skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needing to hire more than just the top schools graduate is certainly a reason companies can't limit themselves to university selection processes.

But that's not all that's going on here! CalTech is pretty selective as far as US schools go (6% acceptance rate). Slightly more than MIT, slightly less than Stanford. SAT score stats all in the same 1500+ range.

But they're offering this course, and that makes me think that no, the worst student from these schools in the US, at least cannot nail any algorithm interview with minimal prep!

And that makes sense, from a US perspective! Getting into CalTech or Stanford or MIT is about doing well at high school/early-college level material in high school, and about extracurricular activities, with a dash of being able to afford it and being told it's something you should try for. Most of that high school curriculum - even most college-level CS material - isn't super applicable to a software engineering job. It's heavier on memorization (we have google for that!) and it's heavier on theory than on creative application of things.

I might argue that any test or course where the answers to the exams come straight out of the textbook isn't worth as much as it used to be, since we've got Google and SO and all the books too!

That's a big part of why a lot of these whiteboard interviews aren't simply "write out Dijkstra's algorithm" (boring, textbook!) but are about seeing if you can figure out how to use apply CS in a situation where the way the problem maps to the algorithm isn't immediately obvious.

Creative work has a long history of not aligning well with traditional US university admissions criteria and evaluations.
Yes but the interviews are primarily used to screen candidates for SWE roles
I think the more important overarching point is that most candidates aren't prolific github people like you, and likewise most companies are not going to cater their interviewing practices to woo your preferred flavor of interview style.

Most candidates don't have code samples laying around (e.g. they only write proprietary code for work), so asking for some is a non-starter in a lot of cases.

Another point worth of reflecting, your accomplishments in OSS say nothing of interviewing expertise, they are completely different skillsets. Companies may not hire in the order of 50k people a year, but interviewer calibration in a large org is absolutely a problem that isn't easily solved by just following the opinion of some random 6-digit salary SWE.

As someone who's interviewed in the order of a few hundred senior SWEs, I think there are good and bad ways to go about any interview format, including leetcode-style.

Complaining about how companies don't just throw away their interview practices in favor of [insert pet format here] doesn't really help, since it isn't really actionable.

We talk about the perils of full software rewrites, I think similar concerns exist for hiring as well.
If you are THE Walter Bright, I have no doubt you have. Respect
The only thing I remember, is that the only time nuclear weapons were used, it was not Russia nor the USSR. To me it doesn't look unpredictable at all: Ukraine has long been warned that joining NATO poses a threat to Russia and that they should remain neutral. Yet they decided to continue to provoke Russia (just for the interest of the US) and now they get what they were looking for.
I'm an American actually. It's pretty ironic that you're saying that Russia is obsessed with imperial domination when you're comparing it to the United States which has over 800 military bases spread across dozens of countries all around the world, is literally occupying multiple countries with tens of thousands of troops right now including Japan, Germany and Australia, has overthrown dozens of regimes it didn't like all around the world and has completely destroyed two entire countries on the opposite side of the planet in the last two decades. If that's not imperial hegemony, I'm not sure what is.

Also, the West never explicitly invited Ukraine into NATO but they repeatedly refused to say the door was closed for two decades.
Small correction: the CDU/FDP government was the second Merkel cabinet (of four), and the only one where the FDP was involved. In fact it was so "successful" that at the next elections the FDP fell below the 5% threshold and wasn't represented in the Bundestag for the next four years.
> As an aside, I'm really very glad this didn't happen a couple years ago when we had our own mad-man with the launch codes

Completely agree. It would have been a nightmare.
With COVID improving I thought I’d finally leave my job and travel for a bit as I figure out what I’m doing in life but at the moment I’m monitoring the situation in Ukraine to understand whether quitting my job and traveling is the right choice.

My sister worries about me being unemployed in my home country and getting drafted.

Any fellow almost about to quit people? Is this stopping you?
If it becomes apparent that Russia is going to stay in Ukraine, business interests will immediately start prodding their governments for special exceptions. There will start off on humanitarian grounds, like medicines and medical devices but we've seen with sanctions on other countries that over time these exceptions grow, often due to financial interests of the well connected. You'll probably never be able to export cheese to Russia but lots of things with dual uses will get approved for export and then used for both uses even though only approved for one use.
Cynical traders will still take the long view and buy the dip.
Nuke Kiev and Lviv for unconditional surrender. Worked in WW2 for the US. Personally not sure if it would work this time.
Not that different from normal field artillery.
Well... You have had those fears for at most four days. At the same
time, millions of people around the world has had to live with those
fears constantly for years. Many have had their homes bombed and their
relatives killed. Some of those have fled to Europe and the US because
they want what we have; freedom, security, and dignity. They
have not come to steal what we have, but to share it with us.

We have not been treating them nice. We have labelled them as security
threats or "demographic" threats and turned them away at our
borders. In many cases we have armed the same regimes that have
brutalized them and branded those who fought back "terrorists". Just
days before the Russian invasion popular politicians were screaming
about how refugees had "destroyed" my country.

I hope if anything good comes out of this crisis people would learn
how to sympathize with others. People who have felt the threat and
fears themselves maybe better understand the fears of those who have
fled their homes, regardless of skin color, eye color or religion?
>This is just something their PR team put together to get some good publicity. Like paying media to rename the "BP oil spill" to "Deepwater oil spill".

Source? I did some rudimentary checking and what you're describing seems like revisionist history and/or conspiracy to me. I checked the news section from wikipedia on that date[1], and it's referred to as "Explosion on Deepwater Horizon drilling rig", with no references to BP (in the title, there are references in the body). The linked sources also do the same. The same lack of BP reference also applies to NPR which had stories from the AP[2] as well as new orleans public radio[3]. Maybe BP bribed all of them, but that seems hard to believe. Looking at the wikipedia page and/or news articles, you can find a less sinister explanation for why it wasn't called the BP oil spill: the drilling rig was owned and operated by Transocean, not BP.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/April_...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100421145719/https://www.npr.o...

[3] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126183...
The largest threat to any autocrat is the success of a breakaway now-democratic state. Autocrats need their people to think that they are hopeless without them. Otherwise why allow them to have all of the power?

The quality of life of many breakaway former soviet states has been rising rapidly and that makes Putin look bad. The same applies to China and Xi: Taiwan makes Xi look bad. The more successful Taiwan is the more Xi will feel he must gain control. However, Russia's failing here will give him pause. It is a good example of how to lose complete control.
At no point in history has punishing people for the mistakes of their leader resulted in a better situation and more peaceful world.

History is full of huge counterexamples to this claim: the sanctions against South African apartheid. Oh and this whole business of "punishing people in Germany, Italy and Japan for the mistakes of their leaders", known otherwise as WW 2.
I'm in the same situation as your friend and I know of at least 3 others in my friend circle. I don't think part time availability is as low as you think.
Government of Canada pledges to match donations for Ukraine
...by selling out the Palestinians? And dependent on a fantasy (a demilitarized Israel?!) They were an election-year stunt. Not a real effort at diplomacy.
> maybe work on an evacuation plan.

Bug out bag, copies of all relevant documents sent to your own email address and maybe one or two backups of friends or relatives, have your car fueled up and ready to go, have some cash on hand, make sure that everybody that is coming with you knows exactly what to do if you decide to move and have everything that you plan to take with you (essentials only) in the vehicle you plan to use. Make sure you don't get caught in long lines, better decide to leave early and then to come back later than to decide to leave too late.

Had a long discussion with a friend right on the edge of the conflict last night.

Anything else that might be useful?
Is this unprecedented for Switzerland? Does anyone know? I know Switzerland as a bank that accepted Nazi depositors during WWII.
There is a lot of focus on criticizing news media and accusing those worried of consuming the bad ones, but I think that's kind of unreasonable to apply broadly. The fact, regardless, is that Putin and the Russian state news are threatening very explicitly to kill the world for confusingly-described reasons only semi-related to what's actually happening (sanctioning Russia, supplying Ukraine). It's reasonable to believe they are just trying to scare people and nothing will happen, but it's also reasonable to be worried. That said - you should indeed not worry about WW3 (at least not the nuclear kind we assume it would be), but not because of the general hatred for much of news media.
You don't think the war in Afghanistan was justified? After 9/11 the US invoked NATO article 5 and allies went to Afghanistan with the US.
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We still have not found a place to store the waste. No one wants to live near a reactor so there are not really any place to build them (NIMBY). It also turns out that it is quite expensive when considering all costs like dismantling and insurance. Germany also does not mine uranium any more since 2021, so needs to buy them from other countries so you will have again dependencies on other countries. And then there is the historical experience of Chernobyl.
That is problematic. Small, independent, high human-capital companies are best antidote to authoritarian leaders supported by oligarchs and natural resource extraction. If western sanctions selectively restrict the first ones, while keep business for the second ones (because Europe need russian gas), then they are likely worse than no sanctions at all.
“As Energy Ministries across the EU become "ecology" Ministries led by people who don't even know the units used to quantify energy, Finance Ministries become the adults.”

This is not more numerate coverage, it’s semi-informed snark.
That's the thing. I'm not sure how this can end if the oligarchs don't overthrow him.
Elon Musk activates Starlink to help keep Ukraine's internet up
https://archive.fo/baj7M
It takes real courage to destroy such a massive and beautiful piece of engineering that had no military value and spent the last two years bringing Covid-19 vaccines and supplies around the world.
Is there a 8051-based microcontroller with the usual FLASH memory and with tools to program it like a PLC?

Hardware should be programmed like PLCs, we are just overcomplicating most hardware stuff by throwing OO & FP at it.
You could say that about the US, too.
And what's up with the whole public announcement.

Seems pretty obvious that the whole point of taking such an action is that it be made public.
What is that supposed to be telling? There are a quite a few industries where there are profitable neighbor industries around breaking in to it. Even ones with licensing and blah blah blah instead of whiteboards.

Hell, the cynics would call the entire current university system one! And if not that, than it least the massive industries around getting into better schools...
I mean the correct action is to require Russia to pay for all damages they have caused.

They should be required to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

They should be required to compensate Ukrainians for the people they choose to kill.

They should be required to disarm, as they have demonstrated they are willing to invade peaceful countries, without any reason other than a desire to conquer.
There are actually ready-made Photoshop actions for this (search for downloads).

Personally, I was hoping for flow diagrams in mirror writing on how to device an image editing software and a folio with some neat illustrative drawings about its intended use. (Oh, is this actually what the Voynich manuscript is all about?) ;-)
> I can complain all day to my bosses about how hard it is to hire (its not that hard) and meanwhile rip their HR budget to shreds when I threaten to leave unless I get paid more (I've done that before, I recently got a promotion and 50% raise on base alone).

Kudos for that. I may be making a similar move soon.
What I find interesting is that the sanctions of Russia and support of Ukraine is accelerating faster and faster every day. Had the initial plan of decapitating the government and installing a puppet who signs a peace agreement with Russia worked, I doubt we'd be seeing the same level of support as now. Apparently the EU is now giving them jets in addition to all the small arms, fuel and anti-tank weapons. With all the economic sanctions it seems like they want to collapse the Russian economy and instigate regime change from the inside. Putin made a risky bet by attacking Ukraine, but the EU collapsing Russia with all their nukes still hanging around and hoping the next government in charge is more stable is a way more risky bet.
This is like Brexit, the populous are too easily led away from reason when nuclear power is mentioned. I'm not sure what the solution is.

People were freaking the F out in South Wales, UK, because sand from Sizewell development (near Bristol) was being dumped a mile offshore, sand with one or two banana-equivalent doses per tonne (IIRC). Like maybe if you spend every day at the beach eating sand then you might be able to cause yourself some harm but there's no beach in Cardiff, the sand is way offshore and UK needs more non-fossil baseline power sources.

I think perhaps the public information giving preparedness guidance for nuclear war did a number on us in the 80s. Chernobyl didn't exactly help, mind you.
I'm optimistic that Apple is working on most of these issues (especially catch-all) right now and this is just representative of their new offering.

Like many things I've seen from Apple it will take a release cycle or two (of 1-2 years per cycle) to bring in this arguably basic functionality - as is tradition we'll groan about other issues being held back in favour of fancy new features.

I have no doubt they intend to fully compete with the email services from Google and Microsoft. Following on from last year we should see VPs taking us through the updates to iCloud+ alongside device launches as it expands into a fundamental service offering.
Not just right next door, but downwind
"good aggression"

Be aware that most people cannot read Chinese or Russian, and as such their whole world perspective is fed by an one sided narrative.

I suggest you listen to these[1][2] talks, and Putin's speech[3] on NATO expansion in Munich in 2007. Pozner[1] pointed out that up to 2007, Putin really tried to be friend with the West, including asking to join NATO.

Of course they were "the enemy".

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ58Yv6kP44
You are not the only one.
Anecdotal, but I have seen far more unmaintainable, half-assed, 1000-line build.sh scripts than Ansible scripts.
WINE is Windows APIs running on the Linux kernel ( host OS kernel ). The Linux kernel is already high quality and high performance.

ReactOS is Windows APIs running on the from-scratch ReactOS kernel that is not very good.

The ReactOS project is not the source for most of the APIs a game is going to use. Many of the come from WINE.

Using ReactOS instead of WINE on Linux makes little sense at this point. It would certainly be a lot more expense and time to create a commercial quality product. Most of the work creating API support to WINE / Proton is portable to ReactOS of the kernel ever gets there.
Regardless of politics I think it's objective to say we're seeing a major increase in the weaponization of the global financial system. Perhaps the most important second order effect (assuming/praying that the war ends very soon) is a faster de-dollarization in China.

A question: does Switzerland have any prior precedent of actions like this? I thought they were neutral?
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I assume the working theory is that the KGB are not delighted with the present circumstances.
I thought Elm was very much about web development. And Elixir is too in some ways. Both Scala and F# have a lot going on in the data space. Scala more so than F#. Standard ML is exciting because it's not big. And probably a better choice for understanding the fundamentals but Scala or F3 for something serious? This is just my best guess. Actually that reminds me of a very nice course in Standard ML from the University of Washington on Coursera, but it's not a book.
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> I can still run kernel-level code without jailbreaking/rooting the hardware on Macintoshs.

Only if you’re willing to accept the loss of Apple Pay via Touch ID as well as the entire iOS-apps-on-Mac feature. It’s been years since Apple allowed you to run kernel-level code without losing features.
Thanks mate, I'll have a look.
From what I understand the current plan to store renewable energy is to convert it to hydrogen - this hydrogen can either be used to power vehicles, or in power plants (converted natural gas power plants or plants that have been designed from the outset to operate flexibly with hydrogen or natural gas)
Congrats to Lambda team! Keep evolving the FaaS platform, especially regarding Cold Starts.
> withdraws from Ukraine

This can be verified.

> pays reparations

This can be verified.

> is bound by international agreements not to do something like this again

This is not worth the paper it's written on, but perhaps it may be the only way and reach a peace soon and make everyone pretend to be friends while preparing for the next encounter.
No, it's a fact. The West is not going to risk the Apocalypse for Ukraine. Unless Russia directly attacks a NATO country, there is practically nothing they can do to trigger a war between NATO and Russia.
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We can't use stick against someone pointing thousands of nukes at you.
It seems to change topics depending on the term
> Were the shares that BP held not marked to market already?

No, they were treated using the equity method:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_method
FWIW, Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2014 and occupies parts of it ever since. Now they extended their aggression to target the whole country full scale with intention to overtake their capital. Journalists had plenty of time to read the writings on the wall.
Of course, but it's not worth $0 either. And when the restrictions against Russia are lifted the value will be back up.
> this smells of being invented by someone who never visited Europe.

This channel is known for its constant criticism of the current Indian government and its politics is diametrically opposite to mine. If they are claiming this, then there is every chance that it happened.

Then there are reports about black people being prevented from crossing. Even the Chinese embassy has asked its nationals to avoid all military and law enforcement and not identify as Chinese:[1]

> After some Chinese reported being targeted because of their nationality, the embassy also did an about-turn on its previous advice for citizens in Ukraine to display the Chinese flag on their cars if they had to go outside.

> The new advice was to refrain from identifying themselves or showing any signs that make them recognisable.

> The online comments and Beijing’s refusal to condemn Moscow’s actions have compounded problems for Chinese people in Ukraine.

> A Chinese student studying in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, who did not want to be named, said she feared there might be anti-Chinese sentiment among the locals who had seen reports of these online comments.

There is definitely some kind of race thing going on here.

[1] Backlash in China over vulgar social media mocking of Ukraine conflict (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3168587/ba...)
Those who would retire with $3M dont have the drive, ability and desire to run Apple.
And if he isn't?

Then we have nuclear war. Or we let Putin dictate international politics for however long he has left, and tell China/North Korea/every other bad actor that gets nukes for the rest of time that the game is "be serious about launching nukes offensively and you'll get whatever you want". How do you think that'll work long term?

It's that, or Putin at least maintains a shred of rationality. Or his inner circle takes him out before he pushes the button.
The claimed one-year period from deletion to when it becomes available for use as custom domain actually makes me think that it is on purpose. I just don’t understand what that purpose would be. I would think it was a bug if it just wouldn’t let you use an email currently or formerly used as another Apple ID, no matter how long ago.
I know they really try to sell you on GoDaddy, but it's possible to set it up with using another registrar.
I don't see how this hurts anyone except BP shareholders.

It certainly doesn't hurt the Russsians in any way I can see. It seems to me that some Russian individual or organization, perhaps the Russian government itself, will now just scoop up the stake in question on the cheap (or for free), at their expense.
That is problematic.

True. But I think Google's point is that the invasion of Ukraine is (several) orders of magnitude more problematic and needs to stop.

I get that there's a downside to boycotts of all forms. What I don't get is the livid emotionalism in this thread ("absolutely ridiculous and shitty") directed towards the decision to boycott certain companies in response to the current situation -- rather than towards the invasion of Ukraine itself.