skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That prompts two questions for me if you don't mind sharing.

(a) How do you define and assess "culture fit", and why?

(b) How do you know the things you're optimising for are actually good proxies for productivity?

Appreciate these aren't questions with simple answers (or maybe even answers at all), but hiring/assessment process is my current field and I'm always curious where peoples thinking is at.
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I asked myself the same thing.

I think its best to start by utilizing your software experience as much as possible and having just enough hardware to get by. Also don't try to learn/solve too many problems at the same time.

Most of my projects is relatively little/simple hardware + lots of features in software.

For example -- one of my complicated projects requires very precise temperature measurement, precise regulation of mains AC power to 1kW heating element, dealing with PCB environment being very hot and humid (up to 80C), etc.

I am splitting the effort of learning all of those things, and first thing I am building is a precise, standalone thermometer. I will build some software features (data acquisition to SD card, USB, etc.) which is relatively simple compared to getting precise temperature measurement.

Then I will maybe build standalone power regulator that I could have many uses for especially when connected to the thermometer (for example control my oven to do reflow!).

Once I know the building blocks I will attempt building the complex project I have in mind.
The one where I got groped.
Maybe,
1. Get a side project partner/buddy.
2. Outsource to some freelancer. If you spend some bucks, u will get serious about it.
3. Learn basic design or use simple designing kit.

If the idea is good or useful, you will find some helping hands from the initial user base itself.

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Yeah it is a factor, among others.
I couldn't agree more.

The only reason I would consider getting an iPhone too is Apple's privacy stance. They seem like the only company in the big five (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft) that don't seem to be that interested in my data. They just want to sell me the product, and that product is, in essence, a piece of hardware.
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Task manager shows working set by default. Working set is affected by things like minimizing the application, it'll also usually shrink if the application has been left idle for some time and other applications are being used. Whether it's the right column or not depends; it's more of an indication of how much the OS feels that it needs to hand over to the process, than how memory-hungry the process is. Private bytes might be a better number for that; OTOH if many of the bytes aren't touched, then they don't count for much.

I wrote up an explanation for some of the other columns a few years back: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2031886/3712
Privacy concerns due to being asked for too much information

That is amusingly ironic, considering this is coming from a company whose description is "Inapptics helps app makers analyze user behavior in their mobile apps."

But it seems the corpus of mobile apps is similar to the situation with regular desktop software since selling software first became popular --- very few good ones, and a very very "long tail" of complete crap. From my experience on the desktop, good is not necessarily popular either.
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I was really surprised the article overlooked such an elementary mistake. Makes me wonder what else they didn't double-check.
I think the point was that a real document really exists is not a fictional document, even when it is a work of fiction.

He was being pedantic, but not asserting that the bible speaks truth.
Oh, I can't deny it's absolutely amazing and almost invisible now - my 7 only has trouble when there's moisture involved. But the early iterations were definitely clunky (but still fairly amazing as a technology, I can't deny that!)

I'm expecting Face ID to be the same - kinda clunky but amazing on the X, almost frictionless on the XI, and then almost completely transparent on the XII.
> I've heard "Hmm, I don't actually know what it is that we're looking for" from a few recruiters

Why do you even care what recruiters say? They're there to make as many hires as possible and get their commission. Don't get me wrong, this is actually a decent question, but you might as well ask a car salesman what he likes doing in his free time. It doesn't matter -- he's trying to sell you a car.

> How do you evaluate how well you're meeting your goal? -- The majority of the companies that I ask this to essentially answer "we don't" to this question.

I'm going to go ahead and call BS on this one. Literally every company (outside of early-stage startups) has some kind of performance review. Most of these are completely artificial and completely suck, but they're definitely there.
> No one has every believed that the eucharist literally turns to blood and flesh. Your taste buds would tell you otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

Plenty of people have believed it historically. Scroll down to the Catholic section and you'll see some of the mental gymnastics I talked about to claim it in modern times.

Protestants don't believe in literal transubstantiation; I'd say they probably trust their taste-buds more, but then again, compare Protestant/Anglo-German food against Catholic/Franco-Italo-Spanish food :)

> "questions that have no answer". They have more perhaps retreated to "god of the gaps"

I don't personally see a difference between these terms - they both mean claiming to have an answer for something that is unanswerable. If you have an answer for which the only proof is basically "just trust me", then it's not much of an answer. Russell's Teapot is a pretty clear example of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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Each time I read a post like this I say to myself “they’re not wrong, but something is also missing.”

If there was a way to evaluate a candidate based on how well they would do at their actual job, in an hour or less, that couldn’t be games or cheated, we’d all be using it.

That isn’t to say we shouldn’t work on improving the hiring process, but how much time, both from the perspective of the candidate and the company, is too much time to invest in a potential hire?

Would we get better signal if you came to work for us for a week and paired with everyone on the team? Sure! But how many candidates can take a week off from their current job? The author talked to 11 companies. Could they invest 11+ weeks in their job search full time in order to find their next role? What about the loss in productivity? Can you have more than one candidate in the office in a given week? What if your ramp up time for full time employees is actually longer than a week? Are you biasing for people who ramp up fast instead of people who will be ultimately more productive and impactful?

I often feel that engineers write these posts because they know that they themselves are good at their job, but feel it is silly to have to develop an alternative set of skills in order to signal that they are a good hire. Or they get rejected and blame the process or those alternative skills. I’ve felt the same way and wanted the system to be better tailored for my skill set, but balanced against the time investment for some alternatives, I see why we have the process we do.
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> ...embeds an XSS attack in the TXT record of a DNS entry which then renders into the output of a WHOIS service

I'm not even mad, that's amazing.
Different answers probably give points to different traits the test measures, the ambiguity is just irritating for test takers coming from more classical tests where you know (or at least suspect) what is expected from you.

This whole test setup is not cheap so one can at least hope they considered the issue of diversity? The other thing is did they actually tested which teams perform better in specific problem domain that interests them?
As far as I can tell, the IV is randomly chosen, as you would expect: https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs/blob/master/src/cpp-utils/cry.... Did you see something different?

Assuming the 128-bit IV is indeed randomly chosen, after encrypting a trillion blocks, you would have roughly a 1.5E-15 (on the order of a quadrillionth) chance of hitting a collision.

Unless I'm mistaken, even if you hit that one-in-a-quadrillion lottery, the result is that the two blocks encrypted with the same IV are more crackable (because you can XOR them together), not that the key itself is easier to obtain, right? (My understanding is that AES is resistant to known-plaintext attacks.)
You can't have overlapping AllowedIPs for peers on the same interface. Wireguard has to decide which encryption/decryption keys to use based on the AllowedIPs.

For your use case you need two wg Interfaces on each host (w/ different ListenPort and AllowedIPs=0.0.0.0/0) and a routing daemon (like bird).
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> is to have citizens who want the government to enact such regulations

The depends on the size of the coalition that the government's power depends on. If the government needs the support 25% of voting citizens (a majority of legislators, each elected by a majority of constituents), then the citizens can likely pruessure their government to do something.

If the government's power depends on 300 high-ranking administrators and military officers, then it would be stupid of a ruler to enact such legislation. Doing so would reduce the amount of money flowing into government coffers and would threaten their ability to lavishly reward the generals. That could lead to a coup and to the death of the ruler.
> No one has every believed that the eucharist literally turns to blood and flesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist_in_the_Catholic_Chur...

> Your taste buds would tell you otherwise.

You are trying to understand rationally that which is not rational.
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That's true if that's what people believe. But Bitcoin is transforming into a store of value vs a currency right now and if more people begin believing that then it's true. It's like that for gold, except gold is losing that with millennials.
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Perhaps (and I realize I'm being devil's advocate here), "photo-journalist" is no longer a profession where one should expect to make a living? Photographers can still work for commissions or for the pure joy of it, but these days everyone carries a camera and can take decent photos of news and sports events.
I've used Perl since 1991. I've spent more than 80% of my career writing and maintaining Perl. I get paid large amounts of money to come in and help people sort out their Perl projects.

... it's not a great language; it's a clusterfuck of "cleverness" which lets "clever" people implement horrifying glass cathedrals that shatter as soon as you open the door.

(And there is some selection bias here, I'll admit - the people who control their Perl programmers and enforce simple, readable code don't need contractors to rescue things. It's generally only the hideous fractals of fuckery I get to see.)
Because they are using the courts, wrongly IMO (since his use was fair), to attempt to stop him from using the courts rightly.

The statutory damages for their willful infringement are high to disuade bad actors from simply asking forgiveness when caught instead of asking for permission.
Which itself is an irrational position to hold, so if that is indeed a position they hold, they hold it by faith.
And I always turn if off because it is unusable. For text it's okay but for code it's rules doesnt make any sense - concatenated words are marked as errors which is real annoying.
Agreed and worth noting that companies could always elect to use single opt-in with MailChimp lists by running sign up forms via the API.
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I feel a great deal of sympathy for the photographer, but how do you know the use of the screenshots are fair use?
Is the HPKP he mentions as a security measure the same public key pinning chrome did just announce the deprecation date, because it is too risky to do; or are these different concepts?
The first time I visited NYC, I was in Manhattan for a trade show and I was expecting everybody to be rude or at least curt. Instead, I found people were incredibly friendly and I had an amazing time. My only disappointment was that at 4am most things were shut down. I thought NYC was supposed to be the city that never sleeps.

Traffic lived up to my expectations though. Driving to and from the hotel was a little stressful.
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Performance reviews and their flaws are discussed in detail later in the article. In particular, they detect false positives but not false negatives.
It's as if the universe aligned for Nautilus (which is also a snail producing a natural fractal as its house) to publish such a fascinating article about how calculus and geometry partially unite to produce such a fascinating article.

Wait... what?
Yes they do. To understand transubstantiation you need to understand the philosophy behind it. Aristotle made a distinction between the substance of a thing, the core, essential properties that "form" it, and the accidental properties which will differ between any particular instance of the thing. Dogs can be quite different, but they share a fundamental dogness.

So using this way of thinking the body and bread are one in substance, but differ in accidental properties. The bread still looks and tastes like bread but an indiscernible change has occurred in its substance. Thomas says:

> I answer that, It is evident to sense that all the accidents of the bread and wine remain after the consecration. And this is reasonably done by Divine providence. First of all, because it is not customary, but horrible, for men to eat human flesh, and to drink blood. And therefore Christ's flesh and blood are set before us to be partaken of under the species of those things which are the more commonly used by men, namely, bread and wine. Secondly, lest this sacrament might be derided by unbelievers, if we were to eat our Lord under His own species. Thirdly, that while we receive our Lord's body and blood invisibly, this may redound to the merit of faith.

* caveat: I'm neither a philosopher nor a believer in transubstantiation
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Well, no... many photojournalists spend a huge amount of money in equipment and go to places others won’t venture.

Copyright get, limits, however, are way too long. They should be maximum 25 years IMO.
How will you know the person emailing you is actually the owner of that username?
> Everything really was a file

I wonder how that would change if the system was designed today.

Everything a stream of JSON objects?
As a Lutheran celebrating the quinicentennial of the 95 Theses this week, it always surprises me how far behind the times the Roman Catholic leadership can be. They're still dealing with some of the original causes of the Reformation, including celibacy, divorce, favoritism to the rich, and worship in the vernacular.

Jorge Bergoglio is a good person. I feel like he hears the Holy Spirit, unlike the members of the curia from the "no new rules" camp. But I'm okay with new rules, being a member of the original revolutionary church. My group still has a lot of the old rules, but the rules should never get in the way of bringing a person into the grace of God.

Latin mass is pretty neat, and makes for some great canting opportunities, but if you give it to a group of people who can't understand, how does that open a person's heart? How does excluding people who sin make sense in the context of everyone being a sinner? Denying reality is like denying a part of Creation; denying access to the community drives people into the ranks of the atheists. And hey, at least they don't use faith as a cudgel against reality.

So, I wish Pope Francis the best of luck, and I hope that he can bring his branch of the church into a more loving, contemporary group.
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Lots of competitors only use single opt-in & have more favorable policies for list owners. I'm not sure they have a choice.
As a former Catholic (with a decade+ of Catholic schooling), I can share that that was never proposed or demonstrated.
I imagine the terrible command-line interface is one.
That’s a fancy way of saying “we hire people we like”.

It’s an approach that isn’t perfect but is good enough for many roles. We pick spouses based on that approach and it works out pretty well for most people.
It's the same thing. There are some differences of opinion on the matter.
I don't think the original Aibo was niche at all. I knew two people with them (back in 2000-ish if I'm remembering correctly).
That's why I explicitly said you have to look at the correct column though: you need to look at Commit Size, not Working Set.
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Isn't culture fit just another word for "people like me"? There have been numerous articles reporting the huge damage this sort of optimisation does.

Did you mean "inter-personal skills"? The rest of your answer seems to suggest so. This is not the same as culture fit.
His point, that hiring process is not a scientific process, is probably correct. But the same is true about performance review process (in my opinion). At best, the performance review is unscientific and biased, at worst it is a popularity contest, while usually, it is a formality.

> I've never had an interview that tried to evaluate my ability to work in a team or prioritize tasks - both of which are probably more important to doing well in a software engineering job than being able to find anagrams in O(n) time.

And I have never seen a test that could reliably evaluate your "ability to work in a team or prioritize tasks".

The hiring process is usually unscientific because making it reliably scientific is very expensive.
Is it really a failure if X-Frame-Options header is missing on a blog? If it is a failure then why not just make it not possible to use iframes at the browser level.

Without context, this service misrepresents the real security of any given site.
A side note, but the latter two answers (2. being a good fit and 3. doing a good job) sound very much the same to me.
I'm guessing that's more of a commission basis, rather than journalists going on-spec to warzones and hoping to sell the photos. And if not, then they could move to a commission / work-for-hire model and still make a living.
> I often feel that engineers write these posts because they know that they themselves are good at their job...

The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that almost certainly, some non-zero proportion engineers who have written this type of posts are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The intrinsic value is in all the trade going on that isn’t illegal. It is a huge deal for the FX markets for example among other things. Cross boarder trade as well.

The transaction rate issue is 99% political in fighting and that has basically been solved or will be by mid November.
It's an official dogma of the Catholic church that God's existence can be proved by the unaided reason. Did your Catholic education somehow omit any mention of the Five Ways?

http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/v1.htm

>If anyone says that the one, true God, our creator and lord, cannot be known with certainty from the things that have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema."

I am not a Christian, and I'm certainly not going to start defending Catholic arguments for God's existence here (!), but the arguments definitely exist.
because it trivially meets factors for fair use. It is a very small portion of the copyrighted work and is not a substitute for the work. A couple screenshots from a TV show does not lower the market value for the TV show. TV Land isn't going to stop airing Gunsmoke because someone posted a couple screenshots online.
There is still a lot of activity around the Piux X society. They're allying themselves with partners like the Parti de la France, Jean-Marie Le Pen and friends, and organising themselves around organisations like Civitas[0], the "European party" Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille [1], etcetera. The Front National is not sufficiently right wing and conservative for many of the people around them, and they at least reek of antisemitism...

Have a look at how Civitas and the "Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille" grabbed 500k€ of European parliament subsidies for its "European policital party" with as members a hodgepodge of a Greek neonazi MP, a Slovak neofascist MP, a Polish extreme right wing populist, ... and one Latvian social democrat [2].

But now I'm really starting to digress from the topic I guess...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitas_(movement)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_pour_la_Vie_et_la_Fa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihails_Zem%C4%BCinskis
Yes, thank you for saying it. R is so damn inconsistent and ugly it's unbelievable. It pains me that it comes now with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and not Python which would be much more beautiful choice.
That doesn't make sense.

Even if that were the case, what gives you the right to just use someone else's work for a profit? And why does a major studio get to decide that people no longer need to be paid for taking photos?
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If you follow bible to the letter (including old testament) you get Hitler.
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Google Docs does use OT. Or at least it did about six years ago, and I doubt that has changed. Source: I cowrote the original implementation (which was not OT, it was a three way merge of complete HTML files), and I was around when a new team rewrote the entire app using OT.

Historical note: live three way merging of HTML files, being produced by content-editable div implementations in different browsers, which like to rewrite each other's coding decisions in arbitrary ways (suddenly all your BRs become Ps, whee!) is "fun" in a way that I don't really ever need to revisit.
No, they hold it on the basis of certain arguments for God's existence.
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