skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO was created as a defensive pact to combat Stalin's explicit intentions to conquer the parts of Europe he didn't manage to get at Jałta (his diplomats in late fourties openly said "Jewropa nasza" - "Europe is ours"). It never had any offensive intentions. Nobody in the West wants to conquer Moscow, that would seem like a pointless excercise in XXI century, in which power is made through economic forces and there's no more need to use violence.
I sort of view it this way too, news media is having a collective orgasm over the bonanza of fear porn they have been hyping up for over a month now. Social media has also taken and ran with it, the front page of reddit is plastered with anecdotes, speculation and armchair geopolitical discussions of people trying to rationalize something they don't quite understand.

At the end of the day, Russia isn't this big bad world power that is capable of starting a war on a global scale, they are a declining power that also happens to have a lot of nukes. So realistically the most they can do is limited to what they are doing now, which won't start a world war and will most likely conclude in a way that causes no change to the lives of most people outside of the affected region. On the extremely small chance that they do go nuclear, worrying about it is pointless since it will change society so dramatically that there simply would be no way to prepare for it. Its like how you don't worry about getting hit by a car and becoming a paraplegic in your day to day life.
grinding leetcode is just as bad, if not worse, than a take-home test
Putin lives on a dream about making Russia great again by restoring the previous USSR borders. I'm not really sure he's as clever as you think.
You realize that Linux has <2% market share across all distros and versions, each of which needs a different binary, right?

“We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums.

In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related).

Would totally skip Linux.”

“By the end of my time at Uber I believe very nearly 100% of both crashes and support tickets actually for the game were still Linux related, even after significantly engineering time. Way more Linux specific time put into that project than any other platform.
And again, that was for a tiny fraction of the users.

Adding Linux support ended up likely costing Uber hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few hundred dollars in sales revenue.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760...
Here we see what the alternative to whiteboard interviews: credentialism. Get into the right school and muddle through and get a guaranteed 200k!

Is there more to you than your high school performance? Push back against this if so!

(Calling the interview Leetcode is misleading IME, since I've rarely been asked something that would be near the upper tiers of that site's difficulty).

Top-tier tech companies face a LOT more competitive pressure than top-tier universities; why should I trust the university selection process more than those corporate hiring ones?

Ask yourself why the rest of the industry isn't happy to simply hire every B student from CalTech/Stanford/MIT/Ivies without an interview?
This was something I was hoping to get around with using a separate relay like ImprovMX or Cloudflare's Email Routing -- that'd allow you to have a bunch more assuming you didn't need to use them for outbound emails -- discovering issue #2 in the process. And issue #6, if you did want to use them for outbound emails :-)
You got to salute them for this. While they'll get to write it off as a loss they still will be paying a lot for this. "Write offs" aren't cheap like a lot of the internet seems to think.
Yes, you're overreacting.

I'm Russian-Canadian. I have no love for Putin. He's an evil monster that would blow up hundreds of his own citizens to justify invading Chechnya and killing hundreds more.

But he's also not Hitler in the 30s. OK, I don't know what's in his heart. And I'm sure if you tried to describe the final extension of the Holocaust in 1936, people would laugh at you and say you're overreacting. Probably even German leadership itself in 1942 had no appetite for the details of The Final Solution. (There is a truly tremendous film about this from 2001 called Conspiracy [0])

But even if he had the ambition and drive and hatred of Hitler, he doesn't have the means. Germany was the 3rd largest economy throughout the 1930s. The military was in the same range, and it was arguably the most technologically innovative in tanks, submarines, and rockets until the rest of the world struggled to catch up throughout the war.

Russia isn't anywhere close, so it couldn't support or succeed in a land invasion even if tried.

The only fear might be if it actually launched ICBMs, but such actions cannot be done by the whims of one madman, and I believe there is enough reasonable people to stop Putin from doing so.

That's not to say things can't get much worse before they get better. The only thing that will stop Putin now is an internal coup, and while the protests are rising, the majority of the civilians still support him. The new sanctions look like they're helping, but there could still be tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Ukraine before this ends.

I also wouldn't put it past Putin to commit wholely to attempting to punish any non-NATO countries now via invasion. I think Finland has every reason to be EXTREMELY worried.

But i ultimately think the dominoes are falling. Russia can't survive being cut off from the rest of the world the way they have been. We're going to look back and remember this as the first step in Putin's fall. But whether it will take 2 weeks or 2 years remains to be seen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film)
> the freaking EU of all organizations is saying they'll send them fighter jets

For clarity, and despite Macron's urgings, the EU doesn't yet have an air force it can send anywhere.

It does have the Common Security and Defence Policy[0]:

"The CSDP involves the deployment of military or civilian missions to preserve peace, prevent conflict and strengthen international security in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. Military missions are carried out by EU forces established with secondments from the member states' armed forces"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...
BP, per the article, has not decided what they will do exactly - “[…] without saying how it plans to extricate itself.”

They just don’t want to be involved anymore.

Realistically if they keep their shares, they’ll get hounded by everyone to do said influencing or whatever, which would be really irritating for them I imagine. But maybe they will put them in a drawer somewhere in the basement and tell everyone to screw off. Who knows. They say they don’t know right now.
Fascinating! I heard the Netherlands has a strong part-time job culture too.
This feels unnecessarily complex. I fell in love with Go after years of dealing with Spring's DI, and I haven't found a situation since where dependency injection would have made my life any easier.

I dunno, maybe it'd be more useful for a more generic framework but I wouldn't use this in any of my code.
This will be an all-out war, 3 days max. Fuck downvotes, prepare - if predictions are wrong, laugh, shrug it off and have fun, if not, profit.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8845913/russia-war
He will keep playing this card as long as it keeps working. Appeasement with a power like him is not an effective long-term strategy.
I mean, that's debatable. But in any case Xlib, Xaw, and Motif can be completely bypassed nowadays--XCB and Wayland are complete replacements for Xlib (with EGL finally providing the needed XCB-compatible alternative to GLX), and GTK+/Qt are alternatives to Xaw and Motif--while Win32 is still the only way to do many things on Windows. Granted, the vast majority of devs use wrappers around Win32, so they don't have to care about the low-level plumbing.
Perhaps your immune system was ramping up.
I think his way out should be in an electric chair, like all other terrorists.
My question is always exactly how they measure these for stock awards.

Elon did some deal that if he pumped Tesla stock up to what seemed to be unbelievable at the time heights and other what seemed like impossible goals he'd make major bank.

The target was taking tesla from something like $69B market cap to $650B market cap - he did that and got it to 800B+.

So, is his pay valued at the value when he cashes in / gets his bonus, or the value of the bonus at the time of award (much much lower).
I should try to narrow it down but will have to set aside some time to try a few kernels and see which patch it was, which is hard when I'm using it.
It depends on what business you're in my friend, the military-industrial-political complex is certainly watching this with a smile and wiping their greedy little hands together in anticipation.
For the non-UK folk you might have to explain A-levels. But your question it’s valid.

> How far from this is the A level in Computer Science[1]? Or the EdX MicroMaster’s in Data Structures and Algorithms[2]?

Pretty far from being standardized and the key point of the previous comment you replied to is re-licensing.

> If any one of the FAANG companies said “Get this qualification and we guarantee you an interview” that would already be massive, never mind skipping one or two steps of the interview process.

Is it? Network engineers are required to keep up certifications for jobs in the US (CCNP or rarely CCDE). So do Security Engineers/Professionals, Auditors, Cloud engineers/architects/consultants. Government employees or contractors require them for assurance. It’s not that massive of a shift imo.
Russian POWs Say They Were Tricked, Threatened During Invasion
I agree there are plenty of reasons they won't do it. Our thought experiment simply assumed that it did happen.
An equivalent idea is to hire anyone who has worked at any well-known company with similarly rigorous interviews.

But people from those places still perform really poorly in interviews at about the same rate as everyone else. I wish I knew if it was a fluke that they bombed this time or that they passed the original.
Take home OR coding challenges is a false dichotomy.

> In the end, even if these coding challenges might not reflect the actual work you do, they might still be predictive of success in the job

They are snake oil. You cannot predict success at some job by asking candidates to prove their ability at something that is only tangentially related to the actual job.
I think people paper over the dark side of human nature. Sometimes people do bad things not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to do bad things. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Putin was going to invade: you don't mass 200,000 troops on the border and start making justifying noises if you aren't planning on invading. Putin followed the pre-invasion script of pretty much every invasion in the past couple of hundred years that I'm aware of.
I'll risk posting a reply on this thread, without having a big point to prove but more with the goal of getting an answer to a question, which some readers may find interesting and others may find sacrilegious.

I'm living in Russia at present, and the dilemma I face is related to sources of news and information about the ongoing "conflict"/war/invasion.

I could read Russian news, of course, but anyone and their grandmother knows that you get a nice good blob of biased propaganda on those.

I could read European / US news, where the take is quite lopsided as well.

What I actually read is HN, I read some opinions and discussions, looking for ones that are actually interesting and discuss fundamental questions rather than resort to simplifications, logical fallacies, "common sense" (quotes because it tends to be rather private and subjective, but not so common) and then try not to get too much unverified information into my head.

I do not support the war effort, and I sympathize greatly with the many people affected in one way or another by the situation.

Having said all this, is there a good source of [as unbiased as possible] information on the reasons behind the current situation and the sequence of events leading to it? Both sides just sing their tune, vilify the other side and generally try to appeal to subjective morals or feelings or just build a strawman and go from there. Now that's, of course, par for the course, we're talking about media. I, however, would like to know BOTH sides of the conflict deeper before trying to form an opinion that I can count as my own.

Thus, my first question: where do I find some sort of a compilation of arguments from both sides, where everything is not reduced ad absurdum and the opinion is left for the reader to form?

Naturally, I also have a related second question: where would one find a stream of information that's related to the ongoing events (not the history) and portrays the situation from multiple points of view?

As a habit, I try not to hold strong opinions that I don't understand completely, and I most commonly choose not to hold any opinion at all, as I do not find the time investment to sift through all the sources reasonable. Do you have any suggestions, fellow HNers? Or do you just zen out of this and file it away as "life happens, as usual"?
He's bluffing with Crimea.

Oh wait!

He's bluffing with separatist regions.

Oh wait!

He's bluffing with invading Ukraine.

Oh wait!

He's bluffing with actual war.

Oh wait!

...
TL;DR: Putin thinks a nuclear war is winnable.
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8845913/russia-war

NB: do you really think Putin cares how you feel?
I'm pretty sure most countries would be eager to lift the sanctions rather quickly, since they are losing a lot of business due to the sanctions. If Putin really stopped the invasion, then the sanctions would probably be undone rather quickly.
For the Ukrainians, Chechens, Belarusian and Russian people it has effectively already started, with the countries bordering those all holding their breath.

Anybody that isn't scared at all hasn't really been paying attention. This is a pretty dicey situation that can change rapidly and will only end with Putin gone. Until then all bets are off, there are many paths to escalation and only very few to de-escalation and none of those are under control of stable players. Ukraine has the right to defend itself, and if and when tomorrows negotiations fail - which I think is a fairly safe assumption but of course I'm hoping for the opposite - then things will get a lot more dangerous. I certainly do not expect them to 'capitulate for our sake'. Warcrimes have already been committed, Putin has in the most literal sense made Russia the pariah of the world in sofar as it already wasn't. Nothing more dangerous than a cornered dictator with nukes, we all have to hope that cooler heads in the Kremlin will prevail. But Putin is walking dead at this point, either at the hand of his mates or by going full Jim Jones.

For the rest of us: circle of concern, circle of influence. If you can't change it don't fret about it. Things will happen as they will.
Did you read regular press, or professionals? As in military experts, intelligence, ...

Because I've seen quite a few experts warn since at least December that an invasion will happen. The main reason being the one you didn't list:

4. Putin hates democracy and fears that a successful democracy next to his door will trigger his fall. He also has an obsession that Ukraine is not a real country and that it's essentially a part of Russia.
you're right, I missed that. I had hoped for more details on game design/tournament structure so skimmed the second half. But I thought possibly still worthwhile to share links to actually see people in the community.
>I think he's bluffing with the nukes.

I read this a lot but I also read some historical analysis about the Cuban Missile Crisis that a lot of the escalation stemmed from a fundamental misunderstanding about their opponent's strategy. It might be a huge oversimplification but it goes something like this:

Americans are playing poker (with all its specific tactics like bluffing) and are judging their opponents based on that, while Russians are playing chess and therefore assume "the bluff" is in fact their opponent's next escalation move.
> If I had the choice between a Caltech grad who had all A's and no experience or a student from some random state school who had interned every summer and contributed to open source, I'd pick the latter.

I really wish someone had explained this to me while I was in college.. I had ONE professor who'd actually worked in the real world who explained it, but all the other professors were lifetime academics who just parroted the same idiotic stuff about how important it is to get good grades.

Getting my first engineering job after I graduated was a nightmare.. I ended up having to go with a crappy internship that barely paid enough for me to live in a bedroom in a shared house, with a terrible boss who constantly threatened me and stressed me out. And that's with a 3.8 GPA.. When I told prospective employers that, they were like "What is that? Out of 4? 5? Is that good?"
>Just look at the alternative like say lawyers - you have to suck up to your higher-ups for many years before getting any way ahead.

Pretty bad example in my opinion. Top law firms have fixed seniority based compensation. They firms all pay the same and move in lockstep unison.

https://www.biglawinvestor.com/biglaw-salary-scale/
Yes, I am Czech and I am worried about it. Putin is plausibly irrational, as his invasion in Ukraine (and other behavior) has shown, and the MAD doctrine only works with rational actors (which is its biggest, but not the only, flaw).

I wish that especially US (but other nuclear powers as well) stands aside of this conflict as much as possible (militarily), especially avoiding any further nuclear escalation, since we cannot ensure that Putin is acting rationally (and not on paranoia, like the famous character of Jack D. Ripper). The Ukraine can be supported to deflect Russian attack within European countries only.

And whatever happens, I hope MAD doctrine will be finally considered, in the light of these events, to be the stupidest idea ever. And we will do instead some serious effort in denuclearization and establish a zero-nuke policy.
I love our Leaf but ProPilot isn't that great, very much version 0.1 of something that might be less crap in future. The adaptive cruise control bit is fantastic but lane following only works when you're on very well marked roads that don't curve much i.e. highway driving and comes with a page-long list of times when it just won't work (driving into the sun, with wipers on, in fog, etc etc). Anywhere other than the highway it'll dance on and off every five seconds. Plus you have to weld your hands to the wheel and continuously wiggle a little or it'll turn itself off, which makes it mostly pointless.

Self-park is similarly crappy. Way too slow to be of any use.

Unless you're buying new though it's certainly worth getting one with ProPilot because the price difference in the second hand market is practically nothing. I dunno if the lower trim levels come with the 360 camera either but that's a great feature as well.
Yes. We're quite 'big' and make good use of .NET Core 3.1 in Lambda
I feel the same way. IoC is a great pattern, but DI frameworks that try to magically sort out dependencies are just overkill especially in go imho
You and Joy Behar. https://toofab.com/2022/02/25/joy-behar-worries-russia-ukrai...
I think you misunderstand how scared everyone around Putin is of him and the KGB. Especially the oligarchs - you think they give him 50% of their money because they really appreciate how nice and kind Putin is?
I will note that article 5 states that member states must consider an attack on one as an attack on all. This does not say that member states must respond in kind, only that they must consider it as if it was an attack on themselves. This distinction is extremely meaningful.
Paradoxically the fact that everyone is talking about WW3 makes me think it is very likely not going to happen. When it comes to predicting the future, the 'media news cycle' clearly overfits the latest data points.

(Please don't make this comment say what it doesn't. What's going on is terrible.)
He has children. Does he not care about them? They are adults, perhaps he has grandchildren even. Is he really so deranged that he is willing to give up the world? I don't know. It is very puzzling.
>would be a bit of a white-wash: a Blitzkrieg operation where the Ukrainian army was rapidly overpowered/evaporated

instead there is a new Ukrainian battle cry, frequently mentioned on their TV (without any beeping) and everywhere, "The Russian Navy vessel, go f&ck yourself." - that is the response given by the defenders, most of whom died in the fight that ensued, of the Snake island to the threat by a Russian Navy missile cruiser to bomb the island if they don't give up the island.

Ukrainians are really pissed off. On TV channel 5 they promote an initiative to post photos of killed Russian soldiers on Google Maps so that the soldiers' mothers, wives, etc. were able to see it there.
I literally just said "I enjoy my life". Does it sound like I'm too worried to enjoy it?
The problem with nihilism is, despite being logically coherent, it isn't useful. No society is built on meaninglessness. You have to have faith in something that isn't logically provable to provide base assumptions for whatever your value system is.

If Cavemen were nihilists, we'd never have figured out fire.
Snowden: I'm Not Suspended
Clickbait, in that the article has nothing to do with the Ukraine specifically (either in 2014 or now).
In addition, I heard in some states (CA, I think?), even a single member LLC has to be offered the same group rate for health insurance that other small-company (<100 employees) get.

Maybe someone can confirm.
How disappointing that the Twitter crowd is cheering this on. What a sick joke. And what's up with the whole public announcement.

To me, it feels like we think that we can stop the war by punishing some a Russian developer team. Oh, the war didn't stop? It's just you didn't bully and fire enough Russian developers.

I work in an international team, many of us from countries that were either in war or whose leader made some controversial decisions. I'd be appalled if my team mate was fired "because Iran is bad". Let's fire this Polish guy because "abortion is still illegal in Poland, and if he disagrees with that, he should have protested harder".

Unless you are a highly ranked government official or one of the top oligarchs, you have not much say in any of these wars. I'd not like to be judged by the laws and actions my president or prime minister takes. I have zero control over what they do. Trust me, Putin is not trying to invade Ukraine because this software testing company gave their blessing to it.

Also. The hypocrisy... coming from a US company. How many countries is the US bombing now? Most of us probably don't even know, because the narrative is that it's good bombing and necessary to spread democracy or whatever. Maybe Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen?