skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to forget that you might have multiple part-timers on your team who are doing different work hours. The shared work time dimishes which makes it more difficult to hand over tasks etc.
>>Why people assume that Russian plan was to capture whole of Ukraine

I literally haven't seen anyone assuming that. All theories seem to be about Russian army going in, getting rid of the government and replacing it with whatever arrangement works for Russia, then going back home.
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Granted.

However, in terms of a "buffer zone", strategic geography; leading to a nation that's "self-sufficient in terms of resources and territory". In my view, annexation of Crimea fits that strategic idea more than to believe that it was an ideological move to regain long-lost land.

Plus, with 40% of the world's grain export, Ukraine is a fertile target for Russia.
Someone who's getting offered $300K+ for a full time job... Even 50% of that is already a full-time salary for many.
I know can you believe software companies are using words like Windows (they belong on a house!), mouse (it’s a rodent!) and keyboard (it’s on a piano!).
It does, but having to go through every single error to fix the issues isn't that easy depending on the number of dependants.
> I generally give (mostly) simple questions where I explain how to solve them. Assuming you're a competent programmer in the language we're dealing with, you should be able to figure out how to solve the problem in your head in a minute or two. The trick is that I'm gauging accumulated skill, not memorized algorithms.

That's a decent way of interviewing. It depends on the skill of the interviewer though, I can easily imagine someone handling it very poorly.
I don't know what it takes to study at CalTech. But I nailed the interviews at FB and Google and there's no way I could have studied maths at Cambridge for instance. Leetcode is just a matter of solving enough problems so that you can do them almost out of memory on the white board. The curriculum is basically algorithms at undergraduate level. Seriously, it's easy.
> But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.

He's not that clean himself, given that he was mentioned as holding offshore finances in the Pandora Papers leak.

Also he invested in the production company (Kvartal 95) that then created the show 'Servant of the People' where he was shot to stardom playing the role of a teacher elected president. The company then also paid to create a real party named 'Servant of the People' and managed to get him elected as president for real!!

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...

Where he got all that offshore money from is a question we can ponder. But it seems to me that he was primed for the position he is in.
Do you have this problem with people working full-time too?

If not what's the difference, do you think?

I'd say it would probably be important to have a set schedule for the less-than-full-time workers. Or at least as set as the full-timers.
FWIW, the two smiley faces in DOS were where "start of heading" and "start of text" are in ASCII.
I think the issue is my requirements aren't that big. Download a tar file, unzip, switch some soft links, run some setup. A bash script does those things in a way people understand, with ansible it ends up being a few people (me) that do everything.
> Would all of that time be hyper productive focus time? (rhetorical question, the answer is no)

Have you worked part time? Sorry, but this is exactly how I work. When I work, I do focused work, and when I get tired, I usually finish what I was doing and then stop working. I switch off, relax, repeat. Have worked this way for a few years and I could never go back to the old way.

The problem with 40 hour jobs is that you're anyways only productive for like 50% of that and then the rest of the day you're stuck in a prison. You can't go outside and do any other things to relax, and you also can't fully focus. I don't understand why not more people are rebelling against that.
Tech Companies Can Help Stop the War
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Dear Tech Community,

I am asking you to support the initiative below to stop the war in Ukraine.

When the war is taking place at the heart of Europe in 2022, and the political and diplomatic world seems to have little power to stop it, global tech companies might be able to influence the situation much faster and a lot more effectively.
Hey Email has been super cool about all this for small family use.
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Any code dealing with 30-year mortgages or bond maturities has had to deal with this since at least 2008.
What about Fukushima?

And modern reactors have to be built first. How long does it take if we look how long the berlin airport took or Stuttgart 21 will take.
s/interesting/a goddamn tragedy/

Humans are predisposed to react to sudden, violent events, probably for evolutionary reasons. More people will die from air pollution than in the war in Ukraine, but whatever. As long as I don’t have to buy a new electric lawnmower I guess all the death is fine.
The market cap of ETC is much lower so if you have all that hash on it they sell their coins, no one wants to buy ETC nearly as much as Ethereum and poof goes the price.
> Are they just exaggerated PR verbs, or am I just too old for this?

False dilemma.

They are proper nouns.

Beacon chain is simply the name of the network launched a bit over a year ago. It is likely intended to be named as an aspirational thing to move toward.

Mainnet is the network launched 7 years ago. Usually distinct from "test networks", testnet, and seen far beyond ethereum into all cryptocurrency networks, and inherited from the idea of test, development, staging and production environments seen in the best practices of all web projects in the broader tech sector.

This is an article about them merging.

What is "weird pretentious verbiage" about that? If there was anything odd it would be "the docking" and that article immediately says that was a former name, making it a moot point.
M1 Macs can run iOS apps natively. The only catch is that it's up to devs to allow them to be installed from the Mac App store. Using iMazing is a workaround for apps that the devs don't enable to be installed from the App Store.

Edit: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/app-store/fird2c7092da...
Tawain is being handed back anyway. China is patient
> With all the economic sanctions it seems like they want to collapse the Russian economy and instigate regime change from the inside

Pretty ridiculous to think this when their isn't much of an opposition to regime change to. And when oligarchs and other interests are massively benefiting from the corruption.

It's purely to impose a serious cost on Russia so that they consider withdrawing from Ukraine and think twice about doing it again e.g. against Eastern European countries.
Wait, progressives and peaceful (but fiery and violent) protestors are considered Republican now?
A service still needs its own dependencies, thus forcing you to change its factories where needed. With a DI you re-define it in a single place.
Apple has been moving towards services as a major part of their business for the better part of a decade now
Why are you assuming Putin is a rational actor. Can we please drop this assumption, his actions over the last week show the opposite.
This is a common thing in embedded where 1ms ticks mean overflows every few weeks. Makes me wonder if a more resilient system would have such frequent overflows to force people to come to grips with them.
Older people have much weaker immune systems that aren’t strengthened when it gets cold. HK lacks central heating, and a bunch of older people died when they had a cold snap that took them down to 5C. If you think your immune system is helped by being cold all the time, southern China during the winter is the place for you! It’s amazing how constantly being continuously exposed to non freezing but still cold room temperatures can really mess up your immune system.
George Galloway wants his talking points back.
> Nothing stoping Russians from starting sabotage operations internally in protest.

A lot is stopping most people.

First you need somewhat objective information what is happening. A vast majority of the population does not have that. All independent voices have silenced, except if you are a political activist and know what to search for.

Then you need to take significant risk to commit crimes. As a small saboteur they won't have Novichok for you, but Russian prisons are very close to systematic
torture. Especially for prisoners with a political background.
it's likely to be worth 0.925 today USD
I’ll grant that’s a decent opinion and shows an appreciation of history but let me ask why would someone be sending a four generation old tank onto the battlefield at all?

T-64 -> T-72 -> T-80 -> T-90 -> T-14
Germany spends already around 1.5% of their GDP on energy subsidies, and is the 8th largest in term of subsidies per GDP, and in absolute numbers, the highest one by 200% to the nearest country. €50 billions is spent each year, with a bit over 50% going to renewables and around 30% going to fossil fuels.

I can understand in some ways that they do not want to spend more than €50 billions a year on subsidies. It is already a lot of tax money. The question however is what they are getting for those €50 billions they are already spending, and if the result is a desirable one. Being dependent on Russian gas and oil is a pretty high price to pay, especially when it help fund invasion forces into EU.

(Source: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/default/files/annex_to_the...)
Also dark skinned Indians.
No, "Russian control over a key sector to their economy" is not a plausible analysis, imo. You do not specify, but may I assume you refer to Russia's LNG leverage?

It is not reasonable to seek just-so geostategic facts, or single points of leverage, that explain societies of millions and the policies of their governments.

Understanding something of German politics can elucidate origins of German policy.

"Guilt" is a lazy reduction on my part. It references a sense of special German responsibility to never cause or encourage war, especially in Europe - the zeitgeist of West Germany's post-war generation. A recent DW opinion piece summarizes the received wisdom:

"There are good reasons why Germany has adopted the stance of, on principle, not supplying weapons to war or crisis zones – especially when it concerns a region that, within living memory, has suffered the consequences of a terrible German occupation. The danger of further fueling conflicts if more and more weapons are supplied is not one that can be dismissed out of hand." [0]

Knowing so well the sins of their parents, this generation has sought a path to be proud, little-g germans - replacing nationalism and patriotism with moral vocation. Consider this recollection, from an Austrian born in 1947: https://youtu.be/Qmp--Z8pmTU?t=103.

There is so much more to consider: I haven't escaped lazy shorthand. For instance, the German arms industry is fourth largest in the world. Hypocrisy, monitoring, and debate abound [1]. Analyzing a democratic polity oft feels like a fractal fool's errand.

Certainly, all this is not to say Russia has not influenced Germany's foreign, security, and arms exports policies. The described German sense of responsibility includes a particular sensitivity with regard to criticism of Russia, and an eagerness for economic engagement. Russia sacrificed far more to defeat the Nazis than all other allies combined, and Germans know this well, especially Ossies (not so the rest of the West - often a particular grievance of ordinary Russians).

The LNG vulnerability is doubtless a salient consideration in German policy decisions. But they've conclusively demonstrated the other factors have more weight, and they are willing to pay a price for principle. Indeed, previous to the policy change they were paying a different price - the opprobrium and frustration of allies and America - on the grounds on principle.

0 - https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-ukraine-crisis-germany-needs-a...

1 - https://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/comments/20...
In my understanding, the GP states that "the initial plan" should've ended by now.
I watched it; there was a time in high school where I wanted to write a novel about the aftermath of nuclear war, and did a bunch of research on the topic.

It's terribly scientifically inaccurate, though. Airburst nukes (the type that would generally be used on cities) do not generally spread large amounts of fallout into the atmosphere; they do not generally spread large amounts of fallout at all, because the fireball doesn't reach the ground. We'd likely get the sort of massive urban blast damage from the first half of the movie, but wouldn't get the nuclear winter, collapse of crop harvests, and widespread starvation from the second half of the movie. And we should expect to see local government spring up in areas undamaged by the blast - if the national government falls, state/provincial or local government will step into that void, because power abhors a vacuum.
I seriously doubt this. They can make way more money billing everyone per month than by the second. They might make more from the top percent of heavy users, but I bet most users only use it less than an hour a month. There is no way that they can find a price that would be worth charging some who only a couple of minutes while also keeping it affordable for someone who uses it al day every day.
Form a "software engineering association" with fees paying for full time lawyers and lobbyists and try to pass laws that would prevent the scenario above. But expect a very organised and well funded opposition: the anti-privacy trends have big sponsors at the top.
It's debunked.

"ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) has never been recognized by any major professional association as a valid mental health diagnosis, and its use has been discouraged by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and other medical organizations due to a lack of reputable scientific evidence for the concept."

"In 2021, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association cosigned a statement with 120 other medical organizations calling for ROGD not to be used in diagnostic or clinical settings due to a lack of reputable scientific evidence for the concept. The statement also criticized the proliferation of misinformation supporting the concept of ROGD targeted at parents and clinicians and the concept's use to justify laws targeting the rights of transgender youth in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c...
That's a deflection, not an answer to that question.
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-waste-in-disused-german-mine-l...
It fits in great with the privacy narrative Apple has been pushing for and marketing for a while now. With their announcement of focusing on services, I think it makes perfect sense. Definitely not an easy problem for them to tackle, especially with what must be decades of legacy systems and various relays (Mac.com, Me.com, iCloud.com, ...).
> We're all going to die in 40-60 years anyway, hardly any of this matters.

On the bright side, Putin will be dead in 10-20

This too shall pass
Haha. At some companies, they made the interviews tougher for internal candidates... Amazon used to require full loop, but last time I changed jobs there (I no longer wok there), all it took was conversations with some senior engineers, and somebody reviewing my work sample.

And totally agree with the absurdity of the questions we ask in tech interviews. At least for my current employer, we use simplified versions of real problems we faced in the past, and place more emphasis on how they communicate, rather than just throwing some leetcode medium/hard problems, and let candidates self select based on how much prep work they put in.
Putin is not Yeltsin, Ukraine is not Chechnya, Zelanskyy is not Yandarbiyev, and 1999 is not 2021, so no, the Second Chechen War would not be a valid template.

I, too, can needlessly zoom in to try and refute any comparisons to other situations.

If anything, not being applicable to Afghanistan is even worse for Russia, considering how little international support Afghanistan received, and how much worse at urban warfare the Russian military is compared to the US military.
That still happens, I find out what to watch / listen just by curiously finding stuff in walled communities where I cannot invite anyone.

Oftentimes it's old
That’s not always true. I’ve recommended 3 engineers from my previous company to apply at my current company. All of them I deeply respected for their skills and thought they were smarter than I was.

None of them got offers. One didn’t even get past the take-home. I worked with them. I KNOW they had the tech skills to do it.
This is the one thing they can't do without. Pretty hard to switch 1000A at 400V 5,000 times a second.
Ohh gee, what are the securities of the nation that threatens the world with nuclear war are worth for the plethora of buyers clamoring to invest?

I suspect they are worth as much as Russian promises of honoring their treaties, contracts, and obligations.
Kenji used to be part of Cooks Illustrated, that produces America's test kitchen, which had Kimball as his boss there. Kimball was fired from ATK and his image scrubbed from there. Kenji seems to still be friends with Kimball and has had a couple guest appearances.
Sounds a bit like a Chromebook to me.
> More people will die from air pollution than in the war in Ukraine

I'm as anti air pollution as they come, but the war in Ukraine threatens a lot more than the immediate loss of life. It threatens the entire stability of Europe and beyond, that is part of why the world is taking such massive action. We're a few wrong moves away from hundreds of millions of lives lost over a few years/decades, from the war and its subsequent fallout.
Draw a straight line from Belarus to Kyiv, it passes through Chernobyl...
Good!

Obviously, Ukraine cannot became a member before the war is finished, then it has dealt with its corruption and stabilized economy. But it's good that they are given green signal.
It is really notable that there are successful open source, modular or standardised 3D printers but the projects to produce an equivalent document printer have struggled.

Printers appear to be an unusual niche in that everyone needs them cheaply, but they also need to be highly precise to print documents and graphics well. So you have these cheap devices that pull off something very difficult -- thousands of tiny tiny droplets of ink per inch, precisely aligned, again and again, very quickly. But with plastic shells, mass-produced injection-moulded mechanics, and a few high cost, enclosed components.

This is why they tend to have no replaceable parts, and integrated print heads. Because user-replaceable parts mean human-level tolerances, not factory machine tolerances, and human-level tolerances mean badly calibrated prints.

In short, nobody wants to have to learn to tune their document printer the way everyone with a 3D printer expects to have to do.

There are a few things that your EPC printer could focus on -- standardised ink delivery, standardised print heads, modular linear rails. But it will be difficult because it is difficult to solve for all of those things cheaply.

If we could go back to e.g. the limitations of a golfball printer, we'd have ethical/open/modular implementations left, right and centre. Otherwise, be careful what you wish for, unless you really want to tinker with your printer.
I cannot metabolize short chain fatty acids well and they all come from plant food.

Is the cellular mechanism for this known? I seem to have trouble processing long chain triglycerides and I do better with animal fats, like butter and bacon.

Any resources you could link to or thoughts you might share on this detail would be potentially of value to me for better understanding my genetic disorder and practical approaches to managing it with diet.
As a developer, I agree there's a cultural issue, but think there are pragmatic issues.

I have done both part-time consulting and part-time contract development. Pure consulting (when one's output is advice) is doable part time, because you're not a blocker and generally don't have to keep up with the day to day.

But I would only do part-time contract development under pretty specific circumstances: 1) I'm the only dev on the project (or at least I know the other devs really well), 2) I am not on the critical path for anything urgent, 3) the organization can sustain an interest in the work (and therefore in paying me) despite it not being urgent.

For example, I knew somebody who needed a discrete service, a PDF form-filler, replaced. The old version was a pain operationally and I think it was built on EOLed tech in a language the team didn't know. That was a fine part-time project because the existing thing worked tolerably well; I was just cleaning up a mess that bothered them. I'd feel the same about, say, tech debt cleanup. Or quick, throwaway prototyping.

But in general, software is a team sport, a collective intellectual work that requires a high level of coordination between both devs and many others. I don't want to be part time on a team of well-meshed full-timers because the overhead of keeping track of the team's progress is fixed. I'd have to spend a notable percentage of my time keeping up, and I'll be adding to the coordination burden of the team despite not contributing as much, so my net ROI is lower. I'd hate it.

That said, I'd be interested to see a project that's, say, all 4-day-a-week people. Maybe even people who work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week. I could imagine that working pretty well while still being enough to keep stakeholders satisfied.
As the person building LibHunt, I hope it's helpful to you and thank you for sharing it.

Also, if you are looking for generic alternatives to popular SaaS solutions, I'd like to recommend SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com (another project of mine that is a direct competitor to AlternativeT). It's again a mix of crowd-sourcing and ML.
I remembered Stanislav Petrov when this whole thing started.

I pray there is always a layer of command with a sane person, both when bubbling events up and propagating instructions down. How come survival of many has come to that?
This neglects the demand side.

PS5's are purchased between $700 and $1,000. PS5's aren't the only device with premium. Used cars have an unprecedented premium, alongside all GPUs.

The market is saying that semiconductors, especially GPU accelerated compute time is worth this much.

You can point at miners, you can point at scalpers, you neglect that every cloud compute and cloud gaming provider is building massive data centers full of GPUs as fast as they can get their hands on them at a premium too.

It doesn't take a free market libertarian to observe that its the MSRP that's wrong.
I suspect it is because Google suite threatens Apple’s office web offering.

Offering custom domains for personal can link up to office documents and this can make its way into business use.

For small businesses already standardizing on Mac hardware, it’s natural they should want to get the privacy and in-ecosystem utility of an apple version of Gsuite.
China is in huge support of this invasion. Making their inevitable Taiwan invasion more palatable.
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What are the goals of this action? Is this to prevent a fire sale from foreign institutional holders who are exiting their positions in Russian securities?