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> I've interviewed dozens of people and never had that experience, because I check OSS contributions, professional history, and ask for code samples before I even engage with a candidate in a technical discussion.

How are you supposed to hire 50,000 people a year with a process like that? It seems unlikely there are much more than 100,000 people with significant OSS contributions in total. Published material isn’t going to be much more than that if it b even gets that high. And most people who are good at programming will have nothing for either. If you’re not going to spend at least ten, more likely 20 hours calling up references your going to be fishing from a pretty narrow pool there.
Power11 is good, but doesn't it also use a novel serial RAM interface with closed proprietary firmware? This is less in the way than proprietary mobo firmware, but for purists, or those with extraordinary needs, it may still be an issue.
A bit dated no?
The company I work at is basically all part-time devs, including myself. There are upsides and downsides with it however. I absolutely love the freedom it offers, since as long as projects have good progress you can work any time, anywhere, take any amount of days off or work any amount of hours you want without having to tell anyone anything.

On the other hand there's no paid time off or vacation bonus, your credit rating is non-existent and no bank will lend you anything, it doesn't count towards the pension period, you need to file taxes manually every month, etc. This is in Europe so as you might imagine most of the government systems in place are rigidly designed for the standard full time job which is rather infuriating in most aspects.
Reading point #4 on a site called "Hacker News" seems rather ironic.

I wonder how you might encourage deeper introspection into software infrastructure security vulnerabilities, both from closed source companies and from obscure open source projects, without "spreading breadcrumbs for the roaches"
What would this algorithm be in modern day machine learning terms? Is it similar to anything we have now?
NPR reminded me this Saturday about suspicious bombings of Russian citizens in Russia in 1999 (300 killed) which propelled Putin into power. There's some evidence that it was a false flag operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

false flag operations in Eastern Ukraine:

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/false-flag-shenanigans...
Any way to access the assignments without a Caltech login?
That doesn't make them not problems.

In chronic pain communities, this sort of comparison is often derisively (and correctly so) termed "pain olympics". There's always someone worse off than you, significantly so. That doesn't mean you don't have problems, and it doesn't mean you don't deserve to have your problems taken seriously.
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This is pattern than falls most supply shortages. Lumber was in seriously short supply during the pandemic and prices skyrocketed. A few months later places has more wood than they knew what to do with and supplies were piling up.
Do they have any investments in Saudi Arabia?
This is absolutely embarrassing for the industry.
dude if Baltics weren't in NATO they'd be Russia since 2010.
No that's wrong. If you have $850 right now you can buy a PS5. If nobody on earth marked up the price, you wouldn't be able to buy one for any amount (without getting very lucky or expending a lot of effort to find one).
Full disclaimer: Uber employee using fx daily as well as in hobby projects. Post reflect my personal opinion and is not related to Uber.

It really does work really well in practice:

- It pretty simple and lightweight so it’s blazingly fast even though it happens at runtime (in contrast to e.g. the Java DI frameworks I’ve seen)

- The module concept is extremely powerful to make modules that plug in with zero effort

- Modules have a lot of autonomy (unlike wire, as I understand it - I have no personal experience with it), like being able to do things at various stages of the application lifecycle (startup, shutdown hooks), collaboratively populate dependency groups (e.g. implementing handlers or middlewares independently and injecting them separately using the grouping mechanism), optional dependencies

Once you have a nice standard library of common modules (this is really crucial for it to work well IMO), it’s a huge speedup to make a high-quality service. My biggest issue with it is that it doesn’t match structs with interfaces, so you effectively end up depending on structs/pointers or returning interfaces.
You are looking at the losses of Ukraine. The losses of Russia include no T64
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Why would they do that? Being a luxury brand has a lot of advantages. No reason for them to dilute it with cheap offerings - others could pick up that market, if they want to.
Good. I hope other NATO nations follow suit and increase their spending to the 2% target. Military spending gets a bad rap (sometimes rightly so) but it can go to improving the conditions and readiness of troops without just unjustly enriching defence businesses which seems to be everyone's concern. (My bigger concern would be growing the administrative ranks preferentially to better funding for actual soldiers). We tend to treat our servicemen/women very badly most of the time, then place huge expectations on them when we need them. More spending is good, we just need to be smart about it
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Sweet. Quite a bit lighter than the earlier models.
I wonder if hiring big teams is a status/ego thing.

In a few cases, yes, definitely. Soylent was an extreme example. They went on and on about their overcomplicated "tech stack", at a time when, from their sales volume, they were processing a few sales transactions per minute. All they needed was a basic shopping cart program. They're still around, now classified as a "food products" company, selling wholesale, and considered an overpriced Slim-Fast.
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I mean yeah, the very fist line is:

> Punishments came on rainy days, reported Thomas Brown from South Carolina. In order to avoid losing the labor during fine weather, his enslaver would, with calculated efficiency, “… keep an account of all the things we did, and on rainy days, we were punished.”

EDIT: wanted to add something:

The Germany that Hitler took hold of was considered the peak of "rational, scientific" society. This was a time when "scientific racism" reigned supreme. Many people don't realize just how foundational eugenics science was to basically all of Western science. Modern statistics itself arose from eugenics studies and terms like "regression to the mean" are a direct result of that history.

I think examples like these why feminist critiques (for example) of science are incredibly important to the advancement of science itself.

For example, Judith Butler pointed out how almost every biology hs textbook described the process of egg fertilization by sperm in a way that reproduced our notions of gender and cultural beliefs about nature. Most textbooks describe this process as a competition or race between the fastest, most fit, sperm to get to the egg. When in reality, sperm are almost motionless and the egg does almost all of the selection. In addition, eggs contribute far more hereditary material (like 100% of the mitochondrial DNA) than the sperm do. Yet our cultural predispositions drove scientists to (unintentionally) construct this narrative about competition between males

Diversity of perspectives in STEM is critical to the advancement of science itself. Without feminist critiques of science, Black critiques of history, etc we might have never been able to discover our collective myths
More like as britain takes russian assets via sanctions, the russians will offset it by taking british assets. So all british assets in russia/ukraine are already lost just like all russian assets in britain are lost.

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". Like branding their company as a green eco-friendly after said BP oil spill. Still one of the largest oil companies in the world, but they are green eco-friendly.
Embedded systems for sure are going to be problematic. https://github.com/arduino/esp8266/blob/master/tools/sdk/lib... says that at least some Arduino/esp8266 installations are using a long (which I believe is signed 32 bit) for time_t.
Personally having to intentionally organize things like that just doesn’t happen with me, I’ll just work for another 30minutes unless something forces that separation. Consistently working out is about all I can budget for.

That’s great, I’m happy for you. Luckily we live in a world where I’m sure you can find wfh employers long term and I’ll look for in office employers.
Why not hire for part-time roles at Elemano? Didn't you just say that you are working there part-time?
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You seem very confident for someone who doesn't understand what he's talking about.

If BP is "abandoning their shares", what do you thing that they mean by "the fair value of bp’s Rosneft shareholding at 31 March 2022"?

"First, it is expected to give rise to a non-cash adjusting item charge at the time of the first quarter 2022 results, representing the difference between the fair value of bp’s Rosneft shareholding at 31 March 2022 and the carrying value of the asset. At the end of 2021 this carrying value stood at around $14 billion."
those frozen assets will ease the process I assume
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Reduce morale among the Russian troops. Arguably a reason why Chechnya won out in the first was against them.
There will be a coup in Russia before the nukes fly
Prudence sometimes looks like paranoia.

The parallel that matters is that NSA is documented as being inclined to design, allow, and promote backdoors like Dual EC to be standardized by NIST. They have no obligation to break and publish the break as Ward has done here. It’s not that the authors of rainbow are suspect, it’s that the result of the process isn’t telling us what we hope it tells us. NIST must consult with NSA by law but the law does not require NSA to help. It certainly does not require NSA to save NIST from standardizing a broken system. The Dual EC backdoor is a documented act of strategic sabotage by NSA and NIST, though we extend the benefit of the doubt to NIST.

What stands between us and additional standardized backdoors is effectively a very small number of smart academics who relative to NSA are underfunded and under resourced. Thankfully we have people like Ward breaking systems and publishing it openly. Unfortunately we have NSA funded people pushing things as well, Dragonfly and IETF come to mind here as well.

NIST standardization does not mean NSA can’t break it. Historically, we know from the Dual EC standardization that they can break it by their own design, and they let the world deploy and use Dual EC to NSA’s own advantage.
we have been here before, a number of times, what we really need to pay attention to is how much putin has to lose. if he has nothing left then he is free to act impulsively inline with whatever his moral standing may be.

if he has some skin in the game then he will hesitate to play mumblty-peg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
Yep, this is BS. There's no way that the next roulette result could depend on the previous. After the ball has landed, the croupier will give the wheel a new spin and after a little while drop the ball again. So the next result does not depend on the roulette, but on the croupier; how fast does he spin the wheel, how late does he drop the ball.

And this is not the only part of the article that smells fishy.

> In a matter of hours, he flipped his $100 into $5,000

This kind of profit has nothing to do with the kind of edge you can get when you have detected some irregularities in the wheel. Maybe you'll have an edge of a few percent. If he really flipped his $100 into $5,000 he was not only seriously lucky, but was also gambling a far too large portion of his bankroll, risking a 'gamblers ruin'.
> But now it's available to every civilian with an internet connection. I don't know if this is good or bad or neutral.

I'm glad it is. In the early 90ies I was in SriLanka watching a genocide unfold in the South East that never went reported until mid 2000 where the Sinhalese killed Tamils most of them children and women. When they were done with them they shoved the dead bodies into stacks of truck tires and lit them on fire. You could smell the burning rubber miles away but despite the smell the purpose was getting rid of the evidence. (I thought it was strange because surely people would smell. Hell I was in the next village jumped onto my bike to understand what is happening. Everyone was in the streets - how would they cover it up in any case?)

There were billboards ever few km showing a dead tiger (pun to the LTTE) with an army boot stomping on its throat. It looked childish almost because it was hand-painted and badly so (typical of billboards you see in poor countries). The billboard read "only a dead tiger is a good tiger".

After this I went to buy newspaper nearly every day and couldn't believe none of this was ever reported. I asked people back in my home country if they had seen any news but nobody had. They did ofc always report hear about the horrific bombing by LTTE in Sinhalese territory, they talked about the horrors of these children who are so "brainwashed" to go to school and blow up a class full of Sinahlese kids. Western countries immediately issued a travel warning. but not a single page acknowledging what happened to the Tamils.

Personally I'd rather live in a world where I have the opposite problem: getting drowned by propaganda and needing lots of time and visiting many rabbit-holes sifting through the data just to get a vague idea of what might be happening: That's a lot better than the absolute dystopia of smelling burning flesh and tires but nobody who is interested in it. And even years later when you finally coped with it not being 100% sure if it actually happened. Like it was all in your head.

If my brother wouldn't have seen the same thing to confirm that it actually did happen I probably would have gone insane thinking my mind made it up.
Nothing-burger! I love it. What a scope of events, what a huge and troubling conflict affecting millions who aren't me. They deserve so much, they deserve better. Me, little me, here, my problems are silly in comparison. So true.

_And_, _also_, I would add that engaging with my own problems creates room & energy needed to deal with those bigger problems. For me, for you, for the government of wherever.

I can do my little nothing-burger things, I can tackle my nothing-burgers, then I can send some money I made to a relief organization, or I can use my gifts to build something helpful that didn't exist before.

Personally I had big regrets after the 2014 conflict, and they involved wishing I had turned both inward and outward, with the inward efforts focusing on energy building & preservation as well as all the outward stuff everybody thinks is doing the "real work". We have to support ourselves, we are only human, and fortunately we can do both--work & create for ourselves, work & create for & with others.
Sometime around my Junior year of college my goals shifted from "I'm here because I want to learn" to "I'm here because I want a job". I was surprised to find that doing well at learning (getting As) not only wasn't good enough for an entry level job, it wasn't even really correlated. The more time I spent on coursework the less time I had to grind through interview questions. I wonder if there are any other industries like this.
What project has all that? A lot of stuff is just:

Make a GitHub pull request

Fix whatever the project owner doesn't like in said PR

Done

GitHub makes FOSS no longer stone age.
But why though? Surely winning a the war quickly would be in their best interest (blitzkrieg), and that usually means using your best gear, as every extra stalemate day means insane financial losses from the sanctions and time for your opponent to get reinforcements and beat you.

Maybe the Russian army is just poorly equipped after all, and all that gear flashed in the red square during the national parade was just for show.
Pretending these little moments do anything to help is not a liberal idea. It’s just as stupid as avoiding exercise and eating less to reduce your carbon dioxide output. It demonstrates a complete disconnect from the ability to contextualize real issues from things that actually help.

Stopping climate change is not a “liberal idea”, at least not in the mainstream liberal sense. Airplanes are still filled with liberals even quite far left on the spectrum in the US (even AOC flies all over the east coast because her time is “too important” to be disrupted by climate change).
I mean, yeah that's what the first iPhone might be described as. Before the release of the App Store. Unfortunately for the N900, it was released by the time the 3GS was out.

It has a resistive touch screen, which massively hampers what you can do on the device. This precludes it from any real gaming, or interactivity. By the time the N900 came out, the Apple App Store had 100k apps and 2 billion downloads. That's two magnitudes larger than the number of apps Maemo had in total.

It's not a matter of "a different form factor" it's more that the N900 is a completely different class of device, it fundamentally can't compete with the iPhone and its massive (even at the time) ecosystem.

If you were to squint with glasses of a completely different prescription to yours, sure, you can say they "do similar functions", but let's be honest with ourselves. The N900 was too little too late. It was released at a point in time when capacitive, glass touchscreens with high interactivity games and apps are what was the new norm.
I’ve only recently gotten into Kenji but he doesn’t come off as an asshole to me. Perhaps he’s grown up a bit since you last read/watch him?
You should check out Jack Scalfani (Cooking with Jack). He cooks stuff you'll never see from the guys you've listed.
Belorussia is a member of Collective Security Treaty Organization (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_O...).

Armenia is a member too, but Putin didn't help them in Nagorny Karabakh, saying it was Azerbaijan territory by international law. I beleive it was a demonstrative punishment for Armenian 2018 "velvet" revolution.

Kazakhstan is a member too. Putin used his army in Kazakhstan in January after Tokaev said that protesters are supposedly foreign terrorists.

Putin will not directly help Lukashenko against NATO countries on their territory, but is well capable of throwing his army to "protect" Belorussia from retaliation, including anti-air warfare.
Matlab and Mathematica. There are probably more, and Microsoft makes a ton of money with .Net of course, but I'm thinking more along the lines of pure PL products and not something in a vast enterprise software ecosystem like Microsoft offers.
Corey Arnold's photography of bald eagles in Dutch Harbor is fascinating - they truly look like a nuisance: https://story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds/
> OSS projects with hundreds of stars on GitHub

I'm in the same boat, yet most companies don't seem to care about OSS contributions, despite their rhetoric.

They want us to solve a few leetcode medium/hard questions within the span of an interview.
No clue if this is even remotely true, but here is what I think: the most successful companies can basically pick and chose from a really large set of applicants. Given this luxury, the can, in essence, filter by any kind of metric they want and still get loads of suitable people.

I short: if you have a million applications you can sort by GPA and still have a hundred people to chose from. Sorting by GPA means you will overlook lots of raw talent, but who cares, there is still enough real talent in your funnel as well.

For me, someone hiring for a way smaller and poorer company, this is actually good. These processes overlook lots of great people, which we can snag up.

This observation is based on the behavior of big companies in Germany (think carmakers and similar), not sure how well it translates to the silicon valley situation, but seems similar.
I feel that the interview format heavily already favors new grads who just spent an entire year or more focused on algorithms courses and learning a lot of the theory you might get pop quizzed on.
Is that the US? Pricing can be weird depending on region. In AU a leaf starts at $50K, a model3 at $60K, not much difference really. The cheapest here actually is the MG at 45K. But more competitors are starting to ramp so I expect prices will drop across the board as EV becomes a commodity.
I know it's topical at the moment, and hey its good PR to take a stand, but frankly it's a tad inconsistent.

So their argument is that a nuclear super power invaded a country with little to no provocation, so hey let's make a point and disinvest.

So far so good. Definitely a good position to take, and one I agree with. Then again Iraqis are wondering why they are still invested in Apple, a US company...
The new dydx competitor builds there central order book in nim:

https://twitter.com/jae_tacen/status/1497242050185498630

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Your credibility is damaged by the fact that Stellantis has not announced any all-electric Jeep Wrangler, certainly not pricing or trim levels, and doesn't offer biometric owner identification on any current or future models either.

You seem to be getting upset about a situation that exists only in your (or someone else's) imagination.
In line with another suggestion, the most secure system is one that you have built yourself, selecting every component and their configuration options.

For “embedded” systems (and her I am including bare-metal single-function production servers), I would choose Yocto. It was designed from the ground up to build custom Linux distributions. Every component can be modified trivially, and many different systems can be built using them same components. There are many security features that integrate seamlessly through 3rd party “layers”: secure boot with full chain of trust, secure file systems, SELinux, and so on. It’s easy to extend the system with new “recipes” and “overlays”.

I am currently working on a IoT project that likely will include several edge servers, which will replace extant cloud services. Each system will run a custom kernel (using hand-crafted configurations) and read-only root filesystem (containing only those packages required for running that service). Aside from better utilizing our compute resources, this move will save tons of bandwidth for our customers.

Best of all, we will no longer need to trust our cloud provider to protect our systems and data. Those vendors have show their willingness to push small players in front of a bus, so I consider it outright foolish for most businesses to rely on them as their primary service provider.
http://12ft.io/suhailsaqan.medium.com/explanation-of-bitcoin...

There are plenty of ways to bypass a paywall - if you’re on HN I trust that you can figure it out.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:
“Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.”
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