skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/Eukkd
Wouldn't need to be visual. Just requires some way of determining the placement of specific compounds. In most organisms this is by generic coding; your cells don't see a human standing next to your embryo and then decide to make you look like a human. If the plants aren't connected it could be inferred through other means, electromagnetic, auditory, maybe some plant cells move through the air.
It's called journalism. This is going to be happening for a while as journalists get more and more of the inside scoop. The new board also has a full slate ahead for it, including the investigation, recruiting a full board, and dealing with the non-profit and corporate structure which has a few holes showing. Plus there is all the stuff the company is actually doing with new products and the "Preparedness Framework" they are working on.

Up until recently, the press about OpenAI has been mostly "look at the shiny lights" and now it's going to get the Elon Musk treatment.
> it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life

We increase that pressure.
Let's Build a Webapp Without Rails: Serve Static Files and Render Dynamic Views
What's most interesting to me isn't just how this plant does it, but how such a capability evolved ...

There has to have been other more primitive sensing/copying capabilities that evolved into this, but what are/were they, and what were the evolutionary benefits of those more primitive capabilities ?

Are there any other plants still existing today that react to light in more than just a present/not-present or directional way ?
In my native Texan English, "y'all" can certainly act as a singular polite "you" (EDIT: though it is not terribly common). I often use "Howdy, how y'all doin?" as a polite greeting to people I don't know regardless of the number of people I am addressing, though switch to just "you" after making acquaintance. Funny enough, "howdy" is a contraction of the older "how do ye" and some people still consider it both a greeting _and_ an inquiry, so in some cases it's redundant, and others it isn't, depending on the listener.
> What were his actual crimes

Boards don’t judge crimes. And unlike courts, they have no disclosure obligation. Particularly for a private company.
Nonsense:

coal 1990: 141 TWh, 2000: 143 TWh, 2010: 117 TWh, 2020: 41 TWh
lignite 1990: 171 TWh, 2000: 148 TWh, 2010: 146 TWh, 2020: 91 TWh

Official numbers:
https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/STR...
This lead me down a short Wikipedia rabbit-hole that is quite interesting (at least to me).

Apparently Dutch originally had "du" as 2nd person singular and "gij" as 2nd person plural. From the 16th century, "gij" started being used as singular polite form. (Possibly under the influence of Latin and French.) Later, "du" disappeared. Up to this point, the progression is similar to English.

"gij" then transformed to "jij" in the northern part of the Dutch language area and in written language; while it remained "gij" in Flemish spoken language.

However, then in the 17th century people started using "Uwe Edelheit" ("Your Nobility") as a new formal form in letters. This evolved into the current formal pronoun "u".

(Note also that the accusative form of "gij" is also "u", but is not related to the formal "u".)

Sources: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gij, https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/gij, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_(voornaamwoord), https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/u
> often a better predictor for a good hire than tech skills

On the other hand, the inability to write a nested for loop is a reliable predictor for a bad hire.
I'd probably fail the author's interview. As soon as you hit strong cultural disagreement (e.g. "new technologies" is a minefield), the interviewer has to be a mental Hulk to proceed without bias. Goodbye diversity.

I've also done 100s of interviews (small and large companies). What I learnt:

- CVs are useless except for leveling the candidate (which is done for me),

- CVs are dangerous because they create a bias ("looks like an amazing candidate!" -- an then you get someone who is good, but not amazing as you expected and then you rate them lower than you should -- I intentionally skip the CVs as much as possible),

- majority of the people will solve a simple problem at the algorithmic level, and then fail to code it up,

- the best value is to give the candidate a SIMPLE coding question which produces a decent amount of code (25-50 lines), and observe them while solving it (their approach, bugs, etc.),

- the signals I'm looking for: (1) can the candidate code fluently, (2) do they approach the problem in a systematic way, (3) can I communicate with them without friction.
According to the article “you” was formal and “thou” informal.
Slovene has three levels of politeness:

* ti (second person singular)

* vi (second person plural)

* oni (third person plural) -- archaic
It’s just like Southwestern Brazilian Portuguese uses “você” as the informal second person singular, while ironically the origin of this word is the formal version of this pronoun. Currently the formal second person singular is actually a third-person pronoun, “o senhor” or “a senhora” depending on the gender. Although there is incredible differences in how the formal/informal pronouns are applied: in my family we were taught to only use the informal with everybody no matter what, and in some of my friends’ families the practice is to use the formal even when addressing one’s parents.
It's pretty similar.

The American Chestnut was a "cradle to grave" tree - from a baby rocked in a chestnut crib, living in a chestnut house with chestnut furniture and shingled with chestnut bark, warmed by a chestnut fire, entertained by a chestnut fiddle, until finally ending as a body buried in a chestnut casket.

Plus, chestnut nuts were food for you, for your pigs, and for the wild game you hunted.
If Sam continues to have "luck" it is not survivorship bias. As I said before he is at the center of the stage.
Everyone is different. I’m really happy you can look at yourself critically like that and realize your own limitations, then work around them. To be honest your comment is the real takeaway here for me (the article was basically “good things are good” and felt quite empty/meaningless).
Old filters can become breeding grounds for bacteria, as they can build up biological contaminants over time. The more biological contamination, the more for bacteria to feed on.

So there is a health danger, perhaps? Not sure how likely.

(Some municipalities use a lot of UV, and less chlorine and other chemicals to kill bacteria. And people on wells generally have no chlorine. In such cases, there is nothing to slow standing water bacterial growth.)
There must be some links between French and English where in French, the formal version is "vous" which sounds like "you" and the informal is "toi" which maybe sounded like "thou" in the past. (The 'th' has no equivalent in French)
It took like 2-3 minutes for mine to load. Here's the text:

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> Anders Borsch (@anders@mastodon.cyborch.com)

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions.

I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates.

All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate.

I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them.

Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles.

I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process?

Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like:

- Where do you get your tech news?

- How do you learn about new technologies?

- What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today?

- What is a perfect workday like for you?

I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?”

I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that.

Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates.
Mastodon, like many other db backed web apps (notoriously WordPress), is a very brittle application when you throw a lot of unexpected load at it and when it's run on a single server.
I think you're missing the point of that comment. Yes, you don't want to hire someone to a programming role if they have absolutely no skill or knowledge in the subject and "cannot we write a loop". But that will become quite clear during the interview regardless if you have them doing some leetcode challenge or not. The important part to me is whether they can function in the present team, whether they can employ problem solving skills in a positive way. Sure, let's whiteboard out a problem, show me how you think about it, how you approach it, what steps you take to disassemble it. But also, if you're stuck do you ask for help? Can you discuss the problem without having a solution ready, do you have ideas about how to research it, can you present paths to progress? These are the really important attributes, not "have you memorized this wacky algorithmic solution in the last two weeks". Pure whiteboard tests are just stupid, don't shed light on someone's potential, and carry a context that makes a lot of intelligent high potential individuals freeze up. They select for the wrong traits.
By way of response, here's a link to the Inequality Database. Note the bottom 50% recently. Not very upward.

https://wid.world/country/usa/
not everyone has google/icloud sync on.
people run out of space on their phones all the time.
Tell you what, I’m opting in to Santa.
IMO, the existence of such arguments is one of the best arguments for God not existing.

If there were any better arguments, we'd be using them instead.

Nobody needed an ontological argument for platypuses, because we had actual material evidence.
Software Engineering's Greatest Hits – What We Know [video]
Biodiversity is a word which divorced from its consequences, which can be positive, negative, both or neither.

It can result in “health” via symbiotic relationships, just as much as it can result suffering, war and hardship via the introduction of pests and diseases.

The point is it’s daft throw around biodiversity as some kind of absolute idea of virtue. It is not equitable with “goodness”.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has fourth-lowest opening in DCEU franchise history
Embrace the Christmas sweater. Lose the “ugly.”
At some point the candidate is going to need to write some code. If you haven't been involved in hiring, you might not know how little proficiency it's possible to have in actually writing code, while having a beautiful looking resume.

Clicking buttons in jira alone isn't going to go very far.
Fizz-buzz tried to set this, but I’ve run into people who have trouble making compound decisions with compound data, so I ask slightly tougher ones, like sort these users by name. First, last, middle, maybe age or date created.

Or take this array of items and give me a map that uses the name as a key. I had one guy who could do a lot of front end work well but he could not pivot data to save his life. It was super weird. Like Derek Zoolander ambi-turner weird.
The latter is a smaller subset of the other.
> [...] literally has no idea how to solve a problem, program a computer to do it

> [...] but I bet if a hospital interviews a doctor, they can at least count on basic knowledge of anatomy

Does the same situation arise if you pre-filter requiring a CS/EE degree from e.g. a top 1000 university?

MD degrees are highly regulated, so you would need some stringent pre-filtering to make both situations comparable.

Otherwise, I guess it is natural to find a lot more variability in candidates?
> Also, I could imagine Chrome pushing some update that would make all of the usb pairing stuff that they do here break at some point, and they will have to do work to keep it working.

That can be solved by developing a flasher in a framework more stable than Javascript and web browsers, like OP did.

Companies been increasingly using the "we can't do X because Y" justification when they themselves are responsible for Y.
But how do you test for psychological fit with the team?

You can get a candidate that nails the tests and interviews. Meets the team and first impressions are good.

Then 2 months in everyone realises the guy has a tantrum issue and is just an awful person when you get to know him ...
We shouldn't reduce or avoid removing any of the struggles you've brought up - those are real and we need to remove them.
With that being said, most of what OP said is true: Americans are in a good position because of many factors - national security being an important one. I interpret OP's comment not as a call to rest on the US's good position, but to fight for it and improve it. We can both hold that the US has major issues that need to be fixed, while saying we need to fight against countries that would work to destabilize the US.
If we don't fight for the struggles you've mentioned (and other ones!), the US won't improve. But, if we don't also recognize our worldwide position and work to prevent countries from destabilizing it, everything will get worse for everyone.
> Its not the people that are thankful to their country that enact change.
I disagree, we can be recognize some aspects of a country and be thankful (fighting to keep the good we have) while still improving on others.
I hope it is clear I'm speaking in good faith
I've never used Mastodon before, but this was a terrible first introduction. Does that mean that different Mastodon instances will just go up and down depending on how their server is doing that particular moment? There's no caching or CDN?

Modern Wordpress hosts do both, and it's usually very very quick to load.
In the case of the lawyer, if it's a big city firm, (whether this is right or not) they'll look at where they went to school, whether they were on law review, and who they clerked for. And with that done, it doesn't matter a lot anyway because they'll be an overworked associate who can be given lots of crap work to do and if they don't make partner, they'll probably be pushed out.

Funnily enough, one of my best jobs in tech included an interview with who would become my hiring manager. (I don't think the company had actually figured that out at the time as they were writing the job description for me.) I don't think I had ever had an interview that I just couldn't read like that one. Years later, after he was no longer with the company, I sort of asked him if I had really bombed and he basically laughed and said he was always tough on interviewees. (And he was always really tough to read.) It also probably didn't help that I hadn't had a real interview in at least 10 years.
yes agree and .. in the mid 2000s there was a concerted double-edged change in interviewing that I could see. One came from Redmond and was an exercise in intimidating the candidate with a whiteboard, and the second came from Google where they interview you like you just defended your PhD at a top University.. so do it again now with the problem of my choice. Like any trend, the third, fourth and fifth level players heard of this and imitated it.

All of this combined with seniority not for coding, but for the mercantile aspects - if you formed and sold a company then you are senior, otherwise no.
Overall, economics is killing nuclear not greens.
> I'm sure also insulting to actually good candidates

I don't mind it much. I don't have great social skills but I don't mind answering simple questions. If someone is insulted by simple questions, they're probably gonna be a bad mentor to junior devs, right?
It’s sad that we (barely) care more about recycling soda cans than we do batteries. If throwing batteries in the regular trash is such a costly thing why on Earth don’t we collect a deposit and offer deposit return to anyone who turns them in?
Which is fine reasoning but rarely enters into the law or regulation. A lot of inspection power has to do with other "concerns" such as mislabelling (per se), trademark protection, counterfeits, forbidden items (for example radio bands), etc etc. "Economic sense" is long lost by then.
Should I be envious of any parent who had to actually address this one with a Santa believing kid advanced enough to ponder this one!
The problem is that it is sunny in that month. Historically around here, we’d have more cloud cover, and it would be tuned right. The plan was to open the windows if this was a problem, but we’re also getting more flies / biting flies than before during those months.

Of course, the excess sun means excess solar production when most people aren’t running heaters or A/C.

The expensive fix is to increase the amount the roof sticks out by a foot or so to block the sun for an additional month in fall and spring.

The cheap fix (what we are going for) is to put up curtains or blinds that let us manually tune the amount of passive heating we get from the sun.

Either fix would also reduce glare, but only the curtains let us tune the pre/post solstice passive heating. It is colder post-solstice for a given angle of sun, so extending the roof enough for November probably implies paying more for heat in Jan/Feb.
That is an unprofessional, abusive way to treat job applicants. It's going to filter out those who don't drink or who have evening family obligations. Any hiring manager who engages in these shenanigans should be ashamed of themselves. And in the USA at least, they could potentially be exposing the company to legal jeopardy.
It's funny how that sort of immediacy is what people like about lisps, but to my knowledge there is nothing like the RAD interface Lazarus and Delphi have in the open source lisp world.
I realize now I just won’t be able to understand the crowd that wants an easy ride through interview loops and refuse to be put in a hot seat. Do they not care at all who they end up working with? Because you will 100% end up having half of your team incapable of writing software in such places
There’s a part in Hamlet where Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle, the one who killed Hamlet’s father and married his mother Gertrude and became king) tells Gertrude, “go talk to your son” after Hamlet angers him. Note that it’s not “our son” or even “thy son”—the choice of “you” here is really biting once you know the distinction.
Also, intellectual property and a stiff legal budget.
FF VI and Chrono Trigger (both SNES) are two gems which I would definitely replay if I had the time.

It is easy to get lost the pretty graphics of modern games, but to me well written story and characters are the best part of JRPGs
I feel like it's quite quick actually. I think of software eng interviews as binary search type of thing. You ask a mid difficulty question. If they don't know answer to that, you'll ask 0.25 difficulty question and so on. Although obviously, if the first question was a fluke, you'll adjust your cursor, so in the end it's not entirely binary search, but it is similar in its approach. Perhaps there is a better analogous algorithm for that.

The point is that, if they can answer very well more than 75% of your questions, you increase the difficulty, otherwise you decrease.

And the better they answer, the more you try to challenge and argue them.

What I do hate however is leetcode. I'll avoid that completely as an interviewer, as I feel like it would only help me determine whether they are the type of people to spend hours on leetcode.

I'll want to try to understand their passion to build and produce a product that solves something and provides value for their customers. Leetcode culture is contrary to that to me. To me leetcode culture is something where you play the game to increase somewhat irrelevant skills to get to a prestigious company to optimise for your total compensation. Which is fine, but it's not something I think that would be great for me to try to find best members for my team.

I haven't looked for a job in a while, but I'm bringing this up because in my experience when I was the candidate I remember people being quite rigid in their questions, for example questions being predetermined, which meant they ask me non-sensically easy questions, which considering what kind of questions I had answered before it would make no sense that I wouldn't know answer to those questions. So a lot of time-wasting.

Or in the other direction they could be asking similar questions in similar difficulty and area of topic, where someone clearly shows they no experience with, instead of trying to understand all talents of the candidate.
>Imagine I win the lottery and hire really smart architects and tell them to make a revolutionary new building.

Each one will end up pulling in their own direction, fighting with others over minor things, and nothing will ever get done.

Managing smart people, resolving conflicts, and making sure stuff gets done is a rare and underappreciated skill.
Ask HN: What simple desktop app do you need?
Is there a desktop app that if it existed would simplify your life? If so, let me know, if it's not too long to build, I will develop it for you and will provide you with the source code on github, and you can just compile it with freely available tools (either Lazarus or Delphi community edition).

There is no catch, I just want to practice my desktop app building skills and do it on apps that could be of service to people.
> I don’t follow this logic, it seems to say Bill Gates is poor because he can’t buy a whizbang from the year 3,000. That doesn’t make sense.

That's correct, he would not be rich in year 3000 dollars if he can't afford the year 3000 equivalent of CPI. We'll have to wait until then to see how his investments do.

> Also Irish were

"Were". I didn't say "were", I said "are".

> Please stop making up stuff or just saying random words not grounded in any facts.

How about trying harder to read what I actually said?
Chef's problems "with ruby" were largely design problems. The whole structure of the run collection and the "two pass parsing" design made it so that users had to almost immediately fully understand how the ruby parser saw ruby code. That wasn't really ruby's fault and there could have been other ways to structure recipes and avoid smacking new users with ruby syntax quite so hard.
That’s interesting. As a non-Texan, I’d assumed that since y’all is a contraction that it would signify a more casual tone in the same way that “He’ll” is less formal than “He will”, etc.
Is there any tech to power electronics using carbohydrates dissolved in blood or something similar to how human cells get their power?

Implants will need power: either an external power source, their own power source, or a way to derive power from the body they are implanted in.

Solving the implant power problem would be a big step toward implantable components for myraid use cases.
I’m with you. I think the point here is that he _is_ like Steve Jobs, and everything that goes with that comparison.
True, but also coal. Coal use declined substantially in Germany. Lignite from 171 TWh production in 1990 to 92 TWh in 2020 and coal from 141 TWh to 43 TWh.
> But that will become quite clear during the interview regardless if you have them doing some leetcode challenge or not.

No, no it won’t. I’ve done 300 interviews when i stopped counting and I’ve had all sorts of people who talk a good game but absolutely can’t code
20-25,000 murders per year. Around 40,000 fatal car crashes. Around 5-7000 fatal accidents involving pedestrians. Everyone excited about waymo but opposed to gun and knife wielding security robots.