skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Compostable" plastics are a polymer made of lactic acid units chained together called PLA. It is absolutely compostable, but needs specific conditions. In nature it breaks down very much faster than other plastics and in pure form at least, though it still lasts a while. Because it's lactic acid and animals are already full of lactic acid, the concerns about polluting the environment with it are much lower.

It sounds like the recycler they're using only has the correct facilities to process some but not all of these PLA plastics and are having contamination problems with people putting non-compostable things in along with the compostable ones.

They're also refusing used coffee filters so it seems the problem isn't plastic industry scams but poor compliance with people putting the wrong things in the compost bin.

I've known several well intentioned but slightly clueless people who put just about anything in the recycling or compost not realizing that they were just contaminating the stream and making things much worse. It's almost the opposite where recycling/composting proponents are giving and getting wrong impressions about how much really needs to be put in the landfill.
It's one of those things where people kid themselves that it was all them. To some degree it's a useful fiction, we can't be going about being all gloomy about our prospects.

But it also creates a heck of a lot of stress. What your parents think of you, how they talk about you to their friends, is going to depend on this test. On top of it all, you're not even really learning anything, you need to spend the time learning the test.
I think you'll have to read a couple of Ayn Rand novels to truly understand what they mean. But I think the gist of it can be reduced to: "I'm very smart and upset that I have to pay taxes. Also, I don't like it when I see homeless people, after all it's their own fault they provide no value and are therefore poor. Can't we just send them to Thailand where I went on holiday recently and the can of Pabst Blue Ribbon that cost a reasonable $19 here in San Francisco only cost $15 at this "bar" some guy took me to to meet his sister. That's very cheap."
I understand what you're saying, however, I think that a lot of the criteria used in these homework assignments can instead be worked out via some conversation to judge the depth of knowledge and culture fit.

I've passed tech interview challenges only to fail the culture fit because I thought it would "be so easy" after the tech challenges.

And I've passed culture fits only to fail the homework assignments.

In one circumstance, not realizing that a separate recruiter was sending me to a company I had previously interviewed with, I've also seen previous work that I did in a homework assignment, given to me in a different homework assignment with a "what improvements and features would you add to this solution?," when the original homework assignment was the same task. That was a major blow, and gave me feelings they were using some of that work internally.

I get that it's extremely expensive in time and money to hire the wrong person.

On the other end, it can also be extremely expensive in time and money to not be extremely selective of whom you want to work for.
Is maize native to Kenya?
There’s one in Chicago downtown as well. I guess the Stores failed because it lacked warmth and any inviting vibe. I know it sounds ironic.
The big soft-drink brands optimize for cost. And transport is really a huge part when we talk about almost entirely water as product.

Actual soda fountains are fun to think, they make the stuff there on the spot from water supply, co2 and syrup... Minimising transport distance.
I've always wanted to build an "I told you so" webapp.

Something that would store phrases associated with people with an incremental counter. Obviously the list of phrases, people, and counts are unique to the user.

This way I can say to my daughter, "I've told you <checks webapp> 46 times now to clean up your room!"

Dumb, but fun :)
I'm really skeptical of life advice from someone at the domain name "Theif Life".
There’s a reason we evolved a fairly consistent set of ethics. Crime actually isn’t a great strategy. It’s too easy to detect and punish.

Now there are more subtle forms of ‘cheating’ that do work well but they require some modicum of success first. You can’t bribe the local government to favor your business if you don’t have one in the first place.
> In my opinion it should be somewhere between dirt cheap and free if your income is in the bottom 10% of incomes (and could cost twice as much for the top 50%

True, for many people 49€/ month is still too expensive - e.g. low wage, low pension or living on welfare.

In its current form, it's mostly a relief for the middle class living in areas with good public transportation.

I'm definitely happy to pay just 49€ for all over Germany instead of 80€ just for Berlin. I'd be ready to pay more and think it would be fair if the amount was tied to the taxable income, like union memberships are.
I believe a good blender can prevent a state actor to access sensitive information stored on a smartphone. But I would spread the resulting dust over a large random and secret area just to be on the safe side.
Fururologist here, Librewolf and firefox nigthly is probably 0.01 porcentaje of users, is probably lore we don't test this we say it doesn't work use something we test it, yes they should say is your browser but the avrege client is old man who doesn't understand what they download and don't wat to use opera from 2000 more than this, is better say use some of this
Life is a roguelike you only play once
First of all, Urkel is actually a genius, so it doesn't fit.

Second, if you know you have better and worse programmers you either control the work of the latter or you don't ket them work at your entry.

Nobody sees the work of your smart programmers if nobody could login.

So either MS is a lot dumber than I thought or they just don't care because they no most people can't or don't want replace MS software.
I’m not ignoring it, just being realistic about what it can do and where the problem needs a technical solution. There are people I respect working in the space but they are mostly getting ignored since pragmatic research doesn’t promise a gold rush.
This is a comment written by ERIC SCHMIDT.

He is Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project and former CEO and Chair of Google.

He is a co-author, with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher, of The Age of AI: And Our Human Future.

(That's what it says at the end of TFA)
jeeze... wrong house, but you got me right down to the street location.
Looking up statistics, shrinkage rates at a grocery store are typically 2-3%. Theft appears to be about ⅓ of shrinkage (food spoilage is a bigger cause than shoplifting), so about 1% of revenue amounts to theft on average.

The larger supermarkets seem to pull in on the order $100-150k/day in revenues, with the median half of that.

So... yeah, the numbers don't add up. If it's $10k/day, even at an extremely large store, that's 6-7% theft rate. Given that grocers aren't high-margin, that's stark enough to wipe out any revenue. $1k/day theft rate is a more reasonable estimation.
Do you remember Johnny Castaway? That was fun! Back when I used to have some more free time I thought about implementing
Nostalgic stuff like that.

I have a "partially done" ray cast 2d experiment [1] which was an attempt at wolf graphics. You could use it to recreate the "maze" one. Not sure it can be done using CSS only though.

1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/myRaycast
That small percentage will be extremely loyal to whichever services will cater to them though. A small percentage of users all choosing to use your service can still be quite a lot of users if there is no real competition in the segment.
>In my opinion, Direct X was what killed it most. OpenGL was well supported on the Voodoo cards and Microsoft was determined to kill anyone using OpenGL

I don't know the details myself but as a FYI... this famous answer covering the OpenGL vs DirectX history from StackExchange disagrees with your opinion and says OpenGL didn't keep up (ARB committee). It also mentions that the OpenGL implementation in Voodoo cards was incomplete and only enough to run Quake:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6054...

The author of that answer is active on HN so maybe he'll chime in.
I failed and survived. Charged up $70k on my HELOC and paid it all back.
> I suppose if the low-hanging goal is better than iMessage lock-in then sure.

Sadly that is the low-hanging goal. There's pretty much zero chance we will ever get a perfect e2e encrypted, federated, decentralised, open, spam free, popular IM system, but I would say WhatsApp is furthest towards that overall. If you exclude "popular" then Signal is probably the best but in IM systems "popular" is probably the most important characteristic.

Not having to buy a really expensive phone to use it is another important characteristic. If WhatsApp ever gets a foothold in America I guarantee Apple will open iMessage up to Android.
Only 60% of Chinese made Teslas are sold in China.

https://insideevs.com/news/630002/china-tesla-ev-sales-decem...
Wouldn't that be a "mirror" operation, while inversion would be (I dunno) swapping the direction of the edges?

I went out of my way to avoid homebrew (still do) when I worked at google because it would reliably fail to complete some key operations in a dag, hence the interest in ensuring developers know how to do CS things.
I mean more over-the-counter and less dark web.
As a former Cobalt employee, it made my day to see someone resurrecting old RaQs! What a fantastic piece of equipment for its time. I worked there in 1999 through the Sun acquisition and then at Sun for a little while before I started my own business—a web hosting company, started with a glorious rack of RaQs, of course. :)
… but that's an interview. If you cannot, within the time, demonstrate any ability, why should you be hired?

The question above, as clarified, is not complicated, nor does it rely on memorization or some "trick": anyone purporting to be a SWE should be able to write an essentially de novo solution to it.

(And in my own technical interviews, there are multiple questions, to specifically hedge against any one being "that one question a good candidate is going to miss because it's just not their day". It doesn't happen: it's either all or nothing.)
Comparing lto vs not does make sense.

You'd want to compare lto vs lto and not vs not.

This is not vs not.
It is a fair comparison in that sense
Were you objectively more deserving to go to college than a kid with stellar teacher recommendations but lower scores? You might think so, but others would disagree. When I hire, I choose a trusted colleague's referral over the candidate who happened to cram best to do binary trees on a whiteboard.
Thank you for your insightful response. You make a good point that it's not necessarily unfair for companies to receive coverage on major tech publications like Techcrunch, as the process is not predetermined and success is not guaranteed.

However, it's worth noting that some companies may have more resources or connections to facilitate this kind of coverage, which can give them an advantage over others who may not have those same resources.
Faulty reward functions in the wild (2016)
So hire a baby ?
That'll eventually do in 20 years ..... works, right ?
Seeds are full of carbs, minerals and proteins. Malting makes most of the calories water soluble which is why you malt grain to make alcohol. But even without it a little bit will make it into the broth.

What surprised me is the ratio of calories in black coffee versus espresso. I wonder if it’s solubility or the fact that fines make it through a screen but not a filter.
You're wrong here, it's bullshit that was regularly updated with new astronomic findings. :P Isn't it miraculous how astrology was just as accurate before its charts included Neptune?
I’ve never heard this term “AI alignment” before and they also don’t define it…
This is so true, also applies to what you say. One wrong sentence and you will be judged by it for years.
I think "nobody ever went there" is difficult to gauge since most purchases are very quick. Typical purchase would take 30-60 seconds for me to make. Since people are quick in/quick out it seems less people shop there.
If the smart guy mainly is dumb when it suits him, then it's malice.
Science magazine touts the existence of strong and ubiquitous “implicit bias”
No, assets are taken into consideration for that exact reason.
To put it in perspective, state actors have departments full of people who spend their work weeks figuring out how to act on behalf of the state and then executing upon those methods.

Those people are more organized than you. They are more motivated. They often have the resources to align Apple's and Google's interests with their own.

And they are more motivated than you. They are patriotic and surrounded by people who are patriotic and paid to be patriotic.

A state actor can travel to your state and get the information when just beating it out of you isn't the better option...but if you're in its state, beating the information out of you is probably the simplest thing that might work.

The revolution will not happen on your smartphone. Those days are past and the Arab Spring taught states all they needed to know.

Good luck.
After Dark now works in the browser thanks to Archive.org. Here are some examples:

Disney After Dark: https://archive.org/details/after-dark-disney

After Dark 3.2 for Windows: https://archive.org/details/AFTERDARK32_WIN

After Dark Looney Toons:
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After Dark for Macintosh 2.0: https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac

After Dark Simpsons: https://archive.org/details/SIMPSONS_WIN
Of course politically is better -- "win without fighting". So a fifth column willing to hand over the island would be ideal. Men like certain officials of Kherson Oblast just last year, who complied with specific requests from the Kremlin.
Larger tech cos with very high TC know that they will always have a pipeline of more qualified candidates, so a false negative has basically no cost to them, whereas a false positive has a significant cost. I think the reason that they run these processes is because they have a very low false positive rate, and so long as that is true, it doesn't matter to them how high the false negative rate is.

And I think that smaller companies copy this as a part of the tendency to copy large companies without thinking about whether the thing they are copying actually makes sense at their scale. In this case it can be very damaging, because false negative for a startup with a limited pipeline can be very bad.
It most definitely is true in India.
The odds that you were raised right into an accurate model of the cosmos is quite low. Hence to be right you have to be able to change your mind all the time.
Nobody here commenting on the fact that Slack blocks Firefox as well for voice/video calls?

I'm not a regular Slack user, but when I tried the voice call option earlier this week first I got a notification that they were switching to some new style of video conferencing called "Huddles", and it gave me an option to choose between "huddles" and "classic" video calls, which was confusing to begin with. I choose the latter, but I got a compatibility error with my browser, advising me to use huddles instead (really, they couldn't detect that earlier?). Anyway, when I tried to 'huddle' my customer, it simple said my browser (Firefox on Linux) wasn't compatible, and that I must install Chrome to use the feature.

This is where I closed Slack and used my phone to make the call.
On a smaller size (company) it's relatively easy: pay well, don't oversell the position, send a small assignment representative of work and give them ample time to solve on their own OR ask for references you can talk to from previous workplaces.

Game changes if you actively contacted someone.. if you're no BS, assumption is you know who you contacted and why, hence only thing to do, once contact established is not to oversell and pay well.

Pay-well can constitue compensation as well as time.
I am in Europe and I am replying to a claim that public transport can be made so good that it is people's first choice... and so the point I am making is that this is indeed setting an unrealistic expectation on public transport!

If you need some biking or walking just to reach public transport, then wait, then travel through the network then there is always a level of inconvenience that you may not face if you use individual private transport instead.

Even in Europe most people live is suburbs. Even if they are not car-centric (and they are in most cases) that increases inconvenience and cost of public transport.
G$ == Giga dollars?
Wouldn’t rank within their school be the hardest metric to game, since schools tend to be fairly segregated with respect to income levels?

The only way to game that metric would be for the wealthy to send their kids to schools that perform worse, which would wind up driving more resources to those schools.
There's usually an app that tells you in real time when the bus will arrive, including possible congestion. When it's minutes away it's never early so it's not a problem. The bus is almost never early from the scheduled time because it's usually the minimum time. So the bus might be late, but at least it's not standing idly while you're already in it, intentionally wasting everyone's time.

There's also a stop button to make sure the bus doesn't waste everyone's time stopping in stations nobody wants. Which is pretty pointless if we're now wasting the time earned by standing idle.

If I want accuracy, it's my responsibility to go ahead of time and pad my margins. Not the buses' job. It seems selfish to me to waste everyone's time for people who need accuracy, it's their responsibility to waste their own time getting better margins.
It's SSA. If you use (define) in Racket is it no longer functional?
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding about the purpose of the whiteboard interview. The point is to eliminate, as fast as possible, candidates who simply cannot code [0] [1].

You can't do that with a take-home (and I'm against take home as the signal to noise ratio is too low) because people will cheat and have them done by someone else.

I've heard horror story of a "senior" engineer from "his country's top school" being interviewed for a technical position by several non-technical managers and HR reps. They only included an engineer in the final round, which was basically supposed to be rubberstamped anyways. He was then asked to implement something trivial like fizzbuzz or wordcount on the whiteboard. The candidate then became extremely defensive and tried to argue that such task was "beneath him", arguing for a good 15 minutes why he shouldn't have to do it.

Then the dev just left the room and said that he used this question as a warmup with new hires and it typically takes them less than 10 minutes.

Now, a lot of folks do whiteboard interviews wrong. They often expect to get the exact implementation of an algorithm they found in a textbook and for code on the board to compile. This isn't the point of whiteboarding. Doing this only promotes rote memorization. A good whiteboard interview should be a toy problem that can be solved in several different ways by using different strategies or data-structures. The idea is to see how the candidate will break down the problem. Is the candidate able to formulate test cases, write a simple implementation, verify his code and correct the implementation should it fail a test? On the more meta side of things is the candidate able to take feedback and explain why a certain strategy was chosen? Of course it's not representative of real world engineering but it's a good way to peek at someone's ability to debug and reason about programs; these abilities translate well into debugging and design. Especially at the college level, I really can't make any assumptions on what the candidates know. I'm not judging their knowledge of the standard library of X programming language or the framework-du-jour but their ability to learn it fast.

Now the hard part isn't so much to create an interview process that works well, but to create a pipeline that feeds into this interview process that has a high signal to noise ratio. In my experience, the best predictors of a good signal to noise ratio was to select for CS fundamentals, good references and offer above market comp. The latter is especially crucial now since there's no more "local market" to speak of now that remote work is a lot prevalent. The "local market's" best devs are working for SV firms at SV salaries mentoring SV employees.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/95-engineers-...
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I know it's not exactly what you're asking, but you can use transactions to prevent "YOLO query" situations.
Something is missing, I feel like.

The basic idea is sound, but it's painful to both start and end a game, and winning isn't very satisfying.

One of wordle's biggest flaws is "the opening". If you're going to have a daily puzzle, it shouldn't be exactly the same board to start every day. Games are so fast that this idea doesn't totally work there, but I think it would be better if they gave you a starting word every day.

The same rule applies here, I think. Your opening move set is basically fixed, and no one is really interested in learning the theory of that. Make the opening less tedious by starting with a couple of random words already played. This has two added benefits. The simplest is that it serves as a tutorial, in all likelihood, if you gave a list of prechosen words and their scores, and a textbox, people would already completely understand the rules of the game without any explanation at all. This is very valuable to a game like this, as it lowers friction.

The second benefit is more specific to this game, but it gives players a lot of hypotheses to test new words against from the outset. You want to reward play that deduces the next word not only from similarity to chosen close words, but also dissimilarity from chosen far words. In order to do that though, you have to choose a pretty large disparate set of far words. This hurts your score and is not particularly dependent on the days puzzle (ie you should pick about the same set every time). The game should probably do this for you, at the beginning.

Finally, you should reveal how many letters are in the target word. I don't want to just probe the model with synonyms. That's extremely tedious. give me enough information to make a plausible guess.

You could even consider a variant of the game where you're only allowed to guess words with the target number of letters, which might actually be mroe fun.
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The US Trade Office publishes a literal naughty list of countries that aren't playing nice with its intellectual property laws. Full of language such as "stakeholders" too. Corporations literay use the might of the US government to police their imaginary property across the globe.

Don't underestimate these monopolists. My country regularly makes it to this list. I remember some MPAA asshole coming here to push his agenda being met by journalists asking him why this should be a priority in a country without universal basic sanitation. Now we have increasingly regular IP enforcement. One such operation made national news a few days ago.
Coping mechanisms are often helpful. But shouldn’t be used to evade recognizing and possibly addressing the underlying issues. Sometimes there is physiologically or psychologically something wrong.
Only ince or twice maybe.

BTW how can we trust Hanlon? Maybe he tried to cover up is own malice.
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