skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 3D system that prints ‘structures of submicrometer accuracy at record speed’
That's a great way of comparing it. I had no idea the hubble error was so small.
If a candidate has given my company their time and energy to interview with us I think we owe them a chance to understand why we didn't hire them. We're not obliged to but, if requested, offering feedback is quite clearly beneficial. There's an obvious benefit for the candidate and the subsequent companies they interview with. There's also an indirect benefit to my company - if everyone else behaves like this it means that we'd be much more likely to find our next hire.

I suppose if you're thinking exclusively about a short-term benefit to the company alone without considering the impact to the candidate, the wider ecosystem and culture in general then it wouldn't make sense to take the risk.
If you don't why you didn't get an offer, then you aren't worth the time to explain it.

95% of the time, you didn't give as strong answers as other candidates. The other 5% of the time, you came across as a jerk.
I am entirely the opposite. I find that a lack of animations breaks the flow. I also tend to prefer a "nicer" UX over pure speed and efficiency.
>I've never placed much weight on being able to write a program on the spot.

I don't disagree, and personally I hate in person coding exercises, but if you keep the question simple and allow the candidate to code in their native language, something fizz-buzz like will go a long way in weeding out the people who have languages on their resume but can't code.

At our company we offer two simple coderpad tasks to be done in advance with no supervision or pressure - write a linked list in CPP and solve a simple puzzle in Python. You pay attention to the candidates who use templates, destructors, smart pointers, even if they make mistakes those are the ones you probably want to hire.
Word of mouth is also a thing.
It's a bit worrying that someone basically healthy with full medical intervention is dying.
For the places that have it, I think kindergarten is where you're expected to first learn. Mine was in the same building as 1st through 6th grade.

(I was taught by my parents before even that, and when I started school they didn't believe my parents' claim - had to prove it by reading a new book aloud to them)
I'm a Russian-American immigrant, yes, a legal one. We had our kid when we were already mostly out of the woods financially though.
Ahh, refreshing to see that someone still remembers how to do company-building.
> sometimes what party I am registered with

This is one of the very weird things about the US system, that somewhere in reconstruction the parties were effectively nationalised and allowed to use state-run election infrastructure.

The concept of "registered for party X" doesn't exist in European systems. The state has no business running internal party affairs, they can select their own candidates.
Mix it all.
This is an excellent suggestion that treats people as people and as professionals whose time is valuable. It would, of course, never happen, because those same employers fear of what might happen if they granted the same respect they demand, but I admire your lateral thinking.
You can always do something else for the null case, but this totally depends on the context. Hard to say anything generic. Throwing an error is always an option too if the value is expected.
They redefined their use of the word "recommended" from "we think you'll like this" to "we want you to watch this". That's what happens to every in-house rating system eventually, independent rating systems are better.
I applied and interviewed for an Angular position a few years ago. I was interviewed by a consultant doing work for the company while they built up their engineering team. He absolutely grilled me about .NET intricacies, including some of my favorites, "Where is the .NET GAC stored on the filesystem?" and "Why is n-tier better than MVC?".

Not surprising, they declined to move forward citing my inexperience working with .NET enterprise architecture. I could have told you them that from beginning and saved everyone a few hours.
My understanding of the history is that Christianity took a free ride on a freight train caused by other things that in turn were not helped by Christianity. For example the early history of science shows that science took off exactly where and when conflict between different Christian sects left no religious authority with sufficient power to stop people from exploring dangerous ideas.

And to the tired old argument that our society's cultural values are founded in Christianity, they are not. As a demonstration compare the many, many comments from Jesus against acquiring material wealth with how deeply established Capitalism is in our society. (Mark 10:25 on how hard it is for rich men to get into heaven comes to mind. Note that virtually all Americans are rich by world standards.) Our society, like all others that I know of, cherrypicks from religious texts to find support for what it wants to believe is true, rather than following those texts to the conclusions that are clearly there. (Whether those conclusions are good is a different story.)

In fact most of our most cherished cultural values either predate Christianity (eg the Golden Rule) or postdate the Enlightenment (eg our rejection of slavery). It is hard to point to many that clearly were introduced by the Bible and have become adopted. (Note, just because it is in the Bible does not mean that it was introduced there. Again, see the Golden Rule as an example.)
Needs a "Broken truck" line.
The limits of high-speed rail
If you like binwalk, you might want to check out the commercial product, Centrifuge[1], that the developers are working on (I know the CSO).

[1] https://www.refirmlabs.com/centrifuge-platform/
This seems to be another example of something theoretically possible that an actuary would tell you to ignore.
I totally recommend you read/listen to the Phoenix Project (https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business-Anni...). It's heavy on the DevOps slant, but that's a good thing!

- Treat your team like their adults, not children, and respect them like such.

- Also, be transparent and clear with them. Hiding things or beating around the bush just wastes everyone's time.

- Give them autonomy to explore new tech when they get the itch, and you'll likely get better results and keep your team active and engaged.

- Embrace the blameless culture. Failures and bugs happen. Being hostile about it means people are more likely to hide stuff and not be up front about things. Not to say it shouldn't be addressed if it becomes a problem, but everyone's going to mess up sometime. Also, it's your job to make sure that any heat from on-high doesn't come down on them.
I suppose it is like getting turned down for a date. The other person will rarely be honest about why, and the reasons given (if any) are worthless.
What do you mean “now”? That’s what surge pricing always was. The intent hasn’t changed, just the mechanisms.
The "crew would fix it" argument is a very very bad one. Many spacecraft maneuvers need to be very precise in both pointing and direction. Something computers are very good at, humans less so.

Also, the crew would first have to know something wrong is going on either based on activity happening that was not planned previously or unexpected data on flight instruments. But guess what is driving those instruments in a modern crewed space vehicle - also computers and software. That software might be faulty as well or even displaying the same wrong data the automated control software is acting upon.

In such a case the crew might not even notice something is wrong until the craft is on a wrong and potentially even unrecoverable trajectory once ground radar notices something is wrong.

As for the crew taking over thtuster control during a reentry - sorry, if you space capsule is trying to kill you that hard, something is wrong.

At that point in time, the capsule is hurtling through the atmosphere protected only by its from ablative shield. The thrusters are used to shift the center of gravity a bit, to give the capsule some lift, offsetting some of the g forces due to the rapid deceleration. This is called "lifting reentry".

This all needs to be very very precise & based on up to date sensor data, as the whole capsule is not covered by the heat shield and if you change the center of gravity too much, you might expose unprotected parts of it to the hot plasma.

This is not really a good environment for a crew member to take over - not only are you under couple g's of deceleration but any mistake will kill you all. But hey, no pressure!

BTW, the Soyuz capsule has a backup mode available in case it's reentry control thrusters fail, where the capsule just follows an unguided ballistic reentry. This is much harder on the crew (due to no lift compensating for some of the deceleration), but survivable & has been used a couple times during various emergencies.
Personal internet-accessible server.

I thought Dropbox would be the way to go initially but I had too many problems with it while travelling in foreign countries. I ended up 'rolling my own'.
Most companies lack the resources/willpower to train/code-review/mentor their own employees, expecting them to do it for candidates is kind of naive.

So do it at your company and have a competitive advantage.
You are certainly right about Netflix's catalog decreasing, but that doesn't explain why Netflix's recommendations have been downgraded over time.

I am reminded of the show Tuca & Bertie. It was a new Netflix original from the same people who created BoJack Horseman. You would think it would be obvious to surface the new show to anyone who watched the old show. Except that never happened. The show's creator even commented that Netflix's algorithm never recommended her her own show. She had to manually search to find it.

The only real explanation is that Netflix believes it is more important for customers to think the catalog is large rather than the catalog is good. Netflix wants people to spend 10 minutes scrolling through crap to find something to watch instead of simply listing all the recommended content at the top and for people to notice that there are only a few good options.
You must not be a journalist.

Also, the best way to reduce risk for you would be to let someone else drive.

It takes a LOT to roll a street car these days, holy hell.
Don't take it personally. As someone who's hired a lot of people, the unfortunate times when I "ghosted" people were mostly due to internal company problems, not candidate problems.

Anecdotally, these were always situations when I wanted to pass someone but received weird resistance from other stakeholders and it ended up being a situation of stalemate. So, you could have faced similar things.
I guess it depends on what a "decent" speed is. all the rentals where I live top out just under 15mph. it's awkward to dismount at that speed, but it's not a big deal; you just end up running for a few steps.
Well, Django is a success and was done by a newspaper.
Exactly this.

I'm cycling for a bit of outside time and exercise in my day. If I have to stop at a light, then fine, it's a bit of extra exercise and outside time.

I'm not there for the excitement of some kind of death race with stressed out drivers.
Agreed. Interpret "opportunities" broadly. I don't just mean job opportunities, I mean all sorts of economic and social opportunities. If Bulgaria had top universities, great governance, a vibrant economy, and all the social changes that come along with that, I don't think young Bulgarians would be departing in droves.
When I've been on the other side of this -- ie, as a candidate rejecting a decent offer -- I've made a point of writing a personal non-boilerplate "letter" (email, but tone and format of a traditional letter) -- thanking those on the hiring side and giving some context for my decision. Relationship-building and mutual respect are only ever full of win.
> but I thought Firefox had battery issues on MacOS.

Does it still, are you referring to 70+? Firefox 70 in October came with big improvements[1], I didn't do any testing though. I think I saw some benchmarks showing it's slightly worse than Chrome, but it was minor. Can't find them right now unfortunately.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/firefox-70-brings-en...
That also has the upside of cutting carbon emissions from air travel.
The only company I've ever receive constructive post-interview feedback from was a company in California that ships out patterns and materials for people to make their own clothes. They said my code wasn't something they could drop into their product. Of course, it wasn't! I intentionally wrote it so they couldn't use my interview for free labor. I've worked at two companies that did that and I find it highly unethical.
Age of 9 or 10 here. But yeah. That and GORILLAS.BAS. Then the MSDOS manual, batch, Visual Basic, POVRAY, Slackware 3...
So now that person likely thinks that the reason they did not get hired was because of talking about Bukowski.

Also, why did you even mention the enthusiasm for literature bit to HR?
I agree that being helpful and giving feedback to candidates you don't hire can be beneficial to the company and to the interviewer. However, I would argue an even stronger reason is that it is good to help other people grow, even if it doesn't directly benefit you.

If on the way to work you see someone trip and they can't get up, you should offer them help even if doing so will make you late for an important meeting.
‘We’re not seeing false positives’: DHS official testifies on facial recognition
It's mostly about risk/reward and effort.

Giving detailed feedback takes more time, and is inherently more risky than a timely, somewhat bland rejection letter. Candidates are much more likely to feel slighted when they are given specific criticism, which they may or may not agree with.
> Please tell us how one can screw up hooking up a toilet so badly as to create a cross connection

Sure: unless you understand potable water and drainage systems, proper appurtenances, proper methods and materials I don't want you touching my drinking water supply. It's the same reason you don't want me typing random characters into your code. I'm not a coder, you're not a plumber.

And to be clear I used domestic water as an example, you could just as easily mess up the sanitary connection and have raw sewage seeping into the building.

It takes 8 years of working experience before you are even allowed to take a Master Plumbing test... and we aren't stupid people. There is A lot know.
True, but it should be possible to say the average cost is $10,000 according to the last N similar operations. In the event of something abnormal occurring, you might require an extra $25,000 for this and that, and if the shit hits the fan, expect $250,000 for extreme lifesaving effort.
They do not lose money on every ride. Read the earnings report
This is how ancient Rome’s republic died
Cisco is a huge company.
There was also a stretch of time following the dotcom bust when companies were handing out inflated titles rather than actual promotions or pay increases. I could be misremembering, but my memory is that was when titles became meaningless.
Yes, and this is super common.
I don't think something like that is fixable; maybe another way of saying it is, most basic animals are built like this by design - it's a feature, not a bug. We evolved to become the biggest and strongest, and a very effective part of that is "fake it until you make it"; be bold and have confidence! Developing a more global and rational perspective is super expensive and our ape brains already consumed way too much energy until we (just recently) learnt to cook food to save our stomachs the digestive energy. (At the risk of being [rightly] accused of scraping the bottom of the optimism barrel: I actually think we're doing alright given the tools / monkeybrains to hand. Unfortunately you see what happens with populist rule / mob mentality, but on the other hand, Euler, Gauss, Newton, Riemann, von Neumann, Noether, Ramanujan etc suggest that we apes can approach basically godhood with our normal metabolic system.)

Transcending this self-centred existence requires logical and relative consideration. It is ~certain that YOU, the very person reading this right now, are not the smartest or strongest or richest or <any weighted success metric you'd like to choose> in the world. So, as a vaguely smart functioning person, you are aware of others who are better than you at various things, and you need to intelligently deal with it.

In any case, we're all going to be a bit nacissistic until we join some kind of posthuman Borg, probably in some Gaussian distribution about a mean same as our heights.
I agree, but we're a long way away from that in the US.
> While anecdata can be useful in general, in this particular case I have a hard time believing that the case you describe: working in a worse job than your home country, is informative or representative.

Does being a homemaker as a result of moving countries count as "worse job"? Maybe I'm living in a bubble but I know many couples where one spouse got a job in another country and the other became a homemaker (most common) or got a worse job. There as a huge amount of skill sets that do not transit well across countries/cultures/continents. So much that I'd argue it is the exception when your skill set transitions well (such as computers, sciences).

Yes, it is possible for those persons to invest time and money (go to college, form new network, learn the language and culture) to eventually get back to their original career but by the time they manage to get there they already lost years of their career so automatically they are behind when compared to others of the same age and talent in the same career or if they wouldn't have changed countries. And to be honest, people are only getting older, not younger, so having to start from scratch when the best outlook for that is being able to be were you ware X years ago in your country is not a very attractive proposition. Combined with the SO who moved for the job earning enough for both it results in a lot of homemakers.
Relic hunters plan to retrieve Titanic radio that relayed the ship’s final pleas
Bringing Back the PC
As genetics leads to different body types, so does it lead to distinct individual cultures to adapt to genetically defined physiology. So genetics can directly inform culture that way.

The two are inextricably tied. How you think about yourself and your world is based on how you experience it, which is rooted in your genetics and how you were (and weren't) taught to experience it.

We at least learn to motivate ourselves based on how we're taught to do so through the cultures the people around us carry. If some of that is informed by genetics, then it's possible for you to learn to motivate yourself based on someone else's genetics.
Facial recognition technology moves into U.S. schools
Look at WeWork's "Community-Adjusted EBITDA" for another example of the same thing. In their case, they back-loaded contracts on both sides, leasing and sub-leasing, then amoritized the sub-leasing revenue and didn't amoritize the leasing costs, showing huge positive net income at the start of the leasing terms.
When economists and libertarians bitch about cosmetology licensing all I can think is enjoy your HepC.
As any restaurant cook can tell you that there's a lot of steps they have no control over that directly impact food experience.
Something like this may help: https://ide.kaitai.io/, but I've found it a bit overwhelming.

It might be easiest to just start writing a utility that parses it, first making guesses and then refining as you generate and test more files like you mentioned in another reply. You already know what the magic bytes are at the start of the file - PF3CMP.
Strong disagree. Eroding standards of civility are no excuse for lowering the bar on how you behave. I'd urge you to set an example, honor yourself and contribute to the solution, rather than compounding the problem by sinking to the lowest common denominator.
Supposed a new startup wants to redesign its office taking this into consideration. Where to start?

Ikea doesn't sell cubicles. Any solution on the market?
Good thing you aren't hiring developers anymore. Sounds like it distorted your perspective.
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Disinformation campaigns never stopped since...
-the 80's when they passed legislation no longer requiring news -to present both sides of the argument
-the Cold War
-the massive propaganda campaigns via news, radio, social clubs, and film and advertising of WW2
-the father of public relations Edward Bernays wrote the book in 1921
-the guy he stole most of his stuff from Walter Lippmann worked for the US on an unprecedented campaign for WWI
-Ivy Lee, the "first publicist" was hired by the John D. Rockefeller, to improve his public image
-traders in Amsterdam used various methods to deceive other investors regarding tulip values
-Roman Emperors waged disinformation campaigns against the citizens to make sure they knew that their military campaigns were always the most valiant righteous and most of all triumphant possible
-Themistocles launched a disinformation campaign luring the Persians into a naval battle they were ill prepared for at the battle of Salamis

Basically disinformation campaigns have been running since the beginning of time...and the most effective ones are the ones you still never realized.
> I'm sure "colonoscopy, clear" and "colonoscopy, with removal of polyp and pathology on it" will have different prices, but you won't know which it is until after the procedure.

Which is expected, and kinda ok. At least, if you do a colonoscopy and there's nothing else, no complications, it would be that price.
Are you saying all problems are imaginary ?
usually there's only a few open positions. after a long process of phone screens and on-sites, you might have five viable candidates but only two slots at that particular time. if you would have been happy to hire any of the remaining three if the first two didn't accept your offer, you might encourage them to apply again later.
I think Radio Lab did an experiment with french fries.

The optimal method of transporting them was to never seal them (!!), turn your car heater on full blast, and put them right in front of a vent.

... if you survive driving a car that smells like french fries, while hungry, apparently they turn out pretty decent.
> well, word gets around.

Yeah, but that also true if you give good constructive feedback with your rejections.

The "word" doesn't have to be bad, you know :)
Strongly disagree.

Do you only ask candidates 1 question/only look for 1 attribute? And only hire for one level? Cause otherwise, they could've done great on 8 things but missed on another. Or they did well but not quite well enough for the seniority that was desired. I've gotten feedback like this in the past - "your technical answers were great, but we thought you were a bit too green collaboration- and project-ownership-wise" and it was super useful because in my head before that, it was the places where my technical question answers could've been even better that I'd been beating myself up over.
You are not a rational being. You are a bundle of emotions, patterns, habits, and semi-randomly locked-in sensitivities and responses.

Talking to a therapist does two things: it makes you interact with a human being, not an abstract concept or idea. This uses different areas of your brain, different cognitive and emotional pathways than does reading a book or simply "thinking about it"; and it allows you to receive the benefit of trained expertise in detecting what patterns, triggers, traps, and skills you have or need to have exposure to.