skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm asking that since the job itself is wildly unstandardized, how on earth are we supposed to standardize a single "industry-wide" credential for interviews?

There's no "industry-wide Leetcode fizzbuzz portion" - Leetcode and fizzbuzz are famously on complete opposite sides of the whiteboard spectrum! I've only been asked actual fizzbuzz once, and can't immediately think of any other duplicate whiteboard problems I've seen either. Many of them aren't ones I've seen on Leetcode, and would probably be on the "easy" scale there if they were there.

I couldn't pick out any single problem that would make everyone at all my last few jobs happy, let alone the whole rest of the industry.
My wife and I have talked about this before. How would we feel and what would we do if we knew nukes were incoming to our urban area dotted with military and government targets. We tentatively agreed we'd be in our backyard eating crepes and reading psalms, rather than hiding in the basement with respirators. But maybe that's just big talk. Reality might not be so clear cut.
This seems like a non issue and “Flow” is hard to quantify. Devs shouldn’t have many daily meetings period.
I think they keep armour.

I'm a bit rusty but you are supposed to keep personal protection.
I think we underestimate how much this matters to Russia. They might indeed feel there is an existential threat to them (the elites, not Russia the country), if they let the countries on their periphery join EU/NATO, and become democracies, what guarantees do they have that it won't happen in Russia, and that a day of reckoning won't come for them for looting the motherland?

And given the relative weakness demonstrated by the west in recent history (such as abandoning Afghanistan) they might judge that in the end, the rest of world won't have the stomach for any costly intervention.

Sending the weapons to Ukraine amounts to little, in the face of overwhelming Russian military advantage. Given the likely goal of establishing pro-Russian government in Ukraine, and the long history of association, Russian forces are being rather "gentle" compared to what they demonstrated elsewhere, but if it comes to it... Ukraine cannot win without real support (as in boots on the ground) from the west, and nobody wants to contemplate that.
true. but I really cant imagine that the area and latency associated with the uop translator is really where this is all falling down. i have always wondered how much support for the old vector units, segmentation and all the rest cost, but it cant really be that much since caches keep getting bigger and bigger. its a really good question.
I see sub $1m revenue businesses doing supply chain risk analysis. Surprised that a great nation such as Germany could justify 50% of it's energy coming from Russia.
> "I'm from the UK and we have largely transitioned away from Nuclear"

While the UK's nuclear power capacity is well down on its 1990s peak, it's hardly correct to say the UK has "largely" transitioned away from nuclear. A major new nuclear plant (Hinkley Point C) is under construction, and two more (Sizewell C and Bradwell B) seem to still be moving ahead.

If all three are completed, they would represent 8.6 GW of new nuclear capacity, significantly more than the combined capacity of all UK nuclear power stations today!
Currently, the EU imports something like 100bcm of LNG, far more than the capacity of Nordstream. Now, upping that significantly might be difficult (in particular, there isn't the terminal capacity right now), but it isn't all that out-there.
> You can be guaranteed that the worst student from these top schools could nail any algorithm interview with minimal preparation.

Considering that CalTech offers this course, they must be realllyyyy misguided, or you’re talking about schools that are far more selective than CalTech (7% acceptance rate).
The reason this complaint never changes anything, despite being very popular, is that these interviews serve two purposes that it doesn’t address: 1) they’re an intelligence test; 2) they’re a perseverance/conscientiousness test.

Will you take the time and put in the work to pass one of these interviews? That measures perseverance and conscientiousness. Having put in the time, can you recall and adapt what you learned to perform complex tasks on a whiteboard in a stressful environment? That’s an intelligence test.

In combination, these criteria measure the famed, “smart and gets thing done” in a way that more practical lines of questioning might not. Or at least that’s the theory.

For the record, I’ve only interviewed at one FAANG company, got to the on-site interviews, did not get an offer (in case you think I’m secretly patting myself on the back here).
I don't agree. Putin choses the the order of the day, ergo, he is the de-facto, true 'head of state'. Lukashenko has no ability to contradict Russia on terms Russia does not want to be challenge upon. Ergo, their 'statehood' is effectively coopted by Russia. The context of the document refers to the USSR, I think this is a fairly close analogy.
A roulette payout can be 35x the wager, so $100->$5000 only requires two consecutive lucky bets.
My favorite language is C#, and has been for years - also am a big user of AWS in almost all my projects - and even though I know C# much better than python or node, I still choose node or python for my lambda functions when I write them. C# I stick with to run EC2 instances, typically as windows services where it serves me well.

But C# support for lambda always seem like the poor step child for AWS.
My understanding (from reading All the Kremlin's Men), is that Putin's strength is overstated in the West and that he rules with the approval of the oligarchs. If they turn on him, he might just die from an undiagnosed tumor.
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At least have empathy for your predecessors! How often have you chosen an architecture and stack to solve a problem only have the slow but constant shifting sands of managements' requirements completely undermine the foundation of what you've built, and been given no extra time to migrate and make it right instead of adding on another layer of shortsighted hacks?
I don't get the threat about the supply of engines. My understanding is that the Falcon 9's Merlin engine is built by SpaceX in the US.
According to the article maybe(especially if he's drinking less), I don't really seek out his stuff. I formed my opinion after he showed up and started something responding to a comment on reddit about recipes that had nothing to do with him.
I don't think Russians are by and large buying this propaganda. They still fear the Kremlin but don't believe it. From what I've seen in various unrelated forums, Chinese people online are much more believing of Putin than Russians
I've seen literally zero evidence that the assertion that Pluton will prevent you running modified software is true.
I always thought that RT was extremely effective in its communication.

It is my impression that it has a very large western viewership. I guess they will be removed from Youtube now? Will they block rt.com from dns or maybe even by ip?
If he cares only about himself, and knows that he hasn't got that much time left on this earth, then he won't care about a possible atomic war.
Yes, I expect more obfuscation to keep the casino owners guessing.
WireGuard is a mesh VPN. It's dead-simple to set up this way, too. All my devices and containers (local and remote) talk to each other this way
Are you certain of that?
not true. Anyone can sign. I saw a Anglo sounding name spending a second on a site. The rest could be Russians/Ukrainians but total number of Russians signing is unknown
Russian Government website is down
Most strong democracies were born through a very long and drawn out process of democratisation. UK Houses of Parliament date back to 13th century; of course at that point there was no democracy, but a tradition of open debate on government is very old.

In fact in the UK it’s probably hard to pinpoint where real monarchy ended and democracy started. The monarch had less and less power over time, and an increasingly wide circle of privileged voters held more and more power.

Many struggling democracies had to make that leap much more quickly and often the failures of democracy are to do with the cultural remains of the previous systems.
I would contend that it makes it more applicable to the general "what do you do professionally" for most people outside of academia.
Agree, the above comment (2 above) was inaccurate, extremely misleading. Taiwan is absolutely a free and open democratic country as is Korea. It's pretty inconceivable that someone who is not a democratic or republic candidate would be elected president in the US or win congress. Korea has at least been successful at convicting previous leaders when they were taking bribes or doing other illegal stuff, including the leader of Samsung. The US could do a lot better there.

Before the KMT lost power I think it was reasonable to see Taiwan as a one party state, but no longer. You are a little ambiguous in the "two countries" do things, but I guess you mean Korea and Taiwan. Yeah, both countries are not paradises that have solved all issues, but they keep improving their freedom, industrial bases, and living standards for the average person. Is that true for the us - we should aspire to do that. Instead we have people arguing on school boards whether books that dare to discuss slavery or jim crow laws should be discussed at all. We aren't clearly moving to be a better society with that kind of stuff.
>You do need to prep for an interruption of utilities, but you should do that anyway for hurricane/earthquake/etc preparedness. If you've got ~3 days of water and ~2 weeks of food and are outside a blast radius, there's a good chance of you being fine. Given the large amounts of suburbia that are not in the blast radius of a likely target, food supply chains likely wouldn't be more damaged than they were in the pandemic, and you could go to a local Walmart for food. Depending on how centralized your local water supply is and whether they have backup generators (the electrical grid is a likely casualty), you may keep municipal water as well.

I think you're incredibly optimistic about the robustness of logistic networks in the aftermath of the complete destruction of all of the major cities in the United States. You think people are going to bother coming into work to stock food on shelves, deliver it, etc in the immediate aftermath of a large-scale nuclear exchange? This isn't even getting into the immediate effects of say, all of the forests in the western US turning into firestorms.
> iOS-apps-on-Mac feature

Can you elaborate what you mean here? Maybe I missed something, but Apple does not provide any iOS-apps-on-Mac feature? Except of course for/through their development tools, but no Appstore thingy or alike.
They appear to have said [1] they'll supply (finance + deliver) aircraft (which presumably the Ukrainians have the expertise to operate, per [2]). They have not said they'll send in an air force (operated by non-Ukrainians), which as you point out, they don't yet have.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-close-airspace-russi...

[2] https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-countries-to-send-fighter-je...
The size of a team is a directors' pissing contest.

The chain of responsibility for that goes up to the investors who put millions in a company and pressured the founders to "SCALE FAST"
I am going to be shocked if it doesn't come out that Poland didn't at least send some consultants in to discuss guerilla tactics.

My friend in college was a son of Polish dissidents. He didn't like to talk about it in too much depth but I got some impressions, and it sounds like his granddad was one of those people in the movie they made recently about the Polish resistance hiding in the woods during the Cold War.
It’s a stick the Russian people will have to wield so long as the Russian government has nukes.
Interviewing is broken.

When I was at Amazon, it became impossible to hire candidates, and generally the engineers we brought on board were non-US citizens. Typically they're Indians without U.S. residency status, often times U.S. college grads or often even transfers from Amazon's Indian offices. Not only did we pay below other FAANGs, but with these hires, we'd pay them at the low end of our own scale.

What are they going to do? Quit? Ha! If they quit, they have to leave the country. So most of them just suck it up. Many of them had spouses and children. Quitting Amazon meant they'd have to uproot their entire family.

A second order effect the entire industry on how to work around Amazon (and other big tech's) styling of interviewing. What amazes me are all the Youtube channels from Amazon engineers and other big tech companies with this "influencer" persona.

At the end of the day, many of these kids at Amazon are doing shitty migration projects, shoveling legacy code around all day, and dealing with on-call hell.

But we have this entire cult of working in big tech and going through all these gymnastics to get through pointless interviews.

Perhaps Google, Netflix, etc. are much better places to work, but it boggles my mind anyone would invest so much energy in getting a job at Amazon. It's absolutely a shit place to work that doesn't treat people like human beings.
Strategy and narrative are not the same thing. I talked about my options regarding narrative vs reality in my other comments.

But yeah, I agree that pissing off your neighbors seems like a bad strategy. Though, if you look at recent history when Russia did the same thing to other neighboring countries like chechenya, Georgia, and Ukraine in 2014, Russia handily got away with this kind of aggression, so I don't think it's too unreasonable to think that Russian leaders bet they can do it again.
It’s like society has progressed very quickly from financially canceling people to financially cancelling countries
> If people made purely rational decisions when purchasing a car, the only manufactures left would be Toyota and Honda.

Not sure if this is different regions or just dated. In Australia now, Honda is a joke. They are overpriced, offer terrible support, etc. Toyota is quality beige, overpriced but reliable, kind of like Sony TVs 15 years ago before Samsung and LG became dominate.

Just like with TVs, the Korean companies (Hyundai & Kia) are the smart money brands at least in the Australian Market.
It is not just about calories. I cannot metabolize short chain fatty acids well and they all come from plant food.

Stop assuming you know anything about my life to fit your paradigm. I was always starving when I was vegan so I ate more. I know how many calories I eat it is is way less.

It is NOT just about food, it is also about genetics.
For those who want to see it, that episode was "Slotbuster" and is on the Internet Archive here [1].

It looks like all 14 episodes of "Breaking Vegas" are there [2]. I haven't seen them since around the time they were originally broadcast, but my recollection is that most of them were quite worth watching.

[1] https://archive.org/details/breaking-vegas-s-1-e-02-slotbust...

[2] https://archive.org/details/@vegasfan
>I think there is an SEC rule that prevents large block trades from happening on the open market

Not quite an SEC rule, just self interest.

You want to get the best price for your stake and your options are to liquidate over the course of a few days in the open market (in which case word gets out) or private placement (usually the best option).
I'm very curious how this would help. Are there starlink user terminals in Ukraine that could be attached to existing internet exchanges? If the service had previously not been enabled I would guess not. Is that something that would still have to be built?

I also thought that current generation starlink can only communicate to base-stations over a relatively short distance (~500mi). Unless there are already lots of those in neighboring countries, I'd be surprised if that would help much.
So how did plans to import natural gas via NS1/NS2 fit into these plans?
> What’s your suggested alternative?

In my experience, any alternative to leetcode provides a better signal-to-noise ratio. You are better off asking trivia questions.

Additionally, this is the common narrative among leetcode advocates - "If no leetcode, then what?" As a hiring manager, you think harder and do better, that's what.

> Please remember that while some of us would do well and prefer some live pair programming or debugging sessions, it stresses the hell out of some folks and penalizes them unfairly.

So does leetcode. And a candidate that is truly a good fit for the role would be more at ease with the interview than if they saw a leetcode question they haven't seen before.

> Take home tests penalizes people with families and other responsibilities...

So does studying for leetcode for hours.

> ...and probably has a racial bias as well in countries where different races have different societal loads.

Share some sources before making a claim this ridiculous.

> 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, as much as any other method can be when we look for unbiased markers.

In my 6-ish years of experience, this is false. I have actually tested this theory in practice, and through my anecdotal experience, leetcode is a poor signal for job performance.

I can usually usually accurately screen a candidate for success in about 45 mins. And, unlike leetcode, you can't pretend like you haven't seen the question before, bc I can push the candidate to their limit, which is where you will find hire / no-hire signals. I love talking about this stuff, but I find that my peers engineering peers do not give a shit and would prefer to stay in leetcode hell.
When Putin was first elected two decades ago, a lot of my Austrian friends correctly saw in him a threat to Europe. I don't buy it that the German government didn't know him better than the average citizen did. They are just trying to ride whichever wave presents itself at any given moment. In the days of the Fukushima crisis, being against nuclear would get you the most votes. In the days of the Ukraine crisis, being against gas would get you the most votes. While Germany is the one looking bad here, it's actually a structural problem of every democracy in the world.

The other option is to put too much trust in the hands of dictators. Over the course of hundreds of years, that actually seems to work less well (eg: China - given their potential, they should have never had to play catch up). But every once in a while, there are a few decades where an individual comes along that plays all of their cards right and engages in a long game that vastly outperforms the 4-year back and forth circus of democracies.

But I don't trust myself to reliably recruit a front desk colleague, let alone someone with nuclear codes. So democracies it is.
This seems like an assumption. We have people secretly working two jobs, and openly in cases like Microsoft’s company policy. Even companies that have 20% of time for other work in the company like Google.
A part timed salaried position should be fine. Their are European and Scandinavian countries that half it established.
Unlocked - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
The hiring rigmarole is just an IQ test in disguise.

The only downside, you can prep for IQ tests, and spend unlimited time doing the prep.

If only someone would come up with a way to control for how long they prepped for this: one week on hackerrank, or 2 years of courses.

I bet those that learn the rigmarole faster, will also pickup k8s and other such fairly ephemeral trivia rather quickly as well.
We're building on .Net 5 with docker, unfortunately with cold starts it's not a good fit for client-serving APIs. Looking very much forward to drop docker and use native lambda support.
I'm also from Norway - I think the likely scenario, IF Russia decided to say "fuck it - let's invade more countries" (and force NATO to take the ultimate decision), they'd probably first and foremost take over, or secondly, bomb some of the strategic installations we have up in northern (East Finnmark) Norway - were they to get involved with us, directly.

Intelligence gathering plays a huge role, and taking out those would probably harm the eyes and ears of Norway and NATO. IF Russia were to start firing ICBMs and similar, they'd at least want some element of surprise.

I also recently read through a Masters thesis on this, from a Colonel at our military academy, and his take was that if Russia were to invade us, then the likely scenario would be to invade East-Finnmark by sea, air, and land. Take control over the military intelligence installations, as well as airports.
Yeah, nothing to do with russian gas, dirty money and lobbyists....

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-former-chancellor-gerhard-sch...

https://www.politico.eu/article/outrage-germany-ex-chancello...
I think that Putin has crossed the line and the EU will not give up sanctions easily.

The EU just announced that will provide financing for fighter jets that will be given to Ukraine. The EU president also said that will accept Ukraine in the EU (with due improvements of course). They are really big announcements. Everything has changed during these days.
Large scale nuclear plants - whether alive or dead are important strategic and tactical elements in modern warfare
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/26/conflict-betwe...

Small nuclear reactors are the answer imo. Russia has poured funding into opposing fracking for natural gas and encouraging european green initiatives arguably to increase their grip on euopean energy supplies

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14972531398371901...
I hate the casinos as much as you do but to be cynical, they're exactly what the gamblers of the world deserve. They seem made for each other.
> Is it crazy to think that someone is reimbursing them for this loss

Yes, that would be pretty crazy. They're taking a loss of up to $25B on their books as per their statement today, at the end of this quarter.

"Reimbursing" here would mean never disclosing a donation of that amount on their books, or laundering it somehow, which would be massively illegal besides being impractical.
Stalin refused Germans' offer to exchange his captured son for one of their field marshals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Dzhugashvili
But would this faction be as terrorist as they are without extensive Russian effort to ensure that they are? I'm skeptical.

Given that this is hardly unique to the US, I think Russia is reaping the whirlwind: they've been up to this sort of thing pretty much everywhere. This is not the WWIII. They have been waging the WWIII already, this whole time, in relatively novel ways, with a lot of success… until now.

And it's been the kind of success that is short-sighted: got their way again and again at the cost of building enormous hostility, which is now rebounding upon them. Russia made this bed and all of this is not that much of a surprise, really.
The other problem is with overhead 2 half time employees != 1 full time employee. There is the extra equipment cost, benefits (perhaps), management overhead etc. e.g. If I replace a team of 7 full time engineers with 14 half time engineers, do I keep 1 manager? That seems like a very large team for 1 person to handle, so now maybe I need another manager too. From a purely economic perspective hiring half time engineers at half the comp just doesn't seem to make sense.

You can argue that half time engineers are more than half as productive as a full time engineer because as others have said full time engineers don't work a full 8 hours anyways. While theoretically that's true, as I originally posted, that's not what I've seen. Based on my anecdotal experience, half time engineers are less than half as productive as a full time engineer.

So from both a productivity and economic perspective, it hasn't made sense.