skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect real truth OP is not sharing is that they are quick to fire. If this is default in their company, then it’s ok to pick up incapable coder, since it will be corrected in a month or two.

Simple coding questions are invaluable at filtering, but of course do not guarantee the result. In last 3 weeks I interviewed 3 candidates, two of them failed to write 40 lines of code based on written requirements. One of them even used Copilot.
I was reacquainted with Titanium Nitride care of a woodworker on YouTube the other day. It’s being used to protect tool surfaces from wear. Is that a coincidence or is there something special about nitrogen as a dopant?
There is a scene in The Lord of the Rings (Book) where Éowyn switches to using "thou" and "thee" when begging Aragorn to take her with him when he takes the Paths of the Dead.

If you don't know (as I didn't for a long time) that she has switched to intimate/informal language then the scene has less impact. Especially since Aragorn keeps things formal in his reply.

http://coco.raceme.org/literature/lordoftherings/returnking/...
Did they say that? Or are you just assuming?
La turbulence ?
About a week, but in the modern day it definitely doesn't take a month to get used to a city's public transport system. Phones now tell you all you need to know in most developed countries. Perhaps with the exception of particularly terrible ticketing systems such as the UK train system and, I can't remember why now as it's been a few years, but I hate the train ticketing in Germany too. But even in those cases, you still get where you're going, just with the chance that you'll get told off by a ticket inspector because your train isn't valid for the super ultra full moon off-peak ticket you booked.

And London really does have some of the best in the world. There are a lot of rough edges, for sure, but nearly all rankings I can find have it around 10th best city public transportation system in the world which is pretty up there. Maybe now that they've finally fixed Bank station, it could even go up a few points ;). Zurich is probably the best I've experienced, and Stockholm, Tokyo and Singapore are also very good. Paris, Moscow, Madrid, New York City and Amsterdam are probably all roughly on par with London; better in some ways, worse in others, and which one you prefer probably depends on your individual preferences.
>The key thing to understand is that if you use these flags, you opt-in to a non-standard C dialect.

This is not true. The C Standard explicitly states that a conforming implementation is welcome to provide well defined semantics to behavior that the standard states is undefined.

The whole point of undefined behavior is that the C Standard imposes no requirement on implementations about the semantics of that program, so if a specific implementation adds some kind of checks or provides some sort of deterministic behavior to something that is otherwise undefined, the program itself is still C code and adheres to the C Standard.

>Your code can no longer be compiled by a compiler that does not support these special C dialects.

Undefined behavior is a semantic property of a program, not a syntactic property, so any other conforming C compiler will have no problem compiling it.
I have something similar that was discussed here few months back, the whole thing is in a org file, i can add summaries etc and each becomes a hugo blogpost, it's not as interactive as OPs submission but works ok i guess.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641451
Among the non-standard ports for SSH, 443 is in the top ports used:

https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=ssh&facet=port
https://www.shodan.io/search/facet.png?query=ssh&facet=port

Port 80 is a lot less common though.
BLS appears to have split up computer programmers and software developers.

Here is software developers:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

That page shows +26% for software developers percent change in employment, projected 2022-32.
My strategy was always the same, ask technical questions and go deeper with each question until the applicants says something like "I don't know but I would do xyz to find out."

But I always warn first that there's no problem if they don't know the answer so they know first-hand they can say I don't know.

Very easy to detect bullshitter that will invent stuff or those on the first level of dunningkruger.

And the best moment of my life was when I interviewed someone who had all the answers and the explanation of why it was working this way.
I told hr that we had to hire him in a higher position than me!
> As soon as you hit strong cultural disagreement (e.g. "new technologies" is a minefield)

I am not sure what you mean by this. This is a question I ask and I’m concerned there’s something I’m missing here. Could you elaborate?

> I intentionally skip the CVs as much as possible),

That seems very odd. How do you comb through and make an initial choice of who to interview then? Also, seems unfair to not look at the work they’ve done over all the years.

Personally, I’m a GitHub person. Show me what you’ve written and how active you are.
Without providing a defn of “fast” and within what domain, this is a meaningless post.
Santa has a cookie notice now that you must accept when he collects the cookies you leave for him.
It doesn’t require either of those things. I’ve been doing it this year and I’m on day 17 I think. I probably won’t finish it until the end of January.

I looked at the leaderboard one day there were a lot of people who finished the problem set in 3-4 minutes. I spent more time than that reading the problem description.

It’s still a lot of fun. Some days I’ll solve the problem more than once just to try different ideas.
The amount of time and energy wasted due to recruiters and hr is so frustrating for me, Ive solved live coding exercise so fast that people thought i was cheating, solved tests in a fraction of the time, etc, overall I can easily do tech stuff in interviews, and just be dumped because I am asked if I am willing to go to friday drinks or company parties and I say I don’t really want, yes, asking if one has the will to go to company parties is so important that its part of the interview process, this system is broken
Why large language models threaten learning, teaching, and education
More worryingly: if Santa knows who's been naughty and who's been nice, he would necessarily have been aware that the other reindeer had been mobbing Rudolph, but did nothing about it until circumstances made Rudolph's talents useful to the North Pole.
Yes, but as I said, I was talking about early Confucians.
The Economics of Time Travel
Or King James Bible - some Christians stick to the original translation (1611).
Exactly. At the other end of the spectrum, having a conversation also exposes the “over prepared”. There are some (few) folks that practice leetcode all day, but that doesn’t translate to team fit and on the job value creation. Not being able to communicate while working (not continuously, small amounts with good effect is fine) is a bit of an orange flag for me.
I don't get how we can reason about God existence (or not) using plain logic. First we should define what God(s) is/are. For example, If God = The Universe then God exists, even if the Universe is an hologram.
The International Astronomical Union stopped publishing it in their list of constellations in 1922, and no one really learns about it anymore.
How did Florida save alligators from extinction? It was super effective.
I think the biggest issue with this is that you leave yourself open to bias. The person you're most likely to enjoy food/drinks with is the person you're most likely to be friends with. You'll end up with teams hiring via popularity, and possibly excluding those from other cultures or who have different personality traits.
7000 tons a day is a lot to a human, but it is just peanuts compared to the system it’s going into.

In 100 years, almost all of it will be rotten or eaten or otherwise recycled.
I'd be interested in the links!
That's extremely easy. There are awards and magazines and Wikipedia. Smart architects are smart because they're able to come up with the "right vision" all on their own.

We know it's possible for someone with no technical ability to look like genius just by having lots of money. I knew people who believed Musk was going to bring about an AI revolution all on his own because of his very special brain, but his tenure at Twitter was laughable to anyone who has passed CS 101. What makes you convinced all the rich "geniuses" who haven't revealed themselves to be idiots are actually smart for real this time?
Don't they use Pennsylvania Dutch ???.
Sliding water droplets surprise scientists
There's nothing weird about it. There are many programming domains where maps and pivot data are totally irrelevant. They just never come up. Developers who have specialized in those fields for years might just need a quick refresher on data structures.
> Even their updated 2017 demands did not include peace with Israel if met.

India doesn't have peace with Pakistan. Doesn't mean the 2 nuclear powers (similarly partitioned up by the British) are at perpetual war.

Hamas like PA accepts 2SS. It is expantionists in Israel that reject it. In fact, PA concedes to have a state on merely 19% of historic Palestine.
Afterthought: the post below illustrates the paucity of modern English in that nowadays in modern English no distinction is made between the second and third person 'you' whereas in other languages such as German it still is.

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I've mentioned on HN previously when discussing languages that when my father was learning German his old textbook had the English thee, thou, and thine/thy as the second person for the German second person du.

One of the faux pas for English speakers when learning German is the incorrect usage of du. They mistakenly use du instead of sie because it's more informal than sie not realizing that in German it is reserved for the closest of relationships such as family, lovers etc.

Essentially, in German du — the equivalent form of the second person English thou — is still a part of the living language whereas in English thou is now archaic.

The correct usage of du became immediately obvious to me after seeing my father's textbook. For the life of me I cannot understand why modern English textbooks simply substitute you for du, it's just crazy as it leads to much confusion.

Thou and variants are understood by most native English speakers even if the term is now archaic so it makes sense to use it instead of you in textbooks for learning German. Just one additional paragraph would be needed to explain and clean up the you/du mess.

I have been trying for years to find out why the authors of modern (current) textbooks now use you instead of thou. I'd be most grateful if someone who knows the rationale behind it would post the reason.

Incidentally, my father's textbook was published sometime around 1930, so this you substitution is a relatively recent phenomena.
That's fascinating , because it's originally a subject/object divide (equivalent to he/him)
I'd be happy to trade places for the winter - I do miss my seasons!
But it's not that the guy's "information is wrong", it's that he has produced some hypothetical examples of things that might be the case, but also might not.

"responding with a series of Palestinian flags to an Israeli hostage relative's post about their kidnapped sibling, for example, would be clear harassment and abuse."

This is a hypothetical. The poster is literally "making up things."
1,000? Almost certainly. 100? Maybe not. 20? Probably not.
Well, yes. I suppose one could enable caching in Nginx or some other reverse proxy but Mastodon itself is just the app, there'd be no point for it to implement caching or a CDN when the admin can hook that on in front.
Final Fantasy Elements
Seems to be a challenge/storyline mod with balancing and bug fixes thrown in. I was looking for a new romhack to play over the holidays, so I’m excited to try it.
Earlier you wrote that "I did pay for and have access to Compuserve forums", and that "if you loved the 1992 internet I can probably find an AOL disk to send you".

Could you clarify whether you had direct access to the internet (the newsgroups, email, ftp sites, web sites, not mediated by AOL or Compuserv) before mid-1993? Also, if yes, how many hours did you spend on it? I ask because I would be surprised to learn that it is possible for someone with your opinions to have had extensive experience with the internet pre-1993 (and I go looking for surprises).
There's no such thing as a natural right. The rights we have only exist because someone in power has granted them.

You can believe that everyone should have freedom of speech (and I'd agree with you), but one look around the world should show you that it is not a natural right, as clearly it is suppressed heavily in some places. And even in places that claim to guarantee from of speech usually still restrict it in some ways.
I loved Lufia 2 as well, especially the Ancient Cave which blew my mind when I was younger since I didn't realize how they could make a full game and a replay-able 100 level dungeon in the same SNES cart.

My favorite game from SNES era is probably Tales of Phantasia though (the DeJap fan translation) - the gameplay mixed with a fun story across 2 different time periods was an amazing experience. I probably have FF5, 6, Chrono Trigger, Fire Emblem 4, or Star Ocean somewhere in the 2-6 range.
Santa has an exemption for all children until the age of 12.
> 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 think this is unavoidable. Teams have cultures (I don't mean ethnicities, though of course there is some overlap), and ill-fitting candidates will struggle even if they are hired. Or they'll change the team and stress someone else out. As un-PC as it sounds, probably small, values-aligned teams are the easiest/most comfortable to work in, even if that means individuals aren't exposed to more diversity.

> 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.

Isn't this a sort of cultural preference on its own? You're looking for (and prioritizing) people who can code a certain way and communicate with you a certain way. A brilliant programmer from a different code style background, who's maybe an introverted poor communicator (or just have a different communication style) and codes in nonstandard (to you) way might not pass such an interview. That's fine... they probably wouldn't work well with your team anyway. But IMO that's the point of cultural fit interviews, to respect both your team and the candidate's time upfront by evaluating not just their technical ability but how well they'll fit into your team.

The "signals" you're using are just a masked variant of that. Maybe (as an example, just an extrapolation) you prefer async communications with clear, simple assignments -- like self-contained Jira tickets -- rather than group architecting, pair programming, or whatever. But those are cultural values.

If you ignore all those signs and forcibly include someone, sure, you might increase diversity on your team... and stress for everyone, including the new hire who finds themselves alienated from the rest.
No, that's because of consumer preferences. You can't find durian in your store either but not because durian is dying out. In stores in the US, chestnuts always pop up around Thanksgiving or Christmas and are absent the rest of the year.
Yes. The tu and thou pronouns are related. So are me and moi, nos and ours. In Hindi me and you are mai and tu. In Russian they are menya and tubya. (Sorry for errors in transliteration.). English I and Fench je are related too. Old English ich and Latin ego make the link more obvious.

Pronouns tend to be some of the most fixed words in a language, up there with numbers and basic words like for "water" or "mother". They undergo sound change, and shifts like how English lost thou, but they are almost never replaced wholesale.

All those languages are in fact descended from a common language spoken several thousand years ago. About half of the world today speaks a language in the Indo-European language family.
The conductor of an orchestra, and the leader of a company, sets the vision and direction. Steve Jobs was exceptional at this. Two examples, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, are clearly not particularly adept at this.

SpaceX and Tesla have the equivalent of the principals of each section of the orchestra feeding their conductor his cues and making sure he gets them right. Google has someone standing on the podium and bowing, but nobody waving the baton at all.

OpenAI is more of a research organization than a product company, and so it's hard to see where someone like Altman can contribute meaningfully to the direction.
Nuclear economics doesn't work. China just pulled out from Hinkley Point C. EDF made record losses and sits on an ancient fleet and is being renationalized. Westinghouse went bankrupt over two projects. NuScales project just got canceled because - surprise - cost was too high. Really, nuclear looks good on paper but simply is as a technology far too complex and costly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence#Kolmogorov's_theory...

see also https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg12416936-800-letter-la...

(but the way I heard the joke is that the scientist has planned to ask Him how to resolve gravitation with quantum mechanics, and only then the bystanders inquire, why not ask about turbulence?)
Korean also suffers from similar issues, where it's a bit more ridiculous: the textbook version of "polite" 2nd singular pronoun ("dangsin") has fallen so low that it's pretty much an insult now, and no other term has taken its place. As a result, modern Korean arguably does not have a polite 2nd person singular pronoun.

We somehow make do - it helps that Korean allows just omitting pronoun when the context is clear (same as Japanese).
CEO’s job is to not let the company run out of money. One way to achieve that is through fundraising, but fundraising shouldn’t be a goal in itself.
You have to be willing to game the system juuuust a little bit. "Yeah, sure, sounds fun". Then don't go. If your actual coworkers instead of the HR drone appreciate you, noone will care. If they do give you shit for "not being a team player", go find another job. But in my experience the former situation will be much more common. You just gotta get past the braindead HR stuff.
The one thing that's always missing from this conversation is that the "reviewers", "raters", or "interviewers" _themselves_ might not have the skillsets to be able to adequately formulate a roughly accurate opinion of someone's strengths and weaknesses.

Even worse, they might not be able to communicate the actual job requirements correctly, if they even understand the requirements and necessities themselves.

Even worse than that, they often aren't as strong socially as they believe themselves to be. Being able to establish a comfortable atmosphere to connect with someone quickly is rare skillset within the human population, let alone in specific domains.

There is a PRESUMPTION that people in the interviewer seat or management position can and should do this but honestly, after a few decades? I don't see it.

We should be working to solve the "interviewer" problem first, not the other way around.
Each object file (.o) has a unique hash and is stored as thehash.o.

It's certainly much faster to download the .o than it is to build it. Once it's downloaded it stays on the local filesystem until it's garbage-collected.
Freezing My Eggs Felt Like Spinning a Slot Machine with My Ovaries
Making Blue Noise Point Sets with Sliced Optimal Transport
"If one could identify weaknesses of 18th century thought that persist today?"

Quoting: So, people don't want to be miserable ?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/%2...
> Of course they do, however an important distinction here is that Meta is banned in China

Meta isn't banned in China. They just haven't developed a product that complies with Chinese law (in large part because US lawmakers warned them not to do this---so more like an export ban than an import ban).
I ask very simple question as a build-up for harder questions (write a function to reverse a single-linked list), probably half of the candidates fail to do in any reasonable time.
I have thought and talked about this so often with people. It is fascinating, such as the plants that mimic the shape of the birds that feed upon them - such as hummingbirds.

But the genes are not spread leaf-to-leaf - its through the roots, and may even be communicated through mycelium highways in the root systems where the same mycelium org is symbiotic with both plants.

I wonder what cultivating and formative impact "farming mycelium" might cause in an eco system.

I wonder if the plant in question is able to decode genes that it receives via the Hyphae fungal network, and knows the genes for "aesthetic and functional appearance for survival here, based on the active genes from the successful plants around me>" and can just sideload those genes into its makeup.

Does its offspring, or even clones - removed from that mimic'd env also continue to look like the mimic'd plant?

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I am pretty sure that the transfer of genes is from the horizontal gene transfer among "neighboring leaves" as it were - but perhaps among the root, as shared by mycelium (fungi) rhizal -- mycorrhizal root structure which shares nutrients between a plant and the fungus.

>mycorrhizae, known as root fungi, form symbiotic associations with plant roots. In these associations, the fungi are actually integrated into the physical structure of the root. The fungi colonize the living root tissue during active plant growth. Through mycorrhization, the plant obtains phosphate and other minerals, such as zinc and copper, from the soil. The fungus obtains nutrients, such as sugars, from the plant root. Mycorrhizae help increase the surface area of the plant root system because hyphae, which are narrow, can spread beyond the nutrient depletion zone. <-- may lead to why the plants may seem far enough apart.

https://i.imgur.com/s3Xv6TF.png

https://i.imgur.com/PVn6grj.png

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/MPMI-05-14-01...

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_Gene...

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Here is another video on these plants though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWWsYw9fH0

(this guy is talking about bacteria, but its fungi)
That's an interesting example to pick since there was a brief period when educated people doubted the existence of the platypus, too.
The parent comment is also system wide.
It should be system wide already because it’s in .home/cargo
“Tum” for you in Hindi when you’re informal/talking to a peer. “Aap” for formal/elder/respected person.
> The funds from Rockefeller (resource extraction), Carnegie (steel), or from English army (plundering) directly contributed to the large endowments of many of the wealthiest research institutes today.

Spain, Portugal, Mongolia and Russia should have a lot of them then. And Korea, Switzerland and Germany shouldn't, as none of them were big colonizers.

"Endowments" meaning successful very long running investments, most of all requires something to invest in, which is economic development. Harvard doesn't sit on a big pile of gold.

> So colonialism, plundering, and resource extraction is unambiguously profitable by increasing absolute wealth (by taking goods)

Taking something doesn't increase absolute wealth…

However, it may not really be taking it, because we also don't observe that the colonized countries are poorer due to losing resources sometime before 1900. Rather, having a lot of natural resources is usually bad for your development ("resource curse") but some countries like Australia and Norway have avoided it through good institutions.