skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In more detail, in a glutted market with an unknown percentage of fakers, companies look for costly signals they can use to sort.

This particular signal also indicates a willingness to set aside one's individual ego in order to assimilate in the workplace, which is especially valuable to the companies demanding developers abandon good sense in order to push AI adoption.

If we want that signals to not be "a suit", it will need to be something else. But one advantage suits have is that they have served as that signal for so long that they are extremely accessible: just go to the thrift store, take what you find to a tailor and you are good to go. It is very easy to look up what is expected, and there are a variety of ways to trade money for effort or vice versa.

The highest-paying developer jobs have always expected programmers to wear suits to the interviews: in a recession those things previously only top payers could demand cascade down market. I don't love it, but I don't think this prediction is wrong.
They had a very toxic replacement though, basically grape juice sirup rendered down in lead kettles.
You’ll probably get better results if you use Google to search the site
One tweet wreaked havoc on the stock market
AFAIR keyword substitution of $Id$ included the revision number. That would be the commit hash in Git. For obvious reasons you cannot insert a hash value in content from which that hash value is being computed.
We get a few thousand fresh grads applying to us each year. It’s practically impossible to interview every one of them. At the same time, any sort of coding assignment we give is easily defeated by AI—so that’s not useful either and there are very few signals there.

What we do instead is send out a test - something like a mental ability test - with hundreds of somewhat randomized questions. Many of these are highly visual in nature, making them hard to copy-paste into an AI for quick answers. The idea is that smarter candidates will solve these questions in just a few seconds - faster than it would take to ask an AI. They do the test for 30 minutes.

It’s not expected that anyone finishes the test. The goal is to generate a distribution of performance, and we simply start interviewing from the top end and make offers every week until we hit our hiring quota. Of course, this means we likely miss out on some great candidates unfortunately.

We bring the selected candidates into our office for a full day of interviews, where we explicitly monitor for any AI usage. The process generally appears to work.

On a different note, things are just getting weird.
I've been using this app and its Android version for years (there is also one for iOS) and I've never found anything close. Too bad that the project seems to be abandoned. It's a pity, and a great loss that it was not open sourced. The app is still usable though, and I encourage you to try. Please let me know if you know anything similar. I am aware of desmos and geogebra, but I think this one is superior. Especially the graphics, 2d, 3d, vector fields and many more. Super fast, interactive, I really like the asthenic.
Someone had a PiDP-10 set up at the last Hacker's Conference. Damn it's a gorgeous machine. Your heroic efforts to recreate it in such spectacular fidelity are greatly appreciated by many!
I think in part, the difference in what I mean about certification (perhaps licensure is better word here) is an industry body - accepted and respected generally by the businesses within our industry - that will demonstrate some form of competence
I used AI to read it. Seemed only fair.

> AI is now a fundamental expectation at Shopify: Effective use of AI is required for all employees, and it will be integrated into performance and peer reviews. AI is essential for accelerating learning, improving productivity, and advancing business outcomes.

> AI must be integrated into the GSD prototype phase: AI should dominate the prototype phase of projects, enabling faster creation and collaboration. Teams must demonstrate how they can use AI before requesting additional resources.

> Commitment to continuous learning and sharing: Shopify emphasizes self-directed learning of AI tools, sharing knowledge and experiences with the team, and fostering a culture of experimentation to stay ahead in the fast-evolving AI landscape.
I'm disappointed in the Financial Times and I want you to know about it
I'm not sure what this has to do with AI, except for being a buzzword to add to a title.

People have been lying about their experience since time immemorial. You don't need an AI to do it, you can just ask a friend with experience to invent a few plausible projects you could have worked on, and solutions you might have found. Or just look at a bunch of resumes online and read a few blog posts of people describing their work.

I'm not surprised this happened. I'm surprised by why the author was surprised. Maybe "Sam" was exceptionally bad at "faking it" in person, but I've done tons of interviews where the candidate had exaggerated their experience and couldn't answer basic questions that they should have been able to.

Honestly, this is why some companies do whiteboard coding interviews before getting to the interviews about experience, because it does a decent initial job at filtering out people who have no idea what they're doing.
Well, everyone tells their interpretation of the facts in a way that puts them in the best light.

For example, in 2003, I was fresh out of college and the job market was slow. I applied at a retail store so I could have some beer money. I was honest that I was looking for a job in tech and that I wasn't going to stay forever. Then I said I'd probably be there for 3-4 months.

I was there for 2 weeks, and I don't list the job on my resume.

Was I telling the truth when I said 3-4 months? I certainly gave them the longer end of the estimate in my head.

Was I telling the truth when I left the retail job off of my resume?
simplewall is archived and unmaintained
This raises a fundamental question about the role of Art in society. If I want to see all the content in this film I will have to watch it the rest of my life. This is great if I'm making money off of the content but terrible if I'm just curious about Brian Eno and want to see a well assembled, curated interview with him. Producing content with an AI that will re-edit the film on each watch makes post production easy for creators but leaves the task of editing on the viewer, like ringing up your groceries at the market. So why then does content exist? Is it to entertain viewers, to attract eyeballs to ads or as an outlet to creatives? I'd argue it should be a balance of the first and last (ads are a necessary evil today, but creative texts were not invented to provide context for advertising). Work that is fan service often doesn't provide the outlet desired by the creative and work that challenges the creative often bores the audience. This seems like it falls in the second category. No disrespect to Brian Eno.
Proving that the AI can play Minecraft as well as my wife?
I am slowly coming around to the idea that nobody should ever use the word "understand" in relation to LLMs, simply because everyone has their own definition of "understand", and many of these definitions disagree, and people tend to treat their definition as axiomatic. I have yet to see any productive discussion happen once anyone disagrees on the definition of "understand".

So, what word would you propose we use to mean "an LLM's ability (or lack thereof) to output generally correct sentences about the topic at hand"?
By definition, a RAW container contains sensor data, and nothing more. Are you saying that Adobe is using their proprietary algorithms to render proprietary RAW formats in Lightroom?
What are some of the things you've gained from programming or tech?
That's a downside of using headers, not a reason for using them. If upstream git changes to help this, it would involve having those preserve the headers. (though cherry-pick has good arguments of preserving vs generating a new one)
Yeah fair enough. I agree Trump was elected democratically and he's acting on behalf of "the people" when he threatens to pull funding. Perhaps attack was the wrong word.
I want to disagree with you, but I just can't. Every simple example on the different ideas for managing state in React is easy and seems reasonable. Every application I encounter seems to quickly take that and just start laughing at me.
You need a sign to the effect, all unattended dishes will be found in the bin next to the trash can.
NixOS may end up being "the last OS I ever use" (especially now that gaming is viable on it):

https://nixos.org/

Check it out. The whitepaper's a fairly digestible read, too, and may get you excited about the whole concept (which is VERY different from how things are normally done, but ends up giving you guarantees)
i needed an "oh, that's really nice" story today. this delivered.

in every way, this seems well-intentioned, quirky, cute, fun, and positive. unless there's some subtext i'm missing, this is just a good and nice thing happening that's great for everyone involved.

nice to have a story like that these days.
That's not at all what's it's like to work with classified data, even deep down the subcontractor chain. They constantly drill into you to respect data classification and the consequences of ignoring these rules. Nobody ever does what you describe.
> Discussions about technology for its own sake, without considering its societal consequences, are impossible.

everything is political strikes again
Business Insider lost its way, somewhere.

I feel like their journalistic standards used to be fairly high, but they're like Forbes now. A shell of what they used to be, it seems.
Maybe the future lightcone denizens are of masters of physics. Perhaps one day they get bored of building Dyson spheres and decide to tap into the past for amusement.

Maybe they have unimaginable access to such vast energies that they can capture every photon that ever left earth and effectively reverse the lightcone.

Maybe they can sample the neural state of every lived human with exacting precision and wholly create the history of life on earth down to every single human thought and experience. Every neurotransmitter flux. If you've conquered galaxies and bent physics, perhaps this unimaginable resolution of observation is quite trivial.

Maybe they'll resurrect us. Hopefully into a world palatable for us, not some hellscale dystopia horror/torture simulator the quadrillionaires of the future enjoy putting us through.

Maybe that's you now. Being resimulated.

This is all ludicrous, implausible, science fiction fantasy. But maybe your next waking moment will be meeting the future. Hopefully they have something good in store.
This sounds crazy to me. What is the €25k for? Hell, what is the €1.5k for? Is there some advantage to this system when compared to the US one where I can start an LLC for $35 or a C-corp for a couple hundred?
At the library level? Not as far as I know…
Ahh I see the confusion now. I suggested it in the comment you were replying to:

> “1/2” concatenates with “1”

…and thought you’d spotted that and was saying others had disagreed with the concatenation way of handling + operators with strings.
The PiDP-1 and PiDP-10 are both absolutely gorgeous; while I'm glad to have modern keyboard and monitors and processors, I envy the past its style.
Apparently not, I guess I didn't read long enough to see the "I'll do it later" [0] link I could have clicked to read the rest. My bad, I saw something that looked paywall-adjacent and clicked my bypass paywall bookmarklet before investigating further.

[0] https://cs.joshstrange.com/N8CGjbkt
> Small M-dwarf stars ... operate through convection ... likened to what we see in a boiling cauldron of water.

> Larger stars like the Sun show a mix of radiative transfer – photons being absorbed and reabsorbed as they make their way to the surface – and convection.

> That enhances M-dwarf flare activity as their plasma is twisted and rotated, producing magnetic fields that snap open only to reconnect.

This is the first post I've seen targeted toward generic geeks that explained it that way. It makes total sense, is really cool, and I'm glad they wrote this article.
Referrals are near-worthless, you're wasting your money
I don’t know about Adobe. I never worked for them.
I’m the author. Let me clarify, as that was indeed worded rather vaguely in my post—I forgot to mention why exactly Android is at risk.

On the Pixel 7, Airplane mode absolutely did not disable those frequency spikes upon screen unlock. Only disabling NFC through the dedicated setting in the phone’s parameters did (Settings > Connected devices > Connection Preferences > NFC). This theoretically puts Android users at greater risk, since on iOS, Airplane mode does disable those polling signals.

It’s easy to see how an average user might assume they’ve gone completely dark by enabling Airplane mode on an Android device—when in fact, they haven’t.

I’ll update the original post with this information, and thank you for pointing it out.
Arc-AGI 2025: A research review
This can be considered classic now: https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/230327.n...
This looks fascinating! is there a link that would be a better intro to the project?
I'm assuming they can be reversed engineered?

We have a decompile of the BASIC, and the binary.
They are actually doing some of this on bluesky.

The AI and content moderation can do all sorts of things like “this is violent, obscene, rude, self harm” or “this is a Twitter screenshot and I don’t want to see these.”

Id enjoy it if it supported filtering out us politics from “both sides” altogether. (I’m not in the USA and I’m worn out on it.)

While I like these features; bluesky wasn’t my cuppa. I had not even been on there for four hours and somebody was railing on me for not enough info in my bio or whatever. I don’t use social media (or have a Xitter to “go back to”) and I’m not performing for anybody when I do… I settled on deactivating bluesky for some time to see if it calms down.

The features are promising but, a little too confrontational , “you ain’t from around here boy” attitude for me and that’s a different kind of “toxic” that I don’t need in my life.
Extended attributes (and resource forks) are mostly a liability and anti-pattern because of their non portability. It would be a huge red flag to find something important in there other than cases of backing up entire OS images.
> pkg-config to detect Lua installations

I have a strong opinion on this, as a Lua developer with some experience shipping Lua code.

Good third-party package management for Lua should function independently from the system-provided Lua installations.

It’s all too easy for newcomers to the Lua app-development world to tie themselves into some “auto-detected Lua” path that is, frankly, bonkers. It makes things hard to ship.

If you’re going to write a Lua app, and want to manage your Lua dependencies - use ‘luarocks —local’ and leave system-provided resources out of the picture.

Bundle Lua up front.

This is true of python, also: if you’re going to try to build an app that uses either Lua/python, one must take responsibility for building and bundling locally, and not using system-provided lua/python bindings.

Sure, use “brew —-prefix lua” to get things started, if that has to be a thing. Use pkg-config too, to build the “System/Package-Manager provided” lists.

One of the best practices for luarocks is to know and use the —-local flag with gusto and bravado, and include its artifacts in a larger app build/bundling target. This can be done in a cross-platform manner for all of the major platforms. Having a build target with a successful ‘luarocks —local’, for a locally built Lua and dependencies, does indeed rock. You can put everything in a .local/lua … and treat it just like any other linkable object resource.

If there is one solid rule for effective Lua development, it is: leave the system Lua’s alone, and build your own .local/lua tree, properly.

If you can’t do that, you’ll be missing out on the grand prize: being able to ship Lua with certainty that your Lua bundle will work, regardless of whats onboard the users’ setup … which is, after all, kind of a holy grail of the language, and therefore also a priority of its package management tools.

Another “Lua dev maxim” is, there are many Lua’s. There are reasons to use Lua 5.1 in a project - and reasons to use 5.4 and LuaJIT, too. Switching Lua’s is why I luaenv, but also, you can bootstrap a fresh Lua with CMake real fast, either as a project tool/binary, or directly to the VM abstractions, integrated into your app. A great Lua project has Lua 5.4 in the project, and both developer and end-user host binaries which include a Lua 5.4 environment, sandboxed, built from exactly the same sources. Bonus points for the Desktop/Mobile bridge getting crossed ..

So, depending on a system Lua, is repeating the same mistake prior lua package managers made, maybe. I have reached nirvana with luaenv+luarocks+cmake, personally.

I’m not suggesting lux not try to be self-aware on the basis of finding system standard tooling and libraries for its purposes, but that to be better than luarocks, lux will have to be able to handle —-local builds just as well ..

Luarocks is not just about being a ‘pip for Lua’, its also about having everything relatively tidy to support a fully local build and packaging target. With luarocks you can not use the system Lua, entirely - and that is a pretty significant use-case for luarocks, its utility in the packaging steps ..
Nikola founder Trevor Milton wants to buy the bankrupt startup's assets
Let's see how it plays out first. The intent is clear though

A reversal is possible.
$10k USD cash is exactly what a startup I used to work for would pay employees for a successful referral (hired and work in the position for some set amount of time). That seems to be the going price for a successful SDE hire as of the time of writing this comment. Here it just looks like the employee wants to pay that instead of the employer.

Note that I’m not commenting on the ethics or other wider aspects around why prospective employees might feel like they want to pay this, I’m only pointing out that the number is not unreasonable or abnormal
"coding error" makes it seem like some technical issue. Meanwhile, anyone in tech knows this is at best an administrative error and that there was no "coding" involved whatsoever. But you don't want to blame admins who are doing your bidding, no?

Anyone who really thinks this is "efficient" need to understand that they are firing the IRS during tax season and realize how absurd that is. It's like announcing a mass layoff the week before shilling our a product. You at least wait until shipping before the layoff wave hits
Because humans wiped out the mammoths, giant sloths, and a host of other megafauna. All those species survived millions of year, and numerous previous ice ages, but had no defense against human hunters. So as each area on earth was colonized by our species, the megafuana were quickly wiped out in that area.

I'm from NZ, and we had that event in our recent history. The islands had numerous species of giant birds, but these were wiped out quickly by the first humans who came here, just a few centuries ago. Same everywhere. We've been driving species to extinction for a long time.
The 'ghost reporters' writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa
Reminds me of "Divorced Dads" playing cards
It's a prediction of what humans have frequently produced in similar situations.
Like what, mess with social media and advertisurveilance? That will damage what's left? I really don't think so..
Original video and articles (in Japanese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m21OBCVPWo

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/842101

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/838709
3. This probably counts as copyright infringement, unless it's chatbot output.
A lot of US undocumented immigration is not people jumping the US-Mexico border but instead people from India, the Middle East, and China intentionally overstaying their Visas. Obviously they don't want to come during an administration that is hard on immigration.
I think the git usage patterns we've developed and grown accustomed to are proving inadequate for AI-first development. Maybe under the hood it will still be git, but the DX needs a huge revamp.
"“1/2” concatenates with “1”" != "1/21"
Improve at what, copying Quake?

That game has already been made, and even variants of it.
Deadly storms give way to rising rivers in flood-ravaged Midwest and Southern US
Paying directly for referrals that lead to an offer seems a natural result of how much the value of an internal referral has increased since the automation war turned its guns at job boards. Even with how much less a generic referral means now, it’s still a numbers game.
The first part sounds like what I’d expect a serious candidate to do. Didn’t you look at the questions we sent you?

The second part sounds like areal curveball unless you made it clear that the questions sent out were only representative/samples of what you’d ask.
Apple is the wrong horse to back on for this sort of thing.
There's zero evidence that the protests have had negative impact on support for Palestinians. The media is staunchly Zionist, you could make the case the protests have effectively counterbalanced their propaganda.
I mean, that's more or less the conventional process for mass assembling PCBs. We use CNC machines that place down each component before the boards roll down the line to batch soldering.

It would be wildly inefficient for large TV panels, and you probably couldn't get enough precision at a reasonable price.

It would make much, much more sense to produce them the way we do LCD panels. The entire panel is manufactured at once with a lithographic process. Ideally, you'd grow the LEDs directly on the substrate.

Then again, the process you suggest is almost what they lay out in the article. The LEDs and circuit elements are raster printed. It's still very inefficient as it takes a long time to raster over an entire panel
Apple Plans to Source More iPhones from India as Potential Tariff Fix
He keeps talking about how "everyone wants a robot buddy". I think that's beyond reasonable double. He clearly does not trust any humans these days.
I am very skeptical that chromatic aberration can be applied before a demosaic and then the result can be stored in a Bayer array again. There seems to be no advantage in storing the result of chromatic aberration correction in a raw Bayer array, which has less information, than a full array with the three RGB values per pixel. Perhaps I am not understanding it correctly?
Siemens is also huge in software.

AUTOSAR alliance is an organization based in Germany defining automotive ECU software architectures. Most automotive SW development is happening in Germany.
I believe companies would resort to paying individuals to give word of mouth or endorsements to friends and neighbors and anyone who will listen. Social media would be full of "I've just tried this and..."
Good idea. Those who will abandon the platform will yield their usernames to squatters making this thing implode even faster. Can't happen soon enough.

Or is this another lame attempt to keep users hostage on the platform?
Haha yep!
That’s literally what concatenation is.
Man, as a 6'5" guy I wish getting a suit was that simple.

> It is very easy to look up what is expected, and there are a variety of ways to trade money for effort or vice versa.

This confuses me. Am I doing manual work for my tailor? Am I tailoring my own suit?
CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels
I am not sure we can come to agree on what competence is.
Russian plans and acts in Ukraine do qualify. It is not just a war, the plan was and is to erase Ukrainian identity. Mass murders were and are part of the Russian plan.