skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these questions seem to be ones aimed at startups. I think they are good ones, but won't necessarily map to more established companies.

In the "How strong is the team?" section:

> "Can you tell me about the team I'd be working with most closely?"

> "How do you compensate the team?"

> "How do you attract and retain really strong hires?"

> "Do you share board slides with the team?"

I'd add:

> "Who's been here the longest?"

and:

> "What's the median tenure of the engineering team?"

I'd apply these directly to the team I'd be working on. These can tell you a bit about the management culture.

And that depends almost entirely on the personality, experience, and style of individual managers. I know of what I speak. I was a very good manager, and kept senior-level engineers for many years, despite the corporation, itself, having a rather employee-hostile culture.

IMNSHO, Management culture is even more important than team culture.
Coal mining in the UK was very lucrative, but wealthy people hired armed men to ensure they took the wealth rather than the miners.
The story is so much more than "marginally interesting."

When do creations made by human gain true sentience? When do they gain rights? What happens when these replicants are so advanced that their status as replicant is difficult to impossible to detect?

What makes us human in the first place? How do we know our memories are genuine? Without our experiences and memories, are we just organic robots?

Blade Runner gets a few of common pieces of criticisms:

1. Pacing. It feels slow. This might blow your mind: The movie is only 2 hours. The sequel is about 45 minutes longer. I think this criticism is, frankly, invalid. Plenty of art/indie films get positive points for being contemplative, but this is a detractor from Blade Runner for some reason. Pineapple Express has the exact same run time, Sex and the City 2 is longer.

2. Story and dialog. The movie is hard to understand the first time you watch it if you aren't hearing every word of dialog and processing it. I think this is the most valid criticism, but, again, it's supposed to be a good thing for a movie to challenge you to think, to take in context clues, rather than spoon-feeding you how you should feel like it's a summer blockbuster Marvel movie.

3. The ending. It's not much of one, there isn't a big payoff anywhere. This type of ending is somehow totally fine for art/indie films but "not okay" here. Personally, I think we're supposed to feel like being a Blade Runner is a bit pointless. The ending is unsatisfying on purpose, just like the endings in Disco Elysium.
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I have, and the interconnectedness is strong. Even a junior engineer's work is visible to a group of 30-100 people typically. If someone is missing what's interpreted as "Basics" then it will become apparent quickly. Basics here could mean "putting out sloppy CRs/Designs", not communicating timelines well, or when problems arise - not addressing them in a way that everyone else on the team thinks is correct.

Bear in mind that most FAANGs are also built on 20-30 years of fast paced technical development. There are services built on top of internal frameworks, built on top of internal frameworks that sometimes haven't been maintained in 5-10 years. Searching for the answer is many times impossible.
Has anyone got this running on M1?
> I enjoy the pace of Blade Runner. Many movies today are just too busy and pointlessly hysterical.

Agree, Blade Runner has perfect pacing for me. It is not action movie, but i do not expect nor want it to be one. Compared to other classic sci-fi movies like 2001: Space Odyssey, or Tarkovsky's Solaris or Stalker, these are slow-pacing movies.
It's like one of those clicker games.

After you're super duper high level, you just do it to see the numbers go up and you enjoy working.

It's your employees who have their souls sucked off from working for you earning a fixed amount every month.
I don't know. I think they're useful questions for a top tier performer to ask to make sure they're not joining a shitshow where they have to clean up after people who have been underperforming for a year and haven't been given any feedback.
Ha, interesting! Thanks for sharing. :)
Team John Webster with lashings of Molière FTW

Tartuffe & The Duchess of Malfi rank with the works of that upstart crow.
Someone here raised an interesting theory that the reliance on overseas markets require plot lines that translate easily and suggested this negatively impacted quality in storytelling. The Marvel cinematic universe films were cited as an example.
Sorry to single you out specifically, but you look like you've thought a lot about that kind of thing, so I'll ask. When you say:

> But it's a window into just how isolated people are and what it feels like to not have community.

What do you mean by community? I see this word everywhere online, and never really understood it. I think it's mostly an American thing, but I'm not sure. I can see how someone has family, friends, acquaintances from work or hobbies, but I don't get what's meant by "community".
Yes, you're not going to be asking about runway or product-market fit when you apply to a bank.
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Yes, I can certainly see how this is confusing. We will work with our legal team to clarify the terms.
Unfortunately they suffer from the same problem as early generation daleks: they cannot climb stairs.
This has not been mentioned yet, but if you're ever tempted - do not use your personal computer for work. Whatever else happens, this is not worth potential legal issues that could come your way.

This applies to buying your own device for work as well. I know it's unlikely to actually happen, but unless you're ready for your personal laptop to be taken as evidence for unspecified time - don't!
Yeah, that parable only works if you don’t have children and you live in a country with a large social safety net with a large economy to support it. Of course, if too many people take the fisherman’s route, there won’t be a large enough economy to support that social safety net.
It's a wedge issue where neither side will give any ground, which makes it exploitable. If you figure out a way to tie a wedge issue to the rest of your political platform you're virtually guaranteed support from one side or another. IMO one side has been much, much better at exploiting this fact and has has achieved great power despite representing less than a plurality of voters.
An interview is a two-way process. Ask as many questions as you can as you can make a terrible mistake that will badly affect your life.

The more questions you ask, even ones about company culture and how things are managed will make you look super-interested and that you are already imagining yourself in the role.

When I interview people I always remind them of this before we start: "Don't forget to interview us back. We might not be what you are looking for". It's surprising how many candidates ignore my advice (which, sadly, makes them look unenthusiastic).
Cool stuff! Totally agree on your embedded SaaS thesis. Stream is another example that embeds chat in your application through React components & hooks. Note that React has won the framework wars, I can definitely see more products going that direction.
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That's a great pick. If we were going to pick a handful of candidates, Matrix definitely would have to be a part of that very short list.

Part of me wants to stump for Blade Runner over The Matrix, if only because Blade Runner had less... prior art, so to speak. It was more of an entirely new aesthetic whereas The Matrix was more evolutionary. The leap was huge, don't get me wrong, but it felt more evolutionary.

Blade Runner's look is something you continue to see today in various sci-fi and games, copied nearly verbatim. It was simultaneously the birth of a new aesthetic and maybe its apex as well. Like, where do you even go with that look? It felt fully realized, right there in 1982.

The Matrix... it wasn't really the look that influenced future works, it was more of the camera work and wild shots. Bullet time, the 360deg freeze circular panning thing, and so on. I guess you do see "bullet time" everywhere now.

There's also something to be said about the relative financial success of the movies. Blade Runner was that influential despite being a box office and critical dud at the time. It's relatively easy (and even expected) for smash hits to wield massive influence. But duds? We have to admit: that's just incredible.

Anyway - awesome pick. Rather than picking one over the other, I would say: they both belong on the Mt. Rushmore of "most visually influential movies."
I don't know. The web mag article doesn't mention it; the abstract on the NIH website doesn't mention it; and the link to the full text isn't working.

For instance, I suspect that the raw data which was used by the study could be examined in ways such as: find the top 5% cognitive performers and determine how many of those socially isolate compared to the average.

Also, the study's definition of isolation is rather severe: "People were classified as socially isolated if they were living alone, had social contact less than monthly and participated in social activities less than weekly." The mean age in the data is 57, too; the investigation is focused on those who are getting on in years.

The source of the data would almost certainly have to be self-reporting, rooted in the answers to some questionnaires. A following problem could occur there: some of those who have a full-time job could answer yes to having daily social contact, whereas others could interpret social as anything but work. That would then cause a bias: over-representation of the unemployed in the isolated category. Speaking of work, based on the mean age, there is going to be a bunch of retirees in there too. Retired old people who don't see anyone not doing well mentally is hardly a secret.
> Philip K Dick was apparently very enthusiastic

You are looking for this:

> I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism. The impact of Blade Runner is simply going to be overwhelming, both on the public and on creative people - and, I believe, on science fiction as a field. Since I have been writing and selling science fiction works for thirty years, this is a matter of some importance to me. In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the last few years. Nothing that we have done, individually or collectively, matches B.R. This is not escapism; it is super realism, so gritty and detailed and authentic and goddam convincing that, well, after the segment I found my normal present-day “reality” pallid by comparison. What I am saying is that all of you collectively may have created a unique new form of graphic, artistic expression, never before seen. And, I think, B.R. is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be. // Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the B.R. project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner
My favorite question is:

"Describe what a typical day would look like?"
Work in many roles in different parts of different business in the industry for 10-15 years to gain insight into how it works, what makes it valuable and the fundamental challenges it faces.

Go to many conferences to find where the smartest people are and how they are fixing the hardest problems. Meet the important people everyone knows in the industry who can help you navigate it.

Get to the top 1% in one of the skills which is critically important to your industry, so you can grok opportunities before others.

That might get you to the starting point. You can't just google "howto disrupt space".
Statistically, European healthcare seems to be doing fine compared to e.g. the US [0]

[0]: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
> are NSA/US government employees allowed to forge/duplicate US currency in the pursuit of protecting national security?

We already know plenty of things they are not “allowed” to do, but happen anyway. If they’re already invested to the level of effort it takes to duplicate security seals, I think they can call off the Secret Service from investigating a little counterfeiting.
>>>Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?

Because they studied physics and understood that the industrial revolution leads to doom.

The exponential GDP growth is us considering natural resources free and unlimited in our economic model, while there is in fact a finite amount of resource (we've passed peak production crude oil in 2018). This very free use of resource leads to climate change, increasing the pressure on the production of 'renewable' resource like food. In physics, no infinite growth in a finite planet.

Their world sustained civilization for 45,000 years because they didn't have an industrial revolution.
Our civilization is ~11,000 years old at best, I'm not entirely convinced the GDP curve will continue to grow exponentially for the next 34,000 years.
Holy moly, you don't even have to ask the culture question in that kind of interview since they answered it for you: toxic.
"an illustrated book is far off".
Hi, just to mention that i'm using mini DALL-E for graphic novel experiments... Indeed not really a human quality but ... https://twitter.com/Dbddv01
"You interest me strangely, sir."

Is this a general thing or just for @unsupp0rted?
This reminds me of the life in the country side. If you watch a documentary or movie it may see like a great/no-stress life but in reality it's quite the opposite.
the few I've seen, COBOL legacy is its own kind. It meshes decades of users, practices, tools and paradigms. We've been shown code that blend old original code with 3GL crude code generator with 4GL custom COBOL transpiled DSLs with monkey patching. It was really not pretty (to stay polite).
> why Haskell instead of C#/F#/Go/Rust

Thank you, I'll keep that question in mind for future interviews to keep it more specific for some of the people here. :)

As to the rest -- our interviews are created as much to share information between Haskellers as to inform other people about Haskell.
That’s a fair point and one I agree with. Police across the country have either pulled back or been pulled back such that proactive policing has been dramatically reduced, which has been driving up crime, but it also means police aren’t looking for crimes like they used to do, which would also contribute to an “underreporting” effect. And homicides and other not-so-easily-overlooked crimes are way, way up so it would be surprising if the forces operating on homicides (“I can get away with murder”, basically) weren’t also operating on other crimes.
Yes this is the fix for now. I need to address what is actually causing the dtype mismatch
This blog is catnip for high-systematising people, especially ones who are also LotR fans. Highly recommended.
Perceiver AR does solve it that way, yes, albeit only for MIDI. Direct audio generation is still too long for it to keep a full piece in context.
You have but to look.
A lot of this can be simplified to three questions:

1. What problem is your company solving?

If you don't get an answer, beware. If the answer sounds vague, beware. If the answer makes no sense, beware. If the answer is multifaceted, beware. This suggests that the company will not even begin the process of becoming profitable.

2. Who has this problem?

You should get a clear picture of an actual person. If not, beware. If that person has no money, beware. If that person has no pull within an organization, beware. If that person is high maintenance or fickle, beware. This suggests that the company will never find the revenue they seek.

3. What's your solution?

If the solution doesn't actually address the problem, beware. If the solution is too expensive for the customer, beware. If the solution can't be differentiated from its competitors, beware. If the solution has no competitors, beware. If there are a dozen solutions, beware. This suggests that no matter how amazing the technology or technical team, the company will not be able to execute on its business plan.
I've never worked anywhere that would even allow me to use my own machine, at any level. I wish they would allow me to purchase a machine specifically for that purpose just so I can have the setup that I want and even that isn't really something their cool with at my current company.
I think the theory and research [1] behind them is fine. You need a short question that will allow a candidate to demonstrate competency in many areas and that really restricts your options. A lot of the blogs posts I've seen really don't understand the process as there is a rubric the interview has to fill out that outlines and if the blogger thinks the whole interview is you get a problem and then you either give them an optimal solution or you don't then you're going to fail half the rubric. Also, I generally think that FAANG has done more time thinking about what makes for a good process than that w/e blogger has (teams of people do data analysis on this. I don't think I've seen a blogger even cite a paper).

I would argue it's mostly about filtering out somebody bad and not testing if somebody is actually really smart. This might sound the same but it's not. It's a Type1 vs Type2 error [2] situation and for the most part, FAANG is ok with a process that won't hire every qualified candidate as long as it doesn't hire unqualified candidates.
But that's the ideal situation. A lot of people within FAANG do not like to do interviews but are pretty much forced to (or you get an arbitrarily lowered performance eval) so there's definitely going to be a lot of interviews done by a really disinterested interviewer and that's not going to be a good experience.

I do base my interview questions on a real problems and I've had a few interviewees ask me "if they'd ever use this at work" and I just ask them how they think X feature works and I've never gotten a response back from them after that ...

w.r.t. how long FAANG interview process takes (i.e. month+). No, this is outrageous but I don't have much visibility into where the problem is but it's not with the interviewers (average feedback is reported under 2 days for an entire slate).

Depending on when the blog was written they may also be very correct. Google was known for using rather un-job related questions [3].

[1]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Structured-Employm...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
[3]: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-solve-crazy-open-ended-...
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Downvoters should at least explain, who pays the taxes for the universal healthcare, this fisherman lifestyle sure can’t.
There are plenty of angle guides that’ll help you set a specific angle. They tend to be object specific though because they typically involve clamping the blade to hold it in a fixed position. For example the Lansky and Worksharp Precision Adjust work for knives but not chisels. The Veritas Mk ii works for chisels and planes.
That's a different size and not really meant to ssh over, or control midnight commander, screen/tmux or shortcut heavy DE. I'm pretty sure you'd struggle with such tasks, too on BB keyboard.
> I'm not entirely convinced the GDP curve will continue to grow exponentially for the next 34,000 years.

Are you willing to bet on that? Perhaps with a somewhat shorter time horizon, so we can close out the bet before we die?

Btw, keep in mind that Lord of the Rings is fiction..
Good work.

I've been keeping a similar list for private use, only mine is much smaller - less than 30 questions now that I removed the more risky ones which I never asked like "Is any of the board members actively addicted to anything?".
Something like this? https://www.microcenter.com/product/640585/twotrees-cnc-3018...
This is still the case? My mother told me she used to take a bottle of some alcohol to drink with them and after spending an hour or two with them she would usually get what she needed. That was in Andalucia which I guess might be a special case even in Spain...
> the Middle Earth had such strange land mass distribution, which is geologically impossible

I would love to watch a YouTube video explaining the geology of Middle Earth and the geology science explaining why it's impossible.
I have always had a similar train of thought around zombie apocalypse fiction. If there was a mass zombie outbreak it would be totally solved within five years. Houses would be reinforced with zombie proof doors and walls. Weapons would be available for purchase that are tested as most affective against zombies. Roads would have guard rails and zombie proof walls to keep them out. It would slowly transform from a crisis to a nuisance like wild animals. There’s no reason it would continue going on year after year
Hello HN,

After spending the last decade designing and building 3D/AR/VR products, I've realized there are many hurdles one has to overcome to create a complete experience. Between learning the principles and tools, building the experience, testing, iterating, distributing, and ensuring everything works correctly on different devices, there's quite a bit of boilerplate work required to bring your imagination to life.

I designed Virtual Maker to simplify the whole process, letting you focus directly on designing your experience. Let me know what you think!
OneDrive can work offline if you set it to actually sync all of your files.
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Thanks, FooDB looks like a great start with 800 taxonomy scientific names of "foods": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31898218#31901803
Open to any others too.
What would motivate one to join, besides pure material gain? Who still thinks the US military protects their interests? The left considers it a tool of imperialism, and the right sees it as openly hostile to them. They're both correct.
Not at all. Most methods of contraception can technically fit under the definition of abortion. The Pill and IUDs, for example, prevent implantation of fertilized ovum. If human life begins at conception, those are both murder.

Banning contraceptives has been a stated goal of at least part of the anti-abortion movement.
I love this question:

> How strong is the team?

I've actually asked it always on every interview. The generic answer I get is that "You will be working with experts in the field" yada yada.

When you actually join the team:

- Two juniors

- Few 20 years experience dudes that finished their growth at "Cobol is the best" with "Mainframe" T-Shirt on them

- And the same manager that hired you! (Avoiding eye contact)

So yea, one salary later you are on the new hunt for new job. I don't understand why ppl lie so much during interviews. It's a employee market, if I don't want to waste my time with teams like that -> it's a 100hunder I'll jump the ship ASAP.
It depends on the values in the above equation. If the labor cost of reconfiguring injection molding machines rises above 3d printers, then companies will use 3d printers. If the labor cost of having someone click parts together goes to high relative to the cost of building a robot for the same task, then a robot will be developed for the task.
I suspect youtube is helping to bring this back, I follow some living history channels (after finding Townsends) and a lot of maker channels, and there seems to be an explosion of interest in traditional making.
Gwern does a good job with them on his website.