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☆ Tech interviewers can't tell when candidates use ChatGPT to cheat in coding rounds, experiment finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One possibility is the coding rounds of the typical tech job interview, where candidates are prompted by interviewers to solve technical problems. So, job candidates can easily use something like ChatGPT to effectively cheat their way to fast solutions, according to a recent experiment conducted by interviewing.io, a popular platform for mock tech interviews and industry recruiting. When coding problems were taken verbatim from LeetCode, job candidates using ChatGPT solved correctly 73% of the time, interviewing.io found. That’s far worse than how tech job candidates fare on their own. Relying on their own abilities, interviewing.io found that job candidates passed coding rounds of interviews 53% of the time.

Persons: interviewing.io, Aline Lerner, ” Lerner, ChatGPT, Lener, Lerner, it’ll, Kali Hays Organizations: Google, Microsoft Locations: ChatGPT, khays@insider.com

☆ Big Tech workers come to grips with 'ZIRP,' as job anxiety grips a once cushy industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

“Honestly, sometimes lately, I’ve thought my entire career is a ZIRP,” a tech worker recently reflected. More tech workers get laid offOver the last 18 months, tech workers say it's felt difficult to stay employed as round after round of layoffs have swept Big Tech and the broader industry. The tech job market got tougherTo add insult to injury, keeping a job in tech isn’t the only thing that’s more difficult. Aline Lerner, a former tech engineer and founder of interviewing.io, a site for tech recruiting and mock interviewing for tech job seekers, said it's now much more difficult to land a tech job, particularly at a high-profile or Big Tech company. “Anecdotally, I’d say it’s the hardest it’s been to get a tech job since probably the dot-com bust," Lerner said.

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☆ The cushy Big Tech job is dead
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Hopping from one mid-six-figure salary job in Big Tech to the next? More tech workers get laid offOver the last 18 months, tech workers say it's felt difficult to stay employed as round after round of layoffs have swept Big Tech and the broader industry. The tech job market got tougherTo add insult to injury, keeping a job in tech isn’t the only thing that’s more difficult. Aline Lerner, a former tech engineer and founder of interviewing.io, a site for tech recruiting and mock interviewing for tech job seekers, said it's now much more difficult to land a tech job, particularly at a high-profile or Big Tech company. “Anecdotally, I’d say it’s the hardest it’s been to get a tech job since probably the dot-com bust," Lerner said.

The Chile-based company, which leapfrogged U.S. majors American Airlines (AAL.O) and United Airlines (UAL.O), transported more than 260,000 passengers between the countries in the period. Average load factor in those flights, LATAM told Reuters, reached 89%. The results, according to ANAC, secured LATAM a 26% market share for flights between the two most populous countries in the Americas in the August-October period, above American Airlines' 22% and United Airlines' 20%. Year to date, American Airlines still leads the ranking with a 23.7% market share, slightly above LATAM's 22.4%, considering the number of passengers transported. In 2023 the U.S. carrier has so far ranked fifth in U.S.-Brazil traffic, also lagging behind Azul (AZUL.N).

Persons: Henry Romero, ANAC, LATAM, Aline Mafra, Gabriel Araujo, Steven Grattan, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Benito Juarez International, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, REUTERS, SAO PAULO, LATAM Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines, Reuters, Delta, Brasil, Sao Paulo, U.S ., Boston, U.S, Azul, Thomson Locations: U.S, Mexico City, Mexico, Brazil, Los Angeles, Chile, Argentina, Portugal, LATAM, Americas, Sao, Brazil's, U.S . West Coast, Miami, Orlando, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Atlanta

☆ It's starting to look like majoring in computer science isn't the road to the promised land of money and job security after all
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many computer science majors say job hunting has become tougher after layoffs hit the industry. Ben Leong, a Singaporean computer science professor, said getting a job was never easy. He told Insider he picked his major because he was interested in technology — and also because of the industry's salaries. Wong told Insider last month that he's applied to 17 jobs and has heard back from five companies. AdvertisementAdvertisementBryan Ho, a 23-year-old junior studying computer science at the National University of Singapore, told Insider he's applied for roughly 100 internships.

Persons: Ben Leong, —, Joel Wong, Wong, Bryan Ho, he's, Ho, Ethan Ang, Ang, sprees, That's, Leong, Aline Lerner, Insider's Kali Hays, NodeFlair's Ang Organizations: Service, National University of Singapore, Tech, Facebook, Google, Big Tech, MIT Locations: Singapore, Asia, The Singapore, Southeast Asia

The storm has put the migrant population in Tijuana in an even more vulnerable position, since most of the camps and shelters lack the basic conditions to withstand even light rain. While waiting for an asylum appointment in the border city of Tijuana, Mr. Torres found himself not only escaping violence but also a life-threatening tropical storm on Friday. Image People at a makeshift shelter in Tijuana as Tropical Storm Hilary hit Mexico on Sunday. The migrants crossed the heavily polluted Tijuana River into U.S. territory, and waited to be processed in the rain. At the Ambassadors of Jesus Church, a migrant shelter housing some 1,600 people, water had completely surrounded the building, said Father Gustavo Banda, who operates the shelter.

Persons: José de Jesús Torres, Torres, Areli, ”, Hilary, Gustavo Banda, Enrique Lucero Organizations: Tropical, Sunday ., Reuters, Sunday, U.S . Border Patrol, of Jesus Church Locations: Michoacán, Mexico, U.S, United States, Tijuana, Colombian, California

“If you were to throw gasoline on a fire that’s already burning, that fire would grow really rapidly, really quickly. “Being hurricane season prepared also means being compassionate and kind to yourself during times of hardship,” NOLA Ready, the city’s emergency preparedness campaign, advised in a post on Instagram. Ms. Sibley, an administrative assistant and Ms. Ozane’s sister, has tried to save money to help with riding out hurricanes only for other demands to interfere with that. “What am I going to do if a hurricane really comes?” she said. “I pray we don’t have a bad one this year,” Ms. Sibley said.

Persons: El Niño, ”, Roishetta Sibley Ozane, Phil Klotzbach, “ There’s, Hurricane Ida, Emily Kask, The New York Times El, El, Eric Blake, Andrew, Craig E, Blake, Michael, Laura, Ian, Clay Tucker, NOLA Ready, Hurricane Laura, Ozane, “ They’re, Lake Charles, Ms, Meoshia Sibley, Sibley, Ozane’s, ” Ms, “ Organizations: Biscayne, El, Colorado State University, ”, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic, The New York Times, National Hurricane Center, Experts, Louisiana State University, University of Southern, Delta, of Louisiana Locations: Biscayne Beach, Florida, Westlake, La, Hurricane, Galliano, United States, University of Southern Mississippi, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Louisiana

Mexico warned the western state of Baja California on Saturday to brace for what could be life-threatening rain and floods from Hurricane Hilary, the Pacific storm barreling toward the peninsula and neighboring Southern California. State and federal authorities urged citizens to take precautions ahead of the storm, which was expected to make landfall early Sunday. Although Hilary weakened somewhat on Saturday, officials warned it remained lethally destructive. More than 6,500 soldiers were deployed Friday to the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur to help erect shelters, organize food banks and prepare for possible emergency rescues. Libia González, a meteorologist with Mexico’s national forecasting service, said that the storm would gradually decrease in strength and was expected to become a Category 1 by Sunday morning.

Persons: Hurricane Hilary, Hilary, Libia Organizations: Southern California ., Sunday Locations: Mexico, Baja California, Hurricane, Southern California, Southern California . State, Baja California Sur

As Hurricane Hilary heads north, Southern California and Mexico are bracing for a rare and powerful storm that could produce dangerous flash flooding and sustained winds that have not been seen for decades. The Category 4 hurricane is so unusual that it has prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm watch for California for the first time in its history. In California, the desert and mountain communities are of particular concern. The National Weather Service warned of five to eight inches of rain for the Coachella Valley, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles. The tropical storm could force numerous evacuations and rescues, as well as deadly runoff that may “rage down valleys while increasing susceptibility to rockslides and mudslides,” the agency said.

Persons: Hilary Organizations: National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service Locations: Southern California, Mexico, California, Baja California, San Diego, Los Angeles, Coachella

☆ Yes, R. Crumb Made a Yoga Mat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Rachel Felder | Chris Schalkx | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During the summer of 2022, I was lucky enough to visit the home of the comics artist couple Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb in a remote town in the south of France. Kominsky-Crumb, in good health at the time of our meeting, died of pancreatic cancer less than six months later. She was, with apologies to Crumb, the more personable of the two. Which brings us to this, Crumb’s touching tribute to his wife in the form of a yoga mat, with art based on an old flier he’d made for one of Kominsky-Crumb’s classes. It’s not something Crumb himself would ever use, but it’s the contrast in their personalities that makes their work so captivating.

Persons: Aline Kominsky, Crumb, Robert Crumb, Covid, ” Crumb, grandkids, Jane Fonda, he’d Locations: France, California

Summary Eight of 10 accused convictedSentencing to follow in SeptemberBRUSSELS, July 25 (Reuters) - A Belgian court convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges on Tuesday after the country's largest ever trial involving the 2016 Islamist bombings in Brussels that killed 32 people. The six, of 10 facing charges, were found guilty of murder and attempted murder in a terrorist context for their part in the twin bombings at Brussels airport and third bomb on the city's metro on March 22, 2016. Among those convicted was Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the trial over the Paris attacks that killed 130 people. The four are among six accused already convicted in France over the November 2015 Paris attacks. The 12 jury members reached a decision on Monday after two weeks in isolation at the end of a seven-month trial at the former headquarters of NATO specially set up to host the Brussels bombings trial.

Persons: Pierre Bastin, Aline, Pierre, Yves Desaive, Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, Swedish Osama Krayem, Oussama Atar, Laurence Massart, Philip Blenkinsop, Marine Strauss, Jonathan Oatis, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Brussels Airport, NATO, Thomson Locations: BRUSSELS, Brussels, Belgian, Swedish, Oussama, Syria, France, Paris, balaclavas

☆ The James Webb Space Telescope found a molecular building block of life hiding in the Orion Nebula
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The James Webb Space Telescope detected a key carbon molecule in space for the first time ever. The methyl cation, or CH3 + , molecule was found in a young star system in the Orion Nebula. Scientists have theorized that methyl cation could lay the foundations for organic chemistry, and possibly life, across the universe. "We can only now prove its existence thanks to the awesome capabilities of the James Webb telescope. Webb's sensitivity to light helps it detect new moleculesAn artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Persons: James Webb, —, Eric Teske, — Webb, Els Peeters, Webb, Marie, Aline Martin, wouldn't, Olivier Berné Organizations: Orion, Service, Western University, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Hubble, University of Paris, ESA, CSA, French National Centre for Scientific Research Locations: Toulouse

☆ Webb telescope detects crucial molecule in space for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Astronomers have detected a crucial carbon molecule in space for the first time using the James Webb Space Telescope. Methyl cation is considered a key component that helps form more complex carbon-based molecules. The space observatory detected methyl cation in a protoplanetary disk, called d203-506, swirling around a young red dwarf star. ESA/Webb/NASA/CSAWhile methyl cation doesn’t react efficiently with hydrogen, the most abundant molecule in the universe, it reacts well with a wide range of other molecules. But methyl cation wasn’t detected in space until now.

Persons: James Webb, Webb, ”, Marie, Aline Martin, Olivier Berné Organizations: CNN —, James Webb Space Telescope, Orion, NASA, ESA, Webb, Orion Nebula, University of Paris, Saclay’s, Molecular Sciences, Orsay, French National Centre for Scientific Research Locations: France, Toulouse

☆ Students and young engineers are fed up with Big Tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Big Tech is losing its appeal for new graduates and young tech workers starting to look elsewhere to launch their careers. Peers and mentors warn them to avoid the trappings of embarking on a Big Tech career. Based on conversations with students and companies, even students from top schools including Stanford and MIT and junior engineers from top tech companies are "feeling the crunch now," Lerner said. Tech students are applying to jobs in other fieldsWhile students and young engineers are still interested in pursuing tech-focused careers, where they want to put in their time is changing. The impact of waning interest in Big Tech among students on major companies remains to be seen.

☆ ‘Chile ’76’ Review: Resistance and Paranoia Under Pinochet
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Aline Küppenheim Photo: Kino LorberA woman is choosing colors in a paint store when there’s a disturbance outside. After some sounds of struggle and another, unseen woman crying out, everything goes silent again. There is an awkward pause. Then customers and clerks carry on with their business. None of them discuss what they have just heard.

☆ ‘Chile ’76’ Review: Domestic Unease That Twists Into Intrigue
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Teo Bugbee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 1973, the socialist government of Chile was overthrown by a military junta led by Gen‌‌. Thousands were killed, and hundreds of thousands fled the country under Pinochet’s dictatorship, which lasted for 17 years and was maintained through violence. The protagonist of “Chile ’76” is Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), a regal woman of middle age. She’s a grandmother and a career flight attendant who now lives a comfortably bourgeois lifestyle with her husband in Santiago. Carmen occupies her time alone with charitable work, guided by the sanguine priest of the town, Father Sánchez (Hugo Medina).

☆ Special Report: In France, minority communities decry a surge in police fines
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Layli Foroudi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +18 min

Hassan Bouchouf received fines on more than two dozen occasions, according to the town’s fine data. The Essonne police department didn’t respond to questions about the fines received by Assam and Bouchouf. After learning of the April 2020 fines, Assam verbally confronted Dumas on the street later that same month, according to both men and a witness. That prompted a review by the prosecutor’s office, which found that police had issued fines to Assam remotely, that person said. The watchdog is investigating about 10 complaints alleging improper police fines, mostly from Paris, according to a person familiar with the matter.

2021 and 2022 federal income tax brackets by filing statusBelow are the federal income tax brackets for single filers, heads of household, and married people who file either jointly and separately for 2021 and 2022. Your marginal tax rate is the highest tax rate your taxable income falls into. For one thing, it's because you can only determine your effective tax rate by going through the machinations of figuring out your marginal tax rate and the resulting total tax liability. Once you know your marginal tax bracket, you know how much tax you'll pay on each dollar of income. You can then calculate your effective tax rate based on your total tax liability for the year.

2022 and 2023 federal income tax brackets by filing statusBelow are the federal income tax brackets for single filers, heads of household, and married people who file either jointly and separately for 2021 and 2022. Your marginal tax rate is the highest tax rate your taxable income falls into. For one thing, it's because you can only determine your effective tax rate by going through the machinations of figuring out your marginal tax rate and the resulting total tax liability. Once you know your marginal tax bracket, you know how much tax you'll pay on each dollar of income. You can then calculate your effective tax rate based on your total tax liability for the year.

☆ Un labrador a salvat de la înec un pui de căprioară: Imaginile care au surprins emoționantul moment au ajuns virale
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: colaj foto Jurnal.mdUn labrador a salvat de la înec un pui de căprioară: Imaginile care au surprins emoționantul moment au ajuns viraleUn labrador a salvat un pui de căprioară de la înec și acum e considerat erou. Ralph Dorn//FacebookRalph Dorn//FacebookRalph Dorn//FacebookRalph Dorn//FacebookPovestea nu s-a terminat aici. A doua zi dimineață, familia a observat câinele trecând de la o fereastră la alta, neliniștit de ceva de afară. Când au deschis ușa, au putut auzi plânsetul puiului de căprioară, moment în care câinele a și fugit țintă în tufișuri, unde l-a regăsit pe micuț și a început să-l aline, scrie digi24.ro. Harley a fost câine de terapie și a lucrat mult timp cu vârstnicii și cu copiii.

Persons: Harley, Ralph Dorn, Facebook Ralph Dorn, aline, . Harley Organizations: Facebook Locations: labrador, Statele Unite

☆ Un tablou pictat de Picasso a fost expus într-un supermarket din Essonne, o suburbie a Parisului
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Un tablou pictat de Picasso a fost expus într-un supermarket din Essonne, o suburbie a ParisuluiTabloul „Atelierul”, de Pablo Picasso, a fost expus miercuri într-un supermarket din Essonne, la sud de Paris, departament unde va fi inaugurat în 2025 un „Centru Pompidou regional”, care va adăposti opere din Muzeul Naţional de Artă Modernă al Franţei. O simeză modestă a fost construită în faţa rafturilor cu produse şi a fost degajat un culoar astfel încât clienţii acestui supermarket, situat între două oraşe cu mai puţin de 60 000 de locuitori laolaltă, să poată contempla opera pictorului cubist. „Nu este colecţia Centrului Pompidou, ci cea a Franţei, întrucât este naţională şi este a tuturor francezilor, oriunde ar fi”, a argumentat el. Această expoziţie se înscrie în cadrul demersului de amplasare, în oraşul Massy (departamentul Essonne), a unui Centru Pompidou regional, preconizată pentru decembrie 2025. În prezent, operele sunt păstrate şi păzite cu sfinţenie în nordul Parisului, într-un spaţiu care „nu mai este adecvat”, a explicat pentru AFP Julie Narbey, directoare generală a Centrului Pompidou.

Persons: Picasso, Pablo Picasso, cubist, June, mărturiseşte Aline Vidal, Serge Lasvignes, Pompidou, Julie Organizations: Pompidou, Artă, AGERPRES Locations: Essonne, Parisului, Paris, Franţei, Massy, Ile - de - France

„Cu mare durere și tristețe, anunțăm trecerea la cele veșnice a colegei noastre, Svetlana CATEREV. La vârsta de 70 de ani, ea a pierdut lupta cu o boală cruntă. A fost o persoană ce poseda calități deosebite, modestă și o adevărată profesionistă în domeniu. Dumneaei a fost întotdeauna „sufletul companiei”, a fost o colegă care mereu știa să te susțină, să-ți dea un sfat, să te facă să râzi și să te ajute la nevoie. Colectivul a pierdut o colegă excepțională și un specialist dedicat profesiei.

Persons: Svetlana CATEREV, Doamna Caterev, aline

☆ Ne mor eroii în alb. O asistentă medicală de la Spitalul Clinic Republican ”Timofei Moșneaga”, răpusă de COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Încă o angajată din sistemul medical din țara noastră a pierdut lupta contra noului coronavirus. Este vorba despre asistenta medicală Botnari Lilia Avram, în vârstă de 66 de ani. Tragicul anunț a fost plasat pe pagina de Facebook a Spitalului Clinic Republican ”Timofei Moșneaga”, instituție în care Botnari Lilia Avram a activat timp de peste 40 de ani. ”Colectivul nostru a pierdut un prieten adevărat, o colegă excepțională, care întotdeauna știa să-ți aline sufletul cu o vorbă blândă și să te încurajeze. Zbor lin, scumpă colegă”, se menționează în mesajul de condoleanțe a Spitalului Clinic Republican.

Persons: Botnari, Avram, aline, Lilia, Dumnezeu Organizations: Facebook Locations: Moldova

☆ Încă o asistentă medicală din R. Moldova a murit din cauza complicațiilor provocate de COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-25 | by ( Mudrii Elena | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Încă o asistentă medicală din R. Moldova a murit din cauza complicațiilor provocate de COVID-19. Anunțul a fost făcut de reprezentanții Spitalului Clinic Republican „Timofei Moșneaga”, instituție în care a activat timp de 40 de ani. Doamna Lilia a suportat COVID – 19, însă a decedat în urma complicațiilor provocate de virus”, informează Spitalul Clinic Republican „Timofei Moșneaga”. „A fost o doamnă modestă, sinceră, disciplinată, profesionistă în tot ce face. Ministerul Sănătății, Muncii și Protecției Sociale (MSMP) a anunțat că până pe 23 martie au decedat din cauza COVID-19, 103 lucrători medicali.

Persons: ., Botnari, Lilia, aline Organizations: Ministerul Sănătății, Muncii, Protecției Sociale Locations: Moldova

☆ O asistentă medicală de la Spitalul Republican, răpusă de coronavirus; A activat în cadrul instituției mai bine de 40 de ani
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: IMSP Spitalul Clinic Republican „Timofei Moșneaga”O asistentă medicală de la Spitalul Republican, răpusă de coronavirus; A activat în cadrul instituției mai bine de 40 de aniO asistentă medicală de la IMSP Spitalul Clinic Republican „Timofei Moșneaga” s-a stins din viață din cauza complicațiilor provocate de coronavirus. Botnari Lilia, în vârstă de 66 de ani, a fost asistentă medicală de operație, secția Bloc Operator, mai bine de 40 de ani în cadrul instituției. „A fost o doamnă modestă, sinceră, disciplinată, profesionistă în tot ce face. Colectivul nostru a pierdut un prieten adevărat, o colegă excepțională, care întotdeauna știa să-ți aline sufletul cu o vorbă blândă și să te încurajeze. Condoleanțe familiei, rudelor, colegilor, dar și tuturor, care au avut ocazia să o cunoască pe doamna Lilia.

Persons: Botnari, aline, Lilia, Dumnezeu

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