skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You want to hire experienced (or even senior) candidates and filter for domain knowledge? 1. Filter on experience & referrals. 2. Conversations: same approach as with the juniors, but much deeper and wider, relevant to your domain. 3. Call at least one reference to counter-check.

The reason I don't believe in (1) is that the candidate I described in my previous post claims nearly fifteen years of experience, some of it as a lead, and completely bombed our entire interview. Referrals are another matter (and they are indeed an excellent channel when you can get them), but they tend to be pretty low-volume - if you're hiring from the general public at all, presumably referrals didn't get you what you wanted.

By the same token, the majority of people we've placed so far were people whose resumes didn't particularly shine - but who turned out to be very good engineers when given an opportunity to actually work on a problem. (That isn't just my opinion, it's the opinions of the companies that hired them.)

For (2), I agree. We do do that as well (coding's one of three parts of our interview, not the whole thing).

For (3), have you ever had a reference give a negative review? A lot of companies make it outright policy to do so, and iirc there are legal restrictions on employers doing so in a lot of places. I wouldn't trust that with any reliability (although it's still good practice 'cause it's cheap).

> I've seen more rejected candidates because of "soft skills" failures than because of technical skills. And much more fired for behaviour than for technical/performance issues. Domain knowledge can be trained, fixed and integrated within the company. Behaviour cannot.

Of course soft-skills matter! I never meant to imply otherwise. But soft skills will only get you so far if you don't know how to do the fundamental responsibilities of your job.
I don't think that they'd go as far as scanning mailboxes, the return on the effort doesn't seem worth it. More likely the person you were connected to added you to an address book (or perhaps their mailer added you automatically) as someone they have dealt with before. Some anti-spam measures use a source address existing in a connected addressbook as a whitelisting clue.
I think they have some interesting innovation, like the gigapress, which greatly reduces complexity of the manufacturing system and the time of a car through the assembly line. Which reduces cost drastically. But Cybertruck is just a brainfart.
> To me working remote means I can live anywhere I want. Why not live where you get a lot more for your money?

Sadly that only goes if you don't intend to leave your house for anything but grocery shopping.

If you'd rather hang out with friends at a concert and a pub after, you're stuck with the wanted and expensive places.
If you work twice as long as most, make code which is dubious/broken, take initiative out of sheer personal opinions and have to spend time the next day fixing your mess, that would be the definition of a 0.25X programmer.

It took you 4 times as long to bring value to the company, you had lot of enthusiasm but were not using it right.

Being a kX (k > 1) means that you need to work fewer hours to accomplish the same amount as an average developer. If you then got to spend more time to fix your stuff, that counts against your time budget.
He will take us away, on a spaceship, to a shining city on a hill - on another planet. Humanity shall reach escape velocity from its problems, we will have StarTreks, we will go on a adventure! You goto believe, that the future will be bright, if you do not believe in that.. then it all comes apart at the seems.
While he doesn't explicitly say it, I'm going to bet that the renovation, and likely even just the essential parts (roof, rewiring etc) of the renovation cost considerably more than that.
Wasn't the initial selling point of AWS to provide reliable and easy to use services using commodity hardware?
Why OVH and not for instance Hetzner?
It's used in Sweden, at least.

Source: Me, having lived there most of my life.

Second source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Swed...
> It had the best network effect because of its real name policy

I think it was the best network effect because it started as an elite network in US universities and propagated from there.
(Last month there was a crackdown that freed over 7000 call centre slaves in Myanmar.

In that operation those freed actually ended up in a kind of captive holding situation https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/myanmar-sc...

The article mentions that the call centres in Myanmar were targeting Chinese and Americans, so although the call centers are very far away the people they are scamming might be a lot closer. Its a very international problem.)
All a matter of perspective, I suppose. I'd call that the middle of nowhere, but I've always lived either in a medium-sized (>1 million people) city or its suburbs.

In particular it doesn't seem to have public transport at _all_, at least per Google Maps; I'd consider anywhere where your only option to get to a city was to drive to be serious middle of nowhere, though I gather that this is a more common condition in the US.
Not quite the same, but in the UK there was a chain of high street jewellers called Ratners. In the early ‘90s Gerald Ratner, the founder, made some jokes about the low quality of the products at a talk for the Institute of Directors, including famously comparing them negatively to a prawn sandwich from Marks and Spencer. Unfortunately the talk was videotaped, and was all over the news shortly after. It killed the brand, and lost Ratner his job, although it didn’t kill the company as they owned other brands like H Samuel that they pivoted to.
Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted coding
This generates Flutter whereas rork generates react native.
Moving to a new country with a different national language has given me a direct personal appreciation for what Dunning Kruger feels like from the inside.

Some may parrot for tribal reasons, but there's a huge number who have a superficial knowledge and it simply doesn't occur to them how deep their ignorance is — tribalism is one way critics are equal to fans in Musk's case (and not just that Musk's fans are parroting his shallow criticisms of everyone else), but the DK part applies to all of us. Even me pointing at P/E ratios here is merely one step up the ladder from looking at the share price, it's not a deep analysis, just a santiy check.
Maybe it’s humor, or maybe when after one comes of as a jackass with a freudian sentence - a pitiful attempt to brush it off with “haha, it’s a joke”. The line is thin.
That new 'desktop' from framework appears to be just that with the AMD Ryzen Al Max 385
just when you thought blockchain-bros couldn't go any lower
As long as it's a low level language and developers are active in maintaining the project, it's fine. It will be fast enough and stop making anything frontend related atrociously slow.

The reason a good part of the community would have preferred a rust port over a go one is stability.

I'm tired of software that crashes or misbehaves; having a good type system and good memory helps reducing the chance of that happening.

The perfect example of this is bun.

- Nice to have TypeScript running by default

- Nice to have a lot of new APIs

but the segfaults are HORRIBLE. I still have to switch back to tsx (most reliable way to run TypeScript files without hassle nowadays, don't touch node-ts) every once and then because I get.

I've never had that with deno and deno got a fraction of the development (and never really established itself, plus the go-like http import were terrible - I woulnd't recommend deno overall, bun still wins)

Software written in Go is not as bad as software written in Zig, but I still got enough problems with go dependencies that I try to avoid them if possible. I dropped software by Ory and Sentry because of this.

Of course it's possible to write nice software in any language: I've never seen Redis segfaults, for example. Docker has been good to.

But not every project can have the amount of resources needed to get there. With software written in Rust the chance I'll get something working are higher.
So according to you Albania is massively richer than USA?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...
The DMA allows Apple to take "strictly necessary and proportionate" measures to ensure that alternative apps do not "endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system". IMO iOS notarization (which is a different and more involved process with many more rules than notarization on macOS) goes well beyond that, but it's up to the EU to decide.
That explains some of the experiences ive seen at small companies! From my pov it was "design-by-resume." People wanted to play w tech for their next job, with less concern for what the business needed.
There is no such thing as simple CUDA C API, that is the mistake most folks do when talking about CUDA.

It won over OpenCL, because it is a polyglot ecosystem, with first tier support for C, C++, Fortran, and Python (JIT DSL), plus several languages that have toolchains targeting PTX, the IDE integration, graphical debugger, compute and graphical rendering libraries.

All of the above AMD and Intel could have provided for OpenCL, but never did when it mattered, not even after SPIR was introduced.

Now they finally have GPGPU support for Fortran, C++, Python JIT DSLs, but a bit too late to the party, because contrary to NVidia it isn't like those tools are available regardless of the card.
> so we decided to migrate Hopsworks Serverless to OVHCloud - but we kept it in North America where most of our users are to maintain existing latency to those users.

So this has nothing to do with USA regime having access to data stored with USA companies. It’s just cost.
Sweden used YYYY-MM-DD before ISO 8601 was even written, and many other countries use it too.
Many years ago when advance-fee email scams [0] became common I was likewise amazed that anyone would fall for them. Then it was pointed out that the seemingly obvious warning signs were a feature and not a bug, they are there to filter out everyone with a minimum of common sense and ensure that the scammers, who are casting their nets wide, only get responses from a few people but those people who do respond are quite gullible. The pig butchering thing is just a different filter meant to trap a different kind of vulnerable person.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
too hard

and when trying to do a slingshot it's easy for the mouse to go outside the app and then the shot gets stuck without firing
There is a web site that shows how to use modern techniques to make Prolog less procedural:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog
This is absolutely not what I would have expected.

I love Paul Graham but he's always criticised the EU for having too much of a heavy hand regulating things and 'stifling innovation' while there is plenty of room for nuance here -- the EU can be doing both. I think this suggests many in YCombinator are not as 'Libertarian' as they originally thought and there small mindset change happening.
If they can prove it in court. Would be much easier to do for a LLM than for a human one would think.
Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
LLM usage is still gaining traction. OpenAI may not be on top anymore, but they still have useful services, and they aren’t going under anytime soon.

And time spent dealing with laws and regulations may decrease efficiency, leading to increased power consumption, resulting in greater water usage in datacenters for cooling and more greenhouse gas emissions.

Controlling demand for services is something that could stop this, but it’s technological progress, which could enable solutions for global warming, hunger, and disease.

It’s a locomotive out-of-control. Prayer is the answer I’d think of.
I must have talked to 20+ Model Y owners by now, and no one has regretted it. So much so that I gave up my CarPlay requirement and bought a Model Y because the price and reputation (within my circles) was so good.

And 6 months in, I cannot complain. I would have spent $15k+ more on a Highlander or RX and I don't think I would have gotten any extra utility (other than CarPlay), and I would have gotten much worse torque. And I would have had to wait on a list for when Toyota randomly sent the color and model we wanted, and we would have had to bat down attempts by the dealer to charge more, and spend 3+ hours at the dealership.
The web site appears to be down at the moment. (12 07 UTC)
First time I hear someone claim RDS is cheap. What specifications do you have in mind?

Scaleway costs approximately 51 % less, looking at on-demand postgresql instance with 8 GB RAM (db.t3.large vs. db-dev-l).

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/?pg=pr&loc=3

https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/managed-databases/#cost-...
Insert catastrophic failure

> Still love the truck, thanks Elon!
There's a video embedded in the article which points out the problems. But there's also a recent follow-up video where he tells what Tesla had to fix, and it's pretty concerning. It was more than just those panels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8FC4yF_68
It would be interesting to determine whether the serum cortisol differs between those living in spoke nests versus those without.

My assumption is that it is indeed elevated, as the “residents” are constantly mindful of their movements (and therefore more stressed) to avoid being poked.
Hopsworks has a platform with a high-availability database (RonDB), a highly available distributed file system (HopsFS) and the services are also redundant. Hopsworks even supports failover to another region. So the software is very reliable. But given that, OVH is a proper cloud vendor and not only a budget hoster, so it has fault tolerant services as well. We use other European companies for budget hosting of our development systems.
>but up immensely compared to France and the UK (which do not)

Have decent sick pay, france seems to pay 20%, UK like 10ish%, makes complete sense that such countries would have less sick days.

>I mean just google. For example:

This is the kind of mediocre dataset I dislike, going to their datasource ( https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_411-2700-abse... ) half of germanys neighbours have not reported data for 2022, the graph they use for "EU" seems to just use the data from 2020 and stretch it over to 2022 because thats where the WHO dataset ends.

For example if you check out slovenia in the dataset they have a huge spike in 2022 (similar to germany) but went down a lot in 2023, Germany has no 2023 data so we can't say whether germany went down based on the WHO dataset.

Two papers linked in the article show germany going down to at least 2021 levels in 2023, yet this does not seem represented in the graph.
Good question.

I'd also like to hear more detail (budget, time, people and skills) on
real cases.

When I had research students I set a few of them doing studies on
migration, degoogling, data "repatriation" (ick!) and all the things I
think we now call "sovereignty". But there was lots of theory and
precious few solid, documented studies. There were also hundreds of
propaganda pieces and Google/Microsoft/Amazon shill pieces sowing
disinfo.

Surely that's changed now and the economic realities are clearer?
When I actually see Cybertruck used to tow something - it will be noteworthy because I never seen it yet.
Musk likely wants to inflate the Tesla share price. He sells "visions of the future". This was always his way; FSD, low-cost trips to Mars, solar roofs, self-driving taxis and semis, tunnels everywhere to solve traffic, NeuraLink, hyperloop (sigh!)... and it appears robots is now his next tool to get publicity and increase TSLA.
As one who is nearing "elderly" status, what I have learned not only in myself but from others who are my age or older is that younger people tend to be much more upset by the reality of aging than older ones. We've had years to come to terms with and plan for the inevitable future.
Are you maybe falling into the trap of being surprised at other people not yet knowing what you know? "Today's ten thousand" as it's called in xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

If you're not already jaded with the topic, it's really interesting! There's a lot of detail and nuance to it, and yeah, there's some satisfaction in seeing the bad guys get foiled for once.

This particular investigation doesn't actually mock or denigrate the scammers. The author sets a strict rule at the very start:

Techniques not people: the aim of this is not to identify the individuals behind the scams, it's to see how they work.

That doesn't actually rule out mockery, but they don't engage in it anyway (beyond a "cheeky bastards" aside, which in any case is more about acknowledging their chutzpah).
So only if you're hating your job then you are a bastion of free will and free thinking among us mortal capitalist slaves?

What about truly enjoying your job and getting paid handsomely for it (compared to almost all other jobs) being sufficient to one's happiness?

Also, if you don't realise that being the one running the show is orders of magnitude harder than following the lead and doing your stuff then you never really done it before. Having ALL the control has advantages and many less obvious disadvantages.
I know at least some countries further East used it as a matter of course, but I wasn't aware any countries in/near Europe did.
I recently read mathematics for the nonmathematician.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281821.Mathematics_for_t...

Although the math in the book is relatively basic I enjoyed it tremendously because it gives the historical development for everything and even describes the characters of different mathematicians, etc. The historical context helps so much with understanding.
Such bad faith. Videos of people fucking are bad and moral to censor but neonazi memes must be protected? That's the twisted logic that is currently leading your venerable democracy to its death.
Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1k% success
Hyundai change their OS every other year, no chance of long term software updates.

Rivian's spin off to licence their OS may end up being the Android of cars to Tesla's iOS
Spikes are only uncomfortable if you sit on the spiky end.
> I noticed that there you have more masonic temples than churches in every city.

... Eh?

The US probably has more churches, as in physical buildings, per capita than anywhere else in the world.

Freemasonry isn't a religion, though it has vague religious trappings, but in any case it's fairly absurd to suggest that there are more masonic buildings than churches in the US.
You don't need to have insurance for the vast majority of care, yet it gets used as such. Let's drop that nonsense, it tangles up the billing process.
Attractors (1993)
It is probably true that in a majority of those land areas (Finland, Sweden, Norway) you are more than 45 minutes of driving from the next proper city.

However, the proportion of people who live like that is not very high. People mostly live where other people live.
You're missing the third option - these are harmful to the US. A lot of our propaganda, efforts to overthrow other countries, and other such efforts regularly backfire to a spectacular degree. For instance do you know the history of Iran? In the 50s it was a relatively moderate and secular democracy. But they got into a conflict with the West over demanding a greater degree of control over their own oil reserves (which we were exploiting at the time).

This motivated the propaganda to drive civil instability which was eventually exploited into a successful coup. [1] We then replaced their democracy with a pro-western puppet monarchy. This obviously was not especially well liked by the citizenry. And then in 1979 they had their own real coup, revolution, or whatever you want to call it against our puppet. [2] And this is when the hardline Islamist government took control who not only had a strong dislike of the West, but also this paranoia that we were always conspiring against them.

If we simply treated them as a sovereign nation instead of a plaything to be exploited, there's basically no chance Iran would be this Islamic extremist sect today. They may well even have ended up having positive relations with the US. And this isn't an exception, but a constantly recurring theme. Al Qaeda came about from our backing Islamic extremists in Afghanistan to try to get one off on the USSR.

And now after years we finally successfully overthrew Assad to replace a secular dictator with a worldwide wanted terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head, who we're now framing as a moderate extremist or whatever - even as he is genuinely actively carrying out acts far more egregious than even the most outrageous of our allegations against Assad. How do you think that relation's going to turn out over the next 20 years? It doesn't take a prophet to know the answer there.

It's all extremely myopic and destructive not only on a global level, but even a purely self interested one.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_revolution
Seems like every car company that wasn't electric only was polluting us more on purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal so they're all evil
Also while I’m getting down voted by a bunch of folks that have never driven one… Supervised FSD is getting very very good. I use it most days to drive and very rarely have to disengage. It is significantly better than the other driver assistance systems that I’ve driven. It’s come a long way
One obvious benefit of OVH compared to Hetzner is the S3 storage, the Kubernetes framework and a number of other services provided by OVH, don't think Hetzner would provide those services.
> it's how to embed a useful prolog in a 'modern saas microservice' if you will.

Incidentally this is something I've looked at long time ago and things pointed at SWI Prolog https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=embedded

The target language for my case was embedding within PHP, that would have meant enough expertise to embed the interpreter, hook it into the PHP runtime, and expose it in the language through some interface. Way over my skill level. Should be certainly doable with any language that can interface at the C language level.
Where can I buy this book? I'll get one now, even if I never read it.
Confused me too.

Did AMD not know?

Or did AMD know and not care?
Don't worry Zuckerberg is a free speech crusader. She can post all her criticism directly on Facebook and it won't be removed, whether it is true or not.

Oh Facebook is taking her to court to block her speech? Hmmm..
After three years working with them, I think that AWS is an ok-ish business to work with... they are expensive, and things "mostly" work, and you start noticing all those other digits after the "99.999" or whatever of reliability that they market. But you (mostly) pay for what you use.

But they are the next economic recession waiting for Europe. It's my understanding that there is no legal basis any longer to transfer personally identifiable data to AWS servers. With the cooling of relations between USA and Europe, and the budding trade war, it's just a matter of time before cloud services become the next weapon. And huge European enterprises depend on American cloud businesses in hyper-critical ways.
Maybe Musk can convince Congress to put subsidies on Tesla. Making it the American Trabant.
He also mentioned using the basement for "gatherings" and that immediately set off my cult-alarm bells!

Pretty jealous to be honest, the building itself looks beautiful.
Huge fan of your channel! Great content.
https://www.cars.com/research/ford-f_150/recalls/ 109 recalls
For now. Nvidia is starting to package everything and eat the whole DC market. x86 is not looking so great outside of legacy use cases.
I don’t know where you’re getting your news but this simply isn’t true