After workout, i sit in the mild sun each morning before having my breakfast and have done so for many years now. I live near Himalayas and sun is always there, except for some weeks of winter.
Economies of scale. More efficient market can have less people parting in non important area and existence of central authorities means more resources can be deployed where it is needed.
Also, average science and math knowledge in America has regressed.
It's evident from the fact i come to US, so many people do not know 10+20= 30 and pull out mobile calculator to check that. Sighhhh
That’s a crazy proposal given India’s long standing non-alignment policy which is being proved prudent given recent changes to US policies under Trump.
Even US allies are reducing their reliance on the US and you’re asking India to reverse 70+ year old policy to embrace the US?
We should probably accept that the US’ special place as everyone’s most reliable trading and security partner is over.
A lot of (most?) useful work requires the kind of domain-specific knowledge that can only be built up over a lot of time spent working on a given team/product/codebase. "Renting" programmers here and there on an hourly basis might work fine for basic tasks, but would probably end in frustration for both the employer, who has to deal with a constant stream of random new people, and programmers, who are constantly bouncing from project to project.
That depends. There are a lot of things a "by the hour" programmer can do when guided by domain experts. However a domain expert can only guide a couple such people and you lose their ability to get anything else done.
The largest tech companies could also implement a shared cert program via some kind of industry group, with periodic re-certification requirements. This’d surely be far cheaper than all of them running multi-stage leetcode and system design interviews, and they already basically publish study guides so this isn’t even that different, just cheaper for both the businesses and candidates.
It’d also make job hopping far less painful (see above: cheaper for the candidates) which is why they don’t.
So we may conclude: the point of leetcode interviews is wage suppression.
Never gonna happen, as they outsource this certification to universities already. They're not going to stand up their own cert programs to streamline the process; the muli-stage leetcode interviews are about hazing culture and making sure employees are servile, not merit culture and making sure employees are competent and qualified.
Like you said, tech companies need candidates to feel like they barely passed a grueling interview because it makes them wary to jump ship and have to go through that again, not that they are well qualified industry professionals who have the credentials to move between jobs and work anywhere they are certified.
That's much less efficient for big software projects. The knowledge built up over time is one of the core things making you effective, so you have a big productivity loss if you don't retain the same people for a long time. With a continual middleman, the overhead from that "hiring" process is usually proportional to work done, so after a period of time it will have been more efficient for the employer to hire directly (even at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars) rather than to go through the middleman.
> leaves reviews
We've seen how well that works in every other part of the market.... Interviews are necessary because of a lack of trust. In your system, every party has an incentive to lie, and the incentives are strong enough that it's worth paying people to facilitate your lies. You see that with various contractors all the time, having somebody with good reviews take the contract and somebody with fewer skills actually do the work, the employer understating the work to be done, etc. Good people exist, but they're hard to find in a low-trust environment.
> always employed and getting paid
Interestingly, that usually benefits everyone except the programmer. As a rule of thumb, the person taking risks will have higher returns, so if you can afford those risks you should choose to take them yourself. Examples include various forms of device "warranties" (if you're paying, it's insurance, not a warranty, and I can afford the financial hit when a thumb drive fails, so I'm not going to pay a premium to insure against that possibility), some forms of actual insurance (full coverage on used cars is an example -- if my car is ever totaled I'll just buy another -- I have liability insurance out the wazoo, but full coverage isn't worth it), etc. Programmers often make gobs of money, so except for potentially the very beginning of your career you should be able to easily weather a few years without work. The exact contract details vary, but that would suggest then that programmers are better off on average cutting out the middleman providing those risk guarantees (and they're not really guarantees in the first place, right? people are currently without jobs because there are fewer programming jobs than there used to be, and no middleman scheme is going to fix that; you have to wait for this economic blip to blow over).
I could go on. Contracting is fine, but it's not a replacement for all salaried work.
Either somebody somewhere screens for competence, education, skill, talent, even bare willingness to do the work - or the project will suffer. Adding a level of indirection doesn't wolve that.
A lot of people often ask questions like:
- How do I lose body fat and build muscle?
- How can I track progress over time?
- How much exercise do I actually need?
- What should my calorie and macro targets be?
Maybe their model is under attack and they are releasing the problem so that others learn how to exploit this against other llm providers, thus leveling field while they find solution to this problem
>My $15 weight scale from Amazon measures body fat and syncs to my phone
Smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5/6, which use wrist based sensors to measure body fat, are convenient but not very reliable. They typically have an error margin of ±3–5% (e.g., reading 17.5%–23.0% for someone who is 20%) because they only measure your torso and are sensitive to your hydration levels. A 2022 study in Obesity Facts by Kim et al. found a mean error of 3.8% for Samsung's BIA compared to a DEXA scan. The U.S. Navy Method, which uses a tape measure for your neck, waist, and hips, is a cheap alternative but has a ±4–6% error margin (e.g., 16.0%–24.0%) due to inconsistencies in measuring and variations in body shape. A 2019 study in Military Medicine by Hinton et al. reported a mean error of 4.2% for this method in men.
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