.
True, I do chase freedom (always did), mainly time freedom and financial freedom.

I bet being able to spend time with the people I love the most is way more important that having the latest and greatest TV or fridge.
Literally all the engineers at the company went through the same process. For all the bitching and complaining an interviewee does, there’s probably a hundred people who just went through the process and got hired.

Suck it up, it’s part of the job. If you can’t do it, you don’t belong. Simple as that.
Voters can take it into account. But you can’t elevate legal technicalities above democracy. People will not trust the people administering the election laws over the people they voted for.

It’s a “who watches the watchers” problem. Many countries have tried to impose the legal system on elections and it invariably results in destruction of trust in both elections and the justice system.
Yeah I mean, of course technically that's not how it's supposed to be done, but if they initially added the code and the licence (the latter by mistake), then I can see how the internal narrative is "here's my code (that Roman has contributed to) and I accidentally added the licence to it - oops, let me remove that before we accidentally make it public".

Of course at that point they should have realised that they weren't the only author of the code any more and that Roman understandably would have the wrong idea. But I see how it's an easy mistake to make, and it would probably also have easily been resolved had Roman reached out about it, rather than just instantly making it public and implying nefarious behaviour ("quietly made a change...discovered by me").
Imagine someone from 4 years ago reading this comment and being like… what?
Recyclable or not, it's completely absurd that one-time-use cups are used for on-premises consumption in the first place. Given that it (surely!) takes vastly more resources to manufacture from scratch, transport to the place of use, and then dispose of an entire plastic cup than to rinse out a reusable container, there is clearly something desperately wrong with the accounting of the "invisible hand", which is meant to eliminate such inefficiencies.

I've no doubt that it "costs less", but in any sane world it shouldn't.
Dried fruits have the same amount of sugar as fresh, but all the fiber is removed so you absorb all of that sugar. When discussing the nutritional value of fruits and why sugar from fruits isn't "bad" for you, it should be assumed you're discussing fresh and not dried fruit.
yep, it is just a glorified markov chain
They're going to go corporate
Some, although I think that would need either lots of slingshots or really heavy planets. If there are many closely spaced planets it could work, I think, and the encounter cadence would be high.

If there are lots of planets in closely spaced orbits I'd think orbital resonances could force planets into elliptical orbits, which would drive strong tidal heating, as on Io (but more so, due to the much stronger gravity of the primary.)
Which service do you recommend as alternative?
King George III was "legally innocent".
FastMail, Dropbox, Apple iCloud (Photos, Keychain, etc)