skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I’ve seen startups trying to innovate in this space for many years now, and it’s surprising that absolutely nothing has changed.

I don't want to be too crass, but I'm not surprised people who can startup a business are precisely the ones who hyper-fixate on efficiency when hiring and try to find the best coders. Instead of the best engineers. When you need to put your money where you mouth is, many will squirm back to "what works".
I build workouts in Garmin Connect (web version). It's not great, but it works.
This is how I interview potential hires. I’ll admit I haven’t interviewed someone below a senior level in probably 10 years, so I interview someone that has a resume with experience that I can draw from. I read what they’ve worked on and just go from there. I hope I never have to submit someone to some stupid take home test or Leet Code interview.
It's example #7 on https://lastexam.ai/
I’ve personally witnessed many birds die flying into windows in a detached single family homes. Multiply that by ~3000 homes and 6k per year would be a massive underestimate IMO.

It’s uncommon with small windows, but a glass sliding door or big picture window regularly gets a thump. Some get back up, but many don’t.

I do live in an area with a lot of birds so that may be a major factor.
Gemini has had this for a month or two, also named "Deep Research" https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-resea...

Meta question: what's with all of the naming overlap in the AI world? Triton (Nvidia, OpenAI) and Gro{k,q} (X.ai, groq, OpenAI) all come to mind
> In Nature journal's Scientific Reports conference proceedings from 2012, in the article that did not mention plasmons or plasmonics, what nano-compound is studied?

Aren't there more than one articles that did not mention plasmons or plasmonics in Scientific Reports in 2012?

Also, did they pay for access to all journal contents? that would be useful
> Same thing with, like, "memory palace" stuff: being able to memorize a deck of cards is probably fun, and it's a nice parlor trick, but it will not help you solve real-world problems, analyze situations, make discoveries or be a better engineer.

> The way to do that is to just read books, study, work hard in your chosen field and keep up with the latest developments.

These are the same things, just a different form.
The Blue Stone (fully AI-generated music video)
I don't think it is an issue of individualism, but a rise of moral relativism and nonjudgement.

Growing up I never wanted to do meth because meth tweekers were disgusting and had the lowest social standing. My aversion wasn't from of pro social behavior, it was rooted in self-interest.

There is a difference between tolerating aberrance, and refusing to make judgements about the world and others.

That's simply how humans learn and function. You can look at the life of an alcoholic or tv addicts and say that seems horrible and I don't want to be like that.
But that's mainly due to how the PRC operates, right?

Like when the PRC threatened invasion when the UK wanted Hong Kong to elect its own leaders, then later they can turn around and say "the British never even let the Hong Kong people vote".

Some with Taiwan / R.O.C and it's territorial claims.
It is kind of gross, but so are many things in many books, including in that one (eg all of the disembowelings)

For me it is less problematic than it could have been, because: YT is shown to be naive, reckless and impulsive, and Raven (is that his name? I think so) is an awful person just in general. The author is in no way implying that sex for those two is a good idea, in any way. It's just a thing that happened in the book.

It's also not a sexy scene, so it's not written to be titilating (IMO), and it's short and it does ~something for the plot.
The demo on global e-commerce trends seems less useful than a Google search, where the AI answer will at least give you links to the claimed information.
> What do I care about the terms of the interview as long as they hire me?

well that's the neat part... they aren't going to. All this AI stuff just happened to coincide with a recession no one wants to admit, amplifying the issue.

So yea, even if I'm desperate I need to be mindful of my time. I can only do so many 4-5 stage interviews only to be ghosted, have the job close, or someone else who applied earlier get the position.
> 1% reduction in fuel consumption... will save $14 million dollars per year

Implying that the US air force spends $1.4 billion a year on fuel just for the C-17.
All that given, most people still live on the East coast, as in 80% past Nevada. Culture is arguable.

For Americans, there is a clear difference between what behavior might be normal in the bay area/silicon valley all the way to LA than it is for NY, Boston, Houston, Miami, Detroit, etc.

I'd even assert "most tech development" is just plain wrong. It's certainly where many companies are HQ'd, but those same companies have offices all over the states, and each one offers/specializes in different products.

It also depends on what you mean by "tech development" of course. R&D projects and new developments, maybe there's an edge. I have a much stronger feeling that more research is performed in the Boston -> DC metropolis than the equivalent (as in distance) metropolis spanning from LA -> Silicon Valley.
While we’re at it as the op of the post I’d also suggest people give ‘murderbot diaries’ a read. Lighthearted fun books is my jam and these are right up that alley.
> as we notice these things, we pass laws against it

Well, the claim is that that's the sort of thing that will get harder once humans aren't involved in most important decisions.

> which is we created all this stuff, and we can (and have) modified the system to suit human flourishing

Why did we create North Korea? Why did we create WWI? We create horrible traps for ourselves all the time by accident. But so far there has been a floor on how bad things can get (sort of, most of the time), because eventually you run out of people to maintain the horrible system. But soon horrible systems will be more self-sustaining.
He is indeed an extremly good actor .. wasted in some earlier US productions that bought him in for the Shakespearean Gravitas (pissed away by poor scripts in Eleventh Hour) .. but a shining light in various UK productions such as Petruchio in ShakespeaRe-Told.

https://thetvdb.com/series/eleventh-hour-us

https://thetvdb.com/series/shakespeare-told/episodes/375791
That wasn't even remotely similar to what is happening now.
It's a single small shop in Costa Rica

https://maps.app.goo.gl/icLLDdZxXw861bVNA
You’re being downvoted for some reason but I feel the same. It’s cool tech but I’ve found I often need to revert changes. It’s far too aggressive with tweaking files. Maybe I can adjust in the settings, idk. Also, it’s expensive as hell to run with Claude sonnet. Cost me like $0.01 per action on a small project, insane. At this point I still prefer the chat interface.
Ah, so glue plus mechanical linkage, if that's the phrase?
> Actually consuming content in any form is even better.

And going over pieces of said content in some sort of structured scheduled form isn't "consuming"?
I had no idea there was a market for "Compile a research report on how the retail industry has changed in the last 3 years. Use bullets and tables where necessary for clarity." I imagine reading such a result is pure torture.
Maybe that is the only one with open access
The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins
> It has little to no relevance in math, physics, and engineering.

This is more a lack of imagination on your part than necessarily an issue with SRS.
The last interview I ran was back when copilot came out.

My company at the same had been using the same coding exercise for years, and many candidates inevitably published their code to github, so copilot was well trained on the exercise.

I had a candidate that used copilot, still flubbed the interview, while ignoring perfectly good suggestions from the LLM.
Glue can be quite strong.

I remember hearing that the 26 ton ceiling collapse on the big dig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig_ceiling_collapse was because they used the wrong glue (epoxy, but basically the same thing).
I think that's mostly because of the access to information it has. Much of the highly useful information is not on the public internet or shows up on search engines, only domain experts know about them. Also, the websites may be paywalled or gated by login. So a better comparison would be if the models had the same level of access as an expert.
As a supermarket, they clearly sell more than just basic food products. They have cookware and more.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/icLLDdZxXw861bVNA
>I dunno why there is always the assumption in these threads that leetcode is being used

because it matches my experience. I work in games and interviews are more varied (math, engine/language questions, game design questions, software design patterns). I'd still say maybe 30% of them do leetcode interviews, and another 40% bring in leetcode questions at some point. I hate it because I need to study too many other types of questions to begin with, and leetcode is the least applicable.
> People aren't developers with 5 years experience, if all they can do is copy and paste. Anyone fraudulently claiming so is a scam artist, a liar, and deserves jail time.

I won't name names, but there are a lot of Consulting companies that feed off Government contracts that are literally this.

"Experience" means a little or a lot, depending on your background. I've met plenty of people with "years of experience" that are objectively terrible programmers.
Seems like a us-centric test is in order on our side of the pond
From TFA:

> This is the worst thing about these data trades that happen constantly around the world - each small part of it is (or seems) legit. It's the bigger picture that makes them look ugly.

No it doesn't seem legit to me at all. Any of it.
Candidates generally use it in one of two ways: either as an advanced autocomplete or like a search engine.

They'll type in things like, "C# read JSON from file"

As opposed to something like:

> I'm working on a software system where ... are represented as arrays of JSON objects with the following properties:

> ...

> I have a file called ... that contains an array of these objects ...

> I have ... installed locally with a new project open and I want to ... How can I do this?

No current LLMs can solve any of the problems we give them so pasting in the raw prompt won't be helpful. But the set up deliberately encourages them to do some basic scaffolding, reading in a file, creating corresponding classes, etc. that an LLM can bang out in about 30 seconds but I've seen candidates spend 30 minutes+ writing it all out themselves instead of just getting the LLM to do it for them.
Garmin should really embrace this. The alternative, relying on smartphone apps, will lock them out in the long run. The big advantage of buying dedicated hardware, like a Garmin bike computer, is having more control over your data.
For usaid they threatened arrest and fired them. what can you do
When the model was not trained on human creative output.

Art produced by an model that was trained using Google Street View might be an example.
Be warned anyone that uses this - it uses Garth (https://github.com/matin/garth) to authenticate. It masquerades as an Android app (a single instance of one at that) and does some hacky stuff to login via web forms.

Garmin is such a horrible company to try to integrate with. I don't know why they lock down their stuff so hard like this. And if you do manage to gain access to one of their offical APIs or SDKs, they are total dogwater.
I’m convinced Dan Brown read Foucault’s Pendulum and thought “cool idea, I’ll write two dozen sequels where the Plan is real and nobody is punished for their epistemological sins. Also what the hell is a semiotician? My hero will be a Symbologist!”
I have come to accept that most books are good at something, and maybe even a few things, but not so great at many things. I embarked on a similar "read the Hugos" adventure and much of it is great in a sci-fi premise - understandable - but the characters or pacing or unfolding story is meh.

Example, The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber [0] is a great exposition of gravitational effects when a planet-sized object appears in the sky nearby earth. Characters and unfolding story are meh. I pictured it as a C-grade 60's movie with stilted acting. But the way the earth was reacting and the moon coming apart was a great fictional invention and the way it was done was novel at the time!

In similar vein, Conan stories are great fantasy adventures with well described fights, battles, scenes. I've never found a better author to describe a fight - or a battle between armies - with enough detail to make it interesting and exciting and yet in relatively few words. I've also never read stories as sexist and racist... but I don't go out of my way to look for that I guess. I accepted it was written in the day it was and had to sort the wheat from the chaff.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21808426
Snow Crash is so hilariously, and intentionally seemingly low effort it couldn’t be pulled off without a lot of actual skill and effort. It’s literary modern art, and it is fun.
I find myself wanting to pause the podcast, go do research, write down questions, and basically debate with the podcast but there isn't a format for that right now.

NotebookLLM (horrible name) has been renamed to illuminate (less worse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfonzetUL4 https://illuminate.google.com/home?pli=1

You might look into tools that can let the AI listen/read/watch and then allow you to converse with the podcast.

I think in general, podcasts are pretty lousy format for learning, they are good for entertainment but not necessarily education unless the person speaking is really really good.
Lawyers, we need you explain the world right now.

Edit:

Do not flag this guys, this is our world. It’s very serious.
Don't search so hard for a product, build something useful and see what comes out.
This write up is fantastic
It's never been 30 minutes for me. Even leetcode timed exams tended to be 60-90 minutes.

recently I spent a good 10 hours making a crossword solver. Hiring freeze a few days after I turned it in. I completely get GP's mentality.
well, nothing is really ever lost
A small business owner doesn't qualify as "ordinary folk"?
But incomplete, since it doesn't address provenance.
A couple of counterexamples from a declining demographic is not much to flatly deny the article's entire case.

There are vast teams of marketers and data scientists hard at work making things like food and social media more appealing and addictive. Of course more people are, on average, going to get more addicted to them, even if a few fish have the willpower to swim against the tide or the money to buy the chemicals to do it instead.
Whatever your political beliefs can you at least agree that suddenly removing billions from the economy, by not paying or firing people, is reckless?

These are your fellow US citizens, not faceless robots or zombies in a computer game. They have lives, family, hopes, and a third of the country wants to put them on the streets? Why do you dehumanize with such fervor?
Maybe this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chur
This is the Disney play book - they would only release their classic movies on VHS for limited time before removing them from the shelves, look up the Disney Vault.

The long backward compatibility we enjoyed as kids was a bug not a feature
I don't think anyone is implying the author can't understand. The problem is with insisting that one doesn't have to.
sounds pretty illegal
GrapheneOS has that. It asks every time you install a new app whether it should have network permissions.
Taking tattoos to a new level? ;)
> Honesty gets your resume shredded before a human even looked at it

Does it? Mine is honest, fairly normal, and gets me through to interviews fine. What are common lies and why are they necessary?
YT's skateboard introduces the telescopic contact smartwheels pretty early on as a Courier essential.

I don't recall Hiro's motorcycle being much a part of the story, it might also have had the smartwheels but isn't discussed until later...
No this all tracks. Matches my own experience.
See also:

"Oh Dear, Did Someone Steal Something From OpenAI?"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/oh-dear-did-someone-st...
>but it’s usually still obvious once the interviews start when people aren’t interested in your specific company.

Can you really blame them? If you're not a houshold name, why would you expect someone to spend hours researching your specific company?

On the other hand, it can come off as creepy if your a small company and suddenly someone nerds out about how your CEO said this one thing at a talk years ago and knows your lead has cancer based on his personal blog. I'd rather just treat it as a transaction of my skills and services for money. We are not a family (multiple layoffs have taught me so)

> it’s effective and worthwhile to spend more time curating higher quality samples than to scatter and hope.

Not in this market. Too many ghost jobs, too many people ghosting after multiple rounds. Too many hiring freezes when you spend a month talking with a company. If you want respect from candidates, don't disrespect them.
> Stealing from thieves is fine by me. Sama was the one claiming that all information could be used to train LLMs, without permisdion of the copyright holders.

OpenAI and other LLMs scraping the internet is probably covered under fair use. DeepSeek’s violation of OpenAI’s terms is pretty clearly a violation of their terms and not legal.
The thing I found I grokked, and think is important from this article is that private browsing doesn't end this information flow. It only marks the JSON data blob as "asked not to be identified or collated" and its substantively an honour system. There are penalties (lawsuit against google for misleading people on the fact data was still collected) but the walls to breach here are low, given that non-PII can be crossmatched, to confirm "who you are" in some sense.

There is no such thing as "private" browsing inside the factory installed browser, with factory installed DNS, and any kind of location data, or other cross-collating information along with your IP. The loss of privacy may be contextual and somewhat statistical, but it would be wrong to assume you weren't identified.

What it does do, is let you see how bidding mechanisms in services like flights and hotels will change bid when the same location as you comes to request service and doesn't have the prior search cookie state. Thats useful I guess.

"find things at a different pricepoint" cookie monster mode?
using "reddit terminology" (not that there's anything good about reddit anymore but they do have the terminology), this post is about microsoft and the flag emojis, and up and down the thread are a zillion comments all about "it's generic territorial disputes".

I try to start a subthread about perhaps an alternative idea, and I get responses that are all about the same blather that's already everywhere else. People here have no intellectual subtlety: I wouldn't bother commenting to elicit responses that are all the same thing that's already here. Try to say something different. Make a case.

(and if you know anything about the history of Microsoft and Israel, no, it's not about Palestine. Ask any Israeli on here, did Microsoft drop flag emojis because of Israeli sensitivities?)
Just to put some numbers to lost revenue from other spending. UK VAT is 20%. 14B in direct spending + 1.5 Billion spending from avoided economic harm at 20% vat is 15.5 - 15.5 /1.2 = 2.6 billion in “missed” revenue.

So offsetting ~1.5 billion in harm is an optimistic net gain of 0.7 billion in tax revenue.
Sounds not unlikely...
To me moving from C++11 to 17 and then 20 was just a matter of convenience. When digging on how to do this and that I've found few things that just saved my time here and there. Also couple of valuable libs I wanted to use required newer C++ versions.
btw isn't this question at least really badly worded (and maybe incorrect?) the definitions they give for F and G are categories not functors... (and both categories are in fact one object with contractible space of morphisms...)
Honest question: how do things get unflagged? Do users at some level gain vouch privileges?
I love the stylised writing as humour.

It would have to have been revised, crafted, tweaked, revised into being. It reminds me of:

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...
It's mind-boggling how consistently almost everyone is confused about energy and power units and makes meaningless calculations and claims. People make this kind of mistake pretty much every time there's an energy story. Journalists too. It is confusing but a little red flag appears in my head whenever I try to do this kind of math.

It would be nice if we used energy as the main unit and energy/time for power like in SI. Rates seem to be more intuitive than integrals.
Interesting thought, but significant technologic “break throughs” almost never come from the private sector. A “break through” is just luck, and countless years working on a problem incrementally. That doesn’t typically return profits.
"High concept" doesn't refer to the elevator pitch being interesting or unique. The less interesting or unique the movie is, the more high-concept it is.

"High concept" refers to the elevator pitch being a complete description of the movie. Nothing in the plot that might take more than a couple of seconds to describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_concept

> High concept is a type of artistic work that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with low concept, which is more concerned with character development and other subtleties that are not as easily summarized.

> Extreme examples of high-concept films are Snakes on a Plane and Sharknado, which describe their entire premises in their titles.

Interestingly, this is exactly the opposite of what everyone assumes the phrase must mean, based on the ordinary meanings of "high" and "concept". Such is life.
https://archive.md/VK6uJ
That's fine. The ones who are "good cheaters" are probably smarter than many honest people. Think about those school days where your smartest peers were cheating anyway, despite teaching you organically earlier on. Those kinds of cheaters do it to turn an A into an A+, not because they don't understand the material.
17 is worth it for std::filesystem alone. It also has optional and variant.
You really should read Ice Station by Matthew Reilly. It's so bad its good. It has an attack killer whale the bites off one of the characters legs after launching itself meters into the air.
Even before LLMs were popularized, the shift to remote work made hiring awful in my experience. In finance roles, I had candidates who aced their tests and projects but then showed up to the job unable to competently use excel or write coherent sentences in English. Phone / zoom interviews all went fine, but clearly there was rampant cheating during remote projects.