skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understood correctly PFAS is not usually harmful in the concentrations released by 1 or 2 products. The problem is that it bioaccumulates to a concentration that is harmful. The persistence and the toxicity are not unrelated.
The sun is full of free charged particles.
I'm obviously cherry picking, but if an applicant asks me a series of questions akin to "what source control tool do you use and why" I'm going to begin doubting that this person can focus on actually shipping product. There's this whole scene of people who do performative, almost theatrical, quality programming but nigh on forgot how to actually ship features, and questions like those are a hint they might be in that camp.

EDIT: to add some context, i run a small startup, we need the whole team able to ship. I can imagine that in certain bureaucratic bigcorps, performatively obsessing on code/process quality can be useful, because the distance between the programmer and the customer/user is so long.
It’s right there in the document, assuming that the comma here was a typo:

> Despite, food preparation processes parasite allergens may still be detected.
Same thing here (but with Ocaml). You come into this intro course as someone who can already program and it feels like such a weird take that they deliberately steer you away from playing around and building something cool. IO being important is a hill I'm willing to die on, at least for certain kinds of learners.
I haven't seen any app to use webview for external links, it always use chrome custom tabs.
I think this narrative is stretched.

Most of our calories are from monocropped commodities like maize, canola & soy. These are indeed efficient. High calorie per dollar value, but also high calorie per land/fertilizer/water/etc. This is true for eggs, but also true for fruit, nuts, tomatoes. Everything compares poorly to maize.

These types of analysis are full of such biases. "Pasturelands" are huge because they are low intensity... think of outback cattle stations in Australia. There certainly is a conversation to be had about rewilding low intensity lands, or farming them in more eco-friendly ways, considering the high land/food ratio. But... most animal husbandry happens at much, much higher density. Egg farming compares pretty well to fruit, vegetables, almonds, etc.

So yes, if we consume commodity crops instead of meat, fruit, vegetables and other non staple foods then the food system becomes much more efficient. I don't think it's realistic or desirable though.

On paper, where I'm dictator of the world, I can make a lot of things efficient. Food, energy, transport. I could easily find an omnivorous formula more efficient to the average vegan diet, also healthier and tastier. This is a disingenuous game.

I agree that it would be good to have more moores and wild lands. Becoming vegan does not help this cause. Unexploited land is only unexploited because of legal protections. Not one acre will go unexploited because enough people became vegan. This kind of "consumer action" mentality never works, is usually built on a disingenuous simplification, and it's ridiculous here too.
And only goes to the end of the century. Climate change and its after-effects will be with us for many many centuries barring extraordinary levels of technological intervention (which is not out of the question, but even that is unlikely to bring back extinct species etc.).
That’s why I put “Earth survives” in quotes. I was using the parlance of the person I responded to.
Municipal sewage is pretty commonly added to green waste compost products, in an industrial facility the temperature can be brought up pretty high quickly so I don't reckon the process is more time consuming than processing any the green waste itself
You are writing a client for an API, to be deployed at scale. The API returns objects of type A or B, but occasionally returns something else - not as an error, it's just what happens to be in the server's database. You'd still write code and test-cases to deal with the not-A-or-B instances, right?
What utter nonsense. The premise seems to be Apple shows you ads in de app store and this means they are abusing your data?
Show HN: A clone of Tailwind's home page using Code Hike
> How exaclty are farmers "stealing" from the soil, when the same patch of land has been used for monocultures a hundred years or more?

Before the world wars and invention of artificial fertiliser we didn't have monocultures. On the scale of agriculture artificial fertiliser and factory farming is extremely new not something we have been doing for hundreds of years.

The issue is that when the crop is harvested you are taking nutrients out of the field into the crop then taking that crop off the soil. These nutrients need replaced or you will deplete the field. A hundred years ago this would come back in the form of rotations of crops and animals that leave dung to fertilise the land today its done with artificial fertiliser which provides lots of nitrogen but is missing all of the trace nutrients that where removed.

Better artificial fertiliser could help but there are other problems with artificial fertiliser like run off where rain remove the fertiliser from the field and dumps it into wetlands and rivers which are poisoned by the massive amounts of nitrogen.

The old way was sustainable but required lots of manual labour the new way is not sustainable but is easily automated. The real sustainable solution is to automate the old way of farming.
"But you never wore a ring, I didn't know you had a wife." -- "And my wife doesn't know I have a job, I keep my personal and professional life separate."

Western names are really odd and strange. So many people named after the fact that their grand-grand-grand-fathers did a certain job or people named after the city their forefathers used to live in and stuff like that. We think of names as fixed, but really the only reason they are like that is to support bureaucracy. A fluid relationship with names seems strange and exotic to us, but is far more natural.
Pretty amazing list. There's also funny questions: "tabs or spaces?" is in there.

Now that I have a family, I always ask: "when was the last time you worked weekends?" There's a question in the list "What hours does the team work?" but I feel that doesn't quite cover overwork.
Can this be circumvented by a very strict Content-Security-Policy?
Some versions of the problem would have you just pick the last candidate then.
Correct. All of our food contains parasites, pathogens, and deadly chemicals, even those we eat the most like pork, salmon and cassava. The difference is that we learned how to deal with those risks. Literally water can be fatal sometimes, this issue is not specific to bugs.

The study at hand specifically mentions that further research is required in order to reach the same level of safety for bugs as well.

I don’t think there’s an exact correlation between safety and “what we eat,” which is rather more a consequence of availability and customs. Lots of countries don’t eat horse meat or snakes. Neither one is particularly unsafe.
Yeah, I stopped reading after this line. Sorry, but if you call yourself "senior" with 6 years of experience you've lost all credibility in my book.
For some of those EVs, like standing scooters, it's definitely half safety issue. By design they are less safe and stable than bicycles, I've seen multiple crashes (especially on wet surfaces). Plus, as a rider, you might assume someone who can afford a car or taxi would think of themselves as a more important person so you'd rather not slow them down or they might get angry--and they are the one driving a multi-ton metal box soft only on the inside. As a result somehow it's acceptable to inconvenience people who move with less environmental impact and protection (pedestrians as opposed to car drivers), while it should be the opposite.

Re cars, I don't like them and the fact that many modern cities tend to be designed around them. This is at least partially why EVs are used. But that design issue can't be solved quickly, and meanwhile conceding the remaining safe surfaces and normalizing powered transport is moving in the opposite direction of the solution.
> Are you claiming that jews can't also be french?

Okay, so Jews can be Jewish and also French, since French is something anyone can be. And the French can be French and also... what? French identity can be claimed by anyone, but you shy away from applying that logic to the Jewish identity.
As someone who has recruited hundreds of candidates at this point I would urge caution with lists like this.

By all means read the list, but rather than trying to grind through as many of the questions as possible, try to use it as inspiration and think of what you're actually curious about and which might tip you over one way or the other if you're on the fence. It's far better to have a good conversation about 1 thing which might affect your decision than a superficial sprint through a bunch of topics you don't actually care that much about.

Secondly, consider that if you do well you are likely to have multiple rounds of interviews. Think about which questions are likely to be most enlightening when you ask each interviewer. Don't shy away from asking 2 people the same question if you think you'll get different perspectives. If you ask a peer engineer the diversity questions you may well get quite a different answer from asking the HR/recruiting person for instance (eg one might give you a cultural insight vs the other might just give you the policy/factual answer).

I once interviewed a candidate[1] who had printed off a whole list like this and insisted on grinding through the whole thing. It was weirdly offputting, but he was such a monster programmer that he was already a clear hire. It gave an insight into the thoroughness of his nature though and showed that he was absolutely perfect for the (critical) role we were hiring him for where mistakes were extremely costly.

[1] Hi Fluffy! If you see this I hope you're doing well.
I'm neither convinced that's true (I'm not aware of scientific consensus on it) or would it matter if it was. So sure, let's say the persistence is what makes it toxic. The conclusion is the same: it still ends up being toxic. And the situation still ends up being very different from that if plastics.
> the story claimed it was the first ever computer bug.

About this part, the comment by eesmith (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518611) cites a page at Harvard University saying this:

> “Before 1944, electrical engineers already used the term «bug» to refer to hard-to-find physical defects that hindered the operation of an electric device. The Mark I team appropriated the term for unexpected problems in the «coding» of a problem. Above are cartoons drawn by Grace Hopper of the different types of bugs encountered during her work.”

> https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language
These effects are called Angels' Share [0] and sometimes additionally The Devils' Cut

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel#Angels'_share
>> I believe arguments made using this group and trying to apply it to society as a whole is likely not made in good faith.

> That's your belief of what others are trying to do and I believe you may be misrepresenting and casting as homogeneous these "others".

Correct, it is my belief of those using this group in arguments, but I do not believe a boogey man "others" as I think this group is disparate enough that over time it will eat itself. The problem with purity tests is that eventually everyone fails it.

Regarding my opinion that you cast doubt on - maybe we can prove me wrong right now. Do you believe a persons biologic sex is male, female, and medically-intersex-from-birth?
Apple has a market share of:

- 0% of the display ad advertising market

- 0% of the search advertising market

- 0% of the ecommerce advertising market

- 0% of the social advertising market

- 0% of the video advertising market

- 0% of the affiliate advertising market

But I have to agree that they are very much on track to dominate the space. Question is whether this happens before or after Linux on the desktop.
Ah the cliche “I’m a hiring manager and I wouldn’t hire this person” comment.

I think you’ve not considered the reason behind the question and jumped to conclusions.

Eg if the say subversion and it’s a massively distributed team, the developer is not going to have a fun time. It isn’t a first class citizen when it comes to third party tools either. These are real issues.
>> As an example, it would be unsustainable if, every time we changed a single function’s body, the language server had to re-typecheck the entire codebase.

If only there were a type system[1] where you could reinfer the function’s type in isolation and then recheck all uses!

(I don’t think Trevor Jim’s work on System P2 and System P received any further development, even in “better SML” work like 1ML, which seems like a shame, so I’m going to shill it wherever it appears relevant.)

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237721.237728
My girlfriend has been interviewing recently and she asks shops what their Joel score is. If they know, it's a good sign, and if they don't, it makes her look good dropping knowledge. The places she has been talking to went over their scores on the call, which surfaces details about the actual working conditions.
I'd assume that if they are given free choice, Chinese women are going to prefer husbands who do well in life. That would imply that the 1/3 of men who end up perpetually single are most likely poor farmers from the countryside, i.e. people without the means to travel abroad to meet someone there.
$6M AI public speaking coach startup Yoodli signs partnership with Toastmasters
It looks like this product offers speech-to-text transcription of a video and then does some kind of static analysis on the script, similar to grammarly but I guess they will have suggestions more tailored to spoken rather than written text. I don't know where the AI bit comes in other than to perform the transcription, which there are other products on the market that do this. They probably use some kind of commercially available speech to text service like https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ under the hood to perform this.
Fun fact: if you use more and more polarizing filters adjusted by finer and finer algorithms, and assume they are ideal (no loss of correctly oriented photons), that block of filters acts like a polarizing filter that filters to one angle but outputs at an angle rotated by 90 degrees.

This is an aspect of the quantum zeno effect. Normally it means to measure quickly while rotating an object to pin the object against the rotation. But here you instead measure a static object quickly while rotating the measuring device to force the object to rotate.
This is the most parsimonious explanation to me as well, unless there is a way to groundtruth egg preservation in each location, it seems quite likely that the proportion of eggs surviving 600-800 years will vary between locations.
Eh, no matter who history seems as “right” in that conflict, the British blockade of Germany was nevertheless against international law and norms of the time.
What a ride!!! Learned it as part of my CS program, using TCP/IP Illustrated (original, vol 1) of the famous W. Richard Stevens
>I think you confused the JS ecosystem with the C# one.

What do you mean?
Unless you have the upper hand from the moment you walk in, I'd advise against machine gunning these questions in the interview.

Yes a lot of them are important, but you can get a lot of answers by the feel from the interview and the interviewers.

I'd recommend to be the guy that can help. Usually interviewers will come forward with what they're trying to fill, what they're lacking... Be that guy.

Most places I joined weren't all there in when it comes to all those questions and what they imply. When I join, I try to make the place better, to provide value. That means also raise their street value, by bringing modern techniques, modern thinking etc.

Sure, knowing what environment like windows or macos could be a deal breaker, but you can get that answer just by walking in, see what the interviewers are using and what's on the desks.

No jobs are perfect and like any relationship, it takes work on both sides. Dream jobs are pretty rare and chances are, you won't get offered one because someone has left it behind...
That's an odd one to cherry pick. There's nothing performative about source control. It's one of the most important tools for actually shipping software.
I can never read anything by nytimes, even with removing cookies, it's basically a black hole of non-content.

With all the technology at our disposal, why can no one build a system whereby people can read occasional articles at most websites by paying a penny or something reasonable? I can't subscribe to 100,000 different newspapers.
They fully address this in the post
Stripe built an OSS egress network proxy that prevents webhooks from reaching internal resources:

https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen
Show HN: Sell your stuff, Say bye to individual ads
How would you clear a house and sell its content in a short period of time if you had to?

I was faced with this challenge last year when I lost my mother and had to let go her house.
With no time and energy to post individual ads on traditional platforms like Facebook Marketplace, I couldn’t find an easy solution so I decided to create one.

Quickly after starting, I realised that it could also benefit sellers from flea markets, yard and car boot sales or even street vendors selling arts and other craft works and that this space was not digitalized.

The idea, therefore, became to be able to set up virtual market stalls to sell a bunch of stuff without the need to post individual ads. A sort of shopify for street vendors, self promoted using QR codes in real life.

What about item categorisation for buyers? How would they browse?
By location, by keywords, by category, etc. The fields are all optionals for sellers so I add keywords using image recognition algorithms when they upload pictures.

I hope this solution will help others too.

Looking forward to your feedbacks!
> Criminal charges really should be kept out of the media until there’s enough evidence to jail the suspect

That's why some countries in the EU, and the UK, have laws protecting the identity of people until after sentencing. E.g. in Bulgaria only their initials can be used, and no photos are allowed. In the UK, they just vaguely describe them (footballer from Manchester in his 20s accused of sexual assault).
Couldn't it also have been called "First World War" because it was the first war where fighting happened

- over multiple continents
- with huge number of countries participating
- at the same time
- as part of the same conflict
I reckon the partnership is to offer toastmasters members a discount code for the product, or yoodli are starting some kind of integration with Toastmasters pathways which offers their courses as part of the pathway
I don't. Never heard of that person before, sorry.
Good thing we have vastly more than we need...
What it did well was data binding of UI controls to SQL databases. A form would be linked to a database viewmodel (ish) where you could drop sql connections and tables to link up to a UI. Delphi (the vcl) took care of everything. You could put an editable grid on a page and all CRUD would _just work_
it's because e-kickrollers (the sharing kind in particular) are mostly not used properly, either as a replacement for a short (under 10 minutes) walk or as a toy (riding fast, riding with friends in circle etc). if we could somehow cut/forbid such rides we would only be left with people intending to get "from a to b" more efficiently than by car or by bus, and hence behaving better
That a classification exists does not imply everyone has to comply to it. Either you classify as female, or you classify as male, maybe both, maybe neither.

I don't know if you observe that too, but when i ride in the tram, i see individuals who neither pass as male or female. Not due to queerness, its because they have ambiguous bodies and don't perform their gender via their clothes or makeup or something like that. I'd argue that gender nonconformity was always there.
Gotta disagree here a tad, I got a small tablet (windows but doesn't matter in this context) that I intended to use while commuting on the subway but the external keyboard/holding the device up wasn't at all comfortable on the lap in a subway train. Having had a proper keyboard as a base/holder would definitely have been an improvement when going on a subway/train.
> What French view as the French identity very much is a post-revolutionary idea which was mercilessly spread through the eradication of regional cultures and languages and the standard curriculum by public schools during the nineteenth century.

While there's no doubt that unspeakable horrors were done in the name of forging a collective narrative later on, it's also wrong to claim that's the origin of the french identity.

During the _états généraux_ people who had a strong regional bond also sought to collaborate and build alliances outside of their group (e.g. the _club Breton_ [1], which grew into the _club des Jacobins_). Collaboration and common interests forged a new identity overlapping existing identities. If this process hadn't happened, there would never have been new revolutions happening simultaneously across France in the 19th century, way before the 3rd republic's schools opened.

That process is pretty similar to post-revolution US colonies growing (and figuring out the details, and, at times, arguing about it) a new sense of common future on top of their existing independent identity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Breton
You should use this list if you don't want to be hired. Any applicant that expects an interviewer to spend the better part of a day or so on answering a laundry list of questions had better be unicorn grade themselves or they'll be looking at another interview shortly.

The reason is simple: an interviewer is trying to establish some level of rapport and to try to get a basic idea of whether you are going to be a good fit for the company and the team. If you are going to show up with this list you spell 'trouble' and you won't get to the 10th question before the interview is going to be terminated.

But best of luck if you try.

If you were to ask questions make sure they are in the ballpark of what is expected for an interview, deal parameters such as salary range, equity, any kind of vesting arrangement, transportation options, a chat with your future colleagues etc are all fair game and you should focus there.

If you do want all these questions answered you should approach them sideways, not frontally: ask for a contact within the team that you will be working with and try to establish some kind of rapport before dumping your payload, it will likely have much better results than to show up to an interview with such a detailed list.
It’s an easy question that could elicit an interesting response.

For example, they could be using an internal CVS repo. Or, they could be using GitHub.
I was going to say; I would ask this, as a lead up to CI/CD, and how they feel about developers shipping features continuously, or if there’s any process to actually ship what I’ve build.
Thanks for the context! I was wondering why the RFC number was so large…
Faster and with better retentIon when taking notes in meetings (or classes).
There are some Video presentations to GNUNet and the newest one on the GNS subcomponent mentions "Record confidentiality" - Values in the Table are signed and encrypted by the zone owner. To query a zone you'd first have to get the key of the zone owner, accomplishing what you requested, right?

https://www.gnunet.org/en/video.html

The Videos are kind of hard to watch, so maybe the slides are enough to understand how it's supposed to work:

https://git.gnunet.org/presentations.git/plain/icann66/20191...