skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't expect a recruiter to even know many of these. Code review process? Version control? Meeting frequency? How much spaghetti code do you have? Recruiters aren't tech people and things like meetings and code review culture can vary from team to team.

Honestly, it's not uncommon to have 4 interviews at a company, and each person asks "do you have any questions for me?" A list like this is a good source of questions for these stages. Obviously, you shouldn't ask every single one, but when you meet with people on your prospective team, you should have SOME questions to ask them and this list is as good a resource for that as any.
> "What has employee turnover looked like?

I prefer to ask "What's the average tenure on my team, and how does that compare to the rest of the company?"
Mine dipped slightly, to the level of a year ago. It looks like it might have been bumped again this week. It's undeniably genuine, original, quality content. However I don't know how a machine reads and scores my content. Given the stuff YouTube thinks I like, I'm scared.
It’s smaller-scale than automobility though, which is what people are used to. I agree it’s not perfect, but I think we need a better designator than “bike lanes” for the type of infrastructure we’re aiming for. It can and should be used by more than just cyclists; cycle tracks can also be great for those using e.g. mobility scooters:

https://youtu.be/xSGx3HSjKDo

In the Netherlands there are enough cyclists that it works, but here in the US I feel like the term “cyclist” is often used as a pejorative. Making the name more inclusive of varying modes I think might help to counter this.
The end of the Redis adventure (2020)
"Extreme" is when you have elemental fluorine. Vs. nice, stable fluorine compounds & salts. This situation involves only the latter.
That's cool, but can it use the secret enclave and TouchID?
Would "uses microservices" be a positive or negative on a Joel Test today?
And I profoundly disagree that removing children from their daily lives and sending them to to punitive institutions for misdemeanor failures of judgement is good for society.

Setting an example almost always happens to marginalized individuals, while those "with a bright future ahead" escape punishment. All children deserve the chance at a bright future.
I am going to defend imperial (and other ancient) units of measurement.

The metric system is unintuitive but standardized.

The imperial system is intuitive but (traditionally) non-standardized.

A standardized but unintuitive system is useful in modern science and engineering, where reliability and precision are of utmost importance.

An intuitive but non-standardized system is useful for day-to-day communication and conceptualization, where a standard deviation away from the average of the unit's reference does not have a meaningful effect.

Before standardization, many old units of measurement could be immediately related to everyday things, making conceptualization simple and intuitive.

Examples:

Imperial pound of mass: A pound of wheat berries is more or less how many wheatberries I can fit in my hand. I deal with wheat berries and my hands every single day - I can quite concretely conceptualize a pound and more or less relate that pound (of wheat berries) to other things: a pound of meat, a pound of wool, etc.

Imperial acre: An acre is more or less the amount of land that a pair of oxen can plow in a day. In our old little village, oxen and farm fields are something we observe every single day, and so an acre is conceptually intuitive to us.

Ancient cubit: This is more or less the length of my forearm, which again serves as a very useful reference point for measuring and conceptualizing things. Say I go to build a cabinet. I may measure in cubits. Then, when I go to cut lumber, I just measure it with my forearm, cut, and that's it.

Imperial hogshead: I speculate this barrel size is more or less either the size of an ox's head, or can tightly fit one inside it. Again, this is an animal I might observe daily, making conceptualization simple.

Note that a standard deviation of the size of an average man's hand or forearm, or of the amount of land a given pair of oxen can plow on a given day, does not have a meaningful impact on how I use and relate these units of measurement to everyday life - I'm not precision engineering a space telescope here. I'm just buying wheat berries, plowing fields, and building cabinets.

Contrast these origins with metric's.

Metric meter: "one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris" - whoa get me outta here! I can't relate that to anything I encounter in my day-to-day life.

Metric gram: "the mass of one cubic centimeter of water", or "the mass of one cubic 'one hundredth of one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris' of water"

Of course we can still more or less relate these metric units to things in our day-to-day life for better conceptualization, but because they're arbitrary, they don't map 1:1, whereas imperial and ancient units were naturally emergent rather than arbitrary and they mapped one to one per their definitions.

This is why imperial is a more useful system for relaying measurements colloquially, for everyday life.
The courts also ruled abortions were private medial matters. Was there some precedent you wanted to rest that legal right on? or some interpretation of the constitution you wanted to base your argument on?
I do not have a phone, but I carry a GPD Pocket in a leg bag. Fantastic for conferences etc. No need for a backpack.
There is this naive modern believe that killing people is something exceptional and difficult.

It's not.

1 out of 2 homicide is unsolved in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...

As for straight murder, it's the cause of death of 5 persons out of 100000 (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...). Diabetes is 20/100000 in comparison (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm).

And that's mostly by people with no master plan for the killing in the first place.

If you die, NCIS will not come to your house to do a full tv show like murder solving. They will send an average joe cop, probably eating a sandwich on the murder site putting his print and crumbs everywhere, he will suspect your close ones, and ask a bunch of questions, because that statistically the only thing that works well. If the killer is obvious, it's solved. If not, nobody will ever know.
I expect these changes will lead to a brief period where the quality of search results will get better, but then will be quickly reversed engineered and gamed by "SEO experts" bringing us right back to where we are. This is a fight Google simply cannot win.
An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say
Or at least 270. "Tent mode" is amazing both for better thermals and for getting a small screen closer to you on a tabletop. Frankly I could've used a track point and a pair of mouse buttons at the bottom as well.
Learning how to write good code is a topic for juniors. Any senior would already know how to that so we focus on other things.
I love the presenters, but I can't listen to too many BtB episodes. They are very bleak.
> If a sufficient amount of microplastics is harmful to humans

The "sufficient amount" you're referring to for plastics so far appear to be of very different orders of magnitude than with PFAS. In fact, I don't recall seeing a single report indicating visible toxicity to large organisms (be they humans, cattle, or other large animals) from the amount of microplastics in our environment right now. Certainly nothing even remotely similar to what I've seen about PFAS, which includes e.g. cows getting organ defects.

Sure, if you eat rubber every day then presumably you'll die a painful death (and I'm not going to wait for a double-blinded RCT on humans to prove I shouldn't eat rubber for lunch before I believe it), so you could also call plastics toxic if you really insist on "p > 0" defining what a toxin is. Dose makes the poison and all that. But we're not proving math theorems here so that's not interesting as a definition or discussion.
Those are all great points! At Svix (we do webhooks as a service), we disallow redirects because of what you mentioned above, and because it's also just bad for performance (for both sides) and is most likely a configuration error anyway.

Resolution and timeouts: the aiohttp library for Python is slightly better in terms of letting you configure these things, though it's better to just use a sending proxy that does it all for you and is also located in an isolated VPC to make sure that you're protected.
You mentioned needing to reverse engineer the API for browsing etc.

I think you can just see what Spot [0] does instead!

[0] https://github.com/xou816/spot
I think "what are you current pain points" or "What are some of the struggles that you've had in the past" are very good questions to ask. If a manager says everything is great then either they are overhiring, or lying. (with the exception of maybe forming a new product team inside a successful company.) Typically though, it dives into deeper discussions about the product and process that can be very engaging in both directions in an interview.
There is some debate now in Sweden about how much of a good idea is to use nuclear power. The greens are absolutely convinced it's a bad idea. Their arguments against nuclear make no sense to me. But their arguments pro-renewable make even less sense. Towns in Sweden are opposing wind energy on the (green) basis that it disturbs the local wildlife, and I saw a field of solar power replace a field of wheat the other day, and trust me it looks even worse than a wind turbine.

So no matter where one looks, the bottom line seems pretty clear: there are no good compromises that preserve the planet and promote economic development[^1]. Maybe it is time to start talking about the no-compromise solutions? Like colonizing space[^2] and de-industrializing and de-populating Earth? Because if we don't, when global warming gets worse and the majority of people start considering that industrialization is a threat to the environment and their survival, we will just be talking about de-industrialization and forcing everybody to go vegetarian and poor, no choice involved.

[^1]: If you think you have all the material wealth you need, cheers! But poverty still affects the quality of life of most people on the planet, and most people would rather have a better life.

[^2]: Must people imagine cramped space bases separated from vacuum by a paper-thin wall while working under the whipping of something like Amazon 5.0, but lush, ginormous space habitats with sensible bylaws are also an option.
Kudos to Code Complete, specially l the tips regarding "safe" C code and parameter validation, based on Microsoft learnings in failure to do so.

One anecdote I remember from the book, is how for a while Excel allowed for dual colored cells based on a parsing error due to trying to be too clever.
New JavaScript ecosystem killer bundler
Your mind is going to get blown by this futuristic innovation.
Just because Ruby acolytes Dave Thomas, Jose Valim and Chris McCord championed Elixir that doesn't make it Ruby's successor. The languages are poles apart beneath the surface syntax. Crystal has more of a genuine claim. I also think Kotlin is a relevant language for re-writing a Ruby codebase.
A lot of these look more like suboptimal implementations on ARM (or incredibly good implementations on x86). There is a lot of odd performance gaps all over the tests.
A small AliExpress tip: if you’re going to buy anything from AliExpress for more than throwaway money, always use a credit card, because if it doesn’t arrive they will not honor their guarantees and will not refund your money. Make sure you can honor their guarantee by doing a chargeback, if necessary.
Bedroom count is ridiculous, it's an estate agent's marketing game whether a room's a study or another bedroom.

Should just be #kitchens, #bathrooms, #loos, #other IMO. Number of fitted/room-like cupboards etc. would be a bit useful too, but size so variable it would only give a very rough idea.
The example I first heard about this problem for was with portapotties. At what point do you stop looking through the line of open portapotties to find the cleanest one?

So I guess that's a use.
Ask HN: American digital nomad? What state is your LLC in?
This is a big open-ended question for Americans who are permanent digital nomads (or who choose not to have a permanent address in the US).

There are many choices to make, and the roadmap is unclear. Searching the web predictably turns up a lot of SEO-game-quality results, so it's difficult to know what is good advice.

For those who have experienced this, please share what you are doing or have learned.

Mailing Address

There are virtual postal mail services which can be used as a "permanent" mailing address. (A USPS mailbox cannot, because they require two limited forms of ID; for those of us who do not/no longer have a US drivers license, our only accepted ID is a passport.)

Business Formation

LLC seems to be the wisest choice for those who do contract and consulting work, particularly for US clients. There are many states which seem to offer attractive benefits as an LLC location, such as Wyoming, Delaware, Nevada, and Texas. I list them in that order because from my reading that is the best order, but perhaps you have more experience and can share?

Taxes

One of the joys if being an American is that we have to file taxes for the US regardless of where we are or where we are earning. There is no opt-out short of giving up citizenship (which obviously requires having another citizenship/passport in another country). In my case, having Dutch residence, I have to file and pay in Netherlands and also file in US. (There's no double taxation, so paying more taxes in NL means I have zero taxes due for US... but I still have to file; that will never go away.)

How do you manage this? The temptation is to only have one residence - US (virtual mail address), then stay in other countries only as allowed by visa limits. For Schengen, that's 180 days per year -- enough if you're a full time nomad.

Banking

What bank(s) do you use? Wise (formerly Transferwise) may be a viable option for receiving money from clients in the US and elsewhere. HSBC has been suggested, but the details of their account setup requirements seem not to apply.

Experiential advice on any of these topics is highly appreciated!
Was she? She said he grabbed her by the throat. What’s that mean? He actually did? Did it leave a mark? I mean, if it was strong enough to choke her?

Did his hand brush her throat?

What was her immediate description of what happened to the very first person she told?

These other acts you describe, were they accusations or facts?

You are literally engaging in trial by social media asserting claims as fact when they are accusations.

“They don’t do that unless they have strong evidence” - spoken like someone who has only ever read about the criminal justice system. The news has been filled with stories of unjust actions the entire length of Covid.

You don’t understand how things work. If you can get a criminal charge to stick, then you can threaten to settle out of court for money (with the woman) to avoid her bringing a civil trial.

Is she lying? I have no idea, but your argument is as bad as “that black man wouldn’t be charged by the police for raping that white woman if he didn’t do it. The white woman wouldn’t lie, it must be so scary for her to come forward”. Literally this except replace black with “rich”, the new boogie-man.

Dude should have an internal recorder in his car, like an Uber driver. It would either save him from false accusations or himself.
Lenovo’s Lawyers Prompt Framework to Change 3D Printed Case
this comes across poor. it makes you sound more like The drummer on a Roman galleon, than someone leading other developers towards a goal. if a perspective developer adds value to your company and your product, but happens to care about things like source control, there may be really good reason why. if you dismiss that because of "we need to ship" then I'd propose that you might have tunnel vision and lack the EQ to value perspectives other than your own.
I can see this being a lot more useful if it had positional tracking like air tags, but it's definitely still interesting for many applications like you suggested.

I am curious how the data sending works. Can it transmit anywhere or does it need certain devices in range?
> This also isn't true. You can't heat your cookware above 500F / 260C, that's it. Which obviously no one does since everything would be burned black.

People do badly burn their food and ruin their pans.
For the record, both resemble the Ubuntu logo.
Thank you!

Looks promising!
Ah, VSS and SVN's bastard love child. Don't miss that.
I'm surprised to see little about how products are managed/defined.
PO/PM.
> So, like Ravioli without the last i. Raviol.

I cannot for the life of me imagine how you get any resemblance between those.

Ravioli is /ra.viˈɔ.li/ or /raˈvjɔ.li/ -- so "ra" (as in "RAdish") vee OH lee (or ra-vee-YO-lee).

So "raviol" would be ra-vee-oh-l.

I always said "Rebol" as "REE-boll" but if it rhymes with "rebel" (noun), fine.

That's /ˈɹɛbəl/ -- REH-bul. So, REH-bul → REH-bol. OK, no problem.

But it's nothing at all like rah-vee-oh-l.
This is wild. Interesting that her family denied the claim she was self-administering DMSO.
Hey, Everybody complaining about reading this whole list to your interviewer: please read the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs.
But those things should be important to any professional developper! Like I would absolutely 100% not work for a company that doesn't use proper version control.
Yes they say the house was just sold or the owner has just gotten news that’s taken it off the market.

This isn’t really unusual when you are buying in a hot market. When I was getting my place it happened several times and the realtor would usually offer to give me an appointment at another place or just take my number so they’d call me if the current deal fell through.

I think the realtors don’t leave specifically for that reason: it serves as lead generation for their other properties.
Every new lane you add makes a city less dense and less walkable. If you prefer sprawling suburbia and drivers ignoring traffic rules as the norm, that's your choice.

The denser the city, the smaller and fewer the roads and intersections, the less resources you need to handle and prevent reckless driving, the more people choose against driving, the more viable the public transport system, the smaller the environmental footprint of the city, the less pollution from car tyres and exhaust, etc.
E-scooters are roughly equivalent to bikes in terms of transportation ability within dense areas, while being more approachable for a lot of people. They let you go farther than walking when there’s no public transport to speak of.

They should be ridden primarily in bike lanes… when those exist and are safe. So we need a lot more protected bike lanes!
Not to mention anything even slightly political or divisive in nature will quickly become chaos.
Happy to see this getting mentioned.

It's a distro of FreeGEM:

http://www.deltasoft.com/Default.htm

Lots more info:

http://www.seasip.info/Gem/
And I do like Quirk (we mention it in the intro to our recent paper https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.8.081808). And in the (not yet released) interactive element description for CNOT (along with Quantum Odyssey).

When it comes to links - a good point. I do like the StackOverflow style. I will discuss it with the team.
Zelle doesn't support all banks - the call to action on their home page is even "See if your bank offers Zelle". My credit union, sadly, does not. So it's not really comparable to EU IBAN transfers.
No, I didn't mean doing the job in half the code (which for sure is better). I meant writing half the code that needs to be written, and then writing the other half that needs to be written, in addition.
I expect more than that, a senior should be in the position of accomplishing a task based on a ruff abstract, they should also be able to mentor juniors and jump into meetings with the customer, supporting architects and sales, if needed.
Writing my first Security blogpost
Non Paywalled Link from a local news agency (with some cool pictures as well): https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/divers-find-...
If no better code exists that's the performance.
That happened already, no? https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/06/07/rfc2616_is_dead
That is the correct answer, also if I may add: Usually the grazing land also lacks water and means of irrigation required for more valuable nutrition dense crops. Rainfall is only enough for grasses and some limited food crops if you really tried. There is a reason farmers would not touch that land.
Integrating variants in 42k autism cases identifies mutations in new genes
Bombing Hiroshima was not a war crime under the rules in effect at the time. The city was a legitimate military target. There was no requirement for combatants to avoid all collateral damage.
API security: Broken access controls, injection attacks plague the enterprise
My understanding from reading a number of articles about this "helpful content" update from Google is that they want to get rid of pages like what you describe and instead prioritize pages that get right to the point. So perhaps you'll get what you are asking for.
Approachability is not a feature here. This is powered vehicles we're talking about: a danger to both the rider and pedestrians. They should observe regulations for powered vehicles, period. If they are not safe, they should be banned. If they do not fit any regulated category, they should be banned.

There is a reason arbitrary unregistered contraptions are not allowed to roam city streets.
Furthermore, what company in it's right mind has data on sexual orientation? Are you asking in the annual engagement survey?
What would you expect, they had a Diet of Worms! :P
Tangent: this faster payment layer with delayed settlement is exactly how the Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin works.
There are a ton of people at all levels that don't get this.
No I didn't - mind blown. Have any more obscure historical facts to share?
Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby (2010)
I don't remember where I learned this: "It isn't enough to be happy. You have to be content".
> I mean, is your entire decision going to be made on GIT being used?

Absolutely. If a company doesn't use any modern versioning system that's probably one of the biggest red flags there are.
Aren't the U versions more energy efficient but less powerful than the H or HX versions of Ryzen?
These days the companies are interviewed just as much as, if not more than, the candidates. It's the new reality, or at least current reality. Pushing back against it will push that position to the bottom of the pile for (anecdotally) many candidates.
Software-defined satellite enters commercial service
Spotify exists to deliver music, other apps exist to lock users to their corresponding platforms.
So if you use part of my image, which has watermark embedded via noise and it is found in your image, then you are fucked. Good.
This is just 2nd order gaslighting. For many, many years Google was denying obvious problems with how their search system worked. Denial and gaslighting was clearly their marketing strategy. It kind of worked too, at least in terms of public opinion in tech space. Now something has changed and they're suddenly pretending to care. Problem is, this effectively gaslights people about their prior gaslighting.

Why was the company blatantly denying obvious issues for so many years? What has changed? Why should I trust their judgment all of a sudden?

It's kind of like someone who is a pathologic liar having been caught in various lies for many years, swearing to tell you the truth, but not admitting to the past lies.