calabin

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by calabin 2y ago
I like this - a huge part of our engineering work is ETL pipelines so giving them some data to process makes things a lot harder to fake.
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by calabin 2y ago
This screen is after the "walk us through your resume, explain what you've built" conversation, where we ask them about specific challenges, decisions they made, etc. Everyone who has made it to this screen has already spoken
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by calabin 2y ago
Contribution to OS projects would allow us to bypass this screen altogether, but great point. Haha we might have to switch to Rust just to ease our interviewing woes here - we're primarily a PHP/Laravel shop, and have tried to be
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by calabin 2y ago
Having the GPT answer beforehand would allow us to confront them about it sooner, but at that point we're definitely not hiring them since they thought it a good idea to use an LLM to cheat on questions they should be able to do in the
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by calabin 2y ago
This is an interesting direction - especially benchmarking against GPT and telling the candidate we are. Do you have any suggestions about the type of questions we could be asking here?
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by calabin 2y ago
I disagree with the carpenter-hammer analogy here pretty strongly. We're basically trying to figure out if they can code generally, or if somehow they've skated by in their last positions without the fundamental skills of programm
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by calabin 2y ago
Not really, since failing FizzBuzz basically ends the interview. That said, Pascal's and Non-Primes allows us to do a few minutes of basic, "that looks great, what are some ideas for optimizing it" work together once they hav
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by calabin 2y ago
Great point on the Sieve - knowing it off of the top of his head wasn't itself a red-handed indicator of cheating, but claiming that he'd used it in a B2B SaaS app was. Especially given that he wasn't able to explain how he&#
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by calabin 2y ago
The screen we are performing here is a basic "can you program" type of evaluation. We've run into a number of people with seemingly-decent resumes (several positions as engineers at reputable albeit non-FAANG companies like i
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by calabin 2y ago
This is generally what we do and what raised our suspicions in the first place - they both could "walk us through" their code, but had trouble explaining why they did certain things, how they could improve things, etc. We thought
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by calabin 2y ago
We're definitely not doing any "Leetcode style" interviews over here - these are basic "can you perform basic programming tasks as you've stated" type questions.
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Ask HN: How do you guard against ChatGPT use in technical interviews?
5 points by calabin 2y ago|30 comments
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by calabin 3y ago
How do you reconcile recent extreme weather and weather events with your apparent view that most climate reporting is fake? Or that recent years have all been the hottest in modern human history? Your comment isn't very useful, and not
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by calabin 3y ago
They probably should've called the game a bit earlier - or at least significantly cut things back
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by calabin 3y ago
Yes I found this out the hard way just last week - thought I was being pretty clever with my inside-the-box packing label.
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by calabin 3y ago
This is very cool. I like how simple it is, and I think this is a nice first step towards making LLMs long-term useful for the layperson.
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by calabin 4y ago
This does exactly the opposite of that. Reading the text of the bill, every part of it, especially Section (B), is couched in the principle of "not interfering." For Example: "A PERSON WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF POLICE CONTACT MAY
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by calabin 4y ago
I think that one major issue here is that while you and I likely have the time and other resources to go fight something like this if it were to occur, many of the people for whom this law will be most relevant (areas where the most police
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by calabin 4y ago
I've been (lightly) thinking about this with regard to digital identity. One of the few use cases that I find very compelling with regard to blockchain/web3 tech is as a means of ID/auth much in the same way that many sites n
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by calabin 5y ago
I think the argument is less that the grill on a truck is especially bad in the case of a pedestrian collision, and more that the limited forward visibility provided by a high front grill results in a greater likelihood of not seeing pedest
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by calabin 5y ago
There are a huge number of more focused + results-oriented boutique consultancies out there. I run a very small and technically-focused automation consulting firm, and have a number of colleagues at firms in the 30-150 person range that do
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by calabin 6y ago
We're in the same boat - fortunately we're a small company so it's not going to be brutal to switch if we have to, but we're huge fans of the privacy and encryption features and it would be a disappointment to have to go
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by calabin 6y ago
To be fair, all of the Enron shorts lost their shirts until they didn't. I'm not saying that TSLA is an Enron, but using performance thus far as an indicator of likely performance into the future is a famously poor idea. TSLA has
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by calabin 6y ago
You worked on a project like this? Sounds interesting! Are you able to tell us more, or if it was ever implemented?
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by calabin 6y ago
Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, the apartment complex has an exclusivity agreement with CenturyLink. Cox and others have expressed willingness to pull cable into my unit, but the management company just won't allow it. It's
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by calabin 6y ago
I just moved to Phoenix from Chicago - even in a major US city I'm forced to use DSL by the apartment complex I live in. I didn't think I'd have to check to see if I can get broadband because it seemed insane to think that it
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by calabin 6y ago
Yea, I've spent time in a prop shop and the hours were incredibly decent. A lot of people checking in an hour before the open and checking out a bit after the close. In a lot of cases coming in for the open, seeing what's what, th
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by calabin 6y ago
One thing that you can do, and that has landed me a couple of prop offers, has been creating your own trade analysis projects. I was writing spaghetti mathematica code and had a poor linear algebra understanding when I wrote up an implement
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by calabin 6y ago
To add onto that, firms like Citadel still do cast a wide net even if their targeted recruiting is primarily at top tier schools. They advertise in common business classifieds like Crain's, for example. Firms like this also employ a wi
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by calabin 6y ago
Same exact experience. All we've received is a loan reference number.

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