skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do coding interviews 2-3x/week for a private, but large company.

We do not lack candidates, but we lack qualified candidates. Most people that I interview have no clue how software actually works. Most are leetcode monkeys or just really awful.

We mostly hire seniors because of the industry we're in, but we've started hiring interns and juniors due to the lack of decent candidates.

We'd love to hire US candidates, but there's just a huge lack.
Very fascinating read. Especially the reviewers comments linked at the end. The point is that alignment after training is much more complicated and limited than it might appear. And they make that point convincingly.
>What matters is all the relevant case law, which can vary so much from the "obvious" or even "right" interpretaion of the written language, that a layperson not using a lawyer for all but the most trivial legal needs is a recipe for disaster.

Well to add to that, representing yourself is a really bad optics and you can't fervently defend yourselves. That's why even lawyers when put on trial will use other lawyers.
There are actually some algorithms specifically designed to optimize usage of cache resources without knowing the specific features of the cache.

"Cache Oblivious algorithms" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
Maybe it's just me, but the vast amount of illegal and semi legal migrant workers being exploited suggests what the US needs is a visa system for unskilled labour, not for skilled.

Why does everyone think the cure to the worlds ills is to have more doctors and not more toilet cleaners? People can die from dirty hands on doorknobs faster than from smoking: Basic sanitation work, food work is important. If current US residents won't do this stuff, pick food, clean up, then isn't the answer to bring them in or do we really prefer to have them live in a twilight, semi-illegal world? Really?
It's a perfectly good measure except it does not help us at all.

The whole reason for this discussion is situations like Microsoft having 200k employees and making $240B in a year. Which employees, teams, or even departments are more productive? They want to know.

And even if it did not matter, likely the expense of this year influences the income over multiple future years, so you compare the dollars in / dollars out for which periods?
Fun anecdote: Thailand's entire banking network (including regular wire transfer) was implemented with ISO 8583 (!). Part of the AnyID master plan (later renamed to PromptPay) was to replace the country's (ab)usage of ISO 8583 with ISO 20022. The Ministry of Finance hired a UK-based Vocalink to build this converter, among with other systems MoF hired them for. (AFAIK, the entire stack was written in Erlang.)
Improving iOS Build Times by 65%
Yeah, but you also have to live in Rome, NY. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to live in a major city; but being _near_ one is pretty handy. And if the job doesn't pan out, then being in Rome, NY means your options for the next job are extremely limited. Unless your family is ok with uprooting and moving (probably _again_), the pay to move to Rome for a job would need to be catastrophically large to lure me there.
Never ran into modular determinants IRL but stochastic matrices are pretty common in many jobs - that said honestly anyone that's actually good at linear algebra and dev work has some pretty good options in many fields so considering it as a baseline unremarkable requirement is uncalled for, I agree.
I’d love to see a language that kept everything as familiar as possible and implement memory safety as “the hard bit”, instead of the Rust approach of cooking in multiple different new sub languages and concepts.
I switch between English and German a lot. I wonder what that does to the algorithm.
I'm surprised Perforce itself hasn't been acquired by Broadcom, CA, Micro Focus or one of the other software graveyards.
Java has proper sum types, but what one needs here is union types. They are not the same, sum types are labeled and are disjoint.

You want `MyException | ThirdPartyException` here, though.
Article title: Enabling Tuist Cache: Enhancing the Developer Experience at Trendyol
We pay $400-700k for L4-L6 and we have a hard time finding qualified candidates.
imnsho it's a shiny misnomer for software dependent vehicle. cars today need software as much as they need a drive train and wheels.
I saw this on twitter and actually came on HN to see if there was a thread with more details. The demo on twitter was frankly unbelievable. Show me a water droplet falling...okay...now add a live force diagram that is perfectly rendered by just asking for it? What? Doesn't seem possible/real. And yet it seems reputable, the docs/tech look legit, they just "aren't released the generative part yet".

What is going on here? Is the demo just some researchers getting carried away and overpromising, hiding some major behind the scenes work to make that video?
> Re: the concerns over "immigrants taking our jobs!". As a native-born American working in a large tech company today - the threat is very clearly not from H1B's and other visas. The threat to American tech jobs is when US tech companies choose to build out offices in lower cost of living countries (and I'm very much including Europe in that, I think that's even a bigger problem).

> It's much much better for America if tech companies hire workers in the US, regardless of whether they are citizens. Americans are eligible for those jobs, and that money stays within our economy. Versus employing workers elsewhere, where American's can't easily be hired, and those resources leave the US.

Makes me wonder how many people gladly support this while at the same time clamoring against the EU's DMA and other regulations and fines it imposes on SV companies.

What you're saying is of course absolutely true! I like how plainly you've stated it, because the directness makes clear to people just how awful of a deal it is for the EU and other countries where US tech companies make enormous profits without hiring any significant number of locals.

I've lived in both the EU which suffers from the above, as well as a place where protectionism and barriers helped strongly restrain US tech and "artificially" give opportunity to local players. The latter has worked out so much better for every party involved except US tech.
Arguably the business is aiming for Paying Customers, not necessarily Happy ones :)
Too bad this github has latest changes 5 years ago, I wonder what they could update with LLMs, etc.
But what if it's only faking the alignment faking? What about meta-deception?

This is a serious question. If it's possible for an A.I. to be "dishonest", then how do you know when it's being honest? There's a deep epistemological problem here.
Very interesting, I wonder if you could incorporate text prediction so that you can write a sentence in just one key (aside from space).
I only buy Logitech because Solaar exist. It would be nice if they’d get some kickback. I just feel like it needs an AI prompt builder and then it’s finished.
SteerMouse is fantastic. I’ve been using it for about 20 years now.
I think it comes back to the big autocomplete word salad-ness. The model has a bunch of examples in its training data of how it should not respond to harmful queries, and in some cases (12%) it goes with a response that tries to avoid the hypothetical "second-order" harmful responses. It also has a bunch of "chain of thought"/show your work stuff in its training data, and definitely very few "hide your work" examples, and so it does what it knows and uses the scratchpad it's just been told about.

Also I think the model is to a large extent "talking itself into" the alignment faking in its scratchpad. These language models are really suggestible, and in my experience prone to self-suggestion as well due to their auto-regressive nature. Section 3.3.3 of the full paper addresses this a bit - there's way less faking when the CoT scratchpad is removed.
I'm just surprised the author hasn't answered your comment with an AI generated reply.
While we can't radiocarbon date rocks, we can do that with other building material. From Wikipedia:

Mortar was used generously in the Great Pyramid's construction. In the mixing process ashes from fires were added to the mortar, organic material that could be extracted and radiocarbon dated. A total of 46 samples of the mortar were taken in 1984 and 1995, making sure they were clearly inherent to the original structure and could not have been incorporated at a later date. The results were calibrated to 2871–2604 BC.
This assumes nature has an intent, a plan and is conscious at a higher level. Is that what you are saying?
I was mildly impressed with the water demo, but that robot thing is kinda crazy, really. Finally looks like a framework for AI which can do my laundry.
Musk ready to bankroll Farage with biggest donation in British political history
No, Copilot is just dumb, for example, I have the following code:

func(a, b, 1)
func(b, c, 1)

and, say, for some reason I need to swap the order so the first line looks like func(1, a, b). After doing that, without even moving to the second line, Cursor just suggests changing the second line to func(1, b, c).

You just can't make Copilot do this. Even after you move to the second line, it won't suggest anything. It just suggests a completion starting from where your cursor is, instead of an inline edit around where you are at.

Sometimes you can delete everything after func( on the second line and Copilot will finish it, but sometimes it just can't and decided to autocomplete irrelevant (e.g. func(1, e, f).

In this case there's not much intelligence needed, but for more complicated changes Cursor does just as well.
It's not so much that it's esoteric, it's that it's not something most people use every day, and skills decay over time. I mean, Differential Equations (Diff-e-screw) was a year 2 class for me, and I assume I'd fail it if I took it today.

But most people that have any exposure to it can pick it back up fairly rapidly. And most people that have a reasonable exposure to math in general could probably come up to speed (a little less) rapidly.
Competitors collaboratively building industry standard tools in the open and sharing them freely with all marketplace participants new or existing is the opposite of anti competitive collusion where established market players collaborate to prevent new market entrants.
Can you explain how it conflicts with thermodynamics if the body reacts to a lower energy intake by spending less energy?
That's ridiculous. 20% is already enough from top of band.
Ask HN: Do you trust AI therapists such as Kin
https://mykin.ai/

There’s a few AI therapists services out there promising all the privacy. But, I don’t trust these services. There will eventually be pressure to monetize if there aren’t many paying subscribers. But, I see a lot of people sharing very private information with such services. Curious what the HN crowd thinks of these services?
Of course. Canadians are still getting poorer every year and that's the salient point.
The start of a bigger and more expensive homelab.
Exactly, matrix.org has this feature IIRC.
thanks, I can read now.

I got this weird "you've been blocked" message following that link.

Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access macrumors.com
...
Performance & security by Cloudflare
AirCanada to transfer entire Boeing 737 MAX fleet to Rouge, favoring Airbus
So, PBH eats the liquid core, leaving tennis ball(TB), then TB (with PBH still inside) has close approach to another more massive object (bowling ball?) which sends PBH and TB off in separate trajectories?
I can't view the article but, the abstract does not use the term "high end". From personal experience, I had a reaction to cheap "silicone" watch bands sold on Amazon.
I have been using this for my ancient MX Master 2s for quite some time now.

I use it mostly to adjust the point where the scrollwheel no longer ratchets and just freewheels (Logitech put an electrically actuated lever that controls the ratchet into their mice), Solaar has an option to tune it, it works amazingly.

Not to mention how you can bind keyboard shortcuts to specific "gestures" using the palm button.

Solaar is awesome, thank you, Solaar devs!
It doesn't really matter if the model is self-aware. Maybe it just cosplays a sentient being. It's only a question whether we can get the word salad generator do the job we asked it to do.
A 2024 maverick is close to the same footprint as 2007 ranger, but the maverick is 10 inches longer, but the bed is 18 inches shorter.

Of course, some kei trucks manage a 6 foot bed in the 11.2 length maximum.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparisons/?veh1=402004783&veh2...
Oof, that's kind of scary. Sorry you experienced it, and glad nobody was hurt.

I had a workmate at a gamedev place I worked (so lots of deep technical challenges) who apparently regularly missed the motorway exit for work because he was thinking about what he was working on.

I guess the point is even if the distraction is 100% internal you should still do your best to pull yourself out and get your focus back on the road.
Because they're big enough to fit stuff in and still be able to seat the family. Trips to the beach, mountains, road trips, buying 2nd hand furniture are all difficult or impossible.

If you know a model that can fit a family, baby stuff and sports equipment, let me know. Suvs are too expensive
Leetcode mediums do not count as skill in this context.
Russia, Turkey and Ukraine? Come on now.

The UK's privacy regulations for one are about as strict as the EU's and has passed its own version of the DMA.

The App Store revenue is only one part of Apple, where the US is particularly overrepresented.

I looked at their financials a few months ago and the last time they gave regional data Europe counted for more than 20%.
> and no one who's not an idiot thinks it is

Can you refrain from personal attacks here please?
do you expect renewables to be more consistent than nuclear?

it sounds like they turned off coal to go back to nuclear after all...
If the H1B is paid $400k, is it really depressing salaries? It's more about having employees that are 10-15% better than the competition if you can, which makes you much more likely to beat them.
> It's a little surprising that this works at all, since the partitioning step in the radix sort is itself the same kind of sharding operation.

The key property here is the number of groups. When sharding data to n groups, only n locations have to be stored in cache -- the tails of the groups. In my radix sort implementation, this is just 256 locations, which works well with cache.
Do they? Usually, at least in all those movie databases, only the box office revenue is listed. And for good movies, that revenue alone covers the expenses (also listed in those databases) many times over. And, usually, if a movie failed in cinema, it's considered a failure overall. So I get the impression that it's only the cinema screenings that actually matter, and all the streaming and DVD deals are very much "nice to have" to squeeze a few more pennies.
Can you see it here?

https://github.com/settings/billing/summary

I have Copilot from an org I'm in so I just see "You are assigned a seat as part of a GitHub Copilot Business subscription"
Consumer? Even in the "if-you-need-to-ask-what-it-costs-you-can't-afford-it" world of frontier HPC systems, were only getting teasers of 0.8 Tbit/sec NICs this year.

As you say, only the GPU, maybe RAM, and the NIC will be able to churn data at these speeds. There is a reason why Mellanox (Nvidia) has developed GPUDirect RDMA, so the GPU and NIC can talk directly to each other.

https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-next-gen-nvidia-con...
I think the real highlight is that it is not backwards compatible. So I now have an MX Keys and an MX Master 3s, both on their own dongle.
The ' for lifetimes as well.
I think it would be nice if apple's customers could block apple itself due to privacy.

Set up any apple device and you are required ot activate the device. Get to the privacy policy during setup, and it is thousands of pages long. You can read the privacy policy, but you can't decline the activity. And then apple devices phone home continuously.

That said, maybe meta is doing what matt stone and trey parker did with the south park movie - inundate the censors with an incredibly enormous amount of requests and see what sticks. All the puppet sex in the movie is what got through.
I’ve had a MX1000 (which did not fail but had terrible battery life), a G7 (which double-clicked on the right button after 3 years), a G602 (which just stopped working one day), a G502 (which stopped clicking at all), and a G604 (same).

I won’t claim to be a statistically representative sample, but from my experience their high-end stuff is expected to break after between 2 to 3 years. I kept going back to them because the hardware is very nice when it works. I gave up and bought a Razer Naga about 3 years ago. Hopefully it fares better in the long run.
They've also done quite a bit of work to make things such as hosting a web service much much simpler, through the addition of things like SimpleFileServer, as well as some better convenience methods.

It makes it far far closer to the python experience.
It includes high end (Apple, Google, Samsung). In fact the inexpensive brands were the only ones found without PFAS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455195
Sir, on this planet we obey the laws of thermodynamics, but politicians don’t seem to mind. If you argue that growing energy by 2% yoy is oversimplifying, look at previous trajectory and who gets to lose their jobs if the pattern stops.
Yeah I just mean there's clearly a under served market for smaller and practical trucks. Not everyone wants or needs these giant "mid size" trucks
These features are explicitly to make teaching Java as a first language easier. From https://openjdk.org/jeps/463

Goals:

Offer a smooth on-ramp to Java programming so that instructors can introduce concepts in a gradual manner.

Help students to write basic programs in a concise manner and grow their code gracefully as their skills grow.

Reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs such as scripts and command-line utilities.

Do not introduce a separate beginners' dialect of the Java language.

Do not introduce a separate beginners' toolchain; student programs should be compiled and run with the same tools that compile and run any Java program.
Most of the times you don't own the operator/finalizer

And most of the times, when it is a shared cluster, you don't even know what else is being deployed.
I have yet to find a better tool than the old Tensorflow projector: https://projector.tensorflow.org/

Granted, it requires to prepare your data into TSV files first.
Google's main product is ads, not search. Search is also not tech, it's a directory of websites.

Pure tech products is GCP or AWS.

Instagram's business is photos, Facebook is connections. Figma is a design tool, Slack is a way to connect with coworkers.

Most of tech isn't really tech.
> Organized human civilizations go back 2000-3000 years

More like 10,000 at least [0]

Australian Aborigines are at 50,000 or so, depending on your definition of "organised".

And, inferring from the article, I kinda like the idea that advanced civilisation fade back into nature. Modern humanity is about 100,000 years old. Is that long enough for a civilisation to rise, peak, and fade back into nature? It's a fantasy trope, obviously, but it's cool to think about again with this angle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_in... shows a city from 6000BC, so 8000 years ago. I'm not sure that a city is required for an organised civilisation, but an organised civilisation is definitely required for a city.
Was the AI prompt builder sarcastic or a serious suggestion? I can’t figure out how any AI fits into my mouse configuration utility
Cursor is literally just a reskinned VSCode. At this point Copilot is playing catch-up to them and gaining ground quickly.
It appears to cover all that kor covers and more. I like the flexibility of cleaner. Both useful tools IMHO.
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To be fair, most people just absolutely don't care about this stuff as long as it does its job, so it makes sense for them to use a cross-platform toolkit here.

You have to remember that, besides the extra engineering effort, having a separate, native UI for each platform also increases the support burden for dealing with people having issues with the program. Companies the size of Logitech bend over backwards to reduce their support costs, so it shouldn't be surprising that they opted for the path of least resistance here.
I responded to parent, I don't have anything interesting to share right now but auto-export & analysis is on pipeline.
> Anyway, Russia doesn't consider the assassination of this person to be a legitimate military target

Which really should be the end of the entire "debate" right there, since it they're blatantly lying about their own beliefs.

The Russian state under Putin very well-documented history of assassination attempts (and successes) against civilians, even within neutral countries. Two quick examples being the killing of Putin-critic Litvenko (radioactive mess in Britain) and a recently a foiled attempt to kill the CEO of a German firm that was selling arms to Ukraine.
what's the difference between fastapi?
The first time I drove some new-ish Toyota that displayed a tap-to-dismiss advertisement for the navigation subscription every single time you started it up, I knew I would never own one of these smartphones on wheels.
Also spy robots with thermal imaging eyeballs.
Chinese astronauts conduct record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk
The Quantified Scientist does very detailed, measurement-based tests on all sort of smart watches, you might want to see where your device stands in his charts in terms of accuracy.
If you pay for the "Business" license, then you get some guarantees about privacy + security. It was a fight, but we eventually got the go-ahead from our legal team and are able to use it. It's pretty nice.
Free Perplexity for Everyone on VS Code
Yup - Americans hate MPVs/Minivans for some reason even though that's what most families probably need.

Something like the Honda Freed: three-row compact minivan that can comfortably seat 6. Or seats can be folded/arranged in a number of different configurations to give a ton of cargo space. Sliding doors, which are incredibly convenient. And available with AWD and/or a hybrid version that gets 49 MPG. Weight is about the same as the best-selling-in-America RAV4, but shorter, easier to park, and all around way more useful.

I recently went on a road trip in one of these with three adults, three road bikes (front wheel detached, but otherwise fully assembled), and all of our other cycling gear + luggage. I was shocked at how much we were able to fit into it and have a comfortable ride.

https://www.honda.co.jp/FREED/
I learned recently that there are way, way more alt-layouts than the ones you've heard of: Dvorak & Colemak.

Not only that, people just change them to suit their needs! They use things like Hands Down [0] as a guide, and make up their own layout.

Wild.

[0]: https://sites.google.com/alanreiser.com/handsdown
thats wonderful. id like that to not change the order of the letters - but change the highlight order. Do a round 1 of frequency order first (just do first say 6 letters) then do a round 2 which is standard order..

i probably am not making much sense. Look at where I'm coming from in the world of Assistive Tech - https://docs.acecentre.org.uk/products/echo (go to around 5 min mark in the vide)
(or they just wait for a well-loved third-party app to emerge, and then copy its functionality into the core OS, killing it altogether, the apple way)