skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at the same company I think. I don't get why we can't just use some software that monitors clicking away or tabbing away from the window, and just tell candidates explicitly that we are monitoring them, and looking away or tabbing away will appear suspect.
DeepSeek now 23% of ChatGPT daily active users. And far more daily app downloads
It’s always the popular clubs that make the most rules
It makes sense. Having the right people with the right merits and motivations will become even more important in the age of AI. Why you might ask? Execution is nothing when AI matures. Grasping the big picture, communicating effectively and possessing domain knowledge will be key. More roles in cognitive work will become senior positions. Of course you must know how to make the most out of AI, but it is more interesting what skills you bring to the table without it.
Wow. I heavily rely on Google for work, wouldn't expect a candidate spend precious interview time googling though.
Sounds very fascist. I suppose it fits with the times.... very bad times ahead not unlikely.... Hopefully the price will be fewer than a billion dead bodies....
You can use an AI assistant to help you fix grammar and come up with creative reasons why you should work there.
again, one of them is refusing to do something, but the other is forbidding the doing of something. there's a huge difference.
All of those examples have no relative meaning. If there are millions of papers published per year, then 1000 cases over a decade isn't very prevalent (still bad).
> please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills.

There are two backwards things with this:

1) You can't ask people to not use AI when careful, responsible use is undetectable.

It just isn't a realistic request. You'll have great replies without AI use and great replies with AI use, and you won't be able to tell whether a great reply used AI or not. You will just be able to filter sludge and dyslexia.

2) This is still the "AI is cheating" approach, and I had hoped Anthropic to be thought leaders on responsible AI use:

In life there is no cheating. You're just optimizing for the wrong thing. AI made your homework? Guess what, the homework is a proxy for your talent, and it didn't make your talent.

If AI is making your final product and you're none the wiser, it didn't really help you, it just made you addicted to it.

Teach a man to fish...
Have many other projects put MPC servers (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) to use since it was announced? I haven't seen very many others using it yet.
> Whenever measured, twitter bias was right wing - it took much more for them to stop right accounts then left ones.

Was that why a chunk of left-leaning users famously left to form Bag, a "safe space" alternative to Twitter? Oh wait it was right wing and it was called Gab.

Doesn't really matter anyway. Twitter wasn't killed by bias, it was killed by a bored billionaire, but it would've been half-dead by now anyway like all social media sites, thanks to the usual cycle of enshittification.

> And you will blame everyone but musk and yourself for that.

You confuse me with someone else. I'm from the other side of the world, and my only interest in US economy is that the rest of the world kind of depends on the US keeping its shit together.

If you want to blame someone, blame people who have nothing better to do than to get endlessly polarized over non-issues, thus failing to come together to deal with the issues - and blame the industry that makes money off stoking this fire.

(And yes, we have the same thing over here, too.)
> it feels like there’s nothing I can do except do the same. Otherwise I’ll remain jobless.

Never buy into this mentality. Because once you do, it never goes away. After the interview, your coworkers might cheat, so you cheat too. Then your business competitors might cheat, so you cheat too. And on and on.
Fwiw just the country flags are 77kb if you use the Twemoji ones like Firefox does. Fancy shiny ones area bit bigger I suspect.
What if you're wrong? What if the apparently irrational behaviour hides a well planned policy that has desirable outcomes for someone?
Why aren't they dog fooding? Surely if AIs improve output and performance they should readily accept input from them. Seems like they don't believe in their own products.
Very very true! Give them a take home assignment first and if they have a good result on that, give them an easier task, without AI, in person. Then you will quickly figure out who actually understands their work
As someone for whom the answer is always 'money' I learned very quickly that a certain level of -how should I call it- bullshit is necessary to get the HR person to pass my CV to someone competent. As I am not as skilled in bullshit as I am in coding, it would make sense to outsource that irrelevant part of the selection process, no?
Evaluators neither but here we are
Man, the bugs they prevent. Vs everyone rolling their own multithreaded file reader/writer code in C. How many programmers would think to journal transactions and ship them for backup for example.

SQL or 15000 lines of C++ or Go or Rust doing whatever with files.
If it's pushed to Strava from another device (Garmin, Wahoo, etc) then you can download the original file, which will have all the data that the original device recorded. This may have auto pausing, may not.

On e.g. files that are uploaded from my Garmin watch, Strava adds its auto pause as a filter on top of the data: iff the original data doesn't have any pauses (Garmin auto pause not enabled on my runs), then Strava will cut out periods of time when you're standing still; otherwise it'll leave the data alone.
application or interview?

this is about application.
Benefits of an Open Network
I used to think creating a CHM was peak professionalism. I'm a mini Microsoft!

Actually I'd go back to CHMs for docs. A modern reader would be good tho.
The first thing I do is a simple format and check the formatted capacity.

Cheap, fake cards will often fail this simple basic test.

There are a number of readily available utilities to further test performance and reliability.
Also will they be happy to provide 200-400 word reasoning how answer to their question was evaluated for each and every candidate? Written by a human.
I am thankful that you take an interest in your children's activities.

From a very early age, we invited virtual strangers and machines into our home. Before my First Communion, my best friends were the Little Engine That Could, Dr. Seuss, Atari 2600, Mr. Rogers, and cassettes from K-TEL.

Typically parents may discuss with children what they saw on TV or read in a book, or how their school day went. Have introductions to friends and peers, get to know who we're hanging out with. Our parents seemed actively disinterested in our interior lives, and intent on doing their adult duties while we were unneeded.

It became readily apparent that, more than anyone else, strangers and machines were more interested in my activities and interests. There were no supportive or encouraging friendships for me in class or in the neighborhood.

And with human connection and relationships that broken, it was inevitable that we escaped into cyberspace and fantasies. In fact, I attribute my paranoia and fear/hatred of other humans to this. "Beat Me, Bore Me, But Never Ignore Me" was my motto.

We'd been adopted, and our parents were just in the lineup of caretakers for pets. We grew up to be excellent pets.
Amazon has owned goodreads since 2013.I have been using thr platform for many years, and the service has been good. Having said that, I haven't seen much innovation being built but that might be a good thing with this product.
Nix: String interpolation of directories gone awry
It's not the solution itself that is interesting to me, it's first finding out whether the person can go through the motions of solving it. Like reading instructions, submitting solutions etc. It filters out those who can't code at all or who can't read instructions. A surprisingly large chunk. If the person also pipes the problem through an LLM, good.

To then select a good developer I'd test communication skills. Have them communicate what the pros/cons of several presented solutions are. And have them critique their own solution. To ensure they don't have canned answers, I might just swap the problem/solutions for the in-person bit. The problem they actually solved and how they did it isn't very important. It's whether they could read and understand the problem, formulate multiple solutions, describe why one would be chosen over another. Being presented with a novel problem and being asked on the spot to analyze it is a good exercise for developers (Assuming software development is the job we're discussing here).

Just take the time to talk to people. The job is about reading and writing human language more than computer programming. Especially with the arrival of AI when every junior developer is now micro managing even more junior AI colleagues.
Because as someone who’s interviewing, I know you can use AI — anyone can. It likely obscures me from judging the pitfalls, and design and architecture decisions that are required in proper engineering roles. Especially for senior and above applications, I want to make an assessment of how you think about problems, where it gives a chance for the candidate to show their experience, their technical understanding, and their communication skills.

We don’t want to work with AI, we are going to pay the person for the persons time, and we want to employ someone who isn’t switching off half their cognition when a hard problem approaches.
I don't see any insults in my reply though apologies if it sounded offensive, my point is only to express the fact that ai would be a great tool for writing commits and though this project is no where close to being usable
maybe cause this is site is about technology and not politics?
Ask HN: What's your terminal workflow like? Need your insights
I'm curious about your terminal life—how do you use it every day?
USB Army Knife: Close Access Pentest Tool with VNC, Marauder, NIC, etc.
I feel like Dan Brown's stuff is overrated, but not in a bad sense. The hook of the books is very good, while the rest of it is standard "adventuring". So if you expect more than standard adventuring, you're gonna be left disappointed (I include very average prose in this).
Someone compared them to Cussler's work in this thread and I agree, the difference between the two is that Cussler never made the hook "cool enough" on the level of Brown.
If I want to assess a candidates performance when they can't use AI then I think I'd sit in a room with them and talk to them.

If I ask people not to use AI on a task where using AI is advantageous and undetectable then I'm going to discriminate against honest people.
Given that it’s coming from Josh Hawley, it’s entirely likely it was written by DeepSeek.
This is not at all obvious, and I'd argue it's untrue. LLMs are tools that generate plausible sounding text. If that text is correct, they might save you time, but if it's wrong, it's leading you down the wrong path and wasting time.

The less experience you have, the harder it is to tell how bad the answer is, which wastes even more time.
Huh? The Jones Act was supposed to help American shipbuilding. It's a requirement that vessels which operate between US ports must be made in the US, crewed by the US, and flagged to the US. It didn't help much, but that was the plan.

China's shipbuilding industry is so big that their aircraft carriers are being constructed by shipyards that make large cargo ships. Aerial photos show shipyards with drydocks full of cargo ships, with an warship or two mixed in.
US warships are mostly built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, and the Bath Iron Works, which don't make civilian ships. There's little economy of scale in US warship construction. Some years ago, the head of Newport News told Congress that if they'd order two carriers at the same time, the company would throw in a third one for free. Congress declined the offer.

The PLAN now has more warships than the US Navy. Fewer carriers, but that's being fixed. China's carriers are getting better. The type 001 carrier was a refurbished Russian carrier. The type 002 was a smaller ski-jump carrier. The type 003 was comparable to the US Kitty Hawk class. Whether the next carrier will be nuclear powered hasn't been announced.
> get good at things by doing them repeatedly and optimising

In an environment where information is shared freely and widely.

> So of course if we build a couple of naval ships every decade, maybe a giant train line every 30 years or similar, it will be done terribly.

That's a reasonable explanation but it's not exclusive. You can still face these challenges and not do a terrible job. There is plenty of evidence this is the case.

> Then there’s lots of hand wringing about how we can’t do this any more.

Of course we can.

> so far behind China in industrial capacity now.

We just don't want to pay first world wages for the work. The arbitrage has been beneficial for a few decades as long as you're not concerned about high quality capacity. Which is what you'd want for a war.
Not new they had that 5 years ago at least.

Anthropic interview is nebulous. You get a coding interview. Fast paced, little time, 100% pass mark.

Then they chat to you for half an hour to gauge your ethics. Maybe I was too honest :)

I'm really bad at the "essay" subjects vsm the "hard" subjects so at that point I was dumped.
Google's Geolocation Services used to charge 4$ for 1000 requests to their Cellular/Wi-Fi Geolocationing Service. Essentially you send a list of Wi-Fi MAC addresses and their associated RSSI values and get back a latitude and longitude with an accuracy metric. It was surprisingly good, when GPS wasn't available (sub 50 meters accuracy).
Cell carriers will gladly sell that information to apps. You can make calls to them over the cellular network (even if Wi-Fi is active!) and they will hand it back to you. No location services is required to do this.
Sam Altman has plans to develop a dedicated AI device to replace smartphones
Show HN: AI agents platform to tackle SEO
Sorry I explained myself poorly: I wasn't saying that a superette wasn't a supermarket, I was pointing out that OP curious remark about superette being a "small big shop" wasn't as contradictory as it seems.

Also, while we're digging Wikipedia: the French one points to the national statistic institute that have a definition of an hypermarket as "non specialized store that's over 2 500 m^2 in surface and make more than a third of their revenue from food".
Why would you serve dark-mode ads? Clearly you would pick the brightest option all the time.
> what does the left mean by "free speech".

One difference is that the left doesn't generally advocate for absolute free speech, so it isn't hypocritical. I think the left is generally more open about the areas where free speech shouldn't be absolute - namely, where it causes manifest harm, especially to underprivileged groups - whereas the right will use it in a doublespeak way where they claim to be free-speech absolutists while actually favoring only their own ideology.

But also, the main difference is that the left wants to protect speech that is factually true and punish lies, whereas the right wants to protect lies and punish truths. So even if the strategies were very similar, I wouldn't actually care all that much - you can still differentiate and make a value judgment. Scientists should lose federal grants if they publish made-up or obviously biased research; they shouldn't lose federal grants if they publish results that are inconvenient to the current president's fragile masculinity.

> does the left believe we cannot say scientific facts about biology?

No.

I'm guessing you're trying to not-so-subtly talk about gender identity/trans people. If you're trying to say that "there are only two biological sexes" is a true fact that the left suppresses, then (1) it isn't a true fact (according to literally the entire medical community), (2) even if it were, it's not relevant to gender identity (nobody questions that trans women are biologically male, it just isn't relevant), and (3) the left position isn't that you can't say such things, just that saying it makes you an idiot and likely a bigot, and it should be treated like any other hate speech: if it ends up causing harm (e.g., by inciting physical attacks on trans people, or getting them fired from their jobs) then there should be legal consequences (the harmed people should be able to sue you, it should be a violation of equal-employment laws, etc.).

> I'm not aware of any censorship regarding fossil fuels.

Have you looked at any news reporting lately? The Trump administration just spent half of last week stripping every mention of climate change from every government website, and threatening any research organization that takes public money against looking into it.

> the Sierra Club and Thunberg are able to say whatever they want in this country

The Sierra Club is a mess and a neutered shell of what it used to be, so nobody really cares what it says.

Greta Thunberg has been personally mocked and threatened by Donald Trump, so I don't think it's fair to say that she can say whatever she wants - I think she'd be in very real danger if she came here.
The most useful function is Arguments::fmt. “as_str” is just a shortcut utility function.
>Twitter had slight right wing bias

this is absurd
Being able to use string formatting without a heap is pretty cool.

Rusts string formatting machinery does not require any heap allocations at all, you can for example impl fmt::Write for a struct that writes directly to a serial console byte-by-byte with no allocations, and then you have access to all of rusts string formatting features available to print over a serial console!

I'm not sure about the horrifying and dangerous extensions part though, I'm not really a C++ expert so I don't know if there's a better way to do what they want to do.
slop for thee but not for me
When you type the code, you definitely think about it, deepening your mental model of the problem, stopping and going back and changing things.

Reading is massively passive, and in fact much more mentally tiring if whole reading is in detective mode 'now where the f*ck are some hidden issues now'. Sure, if your codebase is 90% massive boilerplate then I can see quickly generated code saves a lot of time, but such scenarios were normally easy to tackle before LLMs came. Or at least those I've encountered in past few decades.

Do you like debugging by just tracing the code with your eyes, or actually working on it with data and test code? I've never seen effective use of such regardless of seniority. But I've seen in past months wild claims about magic of LLMs that were mostly un-reproduceable by others, and when folks were asked for details they went silent.
I was surprised by this as well.

It doesn't help that in some cases, it would actually correlate. Take the example from the Wiki:

> high-concept idea, such as "what if we could clone dinosaurs?" as in Jurassic Park.

"What if we could clone dinosaurs?" can unroll into anything between some extremely cerebral biopunk (think "Change Agent" but written by Greg Egan) and sharknando with raptors instead of sharks. In either case, the "elevator pitch" would be good, succinct summary - but, if you were to give that line to people and ask them to imagine what the book is like, the answer would depend entirely on the level of interests and sophistication of individual responders.

Or, in short: if you like cerebral stuff and you hear a "high-concept" pitch, you're likely to assume the work is "high concept" in terms of being full of deep ideas.
> AI made your homework? Guess what, the homework is a proxy for your talent, and it didn't make your talent.

At least in theory that’s not what homework is. Homework should be exercises to allow practicing whatever technique you’re trying to learn, because most people learn best by repeatedly doing a thing rather than reading a few chapters of a book. By applying an LLM to the problem you’re just practicing how to use an LLM, which may be useful in its own right, but will turn you into a one trick pony who’s left unable to do anything they can’t use an LLM for.
While Trump may not invade Canada, he has already said that he wants to annex it and make it the 51st state. He "Truth'ed" it yesterday. His words, not mine.
I think it does, to the point where plugging in USB devices while Android has focus accidentally captures the USB device: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/778

If not, it's just a Linux container, so with some udev rules you should be able to make it work regardless.
An individual's sex condition *coincides* with the type of gametes it produces. Gametes are used to determine (in this sense, ascertain) sex because it shows the reproduction strategy.

> which is ( counts slowly 'cause can't understand stuff real good ) one, two, three buckets.

Humans are not hermaphroditic, no mammals are. Not sequentially, not simultaneously. (In fact, the way that sex development occurs it cannot happen, but that is going to be too high level for this discussion, clearly.)

> Gametes (egg or sperm) can mix-and-match with other sex markers—commonly, chromosomes, genitals, sex hormones, and secondary sex characteristics—to create a mosaic of sex traits.

Traits do not define sex, gamete size does (see above), adding them all up will not change that.

> People can have both ovarian and testicular tissue (an ovotestis or gradation of cells)

And only one reproduction strategy, which is why there are no human hermaphrodites, having both types of tissue does not mean there is possible gamete production, as evidenced by the total lack of any actual hermaphrodites in all of recorded human history, if not a knowledge of the process itself.

> People can have ambiguous gonadal tissue

Completely irrelevant.

> It is common for all types of gonads (female/male/intersex) to lack gamete production

Also irrelevant. Someone who has finished their fertile phase still has a reproduction strategy in place. Someone who has a disorder still has a reproduction strategy in place. Someone who is not disordered and still in their fertile phase yet not producing gametes right now still has a reproduction strategy in place.

There are only two reproduction strategies in humans, and only one in any individual, and only one is possible in any individual, and it cannot change.

> Maybe tone that down a notch or three.

It was an accurate observation, which you have only gone on to prove further.