skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you got B’s in caltech CS I’d make you an offer for 200k+ without blinking or even asking you anything

Why? This is not necessarily a good signal for competence on the job and also doesn't cover people who have lied or cheated.

Also, this wouldn't help create a less broken job market. You'd just be breaking it in a different way.
You might want to look at webauthn since you say you’re unfamiliar. It’s not much more than a signed nonce with relying party domain name. It actually isn't that complicated. I don’t feel like the author is asking people to implement a protocol for them. They just maybe could have done some research into why WebAuthn has the complexities it does and presented a compelling argument in the readme for why they think they’re overkill or not necessary.
It very clearly states that Ukraine would become a vassal state, if not a province of Russia.

Technically 'it's own country' but absolutely under the thumb of Russia in all terms.

This is not like the 'US and Canada' or Mexico, or some smaller S. American state where the US has obvious influence.

Belarus is the other example cited and they are 100% under the control of the Russians, it's the most anti-democratic place in the Western world, it's a straight dictatorship.

The article is essentially saying that Ukraine will become 'another Belarus'.

It's deeply chauvinistic because in the Russian worldview - the 'big powers' naturally control and oppress the small ones and for some reason they seem to believe that their totalitarian control of Belarus is somehow analogous to the US/Canada relationship or something like that.

It also absolutely and completely denies Ukranian agency, as though the Ukranians themselves have no say in the matter, it's not even worth mentioning.

There is definitely legitimacy to the notion of historical relationship between Ukranians and Russians, there's no doubt there, but those ties exist in other parts of the world.

The implication however that Ukraine should be subject to Russian rule makes this effectively a modern day Mein Kampf.
What's kind of funny is that there seems to be a time related bug with the comments on the bug report page. All the timestamps look like [22 Dec 2021 9:43], except the last one, apparently made in 2022, which has a time of 20:22, and the year is missing: [3 Jan 20:22]

Maybe it's intentional that the year is omitted for current year, and just a coincidence that the time is 20:22?
Either that or the bet is that it collapses from within. After the soviet union collapsed, russia took over all soviet countries debts upon itself, effectively paying war reparations. Could be similar now. If there is a coup or some dramatic change it would pay some sort of penalties for the current war.
So, it's a joke largely in the same way that democracy is a joke in the united states.
Interesting. So to clarify, would you say it's not the cold per se,
but the fact that cold water swimming is just more strenuous and leads
to more aerobic activity, which in turn burns more. The "brown fat" is
a distraction/irrelevance?
You may have just changed my life. Or at least my Sunday afternoons.
He didn't say contingent bias, you did. Nothing he's written is in any way related to prior individual rolls.

He said he knew how to place a winning bet, he never said it was because the previous results were exactly 1, 2, and 3 and no other numbers. Those results can indicate something other than a "contingent" bias; because they landed on 1, 2, and 3, the wheel is leaning more towards that half of the wheel, meaning he could therefore assume bets on that half of the wheel were more likely to hit, which would then allow him to accurately say he knew what to bet next (a complex bet) that would pay out (win more than wagered).

You're thinking about this mathematically, when the edge comes from mechanical physics.
Nah, they say it remains to be decided. And what is left of a country if they have no representation.
The unique AN-225 has been destroyed by the Russian army
If it's just for custom domain and email, then Infomaniak is yet another choice, on a price to features, unlimited storage (for email) and hosting country (privacy concerns with Apple and US, anyone?!?) ratio solution. I have recently moved my custom domain hosting from a more expensive service, to Infomaniak, and I got the first email address for free (the main from my Google workspace), to which I may add some more, if all works as expected, in the next month or so.
Computer Science is not Software Engineering. A PhD does not translate to real world engineering skills. If you just go through a bachelors CS curriculum, designed to give a survey of all topics in academic computer science, that wouldn't make you a competent engineer. This is especially true now that through the internet, just about anyone with a laptop can get as good as they want at software engineering without ever stepping foot in an academic institution. Sites like Free Code Camp, Kaggle etc. have torn down all of the barriers preventing anyone from learning how to be an incredible engineer. Some of the most important software in industry is open source and anyone can take the time to learn how to contribute to it.

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. Many people are locked out from ever attending elite schools in the first place despite competence due to coming from poor backgrounds and underfunded highschool districts.
Like this? https://youtu.be/mmLZ34bsMkM

Yeah I agree, sometimes I like putting Jamiroquai's Matt Johnson's channel where he jams with different keyboards: https://youtu.be/0JNvCTW0cwo
I wondered if this was a "scheduled post" that someone set up a while back and forgot to take down.

I get the feeling that most people (Russia & elsewhere) thought that the invasion would be a bit of a white-wash: a sort of Blitzkrieg operation where the Ukrainian army was rapidly overpowered/evaporated (kinda like Afghanistan) by overwhelming force, and so there would be Russian tanks patrolling an occupied Kyiv within 48 hours or so, so schedule this post to go live 4 or 5 days after the start etc.
> That said, I think it's extremely unlikely this will escalate to a nuclear exchange.

Tail risk is real. No one thought Trump would be president. No one saw the pandemic changing the world. No one thought there’d be conventional land war in Europe again. I hope nothing happens but I’ll withhold assigning likelihood for now.
Everyone is rational from their own perspective. Putin doesn't see this as a world conflict, he sees it as Russia against the West.
Is anyone actually running .net in lambda? I spoke to someone internal at AWS and was told that there isn’t a lot of interest in it from customers.

Edit: rather than individual replies, a big thank you for everyone who replied. I am going to go and play with it now :)
The invasion of Ukraine changed everything for Wall Street
The industry recreates the problem every so often with different variants. Previously it was the Microsoft/Google “thought problems” such as “Why are manhole covers round?” and “How would you estimate the number of gas stations in a city?”.
Pretty sure they meant Guix the OS not the package manager. The OS uses GNU Shepherd. Of course if you install the package manager on another OS, you get whatever that OS chose for an init system.
“The standard” belies a lot of variation. Some interviewers want perfect code the first time on a whiteboard, some let you go back and forth with a compiler as much as you wish. Some interviews stick to relatively shallow algorithms knowledge like DFS, others will ask you two LC Hard questions in an hour. Sometimes it’s about whether you solved the problem, sometimes it’s about your thinking and collaboration during even a failed attempt. There are too many opinions and too little hard evidence to sort them out. It’s a challenging coordination problem.
Estimating timelines is a simple but great example. If I use my experience on similar projects, I can probably give you an excellent estimate of how long it will take to build a new project in about half an hour. Or, I could break it down for you, task-by-task, and come up with the exact same number in 8 hours.
> I believe it's some kind of social experiment. Like his entire online persona is an experiment.

I like the theory, though as someone that's been exploring content creation I really think it's often just necessary to act different to stand out. Often that's just narcissism though if I had to pick between narcissism and weirdness I'll take weirdness.
Where do you live? Unless the bombs hits you, it's pretty survivable. Nuclear winter is overhyped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d... . Anyway, it would not be nice, so please don't try it on Earth.
The goal is the destruction of the Ukrainian identity as a whole and instead replace it with "small Russians". It's purebred nazism.
Did any company even take Starfighter seriously? The companies the previous comment mentioned are at least used in industry. Even Google or ex-Google employees have gotten into this with Byteboard:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/26/byteboard-nabs-5m-seed-to-...
i see putin as a person that has motivations.
the quality or origin of those motivations are instrumental.

i am assuming he is motivated to not die; im assuming that he must feel as if others believe he is powerful.

i am assuming that if he cant actualize these motivations, or enjoy the spoils of his efforts, he will lash out irrationally.
I think he's bluffing with the nukes. He knows that if he launched one, 3-4 other countries would launch theirs at him. It's also been made exceedingly clear that the moment the Russian army sets foot outside of Ukraine, the full weight of the western world will come crashing down on it. His forces are struggling enough fighting just Ukraine, whose army is dramatically smaller and less-equipped. I don't think they could hope to take on the U.S. army, much less the entire rest of Europe, especially if still meeting resistance in Ukraine. And I don't think China wants to get involved.

I would be worried about Ukraine. I'm not really worried about this spreading to the rest of the world.
If you shared your resources, people would be better able to tell you what has changed…
Lots of FUD over there but maybe the extreme views expressed there are a needed counterweight/ reality check on the Silicon Valley fairy tale.
What are the odds that you wake up tomorrow and the world's gone to ash? Probably really unlikely. Compared to 5 days ago they're a million times more likely, sure. But a million times a really really really really and I mean really small number isn't that much.

I'm afraid. I'm searching the news for any new information I can and feel overwhelmed. I'm not doing too well through all this and I'm safe and sound in North America!

But. I'm not. At all. Even a tiny bit. Worried that randomly tomorrow I'll wake up and the world has literally ended. There may be war. And there may be bombs. And I may need to find shelter and reevaluate my odds. But. I think there's a much larger chance I'll eat too much due to stress than there will be nukes used. And I can do something about the over eating.
A New Brand of Sticker Shock Hits the Car Market
I would say another main issue is that while they ask you to setup DKIM records, they do not actually DKIM-sign your emails. Hence your mails may be more easily flagged as spam. Several people have reported this to Apple, but AFAIK it still hasn’t been fixed.
>He's winning the game, but he's replaceable.

~100 million/year says he isn't.

It all comes down to how you define "useful work" and value. A big part Tim Cooks value is simply being a known factor. You might not like that this is valued more than 1,000 engineers, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation.
> I've told at least 5 or 6 companies that wanted to white-board me to suck it. It's honestly insulting that I'm forced to white-board when I have two books with my name on them (published by Apress), contributions to Golang (small commits, but they still got me in the AUTHORS file), and OSS projects with hundreds of stars on GitHub

That is all commendable but none of that tells me if I can work with you. When I interview candidates I use whiteboarding as a collaborative opportunity to see how the interviewee thinks. I treat it as a similar experience when I am the one being interviewed, which is why I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding. How else in the limited window of time that is the interview can I learn as much about the people I would be working with?
Oh! Maybe we can get Enigma Rising Tide running on WINE?
Use less and pay the same is an hypocritical and outrageous way to raise prices, like some vendors of fries, sodas and soaps in UK who have recently reduced the quantities of products per package leaving the same price for the consumers.

Yes, we waste energy, but raise prices, especially hitting the lowest part of the society is definitively outrageous. Personally seeing the energy price rise I feel a small inflation in what I buy normally and have a confirmation of having made a good investment building a BBC house with a small p.v. BUT for my neighbor that's just means pay much more, not for the environment but for some humans profits.

If such raise are ONLY for "natural causes" that's would not be much fun, but still just, who consume more pollute more pay more. However present rises are NOT (at least largely not only) due to natural causes. Gas price and so electricity price in EU does not skyrocket because of the Russian but because EU Commission choose deliberately to negotiate them with monthly based future instead of long term contracts (look for Dutch TTF). The VERY SAME thing that happen in KZ: https://www.energyintel.com/download?issueId=0000017e-2c65-d... and who profit is very clear: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/North-Sea-Oil-Operator... and https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/energy... also is clearly stated that such move is done to "rebalancing energy prices" (p. 148) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... for the Green New Deal purpose and NOT to make a Green New Deal "possible" but to make their private-public actors super-earn a very big amount of money. Normally that's have a name: embezzlement.
I am only concerned because Ukraine is so close to central EU countries. I don’t think anyone wants to go to war or needs it right now, apart from Russia of course.

I will say that I am more annoyed by the fact that we are being bombarded with a lot of weird stuff lately. From Covid straight to potential War outbreak. This is very taxing on peoples mental health.

These events completely overshadow day to day problems because “look at them, they have it much worse”.

Very, very strange.
Would a bias contingent on the previous 3 be considered Markovian in this case?
I have zero concern until Russia messes with a NATO country which I find highly unlikely to happen. Obviously still heartbreaking what's happening though
"So wait you are smart enough to get into caltech, smart enough to graduate with a degree in CS. And yet the curriculum on its own does not do a good job enough on its own to prepare you for getting a job?"

This was my first thought too. A course just for passing interviews seems odd. We had two small activities that were part of a business course (business administration minor), but after hours. One was a mock interview to give you feedback about professional appearance, not fidgeting, etc. The second was a mock business dinner to provide feedback about etiquette, customs, etc. These were valuable, but they focused on soft skills that aren't covered in the regular course content.
That article is behind the NYT paywall but the bit of it I could see appears to be saying not that

> blind auditions are now a thing of the past

but that they should become a thing of the past, so that orchestras can ensure that their makeup (race, gender, etc.) matches that of "the communities they serve".

There's a big difference between "one person writing in the New York Times thinks orchestras should stop doing blind auditions" and "blind auditions are now a thing of the past".
After fighting a pandemic for 2 years we now have to deal with a super-power that can start a potential ww3.

I do not really care at this point. I live live through my day regardless and whatever happens is way out of my control.

If there is one take-away from this all, it is that we have never had the tools we have today to spread correct information in the battle against the haze of miss-information.
Thank you for sharing the post. It made my day so far, I actually want to re-read it and take notes.
Time is just icky. I have a personal requirement/standard that I never depend on wall clocks in software I design. Timestamps can be used as an optimization, sure. But never as a fundamental component in the protocol or system.
WW3 won't happen until N. Korea invades S. Korea forcing the US to respond with tactical nukes, triggering nuclear escalation. Probably won't be until 2027 or so. I always get blasted when I mention joel skousen's site, but he's literally been talking about this since at least 2005. https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/
I agree, this all makes me very uncomfortable. The second we decide it's ok to exert political influence over access to tech, there will be a flood of calls for it to happen for every cause you can think of. The goalposts will shift from "we dont do this" to "this is as bad as ukraine, cut them off". Politics don't belong here
It's very unlikely given US and UK made it explicit that they won't land troops in Ukraine.

Russia and US both know what their respective red lines are now, and recognize MAD when they see one.
No, the protests stopped after the National Security Law was implemented.
That’s more the way employers treat Triplebyte in practice, and it is probably how they would treat any similar attempt.
Why would you want a license? The whole allure of software development is in its accessibility, that it's easy to get started with nothing more than a laptop and an Internet connection. Putting up artificial barriers to entry is anathema to that. What you'll end up with, in practice, is one of two outcomes:

1. A race to the bottom where licenses become easier and easier to get, until it becomes no more a demonstration of competence than drivers' licenses are to one's driving skills.

2. Protectionist policies make licenses mandated and difficult to obtain, then the talent pool and innovation moves to places that don't require that license.
BP is not a US company nor is Rosneft. There is no reason the sale has to happen on an SEC controlled market. SEC rules do not necessarily apply here.
I live in Norway, we have been one of the few NATO countries with borders to russia and would likely be hit by nukes from both sides if the shit hits the fan.

But personally I think there are enough people high up in the russian government that do not want to annihilate the world to save the face of one man to prevent something like that.

So while it is a concern I think that is an unlikely outcome.
Thunder sounds. Australians assembling sandbags against their walls and doors for flash flooding. Snakes swimming down the road.

Yes, as Australians we’re deeply concerned that Russia may eventually nuke us because they want our country.
"I don't think there's anyone on the planet that doesn't understand that the aim here is to put Ukraine under effective Russian control"

Oh no - people really do believe the propaganda. Russian citizens are told that Zelensky regime are 'Nazis and drug addicts' and the the population hates them.

The Russian propaganda narrative has many, many believers around the world, and it has partial momentum in America.

Certain elements of the right have very cynically been using it as wedge issue - notable Tucker Carlson. I don't think he really believes what he was saying about Russia, he's just a liar in it for the money (of course, everyone in the press is playing a game, but he takes it a notch higher than even his Fox or even MSNBC colleagues). While nobody in the press actually believes it, it does have an affect as those talking heads are all quite influential.

On comments section in YouTube and TikTok I see regular plebes from around the world making the 'NATO/border security' case etc., I think unwittingly rehashing the canard arguments of Putin. Not necessarily taking their side but rather rehashing the false justification.
The more sanctions there are, the more stuff Putin has to conquer to use as bargaining chips to lift those sanctions.

I just wonder how this is supposed to work in any other way. They ensure that the war won't stop because Putin has already faced some consequences on the domestic front and how he has to show some black ink.
Some places require reporting it by law so politicians can trot out these ratios.
You can get into software engineering completely self taught or after a (3-12 month) boot camp. If biotech was that open they’d have similar interviews checking for basic familiarity with the field. Must have a Master’s at minimum is very different from must pass an interview as a minimum hiring filter.
> I live in HK, I know a lot of people who were protestors, the vast majority of my local friends who are in their 30s would identify as being yellow and their anger at China is not due to any money from US/UK/EU.

I didn't say everyone was paid. Protests require organization and that was obviously funded by foreign sources.

> No, what stopped the protests was not a question of money

Sure it is. Without anyone leading the protests, there is no protest. And those leading the protests require funding.

> it was the wave of arrests after the CCP destroyed democracy with the national security law

"democracy". Sure. The only reason hong kong has a democracy in the first place is because of the "CCP". Lets not forget britain never gave hong kong democracy in their 150 years of colonial rule. It only came after the british left or was liberated by the chinese - however you want to view it.

> it was covid coming at that time, it was when it became too risky to have an opinion contrary to the CCP in Hong Kong because "sedition" is illegal.

Is sedition legal anywhere? Covid? The "protest" was done in the fall of 2019 when the foreign funding was blocked. I remember the media going crazy over it ( wonder why? ). Now you hardly hear a peep about it. I'm sure in a few years when we want to agitate the chinese, we'll being funding protests again somehow. That is after we are finished funding protests to destabilize myanmar, venezuela, another middle eastern country, african countries, etc. Or maybe we'll be too busy destabilizing ukraine to bother with china for a while. Lucky them.

> Have you even talked to locals?

No. But I don't need to. I'm sure many of them had their own reasons to protest. I'm talking about the protest organization. Two separate things. It's like the difference between people who attend a rave and those that organize it and publicize it.

> or are you just parroting the bullshit that's repeated on Weixin?

Don't know what that is. Sorry. These are my own thoughts. If I wanted to be a parrot, I'd be parroting the propaganda I see on the news everyday. Oh those terrible CCP and Xi who cares nothing about the chinese people, but it's us in the west who truly care about china and democracy. Nevermind we owned china for 100 and hong kong for 150 and never introduced democracy to china or hong kong or even india. Who are we kidding here?
That’s a fair point but the kind of interview this course is preparing you for is a CS test, not a practical software engineering test.
No mention of the 3 existing email address limit per user on this article makes me sad...
https://archive.is/g6uKc
Belarus authoritarian leader has chosen close alliance with Russia, but denying Belarus statehood is just silly.