skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Culture" is a really broad word. I agree that "culture fit" is often cover for "let's hire people who are just like us because I'm more comfortable that way".

Instead, I think we should attempt to really dig down into elements of "culture" and identify the ones that are relevant to the job vs those that are not. For example, some relevant elements might be:

* Preferred development process.
* Pace of delivery and willingness to ship bugs.
* How disputes are settled.
* Using libraries vs build it in house.
* Process for adopting new technology.
* Preferred communication methods. Email vs chat vs video calls vs in-person (back in the pre-plague times).

These are all important topics to address in order to ensure that the potential hire will be able to work effectively in the position, and that they won't be miserable.

And there are plenty of things that are _not_ important:

* Hobbies and how people spend their time outside of work.
* Favorite films, music, books, food, drinks, etc.
* Whether you work on side and/or FOSS projects (unless there's a legal issue with side projects).

All of these things, on both lists, could fall under the nebulous "culture" umbrella. So let's stop using that word and start talking about specifics.

I'd also note that for some of these things I expect the candidate to ask _me_ about them if that's something they care about. In fact, those sorts of questions are a very positive signal to me. It shows that the candidate has some insight into their own work and what makes them happy and productive. I'm very happy to find out that this isn't a good fit _before_ they've started working with me!
But I didn't mean Italy.

"Seven countries require children to be 14 years (Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Portugal)"

and this is only EU members, other non-members such as Switzerland also have 14yo minimum age for mopeds.

In addition,

"Ten Member States allow children aged 15 years to acquire a driving license for a moped (Austria, Czechia, Germany, Spain, Finland, Croatia, Lithuania, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia)."

which is just one year older, so I would say it's a very similar situation.

Source: https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/mapping-minimum-ag...
That's the whole point of carbon sequestration: grow a tree, cut it down, bury it, grow a new tree in the same place.
But to what extent was it available in a polished package?

For example, everything in rust was available in other languages, i would still say it was innovative because it brought all that together into a polished package that made the right tradeoffs for mainstream usage.
Insurance for a car is 1000 a year, possibly 2000 a year for a young driver.

I bet the insurance for that car is much cheaper.
I don’t see a great future for C++ either
How self-control can unleash your dark side
Will the James Webb telescope help detail such phenomenon better than the hubble?
There is also a social and mental cost.

For example for some one where anxiety acts in a way which hinders him to proper handle thinks like making food or cleaning having a clean office with a Mensa giving out reasonable good food for a reasonable price is a massive difference. It can make the difference between overcoming it and complexity succumbing to it to a degree where you at some point end up homeless on the streets....

Sure just one example. But you can make many such examples. Often less extreme.

But however I look at it it always boils down to people being good of (housing, mental health, social net and high sallery (==more affordable office equipment)) profiting from it but people which are not (small dark apartment, mental health problems, abusive partners, social isolation, not much money) paying the price for it. And sure in the praxis you will find anything in-between.

> allready have a dedicated office in an exurban house

In my experience (Germany/Berlin) this normally only applies for people which earn above average and even then it not so common for people only earning slightly above average. The best/most common thing you find with people earning slightly above average is a room which is intended for children but they either don't yet have any or they already moved out so it was turned into a office room.

Also most office at home room I have seen where just suitable for one person, so if both partner need to do home offices it gets space-wise tight.
> why the texts on the uniforms of both the "prisoners" and the "guards" use Latin rather than Chinese characters.

The uniform of Chinese special police says "特SWAT警" on the back, presumably so that even people who can't read Chinese know who they're dealing with.
I don't think there is a silver bullet here. I've been working on our engineering hiring process for the last couple years for a company with ~200 engineers - reading everything I can on the subject during this while.

Most articles complain about the status quo but don't offer any practical advice. When they do, it is some approach that may not be an option on most cases - e.g. 40 minute interview followed by a 90 day probation period.

Live coding interview can be pretty tough for candidates, but we try to make a lit bit less difficult by:

- Giving them time and resources to prepare.

- Letting them use their preferred language and IDE/editor.

But since you have no control over format or time, maybe try to:

- Use reasonable problems - to assess skills people will actually need on the job. In our case it usually boils down to using comodity structures like a dictionary or map to do simple tasks efficiently.

- Use problems that start simple but can be extended. This is good because when candidates finish the first part, they get a boost in confidence. It is also nice because if they freeze, you can help them finish the current "level" and still have material to assess other skills.

- Set them up for success during interview:

- Reserve the first 5~10 minutes for introductions, ice-breakers or questions about the interview.

- Reserve the last 5~10 minutes for the candidate to ask any question about the company or the hiring process.

- Make clear that is OK to ask any question.

- Help them on small blockers.

- Be friendly.

Making these little tweaks helped us to diminish the pain of this kind of interview.

Some links/references:

[1]: https://lawler.io/scrivings/erics-guide-to-hiring-software-d...

[2]: https://medium.com/@alexallain/what-ive-learned-interviewing...

[3]: https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about
Studies on the Mechanism of General Anesthesia
>There will be many things that at first sight make little sense, and that's okay; just move on

Learning to "just move on" has been the biggest game-changer for me, not just in topics that are difficult to understand, but also for topics that are dreadful or simply difficult to focus on with ADD.

Language learning is a long enough process that one can simply "put off" learning the difficult or stressful things (for me, numbers and Russian movement verbs) and allow them to absorb naturally through exposure. This has made learning much less daunting for me.
So I am largely complaining about how confusing it is. Intentionally so.

(a) no, most plastics won't get broken down to precursors with enzymes. a few it will work with, like that company recovering resins from carbon fiber. or PLA even theoretically. but most of them are a free radical polymerization that I just don't think you're going to be able to meaningfully reverse.

(b) making biochar sounds fine. better than the landfill. I'd be most worried about chemicals like fluorine and sulfur making it into the soil.
Again this heavily depends on your situation.

I live a 20 min walk from my office. I have £0 commuting costs.

On the other hand I live in an old city with little new built housing. My flat is over 100 years old with massive ceilings, electric heating and no way to way to improve the insulation. Heating it just in the evenings for 5 hours costs about £50 a month, heating it while I work will likely cost £70-100 extra in top.
My company just finished building an additional 3 million sq feet of office space on our main campus. I imagine they are anxious to get us back onto campus to justify that capital expanse.
Personally I found Fire and Deepness to be equally, profoundly, good. Haven’t found any other Vinge books to be nearly as good.
Where do you work? This process sounds solid and based on that I imagine your team setup is great to be part of.

Am interested to learn more. Are there open positions?
> Where does this antiquated mindset of "omg, I need my votes counted by hand!"

Because that's a feature. You want something that's simple to understand and cannot be easily tampered with at a larger scale.
Microsoft Narrator added this feature in 2017:
https://mspoweruser.com/windows-10s-narrator-can-now-automat...
Is this an in-house tool?
You’re proving my point. FORTRAN is a niche language. C++ is still mainstream. It will recede but not completely disappear
C has been "losing ground" not because of random per peeves of those who never wrote a line of code in C but because since C's last standard update there have been other programming languages that offer developers something of value so that the trade-off between using C or any alternative starts to make technical sense.

It also helps that C's standardization proceeds in ways that feel somewhat between sabotage and utter neglect.

Meanwhile, C is still the absolute best binary interop language devised by mankind.
I think it is possible to automate some of our approach with a simple macro, I just haven't gotten to it.

I really like that you can look at a function and know every single type of exit it can have and know that you've handled them all.

But this might be because the thing that we are building (replicache.dev) runs in someone else's process so we need to be good citizens and be very careful to never panic or return unexpected/undocumented errors.
No. There has been some effort in that direction, somebody proposed a Clang "type sanitizer" patch, but it wasn't merged.
Apple has architectural licence, so they can do whatever they want.

Apple uses just ARM instruction set and design the microarchitecture by themselves.
sir this is a thread about Hubble data
One of the problems of remote work is that it’s kind of an all or nothing thing for your team. If some people are in the office and some people work from home, inevitably (in my experience) a lot of small decisions get made in the office without consulting the remote workers. And that creates a divide - the people in the office end up with more power and authority than the remote folks.

Some teams fight this with some strict rules - eg insisting conversations between people sitting next to each other happen over slack. But I think it will usually work better in the long run if either everyone is in the office or basically everyone is remote.
Anywhere where you:

- Have reasonable fast internet.

- (Affordable) Hospitals/Police/Firewatch in reasonable distance

- Are not to far away from the companies office as you likely still have to go to the office from time to time.

EDIT: Most people don't live in Tokyo or cities with similar expensive housings. The cost of moving away from cities is often much bigger then "just" longer transit times from home to work.
What happens though is that once you make voting compulsory, you have to make voting as easy as possible.
So, you're a little mixed up on the image thing. He posted an image with a FILE NAME that begain with DOITQ. And I believe this has been pretty thoroughly debunked, as those file IDs (which don't look like a hash at all) are entirely under the control of Twitter, not the poster. This is the post you're talking about, btw: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/92832566755654860...

I hadn't heard the McCain prediction before, and I suspect that's going to turn out to be a bit spun too. But I'd love to see it.
Ask questions that are open-ended. Don't ask them something with one right answer - give them a scenario and ask them to show you how they'd solve it. That is more realistic - if they know an algorithm that helps, they'll use it. If they don't, they'll try something else. Either way, you are hearing their answer, not trying to lead them to "the" answer.
What's wrong with mandated voting?
The implicit assumption is that small studio 10 minutes away wants to work in a city center and therefore "making" them move to bigger digs somewhere further out is a downgrade. Which may or may not be true.
i dread the office. for me going into the office means sitting at my desk, getting my work done and occasionally interacting with my team. it's not that I didn't like them or something else, I just don't care. they are not my friends, they are co-workers. I will forever pick remote work over office.
Makani source code released
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

There was only ever a few weeks there that excess death count was above average (see above). We have been at or below average for several weeks now. When you factor that in with the fact that vast majority of Covid deaths (over 90%) had comorbidities, we can safely conclude this virus is not as deadly as it has been hyped up to be. Case fatality rate is nowhere near 3%. Most estimates have been 0.25% or lower. Vast majority of the population has natural immunity and remains asymptomatic even upon infection.

EDIT REPLY: No average excess deaths is never zero, as you can see in the chart down the page listed above on the CDC site. We have been down in the range of a bad flu season for a couple months now. Why is excess death count important? Because it disentangles the people who died from Covid from the people who died with Covid. If a 90 year old dies with Covid, and that same person would have statistically likely died from any disease including pneumonia or the flu, it's worth noting. It has substantial implications for society. That's why excess death count is worth looking at.
Those people with kids would presumably have to make other arrangements if they were in an office?
That's far from the case for everybody. Extra heating is looking like it'll cost me another £80-100 over winter whereas I have no commuting costs atm.
But they do, many working class communities communicate distrust of middle class white collars
> How many people would ‘like’ to live in a city centre if they didn’t have to for work?

I think this is a very personal thing. I wouldn't consider living far from a city centre, work or no work, personally. Some people love outer suburbs or the country, and that's fine; just wouldn't be for me.
Multiple return statements in a function are acceptable.
Exactly. This line has always puzzled me. My work laptop is the only one with IM/Email on it. When I close the lid at the end of the day people can email me all they want, I won't see it.
I am new to interviewing, but I have two working hypotheses:

1. Hire based on the resume, gut check on the interview. Is it plausible that they played the role that they said they did? If you were a major contributor to an RPC framework in C, but you can't walk a linked list... Maybe your resume is too inflated. This means that the questions are basic because their purpose is not to rank candidates but to ensure the validity of the resume.

2. Focus on reading over writing. I would rather a candidate who can read code someone else wrote, articulate what it does, and maybe plan for how to extend it than someone who can pretend to invent something new.
SQLite alone has a support contract through 2050.

C survives.
Since nobody has mentioned it, my favorite method is listening to songs and learning the lyrics. It's the same suggestion made in the article of memorizing entire phrases of the language, only with song lyrics it's made easier by the cues given by rhyme and metric. And if you like the songs, it's a pleasure, and repetition (i.e. singing by yourself) is easy. And a memorized text works as a reference for both lexicon and grammar.
A Personal Question That Will Never Be Answered
Which is what the article proposed.
Sorry, what's a "Q symbol"? That post is a picture of five people showing "thumbs up". And again, Trump doesn't get to pick that ID. It's generated internal to Twitter, the "message" you're imputing here isn't coming from Trump, it's coming from TWITTER.

Edit: also, you're making a classic numeric error here. The likelihood of that particular "message" (DOITQ) in isolation isn't the number you're interested in, because other than the letter "Q" it doesn't contain any actual information to verify. You'd be here saying exactly the same thing if it read "DoItQ", "GoQ", "QAnon", "IluvQ", etc...

There are literally MILLIONS of trivially constructable 1-5 character strings that might be interpreted as a "message" to someone that wants to see a message. And needless to say Trump has tweeted many thousands of such "messages".
Why Pagespeed is vital for SEO?
The ATA bus is a cut down ISA bus, with some address lines cut. All protocols on it operate in terms of ISA bus transfers, with SATA replacing the physical layer but nothing else.
Here's the arXiv preprint:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04471

As I understand, they see a discrepancy between simulation and observation of some lensing observables. Could be something wrong with the calculation of the observables, something wrong with the implementation of the simulations, or (the exciting bit) with the physics put into the simulations. As a complete non-expert on lensing observables and cosmological simulations, I'd guess it's one of the first two. As mentioned in the text, there are many other discrepancies between observations and simulations that are still unresolved. This adds to that list.
The solar fridge helping African entrepreneurs living off the grid
I do like things like:

How would you design/write xyz

What's wrong with this code [code] (bug, security issue, bad code)

What do you think about
I suspect the fact that you can't observe dark matter directly, but physicists all seem to promote it, enables a combination of (at least superficially) reasonable empirical skepticism and conspiracy-minded contrarianism to work together. You have to expend a little bit of actual effort to see through the logic, and if you have any inclination to believe Big Physics is lying to you, then it's easy to just not bother. People forget that the universe does not owe us comprehensibility.

Contrary to your linked comment, to this non-physicist, nearly all physicists in public seem to say that, while the details are unknown, dark matter is pretty much definitely a thing. AFAICT they're not wrong about there being multiple lines of evidence for it. But if you mean "no one worth listening to" says even that much, then I don't know any physicists worth listening to.
If you go by the American-style "absolute freedom" mantra, I get where you're coming from.

On the other hand, casting a vote doesn't mean CHOOSING a candidate. It means that you can cast a BLANK vote. And that, in and of itself is an extremely important thing. It shows that you are NOT okay with either candidates, and forces them to actually adjust their agendas to suit the "public will", instead of falling back to what I believe is commonly called in the US as "ratfucking", aggressive districting, and voter disenfranchisement, which means they literally only care about getting enough voters to pass.

As for the doability, it's already done in Australia. Pretty successful, and basically and national holiday celebrated like 4th of july in the US.
> I don't see a future where C survives

Meanwhile C is running strong since the 70s.

> the lack of package manager

What do you call linux distro's package managers then? I mean, in distributions like Debian you can even download a package's source code with apt-get.
Or just take a short walk.
But the hypothesis of dark matter fits all of the evidence, while no alternative theory of gravity comes close. That's what makes dark matter so attractive to physicists.

I'm not shunning the idea, I've worked on alternative explanations myself (with no concrete result), but for the moment we remain convinced that dark matter is the better theory.
Working from home has been great for me. I no longer have a 45 minute commute in both directions. I don’t have to pay for a train pass. I get to eat lunch with the only person with whom I want to eat lunch, my wife. I don’t have distracting conversations going on behind me. I can listen to relaxing music all day without having to wear headphones. I can now continue working on things during forced meetings because no one is able to see I don’t care about the conversation that before the pandemic clearly didn’t involve me but somehow required my presence. Overall, by working from my basement, I save time, money, and stress. I get more done now work-related than I did before the pandemic. I have time to take care of myself. I get to spend more time with my wife. The only thing that took a little getting used to was now I have to IM my boss to ask him to review something instead of turning to my right and saying out loud, “Can you please look at the deck and approve for release?” I don’t get instant feedback that my message was received, but, if I’m being honest, I really don’t care what happens after I have done my part.
I think I failed one of the interviews this way actually: after having done the async part of it I did about 10 other test interviews and literally forgot about what I did for this one.

I had quite a few “aha” moments where I was “ah wait, I totally didn’t do that, have I?”. Didn’t get the job, however neither did I like them.
My company started up an internal newsletter describing what is going on as well as a quarterly meeting about what has happened and what will happen. I honestly feel like I know more about what is going on before even if I don't speak to other teams at all outside of this.
When it comes to human interest stories “most“ doesn’t matter. It’s all about the individual.
You could simply mandate that voting be done on a federal holiday. That won't help everyone, but it will help most people who are trying to vote physically.
Could you please expand on WHY posture/tone/etc are important? W
Because Apple probably loses money reviewing my app and needs the bigger players to cover the costs :)
The Causes of Estrangement, and How Families Heal
From a 2019 Worldcheck copy, and OFAC SDN https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

> TARDIGRADE LIMITED, Dimitriados 1, Limassol 4004, Cyprus;
Registration Number C378737 (Cyprus) [GLOMAG] (Linked To: TESIC,
Slobodan).

> TESIC, Slobodan (a.k.a. SLOBODAN, Tezic), Serbia; DOB 21 Dec 1958;
POB Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina; nationality Serbia; citizen
Serbia; Gender Male; Passport 009511357 (Serbia) expires 27 Oct
2020; alt. Passport 007671811 (Serbia) expires 05 Aug 2019
(individual) [GLOMAG].

> [GLOMAG]: Executive Order 13818 - Global Magnitsky;
Funny I have thought of doing exactly the same. Would love to brainstorm ideas. Sick and tired of medical billing crap.
The hype cycle is overselling what’s possible with this tech today and in the near future. If for example you need most cells edited then that’s far less viable etc.

PS: The original comment brought a smile, but I still downvoted. Keeping most jokes and obvious comments off HN is a major long term benefit.
I like this idea of focusing on listening quietly. One hour suddenly seems so short.
Lol at “never wrote a line of code in C”. Surely you are not addressing the article’s author?
there's actually nothing remarkable about it and in fact most of the more exciting claims of the footage can be put into context with basic trigonometry[1], and Lex should have questioned much of what Fravor said in that podcast. I hope it doesn't turn into the next Joe Rogan show.

[1]https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M
Second to openssl? I would rank gpg as the worst by a considerable margin.

Although, come to think of it, tex and its relatives (pdflatex, etc) have really quite terrible command line interfaces.