skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, remember that news only appear every 12hrs, for two reasons: Individual advances are not relevant; and media agencies (govts, presidents, etc) know that news don’t penetrate if there are more than 1 lesson per 12hrs.

So, let that phone down.
In times of such turmoil the spread between buy and sell price becomes so vast that it'll shield the exchangers from such schemes.
Well, heating homes with "freedom" may at least get us more babies to solve the aging EU problem :). Won't work for the industry I guess.
Most wireless transmission protocols use generic modulation techniques that in theory can be put together using a software package like GNU Radio.

In theory GNU Radio could be the narrow waist for all wireless transmission protocols. It isn’t practical yet but it’s a possibility. Instead of rewriting a new wireless stack each time we just use GNU radio and specify our specific signal blocks.

The analogy is similar to IR being the compiler’s narrow waist.
The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase (2003)
Thanks! Yes, unfortunately the physical book was never released as an e-book. It was released around the time e-books were first becoming viable, and a few months after it was published the publisher proposed we release it as an e-book. But the new contract was very far-reaching, and would have granted the publisher half of all proceeds of any "electronic distribution" of the book's content. When I asked them to revise the contract to exempt the preexisting website from this condition, they lost interest.
Whether it is or it isn't, individually we're powerless to change anything. Don't worry about things you can't change.
What?

The sanctions can be lifted when Russia withdraws from Ukraine, pays reparations, and is bound by international agreements not to do something like this again.
We get a number of bald eagles in Colorado over the winter (and a few that stay and nest in the summer). I have seen them kill full grown Canadian Geese in the winter and catch ducks in the air (very fast). Bald Eagles in particular are shockingly fast and agile when they want to be. They can be magnificent predators when they need to be but they are also very flexible and adaptable and if there is an easier option they will choose it. I've been a falconer for 30 years and eagles (both Bald and Golden Eagles) can be the bane of a falconer's existence in some areas. Eagles are the absolute apex avian predator and they make a significant part of their living bullying other birds of prey and taking their kills. I've known a number of falconers that have had their falcons or hawks killed by Eagles, I assume it happens in the wild all the time as well. I've seen our local eagles regularly harassing Osprey and taking their fish in the summer. It's like Bears, Wolves and Mountain Lions, they can also be magnificent predators, but when presented with an easier option like getting into the trash or eating someone's pet or livestock they'll often take it easier option.

Oh, and eagles might not snatch babies, but they have definitely killed people's dogs:
https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/family-dog-killed-by-b...
You're completely right, and this actually is another layer to the whiteboarding technical interviews are broken narrative: there are no objective standards, even if there is huge overlap in the content being interviewed from company to company (or even team to team). A very discouraging aspect about these interviews is that the rubric is completely hidden away from candidates and feedback is almost never provided. At least a licensure or certification test would be more transparent.
As someone who is licensed in a different field, awful idea.

Each state tends to have their own (often quite different) license requirements. They tend to be expensive to get and need to be renewed frequently (more $$$).
There are usually other hoops you have to jump through to get both license and relicensed.
I would never wish licensure on my own profession.
It also says that Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are still fighting each other which suggests an assumption of an inevitable future victory and so perhaps the article is written from a contemporary standpoint.

It may have been deleted to avoid antagonizing Ukrainian ceasefire negotiators...?
I am not scared, but I do think it is the start of WW3. There are Ukranians fighting tooth and nail for their country right now. I think Russia will eventually push further west than Ukraine and NATO countries will have to defend themselves.

Think about it: they're already committed. There's no coming back from what they have started.
Shit-ton of .Net running in on-prem corporate environments still.

My guess is this is another carrot to get those workloads migrated kids!
I'm relying on the fact that even though Putin seems to be completely unhinged and detached from reality, the people responsible for keeping Russian nukes working and managing their launch aren't.
West is too scared of nuclear war. Putin might actually launch some tactic nukes on NATO bases near Russia to scare the West and force it to move out. But it won't turn into world war. So far Putin successfully played every card and is on its way to restore Russian Empire given enough time. And every time was underestimated by its opponents. If comments in this topic reflect west politician heads, it'll repeat over and over again.
Graphics drivers is one of the rare if not the only pain point with static linking. The reason is that drivers in general should be part of the kernel but GPU drivers are running in userspace. Proprietary blobs, fast evolving hardware and as a result fast changing APIs are to blame.

But on the other hand high level GPU APIs are pretty stable and in general backwards compatible. A program from the year 2000 that only links against OpenGL would still run today (with x86 libs obviously). This means to static link as much as possible still has value.
It has always had much slower cold start times than other choices:

https://mikhail.io/serverless/coldstarts/aws/
Ukraine had no intention or public support to join NATO before Russia invaded and annexed Crimea [0]. Russia's actions only have proven their intentions as aggressive justifying NATO's existence.

> it defeats the nuclear parity.

Ukraine gave up its nuclear armament in a peace treaty with the US and Russia. Russia is the one who violated this treaty.

> isn’t it reasonable to see it as an existential threat?

Only since Putin sees all former USSR as illegitimate states and as de facto part of the Russian empire. It has nothing to do with Russia's existence, but Putin's fantasies as what he sees as Russia. The entirety of this conflict follows Russian imperialism.

All attempts to be reasonable with Putin's Russia have been mistaken - the sanctions too weak - they have only proved to be appeasements and delaying the inevitable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine–NATO_relations
> You lost me with "extra". What I'm talking about are core product team members, not freelancers.

It was "extra paperwork associated with the extra staff".

As in, adding X% more staff means X% more staff-related paperwork.
Ask HN: Would NATO help a member country in war with a nuclear power?
Wouldn't preserving humanity be more important?
There is only one thing he needs to do to lift the sanctions, and that is independant from his conquests. That is: leave the Ukraine. Actually, it is the other way around. The less damage is done, the more likely is a quick lift of sanctions.
Well basically it just means Germany is meeting its obligations under NATO to spend 2% on military - which they haven’t done for a very long time.
I'm running it on Linux.
I don't necessarily want someone with great algorithm test taking skills... such a cert would be of relatively minor value to me. A single data point out of many and not one with especially great weight. I want someone that can build stuff on time, using the tools our team uses, within budget and do all of this while being a collaborative, reasonable, not unpleasant person to work with.
I have come to the conclusion that this outcome is best to not think about. Perhaps easier said than done. I am trying to push it away from my mind, although not completely successfully.

It is probably also best to limit time following the events. I am struggling with this myself. I think very important with time outdoors, time away from news, and time to enjoy something.
> See all citations about the moving narrow waist. It's far from clear what the design should be. The narrow waist isn't pure or mathematical -- it's a deep engineering compromise and can be done well or poorly.

And what motivates the moving or when the waist isn't so narrow?

> - In software, there is an incentive to build your own walled gardens, and not interoperate (Microsoft and Win32, Apple and iTunes, Google and the Cloud, etc.).

> Even if it does fall out in networking, it definitely doesn't in software. Like the Unix syscall interface is small but far from trivial. It's been haphazardly extended. People argue about its design all the time. Ditto for ISAs -- the designs are heavily debated compromises.

End-to-end doesn't argue that you can't have rent-seeking or local optima; just that if you build complexity and intelligence into the intermediate, you will probably limit performance of the total system.

And this is super true in all of the examples you give, they all sacrifice performance that more end-to-end systems would be able to achieve: nobody thinks that ISAs are close to optimal, and RISC won over CISC because they delivered more performance (or consider Itanium); Unix syscalls give up huge amounts of performance all the time (just look at memory management alone, where a decent chunk of syscall complexity is there to let databases and other applications opt out of syscall complexity) and also as demonstrated by exokernels; nobody involved with iTunes etc is laboring under the delusion that its centralized paywalling and Apple-centric design in any way maximizes worldwide music consumption or production efficiency (because it doesn't even try to support countless ways of interacting with music aside from a few blessed ones like albums and podcasting), just laboring under the true belief that it's very good for Apple's pocketbook.
That's to be expected that both Russia and the US put their ICBMs on hair-trigger alert.

This crisis is basically a replay of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis but in reverse. US missiles being too close to Russia today, rather than Russian missiles being too close to the US in 1962.
By license I mean the current Leetcode interview process except you do it once and are good for at least five years. Obviously when candidates are interviewed there would still be technical questions asked, but perhaps those would be more domain-specific. The whole point is to avoid the redundancy of the existing interview process.
Is Putin still of sound mind and acting rationally? If so, I'm not much worried about a wider conflict or nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, it's not clear he is acting rationally, and if things continue to turn against his favor (which almost every one here is rooting for) we could be facing a desperate madman with nothing to lose.
Any person regardless of gender can have a narrow waist. A waist is not a gendered body part. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waist
In my mind it's bit more concerning than the day to day of the cold war and closer to the last days of the Soviet Union in risk. Russia in its current form is in its end days. Do they go with a bang or a whimper?
Maybe, though Lambdas are .Net on Linux, which probably means a lot of the existing workloads aren't a straightforward move.
I mean, when you think about the eventual heat death of the universe, nothing really matters in the end. Embrace nihilism.
But Intel has renamed their 10nm to “Intel 7”! ;)
He's a human being who has already made a huge personal sacrifice to defend our freedom. How about you?
You're the one spreading misinformation.
I'm not scared but I'm alarmed that this is even a remote possibility. A few months ago the sheer idea that we would see an old school invasion by a major power in Europe would have seemed impossible to me. I never contemplated that this was possible in the current world order yet here we are. Not that it could never happen again, but not now or in the foreseeable future. So we were very wrong about this collectively, what other delusions about what is possible are we harbouring?

I am very concerned about Putin's state of mind. This does not appear to be a rational course of action so he's either badly miscalculated, or worse, he's living in an alternate reality. Furthermore, because nukes are part of the equation we must make Putin feel that there is a path to de-escalation. If he gets backed into a corner, and feels like he can't retreat, this could become existential for all of us. I think it's a fairly remote possibility but we cannot rule out the use of WMDs. Either battlefield nukes and chemical weapons in Ukraine or, utter worst case, full blown nuclear war against the West if we confront him head on.

I don't want go be alarmist, the last point is pretty unlikely at this point, but there must be an escape hatch for Putin here. However, if he feels that despite whatever ways out we give him he can't back down as it would end his regime, that could be a worst case scenario. We can't control the political situation in Russia. Could he become "all in" at this point?
Uh, yes it matters if we die now vs later. I enjoy my life and intend on keeping it.
Sure, and perhaps that means you're currently already not asking algorithm questions in your interviews. Meaning candidates grousing about Leetcode wouldn't have similar grievances interviewing with your company.
We tried that once.

https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/software/

But nobody was interested.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...

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I've interviewed software developers who have on their resume "Oracle Java 8 certified", but aren't able to name three different spots where the static keyword appears in Java or the situations where they'd be used.

There are certainly many possible reasons why someone wouldn't retain that knowledge, but I've encountered far too many candidates claiming mid or senior level experience with "enhanced" resumes and certifications from everywhere that are not able to satisfactory do more than follow instructions (e.g. not able to determine steps needed to complete tasks nor able to solve the larger problems and break them down into tasks).

So, with the resume and certifications not things that I have confidence in, asking those questions to try to figure out if the person is able to approach solving a novel problem is what gets asked. If other companies do the same, then that candidate will likely see similar lines of questions in each place.
I call FUD.
For a lot of space-cadet interviewers this would work well. They just want the right answer and aren't thinking about how easy it would be to work on a team with these people.
I worked part-time (3 days per week and the 2.5 per week) as a developer for 7 or 8 years and found that you had to be as ruthless as you could get away with with 2. I deliberately worked Fridays as it was often quiet and easy to get lots of work done.

It worked pretty well but I don't think it would have worked for all projects. Stuff without too much communications overhead was better.

I was full-time first and requested part-time by which time I had proved myself, knew the systems etc.
I interned at Microsoft when he was CEO and he gave us a lunch q&a.

The man is the most charismatic person I've ever seen speak in person. Given just how badly he ran Microsoft, I really think his ability to convince people of stuff is some kind of superpower.
Did you know that Ukrainian devs are a super talented bunch? If you're reading this my guess is that there's a good chance that you've used some open source software that contains their contributions. At Apache Drill we miss and worry about our colleagues daily. Many being male and of draftable age, they will have to see this thing out to its end in Ukraine.
I’d love to see it.
Thank you for the kind words! The reason I found the cover so objectionable is because our project has always been very careful to cover subjects accurately, and without hyperbole or embellishment. Then they make our book look like a tabloid newspaper, the polar opposite of "very careful to cover subjects accurately, and without hyperbole or embellishment."
I do not think there's a way to assign probability to this situation.

If we assume Putin is mad, there's no reason why he wouldn't throw a nuke. Due to downside being inevitable, WW3 is a logical outcome. Otherwise we are just letting him throw nukes.
Because you are excepted to work 24/7. If you are hired part time you are just being payed less to work the same 24/7 hours.
I maintain that most of the car's electronic guts (minus infotainment and auto-steer etc) could be done with a handful of 8051s. The problem is almost nobody it seems knows assembly anymore. The standards of CAN and LIN were created in the days of 8-bit MPUs, even I2C is quite old.

(I like assembly, but would never suggest it for a professional situation unless painted into some unforeseen corner, and assy would be the only way out.)
iCloud+ seemed like a great value proposition for people migrating from Workspace, but there are quite a few hangups. Seems like Microsoft hits a good middle ground.

Completely off topic, but why do people think having a sticky header indicating how far "through" an article is, is worth disrupting the content for?
I guess, but I am weirdly fine with this if the desktop can see everything it needs from the container.
Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?
I felt the same way over the first two days, and still do to an extent, but somewhat found a way out.

We live in pretty much central Europe. My wife is Ukrainian and that language is one of three commonly spoken in our household. As I'm not from Europe either, I feel like I have integrated quite a lot into the Ukrainian community. We have family and friends directly imperilled by the war.

After "doom scrolling" through various Telegram groups for the first couple of days, I'm now actually doing something. The local Ukrainian community is collecting food and medicines. These will be driven to the border and used to assist arriving refugees. I'm talking to local people and businesses about donations. I'm signed up to be a driver in the next days.

I don't want to look back in five years time and realise all I did was follow events online, when I have a genuine opportunity to help people. Our son is also old enough to understand what's happening to his family (grandmother, cousins etc). I'd like him to look back in later years and realise his father did something to try and make a difference.

My point is, if you can't log off and checkout as has been very validly suggested by other people on this thread, at least try to find a way to be involved and assist. Even if you're the other side of the world, contact your local Ukrainian community group and see what they need in terms of assistance.
> Not only do we have an entire programming book sub-genre dedicated to this nonsense...

Mate, wake up: ~billion dollar "interview prep" start-ups are a thing.
s/No one/most people/
If you spend your time anxiety ridden in anticipation of nuclear war... are you enjoying it?
> I don’t think anyone wants to go to war or needs it right now, apart from Russia of course.

Unlike dancing, it only takes one to start a war. To quote the Two Towers:

Theoden: I will not risk open war.
Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.
Has anyone done a decent job explaining what the most likely outcomes actually are?
Drawing a bit of a long bow to consider a trillion dollar fund voting in its own shareholder interests anything other than financially driven.
That sounds sufficient but not necessary. Just because that's one potential trigger, doesn't mean there aren't others.
They probably can’t even find the keys to their missiles in the first place.

“Damn it, they’re supposed to be on the hook next to the fridge - I told you never to move those!”

“Did you check the junk drawer honey? What about in the garage with your fishing stuff?”
I'd argue it's pragmatic
I agree. Donations or otherwise, the money comes with additional expectations -- from both yourself and your users -- that you may not want to take on.
For Android users who enjoy Slay the Spire, I recommend checking out Rogue Adventure. I just found it a week ago and I'm hooked. (In fact it's the only game I've been playing since I installed it.) It's free with ads, but the ads are 100% optional and you can pay $5 to get the same rewards.

I won't claim it's anywhere near as well-designed or as well-balanced as StS, but there are 12 classes and it looks like there's a similarly deep replay value.
It's interesting how this mirrors the Computer Science GRE subject test being discontinued.
I'm not gonna lie I'm terrified because the eagerness people cheer for one side reminds me of the stories about how soldiers went blue eyed into WWI. The most dangerous time is still ahead of us if Ukraine wins this and if Putin and his inner circle sees they have nothing left to lose.

If there is something like a collective psyche then it certainly isn't its healthy usual self (if it ever was) considering how many of us are isolated due to the pandemic. It's a very strange situation.
Are you in Eastern Europe? Are you a presidential advisor, or advising a large multi-national of some sort?

If not, then there is not only just about zero you can do about the current situation, but worrying about it is actively interfering with the now in that life - and obsessively following the news will likely destroy every now while you do.
> Something you would just do if immediate and long-term danger is next door.

Yep, it's called Russia, at least as long as Putin rules it.
FWIW Mandie, here's my list of modern pop tech critique, all topics
that DV touches at least tangentially. Far more than 40 days and
nights worth of reading

Shoshana Zuboff Big Other (surveillance capitalism)

Virginia Eubanks Automating Inequality

Sophie Brickman Baby Unplugged

Cory Doctorow Radicalized

Mike Monteiro Ruined by Design

Nick Srnicek Platform Capitalism

Paul Kingsnorth Life versus the machine

Heather Burns Understanding Privacy

Roger McNamee Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Siva Vaidhyanathan Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us

Catherine Price How to Break Up With Your Phone

Thomas Kersting Disconnected: Protect Your Kids Against Device Dependency

Nicholas Kardaras Glow Kids

Zeynep Tufekci Twitter and Tear Gas

Lelia Green Technoculture

Douglas Rushkoff Team Human

Jaron Lanier Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media

Carissa Véliz Privacy is Power: Why You Should Take Back Control

Xiaowei Wang Blockchain Chicken Farm

Jenny Oddell How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Wendy Liu Abolish SIlicon Valley

Jonathan Taplin Move Fast and Break Things

Andrew L. Shapiro The Control Revolution

Lawrence Lessig Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

David Shenk Data Smog

Douglas Rushkoff Cyberia

Paulina Borsook Cyberselfish.
China doesn't want to get involved in Europe, but Taiwan is sure looking tasty right now for them. They've been wanting it for decades, and now the world is preoccupied with Europe.