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> The main issue that I see is that interviewers get extra picky with all the minor details and they fail candidates due to minor issues that would get solved in a code review or just with a bit more time

You see a "minor issue that would get solved in a code review".

I see a production outage.

You cannot rely on others catching and fixing your bugs. It happens, but it's all about probabilities. You want to reduce the probability that something bad will happen. That means not just relying on more senior people to catch problems in your code, it also means relying on you to be careful.
Aren’t they both owned by pompous rich dudes and private equity, like most companies? Tasty is the boot we enjoy licking.
They're assuming very quick transfers (rush hour service). But then again, a lot of transit planning seems to assume rush hour commutes are the only reason why it's there.
State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid
Ah I see, does require to modify the light though. But it's interesting to look at, thanks. I don't use Homey though, I use Home Assistant. So I'm not sure if it works with that.
That's the kind of edge case you need to talk to them about. How flexible they'll be about that kind of thing depends entirely on them - I've been lucky about that kind of thing in the past.
I think this is a large part of the problem with YouTube and the like. People seem to act like, because this isn't traditional media, then the creators must be more like us than them. Maybe that was true at the dawn of YouTube 15 - 20 years ago. But it's definitely not true now. The way these content creators work is a huge apparatus of media production indistinguishable from any other production studio in traditional media. Indeed, maybe if them even aspire to get into traditional media. Well, until they find out the raw deal the distribution companies want to give them, that is.
I think one of the major things missing from "LLMs as AGI" is the ability to learn continuously and incrementally, which is needed to learn a new skill (as well as to reason in the general case where you are learning as you go when facing a novel task).

If we're relying on pre-training for skill/knowledge acquisition, then the training set would need to include robot-POV training data for every task and scenario is was expected to succeed at, which seems essentially impossible even given a potential world simulator in which to train them.

Without continual learning, or being pre-trained for every task, past or future, it'd be perpetual groundhog day where you coach your robo-plumber to do a task one day, and have to coach it again every time the same task comes up. Of course most consumers aren't expert plumbers, so there is really no alternative than have robo-plumber come pre-trained for all eventualities or be able to learn on the job the same way an inexperienced plumber would do.

There are many other things needed to replicate animal intelligence other than continual learning (e.g. traits like curiosity & boredom, in order to drive an autonomous system to experiment and learn), but continuous learning is a big one. We've been stuck on "whole dataset SGD-train, then deploy" since the advent of neural networks, despite many smart folk like Hinton trying to find something better.

As far as things like flexibility, the bar is pretty high. The robo-plumber needs to be able to lie on it's back in a pool or spray of water while contorting itself in the cabinet under your kitchen sink to fix a leak when the water couldn't be shut off 100% ... the real world is infinitely more messy and challenging than any simulation is going to be, and the simulation isn't going to prepare the robot for the wet/greasy/slippery/etc physical environment in which it'd be working.

Never mind figuring how to build human level AGI (with learning, etc), having it operate in real time and be battery powered is a massive challenge. A car at least has the battery being charged continuously by the engine/alternator. Real-time response by a multi-modal LLM currently requires multiple H100's or similar - probably a few kilo-watts. There's no reason to suppose that even in theory it's possible to build a compact battery (or super-capacitor) technology capable of delivering that sort of power output for an 8-hour shift. There's more hope that future cognitive architectures, and realizations (dataflow vs synchronous?) might reduce power needed to what's available from a battery, but that'd be many decades away.
> No one’s last words are, “I wish I had spent more time at the office.”

Rich people love saying this.

I bet there are some dudes who die penniless in a gutter who do wish they had a bit more money.
Oh yes for Claude I use LiteLLM as a proxy to use it with OpenWebUI.

I'll try librechat too (never heard of it before) but I wonder if it has the same capabilities like voice and python tools. And ollama support (95% of my AI interactions are running locally)
When I needed to get permission from an employer I got it. Most of the time I was self-employed.
"AInetes is coming"
Hi HN! I wrote this to solve my own frustration with having a "single source of truth" for my CV, and being able to produce output in different formats. I wanted something that would:

- Be version-controlled and simple to maintain (hence Markdown)
- Generate both a simple website and a PDF
- Support automated rebuilds via CI/CD
- Be easy to customize without dealing with LaTeX
- Support a simple development workflow

The tool uses Vite, Marked for Markdown parsing, and Puppeteer for PDF generation. All styling is done with SCSS, and the JavaScript is vanilla - no frameworks needed.
I've been using it personally for a while and thought others might find it useful. Would love feedback, especially on the PDF generation and styling aspects!
The project is MIT licensed, so feel free to fork and adapt it for your needs.
It's more than I make, and I own a house! The idea that someone could be a big football fan, but would refuse to take a job making less than the equivalent of that magic $250k a year seems like such a misalignment* of values. I agree that you see it a lot on HN, and elsewhere.

* (pun not intended, but sort of proud of it now)
The computer scientist who hunts for costly bugs in crypto code
Gotcha. So your answer is to break up the republic because you don’t like some of the region’s politics.
> Be honest: if you were dealing with a monstrously complicated spec would you rather read straightforward code with comments like, "Have to special case -0 here, ugh" or see two lines that inexplicably make everything into base 15?

Unquestionably the latter. Especially if its behavior matched the spec flawlessly. Doubly so if I can demonstrably break it by modifying/removing those two lines.

I’m not totally sure why that’s controversial; of course, I understand that I might inherit this nonsense without the author around to explain themself but it sounds fun to be faced with that.
That last part is key. Way better than FizzBuzz from scratch, best interview results I've seen come from giving a candidate a pre-made solution or architecture document that technically works but with glaring issues and just talking about their opinion on it, coding or pseudocoding optional for presenting solutions.
Right. Simple test: check the throughput your database can do with bulk queries. Do a single query select of an xml or json struct that outputs the page rails would return (so one rendered page per row). Select enough rows for the query to take 1-10s to get a sense for rendered pages/second. Do the same for inserts/updates. If you're not close to what postgres alone can do with bulk queries, you're obviously not IO bound.

Other sanity check: nvme drives are ~10000x faster than hard disks were. Are you doing 10000x more useful disk IO than people were doing with hard disks?
Hm, maybe CPD has a CTA detail then? I thought there was (or used to be) a CTA police division that had their own uniforms, cars, etc. I seem to also remember a CHA police for the housing projects, but it's been a long time since I lived there.
I made one where you play with the AI a few years back instead of AI v AI but never posted it anywhere if anyone wants to try, just updated it to gpt-4o-mini https://wordswithrobots.isotropic.us/
But verbal between whom? How can one be sure they're talking to a human on the other end of an SMS and not a chatbot?

We already went over how this doesn't work more than a year ago with the $1 Tahoe [0]. Spoiler: no car changed hands based on that "agreement".

[0] https://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-dealer-ai-help-chatbot-goes-r...
I’m also getting old. I tried playing a few of those mobile, micro-transaction driven, pay-to-win games to see what the hype was. I couldn’t even figure out what I needed to buy, and thus could not really play the games. Now I know how my grandparents felt seeing computers!
This has made my day - just a tiny reminder we live on a ball
Of rock plummeting through space - awesome !
Everything is owned by rich people, is your solution to not enjoy anything?
It seems nice but every single time I see service allowing anonymous uploads like such I’m thinking immediately: criminal use.

How hard would it be write a protocol that uses relatively safe urls to encode messages, e.g. by ensuring that the ratio of emojis isn’t serialized URL, credentials to some stash or an encoded picture no one wants to keep?
EP astronomical satellite provides new insights into early universe
For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong
I think you just can't compare those 2 scenarios, 25 years apart.

Back then: We got the 2nd computer in the household in 97, exactly so I would not have to use the family (actually business) computer anymore.

Now: I mean ok, maybe it's already swung past a certain point that there is actually only one non-mobile device in the home, but the chance that it is the targeted script kiddie's machine (and not the important family computer) is so much higher.
I do exactly this, use LiteLLM to bridge it. In fact I use LiteLLM to bridge OpenAI and Groq too. Even though OpenWebUI supports them directly, with LiteLLM I can control better which models I see. Otherwise my model list gets cluttered up. I configured this back when OpenWebUI only supported one OpenAI endpoint but I kept using it because it's just quite handy.

And no it doesn't cost extra credits, isn't ignored and doesn't have hardcoded context length. It works perfectly.
Eat the peel: Why you might be throwing away the best bit of your fruit
A popular model of cosmic life and intelligence got it wrong
Twitter never paid top tweeters. The X attempt at payouts seems to be yet another component of making the platform worse. Mind you, Vine collapsed over a dispute with its creators.

People happily post on Bluesky or HN for free. I think paid content is a different genre, and we need to figure out how to get people to pay for it other than advertising.
Also, Google dropped "don't be evil" a long time ago. I don't feel ethically comfortable giving them money. I pay a lot of people on patreon more money than they'd make off me with YouTube ads.
Outcry in Italy over German board game based on Sicily's mafia wars
I think he means in Moneyball
I agree. Sanctuary cities are dangerous not just to themselves, which to me would be fine... if that's what you want to do, go for it. But it affects the entire country and every one around them.

It's amazing to me that people on the left find it perfectly fine to force US citizens to get a vaccination, many going so far as to saying that anyone who refuses should be held down and forcibly injected. For the good of everyone else.

But, they also on the other hand refuse to enforce national laws, other laws that can also greatly impact others around them. Criminals being let go on purpose to commit crimes again. There have been people murdered by illegal immigrants that have committed many crimes, caught and released, caught and released multiple times. Do they not feel some responsibility for this?

How can on one hand you want to force a COVID vaccination into someone that has been proven can't stop the spread, but you don't want to punish a repeat offender?

Nor do they care if immigrants come in without a vaccination, or ever get one.

Makes zero sense to me.
I don't think this sort of communication from guessers to clue giver is in the spirit of the game (at least in my play group). However, inflating later clues is a reasonable approach! It's just that I don't think you're allowed to communicate the amount of inflation. Guessers must determine whether people 5 has slack to allow additional guesses on previous clues.
Sign up for a $25/mo dedicated server on OVHCloud, you can use it as a cloud devbox, host your blog, ssh-tunnel for VPN, run projects like this on it, etc. You can still call AWS APIs if you want.
I agree with your point, generally, but after COVID-19, remote working is opening new use cases: I occasionally like to travel to somewhere nice, far away from the office, and work from there for a week, because I'm now allowed to.

So I too now care about a decent chair, desk and maybe even a tv I could turn into a second screen. Wifi can be there or not, I bring my own connectivity just to play it safe, this is now quite cheap. Bonus if the place is a couple time zones away from my office so I have my mornings or afternoons free.

I'm not a huge fan of AirBnB but it's been more reliable than hotels for a few of these factors: hotel TVs are locked-down and many won't accept an HDMI input, assuming there's a socket at all. Normally you're not offered (barring extravagant prices) more than just a bedroom, so the chance of table and chair being any good (or existing) are not so good), etc.
The movie does as well.

https://youtu.be/2msCS8dvSok?t=43
To be fair, that was also possible on some other 8-bit home computers of the time, but required the CPU to get involved (with tricky timing code to write the hardware registers at the right time). The 8-bit Atari's display list coprocessor is basically the daddy of the Amiga's Copper :)
Conservatives love echo chambers so much they're willing to eradicate trans people from public view entirely so they don't have to think about them.
It seemed like it was actually trivially easy to extend. I’m not saying it’s an optimal solution in general, but given the absurd requirements, I think it was well done.
This comment gives the impression of someone who’s either never filed taxes or who has filed taxes but is totally unaware of how taxes work, which is concerning. Best case scenario it’s just a troll
why does this logic make sense to anyone, ever?

someone does something bad -- by all means that gives whoever carte blanche to do whatever is just as bad or equally so to the victimizers.

This doesn't make sense -- even less sense when you realize that 'script kiddies' is anyone who ran an executable from an image board; you couldn't ask for a lower bar.

Half the people who downloaded the thing probably didn't even know what the fuck an IP address is, they probably shouldn't be the ones saddled with taking on the entirety of repercussion that was meant for the person(s) who wrote the tool.

tl;dr : I bet half of the '18,000' people were 11 year olds who typed 'google.com' or their least favorite AIM screen-name into the target criteria of this already half-assed 'tool', yet people act righteous for wiping their hard-drives as if they were the real culprit.

read : wiping the not-culprits parents hard-drives in many cases, I would bet.
So they are looking for people in the Venn diagram cross section of AI researchers and Arsenal FC supporters, of which I imagine there are very few.
It's not easy. The marketing and lobbying is against this kind of attitude. You are met with active hostility. Facebook will delete your account if someone reports you as not revealing your actual personal data to them and will try to get you an official ID. You can't post on twitter without giving your phone number (even though Russian bots have no problem with that). But it's worth it.
I wonder if the preponderance of digital technology has rendered us incapable of designing electro-mechanical devices like this. Is there anyone in the US who could even design something akin to a Curta calculator without reverse engineering one?
No problem! It took some extra effort. We had to post it a few times in different subreddits to get people to respond. What helped us though was offering feedback on their projects in return.
The other day I had ChatGPT come up with a parallel sorting algorithm that I could run in steps and it did pretty well, so I posted the code to DeepSeek and asked if it could make some improvements.

It created about 3 optimizations that sped up the code quite a bit and made a good suggestion regarding making the comparer generic. On the other hand it also created one small code error and suggested a parallel code change that would break the whole process.

Ignoring that I'd say that overall it's quite impressive though, from the way it displayed the changes and ideas to how it did it in the end.
That would cause a huge headache for the NYC side to be subject to FRA regulations, it’s a big part of why PATH costs so much to run
Anarchic dickbaggery is brand 4chan behaviour. You don't go there expecting ethics.

More to the point, I don't understand why you want to spank them for this now. Kids do stupid stuff and this is far less stupid and dangerous than a lot. Indeed a lot of no-effort hackers get burnt on this stuff and stop. I know people who tried and failed. Adding peril to the process scares off a lot of would-be bad behaviour.
The single biggest growth hack is getting that product market fit.
A Thailand nonprofit? Or only US nonprofit?
I wonder if he would still be doing the same pranks if it was just as profitable now as it was in the early 00s
How does moderation / censorship work on Pixelfed?
>Whether the smartphone with promising hardware will actually see the light of day, however, will depend on its crowdfunding campaign, which will start soon.

So it's not an actual product yet just some renderings.
How common is it that employers allow this? At my current job (in a mix of healthcare/academia) I can open source anything I want. In my previous job, not only couldn’t I open source anything, I was forbidden to use any open source code or even post questions on sites like SO (for fear it might reveal something about our operations).
You are also protected from malvertising.
Apparently, still in crowdfunding, and not available yet?

On the other hand, Sailfish phones (https://sailfishos.org/) are Linux-based, tout "Fourth generation security", can run Android apps (the killer feature!), and - most importantly - are available now.
I would have thought the stone tile would have shattered.
This probably doesn’t make sense at your particular scale, but colo space can be surprisingly inexpensive, and it’s kind of fun at least until you get bored. In my local not-particularly-cheap market, a full rack with 120V/20A, 1Gbps Internet, and more cooling than you probably need costs about $400/mo. There is no particular requirement to put rack mount servers in it, although something with remote management capability is probably a good idea.

You can fit a lot of storage in there, and while you won’t get AWS-level availability or durability, the price, latency and IOPS will blow AWS out if the water, as long as you're using those IOPS and bandwidth within the same facility. Similarly, you can fit quite a bit of compute, but you’ll start needing to pay for more power if you need more than a couple servers worth.

At your scale, Hetzner is probably a better idea.
You're free to add additional prohibitions on communication as a house rule I guess, but the only prohibition in the rule book I've seen is that the clue giver's speech must consist exclusively of clues (and private consultation with the other clue giver). The clue giver is free to adjust their clue in reaction to anything they hear, and guessers can speak freely.

Important: the clue giver cannot acknowledge the instruction during gameplay. That would certainly extend beyond giving a clue! The guessers must know that their clue giver can play this way prior to the game commencing.

Edit: I just consulted the rules and this is the most relevant section:

> If you are a field operative, you should focus on the table when you are making your guesses. Do not make eye contact with the spymaster while you are guessing. This will help you avoid nonverbal cues.

> When your information is strictly limited to what can be conveyed with one word and one number, you are playing in the spirit of the game.

The author's use of the pronoun "you/your" switches from field ops in that first paragraph to spymasters in that second paragraph, confusingly. With that in mind, it boils down to this: field ops cannot seek non-clue information from spymasters, and spymasters cannot convey non-clue information. The strategy I'm suggesting involves neither!
Of all the ML/AI researchers I know (20+), none of them are football fans. I suppose it could happen but I have not seen it.
Not sure if you intentionally obtuse or simply don't get it. There is no reason to be a fan of an organization whose main goal is to be making money, but there are plenty of reasons to be a fan of an organization whose main goal is to be better at a sport than other similar organizations.
They'll be given a couple of server racks with GPUs for their tiny London apartment, that should do.
In fairness, I get what you’re saying, but I think there is some legitimacy to it.

First, I believe that this term has been introduced by the us government, so it’s not the crackpots laundering the conspiracy themselves by using a new term.

Second, I believe the reason UAP was introduced is to describe properly recorded and credibly witnessed and described phenomena (tic-tac, etc) that are not explained by any publically known craft, engineering, or science, but aren’t likely aliens either; and that is well described by UAP which doesn’t directly imply aliens that ufo does.
IME the Rails ecosystem and community pushes teams into architectural decisions that don't scale quite well.

In small apps it's easy to keep track of the number of queries going to the DB per http request and their cost, but with bigger apps what I often find is ActiveRecord, services, policies, all calling the database way too much and too often.

Monitoring which individual queries are slow is easy, but it doesn't help if operations are overcomplicated. Even if you chase all obvious N+1s, you might still have "sets of queries that could have been joins" but are in different classes, so it's difficult to notice.
I miss those days tho
There was outrage for all of those things. Not by most Trumpers, no, and certainly not enough outrage, but there was and is opposition to all of the things you listed.

So many Liberals seem to have been emboldened by losing to Trump a second time into embracing bullying and letting go of what empathy and compassion that they had instead of using the moment to question why their party is so disconnected from so much of the country and why so many who are suffering would fall for Trump's lies instead of Democrats and the status quo.

It's not just that it's wrong to use your anger over a bully being elected as an excuse to become a bully yourself, importantly it's also a garbage strategy for trying to defeat MAGA down the road.

This recent strain of Liberalism and it's compromise is so exhausting. They sell out everything they're supposed to stand for and embrace things like fracking, the lie of migrant crime, they choose to proudly wear the endorsement of people like the Cheneys and expect to win elections by being "diet Republicans"?

It seems like they'll do just about anything instead of actually challenging the systems that cause common folks to suffer.
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