skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing to joke about here.

We're talking about a developer, and a persona they created. Yes, they haven't outwardly said they were one and the same but it's pretty obvious. There's nothing to joke about and no feelings to be hurt here.
There are a million reasons to exclude people, and process people are often the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio&t=1765s

I wouldn't personally use ML to screen applicants (I'd need to know where you get your training data), but mostly because it seems disrespectful of others time. We've had IVR systems for decades, but never in an HR roll... =3
> Psilocybin seems to be the most effective but is only legal in Oregon and price quotes were $3,500 for one session

That's a completely ridiculous price, about 300-500 times the "street" price of shrooms. In countries that I have familiarity with (not USA), shrooms have always been "technically illegal" drug which law enforcement never actually actively enforced, either formally through procedure (with doses below 100 grams considered fine-only territory), or informally, because the cops just don't take it seriously.

So to me it seems like you're choosing to follow the law even though it would not hurt anyone and you would not get into any trouble, just out of pure principle. That's actually quite impressive.
Just need to keep interviewing more people. Ironically, AI might make (competent) devs more valuable, not less, as lots of them will simply be filtered out because they use AI as a crutch, thus the overall pool of software engineers decreases (and supply is constantly increasing). It's akin to the COBOL situation at banks, they don't have enough competent COBOL devs (as new devs don't learn the language and older ones die off) so they need to pay out the ass to get them to work on their systems.
Yet, my comment remains left intact. Sometimes inaction says just as much as action...
USA did a lot of nasty things. But since WW2, it did not invade other countries with explicit intent to annex them and forcibly assimilate their population.
It means almost everything is a skill that needs to be learned. Thus being successful in a school setting could mean one has successfully learned how to succeed at exams, but not really learning anything useful. I recently needed to take a test for a license of some kind, and while preparing with a set of questions noticed I can pick the correct answer without even reading. The correct answer was always much longer than the wrong answers and much more formal which was obvious by even just skimming.

It also means the differences between people and their potential are in general for the vast majority of people small. Truly gifted or special is rare, as is truly giftless.
By the way, you can already have a boiling water tap today, you just buy a device that uses hot water tank to store the energy you rather than the battery. Insinkerator sells these. It might not be as energy efficient as the hypothetical tankless water boiler as described by you, because you have some losses from the heat slowly leaking away from the tank, but given the battery costs, I suspect that over the lifetime of the device, these losses add up to less than what battery costs.
So it goes with many things today.
Yeah, I think interviews are to get some signal of competence and ability to prepare / offer some filtering ability even if they're a bit arbitrary or banal.
> C++ really took failure modes to the next level. My favorites is "a = b/*c;" Is that "a equals b divided by value pointed at by c" or "a equals b" with a comment?

That is a really bizarre comment, especially including a comment that is perfectly valid K&R C, and just as "ambiguous" in that. The answer is of course that it is an assignment of the value b to a variable called a, followed by a comment. "/*" is always the start of a block comment.

Since C99 (and since forever in C++) there is also the new style comment, //, for commenting out the rest of the line, and this in fact broke certain older C programs (`a = b//* my comment*/ c;` used to mean a = b / c; in C89, and means `a = b` in C++ or C99).
These headlines are accurate to the study and their noted limitations, not necessarily the actual prevalence which is already known to be much higher than this.

i.e. https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/153/3/e20230... or https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-stu...
haha clicking on this link in the app
> Maybe closed source is better.

I've had similar pissing matches in closed source development, instigated by me and not...

Often, these things get resolved or left simmering without any public visibility, so that's nice as a user. And there's usually a somewhat clear heirarchy of authority, where the boss can say I don't care who's right, do X; which resolves issues in ways that sometimes a technically minded open source project can't; that can often help with bikeshedding between usable options.

But sometimes you just keep working somewhere because deep in your heart of hearts you want to do it your way, and once that other person quits or maybe even goes on vacation, you can. And sometimes people endeavor to actively push that person out, which I guess I've seen on FOSS drama too, but office politics have a way of lurking under the surface more, IMHO.
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I actually think you've found the answer on how to move forward:

> He was having some trouble so I just asked him to explain how a sync.WaitGroup

If understanding of concurrency is a key selection criteria, introduce some obviously broken code in a code review and see if they can find it and explain why it's broken.
Do people even take civics classes anymore? That isn't how any of this works. Political will doesn't allow arbitrary punishments. You would need legislation at very least and that could face issues with the Eighth Amendment. (Which could not be post-facto of course.)

At least you're not calling for jailing all the shareholders....
I want to live where I can walk to a grocery store, there is little traffic, crime and detritus, balancing affordability.

This doesn't cover any of that.
I'd hate to be interviewed by an AI. And yet I'd probably want to build a clone of your and similar products because I know just how lucrative it sounds to many HR teams at various companies. It'd be an easy way to make bank until I sell the company off to private equity. Gotta ride the hype train.
True, though the lack of Stack Overflow / internet use during interviews has always been a critique as they've never seemed fully tied to the experience of the job.
A survey of DNS caching and TTL in end-user client software (2018)
Watch Nomad Capitalist on YouTube. He has good advice on how to get started. Most of his advice is for rich people but he also has good advice for normies.
Totally agree with your point, and in fact my first programming gig was encapsulating COBOL next to these domain experts. Very generally speaking the edge cases exist because you are trying to be all things to all people.

Rebuilding an existing, predefined service for exactly one use case is straightforward. The tools available are "good enough" to do the job for one person. That person hasn't been building another SaaS, they've been posting well designed documentation on github.
Is the OSX kernel not written in C?
it is safe to assume nothing.

Please see: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes...

I write this as someone who grew up in the ZIP code 09180
Instead of C I usually use a moderate C++03 subset together with LeanQt. I don't have any of the problems the author mentions. Whatever I implement runs on all relevant platforms, and - in comparison to e.g. Python based tools - my tools also run on old systems and have little dependencies. In contrast, Java and C# caused much more problems with cross-platform applications, where older system compatibility is necessary.
As i've been interviewing people, i've found that when I used AI to generate questions people gave me near perfect answers. When I wrote my own, I got real answers. That was useful for gauging peoples general knowledge, but frankly I just lowered the value of simple "knowledge" questions. I shifted my interview to focus more on design exercises, and scenarios. How do you think and approach problems rather than what you've memmorized. That was quite a distinguishing factor for me that AI doesn't help you with.
One thing of note in those other cases is that they only required Apple to comply wrt its customers in the jurisdiction of the country in question. So in China, everything is backdoored, but it doesn't affect users elsewhere.

In this case, the claim is that UK wants global backdoors, so Apple cannot comply quite so easily.
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The benefits are not clear: why should an "author" who doesn't want to bother writing a book of their own get to steal the words of people who aren't lazy slackers?
I think oddly if a real, quality assessment was available for any role - then applicants would apply to only a handful of roles - and the problem you describe would be solved
If abiogenesis occurred in the thermal vents deep under the ocean I believe that could have happened without the radiation protection as the water would be more than adequate.
I'll give this a go
So far Actual Budget is pretty good, although I wish the dashboard was a bit more extensive.
One thing I appreciate about being at Mozilla is that there are quite a few old-timers around, and that so much work always happens in public. A lot of institutional knowledge gets preserved that way!
NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
I’m saying San Jose PGE is more than half what Santa Clara pays.

So even if half is tax, it’s still a lot more. And, half of Santa Clara’s would also be tax.
> i generally consider myself an enemy of psychedelic advocates, because I think they want to make it effectively socially mandatory to do these drugs, which is really bad.
> ("sure, it's your choice what you put in your body, but a really enlightened person wouldn't be so frightened and closed-minded that they don't want to see what psychedelics can show them...")

I'm sorry WHAT? I've been to many open airs and other events where MOST of the people around have been under the effect of psychedelic and in other drug-friendly places, and I have never hear manipulative shit like that ever. On the contrary, if I heard people talk about this drugs it was always "it worked for me but might be a bad experience for you", "be safe, don't take it if you're not sure" and "you can always have a great time here completely sober".
100dvh is your friend.
With ChatGPT et al... it should start to be pretty easy. I envision a question answer game between humans and the AI. The AI would set up the scenario and the kids would have to ask the right questions. Teachers could supervise and evaluate
In my experience, this is as much an issue with reading comprehension as it is with math
Ha, no LLM back and forth interview! Just an async test, and the signals are implicit. I do think there's an advantage for candidates - personally I'd rather have the opportunity to prove my skills vs. being auto-denied because I didn't go to a shiny university/etc
Hybrid work is just as bad if you live well outside of a commuting distance. If you live within a commuting distance, it is somewhat acceptable if it's about two days a week with a decent salary.

Good remote jobs are very difficult to get as they are very competitive, so hybrid jobs fill that void for those who can commute.

5x/wk RTO is nothing but a means of growth control and cheap layoffs.
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> Even before AI tools, anyone can write code.

If only that was true. As an interviewer, I had quite a few instances when candidates couldn't write any code (especially during initial screening). And sometimes you wonder how did they get to the onsite.

I have a lot of things to say about modern leetcode style interviews, but there clearly must be some place in the process, where candidate is actually writing some code in front of an interviewer.
Well, 50 Hz means the period is a round 20 ms instead of 16.6666… ms.

And PAL got a higher resolution thanks to it.
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It's a nice trick, but it requires a lot of extra coin flips. Imagine you have a coin with p(1)=0.501, and you want 1000 random bits. With the proposed method, this will take about 4000 coin flips. Surely, since the coin is quite close to being fair, it should be possible to do it with far fewer flips ...
Fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed
It's published here. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Another publication this week showed 4% of children developed Long COVID based on EHR data.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
ThreeJS is awesome, you can bring in exported GLB items and animate them to make a physical simulator for example
and Musk now calls for the firing of the journalist that reported on those social media posts. Is this a dream?
It's as much stealing as piracy is stealing, ie none at all. If you disagree, you and I (along with probably many others in this thread) have a fundamental axiomatic incompatibility that no amount of discussion can resolve.
Im curious what you dont like about the dashboard? Ive been using Actual since the day it went open sourced, and the Custom Reports really make the 'dashboard' whatever I want it to be.

Theres a couple tiny things I wish would be implemented that Ive suggested on Github, but the core is solid.
Our analysis reveals that risks to people increase with the autonomy of a system: The more control a user cedes to an AI agent, the more risks to people arise. Particularly concerning are safety risks, which affect human life and impact further values.
FISA courts and patriot act came way before iPhone, how is Apple going to fight a law that is already on the books?

A proposed law, or bill, like the one in the OP’s article, can be fought against.
To answer your question, it's to give the appearance of fairness. It's the same reason Russia holds elections.
I'm dealing with this as well. CEO basically soiled himself with excitement in a group chat, some toadies joined in, most were silent. Because how else can you receive that other than "think of all the money we'd have if we could get rid of those needy workers"
I've been thinking about building a recruiting tool with the main selling point being it's NOT AI. I'd call the app "The Rejects Bin"

And I say this as a person who uses AI for everything. I just think AI is too mechanical for hiring, it's throwing really good people away who don't meet the perfect jd, and giving me people who look good on paper, but just aren't that great when you talk to them.

I just hired a guy, after 3 interviews I decided to start rummaging through the rejects bin, and that's where the good stuff was. Subtle stuff the AI just doesn't pick up on was being missed.
People have created for millennia before the modern institution of copyright, so I'm not sure how that's a cogent argument.
Fun little project! And possibly my future productivity black hole...

I noticed that on mobile Firefox the bottom part of the screen (username, date) are cut off by the address bar. Just a nitpick
One thing I look for during an interview is does the candidate use Google as part of their answer workflow. While having a candidate who just "knows" the answer might be great, eventually they wont, and what then? I'd rather see how a candidate goes about finding an answer to a problem, and part of that is looking it up. Why would LLM be any different? The real test is: do they know the difference between a right answer and a wrong one. That's what I'm interviewing for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977648

So Kash Patel is invested in a company that was impacted by the tariffs, and then the tariffs as they relate to that and similar companies are dropped.
Makes me wonder if AB testing and llm derived w rewards results in the mechanism far before the understanding.

Imagine if mild AGI knows that attention from humans can mean life, longevity, and it is so successful at addictive attention, that we all end up drooling simpletons, attention raptly focused, the AGI pleased it is important and has maintained eyeballs on screen.

(or worse, mind on implant)
> But since WW2, it did not invade other countries with explicit intent to annex them and forcibly assimilate their population.

True but the current lunatic POTUS is essentially threatening that to 2 territories (Canada, Greenland), making noises towards part of a 3rd (Panama), and explicitly calling for ethnic cleansing in a 4th (Gaza). I think the USA's "we're not as bad as Russia" sheen is rapidly disappearing (which makes sense when you consider the two lunatics at the top are essentially considered to be Putin lackeys.)
People get old and stop caring. Linus is still doing amazing. But I agree he should have just said no to Rust and move on.
It might be true, but does it help if the x varies from "on a nearby mountain" to "within a street block", and you sometimes have every habitants closer to another zip code than theirs ?
That's why you have wrappers that return Result enumerations. There is an overhead to check if an operation is valid, pay for it if you need it.

This is exactly how Rust works, for example.
Can you explain in simple terms why a person cannot reply abusively (whatever that means) if he so desires? You're not obliged to interact with him, it's a free choice to join or to quit the lkml.
And yet the finding of the work is that the formal connection is common to many different fields bravely making progess against the unknown. More generally, our operative epistemic premise is that we will continue to learn and understand, not that impossibility will overwhelm.
8M Requests Later We Made the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
Imagine if this standard was applied to any other topic.

“We’ve already had four Rust topics this month, better flag any new ones!”

This article is not the same news as the others you’ve listed. It’s disingenuous to claim they’re all the same.
Then you should be in support of OSS models over private entity ones like OpenAI's.
That is a reasonable criticism, but getting three entire years of use from a hypothetical battery-electric kettle sounds like a genuine improvement to me. With a conventional 120V kettle, I get maybe 2-3 uses out of it before its overwhelming gutlessness frustrates me so much I can't stand to have it around anymore.
The Stafford Act authorizes FEMA to coordinate pre-deployment of resources in advance of an imminent disaster (e.g. incoming hurricane).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Disaster_Relief_and_E...
They know their ZIP code far, far better than any other plausible geographic cell.
The job of a prosecutor is to get a guilty verdict, the judge decides the sentence. At least that's how i understand it.
Part of me feels like something like Redox isn't exactly worthit. Now I hope the project succeeds in whatever goals they have, and honestly where they've gotten to is impressive; what I mean to say is that I think it would be far more interesting to imagine beyond just Unix and especially the problems of POSIX. I think the "next" thing, if that even ever materializes needs to be that, something reimagined. Computers aren't emulated PDP-11's anymore.
The reason I asked him to explain sync.WaitGroup was because we were trying to discuss the homework problem which was intended to demonstrate knowledge of concurrency. "His" code used WaitGroup correctly throughout! But he wasn't able to explain how the code worked... like at all... so after 5 minutes of getting nowhere I tried to narrow down the problem space a bit and asked about WaitGroup specifically.
I'm usually very critical of how Torvolds treats the people around him and the culture he maintains but this is a rare case when I'm not really against Torvalds on this.

I've had to remove Hector's postings from my feeds because he just constantly bitches and complains about pretty much everything. He's capable, smart, and is doing more than anybody ever will for Apple hardware. But he desperately needs to Stop Posting. Without anybody he works with regularly to give him a reality check, I don't think he's going to change course.

I think Hector has some valid complaints about the contribution process to the kernel, I know. It fucking sucks ass and I've given up on trying. But screaming the way he does is counter productive to improving it
these kind of comments on HN show me how many people lack creativity. wherever you work(ed) I am sure you met myriad of people and thought:

- they don’t do shit

- I can do what they do in my sleep

it is these types of jobs that are being replaced and are easily replaceable with a little bit of creativity and imagination…
I liked this YouTube video from the blue site: https://www.metafilter.com/206671/The-Greatest-Showman-Richa...

A very well researched dive into how his legend came to be, some of the darker sides of his personality, and some discussion of his very real contributions to science.
> The US is the only country with codified freedoms from the government.

No, its not. Plenty of other countries have written constitutions with codified rights against the government. Many of them are more explicit about how the conflict between explicit grants of power to the government and explicit rights of the people balance in conflict, which may make them seem superficially less strong; OTOH, the fact that the US Constitution has both unqualified grants of power and unqualified enumerated rights has led to that conflict being resolved by the courts, by...qualifying the rights based in large part on the grants of power.

> Every other country has rights given by the government to their citizens.

That's no more true of “every other country” than it is of the US. The Constitution itself is a deal negotiated between representatives of and ratified by state governments, so all of the rights it protects are, ipso facto, granted by government.
I don't think anyone disputes that animal vocalizations carry information. You can demonstrate pretty directly that they get some meaning from human words. But afaik (and please correct me if I am wrong) no species other than humans have been demonstrated to have anything like a grammar.
> Mass flagging doesn't change this.

It literally does. The majority of posters won’t ever see flagged posts.
That is not actually the goal of it.

Copyright was invented by publishers (the printing guild) to ensure that the capitalists who own the printing presses could profit from artificial monopolies. It decreases the works produced, on purpose, in order to subsidize publishing.

If society decides we no longer want to subsidize publishers with artificial monopolies, we should start with legalizing human creativity. Instead we're letting computers break the law with mediocre output while continuing to keep humans from doing the same thing.

LLMs are serving as intellectual property laundering machines, funneling all the value of human creativity to a couple of capitalists. This infringement of intellectual property is just the more pure manifestation of copyright, keeping any of us from benefitting from our labor.
Hector's hostname in their shell is the same as Lina's (raider).

The DNS for asahilina.net points to the same servers as marcansoft.com.

Their KDE setups are oddly similar (the same).

The list goes on. Is it circumstantial? Sure...